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Remember Cousin Taz? Once upon a time, he had retired from the cat show circuit. But this year, he’s come back with a vengeance!
The CFA show season ended on 30 April, and it’s official! Taz is Best Abyssinian in Premiership in all of CFA, the 2nd Best Cat in Premiership in the North Atlantic Region 1, and the 15th Best Cat in Premiership in all of CFA.
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If you are like most direct mail creative people, you've lost more than you've won.
Some super controls have resisted many attempts to beat them. The discouraging part is that those direct mail winners often look unlikely to win.
They follow the rules, but seem to lack the creative spark that separate them from the pack. So how do you beat them?
I think the secret lies within the offer itself. This is what makes the target audience respond to mail for high response rates. Repositioning the offer may make a big difference. For example, "two for one," "50% off" and "half price" represent the same offer. This repositioning alone may make the difference between success and failure.
Format also plays an important role
Test envelope formats containing a personalized letter and response form with a simple flyer. Stay away from heavy dependence on postcards or self-mailers. They rarely work as well on a cost per sale or cost per lead basis.
Reviewing the poor performers reveal copy and layouts to avoid. You should also look at competitor mailers that repeat. Direct marketers will not remail loosers.
Don't think great design, humor or witty copy like a brander
Concentrate on the recipient's problem and how your product will solve it. Sell with conviction, testimonials and third party endorsements. Use as much copy as you need to answer anticipated objections. Most of all, build urgency whenever possible.
Remember that direct response mail must sell. Do not entertain or impress the audience with flawless prose or award winning design. Focus on the need of an individual recipient and create an irresistible need to respond now.
Avoid stop action copy in the letter that stop the reader in the middle of your message. Mention links, phone numbers and references to other pieces in your mailing at the end of your letter.
Successful direct mail revolves around a central theme or the main selling proposition. Don't try to do too many things in your selling message. Reduce the number of decisions your are asking the reader to make.
Strive for breakthroughs rather than incremental improvement
Breakthroughs happen only by testing significantly different creative executions. Test everything at once without worrying too about what element might make a huge difference in response.
A 25% plus reduction in the cost per sale or cost per lead qualifies as a breakthrough.
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Monday, 15 August 2011
At least we have one
I posted a link to this photo on Twitter this morning. One of the first responses I got was making fun of the fact that the first incarnation of our continuous integration server is on an old laptop. They used the word "quaint".
When I asked the rude person what their server ran on, they didn't even have one. This leaves me thinking that I'd rather have a caravan in the hills than a mansion in the slums.
Excuses about not having the money or permission or a restricted network is not a good enough excuse to not have a server that is building your code, running your tests and preparing automated deployments. Get out there and start building rigour in to your development practices and hopefully finding the emergent quality that accompanies it.
If you don't happen to have one or possess the will to make it happen then shut up because you just look lazy and rude. Lazy on its own is bad enough. | <urn:uuid:c68c4eb4-b36c-490c-8bac-5eaf533fc9d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://geek.tropicalsnowflake.com/2011/08/at-least-we-have-one.html | 2017-03-29T07:11:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190234.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00170-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975064 | 202 |
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Hi all. After yet another break from music (family and work take to much time these days for me) finally found some time to play for a little bit... Hope you'll enjoy it. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for listening. | <urn:uuid:4aab6b78-37cc-46c0-9664-69c0366b445d> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.house-mixes.com/profile/PaulDeLune/play/aloneinthedark-session-three | 2016-05-24T13:47:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049270798.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002110-00238-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914747 | 57 |
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The Internet of things isn’t just a catchy phrase to describe how technology is being integrated into our everyday lives; it’s the term to describe the ongoing mission to collect and interpret data to create more efficient, accurate, and cost-effective strategies to make our lives more convenient. An easy example of this term is the smart phone or tablet you are probably using to read this article, but it goes well beyond your handheld device to include the many technological tools you can install in your home.
So what is custom home automation? It is all of our devices and appliances sending data over our Wi-Fi network so we can control all aspects of our home either through a wall-mounted user interface, a mobile phone app, a tablet, or a website. It may sound complex, but smart home technology was actually created to make our lives easier, like having a thermostat that knows you want the temperature in your home to be a little warmer when you’re at work and a little cooler when you come home, or a doorbell that allows you to see and speak to someone at your door even when you are not home. To better understand smart home technology and the various ways to can benefit the way you live in your custom home, we’ve put together a list of its most common variations.
Already snuggled up on the couch, popcorn in hand, to watch your favorite movie? You don’t have to get up to turn off the lights, with smart lighting you can use a remote or an app on your phone to dim the lights or turn them off completely. Smart lighting will also allow you to set timers for any of the lights in your home, or just turn them on or off at your command using an app on your phone, to make it seem as if you are home when you are not.
Heating and Cooling
Remember that temperature example used earlier? Smart thermostats can save you money by learning from your behaviors and allowing you to control the temperature of your home from your smart phone device. They also show your energy consumption in real-time and can adjust themselves to control things like the humidity in your home. Florida summers are hot, hot, hot but you don’t want to increase your cooling costs by keeping your home extra cool when you are not home. Instead, use the smart phone app to adjust the temperature before you arrive so your home is comfortably cool. The smart thermostat even tells you how much time it will take for you home to reach the desired temperature.
One of the most important aspects of home automation is increased security. Smart home security allows you to keep surveillance of your home through the internet, which means you can view the camera feeds of your security system through a protected website. If you are lucky enough to enjoy summers in the north and winters in the south, then you can utilize this technology to keep watch over your home during your extended absence. If you are a full-time resident, then this system is still extremely useful. A smart home security system goes beyond door, window, and motion sensors to include being able to monitor door locks, garage door openers, lights, smoke/CO detectors, water sensors, and much more, all through a website or smart phone app.
Home Appliances and Devices
Smart home automation allows you to communicate with your custom home in ways that were impossible before. The days when you called your significant other from the grocery store because you couldn’t remember if you needed to buy milk or not are gone. Smart refrigerators can now take a picture of their contents and send it to your smart phone so you can literally see what’s in there. Some smart appliances can even take inventory and let you know what products are about to expire in your pantry. Smart microwaves can figure out how long it takes to cook a certain food and a smart vacuum can be activated from your smart phone so you can come home to a clean house. Other systems are smaller, but high convenient, like the Amazon Echo with its voice activated Alexa. This system is a hands-free device that can play music, control other smart home devices, read the news, set your alarms, play music, and even order items from Amazon.
These are just some of the custom home automation options you can have in your home to increase your level of convenience and control. Contact London Bay Homes if you are in the market for an award winning home in Naples, Florida with the latest in home automation or if you are interested in a full home renovation by for your existing home. | <urn:uuid:cc26089d-832d-41fe-b190-b72af18e0180> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.londonbay.com/blog/the-next-level-of-luxury-custom-home-automation-options-for-your-home | 2019-09-19T10:37:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573476.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919101533-20190919123533-00023.warc.gz | en | 0.947042 | 933 |
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Page Six is told that NBC is throwing its first-ever screening event for “Dateline” to celebrate the beginning of its 28th season.
The network will be showing the first episode — “The Thing About Pam” — of the new season of the beloved true crime series for fans who show up at the Quad cinema in New York City on Sept. 25.
Correspondents Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz, Keith Morrison and Dennis Murphy will join fans who snag a seat, and “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt will host a Q&A. Guests can start lining up at 5 p.m. for the 7 p.m. event. | <urn:uuid:1e96ab9e-62dc-4292-9311-ccc1b2dc8d79> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://pagesix.com/2019/09/18/nbc-to-hold-first-ever-dateline-screening-for-fans/ | 2021-08-05T00:54:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046155268.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805000836-20210805030836-00559.warc.gz | en | 0.91946 | 156 |
Our Radio Bristol DJs are a diverse bunch – and they like a huge variety of musical genres and artists. In our “Off the Record” posts, we ask one of them to tell us all about a song, record or artist they love.
The first music I ever heard was my grandmother’s. I was very small, nestled in her lap as she rocked and sang. That sound was a basic part of my growing up, something I, and the rest of the family, took completely for granted. Much later, living far away from the Kentucky homeplace, I began hearing people around me sing “folk songs” that were oddly familiar – songs my grandmother sang, but somehow different and not quite right. I started listening, really listening, to her music and gradually realized she was a great traditional singer.
Her name was Addie Graham, born before 1900 in the hills of eastern Kentucky, heir to a great stream of traditional music she heard from her family and community. She sang ballads, Old Baptist hymns, blues pieces learned from African American railroad workers, frolic songs, and some songs that are hard to categorize. One of these is a remarkable window back into a piece of Kentucky’s and America’s past.
The song is “We’re Stole and Sold from Africa.” It is apparently an abolitionist song from before the Civil War that my family held for generations. Addie learned it from her mother, and the song was a family possession: “All the family I guess sung it, sister Nan and all. I can’t even remember how long it’s been in the family.” Addie felt it was an important song and always sang it with great seriousness. It’s a rarity; in a lot of research I haven’t found any other version of it.
We’re stole and sold from Africa
Transported to America
Like hogs and sheep, to march a-drove
To bear the heat, endure the cold
See how they take us from our wives
Small children from their mothers’ sides
They take us to some foreign land
Make slaves to wait on gentleman
We’re almost naked as you see
Almost barefooted as we be
Suffer the lash, endure the pain
Exposed to snow, both wind and rain
O Lord have mercy and look down
Upon the race of the African kind
Upon our knees pour out our grieves
And pray to God for some relief
Here is Addie singing this song:
Though no other singer has been recorded doing this song, we can trace some of its history through records of the abolitionist movement. The text is similar to abolitionist ballads published in The Liberty Minstrel of 1844 and the Free Soil Minstrel of 1848. A prominent Kentucky abolitionist, James Birney, ran for president under the banner of the Liberty Party in 1844; other Kentucky abolitionists founded Berea College in 1855, which became “an oasis of anti-slavery and democratic education.” Slavery became a very hot issue in Kentucky, particularly in the mountains where few people owned any enslaved people. During the Civil War, communities and families (including Addie’s) were divided, leaving scars that took many years to heal.
Though it speaks from a slave’s perspective, Addie’s song probably has no connection with Black folk sources. It is almost certainly derived from one or more as-yet-untraced abolitionist tracts. George Clark’s The Liberty Minstrel contains the following in “Song of the Coffle Gang” (“Words by the slaves, music by G.W.C.”):
See these poor souls from Africa,
Transported to America;
We are stolen, and sold to Georgia, will you go along with me?
We are stolen and sold to Georgia, go sound the jubilee.
In the same volume, “Stolen We Were” (“Words by a Colored Man”) contains these stanzas:
Stolen we were from Africa,
Transported to America;
It’s work all day and half the night,
And rise before the morning light;
Sinner! man! why don’t you repent?
For the judgment is rolling around!
For the judgment is rolling around!
Like the brute beast in public street,
Endure the cold and stand the heat;
King Jesus told you once before
To go your way and sin no more;
Sinner! man! &c.
Tunes for these songs do not at all resemble Addie’s, which instead shares the musical feeling of her Old Baptist hymn tunes. The song may have become part of the folk-hymn tradition, for a couplet “Upon my knees pour out my grief/ And pray to God for some relief” turns up in “Young Ladies All I Pray Draw Near” in the Old Baptist Sweet Songster.
In any case, it is striking that an abolitionist song survived in tradition so many years after the end of slavery. Perhaps it had a special meaning for the family. The song came through Addie’s mother, Gillian Williams Prater. Her ancestor Elder Daniel Williams preached at the Lulbegrud [Baptist] Church in Montgomery County, Kentucky around 1800. He was forced to leave after disagreements with prominent elders of the North District Association to which the church belonged. Williams’ successor at the church, David Barrow, was similarly “run off” for advocating the emancipation of slaves. Williams’s differences with the elders were probably doctrinal rather than political. But in light of the preservation of the song “We’re Stole and Sold” in the Williams family, it is tempting to speculate that Daniel Williams, like David Barrow, sympathized with abolitionist views. Barrow, by the way, went on to found an association of emancipationist Baptist churches; its membership included Thomas Lincoln whose son Abraham would take the lead in settling the slavery question.
Addie never performed outside the home until I took her to a few festivals shortly before her death in 1978. “We’re Stole and Sold” reached a wide audience that year, when Appalshop’s June Appal Recordings released an LP of her singing, Been a Long Time Traveling (re-released with additional material in 2008). Over the years, awareness of Addie and her music has gradually spread, and today, she’s well known as an important source of Kentucky traditional music. Mike Seeger and John McCutcheon have performed “We’re Stole and Sold,” and I included Mike’s striking version in The Very Day I’m Gone (June Appal 2014), a collection of Addie’s songs performed by 15 artists. The song remains especially meaningful for me, evoking Addie’s voice and personality, her deep sympathy for those who suffer, and her links to an important if little known part of Appalachian history.
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Luci Beattie is a clinical social worker with over 25 years of being educated about mental health by her patients and their families. Luci’s experiences in hospitals, outpatient mental health settings, and private practice have provided her with the skills to conduct a thorough assessment and prescribe therapeutic interventions tailored to each individual or family’s needs and/or specific goals. Luci endorses a holistic approach to mental health treatment and recognizes the importance of collaboration with other providers and an individual’s support system. Luci earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Case Western Reserve University and her Masters in Social Work from The University of Pennsylvania. She completed the Advanced Training Program in the Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy at the Cleveland Center for Cognitive Therapy. Luci works with adolescents over the age of 16 years as well as adults including older adults. She has expertise in the treatment of adjustment disorders, anxiety disorders, chronic illness, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, mood disorders, management of stress, and the multi-diagnostic adolescent.
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SceneWorks - Tribute to Hopatcong
Tribute to Hopatcong
We had never heard of Lake Hopatcong, NJ before this project and quickly learned that it has been and remains an outdoor sanctuary for lake based activities in the Eastern US. SceneWorks was tapped to develop scenes that mimic several historic buildings and boats from Lake Hopatcong’s past and present. Some of the scenes include the stately Hopcatong Yacht Club building, the Allen Pavilion, and a putt through Steam Ferry boat. The scenes capture the essence of this bussling lake community and compliment this outstanding custom miniature golf course.
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Some Monday Links
* Tumblr has been perfected; you can all go home. Troy and Abed in Engineering.
* Newt Gingrich thinks Republicans couldn’t beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. I agree! I also think there’s no one in the Democratic Party who could beat her for the nomination. As far as I can tell the presidency is hers if she wants it.
* It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. This is how people played “Zombie Apocalypse” before that was a thing.
* Mark Johnston, the acting assistant housing secretary for community planning and development, estimated that homelessness could be effectively eradicated in the United States at an annual cost of about $20 billion. The housing department’s budget for addressing homelessness is currently about $1.9 billion. But that’s an impossibly large sum we certainly can’t afford — the cost of almost three months in Iraq!
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To help their workforce beat both internal and external heat, co-working spaces are offering herbal waters, spa, gymnasium, urban sleeping pods, gaming zones, basketball courts, and frustration zones.
Sudeep Singh, co-founder of GoWork, one of the largest co-working capacity talks to BW Businessworld about the pro and cons of co-working spaces, along with its effect on employees.
How to get the most out of a co-working space?
Co-working spaces, essentially provide 3 things that make them a popular phenomenon- competitively priced infrastructure, plenty of networking opportunities, and a relaxed work environment. Organizations need to be able to optimize their co-working experience by utilizing the resources available to the fullest. Furthermore, entrepreneurs should get involved within the co-working community and socialize rather than just interact for business-specific purposes. By involving a business with the community, an organization stands a better chance of making the most of the diverse amount of talent, skill and resources available within a co-working space.
Lastly, an organization should try and blend in with the modern-day work culture associated with co-working spaces. They should try and incorporate elements of co-working spaces within their work style, such as dedicated meditation, relaxation and fun zones, open-air work spaces, highly engaging and stress reducing events.
What are some of the issues that come up with co-working spaces?
The initial warming up to an unrestricted working culture such as that offered by a co-working space takes some time. Companies are used to certain restrictions and protocol oriented functioning that is sometimes at odds with the essentially collaborative nature of co-working. However, after considering the numerous benefits available, in terms of reduced costs, higher flexibility, minimum hassles, higher networking opportunities and ease of doing business, entrepreneurs are increasingly opting for this latest revolution in global work culture.
Co-working space providers who rent a place find it difficult to modify the property according to the needs of their clients. Understanding this pain point, we have adopted an ownership model, thus giving our clients built-to-suit workspace with more freedom of reconstructing it per their specific demands.
How useful or important can be co-working spaces for entrepreneurs?
By providing a space, co-working offers entrepreneurs a chance to synchronize their growth needs with the available resources. By opting for a co-working space, an entrepreneur does not have to commit to realty and thereby saves the expenses that go into infrastructure and technology back-up.
It also offers entrepreneurs looking to slowly diversify their business or expand into newer markets, a chance to operate on a lean model, by employing a limited amount of employees and providing them with perks. By focusing on distributed costs for individual benefit and preparation of a space that thrives on social interaction, co-working spaces bring out the strength of Unity in Diversity in the workplace.
Modern professionals have two spaces in their lives, one is home and the other is office. Everyone keeps switching between the two, trying to maintain equilibrium. At GoWork, our aim is to provide our clients a workspace, infused with productivity element that comes with a day pass which is any day cheaper than any coffee shop in the country.
How does co-working space affect the local economy?
Co-working spaces easily help businesses to establish and expand their operations in tier-II and III cities, thereby enriching the local economy. It gives a great boost to businesses located away from start-up hubs to initiate their operations by providing quality infrastructural and communication facilities while charging much less. Another major factor is allowing great flexibility to the businesses to upsize and downsize their operations to ensure the growth and survival of an organization.
Additionally, it also helps local landowners and real estate developers to provide high quality projects that suit the sensibilities of the millennial generation who do not like to compromise on the fun factor while working. Thus, the development of co-working spaces also gives local tourism and indigenous business segments a great chance to expand their target audience and reach out to newer customers as well as markets.
Why choose co-working spaces?
The first and foremost reason to choose a collaborative campus is cost reduction. Be it a start-up, SMB or a large corporate entity, realty and technology backup are the major expenses in any company’s balance sheet. Through co-working, businesses any bring it down to 15 to 30 percent. Another advantage is unparalleled flexibility. Co-working spaces are innovating their offerings as per the varied lifestyle preferences of millenials to help businesses with employee retention.
Time management, efficiency and productivity are some of the parameters that impact a business positively, and these factors have also improved remarkably for businesses across the globe opting for co-working spaces.
Does co-working help better health of employees?
Co-working spaces developed with a focus on employee health, have a positive impact on holistic wellness of their employees. Sports activities and other dedicated fun zones as well as frustration zones have been found to have a high impact upon the health and mind of millenials, who are always keen to avail these offerings. Assistance facilities such as pet care and crèches for working mothers and single fathers have greatly reduced the stress so popular among modern professionals.
Essentially, co-working spaces today are also combining the speed of communication with the need for relaxation and entertainment felt by the professionals. Initiatives such as pet play days, group vacations add further color to the life of the employees, providing them with an ideal avenue to create engaging peer communities of employees.
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New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday told party leaders that he was in no rush to change the organisation and the party should instead focus on correcting the basic problems and ensuring that rules were followed.
Gandhi was talking on the second day of his first formal interaction with senior leaders after taking over as party's no.2. The meeting will continue Feb 4 as only 13 party secretaries could speak on Friday.
The discussions at the meeting are expected to help Gandhi plan his new team to fight a slew of assembly polls this year and the next general elections scheduled in 2014.
Many secretaries started listing their individual grievances, saying they did not receive enough time or opportunity from the general secretaries and the ministers, and sought a quick resolution of their problems.
Others opined that membership issues should be given weightage and said the party needs to explain the flagship welfare programmes of the government to people.
"Responsibility with accountability" was the common refrain of the speakers during the meeting which lasted over two hours as most secretaries spoke at length.
According to party sources, Gandhi told them to suggest ways to strengthen the organisation and said personal problems can be taken up later.
"We need to have a system, so the party can work towards its goals...we need to correct the basics first and ensure we have rules that are followed," the sources quoted Gandhi as saying.
He also said there was no need to rush with change in the organisation and said it would unfold in two phases.
Gandhi also said that he would convey the suggestions made by the leaders to his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi before the much-awaited reshuffle takes place.
Some of the speakers also suggested that Rahul Gandhi should interact with state and district level leaders through video conferencing.
Gandhi had Thursday given a patient hearing to the general secretaries in charge of states who suggested the organisation needed an overhaul at the earliest. | <urn:uuid:fb634ca7-eec8-49a8-a409-d7ee9ee288c3> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.sify.com/news/Congress-needs-to-get-basics-right--follow-rules--Rahul-Gandhi-news-national-ncbxkcjhcec.html | 2014-09-23T00:39:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657137841.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011217-00266-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981131 | 389 |
A lot of attention has been paid to court rulings in Utah and New Mexico overturning those states’ bans on same-sex marriage, but there are a couple of other interesting court rulings in the last week that touch on the same issues in a more tangential way. In Ohio, a federal court ruled that the state must recognize a valid same-sex marriage performed in another state when issuing a death certificate if one of the spouses dies.
… [U]nder the Constitution of the United States, Ohio must recognize valid out-of-state marriages between same-sex couples on Ohio death certificates, just as Ohio recognizes all other out-of-state marriages, if valid in the state performed, and even if not authorized nor validly performed under Ohio law, such as marriages between first cousins, marriages of certain minors, and common law marriages.
That is, once you get married lawfully in one state, another state cannot summarily take your marriage away, because the right to remain married is properly recognized as a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution. U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1.
Moreover, as this Court held in its initial Orders this summer and reaffirms today, by treating lawful same-sex marriages differently than it treats lawful opposite sex marriages (e.g., marriages of first cousins, marriages of certain minors, and common law marriages), Ohio law, as applied to these Plaintiffs, violates the United States Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection….
In In re Marriage of Melanie Davis and Angela Summers, (IN App., Dec. 20, 2013), the Indiana Court of Appeals held that a marriage between a man and a woman that is valid when entered does not become void when one of the spouses is diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has his or her birth certificate amended to reflect a change in gender. Even though Indiana law bars same-sex marriage, this ban does not apply to a marriage that is valid in Indiana when entered.
In that case, Melanie Davis (nee David Paul Summers) filed for divorce but a court ruled that the marriage was automatically dissolved when Davis was granted a name change on her birth certificate because same-sex marriages are not recognized. I assume that paves the way for a genuine legal divorce. | <urn:uuid:0a84ce1d-5c57-49d5-b81a-5e3e52dba4d2> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2013/12/27/a-pair-of-interesting-court-rulings-on-marriage/ | 2018-01-22T06:56:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891105.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20180122054202-20180122074202-00754.warc.gz | en | 0.95813 | 467 |
The reward is now $10,000 dollars for tips leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for killing a University of Michigan medical student.
Twenty-five-year-old Paul DeWolf was found dead in his apartment in Ann Arbor on July 24th. He was shot in the neck. No gun was found and none of his valuables were missing.
DeWolf was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force. | <urn:uuid:0d73a40a-e8d5-4896-b8d7-ae6b4d3e491c> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/Reward-Now-10K-for-U-of-M-Killer-218772121.html | 2018-03-19T22:21:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647153.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319214457-20180319234457-00630.warc.gz | en | 0.995864 | 89 |
Can the American man leading Israel’s solar power revolution work his magic on the country’s ailing electric car company?
Better Place launched with big, international plans, but went bankrupt earlier this year. Now, Yosef Abramowitz, an idealistic American businessman who first became acquainted with Israel on a Young Judea gap-year program and has had a growing connection with the Jewish state ever since, is in the hot-seat to resuscitate the company.
Abramowitz’s Sunrise Ltd, together with the Association for the Promotion of the Electric Car in Israel took control of all of the company’s assets in Israel, as well as its intellectual property in Switzerland subject to the Swiss seller. The deals for the two countries are worth 18 million shekels ($5 million) and 25 million shekels ($7 million) respectively — and possibly more by the time all monies are paid.
Abramowitz is a charismatic and talented operator, who has iron determination. The Forward interviewed him when he was just about to assemble his first solar power field for his Arava Power, the first company to sell electricity to Israel’s national grid. He recalled when we spoke to him how the idea for solar in Israel came to him in a flash of inspiration when he was visiting and found the early-morning sun so hot and thought to himself that the region should exploit it to its full potential. But it’s not his inspiration that has made him succeed — it’s his determination.
Abramowitz isn’t the first person to think of feeding solar energy in to Israel’s national grid, but he’s the only person who had the staying power to spend years bashing his head against what looked like the brick wall of state bureaucracy, and then continuing the crusade through endless paperwork to get his project off the ground.
Better Place’s big mistake is that it over-expanded. It didn’t get its model working well on a small scale before thinking, and spending, big. If Abramowitz reins in the operation, and runs it cautiously and with that quality which is at a premium in Israeli business — patience — he may just realize Better Place’s original vision of making electric cars mainstream. | <urn:uuid:1db03db5-8e51-48da-81ab-d240e266b266> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/180713/can-israels-electric-car-revolution-rev-up/ | 2014-04-24T21:58:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223206770.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032006-00291-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973321 | 466 |
The next four posts will be taken from the preface of “Opening Prayer,” my third book of poetry. I’ll be explaining what I’ve been trying to write over the past four decades as a poet and how the three books follow, for better or worse, the development of a spiritual career.
Over the years, two themes have emerged in my writing. The first is how we make a living — money, work, business, corporations, and everything we mean by “trade.” The second is the inner life, which in my case has included poetry, painting and a religious conversion. Their ongoing development, including their complex, uneven marriage with one another, is much of what this present book is about.
I wrote my first book, The Glass Children, when I was trying to lead the ideal writer’s life, at least my notion of what that was. I lived on day jobs and little grants, delving inward to escape relationships or any responsibilities whatsoever beyond a dedication to the page.
When I stand at the brilliant edge of the roof,
There is always the man who continues forward
Without hesitation, slipping smoothly out of my skin
And I’m lost, watching the back of his head,
His strong arms spreading open as he steps
Soundlessly over the edge.
That seemed like a kind of courage at the time, but I was trying to make a religion out of art. Why not? Like so many young writers, I wanted to astonish. Beyond that, I felt there was something at the very core of things that I could reach if I only wrote well enough. At times, transcendence made a brief appearance. The book’s last poem, “In New York the Women Are Dreaming,” served, I thought, as a grand prelude, a kind of announcement of a new life, but the poem’s energy, a feminine energy, was all the greater from being checked, contained and forced inward. The book began with an image of limestone caves and ended with an emergence not yet achieved. Art was a beautiful shell. I was listening to music I couldn’t hear. | <urn:uuid:bd956ba5-8ad2-4503-8444-51b4630aead7> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://richard-cole.net/?p=401 | 2022-09-30T19:52:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335504.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930181143-20220930211143-00734.warc.gz | en | 0.975096 | 455 |
Weird weather? Inspired quilts! Here's hoping you're not having weird weather. Well, nothing worse than our strange hot-today, cold-tomorrow, stuff.
I wore long sleeves and a sweater this morning and kicked up a sweat (without the sweater) walking this afternoon. No more of that craziness...I'm keeping an old tee close so I can change quickly when the weather mood strikes.
Now this...this is just terrifying! Give me the misery of humidity and mosquitoes any time. Yes, the mosquitoes are just as annoying in January as they are in July.
So, a storm at sea quilt surely goes into the weather-inspired stack, right?
|"Weather the Storm" by Elizabeth Bauman (Ohio.)|
And anything with stars (like my "star, quilts) board here.
|Kathy Loomis glacier quilt|
|Weather Vane designed by Darlene Zimmerman|
The rain drops above and ocean waves blocks probably fit in the weather category. Plus anything with a snowflake!
And finally, a Mariner's Compass quilt (or 2 or 3)
Your turn! What quilt(s) have you made or seen that may have been inspired by weather? Visit my "heart, quilts" board more more inspiring photos. | <urn:uuid:6da89065-28fd-4e15-a146-8db73b88c553> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | https://fleurdelisquilts.blogspot.com/2016/01/sunday-quilt-inspiration-w-e-t-h-e-r.html | 2017-12-14T06:03:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948541253.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20171214055056-20171214075056-00752.warc.gz | en | 0.9542 | 273 |
There aren’t many singers whose musical touch can make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, but when Woody Cotton thinks of that elite group, he knows his sister belongs.
“She touched people with her singing,” he said. “She touched a lot of people.”
Linda Cotton, whose voice was legend in New Mexico, passed away Thanksgiving Day, apparently of a heart attack. She was 55.
“I’ve heard her sing all her life,” said her brother. “Everyone who knows her, including myself, will miss her.”
It won’t be just her voice they miss. Yes, her jazz, blues, funk and gospel singing style made her one of New Mexico’s most recognizable musicians, but behind the voice was a compassionate person taking care of her community.
“She was so concerned about the women and children who stayed with us at the Barrett House,” says Jill Criswell, director of development with the Barrett Foundation, a nonprofit helping homeless women and children. Cotton served on the nonprofit’s board for more than four years.
“She could cut through the nonsense of any argument or any conversation,” Criswell said, “and get right to the core of what needed to be done to care for the less fortunate.”
Criswell, who had worked with Cotton on the board since 2005, wanted her kids to see the singer perform this weekend. She wanted them to hear the voice she had heard at the nonprofit’s annual fund-raiser. She wanted them to hear the voice she says could give you shivers when it tackled gospel music.
“Her musicality was beyond question,” Criswell said. “You always knew you were going to hear some great music and see a wonderful personality.”
A wonderful personality, Cotton’s brother said, that was marked by a concern for others.
She loved animals, he said, and he still needs to find homes for two of his sister’s four dogs.
The two of them planned a trip to Colorado to visit nieces. They were also thinking about a family reunion, but he was busy, and she was sick.
In 2002, she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. A heart attack was apparently what ended her life Thursday.
Woody Cotton said he is his sister’s only close survivor. Services are pending.
Despite her health problems, Woody Cotton says his sister once performed a day after going to the hospital.
He remembers her voice as “enchanting.” It was a voice heard with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, heard at the Outpost Performance Space, heard in clubs and concert halls statewide for 25 years.
“She touched me and a lot of people with her voice,” he says. “That was her outlet.” | <urn:uuid:254c34f1-7639-4bd2-87d9-90fb95e3cc3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://hellotumo.com/2006/11/24/article-in-the-albuquerque-tribune-linda-cotton-remembered-for-music-kindness/ | 2017-10-21T17:28:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824824.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021171712-20171021191712-00011.warc.gz | en | 0.988215 | 612 |
Sunday, May 15, warning about a criminal sexual assault that occurred in the Ashburn neighborhood.
Text of the alert:
"This alert gives notice to citizens residing in the 008th District of a recent criminal sexual assault incident. On May 14, 2016 at approximately 2:30 a.m., a female victim walking in the vicinity of 3300 W. 85th St. was approached by a male black driving a tan sedan. The offender exited his vehicle and chased the victim into an alley. The offender caught and then sexually assaulted the victim. The offender fled the area in an unknown direction.
• Male black, 20-25 years old, 5'08-5'10, low fade hair style, fair complexion, goatee, birthmark or tattoo on right hand, wearing a white t-shirt and black sweatpants
• Tan sedan, four door
What you can do:
• Always be aware of your surroundings
• Report suspicious activity immediately
• Remember any unique physical characteristics (scars, limp, acne, teeth, etc...)
• Never pursue a fleeing assailant, but provide the information to the police
• If approached by a witness to the incident, request contact information
• Dial 9-1-1 immediately and remain on scene when possible
If you have any information, contact the CPD Area Central Bureau of Detectives at (312) 747-8380 and refer to case number HZ-264602."
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|Bio:||About me, for those that give a shit........ I'm a 41 yr old sang vampire awakened for 29 yrs. I'm not the "tall, dark, mysterious nightwalker who hunts down swooning virgins, sweeps em off their feet, etc etc" type tho. I'm the "lusty, angry, bad tempered, sarcastic vamp who will kidnap ya, drag ya off somewhere kinky, and do strange things to ya". LOL I walk around during the day (usually get up at around 9 am), eat way too much garlic, dress like a redneck (I don't own ANY black clothing LOL), yada yada yada. I'm in absolute culture shock and think its time to retreat back into my hidey hole.|
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
How Do They Do It?
I have a very serious problem! I am trying to figure out how songwriters write songs!! Every time I write a song it comes out dumb! So I really don't understand how they do it. So feel free to post your answer(in a comment) anyone!!! :) Hope y'all will help me figure it out and thank you for reading this silly question.;) | <urn:uuid:dfe35509-9333-4591-b69f-3187f2c23066> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://brooketexasgirl.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-do-they-do-it.html | 2017-06-24T15:41:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00626.warc.gz | en | 0.962398 | 90 |
“Women laden with scarfs”, photographs of Kol Maca-Vlora 1916. An overwhelming witness to those difficult years for Albanians, especially for children and women. More than a photo that evokes the timing of the waves, this is a virtuoso workmanship of a slightly-mentioned but untreated photo.
Kol Maca, is held as the first Albanian photograph in Vlora. According to the researchers from Shkodra, Ndoc Gurashi (October 2012), Kol Maca has learned photography skills at the atelier of Kol Idromenos in Shkodra, where he has served as an apprentice for some time. Also, the aforementioned Shkodra scholar states that Maca has opened his shop for photography in the coastal city in 1915 and worked there until 1921. This in the meantime coincides with the first Italian invasion of Vlora or as it is known there, with the “first Italy”, which also marks some buildings still standing, such as the Sahati and the Municipality (the former Italian Consulate). The seal that he took after pictures for the population was in Italian and was written “Nicolo ‘Mazza-Fotografo-Valona”, it was regularly made in Italy. In it, his name is found in his full version, Nikol, and somewhere else we face the next cut, Kolec. For his life, despite constant searches, we still do not know much about things. The author of these lines has found in Italy two articles of Kol Maca published in the monthly magazine “Corriere della Sera” (Milan). The first article is titled “Among the Albanian Mountains” (August 1907), the second, “Monument and costume of Albania” (May 1908). The above articles relate only to the Albanian World. They are distinguished for numerous historical, geographical, social and ethnographic data for Albanians in general and North Highlanders in particular. Between the writings and the author’s culture, there are plenty of pictures, probably Mac, that illustrate their content.
However, Kol Maca, in his photographic studio in Vlora, besides routine work with the community, has also taken pictures of various political, social and religious events of the city. It should be added that Kol Maca is one of the first photojournalists in the Albanian press, noted in the magazines of the 1930s, especially in the famous man of the time, “Minerva”, where he was employed. For a short time he has been an official photographer of the Royal Tribe. Kol Maca was also a member of the official group of press photographers who perpetuated the celebrations of the 25th Anniversary of Independence on 28 November 1937 in Tirana.
(Scarlet Maca-Photo Maca, Ark.P.Stefa)
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Lewis Addison Armistead
(From the Confederate Military History)
Brigadier-General Lewis Addison Armistead was born at New Bern, N. C., February 18, 1817, a son of Gen. Walker Keith Armistead, who, with four brothers, served in the war of 1812. He was appointed a cadet in the United States military academy in 1834, and on July 10, 1839, he became second lieutenant in the Sixth United States infantry. In March, I844, he was promoted first lieutenant, and in this rank entered the war with Mexico, in which he was distinguished, receiving the brevet rank of captain for gallantry at Contreras and Churu-busco, and brevet major for his services at Molino del Key. He continued in the army until the beginning of the Confederate war, serving for some time against the Indians on the border, and being promoted captain in 1855.
He was given the rank of major, Confederate States army, to date from March 16, 1861, and later in the same year became colonel of the Fifty-seventh Virginia regiment, which he commanded in the neighborhood of Suffolk and in the defense of the Blackwater in the following winter. April 1, 1862, he was promoted brigadier-general, and in this rank he was assigned to the command of a brigade in the division of Benjamin Huger. At Seven Pines, on the first day, he was distinguished for personal bravery, making a heroic stand with a small part of his men against an entire brigade of the enemy until reinforced by Pickett. On June 25th, he was stationed about 5 miles from Richmond, between York River railroad and the Williamsburg road, where he was engaged in continual skirmishing until the advance to Malvern hill. In this latter battle he was ordered by General Lee to "charge with a yell" upon the enemy's position, after the action of the artillery had been shown to be effective. "After bringing on the action in the most gallant manner by repulsing an attack of a heavy body of the enemy's skirmishers," General Magruder reported, "he skillfully lent support to the contending troops" in front of his position. After this campaign he was identified with the excellent record of R. H. Anderson's and Pickett's divisions, commanding a brigade consisting of the Ninth, Fourteenth, Thirty-eighth, Fifty-third and Fifty-seventh Virginia regiments.
On September 6th, at the outset of the Maryland campaign, he was assigned to the duty of provost marshal-general of the army, considered by General Lee at that juncture of the greatest importance, and in that capacity he brought up the rear of the army as it advanced. He participated in operations of General McLaws against Harper's Ferry, and after the retreat was left at Shepherdstown to guard the ford. He continued with Pickett's division throughout its subsequent duty.
Reaching the battlefield of Gettysburg on the 3d of July, he formed his men in the second line of assault against Cemetery hill. "Conspicuous to all, 50 yards in advance of his brigade, waving his hat in the air, General Armistead led his men upon the enemy with a steady bearing which inspired all with enthusiasm and courage. Far in advance of all, he led the attack till he scaled' the works of the enemy and fell wounded in their hands, but not until he had driven them from their position and seen his colors planted over their fortifications." This was the testimony of Colonel Aylett, who succeeded to the immediate command of the remnant of the brigade that was led into action. General Lee wrote in his report, "Brigadier-Generals Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett and Semmes died as they had lived, discharging the highest duties of patriots with devotion that never faltered and courage that shrank from no danger." | <urn:uuid:f59d7ad3-1113-40e0-b0d9-4804cbbf46c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.civilwarhome.com/Bio/CMHarmisteadbio.htm | 2016-10-21T09:02:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718034.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00079-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984894 | 814 |
I’ve been reading a lot of comics this month as I prepare for my “Comics That Challenged Me 2017” feature that will run at the end of December and the beginning of January. In an attempt to have a better rounded understanding of the publishing output of 2017, I’ve enlisted the help of the local library and their interlibrary loan program to get access to comics printed in 2017. One small but growing subset of these books are webcomic collections.
Webcomics are a nebulous enterprise from an economic standpoint. They make money in a few ways, but generally it’s through ad revenue, sales of merchandise, patronage systems (Patreon, Drip), or sales of printed comics. Most of the time these printed books come out of a Kickstarter sort of enterprise, but more and more recently collections are being published by comics presses like Iron Circus and Image.
I recently have run into a couple of these books that have been depressing, more because of the way they’re constructed or the way they’re published than the comics they contain.
A great example is M.F.K., by Nilah Magruder – it’s a science fiction comic about two kids, Abbie and Jamie; Jamie is an orphan whose parents abandoned him as a child, and Abbie is a stranger Jamie and his grandfather find injured on the edge of the desert. The two grow closer together as Abbie’s past is revealed, and an attack on the small town of Little Marigold causes the two to spring into action.
Magruder’s comics are serviceable and the characters are relatively well-constructed. The book itself is a $25 hardcover with large page format, full color, 128 pages, and covers the first 3 chapters of the webcomic. But it’s clear that Magruder is in for the long-haul with this comic – the first three chapters are the bare bones introduction to the world and the characters she is building. That makes a single collected volume feel… underwhelming, to be polite.
Imagine that you spent $25 to see Star Wars 8, but the projector died in the middle of the first act. That’s what the first volume of M.F.K. feels like – like I’ve seen 20 minutes of a 2.5 hour movie, and I’ve been forced to leave the theater.
When it comes to traditional pamphlet superhero comics, the price to entertainment ratio is one of the lowest in the entertainment industry, but this kind of publishing is worse – the pacing is glacial in comparison, the action is slow to kick off, it just doesn’t go anywhere. If you’re reading this to be entertained, my guess is that you’re going to be disappointed. Bluntly, M.F.K. isn’t built to read the way a book like this is supposed to read, and suffers for it.
This isn’t to say that M.F.K. and comics like it don’t deserve to be printed, but I think it’s important to think about the scope and pacing of the work. As a print object, does every page of the webcomic need to be collected? Can the work be edited, pages added or subtracted, to make a more convincing whole? The needs of a webcomic, which may be published page-by-page, 1-2 times a week, are much different than the needs of a book, and to believe that you can easily convert one to the other successfully is trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Part of the way webcomics work is the anticipation for the next page – but in a collected edition, that page is just a flip away, not a week away. The immediacy of the change in action, the immediacy of the page turn makes demands on the cartoonist that webcomics doesn’t.
Ultimately this is an editorial problem. Artists collecting their own work for Kickstarter may not have that kind of funding or institutional support, but it’s incumbent on any publisher printing these books to make these editorial decisions. There are a lot of fine comics out there that could be good or great with an editor. And, let’s be frank. It’s clear that these are editorial considerations that are not happening, because M.F.K. vol. 1 exists as a book as it currently stands. That’s on Insight Comics’ head, not on Magruder’s. And that is unfortunate, because while I think M.F.K. is an interesting comic in terms of concept and character, you couldn’t convince me to buy a second volume of this book based on the first volume alone.
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Co-operative society is one of the proven secret that wealthy people are using to achieve success in whatever goal they desire to achieve.
Unfortunately, many Nigerians are missing this lifetime opportunity of using this platform to associate with like minds and gain financial freedom.
One of the factors misleading people about the power is the lack of meaningful results or alters failure of the ones they see around.
But should you drop your search and resign to faith because of these reasons?
Aren’t there co-operative societies at work places and outside that have done well and are still doing well?
Don’t be deceived; cooperative society can be the vehicle to fund your building project without stress and for the growth of your business if it’s well run.
One proven case study of how co-operative society can help a person earning either low or middle class income to build a house is the story of Maniberu Adeomo.
He’s a poor teacher on a meager salary of N25,000 in a private secondary school.
His friend and colleague, Mr. Matthew informed him about a certain co-operative society in the city that was turning its members to vehicle owners and better business men and women.
Maniberu and his friend joined the society and began contributing five thousand naira monthly each.
After six months, they borrowed times three, of their total contribution of N30,000 to arrive at N90,000 each.
They bought a plot of land each and when they were due for another loan, they started work on the land.
With the support of the co-operative society , they were able to build bungalows of three bedrooms each. The lesson here is to join a cooperative now.
For better understanding of the effect of joining a cooperative society, let me remind you the story of the broom stick versus the broom bunch.
If given a portion to sweep, while it may take forever employing the services of a broom stick, you will be through in a moment if the broom bunch is applied.
The principle behind this story is what makes it possible for a cooperative to do whatever it is designed to achieve.
In my desire to understand how co-operative society can be used for the common good of members effectively, I have conducted series of research for four years and spent thousands of personal and company funds.
Here is the outcome and what you now do with it is subject to your decision.
But if you may allow me, I will advise you to read this up and take an immediate action for or against it.
I however hope your action will be in the affirmative because if otherwise, it may come to haunt you.
Prime Asset Housing Co-Operative Multi-Purpose Society Limited (PAHCMS LTD) project is an initiative of Realty Point Limited.
It is a private venture initiative to assist individuals in owning a home.
It is registered with the appropriate Government supervisory body and runs independent of the promoters.
It has full complement of duly elected executives. Therefore, Realty Point Limited is not the owner of this Co-operative Society.
To help members become Landlords by:
1. Providing property purchase and construction opportunities for self-use.
2. Providing a 10 – 25 year mortgage scheme for members.
3. Providing real estate and other investment opportunities for collective gain.
4. Providing investment (real estate inclusive), entrepreneurial and other life enhancing training to members at our monthly meetings.
5. Always providing well-researched and negotiated clusters of landed properties which members can buy; and also assisting in developing into mini-estates while providing other services as may be required, e.g. access to mortgage facilities below the market rate building materials, etc.
6. Providing opportunities for members to borrow for growth in their business operations through our well-structured and professionally managed thrift in association with participating Micro-Finance Banks. 20% of our fund at any time is made available for our thrift operation.
7. Investing our collective monthly contributions regularly and distributing 30% of surplus (gain or profit) annually as dividend on a prorated basis.
8. And much more.
In summary, we are a house-ownership actualization and investment society using the power of cooperative and thrift.
If you are interested in more information on Prime Asset Housing Co-Operative Multi-Purpose Society Limited (PAHCMS LTD), you can put a call/text to me through 08059100256 or send me a mail by clicking here. To apply for membership, download application forms fromwww.primecooperative.org or www.realtypointltd.com
Funds management shows that the difference between the rich and the poor is not so much in the difference in income but in the way the income earned is disbursed. I heard somewhere that if your ‘out-go’ is more than your ‘in-come’, then your ‘up-keep’ will be your ‘down-fall’. Individuals and organizations alike have made this mistake and the result is often devastating.
Based on my experience of running co-operative societies successfully for many years till date, I wrote this series of articles to share information on it with you, my esteemed visitor. This article will be enlightening you on how it actually started in Nigeria.
The history of cooperative society with real estate as our focus dates back in history when it became renowned and accepted as a group dedicated towards the building up of the society.
This article is on co-operative society bye laws, principles and practices, let’s get started.According to The International Cooperative Alliance (I.C.A), a cooperative can be defined as an independent, self-sufficient association of people who come together willingly to meet their economic, social, and cultural needs and desires through a mutually owned and democratically controlled enterprise.
If you are interested in buying a personal computer without stress, take time to digest this information. The coming of the computer age has reduced the world from a global village to a global family.
With this article I will be sharing information on mode of business operation and management of co-operative society…It is often said that when visited by a cash cow, don’t just take the cash, milk the cow as well! It is not enough to just have a house, you must know how things run in that house otherwise you will not enjoy the full benefits of living there.
Understanding management of cooperative society is the key to the success of any society. You may say Knowledge is expensive but ignorance is more expensive. Effective management of cooperative business is not possible without adequate and up-to-date knowledge of cooperative management, the proper ways and means to which Trustees and Committees can be put to good use.
Before I commence the article of today, which is on the history of cooperative societies, let me digress a bit into the major challenges of an entrepreneur. If you are an entrepreneur, you will agree with me that one major issue most people have is the issue of capital. More so, for a business like real estate, the perception is that millions are needed before you can venture into it.
One of the key roles of cooperative society is giving loans and financing business. The ability of any business to do this and grow financially is dependent on how much income it generates, not to mention that the income must far exceed its expenses. Like any institution, they require money for their business operations and this money is gotten from different sources that are approved by the laws and bye-laws of the society.
Understanding how to register a Cooperative Society is a step in the right direction, especially when we consider that a lot of people have lost their life savings and cash by having business dealings with companies or organisations that are not recognized by law.
The global economic recession has led to the emergence of different types of cooperatives in Nigeria with the motive of helping individuals to get financial support to attain the basic needs of life. Economists have told us that human needs are insatiable. Immediately one need is satisfied, another takes its place, looking for satisfaction as well.
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An overall overview:
The cut to chase answer is: the difference is in its use. The two are related through the same species of plant, both are forms of the plant Cannabis Sativa L. They are essentially weeds that will grow in a wide variety of conditions, climates, and soil types. Over the years both plants have been used for a wide variety of uses. However, they are not the same.
While industrial-grade hemp is a rather helpful resource in the world, it lacks the stimulating power of the substance known as delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, or for short, THC. It is this active chemical of THC that brings about the “high” associated with marijuana. The term ‘Hemp‘ commonly refers to the industrial/commercial use of the cannabis stalk and seed for textiles, foods, papers, body care products, detergents, plastics and building materials. The term ‘marijuana’ refers to the medicinal, recreational or spiritual use involving the smoking of cannabis flowers.
According to US law, hemp is the stalks, stems and sterilized seeds of cannabis sativa, and marijuana is the leaves, flowers and viable seeds of cannabis sativa. Male or female cannabis has no differentiation by law or science, beyond sex.
What Makes Marijuana a Drug?
No matter how you feel about marijuana, whether you would classify it as a medicine, a drug, a recreational tool, or a narcotic doesn’t really matter. What makes it this way is its THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol)content. It takes at least 3% THC in order to get high and higher quality marijuana (used for drug consumption) will have 10-15% THC.
How Much THC Does Hemp Have?
Due to the way hemp is grown and its separation from marijuana, hemp has a much lower THC content. Industrial hemp contains only about 0.01% – 1.5% THC (Tetrahydrocannabinoids, the intoxicating ingredients that make you high) while marijuana contains about 5% – 10% or more THC. The low amount of THC is what makes hemp worthless for getting high. It has been estimated by some researchers of hemp that it would take an acre of hemp to get high. In one acre of hemp there is about 10-20 tons of plant material grown. Think about that.
Do they grow together? How can you tell them apart?
Often it is argued by those who know there is a difference between hemp and marijuana that they could be grown together thereby deceiving authorities and passerby while effectively providing marijuana for those who wish to use it. This isn’t an option however. Hemp is grown in rows one to two inches apart. The plants are grown very close together and shoot up toward the sky till they are taller then full grown men. They have a woody core and are stiff and hard to walk through. Marijuana on the other hand is grown with lots of room to bush out. You want 18″ or more worth of space between the marijuana bushes. You want them to have lots of low branches (something that doesn’t happen on hemp), leaves, and soft flexible stems. These growing methods encourage THC development making it better for use as a drug.
Growing hemp and marijuana together isn’t an option. By doing that you get cross pollination which leaves both plants infertile. When they cross pollinate you loose the buds of the flowers and the seeds. With hemp these parts are very useful for a wide variety of uses (oil, food, seed for the following year). With marijuana the bud is the part of the plant that has the most THC, if this doesn’t fully develop due to cross pollination then you loose a lot of the material that can be smoked.
The difference in THC levels make hemp and marijuana a lot different. There are thousands of products that can be made from hemp, but it must be set aside that hemp and marijuana are the same thing. It must be understood that hemp can not be smoked for a high, marijuana can not be grown in place of hemp and fool authorities, and marijuana and hemp can not be grown together (or even with in a mile radius of one another).
Compared to cannabis sativa indica, cannabis sativa sativa (industrial hemp variety) has a much stronger fiber. This fiber can be used in anything from rope and blankets to paper. Marijuana fiber has a low tensile strength and will break or shred easily, making it a poor fibrous plant when compared to industrial hemp.
Industrial hemp also grows differently than THC-containing cannabis ( Marijuana). Hemp is typically grown up, not out, because the focus is not on producing buds but on producing length of stalk. In this way, hemp is a very similar crop to bamboo. The stalk contains the fiber and hard, woody core material that can be used for a variety of purposes, even carpentry. Generally, THC-producing marijuana plants are grown to an average of five feet in height. Industrial hemp on the other hand is grown to a height of ten to fifteen feet before harvest. Also, it is fairly difficult to grow concealed marijuana within industrial hemp crops as the DEA alleges. Since industrial hemp is grown so close together and is generally a very narrow, vertical growth crop, any THC-producing marijuana would stick out like a sore thumb. Its wide growth would require a large amount of space to itself in order to get adequate sunlight from beyond the tops of the competing industrial hemp plants.
The two also differ in the areas that they can be effectively grown. THC-producing Marijuana must be grown in generally warm and humid environments in order to produce the desired quantity and quality of THC-containing buds. However, since industrial hemp does not contain these buds, and the hardy parts of the plant are the more desired, it can be grown in a wider range of areas. Generally, industrial hemp grows best on fields that provide high yields for corn crops, which includes most of the Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast United States. Furthermore, since industrial hemp can use male plants as well as female plants (since the object is not THC production), higher crop yields can result.
Hemp also has little potential to produce high-content THC when pollinated. As long as industrial hemp plants are pollinated by members of their own crop, then the genetics will remain similar with low levels of THC. One would have to place several marijuana plants in close vicinity in over several generations order to alter the genetics substantially of the offspring.
Since there are so many differences between low-THC industrial hemp and high-THC marijuana, it seems to make sense that it would be a fostered, rather than demonized crop. Although technically hemp is not illegal to grow, it requires obtaining a special permit from the DEA. These permits are rarely given out and require that the crop be surrounded by security measures such as fences, razor wire, security guards, or dogs. Industrial hemp could transform the economy of the United States in a positive and beneficial way, and therefore should be utilized to its full potential.This entry was posted in articles and essays, Home and tagged 411, hemp, Industrial Hemp, plant, rediscover hemp by MaryJanesGirl™ and comments are closed. | <urn:uuid:647b1b0d-0217-4577-9f05-cdbd0fb3cba1> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://rediscoverhemp.com/hemp-and-marijuana-whats-the-difference/ | 2015-09-01T22:17:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645220976.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031340-00076-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957653 | 1,495 |
Vanquish has been developed by Platinum Games Inc, and is being published by SEGA for the PS3 and XBOX 360. The game will be released on October 19th, 2010 for both systems. Brought to us by the director of the Resident Evil Series, Shinji Mikami, Vanquish is a sci-fi shooter with fluid action, that gives us the control over Sam Gideon who has a great arsenal of weaponry to Vanquish (pun intended!) his enemies with extreme prejudice.
Bringing together a mixture of the character “Raiden” from Metal Gear, the Gears Of War-esque over the shoulder cam complete with cover system, add a pinch of Lost Planet type of action, and you have the game Vanquish in a nutshell!
The game brings many of these different aspects together in a nicely detailed game that provides definite action. The demo gives you both a brief game mission along with a tutorial that will help gamers get familiar with the controls and combat system. The game play is actually quite easy considering the complex movements you see on screen. The controls probably could have been fine-tuned just a tad better, but they are solid overall.
Utilizing the controls I was able to slide around using the powerful reactive suit system. The game definitely shows all the battle movements fluidly with no lag and some great animations. The animations and graphics of this game are definitely inspired by Japanese Anime.
Playing through the demo was a great action experience. The game stuck me right in the thick of things, with some support of additional American troops to help me take down multiple enemies. The firefights are intense and well laid out. Some of the enemies are large and shoot from everywhere, but utilizing the evasive actions of the suit I was able to maneuver Sam around laser, gun, and missile fire; while taking out multiple enemies with different weapons. The main four you will use in the demo are: Machine Gun, Heavy Machine Gun, Shotgun, and Grenades. During the tutorial you will get to use the Disk Launcher, and Rocket Launcher, which would have been nice to have during the demo.
The game provides upgrades for your different weapons, so these regular weapons you see in most games should hit for more damage and hopefully will add more to the game.
Overall, the demo was solid. Graphics, animations, controls, game-play, and video clips all intertwine smoothly. The only thing I am concerned with is whether or not the action will get monotonous, and if the upgrades for weapons will not be enough for many gamers to enjoy with the action. If this becomes reality, the game will waste its good storyline, and smooth running graphics inspired by an anime type of action. I will look forward to this game, but with somewhat of a skeptic eye…
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Inbuilt 1847, Como House & Garden is an intriguing mix of Australian Regency and traditional Italianate architecture. There have been plans to demolish it so as to create an atrium or open space, however petitions to protect the heritage of this little piece of native historical past have ensured that at the very least the frontage will remain intact sooner or later as an archway to the atrium. You may even design an emergency exit just in case your house is too haunted for the littlest guests! In the event you let the house go into foreclosure, it’ll affect both of your credit score, assuming both of your names are on the mortgage. The Breuer house is privately owned and occupied, as are all of the homes on Woods Finish Highway. Go to your boyfriend or girlfriend’s (if they are a Recreation Middle/Fb good friend) house near LAX or Calabasas and say whats up to them. The worst thing is getting the home and yard prepared when every little thing is so behind! On-site parking is offered within the upper and decrease parking heaps adjoining to Gropius House and the customer middle.
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In the other neighbourhoods of the Dutch capital, vacation rentals will be allowed only with a special permit, and only for up to 30 days a year, to groups of no more than four people.
Critics have long complained that the rise of Airbnb-style tourist rentals has torn the soul out of the centre of Europe's best-loved tourist cities, from Edinburgh to Barcelona.
Amsterdam housing councillor Laurens Ivens said in a press release that some 75% of the 780 inhabitants and organisations who had submitted views on a ban had been in favour. The city says one in 15 dwellings in Amsterdam as a whole shows up on online rental platforms.
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Alpine Fest is another Success
For the second year, the Alpine Fest has kicked off to benefit the Warrior Foundation and the Freedom Station of San Diego. This year on September 8, the Alpine Community Center Park began filling up at 11:00 a.m. with vendors, band equipment and people who were gathering to make this event the success that it was.
The opening ceremonies began at 11:00 a.m. Food and beverage service began at noon, with the Kiwanis Cook Shack who served over 200 meals.
There were live auctions that included a beach cruiser from the Holy Roller Bike Shop, a Handmade Sterling Silver Necklace from Alpine Jewelry, An Electronic Dart Board from Darts R Us, and Taste of Alpine included items from Aline Beer company, Alpine Subway, The Greek Village Grill, Janet’s Montana Cafe’, Mananas, Mexican Food, Marechiaros’, Panda Machi and Paparazzi.
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Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991)
aka: Madeline Charlotte Moorman Garside
Charlotte Moorman was a cellist, avant-garde performance artist, and founder of the New York Avant Garde Festival.
Madeline Charlotte Moorman was born on November 18, 1933, in Little Rock (Pulaski County) to J. R. and Vernan Moorman; her father was a sales manager. Moorman began playing the cello at the age of ten, going on to perform with local symphonies while enrolled at Central High School. A member of the National Honor Society and a Central High debutante group called the Southernaires, Moorman graduated in 1951 and attended Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, on a music scholarship. After receiving a BA in 1955, Moorman earned a master’s degree in 1957, studying under illustrious concert cellist Horace Britt at the University of Texas at Austin. She then enrolled at the Juilliard School in New York City, studying there for the next two years.
While at Juilliard, Moorman performed in classical concert hall orchestras, including the American Symphony Orchestra, of which she continued to be a member through 1967. Yoko Ono, Moorman’s friend and one-time roommate, encouraged her participation in the avant-garde scene.
Moorman founded the New York Avant Garde Festival in 1963 at the age of twenty-nine, overseeing all fifteen festivals until its end in 1982. French composer Edgard Varèse, who died two years after the festival was founded, famously designated Moorman as the “Jeanne d’Arc of New Music.” In interviews, she repeatedly asserted that she disliked the term “avant-garde,” insisting that her work was “of its time,” not avant-garde, as in “ahead of its time.”
The first festival featured works from a broad swath of cutting-edge luminaries such as Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, David Behrman, and Nam June Paik, a Korean artist considered the first practitioner of “video art”—as well as Moorman’s future close collaborator.
Paik’s pieces, performed by Moorman, conflated technology and cultural controversies with the female form. A few notable examples include Cello Sonata no. 1 for Adults Only (1965), in which Moorman shed clothes while performing Bach’s C Major Sonata; TV Bra for Living Sculpture(1969), in which two miniature televisions were attached to the cups of a clear vinyl bra worn by Moorman; and Opera Sextronique (1967), during which Moorman was arrested while performing nude, as dictated by the score.
Moorman and Paik also collaborated on a number of multi-media cellos, most notably the “TV Cello” in which the instrument’s body is constructed out of three televisions.
In spite of being diagnosed with cancer in 1979, Moorman continued performing through the 1980s. In September 1982, during the Sky Art Conference in Linz, Austria, she performed Sky Kiss by Otto Piene, in which Moorman and her cello, strapped to a number of helium-inflated balloons, were lifted into the sky. At the same festival, Moorman performed Yoko Ono’s famous Cut Piece, in which members of the audience were requested to cut off pieces of the artist’s dress.
Moorman died on November 8, 1991, ten days before her fifty-ninth birthday, at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan after a twelve-year battle with breast cancer. She was survived by her second husband, Frank Pileggi. Her archival and manuscript collections are held as part of the Dick Higgins Archive at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
In February 2016, a retrospective of her work and life opened at the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Later that year, two exhibits of her work opened at New York University.
For additional information:
Charlotte Moorman Collection. Dick Higgins Archive. Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois.
Collins, Glenn. “Charlotte Moorman, 58, Is Dead; A Cellist in Avant-Garde Works.” New York Times, November 9, 1991. Online at http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/09/arts/charlotte-moorman-58-is-dead-a-cellist-in-avant-garde-works.html (accessed February 8, 2016).
Geffen, Sasha. “Avant-gardist Charlotte Moorman Finally Gets the Recognition She’s Due.” Chicago Reader, http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/charlotte-moorman-a-feast-of-astonishments-block-museum/Content?oid=20946060 (accessed February 8, 2016).
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Transmission and Transmission Failure in Epistemology
An argument transmits justification to its conclusion just in case, roughly, the conclusion is justified in virtue of the premises’ being justified. An argument fails to transmit justification just in case, roughly, the conclusion is not justified in virtue of the premises’ being justified. An argument might fail to transmit justification for a variety of uncontroversial reasons, such as the premise’s being unjustified; the premises’ failing to support the conclusion; or the argument’s exhibiting premise circularity. There are transmission issues concerning testimony, but this article focuses on when arguments (fail to) transmit justification or knowledge or some other epistemic status.
Transmission failure is an interesting issue because it is difficult to identify what, if anything, prevents competent deductions from justifying their conclusions. One makes a competent deduction when she accepts a deductive argument in certain circumstances. These deductions seem to be the paradigmatic form of reasoning in that they apparently must transmit justification to their conclusions. At the same time, though, certain competent deductions seem bad. Consider Moore’s Proof: I have a hand therefore there is at least one material thing. Some philosophers hold that Moore’s Proof cannot transmit justification to its conclusion under any circumstances, and so, despite appearances, some competent deductions are instances of transmission failure. Identifying what, if anything, prevents such arguments from justifying their conclusions is a tricky, controversial affair.
Transmission principles are intimately connected with closure principles. An epistemic closure principle might say that, if one knows P and deduces Q from P, then one knows that Q. Closure principles are silent as to what makes Q known, but the corresponding transmission principles are not. A transmission principle might say that, if one knows P and deduces Q from P, then one knows Q in virtue of knowing P.
Those sympathetic to Moore’s Proof sometimes say that the “proof” can justify its conclusion even though it lacks the power to resolve doubt. An argument can resolve doubt about its conclusion when the argument can justify its conclusion even for a subject who antecedently disbelieves or withholds judgment about the argument’s conclusion.
Table of Contents
- Transmission: The General Concept
- Transmission in Epistemology
- Transmission Failure
- Transmission (Failure) vs. Closure (Failure)
- Transmission Failure: Two Common Assumptions
- References and Further Reading
The term ‘transmission’ is not unique to philosophical discourse: religious and cultural traditions often are transmitted from one generation to the next; diseases from one person to another; and information of various kinds from one computer to another (often via the internet). A car’s transmission gets its name from its intended purpose, namely to transmit the energy from the engine to its wheels (to put it crudely). The use of ‘transmission’ in epistemological contexts is deeply connected to its use in everyday contexts. Tucker (2010, section 1) holds that one can clarify the epistemological concept of transmission by considering an everyday instance of transmission.
Under what conditions does Alvin’s computer A transmit information to another computer B? Tucker suggests it will do so just in case (i) A had the information and (ii) B has the information in virtue of A’s having it. The first condition is very intuitive. If A does not have the information but B acquires it anyway, it may be true that something transmitted the information to B. Yet, unless A has the information, it won’t be true that A transmitted the information to B. The second condition is intuitive but vague. If B has the information in virtue of A’s having it, then A causes B to have it. Yet mere causation is not enough to satisfy this in virtue of relation. If A sends the information to B over an Ethernet or USB cable, we do seem to have the requisite sort of causal relation, and, in these cases, A seems to transmit the information to B.
Suppose A just finished downloading the information, which makes Alvin so excited that he does a wild victory dance. During this dance he accidently hits B’s keyboard, which causes B to download the information from the internet (and not Alvin’s computer). In such a case, A’s having the information causes B to have it, but the information was not transmitted from A to B. Although transmission requires that a causal relation hold, not just any causal relation will do. This article will follow Tucker in using ‘in virtue of’ as a placeholder for whatever causal relation is required for transmission.
Generalizing from this example, Tucker concludes that transmission is a three-place relation between: (i) the property P that is transmitted; (ii) the thing a from which the property is transmitted; and (iii) the thing b to which the property is transmitted. A property P is transmitted from a to b just in case b has P in virtue of a’s having P. In the above example, the property P is having the information; a is A, Alvin’s computer; and b is B, some other computer. So A transmits the information to B just in case B has the information in virtue of A’s having it.
The preceding discussion clarifies statements of the form ‘a transmits P to b’, but there is another, more informative kind of transmission ascription, which we can symbolize as ‘R transmits P from a to b’. Contrast ‘A transmitted the information to B’ with the equally natural expression ‘The USB cable transmitted the information from A to B’. Whereas the former notes only that the information was transmitted from A to B, the latter additionally notes how it was transmitted. Under what conditions does the USB cable (more precisely: being connected by the USB cable) transmit the information from A to B? I suggest that it will do so just in case (i) A had the information and (ii) B has the information in virtue of both A’s having it and A’s being connected by a USB cable to B.
When epistemologists consider transmission or transmission failure, they generally ask such questions as:
- Under what conditions does entailment transmit justification?
- Under what conditions do competent deductions transmit rational belief?
- Does testimony transmit knowledge?
Epistemologists, then, are concerned with whether some relation (for example, entailment, competent deduction, testimony) transmits some epistemic property (for example, being rational, being justified, being known, or being defeated). They tend to have in mind, therefore, the more informative sort of transmission ascription (see section 1). That is, they are concerned not just with whether a belief is, say, known in virtue of another belief’s being known; they are also concerned with whether, say, entailment is the particular relation that allows the first belief to be known in virtue of the second.
This article will focus exclusively on when arguments or inferences (fail to) transmit some epistemic value property, such as being justified or being known. The reason is that, when philosophers talk about transmission failure as an independent issue, they tend to have in mind the conditions under which an argument or inference fails to transmit. The conditions under which testimony (fails to) transmit, say, knowledge is an interesting and important issue. Yet these issues are often pursued in conjunction with or subsumed under other important issues relating to testimony, such as the conditions under which testimony preserves knowledge. (For a brief intro to some of the relevant transmission issues pertaining to testimony, see Lackey 2008, section 3.) In any case, this article will focus on the transmission issues pertaining to arguments or inferences, rather than the issues pertaining to testimony or other epistemically interesting relations.
An argument is a set of propositions such that one proposition, the conclusion, is supported by or is taken to be supported by the other propositions in that set, the premises. An argument, as such, is merely a set of propositions that bear a special relation with one another. Arguments can play a role in transmitting justification or knowledge when a subject believes the premises or when a subject infers the conclusion from the premises. If epistemic transmission is analogous to the above computer transmission case (sec. 1), then an argument transmits justification to its conclusion when (i) the premises have some epistemically valuable status (for example, being justified, being known) and (ii) the conclusion has that same status in virtue of the premises’ having it. (Here and elsewhere, for the sake of simplicity, I ignore the additional complexity of the more informative transmission ascriptions.) The following case seems to satisfy (i) and (ii), and so it seems to transmit justification from the premises to the conclusion.
The Counting Case: Consider this argument: (a) that there are exactly 25 people in the room; and (b) that if there are exactly 25 people in the room, then there are fewer than 100 people in the room; therefore (c) there are fewer than 100 people in the room. Suppose that Counter justifiably believes (a) on the basis of perception; that he justifiably believes (b) a priori; and that he believes (c) on the basis of (a) and (b).
The counting case seems to be a paradigmatic case of successful transmission. Counter’s belief in the premises, namely (a) and (b), are justified (so (i) is satisfied), and the conclusion, namely (c), seems to be justified in virtue the premises’ being justified (so (ii) is satisfied). Notice, however, that whether an argument transmits is relative to a subject. The argument in the Counting Case transmits for Counter but not for someone who lacks justification for the premises.
The Counting Case also illustrates the deep connection between the transmission of justification and inferential justification. When philosophers address inferential justification, they are concerned with the conditions under which the premises of an argument justify the argument’s conclusion. If one belief (belief in the premise) justifies another belief (belief in the conclusion), belief in the conclusion is inferentially justified. Notice that the conclusion in the counting case is inferentially justified because it is justified by its premises. The Counting Case, therefore, illustrates both inferential justification and the successful transmission of justification. This is no accident. It is almost universally assumed that inferential justification works by transmission; it is assumed that when the conclusion is justified by the premises, the premises transmit their justification to their conclusions. Hence, the transmission of justification across an argument is deeply connected to inferential justification.
It should be noted that sometimes, when philosophers talk about transmission, they use the term “transfer” rather than “transmission” (for example, Davies 1998). The latter terminology seems preferable, as Davies now admits (2000: 393, nt. 17). “Transfer” often connotes that, when P is transferred from a to b, a no longer has P. If I transfer water from one cup to another, the transferred water is no longer in the first cup. “Transmission” lacks that connotation: when a computer transmits some information to another computer, the first computer typically retains the transmitted information.
An argument is an instance of transmission failure just in case it does not transmit (some degree of) justification (or whatever epistemic status is at issue) from the premises to the conclusion. Arguments can fail to transmit justification to their conclusions for a number of reasons. Here are a few relatively uncontroversial causes of transmission failure:
- Unjustified Premises: If an argument’s premises are all unjustified, then the argument is a trivial case of transmission failure; for the premises had no justification to transmit to its conclusion in the first place. It does not follow, though, that all of an inference’s premises must be justified for it to transmit justification to its conclusion. Consider an inductive inference with 100 premises of the form ‘on this occasion the unsuspended pencil fell to the ground’. If 99 of the 100 premises are justified, it seems that those 100 premises can transmit justification to the belief that the next unsuspended pencil will also fall, despite that one of the premises fails to be justified. (See the article “Deductive and Inductive Arguments” for a brief explanation of the differences between deductive and inductive arguments.)
- Premise Circularity: An argument is premise circular just in case its ultimate conclusion also appears as a premise. For instance, consider P therefore Q therefore P. The ultimate conclusion, P, is used as the sole premise for the intermediate conclusion, Q. Even given that P transmits justification to Q, it seems clear that the justification P has in virtue of Q cannot be transmitted back to Q. (The term ‘premise circular’ will be used loosely, such that both the extended argument P therefore Q therefore P and the second stage of the argument, Q therefore P, are premise circular.)
- The Premises Fail to Evidentially Support Their Conclusion: Consider the argument: ‘I have a hand; therefore, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is eating a Ghostbuster’. The premise is justified; however, it fails to transmit its justification to the conclusion because having a hand is not evidence that the Marshmallow Man is doing anything, much less eating a Ghostbuster.
- The Premises Provide Less Than Maximal Evidential Support: An argument that provides maximal evidential support, such as one in the form of modus ponens, is capable of transmitting all of its premises’ justification to the conclusion. Arguments that provide some less-than-maximal degree of support, such as a good inductive argument, fail to transmit all of the premises’ justification to the conclusion. Good inductive arguments with justified premises both partially transmit and partially fail to transmit justification from the premises to the conclusion. Other things being equal, the stronger the support, the more justification the argument transmits from the premises to the conclusion.
- Defeaters: A good argument might fail to transmit justification because one has a relevant defeater (for example, relevant counterevidence). Suppose I believe some mathematical theorem T on what is in fact exemplary deductive reasoning. If I know that my coffee has been spiked with a drug known to cause egregious errors in reasoning, then my exemplary deductive reasoning is an instance of at least partial transmission failure.
It is relatively uninteresting if an argument fails to transmit for any of the above reasons. But suppose an argument has well-justified premises; the premises provide deductive (so maximal) support for their conclusion; the subject knows that the premises provide deductive support for their conclusions; there are no relevant defeaters; and it is not premise circular. A person makes a competent deduction when they accept such an argument. (Others use the term “competent deduction,” but they often mean something slightly different by the term, including Tucker (2010).) One might think that competent deductions are the paradigm of good reasoning, that they must transmit justification to their conclusions. Interest in transmission failure arises because, at first glance at least, there are such arguments that do seem to be instances of transmission failure. Interest in transmission failure persists because it is very hard to identify what would cause such arguments to be instances of transmission failure. Consider the following example.
Some philosophers, sometimes called “idealists,” hold that the only things that exist are minds and their ideas. These idealists, therefore, are skeptics about material objects. In other words, they reject that there are material objects, where material objects are non-mental objects composed of matter. These philosophers tend to hold that there are ideas of hands but no hands. There are ideas of chairs, even apparent perceptions of chairs, but there are no chairs. Responding to these idealists, G. E. Moore declared that he could prove the existence of the external, or non-mental, world. Here is his “proof”:
Moore’s Proof (MP)
(MP1) I have a hand.
(If I have a hand, then there is at least one material object.)
(MP2) There is at least one material object.
This argument is widely criticized and scorned. Yet if it fails to transmit justification to its conclusion, why does it do so?
Well, Moore’s Proof is not an instance of transmission failure for any of the obvious reasons: it is a deductive argument; its premise seems well-justified on the basis of perceptual experience; there are no relevant defeaters; and it is not premise circular (that is, Moore did not—or at least need not—use MP2, the conclusion of Moore’s Proof, as a premise for his belief in MP1). Still, it is hard to dispel the sense that this argument is bad. This argument seems to beg the question against the skeptic, but it is unclear whether question-begging, by itself, can cause transmission failure (see sec. 5b). Perhaps Moore’s Proof is not just question-begging, but also viciously circular in some way. The problem is that it is hard to identify a type of circularity that both afflicts Moore’s argument and is clearly bad.
Moore’s Proof is a puzzling case. If one accepts Moore’s Proof, she has made a competent deduction, which would seem to make it the paradigm of good reasoning. Nonetheless, it still seems to be a bad argument. The puzzling nature of this case also appears in a variety of other arguments, including the following two arguments.
Moore’s Proof is aimed at disproving idealism insofar as it is committed to skepticism about the material world, that is, the claim that the external world does not exist. Consider, however, perceptual skepticism, the idea that, even if the external world does exist, our perceptual experiences do not give us knowledge (directly or via an inference) of this non-mental realm. Proponents of this skepticism typically concoct scenarios in which we would have exactly the same experiences that we do have, but where our perceptual experiences are wildly unreliable. One popular scenario is that I am the unwitting victim of a mad scientist. The mad scientist removed my brain, placed it in a vat of nutrients, and then hooked me up to his supercomputer. In addition to keeping me alive, this supercomputer provides me with a computer generated reality, much like the virtual reality described by the movie Matrix. Although all of my perceptual experiences are wildly unreliable, they seem just as genuine and trustworthy as my actual experiences. The skeptic then reasons as follows: if you cannot tell whether you are merely a brain-in-a-vat in the above scenario, then you do not know you have a hand; you cannot tell whether you are a brain-in-a-vat (because your experiences would seem just as genuine even if you were a brain-in-a-vat); therefore, you do not know whether you have a hand. (See Contemporary Skepticism, especially section 1, for further discussion of this type of skepticism.)
Some philosophers respond that the sort of reasoning in Moore’s Proof can be applied to rule out the skeptical hypothesis that we are brains-in-vats. Hence:
The Neo-Moorean Argument
(NM1) I have a hand.
(If I have a hand, then I am not a brain-in-a-vat.)
(NM2) I am not a brain-in-a-vat.
The Neo-Moorean Argument is just as puzzling as Moore’s Proof. If one accepts the Neo-Moorean Argument, she has accepted a competent deduction which seems to be the paradigm of good reasoning. Yet the argument still seems bad, which is why some philosophers hold that it is an instance of transmission failure.
The Zebra Argument, like the Neo-Moorean Argument, is intended to rule out a certain kind of skeptical scenario. Bobby is at the zoo and sees what appears to be zebra. Quite naturally, he believes that the creature is a zebra on the basis of its looking like one. His son, however, is not convinced and asks: “Dad, if a mule is disguised cleverly enough, it will look just like a real zebra. So how do you know that the creature isn’t a cleverly disguised mule?” Bobby answers his son’s question with:
The Zebra Argument
(Z1) That creature is a zebra.
(If it is a zebra, then it is not a cleverly disguised mule.)
(Z2) It is not a cleverly disguised mule.
It seems that to know that the creature is a zebra, one must know already in some sense that the creature is not a cleverly disguised mule. Hence, Bobby’s argument seems to exhibit a suspicious type of circularity despite qualifying as a competent deduction.
(There is a rather wide variety of other puzzling cases. For reasons that will be explained in the next section, arguments that allegedly violate closure principles are also potential examples of transmission failure. Readers interested in semantic or content externalism should consider McKinsey’s Paradox in section 5 of the closure principles article. Readers with expertise in the philosophy of mind might be interested in some examples raised by Davies (2003: secs. 3, 5).)
Discussions of transmission and transmission failure are connected intimately with discussions of closure and closure failure, which raises the question of how these issues are related.
Closure principles say, roughly, that if one thing a has some property P and bears some relation R to another thing b, then b also will have P. More succinctly (and ignoring universal quantification for simplicity’s sake), closure principles say that, if Pa and Rab, then Pb. Suppose that the property being a pig is closed under the relation being the same species as. Suppose, in other words, that if Albert is a pig, then anything that is the same species as Albert is also a pig. Given this assumption, if Albert is a pig and Brutus is the same species as Albert, then Brutus is a pig. Yet being a pig is clearly not closed under the relation being the same genus as. Pigs are in the genus mammal along with humans, cows, poodles, and many other creatures. If Albert is a pig and Brutus is in the same genus as Albert, it does not follow that Brutus is a pig. Brutus could be a terribly ferocious poodle and still be in the same genus as Albert.
In epistemological contexts, the relevant P will be an epistemic property, such as being justified or known, and R will be something like being competently deduced from or being known to entail. An epistemic closure principle might say: If Billy knows P and Billy competently deduces Q from P, then Billy also knows Q.
Transmission principles are stronger than their closure counterparts. Transmission principles, in other words, say everything that their closure counterparts say and more besides. Recall that closure principles hold that, if Pa and Rab, then Pb. Transmission principles hold instead that, if Pa and Rab, then Pb in virtue of Pa. Closure principles merely say that b has the property P, but they do not specify why b has that property. Transmission principles say not only that b has P, but also that b has P because, or in virtue of, Pa and Rab.
Notice that a closure principle can be true when the corresponding transmission principle is false. Consider:
Pig Closure: If Albert is a pig and is the same species as Brutus, then Brutus is also a pig.
Pig Transmission: If Albert is a pig and is the same species as Brutus, then Brutus is a pig in virtue of Albert’s being a pig.
Even though we are assuming that Pig Closure is true, Pig Transmission will be false when Albert and Brutus are unrelated pigs. Brutus’ being a pig might be explained by his parents being pigs and/or his having a certain DNA structure, but not by Albert’s being a pig. Although closure principles can be true when their transmission counterparts are false, if a transmission principle is true, its closure counterpart must also be true. This is because transmission principles say everything that their closure counterparts say (and more besides).
Epistemic closure principles likewise can be true when their transmission counterparts are false.
Simple Closure: If S knows that P and deduces Q from P, then S knows that Q.
Simple Transmission: If S knows that P and deduces Q from P, then S knows that Q in virtue of knowing that P.
Even supposing Simple Closure is true (which it probably is not), Simple Transmission is false. Suppose S knows Q on the basis of perceptual experience and then comes to know P on the basis of her knowing Q. It would be premise circular if she then also based her belief in Q on her belief in P. If she did so, her extended argument would be Q therefore P therefore Q. It is plausible in such a case that S still knows the conclusion Q on the basis of the relevant perceptual experience. Assuming she still knows Q, her deduction from P to Q is not a counterexample to Simple Closure. On the other hand, this case is a clear counterexample to Simple Transmission. Although she knows Q, she knows it in virtue of the perceptual experience, not deducing it from her knowledge that P.
The difference between closure and transmission principles was just explained. Next, the difference between closure and transmission failure will be explained. There is an instance of closure failure when Pa and Rab hold, but Pb does not. Simple Closure suffers from closure failure just in case someone deduces Q from her knowledge that P but nonetheless fails to know that Q. An instance of simple closure failure just is a counterexample to Simple Closure.
There is an instance of transmission failure whenever it is false that Pb in virtue of Pa and Rab. There are three types of transmission failure which correspond to the three ways in which it might be false that Pb holds in virtue of Pa and Rab. The first type occurs just in case either Pa or Rab does not hold. If Pa and Rab do not hold, then Pb cannot hold in virtue of Pa and Rab. Consequently, Rab would fail to transmit P from a to b. Notice that this first type of transmission failure can occur even if the relevant transmission principle is true. Transmission principles do not say that Pa and Rab in fact hold; instead they say if Pa and Rab hold, then Pb holds in virtue of Pa and Rab. If S fails to know P or fails to deduce Q from P, then the deduction fails to transmit knowledge from P to Q. Nonetheless, Simple Transmission might still be true, because it does not demand that S actually deduce Q from her knowledge that P. A similar point explains why one can have type-one transmission failure without having closure failure, that is, without having a counterexample to the corresponding closure principle. There is, therefore, an interesting difference between transmission and closure failure: an instance of closure failure just is a counterexample to some relevant closure principle, but an instance of transmission failure need not be a counterexample to some relevant transmission principle.
Although the first type of transmission failure never provides a counterexample to some relevant transmission principle, the second and third types always provide such a counterexample. The second type occurs just in case Pa and Rab holds but Pb does not—precisely the same circumstances in which closure failure occurs. In other words, the second type of transmission failure occurs just in case closure failure does. It follows that all instances of closure failure are instances of transmission failure. It does not follow, however, that all instances of transmission failure are instances of closure failure: there will be transmission failure without closure failure whenever there is transmission failure of the first or third types. Simple Transmission suffers from type-two transmission failure (and closure failure) just in case S deduces Q from her knowledge that P but nonetheless fails to know Q. (The idea that all instances of closure failure are instances of transmission failure but not vice versa also follows from the fact that transmission principles say everything that their closure counterparts say and more besides. By saying everything that closure principles say, transmission principles will fail whenever their closure counterparts do. By saying more than their closure counterparts, they sometimes will fail even when their closure counterparts do not.)
The third type of transmission failure occurs just in case Pa, Rab, and Pb hold, but Pb does not hold in virtue of Pa and Rab. Since closure principles do not demand that Pb hold in virtue of Pa and Rab, a closure principle may be true even if its corresponding transmission principle suffers from type-three transmission failure. Simple Transmission suffers from type-three transmission failure just in case S deduces Q from S’s knowledge that P, S knows Q, but S does not know Q in virtue of the deduction from her knowledge that P. The premise circular argument discussed in this sub-section is a plausible example of this type of failure. As was explained above, in such a case Simple Closure might hold but Simple Transmission would not.
There is no doubt that, in the epistemological literature, closure failure is in some sense the bigger issue. Some epistemological theories seem committed to rejecting intuitive closure principles, and there is extensive debate over how serious of a crime it is to reject these principles. Although the literature on transmission failure is by no means scant, considerably more ink has been spilt over closure failure. One naturally is inclined to infer that closure failure is the more important issue, but this may be incorrect: the literature’s focus on closure failure may be misplaced—though this potential misplacement is likely harmless.
Crispin Wright (1985: 438, nt. 1) was perhaps the first to distinguish between epistemic closure and transmission principles, but much of the literature has not observed this distinction, a fact that has been noted by Wright (2003: 76, nt.1) and Davies (2000: 394, nt. 19). When some philosophers purport to talk about closure principles, they are really talking about transmission principles. Consider Williamson’s “intuitive closure” principle: “knowing p1,…,pn, competently deducing q, and thereby coming to believe q is in general a way of coming to know q” (2000: 117, emphasis mine). Closure principles can tell us that everything we competently deduce from prior knowledge itself will be known; however, only transmission principles can tell us the how, that is, that the conclusions are known in virtue of the competent deductions. Hawthorne likewise treats closure principles as if they were transmission ones: “Our closure principles are perfectly general principles concerning how knowledge can be gained by deductive inference from prior knowledge” (2004: 36, emphasis mine). Closure principles can tell us that everything we competently deduce from prior knowledge itself will be known; however, only transmission principles can tell us that our knowledge of these conclusions was gained by the deduction from prior knowledge.
Dretske’s 1970 paper “Epistemic Operators” introduced the epistemological world to the issue of closure failure, and his subsequent work on the topic has been extremely important. Yet even he now admits that discussing transmission failure “provides a more revealing way” of explaining some of his key claims concerning closure failure (2005: 15). One wonders, then, whether the literature’s greater focus on closure failure is (harmlessly?) misplaced.
Although it seems salutary to appreciate the distinction between closure and transmission failure, it may be that some philosophers read too much into this distinction. Although Wright holds that certain competent deductions are instances of transmission failure, he is “skeptical whether there are any genuine counterexamples to closure” (2002: 332; 2003: 57-8; cf. 2000: 157). Davies seems sympathetic to a similar position at times (2000: 394) but not at others (1998: 326). These remarks suggest the following way of explaining why transmission is an interesting issue: “Moore’s Proof seems to be a bad argument, but intuitive closure principles seem too plausible to reject. This tension can be resolved when Moore’s Proof is treated as an instance of transmission rather than closure failure. Moore’s Proof seems to be a bad argument and is a bad argument because it fails to transmit justification to its conclusion; it is not, however, a counterexample to intuitive closure principles.”
Smith (2009: 181) comes closest to endorsing this motivation explicitly, but even if it is not widely held, it is worth explaining why it fails. To do so, two new closure principles need to be introduced. Simple Closure and Simple Transmission were discussed in 4.A in order to provide a clear case in which a transmission principle is false even if its closure counterpart is true. Yet Simple Closure is too simple to be plausible. For example, it fails to account for defeaters (for example, relevant counterevidence). If S deduces Q from her knowledge that P, then Simple Closure says that S knows Q. Yet if S makes that deduction even though her total evidence supports ~Q, she will not know Q.
When philosophers defend closure principles, they typically defend, not Simple Closure, but something like:
Strong Closure: If S knows P and S competently deduces Q from P, then S knows that Q.
Simple Closure holds that knowledge is closed over deductions. Strong Closure, on the other hand, holds that knowledge is closed over competent deductions. Recall from 3.B that a deduction is competent just in case the premises are well justified; the premises provide deductive (so maximal) support for their conclusions; the subject knows that the premises provide deductive support; there are no relevant defeaters; and it is not premise circular. Given that competent deductions seem, at first glance at least, to be the paradigm of good reasoning (see 3.B), it should not be surprising that philosophers defend something like Strong Closure.
The second closure principle that needs to be introduced is:
Weak Closure: If S knows P and S competently deduces Q from P, then S has some epistemic status for Q, no matter how weak.
Suppose S competently deduces Q from her knowledge that P. Strong Closure holds that S must know Q. Weak Closure, on the other hand, says only that S must have some positive epistemic status for Q, no matter how weak. (It is worth noting that, despite its name, Weak Closure is not obviously a closure principle. Closure principles say that if Pa and Rab, then Pb (see 4.A). If there are three different epistemic properties P, Q, and R, then Weak Closure is in this form: if Pa and Rab, then Pb or Qb or Rb. This concern can be ignored, because if Weak Closure fails to count as a closure principle, then there would only be further problems with the above motivation.)
Wright (2004), Davies (2003: 29-30), and perhaps also Smith (2009: 180-1) endorse an account of non-inferential knowledge which allows them to endorse Weak Closure but not Strong Closure. (McLaughlin 2003: 91-2 endorses a similar view, but it is not clear that his explanation of transmission failure is compatible with even Weak Closure.) Put simply, they hold that to have (strong) non-inferential justification for P, one must have prior entitlement for certain background assumptions. An entitlement to some background assumption A is something like a very weak justification for A that one has automatically, or by default. Since they suppose (as is common) that knowledge requires the strong type of justification, they also hold that non-inferential knowledge likewise requires this prior weak and default justification for background assumptions. (The most extensive defense of this view of non-inferential justification is Wright’s 2004. See Tucker’s 2009 for a criticism of this view as it relates to perceptual justification.)
Applied to Moore’s Proof, this view holds that, to have non-inferential knowledge that one has a hand (the premise of Moore’s Proof), she must have some prior entitlement to accept that there are material things (the conclusion of Moore’s Proof). Since the conclusion of Moore’s Proof would not be used as a sub-premise to establish that one has hands, it would not count as premise circular. Nonetheless, since knowing the premise would require some previous (however weak) justification for the conclusion, this view of non-inferential justification makes Moore’s Proof circular in some other sense. Does this type of circularity prevent the premise from transmitting knowledge to the conclusion? Wright and Davies certainly think so, but Cohen (1999:76-7, 87, nt. 52) is more optimistic. If Wright and Davies are correct, then one has some very weak justification for the conclusion of Moore’s Proof, but they do not and cannot know this conclusion. Since the conclusion, that there are material things, does have some weak epistemic status, Wright and Davies can endorse Weak Closure. Yet they are forced to reject Strong Closure because they hold that one cannot know that there are material things.
The ability to endorse Weak Closure is not enough for the above way of motivating the issue of transmission failure to succeed. Strong Closure (or some principle in the general neighborhood) is what most epistemologists find too plausible to reject. Since Wright and Davies must reject Strong Closure, their diagnosis of Moore’s Proof cannot explain the badness of Moore’s Proof without rejecting the version of closure that most philosophers find intuitive. (See Silins 2005: 89-95 for related discussion.)
Something like Strong Closure seems extremely plausible even to those who ultimately reject it (for example, Dretske 2005: 18). But why does it seem so plausible? Tucker (2010: 498-9) holds that it seems so plausible because its corresponding transmission principle seems so plausible. Consider:
Strong Transmission: If S knows P and S competently deduces Q from P, then S knows that Q in virtue of that competent deduction.
Strong Transmission says what Strong Closure says and that the conclusion is justified in virtue of that competent deduction. Tucker’s suggestion is that Strong Closure seems plausible because Strong Transmission seem plausible. It seems that justification is closed over a competent deduction because it seems competent deductions must transmit justification to their conclusions, a point discussed above in section 2.B. From this point of view, it is no surprise to find that the literature often treats closure principles as if they were transmission ones, for our intuitions concerning transmission would explain why certain closure principles seem so plausible.
It is commonly held that Moore’s Proof, the Neo-Moorean Argument, and the Zebra Argument are instances of transmission failure. When philosophers attempt to explain why these arguments fail to transmit, they tend to make two assumptions.
Much of the literature on transmission failure focuses on the transmission of warrant rather than the transmission of (doxastic) justification (see Wright 1985, 2002, 2003; Davies 1998, 2000, 2003; and Dretske 2005). A warrant for P, roughly, is something that counts in favor of accepting P. An evidential warrant for P is some (inferential or non-inferential) evidence that counts in favor of accepting P. Entitlement, which was discussed in 4.B, is a type of non-evidential warrant for P, a warrant that one has by default. One can have a warrant for P even if she does not believe P or believes P but not on the basis of the warrant. Notice that it is propositions that are warranted relative to a person.
(Doxastic) justification, on the other hand, is a property that beliefs have. Roughly, a belief is justified when it is held in an epistemically appropriate way. S is justified in believing P only if (i) S has warrant for P and (ii) S’s belief in P is appropriately connected to that warrant for P. Hence, one can have warrant for a belief even though it is not justified. Suppose Merla has some genuine evidential warrant for her belief that Joey is innocent, so her belief satisfies (i); but her belief will not be justified if she believes that Joey is innocent solely because the Magic 8-Ball says so. Although Merla would have warrant for Joey’s innocence, her belief in his innocence would not be connected appropriately to that warrant. In other words, her belief would not be justified because it would not satisfy (ii).
Again, Wright, Davies, and Dretske focus on the transmission of warrant, not justification. In a representative statement, Davies maintains that “The question is whether the epistemic warrants that I have for believing the premises add up to an epistemically adequate warrant for the conclusion” (2000: 399, cf. 2003: 51). Dretske focuses more specifically on the transmission of evidential warrant. Transmission failure, he says, is the idea “that some reasons for believing P do not transmit to things, Q, known to be implied by P” (15). These philosophers hold that Moore’s Proof fails to transmit in the sense that it fails to make the warrant for its premise warrant for its conclusion.
These philosophers assume, however, that the failure to transmit warrant suffices for the failure to transmit justification. In other words, they make:
Common Assumption 1: if an argument fails to transmit warrant, then it fails to transmit justification.
The difference between these two types of transmission failure is subtle. To say that an argument fails to transmit justification is to say that an argument fails to make its conclusion justified. To say that an argument fails to transmit warrant is to say that the argument fails to make belief in its conclusion justified in a very particular way, namely by converting warrant for the premise into warrant for the conclusion.
Davies, Wright, and, to a lesser extent, Dretske reveal this assumption when they discuss the significance of failing to transmit warrant. Wright assumes that when an argument fails to transmit warrant, it is not an argument “whereby someone could be moved to rational [or justified] conviction of its conclusion” (2000: 140). In one paragraph, Davies seems to suppose, at the very least, that “limitations on the transmission of epistemic warrants” suffice for “limitations on our ability to achieve knowledge [and presumably also justification] by inference” (2003: 35-6). Although there is no one passage that illustrates this, Dretske (2005) assumes that an evidential warrant’s failing to transmit prevents knowledge (and presumably also justification) from transmitting.
This first assumption is significant because the transmission of justification seems to be the more important type of transmission. When we evaluate the quality of arguments (insofar as they are used to organize one’s beliefs) we want to know whether we can justifiably believe the conclusion in virtue of accepting the argument. Whether an argument transmits warrant is usually relevant to this aim only insofar as it implies something about when the argument transmits justification.
Silins (2005: 87-88) and Tucker (2010: 505-7) criticize this first assumption. Suppose that Harold’s belief in P is doxastically justified by his evidence E; he notices that P entails Q; and then he subsequently deduces Q from P. According to Silins and Tucker, it is natural to identify Harold’s reason for accepting Q as P, not E. Since we are supposing that P entails Q, P is presumably a warrant for Q. But if P is Harold’s reason for Q and is itself a warrant for Q, it does not seem to matter whether the deduction transmits warrant, that is, whether the deduction makes E into a warrant for Q. It is worth noting that, even if Common Assumption 1 is ultimately correct, Tucker and Silins still have a point: this assumption is not sufficiently obvious to be taken for granted, as Wright, Dretske, and Davies do.
The second common assumption may be the more important. It says that failing to have the power to resolve doubt suffices for failing to transmit justification. In other words:
Common Assumption 2: if an argument fails to have the power to resolve doubt, then it fails to transmit justification to its conclusion.
A deduction P therefore C has the power to resolve doubt (about its conclusion) iff it is possible for one to go from doubting C to justified belief in C solely in virtue of accepting P therefore C. As I am using the term, one (seriously) doubts P just in case she either disbelieves or withholds judgment about P. Withholding judgment is more than merely failing to believe or disbelieve P: it is resisting or refraining from both believing and disbelieving P, and one cannot do that unless one has considered P.
Suppose that Hillbilly has been very out of the loop the last few years, and he doubts that Obama is the president. He then discovers that both CNN and the NY Times say that he is the president. He might justifiably infer that, after all, Obama is the president. This is because the argument he would accept has the power to resolve doubt. On the other hand, the Neo-Moorean Argument, for example, does not have the power to resolve doubt. If one doubts NM2, that she is not a brain-in-a-vat, she cannot rationally believe, NM1, that she has a hand. So doubting the conclusion of the Neo-Moorean Argument prevents a key premise in the argument from being justified, thereby preventing the argument from justifying the conclusion. Since the argument cannot justify its conclusion when the subject antecedently disbelieves or withholds judgment about the conclusion, it lacks the power to resolve doubt.
Wright (2002, 2003), Davies (2003), and McLaughlin (2000) make this second assumption. Wright maintains that “Intuitively, a transmissible warrant should make for the possible advancement of knowledge, or warranted belief, and the overcoming of doubt or agnosticism” (2002: 332, emphasis mine). In another paper, he says of an example that, “The inference from A to B is thus not at the service of addressing an antecedent agnosticism about B. So my warrant does not transmit” (2003: 63).
Davies’ (2003) Limitation Principles for the transmission of warrant are, he thinks, motivated “by making use of the idea that failure of transmission of epistemic warrant is the analogue, within the thought of a single subject, of the dialectical phenomenon of begging the question” (41). In Davies’ view, “The speaker begs the question against the hearer if the hearer’s doubt rationally requires him to adopt background assumptions relative to which the considerations that are supposed to support the speaker’s premises no longer provide that support” (41). Take the Zebra Argument. If you doubted Z2, that the animal is not a cleverly disguised mule, then Davies suggests that your perceptual experience will no longer count in favor of your belief in Z1, that the animal is a zebra. So if I offered you the Zebra Argument in order to convince you that the animal is not a cleverly disguised mule, I would beg the question against you.
It is pretty clear, as Davies’ discussion suggests, that accepting an argument that fails to be a “question-settling justification,” that is, accepting an argument lacking the power to resolve doubt, is the analogue of the dialectical phenomenon of begging the question (for example, 2003: 41-5, esp. 42). Were I to accept the Zebra Argument when I have antecedent doubt about its conclusion, I would, as it were, beg the question against myself. Yet Davies never provides any reason to believe that transmission failure is an analogue of begging the question. He seems to take for granted that for something (for example, an experience or argument) to be a justification at all, it must have the power to resolve doubt.
McLaughlin’s (2000) primary concern is with the transmission of knowledge, not justification, but he seems to make a parallel assumption. He says the Neo-Moorean Argument cannot transmit knowledge because it begs the question: “The premises fail to provide a sufficient epistemic basis on which to know the conclusion because my basis for one of the premises is dependent on the truth of the conclusion in such a way as to render the argument question begging” (104). It is Neo-Moorean Argument’s inability to resolve doubt that makes it question-begging. Hence, McLaughlin seems to assume that the power to resolve doubt is required for the power to make a conclusion known.
Much of the literature on transmission failure, then, operates on the assumption that the power to justify requires the power to resolve doubt. Taking this assumption for granted was probably a reasonable thing to do at the time the literature was first published; however, this assumption is now challenged most directly by Pryor (2004), but Markie (2005: 409) and Bergmann (2006: 198-200) challenge similar assumptions in connection with easy knowledge and epistemic circularity, respectively. Although Davies initially endorses Common Assumption 2, he seems inclined to reject it in his later work (2004: 242-3). Those who challenge this assumption first emphasize (though not necessarily in these words) the conceptual distinction between transmission failure and the inability to resolve doubt, and then they contend that we need some special reason to think that the inability to resolve doubt suffices for transmission failure.
Sometimes philosophers press similar distinctions in different terminology, and it is worth explaining the connection with one other popular way of talking. Some (for example, Pryor 2004: 369) hold that Moore’s Proof can transmit justification even though it is dialectically ineffective for some audiences. An argument is dialectically effective for an audience when it is one that will transmit justification (knowledge) to the argument’s conclusion given the audience’s current beliefs, experiences, and other epistemically relevant factors. Consider again Hillbilly’s argument that Two reliable sources, namely CNN and NY Times, say that Obama is the president; therefore, Obama is the president. This argument is dialectically effective for Hillbilly because he has no antecedent doubt about the reliability of CNN and NY Times. This same argument nonetheless may be dialectically ineffective for his cousin if the cousin antecedently doubts (rationally or irrationally) the reliability of these two news outlets. Before this argument will be dialectically effective for the cousin, her antecedent doubt must be resolved.
Defenders of Moore’s Proof sometimes say that the “proof” is dialectically effective for audiences that lack antecedent doubt in the argument’s conclusion that there are no material things, but not for its intended audience, namely those skeptical of this conclusion. Moore’s Proof fails to be dialectically effective for this skeptical audience because such skeptics tend to doubt the reliability of perception.
Appreciating the distinction between transmission failure and the inability to resolve doubt (or dialectical effectiveness) not only casts doubt on Common Assumption 2, but also provides proponents of Moore’s Proof with an error theory. In general, an error theory attempts to explain why something seems true when it is not. The proponent of Moore’s Proof wants to explain why Moore’s Proof seems to be an instance of transmission failure when it is not. In other words, this error theory attempts to explain away the intuition that Moore’s Proof is an instance of transmission failure. The proponent of this error theory will say that this intuition is partly right and partly wrong. What it gets right is that Moore’s Proof exhibits a genuine failure, namely the failure to resolve doubt (and/or be dialectically effective for its target audience). What it gets wrong is that Moore’s Proof is an instance of transmission failure. Yet, since it is easy to conflate the two types of failure, it is easy to mistakenly think that Moore’s Proof is an instance of transmission failure too.
The success of this error theory depends on at least two factors. The first is whether transmission failure and the inability to resolve doubt are in fact easily confused. This seems plausible given the widespread tendency to implicitly endorse Common Assumption 2 without comment. The second is whether one retains the intuition that Moore’s Proof is an instance of transmission failure. If, after considering this error theory and carefully distinguishing transmission failure from the inability to resolve doubt, one no longer has the intuition that Moore’s Proof is a bad argument, then the error theory seems promising. If, however, one retains the intuition that Moore’s Proof is a bad argument, it is far less plausible that the intuition of transmission failure arises from conflating transmission failure with the inability to resolve doubt. Consequently, the error theory would seem considerably less promising. (Wright 2008 responds to Pryor’s version of this error theory, a response which is criticized by Tucker's 2010: 523-4.)
- Bergmann, Michael. 2006. Justification without Awareness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- In Chapter 7, Bergmann makes a distinction similar to the transmission/resolving doubt distinction and uses it to defend some instances of epistemic circularity.
- Cohen, Stewart. 1999. “Contextualism, Skepticism, and the Structure of Reasons.” Philosophical Perspectives 13: 57-89.
- Cohen’s main goal is to defend epistemic contextualism, but he also seems to approve of a type of circularity that Davies and Wright find vicious (see 76-7, 87, nt. 52).
- Davies, Martin. 2004. “Epistemic Entitlement, Warrant Transmission, and Easy Knowledge.” Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78: 213-45.
- In this paper, Davies distances himself from his earlier work on transmission failure and seems sympathetic to the error theory discussed in 5.B.
- Davies, Martin. 2003. “The Problem of Armchair Knowledge.” In Nuccetelli 23-56.
- In this paper, Davies defends his early views concerning transmission failure, but perhaps its most useful contribution is that it considers a wide variety of cases that he holds are instances of transmission failure (see especially section 5).
- Davies, Martin. 2000. “Externalism and Armchair Knowledge.” In Boghossian, Paul and Christopher Peacocke (eds.) 384-414.
- This paper is probably the place to start for those interested in Davies’ early views on transmission failure.
- Davies, Martin. 1998. “Externalism, Architecturalism, and Epistemic Warrant.” In Wright, Crispin, C. Smith, and C. Macdonald (eds.). Knowing Our Own Minds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pgs. 321- 361.
- Davies presents his initial views on transmission failure, which he refines in his 2000 and 2003 and then apparently reconsiders in his 2004.
- Dretske, Fred. 2005. “The Case against Closure.” In Steup, Matthias and Ernest Sosa (eds.). Contemporary Debates in Epistemology. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 13-25.
- Dretske defends his view that closure principles are false, and, in sec. 1, he explains how some of what he says about closure failure in his earlier work can be better expressed in terms of transmission failure.
- Dretske, Fred. 1970. “Epistemic Operators” Journal of Philosophy 67: 1007-23.
- Dretske introduces closure failure as an issue for discussion, but his 2005 provides a simpler introduction to the closure failure issue.
- Hawthorne, John. 2005. “The Case for Closure.” In Steup, Matthias and Ernest Sosa (eds.). Contemporary Debates in Epistemology. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 26-42.
- Hawthorne defends intuitive closure principles and criticizes Dretske’s views regarding closure (and transmission) failure.
- Lackey, Jennifer. 2006. “Introduction.” In Lackey, Jennifer and Ernest Sosa (eds.). The Epistemology of Testimony. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- In Section 3, Lackey briefly discusses some of the transmission issues concerning testimony.
- Markie, Peter J. “Easy Knowledge.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70: 406-16.
- Markie discusses some competent deductions that seem to be instances of transmission failure (though he does not use that terminology), and he provides an error theory of the sort discussed in section 5.B above.
- McKinsey, Michael. 2003. “Transmission of Warrant and Closure of Apriority.”
- In Nuccetelli 97-115. McKinsey responds to Wright (2000) and Davies’ (1998, 2000, 2003) charge that McKinsey’s Paradox is an instance of transmission failure.
- McLaughlin, Brian. 2003. “McKinsey’s Challenge, Warrant Transmission, and Skepticism.” In Nuccetelli 79-96.
- McLaughlin provides an objection to Wright’s 2000 conditions for transmission failure, which convinces Wright to modify those conditions in his later work. It also provides a careful discussion of whether McKinsey’s Paradox is an instance of transmission failure.
- McLaughlin, Brian. 2000. “Skepticism, Externalism, and Self-Knowledge.” The Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 74: 93-118.
- On pages 104-5, McLaughlin connects transmission failure with question-begging and claims that the Neo-Moorean argument is an instance of transmission failure.
- Nuccetelli, Susana (ed.). 2003. New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Several chapters of this collection were referenced in this article.
- Pryor, James. 2004. “What’s Wrong with Moore’s Argument.” Philosophical Issues 14: 349-77.
- Pryor defends Moore’s Proof from the charge of transmission failure, which includes a very careful discussion of the error theory discussed in 5.B.
- Silins, Nicholas. 2005. “Transmission Failure Failure.” Philosophical Studies 126: 71-102.
- Silins defends the Zebra Argument from the charge of transmission failure and provides detailed criticisms of the views of Wright and Davies.
- Smith, Martin. 2009. “Transmission Failure Explained.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79: 164-89.
- Smith provides an account of transmission failure in terms of safety and reliability. A full appreciation of Smith’s view requires at least some background in modal logic, particularly with counterfactuals, or subjunctive conditionals.
- Tucker, Chris. 2010. "When Transmission Fails." Philosophical Review 119: 497-529.
- Tucker defends the Neo-Moorean and Zebra arguments by developing and defending a very permissive account of transmission failure. Much of this entry is merely a simplified version of the first half of Tucker's 2010 paper.
- Tucker, Chris. 2009. “Perceptual Justification and Warrant by Default.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87: 445-63.
- This paper attacks the view of non-inferential justification that Wright, and, to a lesser extent, Smith, Davies, and McLaughlin (2003) assume in their work on transmission failure.
- Williamson, Timothy. 2000. Knowledge and Its Limits. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- This book contains some important work on closure failure that is equally work on transmission failure.
- Wright, Crispin. 2008. “The Perils of Dogmatism.” Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 25-48.
- Wright criticizes an alternative to his account of non-inferential justification and, on page 38, he criticizes Pryor’s version of the error theory discussed in 5.B.
- Wright, Crispin. 2004. “Warrant for Nothing (and Foundations for Free)?” Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78: 167- 212.
- Wright’s extended defense of his account of non-inferential justification.
- Wright, Crispin. 2003. “Some Reflections on the Acquisition of Warrant by Inference.” In Nuccetelli 57-78.
- The place to start for those interested in understanding Wright’s account of transmission failure as it relates to McKinsey’s Paradox and content externalism.
- Wright, Crispin. 2002. “(Anti)-Sceptics Simple and Subtle: G. E. Moore and John McDowell.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65: 330-348.
- The place to start for those interested in Wright’s account of transmission failure as it relates to perceptual justification.
- Wright, Crispin. 2000. “Cogency and Question-Begging: Some Reflections on McKinsey’s Paradox and Putnam’s Proof.” Philosophical Issues 10: 140-63.
- Wright provides a transmission failure principle which he refines in his 2002 and 2003 in light of McLaughlin’s 2003 criticism.
- Wright, Crispin. 1985. “Facts and Certainty.” Proceedings of the British Academy, 429-472. Reprinted in Williams, Michael (ed.). 1993. Skepticism. Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company Limited, pgs. 303-346.
- Wright’s earliest work on transmission failure and perhaps the first paper to distinguish between closure and transmission principles. Since Wright’s main focus is not transmission failure, you might start with one of Wright’s later papers unless one is very interested in the full details of Wright’s broadly Wittgensteinian epistemology.
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With blender or processor running, slowly drizzle in canola oil until a smooth emulsion forms. Transfer mixture to a medium bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle in 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil. Season to taste generously with salt and pepper. Caesar dressing can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Whisk/Blend the Dressing: Whisk together the lemon juice, dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, pressed garlic, parmesan cheese, and black pepper. Add the mayonnaise and whisk until well-combined. Refrigerate until you're ready to serve. Toss in your favorite salads or use the dressing as a tangy dipping sauce!
Add the anchovy filets, garlic, egg yolks, Parmesan, lemon juice, Dijon, sea salt and black pepper to a blender . Purée for 5 seconds, or until combined. Add olive oil. While the blender is still running, remove the small cap from the blender lid and gradually stream in the olive oil until the dressing is completely smooth.
Serving Tips. I like to make a Caesar salad with hearts of Romaine. I cut one in thirds lengthwise and then slice it crosswise. Spoon the dressing into a bowl, top it with the Romaine lettuce and croutons, and then toss to coat everything in the dressing. Or, you can drizzle the dressing over the top of the salad.
Take room temperature eggs and place them in a pot with cold water covering them. Heat the water to 135°F and then maintain that temperature for 3 minutes (3 1/2 to be extra safe). You don't want the temperature to get above 142°F, or it will start to cook the egg. To maintain the temp, just add some cold water or turn the heat down.
Using a blender or food processor, add the soaked cashews, water, garlic, capers, dijon, lemon, salt, and pepper, and blend until creamy. It will take about 1 minute using a blender. You may like your dressing thick or thin. Add a little more water as needed to thin. Taste for flavor.
No blender needed! Just whisk together the ingredients in a bowl. Use a fine grater or microplane: To keep it extra creamy, use a fine grater or microplane on both the garlic and the Parmesan cheese. This helps the garlic and Parmesan melt right into the creamy texture of the dressing instead of making it chunky.
Directions. Blend mayonnaise, egg substitute, Parmesan cheese, water, garlic, lemon juice, anchovy paste, sugar, parsley, salt, and pepper in a blender until smooth, about 1 minute. Transfer dressing to an airtight container and refrigerate 8 hours to overnight. I Made It.
This Caesar dressing recipe yields about a cup of dressing, so it'll make two decently sized salads or one large one, so you probably won't have leftovers! But if you do have leftovers or doubled the recipe, this dressing will keep in an airtight container for 3-4 days in the fridge. I love storing salad dressings in these covered yogurt jars.
Pulse the processor or blend on low speed for several seconds. Scrape down the sides. With the food processor or blender on, drizzle the olive oil into the mixture in a small stream. Scrape down.
4.82 from 37 votes. Healthy Caesar Dressing made with Greek yogurt is a homemade twist on traditional Caesar dressing that's so much better than storebought! Prep: 5 mins. Cook: 0 mins. Total: 5 mins. Servings: 2-tablespoon servings, about 3/4 cup total.
directions. In a large wooden bowl, using a wooden spoon, mash chopped garlic cloves to a fine paste with salt. Stir in egg yolks and Dijon mustard. Add anchovies, and grind to a paste. Add lemon juice, Worcestershire, hot sauce and season with pepper. Slowly whisk in olive/canola oil until dressing is creamy.
1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan. In a bowl whisk together the garlic paste, the anchovy paste, the lemon juice, the mustard, and the Worcestershire sauce, add the mayonnaise, the Parmesan, and.
Instructions. Mix the dressing ingredients together in a small bowl until smooth: tahini, fresh lemon juice, garlic, diced capers, caper brine, dijon mustard, warm water and freshly ground black pepper. Taste and add a pinch of salt, if necessary.
1 pinch of black pepper. 2. Slowly pour in the oil, with the blade still running on a low speed, until the sauce starts to thicken and emulsify. 120ml of vegetable oil. 3. Next, add the lemon juice, Parmesan, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco. If the mixture is too thick, add a little water. If your dressing splits you can add lemon juice to.
Using a chef's knife mince the anchovies and garlic into small bits. Using the side of the knife mash them into a very fine paste by pushing and pulling the mound of anchovies and garlic across the cutting board. Set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk the egg yolk, lemon juice and mustard together until frothy.
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Been looking through manuals and other posts about how to use SIGNAL ON HALT. Unless i'm missing some then SIGNAL ON HALT is meant to return control back to the REXX code for you to handle the condition. Do I have this right?
If so it doesn't appear to be working or I have something wrong as all it will do is give me the "Enter HI to interrupt" message. So code looks roughly like
signal on halt
"ISPEXEC VGET ZPANELID" /* GET THE CURRENT PANELID */
"ISPEXEC control display lock"
"ISPEXEC display panel("ZPANELID")"
halt: say 'you hit attention'
I never get to the halt label. I have tried checking that ATTENTION is mapped to the key I'm hitting, even re-mapped it elsewhere.
Well, the interrupt would be in the panel processing, not in the REXX code. When you hit the attention key (PA1 by default), you get an ATTN interrupt, not an external interrupt. And as I read the ISPF manual you can trap an ATTN in CLIST, but not in REXX. An ATTN while running REXX terminates the REXX pgm. | <urn:uuid:01c61def-f7ba-4c40-b799-72765af1e236> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | http://ibmmainframes.com/about66250.html | 2020-03-28T21:07:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370493120.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20200328194743-20200328224743-00127.warc.gz | en | 0.865507 | 269 |
- [colloquial] (professional)(Sport) (player) jugador, (-dora) (masculine, feminine) profesional(coach) instructor, (-tora) (masculine, feminine)Example sentences
- Does he protest when baseball or tennis players become pros right after high school?
- The sites usually list bios and name some of the professional designations that qualified pros have.
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- also: pros plural(advantages)the pros and conslos pros y los contrasto weigh up the pros and conssopesar los pros y los contrasExample sentences
- Hopefully you would have seen a more balanced argument to the pros and cons of GM, and that we shouldn't believe every thing we read.
- The essays in this issue explore the pros and cons, the advantages and dangers of taking human rights seriously.
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Sharon earned a Community Services Diploma in 1986, a Bachelor of Public Relations degree from Mount Saint Vincent University in 1996 and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University in 2006.
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Sharon is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Halifax Estate Planning Council. She currently serves on the Board of Governors of Mount Saint Vincent University and is Chair of the University’s Advancement and External Relations Committee. Sharon has served as a director on several charity boards including the Canadian Bar Association NS Branch, the Northend Community Health Clinic, Dalhousie Legal Aid Clinic, the Spina Bifida Association and Crime Stoppers Nova Scotia.
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Kansas High School Volleyball - Wheatland-Grinnell over Triplains/BrewsterOctober 16, 2021: Brewster, KS 67732
Wheatland-Grinnell Thunderhawks (Grainfield, KS) supporters left the game in high spirits Saturday as they observed their volleyball squad top the host Triplains/Brewster Titans (Brewster, KS), 2-0 in a league match.
Next up, the Thunderhawks clash with the Golden Plains Bulldogs (Rexford, KS) in a Western Kansas Liberty contest, on Saturday, October 16. Wheatland-Grinnell will attempt to better on its 26-9 season record. The Bulldogs go into the contest with a 25-5 record after their 2-1 non-league win over Wheatland-Grinnell (Grainfield, KS).
With the loss, Triplains/Brewster moves to 0-15 on the year. The Titans travel to Northern Valley (Almena, KS) to face the Huskies in a non-league contest on Saturday, October 16. The Huskies go into the contest with a record of 12-16. Northern Valley lost 2-0 in their recent league contest against Logan/Palco (Logan, KS) | <urn:uuid:1fcd35c1-09b8-431a-bb46-bbac1ede45d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://www.maxpreps.com/games/10-16-2021/volleyball-21/triplains-brewster-vs-wheatland-grinnell.htm?c=3xqUPLzPLkCkPL1ufulD3A | 2022-09-24T15:47:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030331677.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220924151538-20220924181538-00201.warc.gz | en | 0.914902 | 259 |
AND he's quiet.
Imagine, as an actor, reading that line, over and over.
... and he's quiet.
Think, for a moment, of Hollywood's most legendary cinematic performances.
... and he's quiet.
And then let us recall the last five Academy Award winners for best actor: Denzel Washington snapped in "Training Day," Adrien Brody starved and shivered in "The Pianist," Sean Penn wept and screamed in "Mystic River," Jamie Foxx boogied in "Ray," and Philip Seymour Hoffman charmed in a falsetto in "Capote."
By contrast, "It's not flashy," a 36-year-old Matt Damon warns of his latest role, a soft-spoken and stiff-shouldered secret agent in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd." "It won't get any attention in terms of awards or anything like that, but for me personally, for just how complex a role it was and how interesting the subject matter is to me, this was definitely up there."
"Up there" despite its on-the-surface simplicity, "up there" despite those three words -- ... and he's quiet -- that followed so many scene descriptions and so many speeches in Eric Roth's script, three words that don't often describe a Hollywood protagonist, and -- Damon is well aware -- don't often lead them to golden statuettes.
"[But] Bob said to me very early on, 'This is a different movie,' which is one of the things that made me want to do it."
In the film, which opened Friday, Damon plays a man named Edward Wilson, whose greased hair parts from left to right, whose bespectacled eyes never well and whose rare smile is more like a sneer. He is a CIA operative intent on gaining Cold War intelligence on the Russians, and later on unmasking a mole within the CIA. This obsessive, trust-no-one way of life eats at Wilson's soul, his marriage and the tenuous relationship with his son.
It is the third consecutive role in which Damon must play, well, adult, following his turns as an energy analyst in "Syriana" and a crooked cop in "The Departed."
It's a career direction, says Damon, that he couldn't be happier with.
"I'm aging just like anyone else," he says, though looking at him, you begin to wonder. "But the roles do get better. I'd say objectively that the best roles out there tend to be for men 35 to 55 years old."
For the record, the average age of those best actors listed above is 41-plus, the oldest of the bunch a still-going-strong Denzel at 51.
Also for the record, the story behind Damon's involvement in "Shepherd" is a fascinating one in and of itself, one you might even say has two beginnings.
In 1997, before Matt Damon was Matt Damon -- that is, before the mostly unknown actor and his equally charismatic childhood pal, Ben Affleck, were to become Hollywood darlings by way of their own script called "Good Will Hunting" -- Damon asked his agent, Patrick Whitesell, to send him the five best unproduced screenplays floating around Hollywood.
"There aren't any roles for you in these movies," Whitesell told his client.
"I know," replied Damon. "I just want to read them."
The scripts came. Among them: "The Good Shepherd," by Eric Roth. Damon loved the tale, but indeed saw no role in it for him.
No matter, because "Hunting" would soon be released to critical acclaim and a box-office blitz, and in March 1998, Damon and Affleck would hoist Oscar statuettes for best original screenplay and deliver perhaps the most memorable acceptance speech of the night, an unapologetically exuberant Thank You to moms and dads and Bostonians and Cuba Gooding Jr.
That night, host Billy Crystal had plenty of fun at Damon's expense, once quipping that Damon "must feel like he's on the Senior's Tour," the young pup competing also in the best-actor category with screen legends Peter Fonda, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman and eventual winner Jack Nicholson.
Damon was more than happy to take the ribbing; he and his best bud had truly arrived, and that entire Oscar experience remains something of a dream, including an industry party he attended that same weekend with Affleck and their family members.
"It was like, 'Tom Cruise is here! Brad Pitt is here!' " Damon remembers. "My family would run up and tell me who'd shown up. Then (Martin) Scorsese and De Niro rolled in, and the room just stops -- even that room stops."
Damon reveled in just a brief handshake, nothing more, with both men. And so you can imagine the range of emotions he felt years later, when he signed up for a Scorsese flick and had to say no to De Niro.
And so we turn to the second beginning of Damon's "Good Shepherd" story.
"When you're talking about Bob, you don't say 'Bob was in Taxi Driver,' you say Travis Bickle, you say Jake La Motta, Rupert Pupkin," Damon says, meaning that when you look into the eyes of Robert De Niro, you see the men he's played too.
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Obituary for Donald DeWitt
DeWITT, Donald Harrison, known to the rest of the world as "Colt", age 28, of Dayton, passed away Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. He was a 2003 graduate of Tipp City High School and attended Sinclair Community College. Colt had an uncanny ability to fix anything, and if he couldn't fix it, it wasn't broken. He is survived by his father Bud (Jennifer) DeWitt, mother Jenny Tharp, sister Tina Patterson, 2 brothers Josh (Meredith) DeWitt and Kent Tharp, a very very special friend Ashli Montgomery, special nephew Robert and special niece Stephanie and a host of other nieces, nephews, family and friends. Memorial Services will be held 2:00 p.m. Saturday at Baker-Hazel & Snider Funeral Home 5555 Philadelphia Dr. at N. Main St. The family will receive friends Saturday from 1:00 p.m. until time of services. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to SICSA in Colt's memory. On-line condolences for the family may be sent to www.bakerhazelsnider.com. | <urn:uuid:79694df0-47a9-4aed-b738-f988b793f16c> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.bakerhazelsnider.com/book-of-memories/1500726/DeWitt-Donald/obituary.php | 2015-04-25T04:13:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246646036.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045726-00257-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949766 | 247 |
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So, I get from you all masons are idiots except the ones you count on one hand and if something's not listed by UL it's not good?
That puts you in elitist pig bell ringer category, doesn't it?
For instance tell me a GB142 Buderus was unacceptable for commercial applications because it didn't have the proper ASME STAMP on it. Facts are the boiler is phenomenal, the stamp was a mere formality. Tell me about the UL listings on the Towers in NY for the steel....
BTW- personal attacks you are launching, if you actually read, which comprehension seems to be an issue at times with you, I'm fair with that pstove manufacturer. I have one of their models and say mine works fine. So, it all comes back to what you don't get.... you have to analyze better.
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No more personal attacks, next guy that throws one get's a 10 day vacation, no questions asked.
The other posts in this thread will be reviewed today as well.
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IT IS hard to look at the Paul Shanley of today—a withered, balding man of 74 at a court defendant's table—and picture the swashbuckling priest he used to be. In the 1960s and 1970s, Mr Shanley was a dark-haired crusader in jeans who ran a “street ministry” for addicts and runaways in Boston, a courageous champion of gay rights against the church hierarchy. Was he also a predator who molested and raped dozens of vulnerable boys, in decades of abuse that the archdiocese of Boston covered up?
The trial of Mr Shanley, which was due to go to the jury just after The Economist went to press, has had a profound effect on Boston. It also amply illustrates the difficulties of bringing paedophilia cases—coincidentally, just as jury selection has begun in the highest profile paedophilia trial of all time, that of Michael Jackson in Santa Maria, California.
For critics of the Catholic church in Boston, Mr Shanley's trial represents a rare chance for one of the alleged abusers to be sent to prison. The archdiocese has paid out millions of dollars in civil-lawsuit settlements, some of it to alleged victims of Mr Shanley. But statutes of limitations, which limit criminal cases, in effect, to events that happened 15 or fewer years previously, have saved most of the accused men from facing criminal charges. The current case, relating to events in the 1980s, can be brought only because Mr Shanley moved away from Massachusetts in 1990, technically creating a gap in his residency in the state.
The case hinges on the memories of one 27-year-old firefighter, who says he was six years old when Mr Shanley began to abuse him in a suburban Boston parish. The alleged victim, thick and muscular now, broke into sobs on the witness stand when he described repeated rapes in the boys' room and confessional, and a card game, called “War”, in which the loser had to remove a piece of clothing. He says he repressed memories of the molestation for nearly two decades, recalling them only after reading press reports about Mr Shanley three years ago.
Sexual abuse cases, which usually hinge on two peoples' memories of an alleged event, are notoriously (and rightly) hard to prove. In this case, Mr Shanley's defence team has torn into the accuser's version of events, pointing out inconsistencies in his story and also detailing his abuse of alcohol and steroids. Experts have been called to testify that repressed memories can be planted in a susceptible mind. The defence claims that the accuser, who won $500,000 in a civil settlement, is motivated by money: he had to claim that his memory had been repressed in order to file the civil suit, where the statute of limitations is two years.
Mr Jackson's trial has begun with considerably more hoopla, with the defendant shimmying into court in a white suit and jewelled vest to the cheers of his ardent fans. But it shares many of the same problems. If it was hard to find impartial jurors for Mr Shanley's case, it will be impossible to find anyone who does not already have some knowledge of Mr Jackson's. It also rests on the claims of a single alleged victim, who many outsiders (wrongly or rightly) feel represents other accusers: a single 15-year-old boy, a recovering cancer patient, says he was abused two years ago at Mr Jackson's “Neverland” ranch. The rock star says the boy is lying, and that his mother pressed the case for financial gain. Like the archdiocese, Mr Jackson has also reportedly paid money to his accusers—to settle a civil molestation case launched in 1993.
For Mr Shanley and Mr Jackson, both of whom have maintained their innocence, the stress is obviously enormous. But the trials are plainly not easy for the accusers either. Three other men, who were originally part of the Shanley case and who had also received civil settlements, dropped out—one of them after an aggressive grilling by the defence team at a pre-trial hearing. The lone remaining fireman is clearly feeling the burden. After a gruelling cross-examination, he begged the judge not to call him back the next day. “Please don't make me,” he said. “I can't do this again.”
Prosecutors insist that the man's willingness to testify is proof that his motives are pure. The jurors, who are barred from hearing many details of Mr Shanley's past, will weigh that against the testimony of those memory experts and the image of a slender old man with a hearing aid. | <urn:uuid:99440583-f4d1-4ebd-af13-5d21c5ce50aa> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.economist.com/node/3624972 | 2014-10-23T15:07:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413558066932.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017150106-00014-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982217 | 967 |
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
For One More Day is a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss and the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?
Through Albom’s inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love–and may have thought they’d lost–in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom’s millions of fans worldwide. | <urn:uuid:bfb9c89a-a182-4176-b924-95bed97aae7a> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://highperformancecoach.mx/2017/05/30/for-one-more-day/ | 2021-03-07T02:42:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178376006.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20210307013626-20210307043626-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.955154 | 138 |
IKT-Sicherheitskonferenz 2022 & Young Researchers’ Day
The aim of the conference is to provide further training for IT security experts from different fields. The ICT Security Conference, organized by the Austrian Armed Force, also offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas and make contacts across disciplines.
Young Researchers’ Day is there to provide a stage for young researchers and to promote research in Austria.
SBA Research will be hosting the Young Researchers’ Day one more time.
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I'm just going to point out that closers could care less if an inherited runner scores. As long as that runner doesn't tie the game or win it for the other team. I agree that Politte got lucky today, but he wasn't concerned with the runner that was already on base.
Yes doctor, I am sick.
Sick of those who are spineless.
Sick of those who feel self-entitled.
Sick of those who are hypocrites.
Yes doctor, an army is forming.
Yes doctor, there will be a war.
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That was the big news tonight as my boy told us and we switched on CNN. They must be pretty sure of it before they would announce it like that. It would be an absolute disaster in so many ways if he is still alive and this is some elaborate fraud. President Carter's failed rescue of the hostages in Tehran with helicopters crashing in the desert sand was such a heartbreak for the nation and certainly didn't help that President's legacy much.
The thing to do now, just as President Obama said tonight, is to allow the country to come together as we did just after 9/11. This should not be for some partisan purpose of the President's or any other political movement no matter how sincere on the part of some or confused or manipulated by TV personalities. It is no time for celebration and cheers outside the White House. It is a time for reflection. It is an appropriate time for a sigh of relief because that man will never again lead others to do what those horrifically misguided and delusional, evil people did on that day in New York City.
We may yet face many terrible things as a nation. There may even be attacks by some inspired by this "martyrdom" as some, but not really that many, will call it. The deceased was an enemy of Muslim kings, nations and peoples even more than he was of us. But this does send a very important message that in spite of all this nation's mistakes, we are still able to accomplish a national goal, we can still successfully defend against the clearest forms of evil, we can still come together as a nation towards that more perfect union. | <urn:uuid:c82f2ad6-9383-4a8f-9aaf-9bb4dc0353b2> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.moderatebutpassionate.com/2011/05/leader-of-al-qaeda-dead.html | 2015-05-22T11:29:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207924991.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113204-00058-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983309 | 329 |
Weight loss is a huge goal for so many people from all around the world. It is something that can only be seen as great but it does bring in some problems that do have to be solved. A reason why people succeed and find the necessary motivation to lose weight is dropping a few sizes. Looking great and feeling much healthier is a reality but the old clothes will simply not fit well anymore.
As a person loses weight he/she does not want to buy many clothes. This is normal since there is more weight that has to disappear. After reaching the goal size rebuilding the wardrobe becomes a necessity. It is a true fun reward for absolutely all the hard work but building up the clothes from scratch is hard, especially when you lost a lot of weight. Money does become a problem and things get really complicated. Fortunately, there are some things that could make things a lot better.
Dressing our body is something that is very easy for us. We know what works for us. However, as the weight is completely different, sizes change and it becomes complicated to make a choice. What we used to buy will most likely not look great on us based on the new figure we have.
A good idea is to hire a personal shopper. He/she will go with you to the store and will make some great recommendations. You can easily talk in advance so that the shopper can easily understand the situation you are in. Based on that discussion recommendations are made. You can choose to take them into account or not but in most cases the options are much better than what many expect.
All that you wear will be needed in a brand new size. The good news is you do not need it at once. When it is summer, just worry about what you will wear. Coats will not be needed. When it is winter, you do not need to buy swimwear. Rebuilding the wardrobe is so much easier when you just take it one step at a time.
If you want to avoid having to buy way too many clothes at the same time, try to find something that is versatile and set up the capsule wardrobe. Bottom and top pieces that are interchangeable or dresses you can use for both day and night wear are always very good options. The accessories you have still fit. You can use them together with the capsule wardrobe to set up the foundation of your new wardrobe. Different combinations with various accessories will basically make it seem like you have more clothes than you actually have. | <urn:uuid:3ced6ae2-3825-483a-b856-5f4de0fa1800> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://www.fashionologymag.com/losing-weight-wardrobe/ | 2023-03-26T19:11:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296946445.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20230326173112-20230326203112-00221.warc.gz | en | 0.979586 | 514 |
Good morning Revere, today is Friday, May 6th, and these are your daily
Four Revere teams competed in the Purple Comet Math Meet in April. Out of 22 teams in Ohio, Revere placed 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 12th. The team of Sam Bockstoce, Jackson Campbell, Rohit Dasanoor and Will Krew placed 18th out of 305 teams in the U.S. and 26th out of 985 teams worldwide. The team of Cameron Weir, Drake Du, Neal Pannala, and Anant Adury placed 2nd in Ohio and 70th out of 305 U.S. teams. The team of Maggy Messner, Annabelle Yost, Abby DiSalvo, Sara Tomechko, and Wesley Leong finished sixth in Ohio. Way to go, Revere!
Thanks for listening today, Revere, and have a farewell Friday and as always, Stay Goofy. | <urn:uuid:918a9cf8-f4e4-49b1-a8fd-70ed8a745e33> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.revereschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=403&ViewID=7b97f7ed-8e5e-4120-848f-a8b4987d588f&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=28447&PageID=172&Comments=true | 2022-12-06T13:41:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711108.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206124909-20221206154909-00784.warc.gz | en | 0.941059 | 205 |
Through the exponential expansion of human activities, humanity has become the driving force of global environmental change. The consequent global sustainability crisis has been described as a result of a uniquely human form of flexibility and niche construction. Whereas seminal contributions have translated biological and ecological niche construction principles into the social sciences, we still lack concrete conceptual frameworks and narratives to grasp complex social-ecological phenomena from a niche construction perspective, while also being sensitive to spatiotemporal differentiation, global interdependencies and biophysical implications.
In their new article, Dorninger, Menéndez, and Caniglia focus on the biophysical realm of human niche construction by combining niche construction theory with social-ecological systems science to better understand the causal interrelationships between sociocultural and environmental co-evolutionary processes that have led to the current planetary crisis. Applying such an extended niche construction perspective, the authors draw attention to specific, formerly under- or unrecognized phenomena of cross-scale human-nature interactions and put them into a long-term evolutionary context, e.g., functional interdependencies in niche construction, inequality in resource access, and the simultaneousness of niche construction processes at different places.
The new conceptualization shall help to address relevant questions regarding the evolutionary implications of global heterogeneity between social-ecological niches, their interdependencies, and the distribution of natural resources—as well as humanity’s highly problematic ‘deep evolutionary dependence on external energy’ and the ‘self-endangering evolutionary trap’ from counteractive niche construction. The authors conclude that, instead of further taming nature, there is need to explore the potential of how to tame socio-metabolic growth and impact in niche construction processes.
Dorninger, Christian, Lumila Paula Menéndez, and Guido Caniglia (2024). "Social-ecological niche construction for sustainability: understanding destructive processes and exploring regenerative potentials." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 379(1893), 20220431. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0431 | <urn:uuid:6aa55768-897b-4832-b1f6-63bf51992ff1> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://kli.ac.at/en/the_kli/news/view/422 | 2023-12-01T15:44:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100290.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201151933-20231201181933-00705.warc.gz | en | 0.868439 | 435 |
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Idol is back baby!
So, after all the hype and wait it is finally here. As I sat there and watched the show I started to get this creeping feeling that the show was not living up to what I expected (does anything ever do). I watched and continued to see bad contestant after bad contestant and got the feeling that the show was far more interested in displaying these bad characters, Now don't get me wrong I enjoy the bad characters , but I just got the feeling while watching that they were trying to milk it a little. I mean I enjoyed the opera singing Apollo Creed and the girl who said she was the biggest fan but could not sing anything in tune, then for her to get upset when the judges proceeded to tell her this, she was surprised and upset. Following it up with "I have a degree in singing". WOW! But to me they were just not as good (what I really mean is BAD) as I was expecting. I mean this is the show that birthed William Hung.
As I sat there and started to think that this would be just a drawn out version of bad singers and wanting to see more of the good ones, they did it! They should promos for tonight. Now I am sitting here thinking, "bring on the freaks!" I mean really, did you see who they were showing was actually going to get up there and sing. Can't wait.
The real disturbing thing to me is how disillusioned these people are. I mean you would think they had loved ones who would be truthful to them and just say in love "YOU SUCK AT SINGING". But NOOOOOOO.... they walk out of the doors after rejection and ridicule and their loved ones are there with them. Patting them on the back saying "don't worry you will make it some day we know you can sing." AHHHHHH news flash they just came out of a room with a couple of people who actually know about singing (and yes this excludes Paula, who I must say looks like she got a pump hose stuck on her lips the whole time idol has been off and they took it off just before she came on TV ) and they say that they suck. At-least they showed them some love.
So what life lesson can we learn from american idol?
Who cares! It is just really entertaining to see.
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West Thebarton Brothel Party have had a big year – interstate tours, supporting Bad//Dreems, releasing their debut EP through Mirador Records, and performing the South Australian Music Awards to name a few, and now they are wrapping up the year with a end of year blowout at Ancient World on Saturday 12-December . Along for the ride will be The High Beamers and St Morris Sinners. Tickets at the door for $5 and remember that the venue has limited capacity so make sure you get along early! Onto the gigs….
thursday 10 december
Exeter – Future Farm, The High Beamers and Daniel Heath
friday 11 december
saturday 12 december
sunday 13 december
Metro Hotel – Luke Ryan (BTA), Sean Kemp & Gilding
The Wheatsheaf – Shelley Segal & Loren Kate
monday 14 december
wednesday 16 december
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When Pink released the first two singles off her album, we didn't expect anything less than an explosion of lyrical wit, brutal honesty and pure fun. "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" is certified platinum, while "Try," won praise for its raw, emotional content and its accompanying music video, where the pop singer artfully choreographs all the song's passion and pain.
So it was with much anticipation that announced that "Just Give Me A Reason" would be her third single off her platinum-selling album.
At the Sundance Film Festival, MTV News caught up with Nate Ruess (where he was promoting Brita's FilterForGood effort), who is featured on and co-wrote the track, to get more details on the anticipated video.
"I just saw a rough cut of it and it was unbelievable. I sh-- you not," Ruess said. "I went into it just obviously coming from a completely different world than where Pink is from," the rock singer explained about working with the pop superstar.
"Writing the song was a whole different learning experience and was really fueled by the fact that Alecia is so strong and independent and so very much herself," he said. "At the end of the day it's so hard to argue against her because what she does it always so great."
And while the singer didn't say too much about the look or the feel of the video, he did end up revealing one key detail: "I ended up being very pleased with the double-breasted coat that I wore."
Are you excited to hear Nate Ruess and Pink on "Just Give Me A Reason"? Leave your comment below!
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is officially under way, and the MTV Movies team is on the ground reporting on the hottest stars and the movies everyone will be talking about in the year to come. Keep it locked with MTV Movies for everything there is to know about Sundance. | <urn:uuid:01332f57-9fc9-47e9-8717-8b09b6b8d346> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | http://www.mtv.com/news/1700614/pink-just-give-me-a-reason-fun-nate-ruess/ | 2021-10-27T13:38:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588153.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027115745-20211027145745-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.984737 | 397 |
HomeDirty TackleDTotD: Honduran player kicks pitch invader in the head
DTotD: Honduran player kicks pitch invader in the head
May 11, 2015
Immediately after the match between Honduran rivals Real Espana and Marathon, fans of both clubs, the players, and the police all took part in a brawl on the pitch.
During this battle royale, Real Espana defender Marlon Pena defended one of his teammates by delivering a graceful yet brutal flying kick to one pitch invader’s head. This prompted a couple of other tough guys to take a step back and seemed to calm the pitch invading brawlers down a bit, as they suddenly realized that they were dealing with people capable of kicking them in the head.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
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Does the New York Yankees' brain trust actually style itself as a group of self-made, John Galt-shaming money-making geniuses who really ought to be teaching courses at the London Business School, if not for the special, special talent it takes to outbid nonexistent suitors by about $60 million for aging slugger Alex Rodriguez?
|Alex Rodriguez: One of the Yankees' great "finds."|
Actually, scratch that: I'm not just asking. I'm asking because of Yankees president Randy Levine's assertion that he'll be impressed with Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg when he "demonstrates he can keep the Rangers off welfare" -- that is, keep the Rangers from being a revenue-sharing recipient that also takes financing from baseball and "advance money" from television networks.
This is not about the Rangers' skill and/or ability to generate revenue. This is about the Yankees' colossal arrogance and complete lack of self-awareness when it comes to the same. Seriously, who is Levine to call out anyone when it comes to "welfare"?
I could make a killing running the Yankees. You could make a killing running the Yankees. Anyone with a pulse and a checking account could make a killing running the Yankees. It's really not complicated: They have the good fortune of playing in the country's biggest television market, a market they did nothing to create yet profit handsomely from, both in terms of revenue and franchise value. To wit: According to Forbes Magazine, the Yankees earned $441 million in revenues in 2009. The No. 2 franchise? The New York Mets.
Great job, Yankees! Let's make you a Wharton case study!
In terms of on-field product, Yankees fans -- the annoying ones, anyway -- like to assert that their team wins because the club's front office tries harder, that guys like Levine just want it more, that the Yankees are simply more willing to pay top dollar for primo talent. Er, no. As sports writer Joe Posnanski points out, New York's percentage of revenues spent on player payroll is a whopping 0.3 percent higher than the league average. Translation: Everything's relative, and the Yankees only spend more because they start out with more to spend. (Which is peachy if you're Carl Pavano).
Oh, and as for "welfare"? According to USA Today, the $1.5 billion construction of New Yankee Stadium was funded with $1.2 billion in tax-exempt bonds -- a nice deal if you can get it -- and the city's budget office estimated that the total cost of the stadium to New York City was $362 million.
But please, Yankee execs: Keep beating your pinstriped chests about your heroic self-sufficiency.
In a way, the Yankees are the perfect match for the Wall Street investment bankers and -- ugh -- financial engineers who snap up (read: can afford) the club's most expensive tickets, a gilded group that believes it is doing "God's work," that borrows free money from the government and considers its group to be financial wizards for loaning it out with interest (wow!), that mostly manages to extract wealth while self-righteously insisting it creates value. Put another way: The Yankees are a rich kid dealt a winning hand, whose primary accomplishment is not screwing things up, who somehow believes that the silver spoon in his mouth makes him the smartest guy in the room.
Patrick Hruby is a freelance writer and ESPN.com contributor. Contact him at PatrickHruby.net.
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Intel (s intc) isn’t letting ARM (s armh), VIA, or a bunch of startups run away with its server business, and is pushing the concept of low-power chips to address smaller workloads, such as those needed by Facebook or a web service. Today, it outlined its plans for the micro server category and said it would create server chips with power consumptions as low as 10 watts by 2012.
Intel’s Boyd Davis, general manager of the Data Center Group, said on a call today that the chipmaker would address this market for highly dense and low-power architectures for cloud-based web service companies, a market Intel estimates might become 10 percent of the total server market in the next four to five years. Today, Intel serves that market with Xeon chips running at 45 and 30 watts, but in the second half of next year Intel will offer a 20-watt Xeon chip and eventually a 10-watt low-power Atom chip for servers. Davis noted, however, that the market may never reach that 10 percent figure because computing needs may change or be fulfilled by even newer types of servers. He also guessed that the majority of that 10 percent will be taken care of by Intel’s Xeon processers. But Atom will still be important for the few customers who demand even more power efficiencies and don’t want to virtualize their applications and Intel won’t leave those customers behind.
That wasn’t just a dig at the efforts of ARM or startups using ARM or other instruction sets, such as Tilera or Calxeda. There truly are advantages today to using higher-level chips, such as the fact that they run 64-bit software common in the enterprise, they can address more memory and they can contain virtualization hooks built into the chip. But there are also advantages to micro servers, and Intel isn’t going to let anyone take on its markets without a fight. It already designed a special x86 Atom chip for SeaMicro, a startup building a micro server for web applications.
Intel must address a widening market for server chips that have to take into account resource-intensive database applications with highly redundant and scaled-out web servers, but it must do this profitably. As Davis said in the conference call, “How do we have a category that is optimized enough to address their needs but versatile enough to make it worth our while?”
The micro server can address several issues that plague webscale operations, such as space and power constraints. For example, SeaMicro’s server crams 256 dual-core Atom processors in a box that is a quarter of a rack and consumers a quarter of the energy. Another issue is communications. In the mindset that says more processes require more servers, one also has to deal with more ports creating a networking nightmare. Micro servers generally have a fabric inside the box that cuts down on ports and handles the networking complexity.
Regardless, the move toward a more compute-dependent society means that we’re refining our compute needs for specific workloads. As Gio Coglitore, director of Facebook Labs, said on the call, “We aren’t trying to cram a desktop processor into a server anymore … For Facebook there is no one-size-fits-all CPU.”
There may not be a one-size-fits-all CPU, but Intel wants to make sure there is a one-size fits all instruction set, and that the winning one is Intel’s own x86 architecture. For more on micro servers and greener data centers, come see me interview Google’s (s goog) Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl and Christina Page, Director Climate and Energy Strategy at Yahoo, (s yhoo) at our Green:Net event in San Francisco on April 21. | <urn:uuid:c426015e-c916-457b-b7ab-512e5c0b9327> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://gigaom.com/2011/03/15/intel-microserver/ | 2019-05-21T14:08:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256381.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521122503-20190521144503-00445.warc.gz | en | 0.943154 | 794 |
Public transport network operators must provide continuity of service with a high level of safety for users and maintenance teams. The rapid processing of incidents, application of safety procedures and coordination of operations are decisive.
Prescom’s solutions enable public transport operators to interoperate and use all their communication resources (analogue radio, digital radio, telephone, interphone system, etc.) simply from a single safe solution.
These solutions, which can be customised, equip centralised control stations (PCC) and make communications smoother between mobile equipment and the maintenance teams. They enable interoperability between diverse radio networks, and thus the use of mobile units irrespective of the type of radio technology used (analogue UIC radio, aero VHF, UHF, TETRA, DMR, etc.). This interoperability also makes it possible for a gradual migration of the communication resources of mobile units without breaking communications with the Control Centres.
Our systems can interface with the operational support systems and role servers used by operators to control traffic efficiently.
PRESCOM proposes the M5S solution to transport network operators. They enable conversion and adaptation to different media, switching, setting up conferencing and interphone systems between the operators of control rooms, radio terminals and telephone networks. M5S ensures interoperability between diverse networks (encrypted or not): analogue and digital radio networks (TETRA, DMR, Analogue PMR, etc.) and analogue-digital public-private telephone networks.
M5S is a highly modular solution that can equip a PCC that manages only one line to a PCC managing the transport for a large urban area. | <urn:uuid:267f7125-5b4a-48d6-b47b-48fb3db1eed5> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.prescom.net/market/public-transport/ | 2018-03-22T21:40:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257648003.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322205902-20180322225902-00750.warc.gz | en | 0.86748 | 332 |
Psalm 24:1 1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it;
The world in which we live is Theomorphic: which means things take their form the way they do because they are created to reveal God. Do your ever just stop and consider or wake up in the morning and are amazed at your life, the world that surrounds us is a miracle in all its workings. Can you see that creation points beyond itself as the things of this world including us exist not for their own sakes but to lead us back to God. Creation invokes a sermon, it preaches and explains but do we ever listen?
Psalm 104: 1-35
104 Bless the Lord, O my soul!
O Lord my God, you are very great!
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
2 covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.
3 He lays the beams of his chambers on …
God’s intelligence, creativity and mastery over all things become visible to us in the things he has made. In Psalm 104 the psalmist who did not have access to libraries or the internet, had many examples: , the landscape, valleys, mammals, birds, wine, etc. The more of creation we discover the more we are amazed at God’s wisdom. “O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures” (Ps. 104:24).
Take time and consider what does the existence of forests, oceans, outer space, molecules, tell us about God the Father or about what was done in an though Jesus Christ? What can we learn from the fact that he created clouds, trees, insects, flowers, and earthquakes. hurricanes etc.? What significance is there in things that human beings have made: pots, trumpets, tools, cities, art, architecture etc.? Let us consider, be amazed and worship our Lord! | <urn:uuid:67a3fdf7-a530-44fb-ab3a-49495077cd56> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://www.ordinarylifeextraordinarygod.org/post/the-things-of-god-reveal-the-god-of-things | 2022-07-02T20:57:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104204514.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702192528-20220702222528-00334.warc.gz | en | 0.958523 | 424 |
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He has apparently rethought that position.
Baldwin signed an extension in the fall to stay with the show through a seventh season in 2012-13, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt told reporters Friday (Jan. 6) at the Television Critics Association press tour.
“We have Alec for this season and next season. We quietly did that in the fall,” Greenblatt says.
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Neon Boots Is Writing a New Chapter of Country Music
'Excuse me, ma'am. Would you like to dance?"
We've only just set foot in the bar, but have already been invited onto the dance floor a few times. Our two left feet are hesitant to oblige.
"Come on," she coaxes. "She'll hold your drink, I'm sure."
Nancy, the woman standing over us at Neon Boots Dancehall & Saloon, grins as we explain our two-step difficulties. She just laughs as she leads us out onto the floor, as we silently hope she knows what she's in for. Our nickname is most assuredly not "Grace."
Luckily Nancy is a regular in this Spring Branch-area LGBT country bar and knows what she's doing when it comes to country-music dancing. She takes the lead and tosses us around the dance floor with ease. We even start to feel a wee bit coordinated — until Nancy tries to pull some fancy moves, that is. She twirls us and we stumble right into another couple, Carl and Rich. It's a good thing the two men are patient with the dancing novices in this place, though. They laugh, help us up and dance away together.
On the other hand, we die of embarrassment right there on the dance floor.
Recently chosen by USA Today as one of Texas's Top 10 dance halls, Neon Boots has probably seen worse moves than ours, though. The spacious venue, originally called the Esquire Ballroom, has been hosting country-music fans since 1955. The bar is widely touted as the place where Willie Nelson got his start on the path to superstardom. Flat broke and family in tow one day in 1959, he stopped off at the Esquire on his way into Houston to try to sell the house band some of his songs for cash.
The house band refused — the songs were allegedly "too good" to claim as their own — but offered Nelson a gig performing six nights a week in the club instead. He took it, and the $50 loan for an apartment, and settled down in Pasadena. The rest is country-music history.
Until closing in 1995, the Esquire hosted stars from Merle Haggard and Porter Wagoner to Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, and many more besides. Once Mickey Gilley's honky-tonk got going over in Pasadena in the early '70s, the Esquire stood as its main rival for top country musicians passing through the Houston area.
The Esquire even earned a spot on Broadway. The '80s musical Always...Patsy Cline — which is still playing in New York — is based around the bar's history with Cline, on the night the "I Fall to Pieces" singer met lifelong friend and eventual fan-club president Louise Seger before a show here and the two talked long after last call.
After various businesses came and went from the building for almost 20 years, Neon Boots opened in August 2013 and has restored live country performances; hometown boy Curtis Braly is scheduled for Friday, May 9. But what has earned the bar even more praise this time around is its welcoming vibe.
Neon Boots is an LGBT-friendly bar, but lacks any air of exclusivity whatsoever. Sure, same-sex couples may two-step a hole or two in the bottom of their boots while a rainbow flag flies nobly above the bar, but couples of any sort are made to feel comfortable here. Cassandra and Eric, for example, are dancing next to us and happen to be sporting some seriously old-school cowboy hats. They say they're more than happy to share the dance floor with whoever wants to cut a rug.
"Houston needed a good country-western bar, especially in this area," Cassandra explains. "There just wasn't much to do over here before this; you'd have to drive to the middle of town, and even then it just never felt quite like this place."
The feeling seems to be mutual. Neon Boots may be catering to the LGBT crowd, but the gay couples who frequent it aren't planning any kind of hostile takeover or anything like that. In fact, they think it's nice that Neon Boots sets no rules or expectations for its crowd — other than dancing, of course.
"It's silly that people need a label for things, especially bars," says Jesse, a handsome dark-haired man in some seriously blingy jeans. "Isn't the whole goal of equality to remove the labels and just kind of coexist?"
Right now Jesse is taking a break from dancing with his partner, Tim, who is still learning the ins and outs of two-stepping.
"We're here to dance and have a drink," Jesse continues. "Gay, straight or somewhere in between, it really shouldn't be about leaving people out so that you can feel included."
That inclusive feeling is ultimately what stands out about Neon Boots. Hell, even left-footed souls are welcome here.
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TRUE BLOOD: One More Trailer & Some Clips From The Final Season
Well Truebies, the seventh and final season of the popular vampire drama series is almost with us, and after the jump you can see Sookie, Bill, Jason, Alcide and co. prepare to make their final stand in another trailer and some clips from Sunday's premiere ep.
True Blood season seven premieres on HBO on Sunday the 22nd of June, and on Fox in the UK on Monday the 7th of July with episode one, "Jesus Gonna Be Here."
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Masters 2016: Danny Willett - Augusta win was crazy
Danny Willett felt fate played a part in him becoming Masters champion after a remarkable final round at Augusta.
Willett's wife Nicole had been due to give birth on Sunday, but Zachariah James Willett arrived 12 days early on 30 March to allow him to play.
"My wife was born 28 years ago on Monday and my son came early," said Willett, who won by three shots after Jordan Spieth's dramatic capitulation.
"You talk about fate and everything that comes with it. It's been crazy."
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The 28-year-old took advantage of defending champion Spieth dropping six shots in three holes to win his first major on five under.
He became the first European winner since Spaniard Jose Maria Olazabal in 1999, and the fourth British champion after Nick Faldo (1989, 1990, 1996), Sandy Lyle (1988) and Ian Woosnam (1991).
American Spieth, who was seeking back-to-back Green Jackets, finished tied for second alongside Willett's compatriot and playing partner Lee Westwood on two under.
"On this rare occasion I'm nearly speechless," added Willett, who moves up to ninth in the world rankings. "It's been a fantastic week on and off the golf course.
"It's been one of those crazy weeks where things seem to go your way. The 80th Masters is always going to be special and dear to my heart.
"People were saying 'Try to bring the Green Jacket home for the little man'. It's a bit big but I am sure he will grow into it."
|Who is Danny Willett?|
|The son of a vicar, he was born on 3 October, 1987 in Sheffield|
|Left school at 16 but later attended Jacksonville State University in Alabama on a golfing scholarship|
|Won the 2007 English Amateur Championship and in early 2008 became the world's top-ranked amateur|
|Turned professional in 2008 and clinched his first European Tour victory at the 2012 BMW International Open in Germany|
|Won twice on the European Tour in the 2015 season and made his Masters debut where he finished tied 38th|
|Captured his fourth European Tour victory at the Dubai Desert Classic in February 2016|
"You can't really describe the emotions and feelings," added Willett, who started the day on level par.
"We all try to play good golf and someone has to win and fortunately today it was my day.
"Every time we seemed to make ground, Jordan kept pulling ahead. We kept trying to dig in. I thought we had to get to seven under and we looked up and Jordan was already seven.
"It was a very surreal day when you look back at the ebbs and flows."
Reaction to Willett's win
"This isn't a shock win, Danny Willett has been playing great for two years now. Gave Rory a run for his money in Race To Dubai last year." - England's former world number one Luke Donald.
"Danny Willett well done that man.... And a new baby that was due today... The name Augusta sounds pretty good." - Ryder Cup star Ian Poulter, who finished in a tie for 49th.
"Congrats Danny Willett incredible stuff enjoy all that's coming your way you deserve it all." - Scotland's 1999 Open winner Paul Lawrie.
"Tears in this household Danny Willett. You little beauty." - Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan.
"Enjoy tonight Danny Willett get down the local in your Green Jacket when you're home for a pint of mild." - Yorkshire and England bowler Tim Bresnan.
"Not often we've been able to say it but an Englishman is Masters champion. Congratulations Danny Willett." - Former England striker Michael Owen.
"What a round by Danny Willett! Always good to see an English winner! Masters champion!" - Tottenham and England striker Harry Kane.
"And now Jordan has to give him the jacket? Brutal." - British tennis player Laura Robson.
What do his former coaches think?
Peter Ball, who coached Willett between the ages of 12 and 16, told Radio 5 live: "I had my heart in my mouth watching him, wishing every putt in.
"It is amazing, I'm so proud of the young man. He was one of a number of young people who turned up, but he wanted to practise more and his drive and determination was amazing.
"We went down to the Ryder Cup and Danny was on the bus with me and we went on the practice area to meet some of the players and he said 'I would like to be here one day' and he is here. Absolutely amazing."
James Hobbs, Willett's coach at Jacksonville State University, said: "He came at 17, he was an immature young man and we got him playing competitive golf and introduced him to fitness and working out to build his strength.
"We gave him a great course to practise on and basically Danny will agree it was a platform where he could launch his golf career."
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Don’t Believe EVERYTHING You Read
Posted by siteadmin on Friday 19th June 2015.
It’s now almost three months since the much heralded Pension Freedoms legislation took effect introduced by George Osborne.
As predicted by me and others in the financial industry we’re now hearing and seeing reports in the media from confused, concerned and angry people who are keen to experience the ‘freedom’ of accessing their pension pots.
I must admit some of the coverage has left me feeling the same because it is so often wide of the mark and wrongly is giving the industry a bad name.
Just a few of these claims in the media include:-
- Firms refusing withdrawals for fear of negligence claims in years to come;
- Savers being forced to pay up to £1,000 for advice to access their money;
- Delays of up to 90 days in paying out cash;
I don't doubt that these incidents have happened but there are reasons why and those reasons are not getting reported but also need to be understood.
I’ll address each one separately.
Firstly, firms have a duty of care and the concern within the industry is that if they haven’t done everything by the book they’ll leave themselves open for PPI type claims in the future. I don’t see it as companies being obstructive and difficult, more like careful and ultimately ensuring things are done properly. There is a regulatory process and it has to be followed.
Secondly, at a modest level and to access your pension pot you need to have an adviser review your situation, your requirements and your future plans to then deem the action suitable. The figure of £1,000 didn't mention that there’s a lot of work involved here for the financial advisory firm to meet in line with their regulatory obligations whilst reviewing and responding to the client’s requests. It’s not simply a case of signing a form and away you go.
Think of it this way when you go into a chemist you can buy off the shelf remedies. But for more powerful cures you need to speak to the pharmacist and benefit from their expertise to get ‘behind the counter’ products. Some things you can only get via prescription. There's an obvious reason for that where some medications are just too dangerous to self-prescribe and thus, it's not possible to do so.
I broke my ankle last year and as a by-product developed a small blood clot. The medical team were fantastic. As a result, I was on warfarin for three months which is as many of you will know is a very dangerous drug and one Doctors monitor very carefully.
Thirdly (although there have been a lot more claims than the three mentioned here), Mr Osborne famously said that he wanted people to be able to access their pensions similar to the way you take money out of a bank’s ATM. A nice idea but it’s nowhere near as simple as that, hence some of the ‘delays’.
As many of us have experienced, if we want to use the latest Smartphone technology we'll probably need to upgrade our device if our current one isn't up to scratch.
In this instance, people are swapping from one pension company to another which involves differing systems, communications between all parties concerned and has to be done 100 per cent correctly meaning time and care needs to be taken. Again just like when an adviser reviews the client’s situation, there’s a lot of behind the scenes work that needs to be undertaken.
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In bleak or desolate times, there is a good rule of thumb that has a formal teaching from the founder of the Jesuit order. It is the fifth rule of discernment on knowing what to do in difficult times.
“In time of desolation never to make a change; but to be firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which he was in the preceding consolation. Because, as in consolation it is rather the good spirit who guides and counsels us, so in desolation it is the bad, with whose counsels we cannot take a course to decide rightly.”
In other words, avoid making any major changes when you are compromised by a difficult situation. Rather hold fast to what you had before the bad times.
This is really enough said for those that want to limit the more traditional Liturgies for newer ones. And since those newer rites were developed in the “day preceding such desolation”, the availability of both can be seen as a preparation for such bad times.
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Willie Dynamite is the story of a pimp, for the most part. But! Because I could care fucking less about how hard it is to be a pimp, or how difficult it must be to keep your women together, or whether he decides to get out of the game in the end, I will be focusing very little energy on him. Anyway, his clothes make it difficult to take him seriously. I mean, he starts the film off wearing what could loosely be described as a hot pink matador-esque suit with puffed sleeves. Yes, puffed sleeves.
I’m pretty much only interested in the women.
The film starts off with them strutting about, dressed in what I can only describe as my dream wardrobe if I lived in the 70’s (and now, I won’t lie. Knife pleats and capes are timeless). The hair is large, the lips are red, and it’s all to show that they are classy ladies or so we’re told. These are women who were on the street but were….upgraded, according to the film. It brought to mind something I heard many times last year at the Desiree Alliance Conference, presentation is everything. From your photos, to the text in your ads, clients decide whether you are “worth” your rate by how you look. Like Willie says, “We’re selling an idea.”
They are also working the conferences in NYC, which is so smart. Conferences provide us with clients anyway; why not target that market by knowing when and where they’re going to happen and being there?
There are several women in his “stable” (which is a such a terrible word to use, I mean really). An Asian woman, two White women, a woman who is supposed to be Latina (judging by her accent and use of language), and three Black women.
We are made clear of who the “victim” is in this story before the first 10 minutes are up when “Passion” is raped by two police officers and later comes back to Willie with far less than she was supposed to have. She’s reprimanded, but takes it far differently than his “Bottom Woman,” Honey, does by getting flustered and then resolving herself to make him more money. It makes me very sad, honestly, because she’s quite beautiful, and believes he loves her or something . . . she’s clearly emotionally attached to him. She spends most of the film getting arrested, being thrown back and forth between the woman trying to save her, and Willie, who doesn’t give a shit if she isn’t producing but doesn’t want her away from him because it would be a loss.
The woman trying to “save” her is a reformed prostitute played by Diana Sands. She doesn’t seem to think the woman is in need of rescue in the sense that she needs to stop working, she just wants her to work for herself. If all the people trying to get women out of the sex trade had that mindset, I think I’d be perfectly ok with it. She’s actually hilarious. She calls them “the saddest ripped off bitches I have ever known” when she comes by and tells them about Willie taking all their money then making them pay double for things they get from him. Every time I hear this, it makes me guffaw. Seriously.
There is this scene where the women see another group of women working one of their conferences and all hell breaks loose, like, they start fighting, and all I can think is “Ugh. Y’all are fighting for men? Idiots!” And sure enough shit gets real when Honey gets her throat cut by a woman in a blond wig. Then, Passion gets her face cut open in jail, and all the women in his employ experience a . . . regime change when Willie is beat up and cast out by one of the other pimps in town.
It’s all very dramatic. Over the top, actually. That’s probably why I like it. Also, the wigs! There are enough wigs in this film for a lifetime!
I have watched it several times and kind of love it. I love the 70s in general and am a fan of Blaxploitation, so I am biased. If you’re into films about redemption, you may dig it. But if you hate pimps and can’t deal with watching a film about one, you should skip this. The music is amazing though. It’s so groovy, so soulful. I mean, it’s Martha Reeves, so that’s kind of a duh. This is also one of Diana Sands’ last films. It was released posthumously, which made her performance as the Social Worker/Ex Street Worker even better if you ask me.
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Gustav Klimt’s Judith and the Head of Holofernes
The dark night had fallen over Bethulia. A (symbolic) place in Jerusalem about to be taken and destroyed under the orders of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Assyria. General Holofernes had been dispatched to take vengeance of all the western nations who would refuse to worship the king alone, occupying all the territory along the seacoast. Bethulia would be next. News had come to Judith, a virtuous widow who was as brave as beautiful. On that night, Judith left the city surrounded by the enemy’s army and finds her way into Holofernes camp, where a banquet was taking place. As she finds the man who desired her, she attracted him to his tent, seduced him, served him wine to the point of weakness, and decapitated him with his own sword. This is the biblical story of The Book of Judith, the woman who set her people free and inspired at least a hundred and forty-one works of art – from Donatello and Botticelli to Rembrandt, Goya, and Caravaggio.
Gustav Klimt – the Austrian symbolist son of a bohemian gold engraver – had his first take on Judith‘s theme in 1901. It was also the opening work of his “golden period” shown for the first time at the 8th International Art exhibition in Munich. In this rendition, there is no sword, no blood, no heroic manner. Instead, there is a powerful femme fatale looking down on the viewer, painted in oil and gold flakes, caressing a dead man’s head. The model, Adele Bloch-Bauer (wife of wealthy industrialist and allegedly Klimt’s lover) embodied this character with a hint of triumph and perversion.
What was expected to be a story about the courage of the commune against tyranny was crystallized by Klimt with an utmost erotic charge. The heroin expected to be a virtuous, God-fearing creature, reveals an undertone of a righteous cold murderer. On his approach, Klimt completely disregards the narrative – and almost discards the man by “cropping” his head at the right margin – to suggest an aroused woman barely covered by a beautiful gown, with eyes half-closed, lips apart, holding Holofernes’ head close to her waist.
Unlike most artists who portrayed a heroic and desexualized character – and unlike the Bible itself who portrays Judith as a pious woman – Klimt focuses on the sexual tension even after the decapitation was performed. Even comparing to Judith II, created by the same artist eight years later (1909), Judith I is incredibly daring. Whilst on the second canvas we can see a fierce and masculine woman, in a cubist style, carrying the general’s head in a basket; the first one conveys an unsettling image of a violent fantasy entangled with an eroticized death.
Judith and the Head of Holofernes touched the fine line between violence and lust, like a dominant lover who has met the extreme. To complete the eccentricity, Klimt asked his brother George to create its golden frame and engrave “Judith and Holofernes” on it, separating Judith from Salome – who beheaded Saint John the Baptist on another biblical tale. This irresistible darkness that he explored shamelessly, still makes justice to his all-time fame of one of the most controversial artists of the twentieth century.
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A crime drama following a modern-day Sherlock Holmes solving crimes in New York.
Following a fall from grace in London and spending time in rehab, the eccentric Sherlock Holmes takes residence in Manhattan, New York, where his wealthy father assigns him a "sober companion", Dr. Joan Watson, to help with his rehabilitation.
Dr. Watson was a successful surgeon until she lost a patient. However, the eccentric Holmes is nothing like her other clients. As part of a post-rehab regimen he designed himself, Holmes resumes his work as a police consultant in New York, and Watson is along for the ride.
Posted 10/11/15 at 15:23:23
I love this Show but I wish they would slow down their speech and speak up .
Posted 09/22/15 at 13:59:04
Great show I love it. The relationship between Holmes and Watson is great.
Posted 05/20/15 at 13:52:02
Lately, for some reason I find myself skipping this show more and more often.
Posted 05/14/15 at 07:04:41
Quirky, socially dysfunctional genius detective. Assistant who keeps him grounded in life. Hmmmm. A more stylish, high budget knock-off of "Monk". They should just use those old scripts and fire most of the writers. hahaha
Posted 04/21/15 at 09:06:15
This show seems rather redundant to me especially when you have "Sherlock" on PBS. "Elementary" only makes sense if you have never seen Sherlock Holmes on public television. The series' success proves to me that there are more people than I thought who fall into that category.
Posted 03/15/15 at 14:01:52
I know they are trying to make Kitty a sympathetic character but she is annoying and a distraction. It is Watson and Holmes, not Watson, Holmes and Poor Kitty.
Posted 12/15/14 at 14:28:53
Earlier this season Johnny Lee Miller has taken the Sherlock's eccentricity too far. When he stood in place and carried on a conversation, it was painful to watch. Too impatient, too jerky, too angry, too condescending. Either one or both hands were always in his pockets and his body bent out of shape in an unnatural way. Getting back to basics of acting so well put by Stanislavsky "I do not believe you!"
If was trying to convey insecurity or excitement, there are less grotesque ways to show it. The only time I saw jerky movements like that, was when Michael J. Fox was trying to hide his Parkinsons in the early days of it...
He seems to be more relaxed in later episodes of Fall/Winter 2014.
Posted 12/11/14 at 19:35:09
Please get back on track with Holmes and Watson. Kitty is an annoying distraction. Cannot watch her. Bad idea and poor writing. Wrecking the show.
Posted 12/11/14 at 13:43:13
The introduction of the new character has caused the show to lose its direction, but I will continue to watch because of Lucy Liu.
Posted 11/28/14 at 08:27:20
As I have said before the mucky mucks have ruined the show. Really a shame to mess with a good thing.
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Emily Costa was great on Tuesday, allowing no hits Lady Sting’s 20-0 victory over Young Women’s Leadership School.
No Young Women’s Leadership batter was able to locate Costa’s pitches during the game. Costa allowed no hits, striking out seven batters and walking three while recording the win.
Sixteen runs in the first three innings helped Lady Sting Softball blow out Young Women’s Leadership . An RBI single by Nina Don, a two-run double by Costa, an RBI single by Jamie Carroll, an RBI triple by Amanda Eng, and during the first inning and a two-run home run by Costa, an RBI double by Eng, an RBI single by Jennifer Shin, an RBI single by Jenny Tieu, and a home run by Don in the second inning helped Lady Sting Softball put some runs on the board early.
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* Oil price up almost 20 percent since end of last year
* Talks among Saudi Arabia, Russia, UAE in St. Petersburg (Adds graphics)
By Rania El Gamal, Olesya Astakhova and Alex Lawler
DUBAI/MOSCOW/LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Russia are discussing raising OPEC and non-OPEC oil output by around 1 million barrels per day (bpd), easing 17 months of strict supply curbs amid concerns that a price rally has gone too far, sources familiar with the matter said.
Such an increase would bring compliance with agreed supply curbs down to 100 percent from April’s level of around 152 percent, the sources said.
The initial talks are being led by the energy ministers of OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and Russia at St. Petersburg this week along with their counterpart from the United Arab Emirates, which holds the OPEC presidency this year, the sources said.
OPEC and non-OPEC ministers meet next in Vienna on June 22-23, and the final decision will be taken there.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-OPEC producers led by Russia have agreed to curb output by about 1.8 million bpd until the end of 2018 to reduce global stocks, but the inventory overhang is now near OPEC’s target.
The current discussions are aimed at relaxing record-high compliance with the production cuts, the sources said, in an effort to cool the market after oil hit $80 a barrel on concerns over a supply shortage.
While Russia and OPEC benefit from higher oil prices, up almost 20 percent since the end of last year, their voluntary output cuts have opened the door to other producers, such as the U.S. shale sector, to ramp up production and gain market share.
The final production number is not set yet as dividing up the extra barrels among deal participants could be tricky, the sources said.
“The talks now are to bring compliance down to the 100 percent level, more for OPEC rather than for non-OPEC,” one source said.
OPEC may decide to raise oil output as soon as June due to worries over Iranian and Venezuelan supply and after Washington raised concerns the oil rally was going too far, OPEC and oil industry sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
However, it is unclear which countries have the capacity to raise output and fill any supply gap other than Gulf oil producers, led by Saudi Arabia, and Russia, the sources said.
“Only a few members have the capability to increase production, so implementation will be complicated,” one OPEC source said.
OPEC’s compliance with the output deal reached unprecedented levels in recent months, meaning it had cut well above target. Falling Venezuelan output due to an economic crisis has helped OPEC deliver a bigger cut than intended.
So far, OPEC had said it saw no need to ease output restrictions despite concerns among consuming nations that the price rally could undermine demand.
The rapid decline in oil inventories and worries about supplies after the U.S. decision to withdraw from the international nuclear deal with Iran, as well as Venezuela’s collapsing output, were behind the change in OPEC’s thinking.
Concerns raised by the United States that oil prices were too high also made the exporting group start internal discussions, OPEC sources familiar with the matter have said.
U.S. President Donald Trump, whose country is a major oil producer but is not part of the supply-cutting pact, last month said OPEC had “artificially” boosted oil prices.
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Erotic fiction by USA Today Bestselling Author Saskia Walker
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
There are still a couple of Witches on Wednesdays posts to be made, but right now they are on hold because things are hectic with stuff on the home front and a big deadline. I will get them up when things calm down a bit.
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June 5, 2009, 2:10 am
Someone recently asked me a few question about corporate participation in open source communities and I thought I'd share my thoughts on this topic here.
Are there differences between an open source project done for a corporation and one done for personal reasons?
There are many different ways to run an open source project, led by a corporation or by someone else. Some projects that are run by corporations have few outside contributors. This is often the case with projects that require copyright assignment (i.e. contributors have to assign their copyright to the corporation). These projects may not gain all the benefits of a true open source community, such as outside contributions or high levels of peer review. However, they may still be very successful projects and may have high levels of quality.
Projects done by a corporation may have better planning and may have more resources than other projects. When a corporation, especially a large one, starts or becomes involves in a project it can also give credibility to the project and attract a lot of interest to the project. This means that projects done by corporations may have a bigger impact and might also be more visible in terms of publicity.
How do corporations successfully utilize an open source community?
Corporations can benefit from an open source community in many ways. For example, they can often find people who will review their code or make code contributions. If people become excited about what the corporation does, they might also spread the word and create viral marketing for the corporation. Establishing a community around one's project is often also a good way to identify people to hire since you already have experience working with them and know their capabilities.
How do open source communities successfully utilize their corporate relationships?
Corporations can make several unique contributions. For example, large corporations can use their name to attract attention to a project and give it credibility. Furthermore, corporations have some capabilities that personal contributors often don't have access. They may have special testing equipment (such as servers with thousands of CPUs or hard drives) or access to a testing lab where a professional usability test can be done. Finally, corporations can sponsor developer conferences, which are typically very effective means for the community to come together and work on activities together.
It is important for projects to remember that corporations are not charities and that they will invest in an open source project for a reason. Therefore, they have to ensure that the corporation will get tangible outcomes from their involvement or sponsorship, otherwise they may not stay involved in the long run.
What are the risks for a corporation when working with an open source community?
One risk is that the code (or other form of contribution) is not accepted. However, this is a risk any contributor to a project faces. Before making any sort of contribution, it is therefore important to become familiar with the project and its culture. Every project has their own "do's" and "don'ts" that have to be followed.
Another risk is that a corporation will invest in a community project that later on is abandoned by the community. However, in this case, the corporation could take the lead and continue to maintain the project.
What are the risks for an open source community when working with a corporation?
One potential risk is that the corporation will assert too much control over the project. It's important for projects to ensure that the community as a whole has influence over the direction of a project rather than one particular player.
Are certain certifications needed in order for someone to participate in open source projects for a corporation?
Certifications are not needed to get involved in or start a project. However, it is important to become familiar with the open source community and the project one wants to contribute to. A good first step is to read the book Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel which is available online. As a next step, the community in which someone wants to get involved in should be studied, for example by reading the mailing list archives. This will help to become familiar with the culture of a project as well as the mechanisms to contribute to the project.
How do open source communities communicate and collaborate with corporations?
In the best case, employees from corporations would interact in the project like any other contributor. That is, they should use the existing communication channels, such as mailing lists, IRC or developer gatherings. Many companies are good at working "with the community" but the ideal scenario is for a company to be part of the community and to work "in the community", just like other contributors. This is the most effective way for them to make changes to the code and project.
Of course, not every corporation will get involved in a project directly. That's why it makes sense for projects to collaborate with corporations in other ways. For example, projects can talk directly to companies to get samples of their hardware in order to add support for them in their software. Projects can also work directly with corporations to find out how their project can better meet the needs of enterprise users.
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'Big' Phil lets the side down with press conference gaffe
Published 03/02/2011 | 05:00
OFTEN talked of as the real leader of Fine Gael and the ultimate spinmaster, 'Big' Phil Hogan was caught out badly yesterday at the party's opening press conference.
The Carlow-Kilkenny TD has long been Enda Kenny's right-hand man and was instrumental in seeing off last summer's heave.
The 50-year-old was appointed director of elections in the aftermath of the heave and has been marshalling the party's troops for the election -- which makes yesterday's incident even more embarrassing.
It was the first day of Fine Gael's campaign, but Mr Hogan's ill-fated attempt to shut the press conference down yesterday overshadowed what should have been a triumphant launch.
Mr Hogan has been a member of the Dail since 1989, after serving on Kilkenny County Council and briefly in the Seanad.
After holding a number of opposition frontbench positions, he was appointed junior minister in the Department of Finance in December 1994 when Fine Gael entered government as part of the rainbow coalition with Labour and Democratic Left.
But he was forced to resign from his position only three months later for leaking an advance copy of the Budget to a journalist.
He was appointed Fine Gael director of organisation in the run-up to the disastrous 2002 General Election, when the party dropped 23 seats and only returned with 31 seats.
He contested the party leadership after Michael Noonan resigned, but lost out to Mr Kenny. However, he was then appointed spokesman for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
He was expected to bring in a running mate in his constituency at the last election, but failed to do so.
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How are you?
I am rejoicing in learning today 🙂 I learned so much from listening to Anthony Gorman on the Vortex Healing classes I took with him recently, here in London. One thing was a completely new way of looking at bridging (not sensing, but rather the connection from me to you which allows Divine energy to penetrate deeply into your system). The aspect of bridging that I knew most about, is a manner of connecting with you as oneness. And then it’s as if I create rivers through which the Divine energies pour and move themselves into you. But Anthony explained another side of bridging, which I had thought about less. He said that what makes us better bridges (and more “qualified” – to use his word – as healers to address issues in you), is actually what we have survived and worked through ourselves. I find this profound… I always had a slight inkling that my own life experiences were designed in some mysterious way for the service of others, but I hadn’t heard this spoken out loud before.
To follow on from what I wrote about the EarthWorks classes I attended recently, I wanted to mention that I can make a Divine Guidance Door into an object for you, as part of a session. This helps you with your own sensing and seeing from Truth. It takes about 15mins – like a regular Divine Door. You can sit with the object, or ask questions if that is more natural to you. For example, I made one for myself in a small rose quartz crystal. Other possibilities include an Angelic Divine Door. Believe it or not, I have one of those in my trainers! Nature Divine Doors are also available.
Here is the link for Amma’s Europe Tour. She will be in Surrey on the 1st and 2nd Nov. It’s free, it’s a party – what’s not to like? 🙂 Please let me know via message or call if you need any information about the event of the year 🙂 It’s also really cool to see her in another city if you can: you get more space and time to just be with Amma, when it isn’t your home city.
I will be at Marlies Cocheret in London on Fri 4th Oct and Sat 5th Oct, so please join me if you can (flyer attached). Booking is important for this.
On the 6th Oct, there is the Official Opening Day of the MA Centre UK (Amma’s ashram), which is in Bromley. It’s free, but advisable to book your place:-
Please note (as some people are not aware) that I need 24hrs notice to change or cancel a session, otherwise the session will be charged at the normal rate.
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St. Paraskevi was born in a village near Rome to pious Christian parents, Agatho and Politea. Her parents prayed fervently for a child, and God finally blessed their piety. They gave great honor to Friday, the day of Our Lord’s suffering. Being born on this day, her parents named her Paraskevi (‘’Friday’’ in Greek.).
Strong in faith, learning, and eloquence, Paraskevi spoke persuasively to her fellow Roman citizens, leading them from idolatry to faith in Christ. The rumor of her successes eventually fell upon the ears of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. Summoning her to the Imperial Palace, he attempted to dissuade her from believing in Jesus Christ. Refusing to deprecate her own beliefs, Paraskevi was submitted to gruesome tortures, yet to no avail on the part of the emperor. Finally, she was lowered in a kettle of boiling oil and pitch. But the emperor saw her standing in the vat as if in cool water, unharmed. He asked if Paraskevi had bewitched the pot through some form of magic. In response, Paraskevi scooped up a bit of the boiling liquid, and tossed it toward the emperor, urging him to test it for himself. Some of the oil and pitch splashed into his eyes, blinding him. Screaming in pain, the emperor begged the young woman to heal him. She called upon the name of the Lord, and instantly the emperor regained his sight. Astonished by the miracle, Antoninus released Paraskevi. He also ceased persecuting Christians throughout the Roman Empire; however, this period was brief. After Antoninus’ death in 161, a plague broke out throughout the empire. Romans took it as a sign from their gods that that they were angered by the tolerance of Christianity. Under Antoninus’ successor, Marcus Aurelius, Christian persecution resumed.
Despite these dangers, Paraskevi persevered in her missionary endeavors, spreading the Gospel wherever she traveled. In one city, the governor Asclepius threw her into a pit with a poisonous serpent, convinced the snake would kill her. Instead, Paraskevi made the Sign of the Cross over the serpent, and he stiffened and split in two. As a result, Asclepius and his court were all converted.
Eventually, Paraskevi was brought to trial in one city under the governance of Tarasius. Once again the tortures under which she was subjected did not persuade her to deny Christ. Consequently, Tarasius in his anger ordered her beheading. Her remains were eventually taken to Constantinople, where they are venerated by the faithful to this very day. Among many Orthodox Christians she is venerated as a healer of the blind and those with eye ailments. | <urn:uuid:b53edb73-15ab-4949-be8f-cf7b1c6d7e3a> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=Paraskevi&diff=52552&oldid=48283 | 2018-06-23T18:38:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267865145.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20180623171526-20180623191526-00599.warc.gz | en | 0.978089 | 619 |
KOLKATA: A day after she offered prayers to Goddess Durga, played the dhak (drum) and matched steps with its rhythm in a south Kolkata Puja pandal, newly elected Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan is in the firing line of a Muslim cleric.
“The fact is that Islam orders its followers to pray only to Allah. What she has done is sinful. She had also married outside the religion. She should change her name and religion. Islam doesn’t need people who assume Muslim names and defame Islam and Muslims,” said Mufti Asad Qasmi, a cleric associated with the Darul Uloom Deoband.
Jahan, a first time MP from Basirhar constituency, had visited the temple with her husband Nikhil Jain.
“We celebrate all festivals together and I enjoy being part of the celebrations. I don’t bother about controversies,” she said, when asked whether it would set off a row.
Jahan was trolled by several Muslim clerics for taking oath as MP on June 25 while wearing a saree and sporting sindur and mangalsutra, with Qasmi and some others calling it ‘un-Islamic.’
Reacting sharply to the Deoband cleric’s comments, chairman of Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board Waseem Rizvi said Jahan was free to wear symbols of Hindu marriage. | <urn:uuid:3770a024-8fb7-4a45-bd00-fbd844eef63a> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/oct/07/tmc-lok-sabha-mp-nusrat-jahan-in-firing-line-of-muslim-cleric-for-celebrating-durga-puja-2044425.html | 2019-10-19T13:21:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986693979.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20191019114429-20191019141929-00304.warc.gz | en | 0.975987 | 306 |
Living in South Korea
How to access the essential information you need when travelling to or living in South Korea as a British National.
Around 100,000 British nationals travel to Korea each year and approximately 4,800 British nationals live and work here.
This guide sets out essential information for British national residing in South Korea, including advice on health, education, benefits, residence requirements and more. We are unable to provide any guidance on general lifestyle enquiries apart from the information and links listed below. See our information on ‘How else we can help & What our consulates cannot do for you’.
Medical care is generally good in Korea, although expensive. Healthcare is not provided free of charge in Korea for foreign nationals and medical bills can be high.
There is no reciprocal National Health Service agreement in Korea and medical costs are to be borne by the individual. Insurance is essential; ensure that comprehensive travel insurance is taken out before you travel. Make sure that your policy provides for the following:
- an air ambulance, in case you need to be flown home
- full medical cover (bills can be very expensive)
- bringing the body home, in the event of a death
- bringing your family home, in the event of your illness or injury
If you need emergency medical assistance, you can attend any medical clinic, Hospital Emergency Room or dial 119 for an emergency. You can find more information about the list of local hospital here.
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There is a 9 year compulsory education system, accessible only to Korean nationals. In addition, there are a number of privately run schools – at all levels – that accept international students. The Education Bureau provides information regarding education policies and services in South Korea.
Employment / Residence / Recognised qualifications
As a general rule, any person other than those who have the right of abode or right to land in Korea, must obtain a visa before coming to Korea for the purpose of study, taking up employment, training, investment or residence.
Don’t overstay your visa. The Korean authorities consider overstaying a serious matter and you may be held in detention, fined and deported, or removed at your own expense. In general, British citizens are allowed a six month visa free stay in Korea.
Please visit the Korean Immigration website.
A university degree is the basic requirement for any employment for foreigners in Korea. Any educational qualification must be apostilled by the Legalisation Office.
The Social Welfare Department provides information on social security for residents in South Korea who are financially vulnerable. For information on UK benefits, please click here If you are considering moving or retiring abroad, please click here for information.
Driving licences and vehicles
In order to drive in Korea, you will require a Korean driving licence. Please visit the Korean Driver’s Licence Agency’s website for more information.
Please note that you must take a written exam before you can obtain a Korean driver’s licence except for those who hold UK International driver’s licences or UK apostilled driver’s licences. This written exam can be provided in English. Details on how to have your UK licence apostilled can be found here.
For information about UK driving licences, please click here.
There are mandatory deductions for tax, health insurance and pension insurance if you are working in Korea. If you do not work, you pay healthcare costs yourself without any insurance cover.
Guidance on bringing medication into Korea
Korean Customs authorities allow you to bring small amounts of medication for your personal use if you are on medication, provided that it is kept in carry-on baggage. It is advised to take an English prescription from your doctor at home for both your prescription drugs and non-prescription medicines. That way, you avoid problems or misunderstandings at customs in Korea. It is also a good idea to consult their website before you travel to Korea.
For more information, please visit the Department of Health website.
Sponsoring family members
Foreigners are allowed to enter and live in Korea with their family members and dependants.
You should ask the Immigration Office directly for further advice and information on sponsoring family members to live in Korea.
Visit the Korean Immigration Office website for information on applying for residence and work permits and the requirements for visas.
Property and property disputes
Foreigners owning property in Korea are not discriminated against, and foreign ownership of business is largely permitted in most sectors. Buying property is straightforward, unless you need a mortgage. Each bank has different conditions for mortgages. Please consult banks separately.
Social ethics and traditions
Korean has very strict drug laws. Drugs of a lower classification in the UK are considered Class 1 drugs in Korea. Whether for personal use or sale to others, possession of drugs results in a lengthy prison sentence. Ministry of Justice website Please see Travel Advice on Local laws and customs.
If you wish to leave Korea and need to obtain a criminal record clearance from the Korean authorities, you will need to apply for a Certificate of No Criminal Record (‘Sin Won Zung Myung Seo’):
- to apply for a certificate while you are resident in Korea, you should apply to your local Police Station in person
- to obtain a certificate after you have left Korea you should contact your nearest Korean Embassies
Because of political relations in Korea, we’ve created guidance for what you should do in times of increased tension and how we can help in a crisis.
The information contained in these notes is intended for your general guidance only. While care has been taken in compiling these notes, the accuracy of the information cannot be guaranteed and, of course, law and procedures may change from time to time. For these reasons, neither the British government or any member of the British Embassy Seoul can accept liability for any costs, damage or expenses which you might incur as a result of relying on this guidance. | <urn:uuid:446fea39-cd41-44fa-b1c1-43ea2e8f645d> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://www.gov.uk/guidance/living-in-south-korea | 2017-02-19T12:18:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501169769.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104609-00305-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92779 | 1,210 |
Searching for something unsettling rather than terrifying for the Hallowe'en period, I happened upon Parasomnia by Acatalept. It's perhaps best described as a futuristic chrome version of the Theseus and the Minotaur legend.
Except you're not Theseus. Theseus hacked the game by bringing in a ball of string, killing the Minotaur and escaping. You're (currently) one of the preceding generations of Athenian youth sent in as sustenance for the monstrous Asterion and doomed to die.
The game is unfinished at the moment, serving more as an anxiety taster experience. The developer flavour text tells you, "In the hypnogogic twilight between sleep and waking, something haunts you / hunts you in this maze..."
You're deposited in the depths of an improbable maze; all chrome surfaces and occasional weird floating sculptures. Pulses of light briefly illuminate your surroundings hindering your navigation as much as they help you. The light pulses change, speeding up to match a beat which you realise is pursuing you through the maze and quickening as whatever it is gets closer to you.
It's a simple idea but one which contains a well-executed anxious and uncomfortable experience. I played a couple of times and in one I think I saw the monster itself which did spoil the effect, though.
As I said, it's not a finished game at the moment, more a proof of concept knocked together as part of October's Unreal Engine Game Jam. The list of features to-be-added involves some basic sound and performance improvements as well as some interesting maze generations ideas. One is a Cube-like setup where parts of the labyrinth would move around, a second is having procedurally generated labyrinths and another is never being able to turn back... | <urn:uuid:6317bdcc-04b1-4c18-acf0-9e09b0e7294a> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/parasomnia | 2024-03-02T20:24:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475897.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302184020-20240302214020-00327.warc.gz | en | 0.96455 | 361 |
Chain Pineapple Anklet Jewelry Replica is a type of jewelry that is worn around the ankle. They are often made of metals such as gold, silver, or bronze and can be adorned with gemstones, beads, or charms. Anklets are commonly seen in cultures worldwide and have been worn by both men and women throughout history.
Today, anklets are primarily seen as a fashion accessory and are often worn by women as part of an outfit. They can be dressy or casual, depending on the style of the anklet. Some anklets even feature chains or tassels for a more eye-catching look.
Consider a Chain Pineapple Anklet Jewelry Copy if you’re looking for a unique piece of jewelry to add to your collection. This type of anklet features a small pineapple charm that dangles from a delicate chain. It’s a fun and festive way to show off your style and is sure to turn heads whenever you wear it.
The Chain Pineapple Anklet Jewelry refurbish is a beautiful and unique piece of jewelry that is perfect for any occasion. The anklet is made with a high-quality chain and a pineapple charm that will stand out. The anklet is also adjustable to be worn at the perfect length for you.
Anklets are one of the most popular types of jewelry worn by women around the world. They come in a variety of styles, including chain anklets. Chain anklets are a type of anklet that features a chain link design. They are typically made from gold, silver, or stainless steel.
Chain anklets are a great way to accessorize your outfit. They can be worn with various clothing items, including dresses, skirts, shorts, and jeans. Chain anklets can also be worn with sandals or flip flops. If you’re looking for a unique way to accessorize your outfit, a chain anklet is a great option.
When shopping for a chain anklet, you should keep a few things in mind. First, consider the style of the anklet. There are many different styles available, so it’s important to choose one that compliments your personal style. Second, think about the material the anklet is made from. Gold, silver, and stainless steel are all popular options. Finally, consider the price of the anklet. Chain anklets can range in price from fairly affordable to quite expensive.
If you’re looking for a beautiful and unique piece of jewelry to add to your collection, consider a Chain Pineapple Anklet Jewelry Replica.
Anklets are a type of jewelry that are worn around the ankle. They are often made of metals such as gold, silver, or bronze, and can be adorned with gemstones, beads, or charms. Anklets are popular in many cultures around the world, and have been worn for centuries.
Chain pineapple anklet jewelry is a beautiful and unique way to show off your style. This type of anklet features a chain with small pineapples attached to it. Pineapples can be made of metal, plastic, or even glass. These anklets are perfect for summertime, and can add a touch of fun and whimsy to any outfit.
This anklet is made with a chain and pineapple charm. It is a great summer accessory and can be worn with any outfit. The anklet is adjustable and can be worn at any length.
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Are bloggers journalists? If you’re a blogger and you engage in journalism in your blog, then you’re a journalist. This is how, at least, it is seen with this bill introduced by Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA).
The Free Flow of Information Act protects journalists from divulging their sources for news stories except in cases where there is imminent harm to national security, imminent death or significant bodily harm involved, a trade secret of significant value in violation of State or Federal law, individually identifiable health information, and in instances where nondisclosure of the information would be contrary to the public interest.
In defining journalism broadly, the bill states: “The act would apply to web logs (‘blogs’) that engage in journalism.” It also clarifies that journalism refers to the tasks of “gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting, or publishing of news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public.”
If this bill passes with breeze (which is doubtful), then we may not see another Josh Wolf again. | <urn:uuid:c64883bc-f9da-446f-9ffb-138fca780020> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://www.blogherald.com/2007/05/08/are-bloggers-journalists/ | 2017-04-29T15:21:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123530.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00608-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923422 | 241 |
For many purchasers, first time buyers or existing homeowners, affordability can be a barrier to getting onto the housing ladder or even moving up it. Understanding how Help to Buy could be right for you can also be a daunting process, so we've put together some of the frequently asked questions on what Help to Buy is and how it works.
Q: What is Help to Buy?
A: It is an initiative where buyers may qualify for equity loan assistance from the Government. Depending on whether you are purchasing a home from England or Scotland the amount will vary. In England, the Government can lend you up to 20% whereas the Scottish Government can lend you up to 15%. Please see specific Help to Buy pages for England and Scotland for more information.
Q: Can I use Help to Buy on any home?
A: No, Help to Buy only applies for new build homes up to the maximum purchase price of £600,000 in England and up to £200,000 in Scotland. In April 2021, the maximum purchase price Help to Buy England will come down in most areas.
If you are first time buyer in Scotland, you may also wish to consider the First Home Fund, which has no maximum purchase price.
Q: Will I require a deposit?
A: Yes, you will be required to fund a minimum deposit of at least 5%, based on the full purchase price. A maximum of up to 60% deposit can be used.
Q: Do I still need a mortgage?
A: Yes, depending on how much deposit you place and the amount of loan you can receive from the Government you will still need to fund the remaining balance of up to 75% of the purchase price in England and up to 85% in Scotland.
Q: Is Help to Buy a shared ownership scheme?
A: No. With the Help to Buy Equity Loan, you purchase 100% of your home and legally own 100% of your home.
Q: Is the scheme just for first time buyers?
A: No, both first time buyers and existing homeowners who are moving to a new home may take advantage of this scheme. In April 2021, the rules will change for Help to Buy England, and it will only be available to first time buyers.
Q: Can I use Help to Buy for a buy-to-let property?
A: The scheme is only available on properties that will be occupied by the person or persons who have taken out the mortgage (owner occupier) and it must be your only residence.
Q: Can I buy a home off plan?
A: Yes, you are able to reserve a new home off-plan.
Q: Who pays for repairs and ongoing maintenance to my home?
A: It is your responsibility to repair and maintain your home. CALA homes come with a 2 year CALA guarantee and an NHBC warranty that will cover certain defects for up to 10 years after it was built. Please ask a CALA representative for more information.
Q: Will I require other funds?
A: Yes, you will be required to fund a reservation fee and other relevant costs associated with purchasing a home such as Stamp Duty Land Tax/Land and Buildings Transaction Tax and legal fees.
Help to Buy in England
Help to Buy England is available on properties up to £600,000.
TRY OUR ENGLAND HELP TO BUY CALCULATOR
Help to Buy (Scotland)
Help to Buy (Scotland) is available on properties up to £200,000.
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Truck Drivers May Experience Microsleeps When Fatigued
It is a feeling that many of us have had after being deprived of a good night's sleep. You may be at your desk at work trying to get through the day or sitting in a classroom attempting to listen to a lecture when all of a sudden you just sort of zone out. You don't keel over in slumber, but you are not at all mentally engaged with what is happening around you.
If this has happened to you, you may have been experiencing a condition called "microsleep." When experiencing microsleep, your eyes can even remain open when in fact your brain may be entering the early stages of sleep. Such episodes can last for several seconds, and you may not even be aware that you were briefly in a state of microsleep.
Typically, falling into microsleep poses no big problems beyond the embarrassment of seeming out of it to other people. However, if a person experiences a bout of microsleep while driving, those brief seconds of unconsciousness could create a very hazardous situation. It is especially true if the person slipping into microsleep is behind the wheel of a big rig truck.
Given the circumstances of their jobs, truck drivers can be extremely vulnerable to falling into bouts of microsleep. Truck drivers keep long, odd hours. The job can also entail sitting in one place for long periods of time staring at the open road. If a truck driver should zone out while in motion, it could be all too easy for a very serious accident to occur.
Truck drivers are legally required to make regular stops for rest and sleep. If you are injured due to a fatigued driver nodding off at the wheel, a Texas truck accident attorney may be able to help you take legal measures to acquire proper compensation for your medical and other associated expenses. | <urn:uuid:c178b312-f5b0-4e48-b22c-e3ed96059e9b> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.tylerandpeery.com/blog/2015/december/truck-drivers-may-experience-microsleeps-when-fa/ | 2019-03-19T00:34:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201812.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190318232014-20190319014014-00302.warc.gz | en | 0.966892 | 370 |
The Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors are the governing and policy setting body of the Chamber. They are elected annually every November and serve a three year term of office commencing January 1 of each year. Board members monitor programs, projects, committees, membership activities and the financial aspects of the Chamber.
Front Row: (Left-Right): Mike Hoffman; Maggie Kestly; Dan Jaeger; Leigh Nixon; Mike Nolan; Pat Abruzzese; Shari Schultz; Lisa Hemenway Middle Row (Left-Right): Phil Isbell; Caroline Gibson; Michelle Foster; Jill Haney. Back Row (Left-Right): George Kerr; Dick Erbe; Michael McCaffrey; Jim Vigdor; Jim Visage. Not Pictured: Tim Shannon; Celina Zacarias; Karen Gabler | <urn:uuid:701bfb51-deb1-4316-8af9-9553848b4d6e> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://simivalleychamber.org/about-chamber/meet-the-chamber/board-of-directors | 2014-04-21T01:59:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539447.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00197-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.861504 | 165 |
Maybe you were injured in a car accident.
Or maybe you were injured when you slipped and fell in a store parking lot.
You may have suffered a work injury.
If you incurred medical expenses, lost wages, lost property, or any other loss, you might be wondering how to sue someone to be reimbursed for what you lost.
So how exactly do you go about suing someone?
A Quick Note About Settlements
It is important to note that most injury claims settle outside of court, especially for auto accidents as states require drivers to carry certain standards of auto insurance coverage and employers are required to carry workers compensation insurance to cover injuries to workers hurt on the job
Court costs can be expensive, and cases are very public, so despite what TV shows show you to make a plot more dramatic, much of a personal injury case takes place behind-the-scenes and never even reaches court.
Oftentimes a settlement it what is best for all parties involved.
Whether you were anxious about having to speak on the stand, or excited to be a part of a trial, the truth is that going to trial isn’t to most common outcome to a personal injury lawsuit.
Suing in Small Claims Court
For some people, a small claims action may be in order.
You may be able to file that yourself depending upon the amount of your losses.
In Illinois, if those losses are $10,000 or less, you can file a claim in small claims court.
In Iowa, if the losses are $6,500 or less, you can do the same.
Various other states have different amounts so the first thing to do is determine where you were injured, the amount of damages you incurred, and then decide whether your case can be tried in small claims court or at a higher level.
If the amount of your losses exceeds the amount allowed in small claims, you will have to file a lawsuit in a different court.
Filing a Lawsuit in District and Circuit Courts
In Iowa, those courts are called district courts. In Illinois, they are called circuit courts. There are also workers compensation commissions, federal courts, and state and federal rules that explain which court is the right court to file with.
How to File a Lawsuit
After you determine where to file the lawsuit, you will need to figure out how to file a lawsuit and what legal claims you want to bring, such as a claim of negligence against a truck driver who struck your vehicle after blowing through a red light.
You will also need to figure out what to plead (or say) in your lawsuit.
You also have to serve the lawsuit on the proper defendants and engage in “discovery,” such as written questions and answers (interrogatories), take depositions (testimony), engage in legal research, and prepare for trial.
Types of Damages
Furthermore, you will have to decide what injuries you have sustained such as medical bills, lost financial support, loss of companionship, funeral costs, lost wages, pain and suffering, emotional distress, or vehicle repair and replacement among others.
In certain cases, it may be possible to obtain punitive damages, which are designed to punish the defendants for their behavior.
Simply Call VanDerGinst Law
It’s a difficult process fraught with legalese, deadlines, and often skilled attorneys on the other side.
There are no fool-proof “how-to” manuals to walk you through the process.
If any of this sounds confusing, it is.
It’s difficult to navigate the legal system on your own. So if you think you have a lawsuit, give us a call. We’re happy to discuss your case with you for free.
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Saturday 30th May and it was back to racing. Pollok parkrun #327 was part of the Bellahouston Harriers Championship and also had the advantage of having pacers. However, unusual for me, I had a night out on Friday. Late nights and alcohol are, unfortunately, not training aids. So I had decided to use the parkrun as an easy 5k run, as part of my 10k recovery.
After a short warm up, that confirmed that my legs were still sore and tired from Thursday, I joined in with the other 399 runners outside the Burrell. As the Run Director made the pre race announcements, I and a couple of friends decided to move forward and place ourselves behind Al MacLachlan, the 20 minute pacer. Of course, there was no way that, even in a good day, I could run the undulating course in 20 minutes. However my course PB, set four and a half years ago, is 20:50. My recent improved form, saw me completing the, two lap, course in April in a time of 21:17. So maybe, just maybe, I could squeeze out a PB today. I changed my plan, ditching my easy run for a PB attempt.
We set off at 9:30am and, after the usual madness, the race settled down and I tucked in a few places behind Al. Graeme Gemmell was on his shoulder and Cath Ferry just behind him. There were a few other runners and then me, with Jacqui Thomson just behind me. Of course, all of these runners are in a different class from me but I was happy to stick with them for the first mile or so. As I failed to maintain the early pace, Jacqui overtook me and the gap on Al and the others started to widen.
I didn’t get disheartened, knowing that my target was a good bit behind their 20:00. I just kept working as hard as I could. In form, club mate, Derek Shand, overtook me and, again, I tried to keep him in sight for as long as possible. I found myself playing leapfrog with Garscube’s Craig Brown, who has run 19:31 on this course. Craig commented on how well I was running and encouraged me to keep up the good work.
I finished strongly, giving it hell for leather as I sprinted down the final downhill section and across the Finish line in 55th place, just one place and one second behind Craig with a time of 20:52, two seconds outside of my PB. It took me a moment to regain my composure and appreciate how close I’d come to setting a new PB.
It would have been great to have got another PB but I let myself go a bit on Friday. However I now know that a new course PB is possible at Pollok, something which I didn’t believe before.
I had run my 168th parkrun, to end a great month of racing, which had seen one fine performance, followed by another. My handicap had tumbled down to it’s lowest, at 8.1, whilst my wava had risen to it’s highest level at 78+%.
Cambuslang’s Stephen Wylie won the race, with an amazing course PB of 16:16, with Bellahouston Harrier, Jack Arnold next in 16:43, with Stephen’s club mate, Charles Thomson, third in 16:57.
Al MacLachlan’s pacing was spot on and he crossed the line in 20:00, Graeme kept his place on Al’s shoulder and timed 20:01, Cath placed first woman in 20:06, just ahead of Jacqui in 20:15. The third women placed 50th overall, with a time of 20:45 but had no barcode.
Derek, who had set a course PB of 20:53 two weeks ago, smashed that, crossing the line in 20:24.
Thanks to all the volunteers who ensure that parkrun takes place every week but special thanks this week to all the pacemakers who gave up their own race this week to help their fellow runners, not least of all Al MacLachlan. | <urn:uuid:60009d2a-6623-44dc-bc0b-9fe11141ea94> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://iangoudie.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/to-pb-or-not-to-pb/ | 2018-04-21T03:27:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125944982.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180421032230-20180421052230-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.985839 | 885 |
Donnelly, K. The Independent (11 April 2012)
Although they broadly support recent education proposals by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn, bishops in Ireland “are opposed to the proposed scrapping of an old primary school rule, Rule 68, that states religion should underpin every aspect of daily school life.” Quinn established the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism, which issued a report suggesting that eliminating Rule 68 will allow further respect for Ireland’s increasingly diverse population. Finn said, “We live in a changed and changing nation. There is a general acceptance that a greater diversity of primary schooling is necessary and I welcome the readiness among partners to embrace this.” Father Michael Drumm, secretary of the Catholic Schools Partnership, believes the rule can be rephrased but not deleted entirely. This is a contentious issue, as most schools in Ireland are state-funded but Catholic run. | <urn:uuid:52c1d8ef-7310-4ae9-89da-238566e8861e> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://internationalednews.com/2012/04/13/ireland-2/ | 2019-05-23T23:48:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257432.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523224154-20190524010154-00537.warc.gz | en | 0.963449 | 185 |
When you feel trapped in a regular 9-5 job, the idea of working from home seems like the ultimate goal. Perhaps you dislike heading into the office every day, you wish you could spend more time with your family, or you simply want to be your own boss and be in control of your own career. The idea of starting up your own business from home is daunting, to say the least. The initial start-up costs, the additional time and effort that’s needed after a full day at work…start-ups certainly aren’t for the faint-hearted.
However for many, the pros of earning from home simply outweigh the cons and while you may not be able to quit your job just yet, these simple business ideas could be the foundations you need to build an empire all of your own.
Read on for 5 simple business ideas you can start today.
Invest in cryptocurrencies
You may have heard of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but did you know that you can actually make money from them? If you want more information about Bitcoin and how it works then check out this website for more information. By investing, trading or becoming what’s known as a miner within the cryptocurrency world, you have the potential to make money from your long term or short term decisions. No paperwork, no brokers and you only invest or work with what you feel comfortable with.
Start a blog
Ok, so it may sound a little cliché and you may think that the online world is saturated with blogs. But, believe it or not, most people give up on their blog ideas within six months. It takes time, a huge amount of commitment, an eye for detail and photography, good writing skills and patience. It is possible to make money from your blog, but it’s a long term investment. Once your blog has a following then you’re more likely to be approached by companies who want to buy the advertising space on your blog pages or even work in collaboration with other brands.
A personal trainer
Do you have a passion for fitness? Or the desire to help people reach their fitness goals? Fitness is so much more than looking good, it’s about promoting a healthy lifestyle and positive mental wellbeing. You can work in a gym or visit clients in their own home. Set up classes, boot camps or 121s sessions. You’ll need all the right qualifications, but if you’re dedicated it’s a great career.
Do you have a way with words? Advertising companies and marketing businesses are always looking for creative minds to help them with their next big campaign. You can write ads, blog pages, articles dedicated to certain topics and potentially work for companies across the globe, all from the comfort of your own home.
Perhaps you’re knowledgeable in a certain subject, or you have a creative mind and would love to be an author of fiction. By creating your own eBook and then making it available on various online platforms, you can earn plenty of money by becoming a published eBook author. | <urn:uuid:cdef73b9-759a-4d3c-a30b-c8ff556a0a0a> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://workinmypajamas.com/earning-in-the-comfort-of-your-own-home-5-simple-business-ideas-you-can-start-today/ | 2020-04-05T19:57:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371609067.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405181743-20200405212243-00087.warc.gz | en | 0.959181 | 621 |
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Release: MOC2-58a, -58b, -58c, -58d Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image ID: 577869444.25905 P259-05
CAPTIONOn July 20, 1969, the first human beings landed on the Moon. On July 20, 1976, the first robotic lander touched down on Mars. This July 20th-- 29 years after Apollo 11 and 22 years since the Viking 1 Mars landing-- we take a look forward toward one possible future exploration site on the red planet.
One of the advantages of the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) over its predecessors on the Viking and Mariner spacecraft is resolution. The ability to see--resolve--fine details on the martian surface is key to planning future landing sites for robotic and, perhaps, human explorers that may one day visit the planet.
At present, NASA is studying potential landing sites for the Mars Surveyor landers, rovers, and sample return vehicles that are scheduled to be launched in 2001, 2003, and 2005. Among the types of sites being considered for these early 21st Century landings are those with "exobiologic potential"--that is, locations on Mars that are in some way related to the past presence of water.
For more than a decade, two of the prime candidates suggested by various Mars research scientists are Gusev Crater and Ma'adim Vallis. Located in the martian southern cratered highlands at 14.7° S, 184.5° W, Gusev Crater is a large, ancient, meteor impact basin that--after it formed--was breached by Ma'adim Vallis.
Viking Orbiter observations provided some evidence to suggest that a fluid--most likely, water--once flowed through Ma'adim Vallis and into Gusev Crater. Some scientists have suggested that there were many episodes of flow into Gusev Crater (as well as flow out of Gusev through its topographically-lower northwestern rim). Some have also indicated that there were times when Ma'adim Vallis, also, was full of water such that it formed a long, narrow lake.
The possibility that water flowed into Gusev Crater and formed a lake has led to the suggestion that the materials seen on the floor of this crater--smooth-surfaced deposits, buried craters, and huge mesas near the mouth of Ma'adim Vallis--are composed of sediment that eroded out of the highlands to the south of Gusev Crater. In 1995, the Exobiology Program Office at NASA Headquarters produced a report, An Exobiological Strategy for Mars Exploration (NASA SP-530), that included Gusev Crater as a possible priority site for future Mars exploration because it might once have been a lake.
At 12:17 a.m. (PDT) on April 24, 1998--during Mars Global Surveyor's 259th orbit--MOC obtained the high resolution image of Gusev Crater and Ma'adim Vallis shown above, in part to test some of the proposed hypotheses. The raw image has a scale of 7.3 meters (24 feet) per pixel. At this scale, there are no obvious shorelines that would indicate the past presence of a lake in either Ma'adim Vallis or Gusev Crater. There are several alternative explanations for this absence, including:
Malin Space Science Systems and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates the camera from its facilities in San Diego, CA. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO.
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At ANTIWAR.COM, the himbo hottie has a post entitled "Where Is The Antiwar Movement In the US?" Maybe if he'd just left it at that -- a post with just a single sentence -- it would have gone better for him?
Who knows? Clearly Dave doesn't.
His column about war fails to name Afghanistan or Iraq. (He does work in WMD and Saddam Hussein.) The ongoing wars go on because of so much silence and Dave DeCamp is part of that silence.
Dave types, "There are a few activist groups like CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace but there are almost no antiwar voices in the mainstream media."
He's right that there are almost no antiwar voices in the mainstream media. How is that different right now then it was in the lead up to the Iraq War? (For easy on the eyes Dave who thinks cute is enough, let me answer that rhetorical question: There is no difference between then and now.)
So on the second part of his sentence, he's right. On the first? He's a fool and opens himself up to charges of racial bias. If you're honestly interested in peace actions in the US, how do you not know about the Black Is Back Coalition? Black Alliance for Peace?
Equally true, you leave yourself open to charges of historical ignorance when you don't name Cindy Sheehan who has remained active regardless of who was in the Oval Office -- a claim CODESTINK cannot make. They made it their job not to end wars but to elect Barack Obama (and hid the fact that Jodie was a bundler for Barack in 2008) and then spent years minimizing his actions and covering for him. Where was their protest, in 2012, when he started sending US troops back into Iraq? [Late to the story, see November 7, 2012's "Let the fun begin (Ava and C.I.)."] Nor did they organize protests in the summer of 2014 as Barack (this time publicly) began exploring sending more US troops back into Iraq.
CODESTINK does nothing but get publicity for themselves. At the top, they're a group of attention whores who rush from one issue to the next based upon what's getting media attention. They will not do any hard work or any real work and they will not stick with an issue. They are a joke.
Like CODESTINK's Medea Benjamin's recent piece that we called out because she felt Joe Biden's problems with Iraq began and ended with his 2002 vote for the war (I Need Attention Benjamin missed that Barack tasked Joe with Iraq in both of Barack's terms as president), Dave has a limited view of Joe. He's a "centrist" insists Dave. The one comment currently to his column rebukes him for that generic characterization.
Here's a tip, for reality on Joe Biden and for reality on peace actions, the best online resource remains BLACK AGENDA REPORT.
Dave has a bright future typing things like "Will cam to cam in real time for money" and "Want to see how big mine is" but if this failure to answer the basic question that he decided to ask ("Where Is The Antiwar Movement In The US?") is any indication, he really can't do journalism at present.
So he's left with a choice: Either hunker down and get serious about journalism or choose his online cam handle for private shows. If he's going with the latter, I'd suggest Big Boy In Tighty Whiteys would probably get him the most clicks.
Good luck, Dave.
("Gorgeous isn't everything," Shirley explained in her TERMS OF ENDEARMENT -- her Academy Award winning role.)
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Bracknell Town Council receives a Foundation Level Local Council Award
15th April 2016 Posted in Council News
On Tuesday, April 5, Tony Troughton, Berkshire Association of Local Councils Vice Chairman, presented members of Bracknell Town Council’s Staffing Committee with a Foundation Level Local Council Award.
The Local Council Award Scheme has been designed to celebrate the successes of the very best local councils, and to provide a framework to support all local councils to improve and develop to meet their full potential. The scheme encourages progression by including three award levels: Foundation, Quality and Quality Gold. Councils that receive an award need to meet standards set by the National Association of Local Councils and demonstrate they have put in place the conditions for continued improvement.
Cllr Chris Turrell, Leader of Bracknell Town Council said: “We are delighted to receive a foundation level award. We will continue to look at improving the way we serve the Bracknell Town community and hope to progress up the award levels”. | <urn:uuid:68efeb77-4656-46fc-b297-2a65f8783419> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://bracknelltowncouncil.gov.uk/bracknell-town-council-receives-a-foundation-level-local-council-award/ | 2022-06-28T08:29:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103360935.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628081102-20220628111102-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.949766 | 210 |
Rosie C. Brooks, a retired housekeeper who enjoyed entertaining family and friends, died Monday of complications from an infection at St. Agnes Hospital. She was 99.
Rosie Cooper was born and raised in West Baltimore, and attended Baltimore public schools.
For more than 50 years until retiring in 1988, Mrs. Brooks worked for Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Meyerhoff.
In 1932, she married Henry M. Brooks, a custodian, and the couple moved to Glen Burnie, where they lived for more than 40 years. Mr. Brooks died in 1969.
Mrs. Brooks enjoyed cooking and entertaining family and friends at her Glen Burnie home. Family members said she was known for her baked chicken, macaroni and cheese, baked beans and serving crab cakes with Utz potato chips.
For the past nine years, Mrs. Brooks had lived in Cherry Hill. She enjoyed attending the Pascal Senior Center, doing ceramics and reading her Bible.
Family members said she nearly attained centenarian status by not smoking, drinking or eating red meat. She liked to walk and kept up her former routine when she had to use a walker.
She was a communicant of St. Veronica Roman Catholic Church, 806 Cherry Hill Road, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Monday.
Mrs. Brooks is survived by her daughter, Rosetta A. McClain of Cherry Hill; eight grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and 30 great-great-grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:32eec22f-4efb-4a64-b512-798a0cb49057> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.ctnow.com/bs-md-ob-rosie-brooks-20130407-story.html | 2016-05-27T03:02:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049276416.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002116-00089-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982569 | 316 |
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