{"text":"Radio Shack Shutting Down 26% Of Stores\nBy Stephen Green Mar 06, 2014 9:30 AM ET\nRadio Shack will close \"underperforming\" stores \u2014 and lots of them:\nThe struggling consumer electronics retailer announced Tuesday that it plans to close up to 1,100 underperforming stores in the U.S., or about 26% of its current company-owned stores.\n\"Over the past few months, we have undertaken a comprehensive review of our portfolio from many angles \u2014 location, area demographics, lease life and financial performance \u2014 in order to consolidate our store base into fewer locations while maintaining a strong presence in each market,\" RadioShack CEO Joseph Magnacca said in a statement. \"The result of that review is our plan to close up to 1,100 underperforming stores. We will continue to have a strong, unmatched presence across the U.S. with over 4,000 stores including over 900 dealer franchise locations.\"\nThere is (was?) (soon won't be?) a Radio Shack in here my tiny bedroom town of Monument, CO. The last time I was in there was about three years ago, when I absolutely had to buy an overpriced audio cable right the heck then. And I didn't recognize the place as anything like the Radio Shack I used to know. Or as Jim Dalrymple said, \"the RadioShack I grew up with lost its soul.\"\nI was reminded of what happened to The Sharper Image. What was once a place to geek out on really cool, hard-to-find nerd toys became a purveyor of gimmicky plastic crap.\nSuch a shame.\ncross-posted from Vodkapundit\nimage via appleinsider.com\nSteve launched VodkaPundit on a well-planned whim in 2002, and has been with PJ Media since its launch in 2005. He served as one of the hosts of PJTV, a pioneer in internet broadcasting. He also cohosts \"Right Angle\" with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott at BillWhittle.com. He lives with his wife and sons in the wooded hills of Monument, Colorado, where he enjoys the occasional adult beverage.\nRead more by Stephen Green","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Richard Branson has big plans for Virgin Galactic beyond space planes\nSir Richard Branson rolling in on a Land Rover, rolling out the SpaceShipTwo Unity.\nImage: Jack Brockway\nBy Miriam Kramer 2016-02-20 03:09:20 UTC\nMOJAVE, California \u2014 On Friday, Sir Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Galactic's newest space plane named Unity with much fanfare: Branson stood up in the sunroof of a Land Rover as the car rolled the ship into the hangar here at the Mojave Air and Space Port.\nVirgin Galactic hopes that this suborbital SpaceShipTwo will be the first in a fleet of commercially operated space planes that will bring paying customers to the edge of space and back again.\nBut Branson has even bigger plans for Virgin Galactic in the future.\nSEE ALSO: Virgin Galactic rolls out 'Unity,' its first new space plane since 2014 crash\n\"Why shouldn't we go on to maybe creating a ... one astronaut two people orbital vehicle?\" Branson said during a press briefing. \"We will start to do that.\"\nHe also suggested that Virgin Galactic may have a role to play when the International Space Station is retired in 2024.\n\"Since the Space Station has only got a few years to run, why shouldn't we be involved in helping replace the Space Station and see what we can do on that?\" Branson added.\nBranson thinks that Virgin Galactic could also possibly help defend Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids some time down the line, and even use some kind of craft to help clean up space junk in orbit.\nWe were honored to host Mr. Ford today. Our Chief Pilot happily let Gen. Solo take left hand seat in #SpaceShipTwo pic.twitter.com\/1fWrfmrV0q\n\u2014 Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) February 19, 2016\nAnd as if that weren't enough, the billionaire also believes that Virgin Galactic may do something in the future to bring wireless Internet to more people around the world.\n\"That could transform peoples' lives,\" Branson said.\nVirgin Galactic and Branson have a long way to go before they get there, however.\nThe company's spaceship rollout today marks the start of Virgin Galactic's second act as a private spaceflight outfit. The first SpaceShipTwo \u2014 named Enterprise \u2014 disintegrated during a failure in 2014, killing one pilot and leaving the other with serious injuries.\nUnity will now be put through its paces as a space vehicle.\nBefore it ever takes to the skies, engineers on the ground will need to verify the space plane's systems, after that, it will start its first tests in the air.\nEventually, Virgin Galactic hopes that SpaceShipTwo will fly to suborbital space, bringing paying space tourists up about 100 kilometers above the planet, allowing them to experience weightlessness and see the blue Earth against the blackness of space.\nVirgin Galactic isn't the only company aiming for these great heights.\nXCOR Aerospace is also developing a new suborbital space plane, and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is currently testing its New Shepard space system to fly people to space and back in a capsule.\nElon Musk's SpaceX and Boeing are both planning to start flying astronauts to the Space Station under a contract with NASA. Those flights should begin sometime in 2017 if everything sticks to schedule.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\nTopics: commercial spaceflight, private spaceflight, richard branson, Space, spaceflight, World, Virgin Galactic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Del Mar council approves city manager pay raise\nDel Mar Town Hall\n(File Photo | Brittany Woolsey)\nBy Brittany Woolsey\nThe Del Mar City Council granted City Manager Scott Huth a pay raise and bonus at the council meeting Dec. 3.\nFollowing the council's 4 to 1 vote \u2014 with Council member Dave Druker dissenting \u2014 Huth will be paid $226,114, a 2 percent merit increase from his current base salary of $221,680, beginning Jan. 1, 2019. Huth, who was originally hired by the city in 2012, was also given a one-time 2 percent bonus of $4,434.\nA majority of the council appeared to agree that Huth's efforts in financial management, as well as his efforts with the city's move to a new civic center and city hall, made him qualified for the pay raise.\nDruker, who also voted against Huth's last raise in February, said he did not believe Huth has met expectations this year.\nDruker and Mayor Dwight Worden voted against the city manager's raise in February following controversy over how Huth handled the firing of Pat Vergne, Del Mar's longtime chief lifeguard. Last year's uproar spurred the council to bring in an outside expert to review Huth's performance in unprecedented detail.\nWhile he did not elaborate this time on why he believed Huth has not met expectations, Druker did say his decision was not based on the dispute between the city manager and Vergne.\n\"I understand that some of the council members somehow think that my view is jaundice based upon trying to appease a group of people in town that cannot ever be satisfied with anything the city does,\" Druker said. \"I would have them look at what my background is.\"\nHe added that he's spent 14 years on council and has worked with three city managers.\nWorden noted 2017 as \"uncomfortable\" but that didn't reflect his decision now.\n\"We should move on,\" he said. \"That shouldn't color what we do now.\"\nWorden added he believed Huth succeeded in meeting more with the community, attending more committee meetings, hiring good staff and managing the city's finances.\n\"I think a lot of what a city manager, including Scott, is responsible for is stuff that most people don't see, but it's really important,\" Worden said.\nUtilities commission sides with community energy program over SDG&E\nSan Diego Community Power accused SDG&E to trying to undermine its launch\nPlanning for 2021 fair focusing on two possible scenarios\nA San Diego County Fair \"unlike any other\" will be held this summer at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, although the specific details may not be known until closer to the event, a fairgrounds official said Tuesday, Jan. 12.\nChabad course in RSF explores life, death and the afterlife\nThis winter, Rabbi Levi Raskin of Chabad Jewish Center in Rancho Santa Fe will offer Journey of the Soul, a new six-session course by the acclaimed Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) that will answer a question which has occurred to every self-reflective person: What happens when we die?\n'Transforming Your Mind and Transcending Limitations' program to be presented Jan. 19\nA talk on \"Transforming Your Mind and Transcending Limitations\" will be presented by Del Mar Community Connections at 3:30 p.m.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Here's The Complete List Of Winners Of 63rd National Awards!\nIsha SharmaUpdated on Mar 28, 2016, 14:06 IST\nThe 63rd National Film Awards are here and the winners have just been announced! The National Film Awards were established in 1954, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi every year, where the President of India gives out the honours. From Kangana Ranaut who has bagged her 3rd National Film Award, this year's list of winners has films like Baahbubali and Dum Laga Ke Haisha too!\nHere are the top winners of the 63rd National Awards:\n1. S S Rajamouli's 'Baahubali' has won for Best Film\n2. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has won the Best Director for Bajirao Mastani\n3. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has won it for Best Actor for Piku\n4. Kangana Ranaut won the Best Actress award for Tanu Weds Manu Returns\n5. Dum Laga Ke Haisha has won the national award for Best Hindi film.\n6. Kabir Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan won the Best popular film for providing wholesome entertainment.\nHere's the complete list of awards and Bollywood has surely won big!\nBest Debut Film Of A Director: Neeraj Ghaywan for Masaan\nBest Tamil Film: Visaranai\nBest Sanskrit Film: Priyamanasam\nBest Telugu Film: Kanche\nBest Kannada Film: Thithi\nBest Punjabi Film: Chauthi Koot\nBest Konkani Film: Enemy\nBest Assamese Film: Kothanodi\nBest Haryanvi Film: Satrangi\nBest Khasi Film: Onaatah\nBest Manipuri Film: Eibusu Yaohanbiyu\nBest Mizo Film: Kima's Lode Beyond the Class\nBest Odiya Film: Pahada Ra Luha\nBest Malayalam Film: Pathemari\nBest Supporting Actress: Tanvi Azmi (Bajirao Mastani)\nBest Background Score: Ilayarajaa for Thara Thappattai\nSpecial Jury Award: Kalki Koechlin for Margarita With A Straw\nBest Song: Kaathirunnu by Jayachandran in Ennu Ninte Moideen\nBest Choreography: Remo D'Souza for Bajirao Mastani\nSpecial Mention: Ritika Singh for Irudhi Suttru\nThe chairpersons of the juries handed over the list of the awardees to Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday morning. The ceremony to honour all the awardees will be held on 3 May.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Applications and Academy Graduates for March 2017\nApril 18, 2017by Tristan Wolf in Academy Training\nEvery month, the Academy staff works to compile the statistics about our recruiting and training for the fleet's informational purposes. Let's take a look at how we did as a fleet in March.\nThis first graph shows the number of applications that we have received each month this year. During the month of March, the fleet saw five new applications. This equates to roughly one new application every six days. Looks like we got our usual \"February slump\" a bit late this year!\nThe following chart shows how our new members found us, according to their application:\nThis final graph shows how many people graduated from the Academy during the month of March . We had five Academy graduates in March. This number includes two applicants who applied at the end of February but whose training did not conclude until the beginning of March. We also had two applicants who began training but did not complete it until after the start of April.\nThese new recruits are the lifeblood of our community. Without them, it becomes difficult to keep our ships fully crewed and even more difficult to grow the fleet. If you'd like to help us recruit more members and grow our fleet, you can join the Publicity Team using this form.\nAbout Tristan Wolf\nFltAdml. Tristan Wolf, real name Jordan, founded UFOP: StarBase 118 \u2013 a Star Trek Play By Email RPG \u2013 in June of 1994. He previously served as the Commanding Officer for a number of simming installations, notably the first of StarBase 118 Operations. He currently lives in San Francisco with his partner and their Humane Society rescue dog named Baxter. Jordan works in politics, loves scifi (natch), fantasy, and new technologies.\nView all posts by Tristan Wolf\nNew Academy Graduates\nApplications and Academy Graduates for July 2018\nApplications and Academy Graduates for September 2017","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"From Kabul to Cairo, the Killing and Jailing of Journalists Continues\nWeb ExclusiveApril 10, 2014\nThis is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.\nBy Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan\nJournalism is not a crime. This is the rallying cry in demanding the release of four Al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt. Three of them\u2013Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed\u2013have just passed their hundredth day of incarceration. The fourth, Abdullah al-Shami, has been in jail for more than six months. They have been charged with \"spreading lies harmful to state security and joining a terrorist organization.\" Of course, the only thing they were doing was their job.\nAnja Niedringhaus also was doing her job as a photographer for The Associated Press when she was murdered last week in Khost, Afghanistan. She was covering the preparations for Afghanistan's national election, and was sitting in her car with AP reporter Kathy Gannon when an Afghan police officer opened fire, killing Niedringhaus and wounding Gannon.\nNiedringhaus' work captured the brutality of war, and the hope of humanity. She began her career as a teenager, photographing the fall of the Berlin Wall in her native Germany. She went on to work for the European Pressphoto Agency, where she covered the war in the Balkans, the aftermath of Sept. 11 in New York City, and then on to the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. In 2002, she moved on to the AP, where she covered Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as major international sporting events like the World Cup and Wimbledon. When scrolling through the images of our times that she left behind, you are struck by the courage, the talent and the ability to capture and transmit an instant in time charged with the full weight of history.\nNiedringhaus is one of too many journalists killed while performing a critical public service: journalism.\nRussian journalist Anna Politkovskaya wrote, in 2003, \"Is journalism worth dying for?\" She was reporting on the attempted murder of a colleague at the fiercely independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. She wrote: \"If the price of truth is so high, perhaps we should just stop, and find a profession with less risk of 'major unpleasantness.' How much would society, for whose sake we are doing this work, care?\" Politkovskaya answered her rhetorical question through action, by continuing to cover power in Russia, especially the presidency of Vladimir Putin. She was murdered three years later, on Oct. 7, 2006. Her killing had the hallmarks of a contract killing, as have the murders of other journalists in Russia.\nNeither death nor imprisonment should be the punishment for reporting the news. The Committee to Protect Journalists compiles statistics and organizes campaigns to defend threatened journalists, free those in prison and demand accountability for journalists killed. CPJ provides direct aid for journalists facing imminent threats, including medical and legal help, and relocation. Since 1992, CPJ reports, there have been 1,054 journalists killed worldwide.\nRead the rest of this column at Truthdig.org.\nStoryAug 08, 2011The Battle for Egypt's Media: Video Report on Press Freedom After the Revolution\nStoryAug 08, 2011\nThe Battle for Egypt's Media: Video Report on Press Freedom After the Revolution","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"JBL Bar 5.1 review\nMark Craven | Jul 11, 2018\nJBL adds wireless rears to a soundbar to deliver 5.1 on-demand sonics\nJBL's Bar 5.1 aims to bridge the gap between the soundbar norm and a multichannel setup, by the addition of wireless surround speakers that unclip from the main enclosure. The idea being that you can bring these out for movie night, and reattach them to the 'bar afterwards.\nIt's a concept that we've seen before. In 2013, Philips introduced its HTL9100, matching a soundbar (with detachable surrounds) to a subwoofer. Two years later, it followed with the Fidelio B5. Now JBL has embraced the idea. It's also embraced the \u00a3600 price tag that Philips assigned for its multipurpose products.\nThe USP of the Bar 5.1 is that its surround speakers are entirely cable-free. Unlike the wireless accessory packs offered with some soundbars, these don't require a mains power connection. Instead, they charge their internal battery when docked to the 'bar. JBL says to get to a full charge takes around three hours, and subsequently offers around ten hours of playback. They will go into standby (or power down) if not receiving a signal after 10 and 20 minutes respectively, helping to keep their juice levels up, and can be physically powered down via a switch on their bodywork. But note that they only charge when the 'bar is in standby mode, not powered up, which might be a bit of an irritation.\nWhen the surrounds are locked to the soundbar unit, the whole shebang measures over a metre wide. Styling is quite neat, however, with a slim, curved, black-wrapped chassis topped off by source, volume and power buttons, and a JBL logo on the front. A scrolling display appears to the right of this, peeking through the grille, large enough to read from across a room.\nControlling the Bar 5.1 is via a remote that impresses with its layout (and separate volume controls for subwoofer and wireless surround), but feels about as rugged in the hand as a plastic toy from a box of cornflakes.\nBoosting usability is the soundbar's generous connectivity. There's Bluetooth, which is par for the course these days, but also a USB input for music playback. To connect to a display, there's either optical digital audio or HDMI ARC, the latter joined by a trio of HDMI inputs able to pass 4K HDR signals.\nThere are 11 drivers split across the soundbar and its two surround buddies. The L\/C\/R channels each get a pair of 3in x 1.75in racetrack drivers and 0.75in tweeter. There are no height pretensions here (Dolby Atmos or otherwise); all are front-facing \u2013 something to remember when positioning the single-driver (midbass) surround modules.\nThe subwoofer, which stands 44cm high and around 30cm deep, perhaps seems a little outsized compared to the svelte soundbar. But its portly figure is justified by its 10in downfiring woofer, larger than most designs found in soundbar packages. It connects wirelessly to the 'bar. There's a pairing button on its rear, below a large port, but I didn't once have to press this.\nSo, depending on how your AV source gear is configured, you could set up the Bar 5.1 with just a single wire from your TV, and no other cable spaghetti to worry about beyond mains leads. Neat.\nBass layer\nUnsurprisingly, the JBL Bar 5.1's 10in subwoofer has a lot of impact on the system's overall performance. Its level is adjustable from 0-30, and is set to 16 on default. This gives you a decent amount of flexibility, and a chance to experiment. I was tempted to keep the sub running hot to round out the performance of the other drivers (and because, erm, I like bass), but this naturally means it can suddenly sound over-bearing during weighty moments. I ended up with it set at 17.\nExplosions, punches, LFE swells, crumbling buildings... the Bar 5.1 loves them all. It has a gutsy attitude, and imparts generous scale to onscreen action, while sounding pleasingly tight. The climactic fight between Creed and Conlan in Creed (Blu-ray), sees boxing gloves land with taut, meaty thwacks.\nThe Bar 5.1 surround enclosures may be small, and use only a single driver, but they get the job done. When mounted to the 'bar, the soundstage is entirely in front of you; switch to 5.1 mode (which is as easy as just removing the speakers and placing them either side of your seating position) and the 360-degree crowd noise of the Creed fight (actually the screaming hordes at Everton's Goodison Park, fact fans) immediately becomes apparent. The soundstage envelops. Localised effects, such as Sylvester Stallone's instructions from Creed's corner, come at you left and right; when the score kicks in after a successfully landed punch, it plays out in both surround channels.\nAgain, though, levels have to be managed and distances considered. These speakers are too diddly to be standmounted, and although they are supplied with brackets for wall-mounting, this seems unlikely as they will need to return to their mother ship for power every once in a while. You'll need to put them wherever you can, and unless you have very specifically placed shelves, you won't end up with the recommended ITU configuration.\nTo tackle this, JBL supplies a setup mic, which sets levels and delay timing based upon speaker position. It's a quick process, and saves you time tweaking volume (particularly as the remote doesn't allow for isolated adjustment of the left and right surround). It improved the balance in my room, but I still felt that soundmixes with very aggressive surround info, such as the helicopter crash sequence in Kong: Skull Island (Blu-ray), could dominate the performance at the expense of front soundstage delivery. With this disc, I had to lower the level manually.\nFurthermore the surround speakers have a different overall characteristic, where their audio sounds more shut in than that of the main 'bar. Get them too loud in the mix, and this can be obvious at times.\nSome trial and error is therefore required, and more user input (even as far as repositioning speakers) than you'd usually expect from an AVR-driven system. At times, however, the multichannel presentation of JBL's package slots lushly into place. With Blue Planet II (UHD Blu-ray), I was pleasingly cocooned within its soggy 5.1 soundscapes, where Hans Zimmer's score battles against ocean sprays and clicking dolphins.\nLet's play the music\nThe JBL Bar 5.1 has sound presets for Music, Movie, Standard, Voice, Sports and Night. When using the soundbar in 5.1 guise, Music and Voice sensibly deliver a mono mix to each enclosure. Night mode aims to flatten dynamics of incoming Dolby and DTS bitstreams, although I found it didn't make much of a real impact.\nYou might think Music is the way to go with your library of streamed and physical tunes, but in one way I preferred the general frequency balance of Movie regardless of content. Def Leppard's glam rock anthem Let It Go (from 1981's High and Dry) sounded lightweight with the Music preset engaged, missing out on a fuller, bass-rich presentation. Of course, with this setting, the JBL will matrix out info to feed to those rear channels, and this can sound odd at times \u2013 with Michael Jackson's Billie Jean, Jacko's main lyric remains front and centre, but some of his occasional vocal tics ('Ow!') are thrown wide. For music sessions, I'd perhaps advise reconnecting the speakers for a straight stereo experience.\nAnd it's with music playback in general that the Bar 5.1 shows up a lack of mid-range presence. As noted earlier, the woofer here is vitally important to the overall soundscape; with numerous tracks I found upper-register bass notes lacking the weight of genuine lows, illustrating a weak point around the crossover between sub and mid-range drivers. Treble info can sound more dominant.\nBest of both worlds?\nJBL's Bar 5.1 is a better bet for movie playback \u2013 which is no doubt the idea. Its impressive subwoofer adds a rich undercurrent to its multichannel staging, and dialogue is another strong point. The surround channels can feel a little underpowered compared to the rest of the array, however, and you'll need to find a spot for them that both works sonically and for your room layout. Definitely worth considering if a separates system is off limits and you still want to savour your 5.1 sources.\nwww.jbl.com\nWe say: A breakaway from the soundbar norm \u2013 excellent connectivity, a strong subwoofer and wire-free 5.1 sonics are the main attractions here\nFeatures: 4.5\/5\nDrive Units: 6 x 3in x 1.75in racetrack midbass drivers (L\/C\/R); 3 x 0.75in tweeters (L\/C\/R); 2 x 3in x 1.75in midbass (surround L\/R) Amplification (claimed): 510W (300W subwoofer, 210W soundbar) Connections: 3 x HDMI inputs; HDMI ARC output; optical digital audio input; 3.5mm input; USB Dolby TrueHD\/DTS-HD MA: Yes\/Yes. Downmixed to 5.1 core Separate subwoofer: Yes. 10in driver, ported cabinet Remote Control: Yes Dimensions: 1,148(w) x 58(h) x 93(d)mm Weight: 3.9kg\nFeatures: 4K HDR passthrough over HDMI; Bluetooth; 5.1-channel feature; mic-assisted setup; wireless subwoofer connection; EQ presets","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nisha Home\nNisha Rathode (Editor)\nI am Smart, Intelligent and Hard Working who Loves to help :)\nHal Robl\nUpdated on Jun 25, 2018\nPosition: Linebacker\nName Hal Robl\nRole American football player\nHeight: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)\nDate of birth: (1924-01-23)January 23, 1924\nDate of death: May 1, 2003(2003-05-01) (aged 79)\nDied May 1, 2003, Gleason, Wisconsin, United States\nCollege University of Wisconsin\u2013Oshkosh\nPlace of death: Gleason, Wisconsin\nPlace of birth: Oshkosh, Wisconsin\nHal Robl is a former linebacker in the National Football League, who played in two games for the Chicago Cardinals during the 1945 NFL season.\nHal Robl Wikipedia\nShooting Stars (1927 film)\nJames Burns (businessman)\nSotirios Papagiannopoulos","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"meriahjtigner Education and Career, Liberty Baptist, Sermons April 16, 2022 12 Minutes\n4\/15\/2022 Good Friday Tenebrae service\nWelcome & Instructions: Thank you for joining us this evening. Our previous gathering was last night for Maundy Thursday where we left the place in candle light. Tonight, the room will get even darker. Readers will come and read a passage then extinguish candles.\nThe room will grow dark as we progress through the story of \"Good Friday.\" This type of service is known as a Tenebrae service which connects us with the darkness the disciples felt and the darkness Jesus experienced on this holy day.\nUnison Prayer: let's open in prayer together. Join me in reading the prayer on the screen out loud.\nHoly God, We are caught in the tension of light and shadow, death and resurrection. You spoke the world into being, you illuminated the universe by your very speech, then filled the void with life. Indeed, you have filled the void of darkness and death, the empty promises of the abyss, with new life and new creation. We look to you in the space between the world and the Kingdom, longing for the fulfillment of your word in the work of the Holy Spirit and the reign of Christ, our Creator and King. Amen.\nTenebrae Readings: 15 Candles + Christ Candle.\nMERIAH 31-3531 Then Jesus said to his disciples, \"Tonight you will all fall away because of me. This is because it is written, I will hit the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will go off in all directions.[d] 32 But after I'm raised up, I'll go before you to Galilee.\" 33 Peter replied, \"If everyone else stumbles because of you, I'll never stumble.\" 34 Jesus said to him, \"I assure you that, before the rooster crows tonight, you will deny me three times.\" 35 Peter said, \"Even if I must die alongside you, I won't deny you.\" All the disciples said the same thing. EXTINGUISH YOUR CANDLE\nJOSH 36-46 36 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. He said to the disciples, \"Stay here while I go and pray over there.\" 37 When he took Peter and Zebedee's two sons, he began to feel sad and anxious. 38 Then he said to them, \"I'm very sad. It's as if I'm dying. Stay here and keep alert with me.\" 39 Then he went a short distance farther and fell on his face and prayed, \"My Father, if it's possible, take this cup of suffering away from me. However\u2014not what I want but what you want.\" 40 He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, \"Couldn't you stay alert one hour with me? 41 Stay alert and pray so that you won't give in to temptation. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak.\" 42 A second time he went away and prayed, \"My Father, if it's not possible that this cup be taken away unless I drink it, then let it be what you want.\" 43 Again he came and found them sleeping. Their eyes were heavy with sleep. 44 But he left them and again went and prayed the same words for the third time. 45 Then he came to his disciples and said to them, \"Will you sleep and rest all night? Look, the time has come for the Human One[e] to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Get up. Let's go. Look, here comes my betrayer.\"\nEXTINGUISH YOUR CANDLE\nCHRIS 47-56 47 While Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came. With him was a large crowd carrying swords and clubs. They had been sent by the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 His betrayer had given them a sign: \"Arrest the man I kiss.\" 49 Just then he came to Jesus and said, \"Hello, Rabbi.\" Then he kissed him. 50 But Jesus said to him, \"Friend, do what you came to do.\" Then they came and grabbed Jesus and arrested him. 51 One of those with Jesus reached for his sword. Striking the high priest's slave, he cut off his ear. 52 Then Jesus said to him, \"Put the sword back into its place. All those who use the sword will die by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I'm not able to ask my Father and he will send to me more than twelve battle groups[f] of angels right away? 54 But if I did that, how would the scriptures be fulfilled that say this must happen?\" 55 Then Jesus said to the crowds, \"Have you come with swords and clubs to arrest me, like a thief? Day after day, I sat in the temple teaching, but you didn't arrest me. 56 But all this has happened so that what the prophets said in the scriptures might be fulfilled.\" Then all the disciples left Jesus and ran away.\nBO 57-68 57 Those who arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest. The legal experts and the elders had gathered there. 58 Peter followed him from a distance until he came to the high priest's courtyard. He entered that area and sat outside with the officers to see how it would turn out. 59 The chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death. 60 They didn't find anything they could use from the many false witnesses who were willing to come forward. But finally they found two 61 who said, \"This man said, 'I can destroy God's temple and rebuild it in three days.'\" 62 Then the high priest stood and said to Jesus, \"Aren't you going to respond to the testimony these people have brought against you?\" 63 But Jesus was silent. The high priest said, \"By the living God, I demand that you tell us whether you are the Christ, God's Son.\" 64 \"You said it,\" Jesus replied. \"But I say to you that from now on you'll see the Human One[g] sitting on the right side of the Almighty[h] and coming on the heavenly clouds.\"[i] 65 Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, \"He's insulting God! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, you've heard his insult against God. 66 What do you think?\" And they answered, \"He deserves to die!\" 67 Then they spit in his face and beat him. They hit him 68 and said, \"Prophesy for us, Christ! Who hit you?\"\nABBY 69-75 69 Meanwhile, Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A servant woman came and said to him, \"You were also with Jesus the Galilean.\" 70 But he denied it in front of all of them, saying, \"I don't know what you are talking about.\" 71 When he went over to the gate, another woman saw him and said to those who were there, \"This man was with Jesus, the man from Nazareth.\" 72 With a solemn pledge, he denied it again, saying, \"I don't know the man.\" 73 A short time later those standing there came and said to Peter, \"You must be one of them. The way you talk gives you away.\" 74 Then he cursed and swore, \"I don't know the man!\" At that very moment the rooster crowed. 75 Peter remembered Jesus' words, \"Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.\"And Peter went out and cried uncontrollably.\nMatthew 27: 1-37\nRUTH 1-2 Early in the morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people reached the decision to have Jesus put to death. 2 They bound him, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate the governor.\nMERIAH 3-10 3 When Judas, who betrayed Jesus, saw that Jesus was condemned to die, he felt deep regret. He returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, and 4 said, \"I did wrong because I betrayed an innocent man.\" But they said, \"What is that to us? That's your problem.\" 5 Judas threw the silver pieces into the temple and left. Then he went and hanged himself. 6 The chief priests picked up the silver pieces and said, \"According to the Law it's not right to put this money in the treasury. Since it was used to pay for someone's life, it's unclean.\" 7 So they decided to use it to buy the potter's field where strangers could be buried. 8 That's why that field is called \"Field of Blood\" to this very day. 9 This fulfilled the words of Jeremiah the prophet: And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price for the one whose price had been set by some of the Israelites, 10 and I gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me.[a]\nJOSH 11-14 11 Jesus was brought before the governor. The governor said, \"Are you the king of the Jews?\" Jesus replied, \"That's what you say.\" 12 But he didn't answer when the chief priests and elders accused him. 13 Then Pilate said, \"Don't you hear the testimony they bring against you?\" 14 But he didn't answer, not even a single word. So the governor was greatly amazed.\nCHRIS 15-26 15 It was customary during the festival for the governor to release to the crowd one prisoner, whomever they might choose. 16 At that time there was a well-known prisoner named Jesus Barabbas. 17 When the crowd had come together, Pilate asked them, \"Whom would you like me to release to you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?\" 18 He knew that the leaders of the people had handed him over because of jealousy. 19 While he was serving as judge, his wife sent this message to him, \"Leave that righteous man alone. I've suffered much today in a dream because of him.\" 20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and kill Jesus. 21 The governor said, \"Which of the two do you want me to release to you?\" \"Barabbas,\" they replied. 22 Pilate said, \"Then what should I do with Jesus who is called Christ?\" They all said, \"Crucify him!\" 23 But he said, \"Why? What wrong has he done?\" They shouted even louder, \"Crucify him!\" 24 Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere and that a riot was starting. So he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. \"I'm innocent of this man's blood,\" he said. \"It's your problem.\" 25 All the people replied, \"Let his blood be on us and on our children.\" 26 Then he released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus whipped, then handed him over to be crucified.\nBO 27-31 27 The governor's soldiers took Jesus into the governor's house, and they gathered the whole company[b] of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a red military coat on him. 29 They twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They put a stick in his right hand. Then they bowed down in front of him and mocked him, saying, \"Hey! King of the Jews!\" 30 After they spit on him, they took the stick and struck his head again and again. 31 When they finished mocking him, they stripped him of the military coat and put his own clothes back on him. They led him away to crucify him.\nABBY 32-37 32 As they were going out, they found Simon, a man from Cyrene. They forced him to carry his cross. 33 When they came to a place called Golgotha, which means Skull Place, 34 they gave Jesus wine mixed with vinegar to drink. But after tasting it, he didn't want to drink it. 35 After they crucified him, they divided up his clothes among them by drawing lots. 36 They sat there, guarding him. 37 They placed above his head the charge against him. It read, \"This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.\"\nRUTH Isaiah 53:1-12 Who can believe what we have heard, and for whose sake has the Lord's arm[a] been revealed? 2 He grew up like a young plant before us,[b] like a root from dry ground. He possessed no splendid form for us to see, no desirable appearance. 3 He was despised and avoided by others; a man who suffered, who knew sickness well. Like someone from whom people hid their faces, he was despised, and we didn't think about him. 4 It was certainly our sickness that he carried, and our sufferings that he bore, but we thought him afflicted, struck down by God and tormented. 5 He was pierced because of our rebellions and crushed because of our crimes. He bore the punishment that made us whole; by his wounds we are healed. 6 Like sheep we had all wandered away, each going its own way, but the Lord let fall on him all our crimes. 7 He was oppressed and tormented, but didn't open his mouth. Like a lamb being brought to slaughter, like a ewe silent before her shearers, he didn't open his mouth. 8 Due to an unjust ruling he was taken away, and his fate\u2014who will think about it? He was eliminated from the land of the living, struck dead because of my people's rebellion. 9 His grave was among the wicked, his tomb with evildoers,[c] though he had done no violence, and had spoken nothing false. 10 But the Lord wanted to crush him and to make him suffer. If his life is offered[d] as restitution, he will see his offspring; he will enjoy long life. The Lord's plans will come to fruition through him. 11 After his deep anguish he will see light,[e] and he will be satisfied. Through his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, will make many righteous, and will bear their guilt. 12 Therefore, I will give him a share with the great, and he will divide the spoil with the strong, in return for exposing his life to death and being numbered with rebels, though he carried the sin of many and pleaded on behalf of those who rebelled.\nEXTINGUSH CANDLE\nMERIAH 38-44 38 They crucified with him two outlaws, one on his right side and one on his left. 39 Those who were walking by insulted Jesus, shaking their heads 40 and saying, \"So you were going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, were you? Save yourself! If you are God's Son, come down from the cross.\" 41 In the same way, the chief priests, along with the legal experts and the elders, were making fun of him, saying, 42 \"He saved others, but he can't save himself. He's the king of Israel, so let him come down from the cross now. Then we'll believe in him. 43 He trusts in God, so let God deliver him now if he wants to. He said, 'I'm God's Son.'\" 44 The outlaws who were crucified with him insulted him in the same way.\nJOSH 45-50 45 From noon until three in the afternoon the whole earth was dark. 46 At about three Jesus cried out with a loud shout, \"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani,\" which means, \"My God, my God, why have you left me?\"[c] 47 After hearing him, some standing there said, \"He's calling Elijah.\" 48 One of them ran over, took a sponge full of vinegar, and put it on a pole. He offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 But the rest of them said, \"Let's see if Elijah will come and save him.\" 50 Again Jesus cried out with a loud shout. Then he died.\nEXTINGUISH FINAL CANDLE\nChrist Candle\u2013 Christ candle is suddenly and loudly blown out at the end of the reading as lights in the room are turned off so that darkness prevails. Long dark silence.\nMERIAH Matthew 27:51-54 51 Look, the curtain of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split, 52 and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised. 53 After Jesus' resurrection they came out of their graves and went into the holy city where they appeared to many people. 54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what had just happened, they were filled with awe and said, \"This was certainly God's Son.\"\nSONG: Watch the Lamb\u2013 Ray Bolz https:\/\/youtu.be\/UNT1AThOgME\nAfter the song, the Christ candle is relit with the strike of a match.\nShort silence.\nConcluding Prayer & Dismissal: The true light that enlightens everyone that came into the world through Christ. Though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. In him was life, and his life was the light of all. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it.\nMay you walk through the darkness clinging to the light of Christ. Amen\nAll depart in silence\nPrevious Post Maundy Thursday\nNext Post Easter Sunday","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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My Firm concentrates in family law \u2013 Divorce, Paternity, Custody, and Prenuptial Agreements \u2013 consumer bankruptcy and real estate law, Foreclosure Defense and other real estate litigation - we have a title agency, engage in short sale negotiations --- I have highly skilled attorneys in each area --- we work together as a team. We help our Clients navigate a difficult, challenging, often uncertain process and assist them in achieving the best possible results. What's unique about my practice is that I can assist people in...\nVictoria Lyn Anderson\n(407) 412-7041 1115 E. Livingston Street\nVictoria Lyn Anderson primarily practices in the areas of domestic and family law and bankruptcy. Ms. Anderson's experience in these areas of law has given her a unique ability to not only achieve results but to assist clients though difficult, complicated and sometimes incredibly emotional events. Ms. Anderson has been a resident of central Florida for over 25 years. She received her Bachelors in Political Science from the University of Central Florida and a Juris Doctorate from Barry University School of Law. At Barry University Ms. Anderson received a certificate for completing a concentration in the areas of Children...\nJoy Owenby\nClay County, FL Bankruptcy Lawyer with 21 years of experience\n(904) 263-5759 2301 Park Avenue, Suite 404\nFree ConsultationBankruptcy, Divorce, Elder and Family\nFlorida Coastal School of Law and Florida State University\nAttorney Joy Owenby serves clients throughout Florida with aggressive and relentless representation for a wide-range of practice areas. While her knowledge and experience are extensive, Attorney Owenby particularly handles matters involving divorce, adoption, trusts \/ wills, probate, bankruptcy, criminal defense, child support, and family law. Over the course of the years, she has obtained much recognition and has become an accomplished lawyer with an Avvo Rating. Prior to the founding of Owenby Law, P.A., Attorney Owenby serves as legal counsel for Florida's Guardian ad Litem Program. During this time, she explored the intricacies of family law which have allowed...\nGeorge Trovato\nVolusia County, FL Bankruptcy Attorney with 19 years of experience\n(386) 626-9006 150 N. Volusia Ave. Suite B, Orange City, Florida 32763, United States\nOrange City, FL 32763\nFree ConsultationBankruptcy, Criminal Defense, Family and Personal Injury\nRegent University School of Law and Barry University\nMEMBER OF THE FLORIDA & NORTH CAROLINA BAR With almost 20 years of experience, George Trovato has acquired the knowledge and the skills to provide effective and aggressive representation. GRADUATE OF BARRY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW He also earned The Masters of Law from Regent University School of Law. Honored by the cities of Deltona, Orange City and Port Orange. HONORED BY FLORIDA SUPREME COURT 10 YEARS IN A ROW FOR PRO-BONO WORK FOR HIS COMMUNITY Champion for hands-on classroom training & apprenticeships. SUPPORTS THE COUNCIL ON AGING George is a leader in his community and always...\nKenneth Martin Hesser\nMarion County, FL Bankruptcy Attorney with 23 years of experience\n(352) 789-6520 328 NE 1st Ave.\nBankruptcy, Employment, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp\nMr. Hesser was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1975. He attended Penn State University where he received degrees in both Political Science and Media Studies in 1997. Mr. Hesser then attended Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he obtained a Juris Doctorate in 2000. Mr. Hesser spent his final year of law school in Gainesville studying at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Mr. Hesser practices in the fields of bankruptcy, employment, and workers' compensation law. Prior to forming Schatt & Hesser, PA with his longtime colleague in Ocala, Ted Schatt, Ken...\nChristie D. Arkovich\nHillsborough County, FL Bankruptcy Attorney with 30 years of experience\n(813) 258-2808 1520 W Cleveland St\nWe are a law firm helping people to reduce student loans and other debts, including filing bankruptcy if necessary. Don't believe others who say nothing can be done about student loans - we are seeing fantastic results every day! I was formerly trial counsel for Sallie Mae and other student loan servicers in bankruptcy dischargeability cases. I \"switched sides\" and now represent student loan borrowers and other debtors both inside and outside of bankruptcy. Since getting rid of student loans is so difficult in bankruptcy, we have had to get creative in finding ways to reduce...\nChip Parker\nDuval County, FL Bankruptcy Attorney with 31 years of experience\n(904) 733-7766 8777 San Jose Blvd\nI have been a consumer lawyer since 1992, with an emphasis on consumer and small business bankruptcy and defending consumers against illegal debt collection activity.\nI manage two consumer bankruptcy law firms ~ in Florida and Utah. Over the 26 years of running consumer law firms, I came to understand that these are not law firms at all. They are consumer satisfaction companies that provide legal representation to consumers and small businesses. Client satisfaction is our #1 goal. It is so important, as a matter of fact, that we publish a Statement of Client Rights right on the website, and we...\nRyan Michael Albaugh\n(904) 471-3434 1930 San Marco Blvd.\nFree ConsultationBankruptcy, Consumer, Criminal Defense and Foreclosure Defense\nWith over 15 years of experience, I have handled thousands of cases. I am both skilled and knowledgeable in Criminal Defense, Foreclosure Defense, Bankruptcy, Family Law, and Injury Law matters. I provide personal attention and zealous representation to meet my clients' legal needs and goals. I am committed to protecting and fighting for their rights and interests.\nAs a former Deputy District Attorney, I prosecuted a broad range of criminal matters from misdemeanors to serious felonies. My extensive knowledge and insight into the criminal law system has assisted in the successful defense of many clients. I also advocate for clients...\nBankruptcy Attorneys in Nearby Cities\nThe Oyez Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. Find more Walton County Bankruptcy Lawyers in the Justia Legal Services and Lawyers Directory which includes profiles of more than one million lawyers licensed to practice in the United States, in addition to profiles of legal aid, pro bono and legal service organizations.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kansas Sweeps TCU in Conference Opener\nKansas 3, TCU 0\nTCU 19 13 22 \u2014 \u2014\nKansas 25 25 25 \u2014 \u2014\nRiley\/Mathieu \u2013 14 Digs Peters \u2013 15\nMcNorton \u2013 38 Assists Heist \u2013 21\nDockery \u2013 14 Kills Igodan \u2013 10\nMcClinton \u2013 .471 Hit % Capen \u2013 .400\nJarmoc \u2013 8 Blocks Gower \u2013 4\nStats Comparison KU TCU\nLAWRENCE, Kan. \u2013 Sophomore outside hitter Tiana Dockery led the Jayhawks with 14 kills as they defeated TCU in three sets, 25-19, 25-13, 25-22, claiming a victory in their 2013 Big 12 Conference debut, Saturday afternoon inside the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.\nDockery, a Richmond, Texas native, used 32 attempts and committed only one error for a .406 hitting percentage and added three blocks to give Kansas (11-3, 1-0) the sweep over TCU (11-5, 0-2) and the team's seventh-straight win.\nThe Jayhawks were equally strong defensively, led by redshirt senior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc, who recorded eight total blocks \u2013 including a solo rejection that passed former KU great Josi Lima for second all-time in career solo blocks at Kansas (90). Seniors Brianne Riley and Jaime Mathieu protected the back row with 14 digs each.\n\"Defensively, we were good, too.\" Kansas head coach Ray Bechard said. \"This team leads the Big 12 in hitting percentage at .260 and we held them to .138. Our goal was to hold them under .200 so that's a good number.\"\nConversely, Kansas' hitting numbers were excellent, raking at a .369 attack percentage in the win \u2013 the third time in the last four matches KU has hit .350 or better. In the second set, the Jayhawks pounded out 14 kills without an error for a .667 mark, besting their previous season-high of .650 set at No. 24 Creighton earlier this month.\nThe Horned Frogs' offense was led by senior middle blocker Yvonne Igodan, who finished the afternoon with 10 kills in the losing effort. Defensively, libero Shane Peters controlled the back line with 15 digs and freshman middle blocker Natalie Gower recorded four blocks.\nKansas came out strong to open the match, taking four of the first five points from the Horned Frogs, 4-1. Despite a 3-0 run from TCU, the Jayhawks continued to control the set with the help of Dockery's three-straight kills to give KU its largest lead of the set, 17-11. KU continued its dominance late in the set and built the lead to six before closing out the Horned Frogs, 25-19, never trailing in the set. Junior outside hitter Chelsea Albers led the Jayhawk attack in the set, finishing with seven kills on 11 attempts for a .636 hitting percentage.\nBack-to-back blocks from Dockery sparked a 3-0 run for the Jayhawks to open up the second set and gave them the early advantage, 4-1. Much like the first set, the Jayhawks asserted their dominance and built their lead to seven, 15-8, going into the media timeout. A 4-0 run brought the KU lead to 10, 19-9, before TCU called a timeout to attempt to slow down the Kansas attack. The strategy would work temporarily and as TCU took the next two points out of the timeout, 19-11, but six of the next eight points fell in favor of the Jayhawks as they closed out the set, 25-13. Jarmoc dominated both sides of the net for the Jayhawks, finishing the set a perfect five-for-five offensively to lead the KU attack and recording four blocks to lead the Kansas defense.\nTCU took the first point of the third set to give them its first lead of the match, but it wouldn't last long as KU took three of the next four points to regain the advantage, 3-2. The Horned Frogs took back the lead with a 3-0 run to give them a two-point advantage, 6-4. KU quickly re-found its rhythm and connected on four-straight points, until TCU answered with three-straight of its own to retain its lead, 11-10. The Jayhawks had another run in them, connecting on five in a row to take a four-point lead, 15-11, into the media timeout. This time the Jayhawks wouldn't give it back, leading by as many as six before closing out the Horned Frogs, 25-22, for their fifth sweep of the season.\n\u2013 Senior libero Brianne Riley's 14 digs to moved her into seventh all-time on the Big 12 Conference's career digs list (1,760), passing former Kansas State standout Lauren Mathewson (1,755; 2007-10). Riley is now chasing former Missouri star Tatum Ailes (1,997; 2004-07) for sixth on the all-time list.\n\u2013 Riley now has double-digit digs in 40-consecutive matches.\n\u2013 Redshirt senior middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc's 1,141 career kills are the second-most among current Big 12 players. She trails fellow senior Kaitlynn Pelger from Kansas State (1,336).\n\u2013 Jarmoc's five blocks pulled her closer to the KU all-time blocks leader. Her 483 career blocks ranks second only to Amanda Reves (514; 1996-99).\nKansas hits the road for the first installment of the 2013 Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan. First serve is set for 7 p.m.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"katie ackert\nKatie Ackert grew up in Davison, Michigan with a family full of entrepreneurs, so it was only a matter of time until she too would own and operate her own company. Katie began her career on a path that is rare among business executives. She quickly rose to become an expert in the industry while maintaining a level of performance few achieve in the staffing business. With nearly a decade in the staffing industry, Katie brings deep knowledge to her role as Founder of Branex Group. Through the years Katie's focus on building partnerships with her customers and clients has been a key contributor to her success. She believes in driving results with honesty and integrity that has led to many long-standing relationships.\nPrior to starting Branex Group, Katie worked as a Director for one of the largest global staffing firms focusing on Information Technology (IT) and prior to that held a Senior Account Executive role where her focus was in the Automotive Industry. For both companies her emphasis has always been on establishing a \"team\" culture. Through her leadership and mentoring, her passion to develop the people around her has been key to her success.\nKatie attended Central Michigan University where she received her Bachelor's degree in Science. During her time at CMU she gained a passion for volunteering in several organizations in the community. She recently served on the Chamber of Auburn Hills Ambassador board, where she was soon after appointed Chairman of the board. Outside of work and volunteering, Katie enjoys spending time with her husband Kellen and son Brantlee. They also enjoy spending time with family and friends at their cabin in Northern Michigan.\nJeff gardner\nJeff Gardner is an industry veteran, known for mentoring and developing future leaders through an emphasis on internal and external customer service. Jeff has extensive experience attracting and training top talent and has exceeded revenue goals yearly by retaining high performance team members. He lives every day of his business life off his favorite quote, \"We're here to make good things happen for someone else. We do that, and it all works.\"\nJeff started his career at a large staffing company and soon moved over to a startup division within that company that would focus on Information Technology (IT). As a National Account Manager, he was in a leadership position as this startup became the largest IT staffing company in North America. In 2001, he founded Viscon Staffing Group, and after 6 straight years of growth, sold and merged his company while taking on a leadership role within the new business. In this position he was instrumental in growing revenue into a multimillion dollar company with a presence in 17 states.\nJeff has been married to his wife Michelle, a General Motors Executive for 24 years and the couple also have a son Alex, who is graduating in December 2018 from the University of Michigan with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Jeff also enjoys golf and spending time with friends and family at their vacation home in Key West, FL.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jury selection begins in Ohio trial of foster mother accused in death of toddler\nMonday, February 12th 2007, 8:07 pm\nBATAVIA, Ohio (AP) _ A woman charged with murder in the death of her developmentally disabled foster son sat quietly at the defense table Monday as potential jurors were asked what they knew and thought about the accusations against her.\nProsecutors say Liz Carroll and her husband wrapped 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel in a blanket, bound him with packing tape and left him in a closet last August while they went to a family reunion in Kentucky for the weekend, returning to find the boy dead. She later reported that Marcus went missing from a suburban Cincinnati park.\nTen of the first 30 prospective jurors who were questioned were excused, but only three because they told Judge Robert Ringland they had strong opinions about the couple's guilt. Jury selection was set to resume Tuesday afternoon.\nCarroll, 30, wore a black pantsuit that covered the leg restraints she was ordered to wear. She was brought into the Clermont County courtroom before prospective jurors entered so they would not notice her hobbled walk.\nHer husband, David Carroll Jr., also is charged with murder and is to be tried separately next month. They are each being held in lieu of $10.1 million bail.\nLiz Carroll's attorney, Gregory Cohen, has asked that the trial be moved from southwest Ohio. Ringland has not ruled on that motion but could at any time if a jury cannot be seated.\nRingland cautioned prospective jurors to stop reading newspapers, listening to news reports or researching the case on the Internet until the trial ends. He said the trial was likely to take two weeks.\nLiz Carroll and David Carroll Jr., 29, have pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges including kidnapping and child endangerment. David Carroll, who is accused of burning the boy's body and dumping the remains in the Ohio River, also is charged with gross abuse of a corpse.\nLiz Carroll acknowledged in grand jury testimony days after the child was reported missing that he had been left in the closet and died, but she said she had no intention of hurting him.\nThe Carrolls also face trial on lesser charges, including perjury and inducing panic, in Hamilton County, where they told authorities Aug. 16 that Marcus wandered off or had been taken from a park during an outing.\nProsecutors have said the Carrolls' live-in companion, Amy Baker, provided information leading to the couple's indictments and is expected to testify.\nNews On 6 BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) _ A woman charged with murder in the death of her developmentally disabled foster son sat quietly at the defense table Monday as potential jurors were asked what they knew and thought","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00bb babble \u00bb archived babble \u00bb the middle east and central asia \u00bb Robert Fisk Article From Feb 2003 Prophetic\nAuthor Topic: Robert Fisk Article From Feb 2003 Prophetic\ndrgoodword\nArticle Copy At Alternatives.ca\nTHE CASE AGAINST WAR\nA Conflict Driven By The Self-interest Of America\nFebruary 18, 2003, by Robert Fisk\nIn the end, I think we are just tired of being lied to. Tired of being talked down to, of being bombarded with Second World War jingoism and scare stories and false information and student essays dressed up as \"intelligence\". We are sick of being insulted by little men, by Tony Blair and Jack Straw and the likes of George Bush and his cabal of neo-conservative henchmen who have plotted for years to change the map of the Middle East to their advantage.\nNo wonder, then, that Hans Blix's blunt refutation of America's \"intelligence\" at the UN yesterday warmed so many hearts. Suddenly, the Hans Blixes of this world could show up the Americans for the untrustworthy \"allies\" they have become.\nThe British don't like Hussein any more than they liked Nasser. But millions of Britons remember, as Blair does not, the Second World War ; they are not conned by childish parables of Hitler, Churchill, Chamberlain and appeasement. They do not like being lectured and whined at by men whose experience of war is Hollywood and television.\nStill less do they wish to embark on endless wars with a Texas governor- executioner who dodged the Vietnam draft and who, with his oil buddies, is now sending America's poor to destroy a Muslim nation that has nothing at all to do with the crimes against humanity of 11 September. Jack Straw, the public school Trot-turned-warrior, ignores all this, with Blair. He brays at us about the dangers of nuclear weapons that Iraq does not have, of the torture and aggression of a dictatorship that America and Britain sustained when Saddam was \"one of ours\". But he and Blair cannot discuss the dark political agenda behind George Bush's government, nor the \"sinister men\" (the words of a very senior UN official) around the President.\nposted 21 July 2003 11:10 AM\nThe first pictures of \"liberated\" Baghdad will show Iraqi children making victory signs to American tank crews.\nThat did happen. I hardly think it was liberated, but confiscated now.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tamiflu - Oseltamivir Resistance\nBy Dr. Tomislav Me\u0161trovi\u0107, MD, Ph.D.Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc.\nAntiviral drugs are shown to be effective in both the prophylaxis and treatment for influenza. Furthermore, these drugs are also likely to be active against a potential new pandemic strain. Several studies have demonstrated the efficiency of the neuraminidase inhibitor oseltamivir, which is known under the brand name Tamiflu, in reducing influenza viral titer values and symptom intensity. Nevertheless, its usefulness can be compromised by the emergence and spread of a drug-resistant virus.\nImage Credit: AnaLysiSStudiO \/ Shutterstock.com\nWhile resistance has been a longstanding problem with the use of the \"old\" influenza drugs amantadine and rimantadine, during winter 2007\/2008, researchers and clinicians became aware of virus-acquired resistance against oseltamivir. The current situation with an increasing resistance problem strengthens the need to continuously monitor antiviral susceptibility, as well as the promote the development of new antiviral drugs and treatment regimes.\nPrinciples of oseltamivir resistance\nGenerally, there are three levels of resistance to oseltamivir and other neuraminidase inhibitors. These resistance levels include genotypic resistance, phenotypic resistance, and clinical resistance.\nGenotypic resistance can be detected via the sequencing of the viral genome and identification of mutations associated with drug resistance. Comparatively, phenotypic resistance is measured by viral replication at different drug concentrations in vitro. Thirdly, clinical resistance is based on the real-life response to the treatment.\nOmics eBook\nMutations associated with amino acid changes in the viral neuraminidase, hemagglutinin, or both, can cause resistance to oseltamivir. The principal difference is that mutations in hemagglutinin confer resistance not only to oseltamivir, but zanamivir as well, which is another important neuraminidase inhibitor. This is comparable to mutations in neuraminidase, which may instead render oseltamivir ineffective, but retain susceptibility to zanamivir.\nOseltamivir resistance can be conferred by a single point missense mutation from histidine to tyrosine at position 275 (H275Y) of the neuraminidase gene, which is the most commonly reported mutation. The amino acid replacement N295S (N294S) in the neuraminidase gene has also been shown to reduce susceptibility to both oseltamivir and zanamivir.\nChanges at residues E119, V116, I117, Q136, I223 (I222), and D199 (D198) around neuraminidase active sites are associated with reduced susceptibility to oseltamivir in both seasonal influenzas and H5N1, which is the avian influenza virus. Furthermore, crystal structure studies of H1N1 and H5N1 viruses hinted that mutations at amino acids K150, Q136, and D151 may affect susceptibility to this drug.\nThe development of resistant strains of seasonal H1N1 and H3N2 influenza has had a low recorded incidence among adults and adolescents of approximately 0.3%. However, pediatric patients have demonstrated higher rates of up to 8.6%. Whether higher doses of oseltamivir needs to be used in such cases, or over longer periods of time than currently recommended, is still subject to debate.\nIt must be emphasized that oseltamivir resistance in influenza viruses is relative, which means that patients infected with resistant strains may still benefit from receiving this drug. Therefore, the clinical response to treatment with oseltamivir remains the most important proof of antiviral effectiveness.\nPredicting and minimizing resistance\nIt is very cumbersome to predict when drug resistance will develop. Clinicians should suspect resistance to this antiviral medication when influenza is detected in patients who receive prophylaxis, in individuals whose condition fails to improve despite oseltamivir therapy, in cases when infection persists in immunocompromised hosts, as well as in instances in which patients have had contact with immunocompromised hosts undergoing treatment.\nFor practical purposes, if the patient's condition continues to deteriorate with no other identifiable causes despite 10 days of oseltamivir treatment, active testing for resistance should be pursued. Protocols to provincial public health laboratories should be provided in order to facilitate rapid testing for H275Y mutation.\nTo minimize the risk of development of resistance, oseltamivir should be used appropriately and at sufficient doses according to published guidelines. This recommendation is particularly relevant for pediatric and immunocompromised populations, where the greatest risk of generating resistance is often encountered.\nIn short, the global occurrence of influenza virus resistance connected with the seasonal use of oseltamivir is presently small. Therefore, resistant viruses might be of little clinical significance, excluding perhaps in immunocompromised patients. However, continued attention, especially of evolving avian H5N1 strains, combined with alert, thorough laboratory-based monitoring, is of the uttermost importance.\nhttp:\/\/www.actabp.pl\/pdf\/3_2014\/505.pdf\nhttp:\/\/aac.asm.org\/content\/54\/3\/1102.long\nhttp:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1471-2334\/11\/134\nhttp:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/professionals\/antivirals\/antiviral-drug-resistance.htm\nhttp:\/\/www.dovepress.com\/understanding-the-cross-resistance-of-oseltamivir-to-h1n1-and-h5n1-inf-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-DDDT\nTisdale M. Influenza M2 Ion-Channel and Neuraminidase Inhibitors. In: Mayers D, editor. Antimicrobial Drug Resistance: Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, Volume 1. Springer Science & Business Media, 2009; pp. 421-447.\nDr. Tomislav Me\u0161trovi\u0107\nDr. Tomislav Me\u0161trovi\u0107 is a medical doctor (MD) with a Ph.D. in biomedical and health sciences, specialist in the field of clinical microbiology, and an Assistant Professor at Croatia's youngest university - University North. In addition to his interest in clinical, research and lecturing activities, his immense passion for medical writing and scientific communication goes back to his student days. He enjoys contributing back to the community. In his spare time, Tomislav is a movie buff and an avid traveler.\nMe\u0161trovi\u0107, Tomislav. (2021, April 20). Tamiflu - Oseltamivir Resistance. News-Medical. Retrieved on January 27, 2023 from https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/Tamiflu-Oseltamivir-Resistance.aspx.\nMe\u0161trovi\u0107, Tomislav. \"Tamiflu - Oseltamivir Resistance\". News-Medical. 27 January 2023. <https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/Tamiflu-Oseltamivir-Resistance.aspx>.\nMe\u0161trovi\u0107, Tomislav. \"Tamiflu - Oseltamivir Resistance\". News-Medical. https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/Tamiflu-Oseltamivir-Resistance.aspx. (accessed January 27, 2023).\nMe\u0161trovi\u0107, Tomislav. 2021. Tamiflu - Oseltamivir Resistance. News-Medical, viewed 27 January 2023, https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/health\/Tamiflu-Oseltamivir-Resistance.aspx.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TidyHQ Terms of Service\nTidyHQ ABN 88 609 879 601\n1.1\tTidyHQ is a comprehensive software solution for the management of clubs, associations, businesses any other organisations. TidyHQ is proudly Australian owned and developed. In general, TidyHQ wants to have as many happy Customers as possible. We would be remiss to change pricing, features or services in a way that made Customer's unhappy. However, as a SaaS product, TidyHQ will change over time (for the better, of course).\n1.2\tIn these Terms of Service, the \"Important Terms\" mostly deal using TidyHQ, and the \"General Conditions\" set out the legal basis on which TidyHQ is provided. You must accept these terms to use TidyHQ.\n1.3\tTidyHQ treats the confidentiality of our Customer's information seriously, and handles all personal information in accordance with Australian privacy laws. 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This documentation shall be updated from time-to-time.\nD.3\tThe perquisites to use TidyHQ are:\n(a)\tAccess to the Application; an\n(b)\tAn internet connection.\nD.4\tApplication\n(a)\tThe Application is accessible to registered Users via login from the Site. To use TidyHQ, it is necessary that the User has access to the Application.\n(b)\tThe Application:\ni\tContains the User Data that the User enters into the Application;\nii\tConnects the User's Account with Third Party Services; and\niii\tProvides the User with Account management.\nD.5\tThird Party Services\n(a)\tTidyHQ connects to and integrates with many Third Party Services.\n(b)\tTidyHQ cannot warrant the ongoing availability or efficacy of any Third Party Services.\n(c)\tThe User authorises the Company to access the User Data in any Third Party Services enabled by the User.\n(d)\tThe User must comply with the terms of use of any Third Party Service, and in no way will the Company be liable for any breach of such terms by the User's connection of TidyHQ to a Third Party Service.\nD.6\tDependencies\n(a)\tThe User agrees and acknowledges that:\ni\tTidyHQ has third party dependencies which may affect its availability, including (without limitation) infrastructure providers; and\nii\tThe Company has no means of controlling the availability of such dependencies, although each of those services has a robust operating standard suitable for commercial dependency.\nD.7\tUse of API\n(a)\tTidyHQ may provide access to the API for a Fee.\n(b)\tIn addition to this Agreement, A User's use of the API will be subject to the TidyHQ API Terms of Service.\nD.8\tFinancial Matters\n(a)\tWhile the Company endeavours to make TidyHQ as user-friendly, reliable and accurate as possible, a User that makes or receives payment, or uses financial features of TidyHQ does so at their own risk. To the extent permitted by law the Company accepts no responsibility for:\ni\tFees charged by a Customer in relation to a Membership or Event; or\nii\tThe accuracy of a financial information generated by TidyHQ.\nD.9\tSupport\n(a)\tThe Company provides user support for TidyHQ via a dedicated support email.\n(b)\tThe Company shall endeavour to respond to all support requests within 24 hours.\n(c)\tThe Company reserves the right to require the payment of reasonable Fees for non-standard support requests prior to the provision of such support.\nE\tACCOUNT ACCESS USING THIRD PARTY SERVICES\nE.1\tRegistration & Login\n(a)\tA User may be able to register for the Application, and access the Services, by using an account with certain Third Party Services (including, but not limited to, Facebook);\n(b)\tAs part of the functionality of the Application a User may connect their profile with a Third Party Service by:\ni\tProviding the User's Third Party Service login information to the Company through the Application; or\nii\tAllowing the Company to access the User's Third Party Service in accordance with its terms & conditions of service; and\n(c)\tWhen connecting to the Application using a Third Party Service the User warrant that they are not in breach any of the Third Party Service' terms & conditions of service.\nE.2\tOngoing Availability\n(a)\tThe User agrees that access to the Application may be unavailable if the Third Party Service becomes unavailable, and that the User may lose functionality or content that is shared between the Third Party Service and the Application;\n(b)\tThe User may disconnect the connection between the Application and the Third Party Service at any time.\n(c)\tThe Company has no relationship with any Third Party Service and cannot guarantee the efficacy of any Third Party Service connection.\nE.3\tData from Third Party Services\nWhere a User connects and\/or registers their profile using a Third Party Service, the User authorises the Company to use data from that Third Party Service to create the User's profile on the Application.\nF\tCUSTOMER TERMS\nF.1\tThe Customer warrants that it is a natural person authorised to create an account to establish, maintain and pay for the Customer Account on behalf of each Organisation.\nF.2\tThe Customer shall be responsible to the Company for:\n(a)\tEach Organisation that it manages using the Customer's account;\n(b)\tThe accuracy of the information it makes available via the Application;\n(c)\tEach Authorised User to whom the Customer provides access to the Customer's account.\nF.3\tAssignment of Account\n(a)\tIn the event that the Customer ceases to be authorised by an Organisation, and the Organisation has given authority to another individual, or simply wishes to transfer the Customer account to another individual (Delegate) to operate a Customer account, then the Customer must arrange with the Company to assign the Customer Account to the Delegate.\n(b)\tThe procedure that must be followed in order to effect an assignment of a Customer account shall be as detailed on the Company's Website from time-to-time, or within TidyHQ. In default the Customer must contact the Company to request an assignment of a Customer account.\n(c)\tThe Customer will not be released of its obligations under this Agreement, and an assignment to the Delegate will not be affected until:\ni\tThe Delegate has supplied such information as is required by the Company to create a Customer Account;\nii\tThe Delegate has accepted these Terms of Service; and\niii\tThe Company is satisfied (in its absolute discretion) that the Delegate has the authority to act on behalf of the Organisation, and is competent to assume all the responsibilities of a Customer subject to this Agreement.\nF.4\tConnecting Organisations\n(a)\tOrganisations subject to separate Customer accounts may be linked with other Organisations within TidyHQ provided that:\ni\tOne of the Organisations is designated as the parent Organisation (Parent) and the other Organisation is designated as the subordinate Organisation (Child);\nii\tEach Customer consents to link their Organisation with the other;\niii\tEach Customer indemnifies the Company from any negative consequences of linking the Organisations. Any dispute that arises between Customers holding linked accounts shall be dealt with strictly between themselves.\n(b)\tThe Customer that holds each linked Organisation may set the administrative privileges and features that the other Customer may access.\nF.5\tTermination of Customer Account\nThe Customer may terminate this Agreement by written notice and cease using TidyHQ. No pro-rata refunds are offered for terminated accounts. The Company may terminate this Agreement on no less than 14 days' written notice to the Customer, and access shall terminate at the end of the Customer's billing cycle active at the expiry of that notice period (if applicable).\nG\tMEMBER TERMS\nG.1\tRegistration.\n(a)\tA Member must register as a Member to access the Application; and\n(b)\tUntil registration as a Member is confirmed by the Company a license to access the Application will not be granted.\nG.2\tVerification\nThe Member may be required to verify their identity by (without limitation) email, telephone, residential or business address, social media, referrals, references and\/or formal photographic identification. A Member must provide the Company with all necessary verifications the Company requires in order to provide access to the Application.\nG.3\tTermination of Member Account\nEither the Company or the Member may end this Agreement at any time by written notice to the other in accordance with these Terms.\nH\tVISITOR TERMS\nH.1\tExcept where specifically stated to the contrary, the Company makes no representations as to the accuracy of any information contained in a webpage generated by a Customer via TidyHQ.\nH.2\tIn no circumstance will the Company be liable to a Visitor for its use of, or access to the Site.\nI\tSPECIAL CONDITIONS\nI.1\tThe parties may agree to any Special Conditions to this Agreement in writing. Where the parties make such Special Conditions those Special Conditions shall prevail over any inconsistency with any other provisions of this Agreement.\n\u200d1\tINTERPRETATION\n1.1\tThe following definitions apply in this document:\n(a)\tABN means Australian Business Number.\n(b)\tACN means Australian Company Number.\n(c)\tBusiness Day means a day (other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday) on which banks are open for general banking business in Melbourne, Australia.\n(d)\tCommencement Date means the date set out in this Agreement.\n(e)\tConfidential Information means all information (whether or not it is described as confidential) in any form or medium concerning any past, present or future business, operations or affairs of either party, including, without limitation:\ni\tall technical or non-technical data, formulae, patterns, programs, devices, methods, techniques, plans, drawings, models and processes, source and object code, software and computer records;\nii\tall business and marketing plans and projections, details of agreements and arrangements with third parties, and User and supplier information and lists;\niii\tall financial information, pricing schedules and structures, product margins, remuneration details and investment outlays;\niv\tall information concerning any employee, customer, contractor, supplier or agent of the relevant party;\nv\tthe party's policies and procedures; and\nvi\tall information contained in this document,\nbut excludes information that the other party can establish:\nvii\tIs known by or is in the other party's possession or control other than through a breach of this document and is not subject to any obligation of confidence; or\nviii\tIs in the public domain other than by a breach of this document or any obligations of confidence.\n(f)\tCorporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).\n(g)\tForce Majeure means an event or cause beyond the reasonable control of the party claiming force majeure. It includes each of the following, to the extent it is beyond the reasonable control of that party:\ni\tAct of God, lightning, storm, flood, fire, earthquake or explosion cyclone, tidal wave, landslide, adverse weather conditions;\nii\tAct of public enemy, war (declared or undeclared), terrorism, sabotage, blockade, revolution, riot, insurrection, civil commotion, epidemic;\niii\tThe effect of any change in applicable laws, orders, rules or regulations of any government or other competent authority; and\niv\tEmbargo, inability to obtain necessary materials, equipment or facilities, or power or water shortage.\n(h)\tGeneral Conditions means the terms and conditions set out in the section of this Agreement entitled \"General Conditions\".\n(i)\tGST has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).\n(j)\tIntellectual Property means all copyright, patents, inventions, trade secrets, know-how, product formulations, designs, circuit layouts, databases, registered or unregistered trademarks, brand names, business names, domain names and other forms of intellectual property;\n(k)\tIntellectual Property Rights means, for the duration of the rights in any part of the world, any Moral Rights, industrial or intellectual property rights, whether registrable or not, including in respect of Intellectual Property, applications for the registration of any Intellectual Property and any improvements, enhancements or modifications to any Intellectual Property registrations.\n(l)\tMoral Rights means:\ni\tMoral rights pursuant to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth);\nii\tOr any rights analogous to the rights set out in Article 6bis of the Berne Convention for Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886 (as amended from time to time).\n(m)\tImportant Terms means this Agreement's details and variables set out in the section of this Agreement entitled \"Important Terms\".\n(n)\tPrivacy Act means the Privacy Act 1989 (Cth).\n(o)\tSpecial Conditions means the terms and conditions set out in the section of this agreement entitled \"Special Conditions\".\n(p)\tTax Invoice has the meaning given by the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (Cth).\n1.2\tHeadings are only for convenience and do not affect interpretation. The following rules apply unless the context requires otherwise:\n(a)\tThe singular includes the plural and the opposite also applies.\n(a)\tIf a word or phrase is defined, any other grammatical form of that word or phrase has a corresponding meaning.\n(b)\tA reference to a clause refers to clauses in this Agreement.\n(c)\tA reference to legislation is to that legislation as amended, re enacted or replaced, and includes any subordinate legislation issued under it.\n(d)\tMentioning anything after includes, including, or similar expressions, does not limit anything else that might be included.\n(e)\tA reference to a party to this Agreement or another agreement or document includes that party's successors and permitted substitutes and assigns (and, where applicable, the party's legal personal representatives).\n(f)\tA reference to a person, corporation, trust, partnership, unincorporated body or other entity includes any of them.\n(g)\tA reference to information is to information of any kind in any form or medium, whether formal or informal, written or unwritten, for example, computer software or programs, concepts, data, drawings, ideas, knowledge, procedures, source codes or object codes, technology or trade secrets.\n(h)\tA reference to dollars or $ is to an amount in Australian currency.\n2\tAPPLICATION OF THIS AGREEMENT\n2.1\tThis Agreement applies to use of and access to TidyHQ.\n2.2\tWhere the User does not accept, or can no longer comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the User must immediately cease using TidyHQ.\n2.3\tThis Agreement may be updated by the Company at its absolute discretion from time-to-time, and unless stated otherwise by the Company in writing, such updates shall come into effect for use of TidyHQ at the commencement of the User's next billing period.\n3\tSOLUTION\n3.1\tThe User agrees and accepts that TidyHQ is:\n(a)\tHosted by the Company using a secure third-party hosting service and shall only be installed, accessed and maintained by the Company;\n(b)\tAccessed by the User using the internet or other connection to the servers hosting the TidyHQ and is not available 'locally' from the User's systems; and\n(c)\tManaged and supported exclusively by the Company from the Company's third party hosting service and that no 'back-end' access to TidyHQ is available to the User unless expressly agreed in writing.\n3.2\tAs a hosted and managed service, the Company reserves the right to upgrade, maintain, tune, backup, amend, add or remove features, redesign, improve or otherwise alter TidyHQ.\n3.3\tThe Company shall not exercise its rights under clause 3.2 in a manner that would intentionally cause the User to lose access to User Data or fundamentally decrease the utility of TidyHQ to the User, other than in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.\n4\tLICENSE\n4.1\tBy accepting the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the User is granted a limited, non-exclusive and revocable license to access and use TidyHQ for the duration of this Agreement, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.\n4.2\tThe Company may revoke or suspend the User's license(s) in its absolute discretion for any reason that it sees fit, including for breach of the terms and conditions in this Agreement by the User or any of its users. The Company will ordinarily advise the User of any suspension or revocation however it is under no obligation to do so.\n5\tUSE\n5.1\tThe User agrees that it shall only use TidyHQ for legal purposes and shall not use it to engage any conduct that is unlawful, immoral, threatening, abusive or in a way that is deemed unreasonable by the Company in its discretion.\n6\tAUTHORISED USERS\n6.1\tThe Customer shall authorise users to access TidyHQ in its absolute discretion. The Customer agrees that additional Fees may be payable for each additional user it authorises.\n6.2\tThe Company accepts no liability for access to User Data by users authorised by the User or using login details of users authorised by the User.\n6.3\tThe User is solely responsible for the security of its username and password for access to TidyHQ.\n6.4\tThe User is responsible for ensuring that users comply with this Agreement in full and are liable for any breach of them.\n7\tUSER DATA\n7.1\tThe Company obtains no right, title or interest in User Data including any Intellectual Property found within it.\n7.2\tThe Company accepts no liability for the content of User Data.\n7.3\tThe User is responsible for the accuracy, quality and legality of User Data and the User's acquisition of it, and the users that create, access and\/or use User Data.\n7.4\tDespite clause 7.1, the Company shall be authorised to permanently delete User Data where outstanding Fees remain unpaid in accordance the Important Terms.\n7.5\tThe Company shall not access, use, modify or otherwise deal with User Data except where required by compulsion of law or upon the User's authority (such as to provide support for TidyHQ).\n8\tPRIVACY\n8.1\tThe Company maintains the Privacy Policy in compliance with the provisions of the Privacy Act for data that it collects about the User and other customers.\n8.2\tThe Privacy Policy does not apply to how the User handles User Data. It is the User's responsibility to meet the obligations of the Privacy Act by implementing a Privacy Policy in accordance with law.\n8.3\tThe Company makes no warranty as to the suitability of TidyHQ in regards to the User's privacy obligations at law or contract, and it is the User's responsibility to determine whether TidyHQ is appropriate for the User's circumstances.\n9\tINVOICING & PAYMENTS\n9.1\tThe Company shall issue the User a Tax Invoice for all Fees for which GST applies.\n9.2\tThe terms of payment set out in the Important Terms shall apply.\n9.3\tShould the User dispute a Tax Invoice, the User must notify the Company of the disputed item within 5 Business Days of the date of the Tax Invoice. The User must pay the amount of the Tax Invoice not in dispute within the prescribed payment period.\n9.4\tOverdue Tax Invoices shall accrue interest at the rate of 1.5% per month, or in default, the maximum rate of penalty interest prescribed under law.\n10\tDATA\n10.1\tSecurity. The Company takes the security of TidyHQ and the privacy of its Users very seriously. The User agrees that the User shall not do anything to prejudice the security or privacy of the Company's systems or the information on them.\n10.2\tTransmission. The Company shall do all things reasonable to ensure that the transmission of data occurs according to accepted industry standards. It is up to the User to ensure that any transmission standards meet the User's operating and legal requirements.\n10.3\tStorage. The Company may limit the amount of data that the User stores in TidyHQ, and shall advise the User of such. Data that is stored with the Company shall be stored according to accepted industry standards.\n10.4\tBackup. The Company shall perform backups of its entire systems in as reasonable manner at such times and intervals as is reasonable for its business purposes. The Company does not warrant that it is able to backup or recover specific User Data from any period of time unless so stated in writing by the Company.\n11\tACCESS\n11.1\tSolution. By accepting the terms of this Agreement the User agrees that the Company shall provide access to TidyHQ to the best of its abilities, however it accepts no responsibility for ongoing access to TidyHQ.\n12\tINTELLECTUAL PROPERTY\n12.1\tTrademarks. The Company has moral & registered rights in its trademarks and the User shall not copy, alter, use or otherwise deal in the marks without the prior written consent of the Company.\n12.2\tProprietary Information. TidyHQ may use software and other proprietary systems and Intellectual Property for which the Company has appropriate authority to use, and the User agrees that such is protected by copyright, trademarks, patents, proprietary rights and other laws, both domestically and internationally. The User warrants that it shall not infringe on any third-party rights through the use of TidyHQ.\n12.3\tSolution. The User agrees and accepts that TidyHQ is the Intellectual Property of the Company and the User further warrants that by using TidyHQ the User will not:\n(a)\tCopy TidyHQ or the services that it provides for the User's own commercial purposes; and\n(b)\tDirectly or indirectly copy, recreate, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise obtain, modify or use any source or object code, architecture, algorithms contained in TidyHQ or any documentation associated with it.\n12.4\tContent. All content (with the exception of User Data) remains the Intellectual Property of the Company, including (without limitation) any source code, ideas, enhancements, feature requests, suggestions or other information provided by the User or any other party with respect to TidyHQ.\n13\tCONFIDENTIALITY\n13.1\tThe Company agrees to keep all User Data in the strictest confidence, and to the extent User Data is accessed and\/or received by TidyHQ it shall be deemed as Confidential Information for the purposes of this Agreement.\n13.2\tEach party acknowledges and agrees that:\n(a)\tThe Confidential Information is secret, confidential and valuable to the disclosing party (Discloser);\n(b)\tTo owes an obligation of confidence to the Discloser concerning the Confidential Information;\n(c)\tIt must not disclose the Confidential Information to a third party except as permitted in this Agreement;\n(d)\tAll Intellectual Property rights remain vested in the Discloser but disclosure of Confidential Information does not in any way transfer or assign any rights or interests in the Intellectual Property to the receiving party; and\n(e)\tAny breach or threatened breach by the receiving party of an obligation under this Agreement may cause the Discloser immediate and irreparable harm for which damages alone may not be an adequate remedy. Consequently the Discloser has the right, in addition to other remedies available at law or in equity, to seek injunctive relief against the receiving party (and its agents, assigns, employees, officers and directors, personally) or to compel specific performance of this clause.\n13.3\tA party must notify the Discloser in writing, giving full details known to it immediately, when it becomes aware of:\n(a)\tAny actual, suspected, likely or threatened breach by it of any obligations it has in relation to the Confidential Information.\n(b)\tAny actual, suspected, likely or threatened breach by any person of any obligation in relation to the Confidential Information; or\n(c)\tAny actual, suspected, likely or threatened theft, loss, damage, or unauthorised access, use or disclosure of or to any Confidential Information.\n13.4\tThe receiving party must promptly take all steps that the Discloser may reasonably require and must co-operate with any investigation, litigation or other action of the Discloser or of a related body corporate if there is:\n(a)\tAny actual, suspected, likely or threatened breach of a term of this Agreement; or\n(b)\tAny theft, loss, damage or unauthorised access, use or disclosure of or to any Confidential Information that is or was in its possession or control.\n14\tLIABILITY & INDEMNITY\n14.1\tThe User agrees that it uses TidyHQ at its own risk.\n14.2\tThe User acknowledges that the Company is not responsible for the conduct or activities of any user and that the Company is not liable for such under any circumstances.\n14.3\tThe User agrees to indemnify the Company for any loss, damage, cost or expense that the Company may suffer or incur as a result of or in connection with the User's use of TidyHQ or conduct in connection with TidyHQ, including any breach by the User of this Agreement.\n14.4\tIn no circumstances will the Company be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential or indirect damages, loss or corruption of data, loss of profits, goodwill, bargain or opportunity, loss of anticipated savings or any other similar or analogous loss resulting from the User's access to, or use of, or inability to use TidyHQ, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, negligence, in equity or any other legal theory, and whether or not the Company knew or should have known of the possibility of such damage, to business interruption of any type, whether in tort, contract or otherwise.\n14.5\tCertain rights and remedies may be available under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) or similar legislation of other States or Territories and may not be permitted to be excluded, restricted or modified. Apart from those that cannot be excluded, the Company and the Company's related entities exclude all conditions and warranties that may be implied by law. To the extent permitted by law, the Company's liability for breach of any implied warranty or condition that cannot be excluded is restricted, at the Company's option to:\n(a)\tThe re-supply of services or payment of the cost of re-supply of services; or\n(b)\tThe replacement or repair of goods or payment of the cost of replacement or repair.\n15\tBREACH\n15.1\tWhere a party is in breach of this Agreement, the other party may issue a written notice (Breach Notice) requiring the party in breach that must set out:\n(a)\tThe nature of the breach;\n(b)\tThe provisions of the Agreement that are alleged to have been breached;\n(c)\tA reasonable timeframe to remedy the breach in no less than 10 Business Days; and\n(d)\tThe action required to remedy the breach.\n15.2\tWhere a party issues a compliant Breach Notice in accordance with clause 15.1, the receiving party shall be required to respond and\/or remedy the breach as so set out in the Breach Notice. Failure to respond in writing setting out:\n(a)\tThe steps taken to remedy the breach; or\n(b)\tWhy the party believes it is not in breach as put forward in the Breach Notice,\n(c)\tShall not in itself confirm the alleged breach but shall be in itself a breach of this Agreement.\n15.3\tFailure to remedy a breach set out in a Breach Notice shall be a material breach of this Agreement (Material Breach).\n16\tTERMINATION\n16.1\tBreach. Where a party is in Material Breach of this Agreement, the other party may terminate this Agreement by giving written notice of termination, which shall become effective 5 Business Days after the date of the notice.\n16.2\tInsolvency. Either party may terminate this Agreement immediately by notice, if either party:\n(a)\tStops or suspends or threatens to stop or suspend payment of all or a class of its debts;\n(b)\tIs insolvent within the meaning of section 95A of the Corporations Act;\n(c)\tFails to comply with a statutory demand (within the meaning of section 459F(1) of the Corporations Act) unless:\n(d)\tThe debt to which the statutory demand relates is discharged within 15 Business Days of the date of the failure; or\n(e)\tThe party demonstrates to the satisfaction of the other party (acting reasonably) that it is able to pay all its debts as and when they become due and payable;\n(f)\tHas an administrator appointed in respect of it;\n(g)\tHas a controller within the meaning of section 9 of the Corporations Act or similar officer appointed to the whole or a substantial part of its assets or undertaking and that controller or similar officer is not removed within 15 Business Days of the appointment;\n(h)\tHas an order made or a resolution passed for its winding up or dissolution or it enters into an arrangement, compromise or composition with or assignment for the benefit of its creditors or a class of them;\n(i)\tHas any security enforced over, or a distress, execution or other similar process levied or served against, the whole or a substantial part of its assets or undertaking; or\n(j)\tIs subject to any event, which, under the law of any relevant jurisdiction, has an analogous or equivalent effect to any of the events listed above.\n16.3\tExpiry or termination of this Agreement is without prejudice to and does not affect the accrued rights or remedies of any of the parties arising in any way out of this Agreement up to the date of expiry or termination.\n16.4\tThe rights and obligations under the relevant provisions of clauses 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 survive termination of this Agreement.\n17\tDISPUTES\n17.1\tAll disputes shall be handled in accordance with the Company's dispute resolution policy.\n17.2\tWhere the Company does not have a relevant dispute resolution policy for a type of dispute, the following process shall apply:\n(a)\tNegotiation. If there is a dispute between the parties relating to or arising out of this Agreement, then within 5 Business Days of a party notifying the other party of a dispute, senior representatives from each party must meet (or discuss directly via the telephone or internet) and use all reasonable endeavours acting in good faith to resolve the dispute by joint discussions;\n(b)\tMediation. If the dispute between the parties relating to or arising out of this Agreement is not resolved within five Business Days of notification of the dispute under Clause 17.1, the parties must agree to submit the dispute to mediation, administered by lawyers engaged in alternative dispute resolution;\n(c)\tCourt proceedings. A party may not commence court proceedings in relation to a dispute relating to or arising out of this Agreement until it has exhausted the procedures in this clause 17.2 unless the party seeks appropriate injunctive or other interlocutory relief to preserve property or rights or to avoid losses that are not compensable in damages.\n18\tFORCE MAJEURE\n18.1\tIf a party is prevented in whole or in part from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure, it will promptly notify the other party accordingly. The notice must:\n(a)\tSpecify the obligations and the extent to which it cannot perform those obligations;\n(b)\tFully describe the event of Force Majeure;\n(c)\tEstimate the time during which the Force Majeure will continue; and\n(d)\tSpecify the measures proposed to be adapted to remedy or abate the Force Majeure.\n18.2\tFollowing a notice of Force Majeure in accordance with clause 18.1 and while the Force Majeure continues, the obligations which cannot be performed because of the Force Majeure will be suspended, other than obligations to pay money that is due and payable.\n18.3\tThe party that is prevented from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure must remedy the Force Majeure to the extent reasonably practicable and resume performance of its obligations as soon as reasonably possible.\n18.4\tThe party that is prevented from carrying out its obligations under this Agreement as a result of Force Majeure must take all action reasonably practicable to mitigate any loss suffered by the other party as a result of the party's failure to carry out its obligations under this Agreement.\n18.5\tThe term of this Agreement will not be extended by the period of Force Majeure.\n19\tELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION AND ASSIGNMENT\n19.1\tThe words in this clause that are defined in the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) have the same meaning.\n19.2\tThe User can direct notices, enquiries, and complaints and so forth to the Company as set out in this Agreement. The Company will notify the User of a change of details from time-to-time.\n19.3\tThe Company will send the User notices and other correspondence to the details that the User submits to the Company, or that the User notifies the Company of from time-to-time. It is the User's responsibility to update its contact details as they change.\n19.4\tA consent, notice or communication under this Agreement is effective if it is sent as an electronic communication unless required to be physically delivered under law.\n19.5\tNotices must be sent to a party's most recent known contact details.\n19.6\tThe User may not assign or otherwise create an interest in this Agreement without the written consent of the Company.\n19.7\tThe Company may assign or otherwise create an interest in its rights under this Agreement by giving written notice to the User.\n20\tGENERAL\n20.1\tPrevalence. Each party to this Agreement agrees to the clauses in the Important Terms and the Special Conditions. The Important Terms, any Special Conditions and the General Conditions form a single legal agreement. To the extent that the Important Terms or the Special Conditions are inconsistent with the General Conditions, the terms of the Important Terms will prevail. To the extent that the Special Conditions are inconsistent with the Important Terms, the Special Conditions will prevail.\n20.2\tDisclaimer. Each party acknowledges that it has not relied on any representation, warranty or statement made by any other party, other than as set out in this Agreement.\n20.3\tRelationship. The relationship of the parties to this Agreement does not form a joint venture or partnership.\n20.4\tWaiver. No clause of this Agreement will be deemed waived and no breach excused unless such waiver or consent is provided in writing.\n20.5\tFurther Assurances. Each party must do anything necessary (including executing agreements and documents) to give full effect to this Agreement and the transaction facilitated by it.\n20.6\tGoverning Law. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the state of Victoria, Australia. Each of the parties hereby submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of courts with jurisdiction there.\n20.7\tSeverability. Any clause of this Agreement, which is invalid or unenforceable is ineffective to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability without affecting the remaining clauses of this Agreement.END GENERAL CONDITIONS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Pirates trade Jerry Reuss to the Dodgers\nApr 7, 1979 | Transactions |\nOn April 7, 1979 the Pittsburgh Pirates traded lefty pitcher Jerry Reuss to the Los Angeles Dodgers for right-handed pitcher Rick Rhoden. Reuss was a 29-year-old starting pitcher with ten season in the majors, five with the Pirates, at the time of the trade. He had won 48 games between 1974-76, but his last two seasons with Pittsburgh he went 10-13 in 1977 and then pitched only 82.2 innings in 1978. He had shoulder problems in 1978 and was unhappy about his role for 1979, so he asked for a trade. Rhoden was a 25-year-old, with a 42-24, 3.40 record in 118 games, 91 as a starter.\nRhoden got off to a slow start with the Pirates, needing shoulder surgery after just one start. He finally came back healthy for an entire season in 1981 and won 72 games over his six full seasons in Pittsburgh. After the 1986 season, the Pirates traded Rhoden to the Yankees in a six-player deal that brought a young Doug Drabek back to Pittsburgh. The trade worked out just as well for the Dodgers, as they got 86 wins and 1,407 innings pitched out of Reuss. During the 1981 playoffs, he made five starts, the last one being a complete game win over the Yankees during game five of the World Series.\nPreviousKen Forsch tosses no hitters\nNextDave Parker and Jim Rice SI Cover\nTom Seaver trade to Dodgers called off\nChicago White Sox release long time shortstop Luke Appling\nThe Reds send four players \u2013 to obtain Seattle's superstar Ken Griffey Jr.\nCleveland Indians purchase former National League batting champion Rico Carty from the Mexican League","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"About Michael Ortiz\nI'm an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Rio Grande College, an upper-level branch campus of Sul Ross State University located in the border region of southwest Texas. I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the University of North Texas and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Texas at Austin. I grew up in San Antonio and Castroville.\nI began my undergraduate studies at the University of North Texas in 1997 with the assistance of the Regents' Scholarship, the largest undergraduate scholarship granted by the school, and also the Multicultural Scholarship. Though originally a drawing and painting major, I switched my degree plan to mathematics after seeing a film on the Mandelbrot set in a design class.\nUpon being accepted into the mathematics doctoral program at the University of Texas in 2002, I was awarded the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities by the National Academy of Sciences. This provided financial support for my first several years of graduate work. After that I worked as teaching assistant and assistant instructor. I completed my doctorate in 2009 and joined the faculty of Rio Grande College immediately thereafter.\nI'm most interested in the intersection between geometry, topology, and theoretical physics, and my graduate research included many forays into quantum theory and cosmology. My current professional interests include geometry, physics, the history of mathematics, humanistic mathematics education, and the philosophy of mathematics.\nI believe in the mission of Rio Grande College. In partnership with Southwest Texas Junior College, Rio Grande College offers one of the most affordable college degrees in the state, including a ten thousand dollar bachelor's degree program in mathematics. It trains and educates many of the teachers who go to work in our region. I am committed to improving the cultural standard of living in my community through recognizing the intellectual dignity of my students. This site is dedicated to them.\nI've been clinically diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and display the usual characteristics. I'm hypersensitive to certain stimuli; I process things very slowly, especially during interactions with other people; I sometimes have difficulty recognizing faces, maintaining eye contact, understanding spoken language, and navigating casual conversations. However, the disability carries strengths as well as weaknesses, and I'm proud to be able to represent the broader autistic community at an institution of higher learning.\nI live in Uvalde with my wife and children. I enjoy reading, painting, and spending time in nature.\nMichael Ortiz, Ph.D.\nAssociate Professor of Mathematics\nDepartment of Natural and Behavioral Sciences\nSul Ross State University Rio Grande College\nAbout | Courses | Resources | Philosophy | Art\nMathematical Miscellany\nCopyright \u00a9 2017 Michael Luis Ortiz. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alert me on price drops\nDRM Steam activation guide\nPlatformPC\nActivates in United States\nShow regions\n\u00c5land Islands, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, plurinational state of, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cura\u00e7ao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Holy See (Vatican City State), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Palau, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of North Macedonia, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Barth\u00e9lemy, Saint Helena, Ascension And Tristan Da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French Part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Province of China, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Republic Of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, British, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe\nAdventure, Indie, Strategy\nCheerdealers\nGamersGate score\nInspired by John Carpenter's \"The Thing\".\nA helicopter crash left a group of explorers stranded near an Arctic base. As they try to find a way back, all they are doing is sinking deeper into a nightmare scenario. When they sleep, they attract a terrifying force that sucks the life out of their bodies, but the longer they battle exhaustion and stay awake, the less likely they are to survive...\nAs the survivors try to sleep just enough to stave off fatigue without dying, they slowly go mad and eventually reach the point where they can no longer trust their senses. In time, they can't even tell the difference between reality and a hallucination.\nGuide the survivors through a randomly generated Arctic base, overcome the severe climate and fight the unfathomable!\nRandomly generated levels\n15 characters with unique skills and abilities\nTons of quests, game events and plot twists\nAltered perception of reality: you cannot trust what you see\nIntel Core i3 560 3.33GHz or higher\nIntel Core i5 2.6+ GHz\nGeForce 9600 GT\/Radeon HD 3870 (512 MB\nGeForce GTX 460\/Radeon HD 6850 (1GB)\n2 GB available space\n\u0421omments\nGames we think you'll like\nHow to activate your game code\nSteam code activation\nEpic Games code activation\nRockstar code activation\nUbisoft Connect code activation\nOrigin code activation\nSign up for our weekly newsletter to get the latest news, updates and amazing offers.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Toxic Pet Food Recalled\nToxic Pet Food Recalled\nToxic Pet Food Responsible For Dog Deaths. Toxic pet food, believed responsible for at least 100 dog deaths nationally, may have been sold in Maine. But state officials say no such poisonings have been reported here.\nSome bags of Diamond, Country Value and Professional brand pet foods have been recalled because they are contaminated.\nDiamond Pet Foods, the company that produces all three brands, says some bags contain high levels of aflatoxin, a naturally occurring toxic chemical that comes from a fungus found on corn and other grains. The toxin causes severe liver damage in animals.\nDiamond says it distributed the contaminated food to 23 states including Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.\nDr. Don Hoenig, Maine's state veterinarian, said he has alerted veterinarians here to the possibility of contaminated food, and to watch for dogs and cats with liver poisoning.\nAs of Monday, Hoenig said he has heard no reports of poisonings in Maine.\nNeither had Norma Worley, head of the Animal Welfare Division of the Maine Department of Agriculture, or William Bell, executive director of the Maine Veterinary Medical Association.\nNone of the Vets in Attendance Spoke of Food Contamination.\nBell said his association held its annual meeting in Portland last weekend and none of the vets in attendance spoke of food contamination.\n\"If it was something that people felt alarmed about, someone would have mentioned it,\" Bell said.\nA spokesman for Hannaford Bros., Maine's largest supermarket, said Monday the chain does not sell Diamond, Country Value or Professional pet foods.\nThe brands were not available Monday at the Augusta Wal-Mart or Shaw's supermarket.\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an investigation into the contamination and says that at least 76 dogs nationwide are believed to have died as a result of eating contaminated Diamond Pet Foods.\nBut researchers at Cornell University believe the number is higher and estimate at least 100 dogs have died. They fear most pet owners are not aware of the recall because it was issued during the busy holiday season.\nDiamond officials say they are doing what they can to help affected pet owners.\n\"It's going to take some time to take care of all these customers, and we're going to do it,\" Chief Operating Officer Mark Brinkmann said.\nThe company recalled products that were manufactured at its Gaston, S.C., plant from September to November 2005. Based on sample testing, Diamond has narrowed down the tainted batch to what was produced on Oct. 11, 2005, Brinkmann said.\nDiamond says recalled products can be identified by the date code and \"Best By\" dates listed on the back panel of the package.\nRecalled products will have a capital \"G\" (which refers to Gaston) on the date code, and \"Best By\" dates between March 1, 2007, and June 10, 2007.\nDiamond has promised to reimburse pet owners for vet bills and other costs associated with the aflatoxin poisoning, which officials now believe may include pets in Europe and other foreign countries.\nNeed Legal Help Regarding Toxic Pet Food?\nTagged With: Diamond Pet Foods, Pet Food, Recalled, Toxic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chippenham energy company creates 300 jobs\nBy Anita Jaynes on 15 February, 2016\nChippenham-based green energy company Good Energy will create 300 new jobs over the next five years, according to an announcement made on February 9.\nThe firm, which supplies 100% renewable electricity to homes and businesses across the UK, will develop the new roles as part of the company's future growth plans.\n\"We've almost doubled in size over the last two years, which is a real testament not only to the great customer service we offer but also to the wealth of local talent we have around Wiltshire,\" said Francoise Woodward, Director of People and Culture at Good Energy.\n\"The new jobs we have planned span the business and include roles in customer services, business development, IT, innovation and finance\".\nGood Energy employs over 300 people at its offices in Chippenham and is currently hiring for a number of full and part time roles, including customer care advisors, team leaders and sales executives.\nThe company recently became accredited as a Living Wage employer, demonstrating its commitment as a forward thinking and socially responsible organisation.\nClick here to visit Good Energy's join the team page.\nPrevious Story Armed Forces personnel to switch mortgages free of charge\nNext Story Goughs nominates Julia's House as its Charity of the Year for 2016","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Flush the Toilet\nSan Francisco to vote on naming sewer after George Bush\nby Guy Adams\nSome presidents get carved into Mt Rushmore; others have airports, motorways, and even entire cities named in their honour. But when George Bush leaves office, his most visible memorial may be a mouldering patch of human effluent.\nIn November, alongside casting their ballot for the next president, the people of San Francisco will also vote on a measure to rename one of the city's largest sewage works the George W Bush Sewage Plant, to provide a \"fitting monument\" to the outgoing commander-in-chief's achievements.\nActivists from the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco, a mischievously-named group behind the move, will ask supporters to participate in a \"synchronised flush\".\nIt may sound like a student prank, but the proposal is almost certain to be passed. Democrats usually secure between 70 and 80 per cent of the vote in San Francisco \u2013 and in 2006 passed a proposition to impeach Mr Bush and his Vice-President Dick Cheney by a majority of almost two to one.\n\"In 50 years from now, we want people to see George Bush's name on that plant, and ask each other what went wrong,\" said Brian McConnell, the Memorial Commission's organiser. \"We want them to be reminded of the Iraq war, and his other dramatic mistakes, and this is the perfect way to do it.\"\nThe ballot takes advantage of local government rules, which state that any proposal supported by a petition carrying the signatures of more than 7,168 voters must go to the polls. At present, the supporters of the sewage plant proposal claim to have 8,500 signatures, and counting. If the measure passes, city authorities will be forced to erect a prominent sign bearing the legend \"George W Bush Sewage Plant\" at the site of the bayside facility.\nLocal Republicans call it an \"abuse of process\" and promised to \"use all means\" to defeat it, Howard Epstein, the party's spokesman, told the San Francisco Chronicle: \"There's no use to this other than to make these nutcases feel good.\" The proposal even jollified yesterday's White House press briefing, where a spokesman three times refused to comment.\nHowever, Mr McConnell claimed to have only noticed two forms of opposition during his campaign so far. \"First, we get people who say they just want to forget George Bush's presidency,\" he said. \"Second, we hear from those who say that sewage plants perform a valuable public service and, as such, it does not make sense to name one after George Bush.\"\nthanks Erin and Mary\nMaya Angelou Prank Show\nParis processes\nParis finds God in jail\nCoyle & Sharpe: The Imposters Podcasts, Episodes 1, 2 & 3","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Work on fabricating Polavaram crest gates beginshttps:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/work-on-fabricating-polavaram-crest-gates-begins-4557497\/\nWork on fabricating Polavaram crest gates begins\nThe diaphragm wall which is 1,500 metres long, 120 mts wide and 40 and 100 metres deep would the world's biggest such wall when construction is complete.\nWritten by Sreenivas Janyala | Hyderabad | Published: March 6, 2017 9:47:31 pm\nThe fabrication and erection work of 48 crest gates of Polavaram Project, a multi-purpose irrigation dam, will start in November. About 300 metric tones of steel arrived today at the Gates Fabrication Centre at Polavaram Project site in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. By the end of April, another 2100 MT of steel will also arrive in a phased manner, around 15,000 MT of steel would be used to make the gates. The fabrication of the gates and installation would be completed by June 2018, sources said after Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu held a review meeting today. Fabrication work of the 48 massive gates for the dam across river Godavari will commence this week.\nWatch What Else Is Making News\nOn February 1, the construction of the diaphragm wall was started at the project site. The diaphragm wall which is 1,500 metres long, 120 mts wide and 40 and 100 metres deep would the world's biggest such wall when construction is complete.\nIn the first phase, 750 metres of wall would be constructed by June end after which work will stop during monsoon. The remaining 750 metres construction would start in December and completed by June 2018. The project is on schedule and the project may be completed by end of 2018 or early 2019, officials said.\nOn March 3, the Union Water Resources Ministry released Rs 1,981 crores funds for the Polavaram Project. The Centre will release nearly at total of Rs 3,000 crores for the project after it was accorded national project status, and Centre agreed to fund it through loans from Nabard. The Chief Minister also reviewed all the prioritized projects including Handri-Neeva Sujala Sravanthi Project, the longest canal project in Rayalaseema; Galeru Nagari Sujala Sravanthi project in Kadapa, and Veligonda, Vamsadhara.\nAs a hot summer is being predicted and drought like conditions may prevail in Rayalaseema region which receives very less rainfall, the AP Government today discussed the possibility of deploying \"mobile lifts'' to pump water to drought affected areas from the nearest water body.\n\"As part of the drought preparedness and mitigation plan for this summer, proposals are afoot to use mobile lifts to provide water to drought affected areas. A presentation was made by the officials today in the review meeting held on Polavaram,'' an official said.\nA pipeline network will be installed to lift water from rivers, canals or any surface water bodies. The mobile lifts will help in lifting of water from one place and pump to a water shortage area during this summer to mitigate drought. The pumps would either run on electricity or diesel depending on power availability. It has been decided to take up this project on a pilot basis in the districts of Ananatapur and Kurnool. Each unit of the mobile lift will cost nearly Rs 1.5 cores and can pump 1.4 cusecs of water. The pumped water can flow about 4 kilometers through gravity.\n1 Will go ahead with Kerala CM's Hyderabad meet: CPM tells BJP MLA\n2 SC pulls up Telangana for detaining 'saree' thief for one year\n3 Supreme Court asks BCCI's CoA to release funds to DDCA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What does LYJ stand for?\nLYJ stands for Libertad y Justicia (Spanish: Freedom and Justice; political party; Bolivia)\nSee other definitions of LYJ\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Libertad-y-Justicia-(Spanish%3a-Freedom-and-Justice%3b-political-party%3b-Bolivia)-(LYJ).html\">LYJ<\/a>\nMLA style: \"LYJ.\" Acronym Finder. 2021. AcronymFinder.com 17 Jan. 2021 https:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Libertad-y-Justicia-(Spanish%3a-Freedom-and-Justice%3b-political-party%3b-Bolivia)-(LYJ).html\nChicago style: Acronym Finder. S.v. \"LYJ.\" Retrieved January 17 2021 from https:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Libertad-y-Justicia-(Spanish%3a-Freedom-and-Justice%3b-political-party%3b-Bolivia)-(LYJ).html\nAPA style: LYJ. (n.d.) Acronym Finder. (2021). Retrieved January 17 2021 from https:\/\/www.acronymfinder.com\/Libertad-y-Justicia-(Spanish%3a-Freedom-and-Justice%3b-political-party%3b-Bolivia)-(LYJ).html\nLoving Yourself Girls Project\nLagos Youth Hostel (Lagos, Portugal)\nLove Your Hair (hair salon)\nLynchburg, VA, USA - Municipal Airport (Airport Code)\nLancaster-York Heritage Region (Pennsylvania)\nLoudoun Youth Initiative (Virginia)\nLatino Youth in Action (HIV prevention; New York; est. 1996)\nLove You in A Non-Faggot Way (offensive catchphrase popularized by radio DJ Bubba the Love Sponge)\nLetterkenny Institute of Technology (Ireland)\nLetterkenny Institute of Technology Students Union (Ireland)\nLove Your Jeans (jeans for teens & women)\nLuton Youth Jazz Orchestra (UK)\nLyndon Baines Johnson National Historic Park (US National Park Service)\nLiver Yin and Kidney Yin Deficiency\nLabor Youth League (various locations)\nLexington Youth Lacrosse (Lexington, MA)\nLive Your Life (band)\nLove You Later\nLove You Loads","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Monday Night Shooting, Man Charged, Ames Referendum\nMarch 12, 2014 by Erin Hegarty Filed Under: Neighborhood Aldermen, Crime\nOne Killed, One Wounded in Shooting Monday Night\nA 19-year-old man died Tuesday night after a shooting on the 1900 block of North Rockwell Ave. around 1:05 am that morning.\nBernard Catalan was shot in the head in the altercation, and a 23-year-old was also shot in the arm and leg. After the shooting, one of the victims drove their gold cadillac to the 14th District police station. The car had multiple bullet holes and sources say there was collision damage in the rear.\nPolice later found shell casings in the alley outside of 1913 N. Rockwell St.\nThe victims were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Bernard Catalan died at about 9:30 pm Tuesday, according to the Chicago Tribune.\nThe shooting is suspected to be gang-related. The victims were potentially Cobras, and the offenders are suspected Maniac Latin Disciples.\nLogan Square Man Charged in West Side Shootings\nA Logan Square man has been found guilty of fatally shooting another man on Chicago's west side Thursday, Feb. 27, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.\nAlexander Scott lived on the 2200 block of North Campbell and was arrested there two hours after the fatal shooting, the Sun-Times reported.\nScott was charged with the first-degree murder of Eric Woods of the 900 block of South Springfield Avenue. Woods, 25, was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Sun-Times.\nAmes Middle School Referendum on March Ballot\nA referendum that could help keep Ames Middle School (1920 N Hamlin Ave.) from its planned conversion into a military high school is on the ballot in eight precincts in the Logan Square area.\nThe Chicago Public Schools Board voted in 2013 to convert Ames to a military high school this fall. Plans would involve making the school selective-enrollment and expanding Kelvyn Park High School to make room for those who would attend Ames.\nParents, community members and local government officials strongly oppose the conversion of the school and have been organizing and protesting the change since it was first announced. The \"Save Ames Committee\" attended the Feb. 26 Chicago Board of Education meeting to stress the fact that the school is being converted without the support of community members or the families attending the school, Substance News reports.\nAlderman Moreno (1st ward) and Cook County Commissioner Edwin Reyes stand in opposition to the school's conversion while Alderman Maldonado (26th ward) is a strong proponent of the change.\nWoman Sexually Assaulted in Gangway\nThe Chicago Police issued a community alert after a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted Tuesday in an alley near Armitage Avenue & Pulaski Road, according to a Tribune staff report.\nThe woman was assaulted around 1:30 am after a man followed her and pulled her into a gangway, according to the report.\nThe man, who left the scene on bicycle after the crime, has been described as black, between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall, weighs between 165 and 185 pounds and has black hair. He was wearing a black and yellow jacket and blue jeans, according to the report.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Capitol Hill Trump rally organizer Ali Alexander goes into hiding, raises $20k on Christian crowdfunding site\nGrant Stern\nGrant Stern is an Editor-At-Large for OccupyDemocrats and published author.\u2026\nNewly elected Republican Congresswoman provokes standoff with Capitol Police over her bag\nThe public face of Trump's Stop the Steal rallies is using a Christian crowdfunding website to try and raise $40,000 for his personal expenses in the wake of the insurrection that the President incited with the crowd he organized with three Republican congressmen.\nNow, Stop the Steal \"official organizer\" Ali Alexander has gone into hiding after his repeated rhetorical calls for Trump supporters to \"1776\" the defeated President's enemies came to fruition in the worst way.\nApparently, it is costly to hide after one has given aid and comfort to an insurrection mob, so Alexander, the name-changing convicted felon also known as \"Ali Akhbar,\" is using GiveSendGo.com which bills itself as the \"#1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Site\" to keep raising money with a goal of $40,000.\nThe page entitled, \"Protection and Team for Ali\" has already raised $19,900 from 270 donors thus far. Its fundraising pitch reads (archive):\nAli Alexander and his patriotic, Christian work is being deplatformed by dark corporate forces and political opponents.\nPlease help Ali bring light to the world by finding a security and administrative team to be with him 24\/7.\nPlease help and let other patriots and believers know where to assist!\nAli Alexander is the leader of the Stop the Steal movement, which has hosted 1000+ peaceful protests over the past 10 weeks.\n\"The funds from this campaign will be received by Ali Akbar,\" reads the disclaimer at the top.\nAli Alexander has spent the last two months propagandizing his once vast MAGA following.\nAs his fundraiser says, he has recently been suspended on pretty much every social media platform for using his lies as the \"official organizer\" of the Jan. 6th \"Save America\" rally where he set the stage for Donald Trump's call to violence. Twitter erased his following of over 200,000 people on Sunday night, and Facebook banned him today.\nGiveSendGo's terms of service say that users will not \"use your GiveSendGo account for any illegal purposes\" and that users \"may not use the GiveSendGo service for activities that violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation related to\u2026 (d) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance.\"\nThe owners of GiveSendGo did not respond to requests for comment by email and their website form in time for publication in this story, including when asked if they plan to continue hosting Alexander Ali's crowdfunding campaign.\nHere's a screenshot of the fundraiser:\nH\/T: @jatesch18 for the tip.\ncrowdfunding insurrection\nGrant Stern is an Editor-At-Large for OccupyDemocrats and published author. His new Meet the Candidates 2020 book series is distributed by Simon and Schuster. He's also mortgage broker, community activist and radio personality in Miami, Florida., as well as the producer of the Dworkin Report podcast. Grant is also an occasional contributor to Raw Story, Alternet, and the DC Report, and a senior advisor to the Democratic Coalition\nGrant Stern January 12, 2021","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AIN'T NO GOOD MAN - Solo album by Lisa, featuring Irma Thomas & Cryil Neville. See her web site for more info.\nROCK YOUR GLO - first song by a new all girl pop group. Check it out here!\nLIFE. WHO KNEW? - the soundtrack to Lisa's\none-woman event. Get it on iTunes or buy a physical copy.\nGIVE A LITTLE GLO- first song by a new all girl pop group. Check it out here!\nWHICH ONE AM I? - A family album written for Backstreet Boy, Howie D. Get on iTunes or Amazon.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Insert your custom message here.\tclose \u00d7\nHerohill.com\n2 May 201305\/02\/13\nhttp:\/\/www.herohill.com\/2013\/02\/abdominal-and-the-obliques-sitting-music.htm\nThe finest in middle-aged hip-hop.\nThis one sentence disclaimer serves as the entire description on the bandcamp page for Sitting Music, the latest album from charismatic Toronto emcee Abdominal. Strictly speaking, as a 38 year old white dude who's been a lifelong hip hop enthusiast, anything described as \"middle-aged hip hop\" should be 100% up my alley.\nHowever, when I first heard about this album \u2013 with Abs stepping back from \"traditional\" hip hop and exploring a different storytelling style with backing from a two-man live band (The Obliques), I didn't want to like it. Don't get me wrong, I like Abdominal plenty. I pretty much loved his last album, and he seems like a really down to earth, sensible dude. And he loves chicken wings. I also love chicken wings! But my natural contrarian tendencies and my Cool Dad-ness had me feeling like his new steez (cool dad word!) wasn't for me. Well you can likely guess where we are heading here: once I actually listened to Sitting Music, I liked it.\nI liked it right from the jump off, getting drawn in by the organic Peter Piper-esque sounds of opener Inoutro, where Abs breaks down the long history hip hop has as a main component in his life. Frankly, the notion of an \"unplugged\" hip hop album has always been as appealing to me as watching Drake battle-rap his reflection for two hours, but Abdominal is the kind of MC that can carry a track on the strength of his lyrics and delivery alone. He could likely make the songs on offer here appealing even if there was no backing music at all (which is impressive when you consider that there's songs about organizing his sock drawer and the history of chicken wings). The instrumentation is key on this record though, as the well-placed guitar licks and sparse percussion elements (credited as a literal wooden box on the Bandcamp details) set the mood for Abs' laid back lamentations of failed love on songs like Broken or Hot Cross Buns.\nSo yeah, this is a mellow album, with Abs singing on a couple tracks and also bringing his Mom on board for a feature verse on Courage \u2013 not something you're gonna see on the average hip hop record. But, Abdominal doesn't want you to forget the MC portion of his stage name as he brings the lyrical gymnastics back to the fore on Don't Get It Twisted (parts 1 & 2), and teams up with everyone's fave Jurassic 1, Chali 2na for a traditional tag-team jam on Balance Both.\nYes, Sitting Music is different. But if you're over 35 and there aren't times when you'd welcome a step back from current, mainstream hip hop, then I am concerned for you. Take a break, put this record on and contemplate the condition of your own sock drawer for a while. It might do you some good.\n\u2039 From Toronto, a hip-hop salute to the chicken wing\nPot lista presents MC Abdominal: You just have to dig a bit deeper sometimes to find the good stuff! \u203a\nAbs on Facebook\nDesign by Agence KN","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Artificial photosynthesis uses CO2 drawdown for fuel\nBy Samantha Setta \u22c5 October 23, 2019 \u22c5 Post a comment\nFiled Under alternative energy, Carbon sequestration, solar panels\nReference: Patterson, B.D., Mo, F., Borgschulte, A., Hillestad, M., Joos, F., Kristiansen, T., Sunde, S. and van Bokhoven, J.A., 2019. Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(25), pp.12212-12219.\nDOI: 1902335116\nHow would removing CO2 help?\nWith global fossil fuel emissions, atmospheric CO2 production is drastically increasing with a current value of ~ 400 ppm. Heightened atmospheric CO2 results in higher global temperatures through the greenhouse effect, essentially trapping more and more heat as CO2 emissions rise. Atmospheric CO2 readily diffuses (or dissolves) into surface oceans, therefore the atmospheric CO2 concentration is very similar to the oceanic CO2. As oceanic CO2 increases, another important carbon species (bicarbonate) separates into a carbonate ion and free hydrogen ion. An increase in free hydrogen ions results in a decrease in pH, also known as Ocean Acidification. Several methods can be used to help reduce this effect by removing some of this atmospheric CO2 from the environment (CO2 drawdown). One method, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), captures, compresses and stores CO2 in geological features deep underground (IUPAC). While other methods are used to drawdown CO2 to use for fuel, one such method was evaluated by Patterson et al. (2019) to demonstrate the methods efficacy. If global drawdown and subsequent transformation into usable fuel works well enough, it could have a major effect on global atmospheric CO2 concentration and subsequently global climate change.\nAn artist's rendering from Patterson et al. (2019) of the 'floating islands' of solar panels (photo-voltaic cells) held together by concentric circles of tubing and ropes with a netted floor. The structure is floating and flexible allowing for durability in rough conditions. Methanol production would occur on a separate island or ship. Image Credit: Patterson, B.D., Mo, F., Borgschulte, A., Hillestad, M., Joos, F., Kristiansen, T., Sunde, S. and van Bokhoven, J.A., 2019. Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(25), pp.12212-12219.\nHow do you take CO2 and turn it into fuel?\nTaking CO2 from the environment and efficiently turning it into a usable fuel source requires three main steps, 1) Water desalination, (see surprise impacts of desalination post) 2) CO2 extraction, and 3) Fuel (methanol) production, using solar energy and technologies that currently exist. The authors propose using floating islands of solar panels (photovoltaic cells) to absorb energy to drive these processes (see floating island image).\nWater desalination is a critical step when dealing with seawater. Without this step the anode used to generate currents to extract CO2 is in competition with a common salt in seawater (chloride) that produces a corrosive chlorine gas. As a result of competition with this chlorine evolution reaction, efficiency of the anode and therefore the overall extraction process decreases. Desalination of seawater only requires 0.063% more energy than freshwater electrolysis. Another consideration during the desalination process is the build-up of insoluble magnesium chloride (Mg(OH)2) and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) that reduce the efficiency of the cathode. Some solutions include deionization or an acidic solution from the anode.\nAfter desalination extraction of CO2 from the seawater can occur. Because seawater CO2 is, for the most part, in equilibrium with atmospheric CO2, extracting CO2 from the seawater will also drawdown CO2 from nearby air. After desalination, extraction of CO2 from the seawater can occur. CO2 can be removed by heating or increasing the acidity of the water. There are several ways to do this relatively easily by manipulating membranes that only allow hydrogen ions (H+) to pass through. CO2 gas then diffuses and is collected using a vacuum pump. Because seawater CO2 is, for the most part, in equilibrium with atmospheric CO2, extracting CO2 from the seawater will also drawdown CO2 from nearby air.\nOnce the CO2 is extracted it is converted to methanol, a process that occurs more readily with increased temperature, pressure, and a catalyst. There are multiple technologies that can currently do this, therefore, there are multiple production options.\nThere are many considerations that must be taken into account when building these floating solar panel islands. Wave action must be low enough that the solar panels aren't frequently damaged in storms. Other restrictions include a maximum depth of 600 m and a low risk of hurricanes. After applying these limitations, only 1.5% of the world's oceans are viable for these floating islands (see map of areas where these floats could be deployed). However, if every part of the 1.5% of oceans was used for these floating solar panel islands, with a separation of ~ 300 m, the process would remove 12 gigatons of carbon\/year, surpassing the yearly emission of CO2. Even though the task seems daunting, creating even a few thousand of these floating islands would make an impact on global carbon emissions and help reduce global warming.\nImage from Patterson et al. (2019) showing areas of the ocean in which these floating islands could be deployed (pink). Image Credit: Patterson, B.D., Mo, F., Borgschulte, A., Hillestad, M., Joos, F., Kristiansen, T., Sunde, S. and van Bokhoven, J.A., 2019. Renewable CO2 recycling and synthetic fuel production in a marine environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(25), pp.12212-12219.\nWhat remains to be answered\nThe authors do mention a few problems that still need to be resolved before these islands can be produced, including mass production technical issues, construction techniques for long-term durability in the marine environment, and whether or not methanol fuel is the best choice long term. With continued research some of these questions can be answered, and because most of the technology in this paper is already in use, manufacturing these islands could happen relatively quickly. Hopefully this, and many other climate change mitigation technologies can be implemented soon to help reduce our impact on the environment.\nSamantha Setta\nI'm a PhD student in the Rynearson Lab at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO). My research interests are focused on human impacts on the oceanic ecosystem, particularly effects on the primary producers (phytoplankton) at the base of the food web. Currently, I work with cultures from regions of the ocean that are nutrient limited and will conduct experiments to investigate how these phytoplankton survive.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The National Guard is Small Town America's Contribution to War\nAt one time in 2005, a third of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were from the National Guard. And the Guard comes disproportionately from America's small towns, according to a report in the National Journal.\nBy dyadmin On Dec 20, 2007 Last updated Dec 27, 2007\nFrom right, U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Moranda Flemmer, North Dakota Army National Guard, Senior Master Sgt. Karen F. Erickson, North Dakota Air National Guard, and Spc. Misty Breland, North Dakota Army National Guard, carry a training casket during military funeral honor team training at the Armed Forces Reserve Center, Fargo, N.D., Aug. 17, 2007.\nPhoto: Senior Master Sgt. David H. Lipp\nMembers of the National Guard are serving in unusually large numbers in Iraq \u2014 and doing so for an unusually long time, according to an article this week by Sydney Freedberg in the National Journal.\nAnd those National Guard units come disproportionately from smaller towns, Freedberg reports. \"As a rule of thumb, the lower a state's population density and the lower its percentage of minorities, the higher the percentage of its population likely to be serving in the Army National Guard,\" Freedberg writes. \"Nationwide, the 350,000-strong Army Guard averages just below 12 soldiers per 10,000 people. In North Dakota, however, that ratio is 52 soldiers per 10,000; in California, it's only four.\"\nFreedberg continues: \"So although the Army National Guard is a consummately American institution, it does not reflect America as a whole. It reflects instead a certain slice of society from which it disproportionately draws, and on which the burden of Guard service disproportionately falls. Not all of America is at war.\"\n(Freedberg's findings help explain the disproportionate number of casualties suffered by small towns. In the Daily Yonder's study of deaths in Iraq , Bismarck, North Dakota, had one of the highest rates of casualties of any U.S. city. And the general trend in casualties was the same as Freedberg's analysis of National Guard membership: generally, the smaller the town, the higher the rate of casualties in the Middle East conflicts.)\nThe National Guard's presence in Iraq has been unusually large and is expected to go up next year, even as the total number of U.S. troops is slated to decline. Today, 46,000 National Guard troops are mobilized, according to Freedberg. That number is expected to rise by 10,000 next year.\nUnits from Arkansas, Indiana and Ohio will go to Iraq in early 2008. In the second half of the year, brigades from Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington will deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.\nSome 450,000 Guard members have been to Iraq or Afghanistan since the attacks of 9\/11. More than 800 Guardsmen have died.\nIn January of 2005, 34 percent of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan were from the Guard.\nThe Guard has a particularly strong place in a small town's social structure. \"In some communities, the local Guard unit is one of the major sources of social cohesion,\" University of Maryland military sociologist David Segal told Freedberg. \"Being in the Guard is how one earns one's bona fides as a member of the community.\"\nAs a result, said 1st Sgt. Darin Carlson, a 17 year veteran with the Indiana Guard, \"In the Guard, you get that local family feel, where those guys become close. Then when that unit goes, that town goes.\"\ndyadmin1950 posts 0 comments\nThe Top 50 Rural Counties in Campaign Contributions: 3rd Quarter\nWhose boy (or girl) are you?\nRural and Safety Net Hospitals Prepare for Cut in Federal Support\nCommentary: The End of Governing (Magazine)\nFunding for Critical Rural Programs Delayed by Congressional Inaction\nJay Inslee's Parting Gift: A Plan to Save American Farms","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"TIFF '15 \u2013 Day 1: Jorge Begins\nPosted by Jorge Ignacio Castillo | September 10, 2015 | Film\nWe Monsters\nThis is the sixth year I cover the Toronto International Film Festival and I'm getting jaded. I've always avoided the press conferences (most of the questions are mind-bogglingly stupid), but now even the roundtables annoy me (people trying to talk on top of each other, just to lay the most obvious inquires). One-on-ones are ideal, but also the rarest of beasts.\nIt doesn't seem there will be a Ben Affleck, a Marion Cotillard or a Ralph Fiennes for me this year. I've a fairly decent roster lined up, but nothing ground-breaking. At best, the fans of Ray Donovan (all the two of you) may get a kick of my interview with Liev Schreiber.\nWell, let's get this party started! (I've not been invited to any parties yet. Except the Toronto Film Critics Association one, which was full of critics.)\nWe Monsters (Germany, 2015): One of those terrific European thrillers more likely to be dumbed down and remade rather than distributed (subtitles are not that difficult, people), We Monsters is a tidy, mean spirited flick that lingers more than it's convenient. Paul and Christine are the divorced parents of a particularly horrific teen daughter. They have no idea how bad it is until she confesses killing her best friend in a fit of rage.\nThe hapless ex-couple decides to hide the misdeed, unaware their daughter has an agenda beyond the crime. The concealing of the murder has the devastating effect of a nuclear bomb, beginning with Paul and Christine's new partners, two decent people oblivious of the mess they were getting into.\nThe greatest trick We Monsters pulls is that it's firmly set in reality. The parents are normal, complicated adults thrown into a tailspin by a troubled daughter who is very much a teen nonetheless. Far from forced, the twists and turns the plot takes are feasible coming from regular folk, not criminal masterminds. Keep an eye on this movie. It may just make it. Three and a half prairie monsters.\nThe Lobster (UK\/Greece, 2015): It's hard to come up with new ideas for movies. Thankfully, we have the delightfully kooky Yorgos Lanthimos to provide us with new material. Lanthimos, who caused quite a stir in Cannes six years ago with the strange incest comedy Dogtooth, is back with a more \"accessible\" farce with bouts of absurdity and violence. Meet The Lobster.\nIn a society just like ours -only abstract to a fault- the natural state of a person is within the confines of coupledom. Single people (divorced, widowed, or just loners) are sent to a rehab facility in hopes to find their other half within 45 days. If unsuccessful, they are turned into the animal of his choice.\nThe Lobster follows David (Colin Farrell, delightfully deadpan) as he makes his way first as a patient and later as outsider (he joins a group of singletons hiding in the woods, not much nicer than the coupledom enforcers). The film demands tolerance for absurd humour and some brutality, but overall is quite successful at balancing the plot's disparate elements. While quite out there, the internal logic of The Lobster is flawless and its message (there are not rational solutions to emotional problems) is rather original, if kind of obvious. Four people reincarnated in prairie dogs.\nTomorrow I'll be interviewing at Barkhad Abdi, the Somali pirate who kidnaped Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips. I'll ask him about those Olsen twins rumours.\nPreviousAbout Yesterday's TL;DR Post On Paul Dearn\nNextFIBA Americas Championship","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"French and Riviera News Thursday 18th March 2021\nHealth situation is \"critical\" according to Head of State - French President Emmanuel Macron has called the health situation in France \"critical\". Speaking after Wednesday's defence council the Head of State said that \"additional measures\" would be taken to tackle the spread of Covid. New measures are to be announced in this evening's press conference at 6pm.\nPresident of the PACA region against lockdown measures - Meanwhile ahead of this evening's announcements the president of the Provence Alpes C\u00f4te d'Azur region Renaud Muselier, has reaffirmed his opposition to lockdown measures saying that \"no additional measure is justified for the region\". Muselier went on to say that the \"incidence rate is stable in the departments of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Bouches-du-Rh\u00f4ne, Hautes-Alpes, Var and Vaucluse, standing at between 220 and 330 depending on the region\" adding that \"in the Alpes-Maritimes, which has undergone 3 consecutive weekends of lockdown the incidence rate has dropped from 650 to 450 \" concluding that \"it will be necessary to lift the partial lockdown in the Alpes-Maritimes, as soon as the mapping of wastewater increases\".\nCovid figures - Figures for Covid from Public Health France on Wednesday showed that more than 38,000 cases of Covid were declared between Tuesday and Wednesday, a figure similar to those in November during the second wave. On the other hand, the pressure on the intensive care units has decreased very slightly, with 20 patients less than the day before. In total, 4,219 patients were in intensive care in hospitals on Wednesday. More than a quarter of these intensive care patients (1,161) are hospitalized in the Ile-de-France region. In the Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te-d'Azur 513 patients are currently in intensive care. The Covid-19 pandemic has killed 246 in hospitals in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll since the start of the pandemic to 91,437.\nMonaco \u2013 Six new cases of Covid were identified in Monaco on Wednesday bringing the total number of residents affected to 2,141. Forty-eight people are currently in hospital and 81 are being followed by the Home Monitoring Centre.\nVaccinations - Vaccinations continue to progress, despite the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday 15th March, pending a review by the European Medicines Agency of possible adverse effects associated with the vaccine. A total of 5,585,537 people have received at least one injection and 2,349,027 have received both doses. Meanwhile the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to restrict vaccine exports to countries not allowing reciprocal exports to the EU. She said that the EU had exported 10 million doses to the UK in the past 6 weeks, but the bloc is still waiting for doses from the UK.\nTravel within the EU this summer - Meanwhile the European Commission has presented a proposal that would allow those from the EU vaccinated or not \u2013 to travel freely across the 27-nation member states by the summer. The plan, announced on Wednesday, is due to be discussed next week during a summit of EU leaders and foresees the creation of vaccine certificates aimed at facilitating travel within the EU.\nThe topic is seen to be somewhat divisive with several member states, including France, arguing that it would be premature and discriminatory to introduce such passes as a large majority of EU citizens have not yet had access to vaccines.\nFinal vote on age of sexual consent - The French Senate is to take a final vote next week on a bill that would set the age of sexual consent at 15. Any sexual act below that age would be considered non-consensual and a criminal offence. Jail terms for convictions of incest would be raised to 18 years. The legislation also hopes to avoid incriminating legitimate links forged on the cusp of adolescence and adulthood. A so-called \"Romeo & Juliet\" clause adds a proviso that penalties only apply if \"the age difference between the adult and the minor (under 15) is at least five years\".\nBitcoin - The French government has auctioned off millions of euros worth of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin on Wednesday which were seized from hackers in 2019. The auction was held on behalf of the French Agency for the Recovery and Management of Seized and Confiscated Assets, a first of its kind in France. The tokens were seized from individuals linked to the GateHub trading platform hack.\nThomas Pesquet appointed commander of the International Space Station - PACA Region President Renauld Muselier has congratulated astronaut Thomas Pesquet on his appointment as commander of the International Space station saying that it's \"a source of great pride for our entire country\". The 43-year-old is the fourth European and the first French person to be appointed to the role.\n\"Courtesy at the Wheel\" week - It's \"Courtesy at The Wheel\" week this week in France, which aims to promote good behaviour amongst drivers. A survey has shown that 94% of French people believe that there should be more respect and kindness between road users.\nThe US Federal Reserve has forecast growth of 6.5 percent this year ,up from the 4.2 percent predicted in December as vaccination rates rise and government relief funds start to flow through the economy.\nAt the end of its two day policy meeting in Washington ,the Fed said that the outlook for the recovery in the labour market had brightened but that \"no one should be complacent\".\nThe US central bank did not move to increase borrowing costs which had been concerning some investors with most members of the Federal Open Markets Committee voting to keep interest rates at near zero until after 2023.\nFed chairman Jerome Powell said that he wanted to see proof of a more complete recovery before altering policies.\nThe central bank is also keen not to change course until it sees inflation on track at around 2 percent on a sustained basis.\nThe risk is that inflation rises more than forecasters expect which would put pressure on the Fed to act.\nThe dispute between the UK and the EU over coronavirus vaccines is deepening after the British government said that it would have to slow down its inoculation programme because of a lack of supplies.\nThe UK's National Health Service says that the short-term supply issues are down to a drop in \"inbound vaccines\" which has added to tension with Brussels over shipments.\nThe British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has gone as far to say that the EU is engaging in \"brinkmanship\" and that the \"world is watching\".\nThe European Union is getting increasingly frustrated that it seems unable to accelerate the pace of vaccinations in the bloc while the UK wants to maintain it success in inoculation after recording the continent's highest death-toll from the virus.\nThe setback in the EU has been exacerbated this week after several countries including France ,Germany and Italy halted the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine owing to a scare over blood clotting.\nThe European Medicines Agency which has consistently backed the AstraZeneca shot is to give an update on the situation today.\nOn Wednesday ,the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that \"all options\" were on the table including a limit on EU vaccine exports.\nAnd-The UK Shadow Business Secretary Ed Milliband has said that the government should nationalise Liberty Steel if necessary to prevent it from going to the wall.\nMr Milliband said that the situation at Liberty is \"urgent and worrying\" and that nothing should be off the table if it meant protecting jobs.\nLiberty operates 12 steel plants across the UK and employs 5,000 people.\nThe collapse of the firm's main financial backer ,Greensill Capital last week has sparked major concerns over the Liberty's future.\nMr Milliband said that the government should consider every possible option to save the firm and protect jobs which he said were vital for communities up and down the country.\nFootball-Chelsea are through to the quarter finals of the Champions League.\nThomas Tuchel's side beat Athletico Madrid 2-0 on the night to take the round of 16 tie 3-0 on aggregate.\nBayern Munich are also through after beating Lazio 2-1 to take the tie 6-2 on aggregate.\nIn the last 16 of the Europa League tonight Arsenal play Olympiakos leading 3-1 from the first leg.Spurs hold a 2-0 advantage going into the away leg of their tie against Dinamo Zagreb.It's 1-1 in the tie between AC Milan and Manchester United and Rangers are tied at 1-1 against Slavia Prague.\nIn the English Championship last night the leaders Norwich extended their lead at the top of the table to 10 points following a 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest. QPR beat Millwall 3-2.Barnsley were 3-1 winners at Wycombe Wanderers.Birmingham beat Reading 2-1.Blackburn and Stoke drew 0-0 and Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield drew 1-1.\nCricket-The 4th T20 international between India and England is being played in Ahmedabad later.\nEngland can win the 5 match series with victory today. Play starts at 2.30\nFrench time.\nRacing-The double Grand National winner Tiger Roll has claimed a 5th Cheltenham Festival victory after winning the Cross Country Chase on Wednesday.\nThe 11 year old ,ridden by Keith Donoghue won by 18 lengths from Easyland.\nThe feature race on Wednesday ,the Queen Mother Champion Chase was won by the 17-2 shot Put the Kettle on who beat Nube Negra by half a length and the odds on favourite Chacun Pour Soi who finished third.\nToday's feature race is the Paddy Power Stayers Hurdle over 2 miles and 7 furlongs.\nPaisley Park is the 7-4 favourite with Sire de Berlais at 4-1 and Vinndication and Flooring Porter at 7s.\nThe race is off at 5 past 4 French time.\nSunshine and showers this afternoon with light to moderate easterly winds.\nTop temperature 14 degrees.\nOvernight lows of 5-7 degrees with cloudy skies.\nFriday and the start of the weekend -Partially cloudy with highs of 12-14 degrees.\nA new study suggests that taking a short break can improve your productivity during a tough working day. Researchers found that a five-minute 'microbreak' is enough to improve mental sharpness and help employees fight fatigue.\nThe international survey found that when employees came to work tired they took more unscheduled microbreaks.\nHowever, stepping away from the computer throughout the day, even if just for a few minutes, helped them gather enough energy to complete tasks and improved their mood .\nThe team suggests making a cup of coffee or playing a game during this time to help you relax and take your mind off of work-related tasks.\nWorking facts\nPeople who don't take office politics seriously are more successful and efficient at work.\nAnd employees who have more control over the layout and design of their workspace are healthier and happier in the office.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Lobbyist For The Kremlin. Gerashchenko commented on the statement by the Italian Minister of Crimea and the Revolution\nMP predicts persistent attempts to remove European sanctions against Russia.\nThe Deputy speaker of Parliament and member of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE Irina Gerashchenko noted the growth of the Pro-Russian lobby in the government of Italy. She wrote about this in his Facebook after the scandalous statements of the Minister of internal Affairs of Italy.\n\"In Italy came to power the coalition agreement which says \u2013 the abolition of EU sanctions against Russia. And lobbyists of the Kremlin will do anything to lift the sanctions, they will test the EU's strength,\" writes Gerashchenko.\nThe MP said that the Ukrainian side and our allies will have to put a lot of effort to the European sanctions are not removed from Russia.\n\"We are expecting a difficult autumn and winter, the authorities, our diplomats will need a lot of strength to continue with the EU policy dialogue to sanctions that are tied to the implementation of the Minsk agreements\", \u2013 said the MP.\nIn the ribbon of the new treason \u2013 the Minister of the armed forces of Italy supported the Crimean \"referendum\" and dare dirty on the revolution of Dignity\u2026.\nPosted by Iryna Gerashchenko Friday, July 20 2018\nWe will remind, the interior Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini said he believes Crimea legally annexed by Russia and the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine a \"fake\" and \"financed\". And at the end of June, Italian Prime Minister opposed the automatic extension of sanctions against Russia. True Italian protest did not affect the decision of the EU \u2013 sanctions against the aggressor country was extended until the end of January 2019.\nGerashchenko\nthe revolution of dignity\n\u00ab \"No referendum at gunpoint\": Gerashchenko responded harshly with Putin on Donbas\nIn the area of environmental protection, the militants fired anti-tank missiles at the guards \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cadbury India Renamed Mondelez India Foods Limited\nINDIA - Cadbury India Limited, a subsidiary of Mondelez International Inc. has been renamed as Mondelez India Foods Limited.\nThe company said that change in name of Cadbury is in line with the gradual changeover of the name of all subsidiaries of Mondelez International globally.\nThe $35 billion global snacking powerhouse, Mondelez International is a world leader in biscuits, chocolate, gum, candy, coffee and powdered beverages in more than 165 countries.\nExplaining the new name, \"monde\" for world and \"delez for delicious, the company said that it is in line with the gradual changeover of the name of all subsidiaries of Mondelez International globally.\n\"With the change in name of the company, we conclude the process of transition that began over two years ago. We view this change as yet another milestone in this exciting journey of success and leadership,\" Manu Anand, managing director, Mondelez India Foods Limited said on April 21, 2014.\nThe company said that the change in name of the company will have no impact on the names or packaging of its popular products like Cadbury Dairy Milk, 5 Star, Gems, Bournville, Perk, Celebrations, Choclairs, Halls, Bournvita, Tang and Oreo, which will continue to be sold under the same brand names as before.\nThe only change consumers will experience is that the new name of the company will appear on the back of pack of the products, the company statement adds.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A scene from the documentary, \"America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie,\" to be shown June 4, 2022 in Davenport.\nNew Truth First Film Alliance event explores America's lost landscape\nby: Jonathan Turner\nPosted: May 26, 2022 \/ 07:30 AM CDT\nUpdated: May 26, 2022 \/ 10:26 AM CDT\nDirector\/writer David O'Shields will appear with his award-winning documentary \"America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie\" for a special Truth First Film Alliance event at the Figge Art Museum on Saturday, June 4 at 2 p.m.\nO'Shields will take part in a Q & A session following the 60-minute film in the museum auditorium, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. The special National Prairie Day event is free to the public and sponsored by Living Lands and Waters, Produce Iowa, and the Northwest Illinois Film Office.\nFilmmaker David O'Shields will participate in a talkback session following the June 4 screening by Truth First Film Alliance.\n\"America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie\" tells the rich and complex story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature in human history, according to a release from Truth First Film Alliance (TFFA).\nPrior to Euro-American settlement in the 1820s, one of the major landscape features of North America was 240 million acres of tallgrass prairie. But between 1830 and 1900, in the space of a single lifetime, the tallgrass prairie was steadily transformed to farmland. This drastic change in the landscape also brought about an enormous social change for Native Americans; in an equally short time their cultural imprint was reduced in essence to a handful of place-names appearing on maps, the release said.\n\"America's Lost Landscape\" examines the record of human struggle, triumph, and defeat that prairie history exemplifies, including the history and culture of America's aboriginal inhabitants.\nThe story of how and why the prairie was changed by Euro-American settlement is thoughtfully nuanced. The film also highlights prairie preservation efforts and explores how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem may serve as a model for a sustainable agriculture of the future. The extraordinary cinematography of prairie remnants, original score and archival images are all delicately interwoven to create a powerful and moving viewing experience about the natural and cultural history of America, the release said.\nDavid O'Shields on location with crew filming the award-winning 2005 documentary \"America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie.\"\nRelated Local 4 News Content\nFamous Iowa native art rescuer is subject of documentary \u2026\nThe film features writer Dayton Duncan (Ken Burns' \"Country Music,\" \"Muhammad Ali,\" \"Civil War,\" among others), actress Annabeth Gish (\"The X Files,\" \"Law and Order,\" \"Nixon\") as the film's narrator; and Native American writer\/actor John Trudell (\"Smoke Signals,\" \"Thunderheart,\" \"Incident at Oglala\") as the voice of Sauk leader and warrior Black Hawk.\nWes Jackson of The Land Institute, biologist Laura Jackson, linguist Jerome Kills Small, historian Anton Treuer, landscape historian Lance Foster, writer Richard Manning, and Nina Leopold Bailey and Carol Leopold \u2014 two of Aldo Leopold's children \u2014 were interviewed for the film.\n\"America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie\" was produced by David O'Shields, and executive producer Daryl Smith. The film received the prestigious Pare Lorentz Award from the International Documentary Association Awards in 2005.\nAwards for the film\nIt won the CINE Golden Eagle Award, Best Eco-Cinema from the Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival, the Katherine A. Knight Award at the EarthVision International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Merit Award from the International Wildlife Film Festival, Best of Festival at the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival, and the CINE Focus Award at the Montana CINE International Film Festival.\nThe documentary is narrated by Annabeth Gish.\nO'Shields' film work has been broadcast and distributed in the U.S. on national PBS and Netflix, and broadcast internationally in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.\nHe regularly serves on film festival juries, and from 2009-2014, served as a cultural ambassador and film expert for the U.S. State Department's American Documentary Showcase. He is an adjunct instructor, and the documentary filmmaker in residence, at the University of Northern Iowa. His new documentary on artist Gary Kelley will premiere in October 2022.\nThe June 4 event is the second public program hosted by TFFA, a non-profit organization that supports and encourages the production and exhibition of documentary films, and narrative films based on true stories, through public presentations and educational programs in the Quad Cities region.\nFor more information, visit TruthFirstFilmAlliance.org.\nOur Quad Cities Breaking News\nFind things to do on our calendar\n'It was horrible': Nearly 200 dogs rescued","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Report Reception Problems\nRadio Staff\nEntertainment | Arts | local | NW Life | State of Wonder\nBuster Keaton's Oregon-Filmed 'The General' Tours State With A New Score\nby Aaron Scott Follow OPB Aug. 6, 2016 8 a.m. | Updated: Aug. 15, 2016 10:57 a.m.\nBuster Keaton stars as Johnny Gray in his 1926 silent film \"The General,\" which was filmed in Cottage Grove, Oregon. To celebrate its 90th birthday, the Hollywood Theatre has commissioned an original live score to tour the state.\n, starting at the Hollywood on Aug. 12 and stopping in Cottage Grove (Aug. 13), Coos Bay (Aug. 14), Bend (Aug. 16) and Klamath Falls (Aug. 17), before returning to the Hollywood on Aug. 19 & 20.\n\"I think Keaton's humor is like no other,\" says Orton of why he chose to take on the project. \"He can do more with the absence of expression in terms of humor than people do with all the craziest antics and gesticulations.\"\nOrton first became a fan of Keaton's films in his 20s while working as an audio engineer for the Bill Frisell Trio, which toured Frisell's own scores to some of Keaton's films. Orton has since made a name for himself as a member of Tin Hat, an eclectic ensemble that makes the kind of music NPR listeners love, and then as a composer for films, documentaries and performances. He has sound-tracked everything from Alexander Payne's \"Nebraska\" to Ken Burns's \"The Roosevelts\" and episodes for \"This American Life.\"\nFor our radio feature above, Orton gave us a tour of his studio, which is packed full of antique instruments, including Civil War period pieces like a field organ and a minstrel banjo, before taking us through how he composed the score.\n\"You can score a Buster Keaton movie or any film and have it turn into a cartoon,\" says Orton. \"You don't want it to be 'Tom and Jerry.' That's not what he was after. His humor is much more subtle and complex.\"\nOver the years, Orton has visited many of the Cottage Grove sites in \"The General.\" Keaton, who also wrote and directed the movie, chose to film it in small, Oregon town because it had a certain old-timey, Southern feel during the 1920s, plus a stretch of low-traffic tracks for all the train chase scenes. He employed some 500 Oregon Guard members as extras to play both Union and Confederate soldiers in the climactic battle (you can find a local history here).\nFor those who want to retrace Keaton's steps, the Cottage Grove Historical Society has scheduled a number of August events in and around the town to celebrate.\nOregon High School Recognized For Inclusivity\nREBROADCAST: Colson Whitehead\nWashington Legislature | Inclusive Sports | Pay To Play?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Unique Interiors\nThe region's most acclaimed modern & contemporary furniture store destination\nGet Directions (856) 665-1911 Email Us\nArtisan House\nJerry Fels and Kurt Freiler's shared passion for creative development and design became apparent soon after they met in the 1940s. Freiler, a German immigrant and manufacturing ace with a knack for reinventing the use of tools, and Fels, a New York-based artist, quickly became friends and, soon after, began taking their first steps to securing a successful business future together. Having found their talents a natural match, the pair collaborated and launched Artisan House in 1964. Very successful in their venture, the firm quickly became known for its collection of eclectic, decorative wall d\u00e9cor. More than 70 years later, the company is largely popular amongst vintage art dealers and collectors, has caught the attention of leading designers, like Michael Payne and Jonathan Adler, and offers its discerning clients an ever-evolving roster of more than 350 pieces.\nC. Jer\u00e9 byArtisan House\u00ae, designers and crafters of unique, fine-quality metal sculptures for wall, floor and tabletop, has attained an enviable position in the home and commercial decor marketplace. The firm has successfully closed the gap between pricey offerings from exclusive art galleries and mass-produced decorative pieces by creating original sculptures with unparalleled designs at affordable prices. The result infuses today's indoor and outdoor environments with dazzle and dimension.\nC. Jer\u00e9 byArtisan House wall sculptures elevate the look of any room or outdoor setting thanks to a comprehensive array of designs showcasing multi-colored, cool and warm tones; nature-themed pieces with earthly inspirations; and sculptures reminiscent of activities that relax, excite or inspire. Tabletop and freestanding floor pieces also make dynamic statements in the home or out-of-doors.\nSee some of Artisan House's latest designs below\u2026\n1604 Marlton Pike West (Rt. 70)\nWhy Visit Us?\nAt the Unique Interiors furniture store showroom, browse more than 60 modern and contemporary furniture vignettes spread across 13,000 square feet. Each setting showcases the quality, comfort, durability and styling of the best names in sofas, chairs, sectionals, sleeper beds, dining sets, bar tables, bedrooms, and so much more. If you can't visit us, please remember that we ship to any destination in the United States.\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 \u00b7 Unique Interiors, All Rights Reserved. Website Design and Development by GetPhound.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News \/ Local\nRevealed: How Aberdeen's broadband speeds compare to the rest of the UK\nby Pauric Clerkin\n23\/01\/2019, 7:00 am Updated: 23\/01\/2019, 5:30 pm\nParts of the north-east are lagging behind other areas of the UK when it comes to broadband connection.\nA study by consumer group Which? evaluated the broadband speed in local authority areas across Scotland, England and Wales.\nWith an average broadband speed of 10.1 megabits per second (Mbps), Aberdeenshire was found to be the sixth-slowest place out of 32 local authority areas in Scotland.\nOrkney (at 3Mbps), Shetland (6.7Mbps), Argyll and Bute (7Mbps) and Moray (7.1Mbps) were also recorded as having the slowest internet connections in the UK. Other areas with slow speeds were the Highlands (8.9Mbps) and the Borders (9.3Mbps).\nMeanwhile, Aberdeen was said to have a typical speed of 13.5Mbps.\nHow the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire compare to rest of the UK\nWhich? have created the below table to allow you to see at a glance how your region performs.\nYou can either search for a region specifically using the tool, or select the column headers to sort the results.\nRussell Borthwick, chief executive of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, said: \"The north-east enjoys better connectivity than many other locations across Scotland but we also have big digital ambitions.\n\"The \u00a367 million investment into state of the art digital infrastructure, powered by a partnership between Vodafone and City Fibre, will make the Aberdeen City Region one of the best-connected cities on the planet by 2021.\"\nThe research by Which? suggests internet users in some areas could struggle to carry out online banking or use streaming services due to slow internet.\nKeep up to date with the latest news with The Evening Express newsletter\nCouncillor Douglas Lumsden, co-leader of Aberdeen City Council and convener of the city growth and resources committee, said: \"We recognise the importance of digital infrastructure in realising our ambitions for Aberdeen as a global city \u2013 with the council making significant investment and also establishing partnerships that are attracting major private sector investment.\n\"Through partnership working with CityFibre and Vodafone, a \u00a340m project to make Aberdeen the country's first gigabit city is well under way.\"\nWest Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde and Dundee have the fastest broadband speeds, the research suggested.\nEdinburgh was said to have a regular speed of 17.1Mbps and Glasgow 16.2.\nAlex Neill, from Which?, said: \"It's incredibly frustrating that so many Scots are still struggling to get a good broadband connection when so many of us rely heavily on the internet to carry out important everyday tasks.\n\"The Scottish Government must now press ahead with plans to provide 100% of the homes in Scotland with a decent broadband connection and make sure that no-one is at a disadvantage because of where they live.\"\nThe Scottish Government said delivering high-speed broadband in rural areas like Aberdeenshire was more challenging but it was making good progress.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CSJ weekly athletics roundup\nRUTLAND\u2014College of St. Joseph Athletics got back into action this weekend after a short Thanksgiving break. Both Men's and Women's basketball traveled to powerhouse Central Maine Community College to take on the Mustangs on Nov. 27.\nThe women suffered their first loss of the season, dropping their overall record to 4-1.\nThe men also fell short against Central Maine, putting the team at 3-4 overall on the season after losing their last two games. Here is a closer look at the two games played over the past week.\nThe Lady Saints were defeated 82-62 by the Central Maine Mustangs on Sunday, Nov. 27. The victory for Central Maine increases their overall record to a perfect 10-0, good enough for first place in the USCAA Women's Basketball Division II standings.\nThe Lady Saints were led by reigning USCAA and YSCC Player of the Week Freshmen Jacobie Maupin-Alexander. She scored a game-high 19 points and also pulled down six rebounds. Junior Alexius Brooks also had a solid game for CSJ. She dominated the glass, fighting for a game-high 18 rebounds and making two blocks on the defensive side of the ball.\nBrooks added eight points and two steals as well, showing off her ability to affect the game in a number of ways.\nAlthough the Lady Saints lost the game, they still have a few things to hang their hat on. They out-rebounded and scored more points in the paint than the Mustangs. CSJ also missed 16 free throws throughout the game, going an abysmal 15 of 31 from the charity stripe.\nIf they could have made a few more of those, they would have kept the game much closer and may have been within striking distance towards the end of the game.\nThe Fighting Saints were defeated 70-59 by the Central Maine Mustangs on Sunday. The victory improves the Central Maine Mustangs overall record to 7-3 and a 3-0 conference record.\nSophomore Jonathan Brioso helped keep the game close for CSJ, leading his team in both points and rebounds. He was able to score 15 points and pull down a game-high 13 rebounds. but that was not enough to compete with the well-rounded attack of the Central Maine Mustangs.\nSophomore Darrien White was the only other player on the Saints to score in double-figures, finishing the game with 12 points.\nThe Saints fought back in the second half after going down 43-29 heading into the break. They outscored the Mustangs 30-27 after halftime, but it was not enough. Central Maine had developed too big of a lead in the first half and CSJ eventually ran out of gas. The Saints had more points in the paint than Central Maine but lost the rebounding battle 50-38.\nThe main reason is that CSJ shot only 22.7 percent from three-point range and 28.6 percent on free throws, putting many rebounds up for grabs.\nThe Saints missed 15 free throws and that crushed their chances of making a comeback.\nCSJ weekly athletics roundupRutland\nStress relief and immortality\nRutland Fire Department responds to smoke on Center Street downtown","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Daniell\nAndyMetalFreak\ncitron666\nClaudric\nDbh 20\nDefunctus\nDoomus\ndream2405\nedospen\nElisyon\nF3ynman2000\nfemboykirby\nFly Cavanagh\nLifelikeAdvisor\nManiacbrignac\nSamer1988\nsempiternus\nSenor Andy\nTasos M\nTelefonuBitenarj\nValstajn\nVOIVOD473\nVunts\nThroes Of Dawn - New Label, New Album In August\nFinally some news for the fans of Throes Of Dawn. The Finnish metallers are now ready to release a new album, their first since 2010's The Great Fleet Of Echoes. Our Voices Shall Remain, the new record, is scheduled to be released on the 20th of August 2016 on their new label Argonauta Records, and consists of seven tracks, with a total running time of 67 minutes. The band will have a special live show in Romania, at the Dark Bombastic Evening to celebrate the album release. The new sounds are coming!\nAfter a few changes in the line-up, the band wanted to take things further and started to compose music with a new approach.\n\"We wanted to do things differently,\" says Henri Koivula, one of the founding members of the band. \"We wanted to follow intuition and see where the music takes us. We built these songs mostly together at the rehearsal place by doing a lot of experimentation and repetition. It was very exciting and rewarding to see how the songs evolved and formed.\"\nHenri adds: \"We are very proud of this album, it has taken many years to complete. At the same time we are also very relieved to finally share this music with the listeners.\" When asked about the collaboration with Argonauta records, Henri replies: \"We are very fortunate that we found Gero and Argonauta Records, everything has gone smoothly right from the start. Gero knows his stuff, and what this music is all about. We look forward to the future collaboration with Argonauta Records.\"\nBand profile: Throes Of Dawn\nPosted: 23.05.2016 by BloodTears\n\u2039\u2039 Back to News\nSoUnDs LiKe PoP\nLast album was an epic fall from grace for the band, IMO.\nFor those of you unfamiliar with this band, do yourselves a favor and check out the album \"Quicksilver Clouds.\" It's one of the finest melodic extreme metal albums I've ever listened to (but skip track 1, it's kinda meh).\nI lift weights and listen to metal\nJeeers\nFrom: Latvia\nLast album was a masterpiece!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Begg, Jean\nK\u014drero: Begg, Jean\nNg\u0101 whakaahua me ng\u0101 rauemi katoa o t\u0113nei k\u014drero\nJean Begg, May 1931\nBegg discussing her social work in New York\nWelfare worker and administrator, feminist\nI tuhia t\u0113nei haurongo e Sandra Coney, \u0101, i t\u0101ngia tuatahitia ki Ng\u0101 T\u0101ngata Taumata Rau i te 2000.\nJeannie Begg was born on 7 October 1886 at Port Chalmers, one of 10 children of Scottish parents Eliza Johnstone and her husband, John Begg, a tanner and rug-maker. Her close-knit Presbyterian family considered her the most dynamic and boisterous of the children (her mother put this down to her having been breast-fed by a local prostitute when her own milk failed). Usually known as Jean, she attended North-East Valley School (1893\u201399) and Otago Girls' High School (1900\u20131904), then enrolled for a BA at the University of Otago.\nIn 1908, one year short of attaining her degree, Begg decided to become a missionary and enrolled at the Presbyterian Women's Training Institute in Dunedin. In December 1910 she sailed to American Samoa, where she taught at Atauloma Girls' School and ran a daily health clinic. She quickly had to learn how to deliver babies, working with an obstetrics manual by her side. She earned the love and respect of many Samoans and developed a keen understanding of cultural differences.\nAfter nearly nine years at Atauloma, Begg was impatient for new challenges. Through her contact with Jane Addams of Hull House, a model settlement in the slums of Chicago, she studied at the School of Social Work associated with Columbia University, New York. Supporting herself by working as a waitress, English teacher and factory worker, she also studied sociology at the university. She completed a thesis on Inwood House, a bleak reformatory for delinquent young women, proposing that it be sold and the inmates rehabilitated within the community. She argued that girls should be taught to fight temptation where it occurs \u2013 in the community \u2013 rather than behind closed doors and walls. To her amazement the board of the house employed her to implement her progressive plan. She also spent time working with women police and probation officers in New York.\nBy 1923 physical exhaustion forced Jean Begg to return to New Zealand. She wrote a report on child welfare for the government, gave evidence to the 1924 Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders in New Zealand, and in 1929 was appointed to the Eugenics Board. Generally, she favoured segregation of the mentally ill, but urged that each case be treated individually, and maintained that those who did not display 'anti-social tendencies' could, if sterilised, lead useful lives in the community. She also arranged the women's court at the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin in 1925\u201326.\nIn 1926 Begg was recruited to become general secretary of the Auckland YWCA, beginning a long association with the organisation both within New Zealand and internationally. Building on the work of her predecessor, Jean Stevenson, she transformed the YWCA into a focal point for many Auckland girls. She completed the fund-raising for a large hostel next to Myers Park and was instrumental in the purchase of the Holiday House at Blockhouse Bay, where working girls could vacation by the sea. Her story-telling ability, energy and willingness to treat everyone equally made her popular and even revered by those who came into contact with her.\nA big woman, forthright but good humoured, she was never daunted by the size of any task. By 1928 Begg supervised a paid staff of 13, and the organisation had 150 volunteers and a paid membership of nearly 2,000. She also fostered the formation of women's sports organisations, working with like-minded women to establish hockey, cricket and athletics clubs in the city and to obtain a sports ground for their use in Remuera.\nJean Begg championed feminist causes and challenged women to become involved in commerce, civic life and politics, chastising them for being 'apathetic'. She became a vice president of the Auckland branch of the National Council of Women of New Zealand and attended a number of national conferences. In 1930 she led the New Zealand delegation to the Pan-Pacific Women's Association conference in Honolulu, and on her return home initiated the formation of a New Zealand branch. Although many of her colleagues in women's organisations were conservative, she was egalitarian in her approach. She believed that as New Zealand was a democratic society 'anything that tends towards class distinction should be done away with', and she spoke out against the privilege of private schools.\nIn 1931 Begg left New Zealand to take up the post of YWCA national general secretary for India, Burma and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). She travelled all over her territories and attended an All-India Women's Conference at which 3,000 women united to oppose child marriage. In 1940 she was recruited by Clementine Churchill to take on the special position of director of the British YWCA's war services. Her task was to provide recreational facilities for allied servicewomen and nurses serving in the Middle East and North Africa. She eventually developed a network of 65 clubs, stretching from Italy, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq to India, Burma and Japan. With her formidable organisational abilities she requisitioned some of the most luxurious hotels and palaces for YWCA clubs, although no alcohol was served. She recruited many of the women who ran the clubs from the New Zealand YWCA.\nIn 1945 Jean Begg was asked to set up welfare services in Singapore for internees being liberated from Japanese camps. She immediately took over the famed Raffles Hotel \u2013 much to the annoyance of some male military officers. In 1946 she turned down the position of national general secretary of the New Zealand YWCA, claiming that she was too old and 'worn-out'. Instead she went to Japan to rebuild the YWCA there. In the wake of the war there was much anti-Japanese sentiment, but she called on her helpers to treat the Japanese people with respect and fairness. For her war services Begg was appointed an MBE (1943), OBE (1946) and CBE (1948).\nFollowing her time in Japan she spent three years revitalising Helen Graham House, a large YWCA hostel in London with a multinational clientele of over 350. Begg returned to New Zealand in 1952, and two years later was appointed a justice of the peace. She worked first for the YWCA in Hamilton and then as a CORSO organiser in Wellington, retiring in 1956. She had never accumulated wealth, but Bernard Freyberg organised a war pension for her and she was bequeathed a house in Dunedin by her friend Ann Strong, a pioneer of home science in New Zealand. Jean, who never married, lived there with two elder sisters for the rest of her life.\nIn 1967 Jean Begg was delighted when the Auckland YWCA named a hostel for university students after her. Three years later she attended a reunion in her honour in Auckland and went on to Samoa to renew acquaintances there. She died in Dunedin on 15 February 1971. She was accorded a military funeral and her ashes were buried in the soldiers' cemetery at Andersons Bay, Dunedin.\nSandra Coney. 'Begg, Jean', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https:\/\/teara.govt.nz\/mi\/biographies\/5b19\/begg-jean (accessed 21 January 2022)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. \u2014 D.H. Lawrence\nCategory Archive 'Cory Booker'\n\"Candidates Propose Changes To Fix Flaw In Constitution That Allows Republicans To Be Elected\"\nBabylon Bee, Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker, Democrats, Elizabeth Warren, Satire, US Constitution\nBabylon Bee:\nA number of Democrats have proposed changes to the structure of government that they think would help them win, such as lowering the voting age to 16, abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, and changing how Senate seats are allocated. Now, though, some of the Democratic presidential hopefuls are attacking the heart of the matter: what they call an \"outdated Constitution\" that sometimes \"allows Republicans to be elected.\"\n\"The election of Trump exposed a fundamental flaw in the Constitution,\" Senator Elizabeth Warren said at a campaign rally. \"Everyone said Hillary was supposed to win, but she didn't. And we're afraid that in the future, maybe Democrats won't win again. We can't allow that.\"\nWarren and numerous other Democrats have proposed an amendment to the Constitution that will state that only Democrats are allowed to win elections, a proposal they say will increase election \"fairness.\"\n\"When I think about someone other than a Democrat being elected,\" said Senator Cory Booker, \"it makes me so mad.\" He then raised his fists and shook them, a gesture indicating he was mad. Candidate Beto O'Rourke also spoke out for the proposed amendment, though all he got out was, \"It's a great\u2013\" before skateboarding into a tree and quickly fleeing the scene of the incident.\nRTWT\nBy JDZ\n2 Comments | Permalink\nYour are browsing\nthe Archives of Never Yet Melted in the 'Cory Booker' Category.\nWelcome to NEVER YET MELTED\nAnother Right-Wing Web Aggregator and Purveyor of Unpopular Opinions\nDavid Zincavage\ncontact: jdz@usa.net\nblog advertising is good for General Bullmoose and good for the USA.\nBackend: WordPress 5.3.2 | Theme via: Law-Blog | Appearance inspired by: A List Apart | Hosting by: Hostica","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Digital Skills for Library Staff & Researchers\nMaria Rehbinder works with Intellectual Property related legal questions concerning copyright, trademarks and design right. She advises on legal questions related to research data and personal data, and works with issues related to open science, open access publishing and open data.\nShe drafts agreements concerning copyright and other intellectual property, has responsibility for her university's trademark portfolio in the role of in-house counsel, participates in the drafting of copyright policies and intellectual property strategy, co-operates with stakeholders regarding intellectual property questions, and advises start-up companies on intellectual property issues.\nMaria serves as a member in the Copyright Commission and the Copyright Council of the Ministry of Education and Culture and as a member in the Rights ManagementCommittee of Open Research and Science 2014-2017 initiative of the ministry. She works for Art University Copyright Advisory service provided by Aalto University and University of the Arts Helsinki, and advises Metropolia UAS.\nI lecture on copyright, intellectual property and legal matters related to open access publishing, research data management and personal data and open science issues. In my work I see in practice how European copyright law harms use of research data and the open science goals of EU. I feel that copyright law has to be amended to enable research and innovation, both as a person working with researchers and innovators and as a mother of two teenagers, whom I hope can work in a flourishing Europe. EU copyright legislation has become a tool to support only one industry, commercial publishing, and I want to participate in the advocacy of universities and research libraries.\nWanted: New Members for the Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group\nPlan S: LIBER Calls on Libraries to Share Successes & Challenges On the Road to Compliance\nLIBER's Innovative Metrics Working Group: Achievements So Far & Upcoming Work\nOpen Science Essentials: Towards a Skill Set and Showcases at LIBER 2019\nMeet LIBER's New Executive Board Members & Working Group Chairs\nCase Studies on European Open Science Skilling and Training Initiatives\nLIBER Leads Organisation of Open Science Trainer Bootcamp\nWorkshop: \"How Research Institutions and Libraries can help deliver the European Open Science Cloud\" \u2013 Registration is open!\nEUDAT Conference: Putting the EOSC Vision Into Practice\nLIBER presents at Open Access Belgium Event\nSome highlights from the ILIDE 2017 conference\nWould you like to get involved with LIBER, or do you have questions? Send us a message. We'll be happy to help.\nEUROPE'S RESEARCH LIBRARY NETWORK\nIn collaboration with our network of 400+ research libraries in over 40 European countries, LIBER is Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age. We have a strong vision for the role of research libraries in 2022, based on Innovative Scholarly Communication, Digital Skills and Services, and Research Infrastructure. Join LIBER\nABOUT US STRATEGY ACTIVITIES NETWORK PRESS CENTRE CONTACT US SITEMAP\nc\/o Koninklijke Bibliotheek\n(National Library of the Netherlands)\n2509 LK The Hague\nEmail: liber@kb.nl\nCopyright LIBER\nAll site content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.\nThis is in line with LIBER's Open Access Publication Guidelines. See also: LIBER's Privacy Policy and Takedown Policy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Economist and Innocentive Inc Announce Winner For Climate Change Challenge\nSource: The Economist\nThe Economist and InnoCentive, Inc. have announced the winner of their Reverse Climate Change Challenge. Mario Rosato, founder of Sustainable TechnologiesSL, was awarded $10,000 and presented his winning plan at The Economist's Ideas Economy: Intelligent Infrastructure Event on February 16-17. The Challenge, which prompted the opening of more than 600 project rooms and received more than 70 submissions on the InnoCentive website, asked participants to identify promising ideas for the biological capture and sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.\nRosato's plan involves extracting energy from organic wastes without releasing carbon dioxide emissions, and recovering nitrogen to boost the growth of the giant bamboo, which can replace trees for timber and paper making. Energy can be recovered from organic wastes by a controlled fermentative process called dark fermentation. This yields hydrogen as a final product, which can be used to produce electricity using only water vapor as a combustion product. The sludge and water remaining after dark fermentation contain high amounts of carbon and nitrogen, and act as natural fertilizers for the giant bamboo.\nMario Alejandro Rosato\"This Challenge allowed us to identify a new and innovative solution for fighting climate change,\" said Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global correspondent for The Economist. \"Mario Rosato's plan could play an important role in the future, and we were pleased that he could join us at The Economist's Ideas Economy: Intelligent Infrastructure event to explain his plan in further detail and to present it to the larger community.\"\n\"Climate change is a problem that matters to every living creature on this planet.\" said Dwayne Spradlin, CEO of InnoCentive. \"In Mario's solution, we have a powerful new tool to combat this problem, which couples naturally growing and safe materials with attractive economics to put forward an efficient, scalable, and practical approach. We are very excited that through our partnership with The Economist, the solution will actually be seen by the people who can advance the solution.\"\nThe winner was chosen by The Economist-InnoCentive Challenge advisory board which consists of Stewart Brand, co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network; Michael E. Driscoll, founder of Dataspora LLC and co-founder of Metamarkets; Drew Endy, assistant professor of Synthetic Biology at Stanford University; Allen Norren, vice-president of online marketing at O'Reilly Media; and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, global correspondent for The Economist.\nMore About Green Business from The Green Living Guy\nDon't We All Need To Print Responsibly? I already am!\nA Lot To Say, Inc \u2013 Yes They Do! Apparel that is all recycled plastic and feels amazing to the touch\nGreen Living Guy talks business with Marissa Feinberg, Co-Founder of Green Spaces and Executive Director of Green Leaders Global\nUltrafabrics is Everywhere and it's got the Green Guard Seal of Approval.\nTop Five Signs Green Jobs Will Improve Our Economy \u2013 Greenopia Story\nPrevious Post: The Secret is Out: The Fruit of the Coffee Bean is One of Nature's Most Powerful Antioxidants\nNext Post: Green Living Express!! The New Lexus CT Hybrid EV is Efficient and Sustainable","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability\nPing Wang, Rui Qing Fan, Yu Lin Yang, Xin Rong Liu, Peng Xiao, Xin Yu Li, Wuliji Hasi, Wen Wu Cao\nCenter for Computational Mathematics and Applications (CCMA)\nOne-dimensional to three-dimensional lanthanide coordination polymers 1-8 based on benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid (H3BIDC) have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions at different pH values, generally formulated as {[Pr(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H2O)]\u00b7H 2O}n (1), [Yb(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H 2O)2]n (2), and [Ln(HBIDC)(ox) 0.5(H2O)3]n [Ln = Ho (3), and Tb (4)] and {[Ln(H2BIDC)(HBIDC)(H2O)3] \u00b73H2O}n [Ln = Tb (5), Sm (6), Dy (7), and Gd (8), H2ox = oxalic acid]. All coordination polymers have been characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structural diversity, luminescence and thermal properties of all coordination polymers have been investigated. Coordination polymers 1-8 exhibit four different structural types: topological analysis has given the 3-D pcu network, with the point symbol of {412\u00b763} in coordination polymer 1. Coordination polymer 2 exhibits a 4-connected 4 4 topology, and coordination polymers 3-4 appear as 2-D (6,3)-connected hcb network topology. The 1-D helical infinite chain of coordination polymers 5-8 around the crystallographic 21 axis spread along the b axis direction, with different 1-D helical infinite chains forming 3-D supramolecular framework via hydrogen bonds and \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking interactions. The coordination polymers 4 and 5 could be triggered to have intense characteristic lanthanide-centered green luminescence under UV excitation in the solid state at room and liquid nitrogen temperature, or dispersed in CH2Cl2 at 77 K. In coordination polymers 4 and 5, the oxalic acid introduced into coordination polymer 4 as a second ligand further sensitized the trivalent terbium ion, and resulted in longer fluorescence lifetimes of coordination polymer 4 (1058.58 \u03bcs at 298 K, 679.42 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 867.82 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K) than coordination polymer 5 (595.06 \u03bcs at 298 K, 583.19 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 584.38 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K). In coordination polymers 6 and 7, we not only measured emission spectra in the visible region, but also detected the infrequent NIR emission spectra in the near infrared region of samarium and dysprosium ions. The singlet excited state (30 303 cm-1) and the lowest triplet state energy level (24 390 cm-1) of H3BIDC ligand were calculated based on the UV-vis absorbance edges of ligand and the phosphorescence spectrum of Gd(iii) coordination polymer (8) at 77 K, showing that the effective extent of energy transfer from H3BIDC ligand to lanthanide ions follows the sequence of Tb3+, Dy3+ > Sm3+. Finally, thermal behaviors of all coordination polymers were studied by thermogravimetric analysis, which exhibited high thermal stability.\nCrystEngComm\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c3ce40184g\nPublished - Jun 14 2013\n10.1039\/c3ce40184g\nDive into the research topics of '1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\ncoordination polymers Physics & Astronomy 100%\ndicarboxylic acids Physics & Astronomy 99%\nPhotoluminescence Engineering & Materials Science 94%\nRare earth elements Engineering & Materials Science 81%\nDicarboxylic Acid Chemical Compounds 62%\nThermodynamic stability Engineering & Materials Science 60%\nAcids Engineering & Materials Science 53%\nWang, P., Fan, R. Q., Yang, Y. L., Liu, X. R., Xiao, P., Li, X. Y., Hasi, W., & Cao, W. W. (2013). 1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability. CrystEngComm, 15(22), 4489-4506. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c3ce40184g\nWang, Ping ; Fan, Rui Qing ; Yang, Yu Lin ; Liu, Xin Rong ; Xiao, Peng ; Li, Xin Yu ; Hasi, Wuliji ; Cao, Wen Wu. \/ 1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid : Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability. In: CrystEngComm. 2013 ; Vol. 15, No. 22. pp. 4489-4506.\n@article{27e5bdeb959742a2a57772ca387ef0f0,\ntitle = \"1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability\",\nabstract = \"One-dimensional to three-dimensional lanthanide coordination polymers 1-8 based on benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid (H3BIDC) have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions at different pH values, generally formulated as {[Pr(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H2O)]\u00b7H 2O}n (1), [Yb(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H 2O)2]n (2), and [Ln(HBIDC)(ox) 0.5(H2O)3]n [Ln = Ho (3), and Tb (4)] and {[Ln(H2BIDC)(HBIDC)(H2O)3] \u00b73H2O}n [Ln = Tb (5), Sm (6), Dy (7), and Gd (8), H2ox = oxalic acid]. All coordination polymers have been characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structural diversity, luminescence and thermal properties of all coordination polymers have been investigated. Coordination polymers 1-8 exhibit four different structural types: topological analysis has given the 3-D pcu network, with the point symbol of {412\u00b763} in coordination polymer 1. Coordination polymer 2 exhibits a 4-connected 4 4 topology, and coordination polymers 3-4 appear as 2-D (6,3)-connected hcb network topology. The 1-D helical infinite chain of coordination polymers 5-8 around the crystallographic 21 axis spread along the b axis direction, with different 1-D helical infinite chains forming 3-D supramolecular framework via hydrogen bonds and \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking interactions. The coordination polymers 4 and 5 could be triggered to have intense characteristic lanthanide-centered green luminescence under UV excitation in the solid state at room and liquid nitrogen temperature, or dispersed in CH2Cl2 at 77 K. In coordination polymers 4 and 5, the oxalic acid introduced into coordination polymer 4 as a second ligand further sensitized the trivalent terbium ion, and resulted in longer fluorescence lifetimes of coordination polymer 4 (1058.58 \u03bcs at 298 K, 679.42 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 867.82 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K) than coordination polymer 5 (595.06 \u03bcs at 298 K, 583.19 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 584.38 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K). In coordination polymers 6 and 7, we not only measured emission spectra in the visible region, but also detected the infrequent NIR emission spectra in the near infrared region of samarium and dysprosium ions. The singlet excited state (30 303 cm-1) and the lowest triplet state energy level (24 390 cm-1) of H3BIDC ligand were calculated based on the UV-vis absorbance edges of ligand and the phosphorescence spectrum of Gd(iii) coordination polymer (8) at 77 K, showing that the effective extent of energy transfer from H3BIDC ligand to lanthanide ions follows the sequence of Tb3+, Dy3+ > Sm3+. Finally, thermal behaviors of all coordination polymers were studied by thermogravimetric analysis, which exhibited high thermal stability.\",\nauthor = \"Ping Wang and Fan, {Rui Qing} and Yang, {Yu Lin} and Liu, {Xin Rong} and Peng Xiao and Li, {Xin Yu} and Wuliji Hasi and Cao, {Wen Wu}\",\ndoi = \"10.1039\/c3ce40184g\",\njournal = \"CrystEngComm\",\npublisher = \"Royal Society of Chemistry\",\nWang, P, Fan, RQ, Yang, YL, Liu, XR, Xiao, P, Li, XY, Hasi, W & Cao, WW 2013, '1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability', CrystEngComm, vol. 15, no. 22, pp. 4489-4506. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1039\/c3ce40184g\n1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid : Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability. \/ Wang, Ping; Fan, Rui Qing; Yang, Yu Lin; Liu, Xin Rong; Xiao, Peng; Li, Xin Yu; Hasi, Wuliji; Cao, Wen Wu.\nIn: CrystEngComm, Vol. 15, No. 22, 14.06.2013, p. 4489-4506.\nT1 - 1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid\nT2 - Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability\nAU - Wang, Ping\nAU - Fan, Rui Qing\nAU - Yang, Yu Lin\nAU - Liu, Xin Rong\nAU - Xiao, Peng\nAU - Li, Xin Yu\nAU - Hasi, Wuliji\nAU - Cao, Wen Wu\nN2 - One-dimensional to three-dimensional lanthanide coordination polymers 1-8 based on benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid (H3BIDC) have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions at different pH values, generally formulated as {[Pr(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H2O)]\u00b7H 2O}n (1), [Yb(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H 2O)2]n (2), and [Ln(HBIDC)(ox) 0.5(H2O)3]n [Ln = Ho (3), and Tb (4)] and {[Ln(H2BIDC)(HBIDC)(H2O)3] \u00b73H2O}n [Ln = Tb (5), Sm (6), Dy (7), and Gd (8), H2ox = oxalic acid]. All coordination polymers have been characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structural diversity, luminescence and thermal properties of all coordination polymers have been investigated. Coordination polymers 1-8 exhibit four different structural types: topological analysis has given the 3-D pcu network, with the point symbol of {412\u00b763} in coordination polymer 1. Coordination polymer 2 exhibits a 4-connected 4 4 topology, and coordination polymers 3-4 appear as 2-D (6,3)-connected hcb network topology. The 1-D helical infinite chain of coordination polymers 5-8 around the crystallographic 21 axis spread along the b axis direction, with different 1-D helical infinite chains forming 3-D supramolecular framework via hydrogen bonds and \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking interactions. The coordination polymers 4 and 5 could be triggered to have intense characteristic lanthanide-centered green luminescence under UV excitation in the solid state at room and liquid nitrogen temperature, or dispersed in CH2Cl2 at 77 K. In coordination polymers 4 and 5, the oxalic acid introduced into coordination polymer 4 as a second ligand further sensitized the trivalent terbium ion, and resulted in longer fluorescence lifetimes of coordination polymer 4 (1058.58 \u03bcs at 298 K, 679.42 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 867.82 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K) than coordination polymer 5 (595.06 \u03bcs at 298 K, 583.19 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 584.38 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K). In coordination polymers 6 and 7, we not only measured emission spectra in the visible region, but also detected the infrequent NIR emission spectra in the near infrared region of samarium and dysprosium ions. The singlet excited state (30 303 cm-1) and the lowest triplet state energy level (24 390 cm-1) of H3BIDC ligand were calculated based on the UV-vis absorbance edges of ligand and the phosphorescence spectrum of Gd(iii) coordination polymer (8) at 77 K, showing that the effective extent of energy transfer from H3BIDC ligand to lanthanide ions follows the sequence of Tb3+, Dy3+ > Sm3+. Finally, thermal behaviors of all coordination polymers were studied by thermogravimetric analysis, which exhibited high thermal stability.\nAB - One-dimensional to three-dimensional lanthanide coordination polymers 1-8 based on benzimidazole-5,6-dicarboxylic acid (H3BIDC) have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions at different pH values, generally formulated as {[Pr(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H2O)]\u00b7H 2O}n (1), [Yb(HBIDC)(ox)0.5(H 2O)2]n (2), and [Ln(HBIDC)(ox) 0.5(H2O)3]n [Ln = Ho (3), and Tb (4)] and {[Ln(H2BIDC)(HBIDC)(H2O)3] \u00b73H2O}n [Ln = Tb (5), Sm (6), Dy (7), and Gd (8), H2ox = oxalic acid]. All coordination polymers have been characterized by elemental analysis, infrared spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The structural diversity, luminescence and thermal properties of all coordination polymers have been investigated. Coordination polymers 1-8 exhibit four different structural types: topological analysis has given the 3-D pcu network, with the point symbol of {412\u00b763} in coordination polymer 1. Coordination polymer 2 exhibits a 4-connected 4 4 topology, and coordination polymers 3-4 appear as 2-D (6,3)-connected hcb network topology. The 1-D helical infinite chain of coordination polymers 5-8 around the crystallographic 21 axis spread along the b axis direction, with different 1-D helical infinite chains forming 3-D supramolecular framework via hydrogen bonds and \u03c0-\u03c0 stacking interactions. The coordination polymers 4 and 5 could be triggered to have intense characteristic lanthanide-centered green luminescence under UV excitation in the solid state at room and liquid nitrogen temperature, or dispersed in CH2Cl2 at 77 K. In coordination polymers 4 and 5, the oxalic acid introduced into coordination polymer 4 as a second ligand further sensitized the trivalent terbium ion, and resulted in longer fluorescence lifetimes of coordination polymer 4 (1058.58 \u03bcs at 298 K, 679.42 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 867.82 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K) than coordination polymer 5 (595.06 \u03bcs at 298 K, 583.19 \u03bcs at 77 K in the solid-state, 584.38 \u03bcs in CH2Cl2 at 77 K). In coordination polymers 6 and 7, we not only measured emission spectra in the visible region, but also detected the infrequent NIR emission spectra in the near infrared region of samarium and dysprosium ions. The singlet excited state (30 303 cm-1) and the lowest triplet state energy level (24 390 cm-1) of H3BIDC ligand were calculated based on the UV-vis absorbance edges of ligand and the phosphorescence spectrum of Gd(iii) coordination polymer (8) at 77 K, showing that the effective extent of energy transfer from H3BIDC ligand to lanthanide ions follows the sequence of Tb3+, Dy3+ > Sm3+. Finally, thermal behaviors of all coordination polymers were studied by thermogravimetric analysis, which exhibited high thermal stability.\nU2 - 10.1039\/c3ce40184g\nDO - 10.1039\/c3ce40184g\nJO - CrystEngComm\nJF - CrystEngComm\nWang P, Fan RQ, Yang YL, Liu XR, Xiao P, Li XY et al. 1-D helical chain, 2-D layered network and 3-D porous lanthanide-organic frameworks based on multiple coordination sites of benzimidazole-5,6- dicarboxylic acid: Synthesis, crystal structure, photoluminescence and thermal stability. 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{"text":"Review: 'Doctor Who' meets James Bond in the swashbuckling 'Spyfall'\nFrom left, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair, Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor and Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien in \"Spyfall,\" the Season 12 opener of \"Doctor Who.\"\n(Ben Blackall \/ BBC Studios)\nBy Robert LloydTelevision Critic\nIt was likely mere coincidence that the BBC premiered \"Doctor Who\" just a year after the arrival of the first James Bond film, the similarly titled \"Dr. No,\" released in 1962. But each series went on to create one of the United Kingdom's great, global icons of world-saving heroism \u2014 which in the case of \"Doctor Who\" extends to saving the galaxy, the universe and reality itself.\nThose cultural worlds collide Wednesday on BBC America in the Season 12 premiere of the revived series \u2014 there was a long hiatus, from 1989 to 2005 \u2014 which does double duty as a New Year's Day special. Titled \"Spyfall,\" in an obvious echo of the 2012 Bond entry \"Skyfall,\" it comes with School of John Barry music cues, exotic locations, black-tie formal wear, casino gambling, cases full of gadgets, a chase scene, a tech billionaire villain (Lenny Henry), a \"Bond, James Bond\" joke and Stephen Fry as M16 head \"C.\" (I don't know if there's a reference I'm missing in that \"C\"; maybe it stands for Chris Chibnall, the current showrunner.) Spies of many nations are being attacked, in ways that defy terrestrial science and tradecraft.\nLike Bond, the Doctor has been played by many actors over the years \u2014 the character periodically \"regenerates\" into a new, yet dramatically identical, person \u2014 and is currently played by a woman, Jodie Whittaker, starting her second season. (The possibility of a female Bond, or at least a 007, has been in the air as well.)\nJodie Whittaker as The Doctor applies her sonic screwdriver to another thorny problem in the new season of \"Doctor Who\" on BBC America.\n(Casey Crafford \/ BBC America\/BBC Studios)\nThat the Doctor might at last be played by someone other than a white male seemed likely from the moment previous Doctor Peter Capaldi announced his retirement from the role in 2017 \u2014 Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman and Idris Elba were among the names oddsmakers threw around. (That it turned out to be Whittaker, who had costarred in Chibnall's \"Broadchurch,\" was a surprise.) Some hidebound fans refused to imagine that a character defined by physical alteration, in a series that does not fret much over canonical consistency, could change into a woman. But viewership is on par with preceding seasons, and Whittaker owns the character as surely as any of her predecessors, bringing the requisite reckless curiosity and physical bravery and adding a screwball exuberance all her own. (\"I made ice tea \u2014 possibly.\") When Fry's spy chief meets the Doctor, he initially addresses himself to the white male on her team. \"I've had an upgrade,\" Whittaker replies, setting him straight.\n(Whatever shape the Doctor takes, the character will always be some sort of British; Whittaker's 13th Doctor speaks with a Sheffield accent.)\nChibnall's first season, which was also Whittaker's, had its greater and lesser episodes \u2014 nothing yet to match the best of Russell T. Davies, who revived the series in 2005, or Stephen Moffat, who succeeded him as head writer, but with some solid ideas and memorable moments. It took some time to find its feet, but it was no disaster. And \"Spyfall\" \u2014 a two-part episode that concludes Sunday, when the show takes up its regular time slot \u2014 comes on strong. It's been a solid year since last we saw the Doctor and her friends, and there is a \"Did you miss us?\" giddiness to their return. It's fun, often funny and action-packed, which is not to say things don't get a little heavy by the first hour's cliffhanger end.\nIntense, sometimes quasi-romantic bonding between the Doctor, who flits about in space and time, and a traveling companion has been a distinguishing feature of the 21st century series. Like William Hartnell's First Doctor, back in 1963, however, Whittaker travels not with a companion but a company, a \"fam\" to use her own word: young Yasmin (Mandip Gill), young Ryan (Tosin Cole) and not-young Graham (Bradley Walsh), Ryan's stepgrandfather. They have issues with one another but the Doctor is above the fray. Capaldi's Doctor carried a lot of baggage; Whittaker's is a new woman, tough but not angry nor, like some of her predecessors, weighed down by her considerable history. Relatively speaking, she floats free.\nPerhaps the only completely consistent point throughout the series \u2014 in this century anyway \u2014 is that the Doctor is a person who needs people, which is why the show works best as pure swashbuckling adventure, as in most of \"Spyfall,\" or when it revels in the emotional connections between characters, their partings and reunions, and moments of mutual understanding. It does less well when it tries too hard to tell you something Very Important, or gets overly interested in the Doctor's traumatic psychology. \"Hate is always foolish, and love is always wise,\" said Capaldi's Doctor, leaving a message for Whittaker's \u2014 good advice, and \"Doctor Who\" in a nutshell.\nGet our daily Entertainment newsletter\nRobert Lloyd\nRobert Lloyd has been a Los Angeles Times television critic since 2003. Previously, he held that position at L.A. Weekly, whose music editor and critic he also was for some years, and was the author of the Today column at the late Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. His oral history of \"Freaks & Geeks\" appeared in the January 2013 issue of Vanity Fair. Sometimes, usually after dark, he masquerades as a musician (credits available on request).\n'Nothing was off-limits': Hillary Clinton discusses life-spanning new docuseries\nHillary Clinton and director Nanette Burstein discussed the life-spanning Hulu docuseries \"Hillary\" at Television Critics Assn. press tour Friday.\nWhat's on TV This Week: Awkwafina, 'Avenue 5,' 'Star Trek: Picard' and more\nTV highlights for Jan. 19-25 include the new series \"Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens\" on Comedy Central, \"Avenue 5\" on HBO and \"Star Trek: Picard\" on CBS All Access\nMovies on TV this week: Jan. 19-25: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'\nMovies on TV this week: Sunday, Jan. 19-25: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' Casablanca; Psycho; Stand by Me and more\nJon Favreau shares photo of George Lucas cradling Baby Yoda. No caption needed\nSurprised you may be to see this adorable, once-in-a-lifetime photo of \"Star Wars\" creator George Lucas and his grandchild, Baby Yoda.\nLatest Television\nReview: 'Little America' is the crown jewel of TV's immigration wave\n\"Little America,\" on Apple TV+, leads a new wave of immigration-themed stories on TV, including \"Party of Five\" and \"Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens.\"\nWhat's on TV Friday, Jan. 17: 'Dynasty' on the CW\nWhat's on TV Friday, Jan. 17: 'Dynasty' on the CW; America's Most Musical Family finale; Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector; Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives\n'Better Call Saul' will end next year\nAMC has renewed \"Breaking Bad\" prequel \"Better Call Saul\" for a sixth and final season.\nCompany Town\nComcast's streaming service Peacock will have live sports, news and late-night shows early\nComcast is offering three tiers for the streaming service, including a low-priced ad-supported subscription version for $4.99.\n'Grace and Frankie' creator on the series nearing its end \u2014 and that 'Friends' reunion\nRunning the Show: 'Grace and Frankie' creator Marta Kauffman on the end of the Netflix series, the prospect of a 'Friends' reunion, and more.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"USAF Seeks Seven-Year Contract to Cover Alaska Radar Site\nThe Cobra Dane radar located at Eareckson AS, on Shemya Island, Alaska, has the ability to detect objects 2,000 miles away and provides data for the Space Surveillance Network and the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Air Force photo.\n\u200bThe Air Force wants to continue its radar lookout post on the remote island of Shemya, Alaska. In April, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division released a request for proposal to continue operations of the Cobra Dane radar system. The $511 million contract covers operation, maintenance, support, and sustainment of the site for seven years, according to a May 16 Air Force Space Command release. The Air Force expects to award a contract late this year. The Cobra Dane system detects and classifies objects for US Strategic Command's ballistic missile defense, along with tracking objects in Low-Earth Orbit.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bookosphere, islam\nQur'an 15: The Rock\nOctober 27, 2019 tdaxp\tLeave a comment\nEverything can rise or fall. Some things fall like a rock. Sometimes, the rock is thrown.\nIn the fifteenth book of the Qur'an, the author dwells on the imagery of falling or casting down. These words can be used for things expelled from heaven like demons or punishments. They can also be used for blessings given by heaven. Implicit in all of this are how the imagery of the Rock is used in the Bible: to describe God, Christ, Peter. Given the era of the extinction of the Arian sacraments that the Qur'an was written in, the Qur'anic author may be contemplating the blessing and curses given to the community of believers by Peter's successors \u2014 the Popes. Or how the same God who could be the Rock of faith could be associated with a church that the Qur'an denies exists.\nA reading, from the Book of Genesis\nWhen the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, \"Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.\" And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife's hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, \"Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.\"\nThen Lot said to them, \"Please, no, my lords! Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.\"\nAnd he said to him, \"See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there.\"\nTherefore the name of the city was called Zoar.\nThe sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.\nBut his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.\nA song, from the Psalms\nThe Lord lives!\nBlessed be my Rock!\nLet the God of my salvation be exalted.\nIt is God who avenges me,\nAnd subdues the peoples under me;\nHe delivers me from my enemies.\nYou also lift me up above those who rise against me;\nYou have delivered me from the violent man.\nTherefore I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name.\nA reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians:\nMoreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.\nNow these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, \"The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.\" Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.\nThe prayer of the humble pierces the clouds,\nand he will not be consoled until it reaches the Lord;\nhe will not desist until the Most High visits him,\nand does justice for the righteous, and executes judgment.\nSirach 35:17\nA reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew:\nHe said to them, \"But who do you say that I am?\"\nSimon Peter answered and said, \"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\"\nJesus answered and said to him, \"Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.\"\nThen He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ\nA Qur'anic Homily\nGates are defensive structures. The Gates of Hell cannot over a rock, when a heavy enough Rock is sent down on a mission.\nAngels are sent down to do God's will, but messengers like Peter were sent down with warnings:\nThey said, 'O you, to whom the Reminder has been sent down, you are indeed crazy! Why do you not bring us the angels if you are truthful?!'\nWe do not send down the angels except with due reason, and then they will not be granted any respite.\nIndeed, We have sent down the Reminder, and, indeed, We will preserve it.\nQur'an 15:6-9\nHeaven has Gates too. But while the prayers of the faithful can penetrate them, the wicked cannot \u2014 and would not even believe if they saw:\nThat is how We let it pass through the hearts of the guilty: they do not believe in it, and the precedence of the ancients has already passed.\nWere We to open for them A gate of the heaven so that they could go on ascending through it, they would surely say, 'Indeed, a spell has been cast on our eyes; indeed, we are a bewitched lot.\nQur'an 15:12-14\nHeaven also has Towers, towards that produce Fire. Many prophets have seen this fire and been welcomed in, but the demons fear and tremble:\nCertainly We have appointed towers in the heaven and adorned them for the onlookers, and We have guarded them from every outcast Satan, except someone who may eavesdrop, whereat there peruses him a manifest flame.\nMessengers like Peter are sent down like rain for the people, to give them the living water:\nThere is not a thing but that its source are with Us, and We do not send it down except in a known measure.\nAnd We send the fertilizing wends and send down water from the sky providing it for you to drink and you are not maintainers of its resources.\nBut as Peter is a rock with a mission, to break down the gates of hell, the heaviness of the wicked instead consigns them away from paradise. They are like Lot's wife, who will be left as a rock salt:\n[Abraham] said, 'O messengers, what is now your errand?'\nThey said, 'We have been sent toward a guilty people, except the family of Lot. We will indeed deliver all of them, except his wife, We have ordained, will indeed be among those who remain behind.\nSo when the messengers came to Lot's family, he said, 'You are strangers,'\nThey said, 'Indeed, we bring you what they used to doubt. We bring you the truth, and indeed we speak truly. Take your family in a watch of the night and follow in their rears, and none of you should turn around, and proceed as you are bidden.' We apprised him of the matter that these will be rooted out by dawn.\nFor the wicked their greatest 'triumphs will become their undoing, their elevations are instead their lowest points. The Fire for them is not redemptive but destructive.\nThe Qur'anic author teaches that these signs and symbols are given as a lesson. Both Peter and Lot's wife were rocks, it was their relationship with God which determined what kind of rock they would be.\nThe rocks to the wicked will be their doom and torment\nBy your life, they were bewildered in their drunkenness. So the Cry seized them at sunrise, and We made its topmost part its nethermost, and rained on them stones of shale.\nThere are indeed signs in that for the percipient. Indeed, it is on a standing road, and there is indeed a sign in that for the faithful.\nBut for the righteous, the Rock will crash the gates of hell, and enter them into Paradise:\nIndeed, the Godwary will be amid gardens and springs.\n\"Enter it in peace and safety!\"\nWe will remove whatever rancor there is in their breasts; brothers on couches \u2014 facing one another \u2014 therein neither weariness shall touch them, nor will they be expelled from it.\nThroughout my reading of the Qur'an I've there's a mystery that doesn't quite go away. Who is the speaker? The closest in narrative composition to the Qur'an is the Book of Jubilees, where the speaker is obviously a group of angels\nAnd thereupon we saw His works , and praised Him, and lauded before Him on account of all His works; for seven great works did He create on the first day.\nJubilees 2:3\nBut it seems unusually clear in this chapter (or I've just begun noticing it), that Creation is split between the royal \"We\"\u2026\nIndeed, it is We who give life and bring death and We are the inheritors.\nCertainly We know the predecessors among you and certainly We know the successors, and indeed it is your Lord who will resurrect them. He is all-wise, all-knowing.\nCertainly We created man out of a dry clay from an aging mud, and We created the jinn earlier out of a piercing fire.\nAnd God, as in this doublet where creation is ascribed to both \"We\" and \"your Lord\":\nWe did not create the heavens and the earth and whatever is in between them except with consummate wisdom, and indeed the Hour is bound to come. So forbear with a graceful forbearance. Indeed, your Lord is the all-Creator, the all-Knowing.\nIf \"We\" are another creator, it is a creator who is not God, at least according to the Qur'anic author:\nSo proclaim what you have been commanded, and turn away from the polytheists. We will indeed suffice you against the deriders \u2014 those who set up another Deity besides God. Soon they will know! Certainly We know that you become upset because of what they say. So celebrate the praise of your Lord and be among those who prostrate, and worship your Lord until certainty comes to you.\nBut if the Royal We is not God, nor can it be Christ as commonly understood:\nCertainly We gave Moses the Book and followed him with the apostles, and We gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear proofs and confirmed him with the Holy Spirit. Is it not that whenever an apostle brought you that which was not to your liking, you would act arrogantly; so you would impugn a group, and slave a group?\nQur'an 2:57-58\nAt this point my thought is that the Royal We are either a group of angels specifically tasked with Creation, or else Jesus Son-of-God, distinct from Jesus Son-of-Mary. Presumably that answer is to be found in whether the Royal We ever bow, but even that is not clear, as Christ himself came in the form of a servant\u2026\nWhen your Lord said to the angels, 'Indeed, I am going to create a human out of a dry clay from an aging mud. So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down in prostration to him.\nThereat the angels prostrated, all of them, but not Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated.\nHe said, 'O Iblis! What kept you from being among those who have prostrated?'\nSaid him, 'I will not prostrate before a human whom You have created out of a dry clay form an aging mud,.\nHe said, 'Begone hence, for you are indeed an outcast, and indeed the curse shall lie on you until the Day of Retribution.'\nThe last time I noted this question of the Royal We's identity in the Qur'an is in the Qur'anic chapter that references a letter of St Peter, and this chapter is called \"The Rock.\" I don't know what to make of this for now.\nThe Qur'anic author believed that some not-quite-Divine entity or entities co-created the universe with God, and in that universe they send down blessings and curses to man. These things sent down \u2014 from rain to apostles\u2013 are not ends in themselves, but signs that should point the heart toward God. Men are naturally impatient and want definite proof \u2014 but man's ability to doubt means he can always talk himself out of every evidence, and by the time of the final judgment, too much will be revealed for the wayward man to take.\nPrevious PostQur'an 14: AbrahamNext PostQur'an 16: The Bees\nThe tDAxp eXPerience\nImpressions of \"Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?: With A Short Discourse on Hell,\" by Hans Urs Von Balthasar | tdaxp on Impressions of \"Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives,\" by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)\nImpressions of \"Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?: With A Short Discourse on Hell,\" by Hans Urs Von Balthasar | tdaxp on Impressions of \"Paul: A Biography,\" by N.T. Wright\nImpressions of \"Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?: With A Short Discourse on Hell,\" by Hans Urs Von Balthasar | tdaxp on The Apologetics of C.S. Lewis\nImpressions of \"Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper,\" by Brant Pitre | tdaxp on Impressions of \"Saul, Doeg, Nabal, and the 'Son of Jesse': Readings in 1 Samuel 16-25\" by Joseph Lozovyy\nImpressions of \"Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper,\" by Brant Pitre | tdaxp on Impressions of \"Hans Urs von Balthasar: Rediscovering Holistic Christianity,\" by Kevin Mongrain\nEVERY BOOK I READ IN 2019\nQur'an 18: The Cave\nImpressions of \"Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?: With A Short Discourse on Hell,\" by Hans Urs Von Balthasar\nImpressions of \"Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist: Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper,\" by Brant Pitre\nQur'an 17: The Night Journey\nQur'an 16: The Bees\nQur'an 14: Abraham\nImpressions of \"Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives,\" by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)\nQur'an 13: Thunder\nImpressions of \"Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit,\" by Craig Oliver\nQur'an 12: Joseph\nQur'an 11: Hud\nThe Path Past the End of the Road\nImpressions of \"Hans Urs von Balthasar: Rediscovering Holistic Christianity,\" by Kevin Mongrain\nIn Memory: Jeff Carlson\nQur'an 10: Jonah\nImpressions of \"Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change,\" by Risto Siilasmaa with Catherine Fredman\nQur'an 9: Repentance\nImpressions of \"Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base,\" by Annie Jacobsen\nImpressions of \"Alpha and Omega,\" by Harry Turtledove\nImpressions of \"Paul: A Biography,\" by N.T. Wright\nImpressions of \"The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution that Swept Virtual Reality,\" by Blake Harris\nQur'an 8: The Spoils\nQur'an 7: The Elevations\nQur'an 6: The Cattle\nQur'an 5: The Table\nImpressions of \"Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future,\" by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters\nThe Book of Jubilees\nQur'an 4: The Women\nImpressions of the Tom Stranger stories, by Larry Correia and performed by Adam Baldwin\nQur'an 3: The Family of Amram\nImpressions of \"Introduction to Patristics: Learning from the Church Fathers,\" by David Meconi\nQur'an 2: The Heifer\nImpressions of \"When the Church was Young: Voices of the Early Fathers,\" by Marcellino D'Ambrosio\nQur'an I: The Opening\nImpressions of \"Beneath a Surface: The Inside Story of How Microsoft Overcame a $900 Write-down to Become the Hero of the PC Industry,\" by Brad Sams\nImpressions of \"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup,\" by John Carreyrou\nImpressions of \"Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone,\" by Satya Nadella with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols\nImpressions of \"Ball Lightning,\" by Cixin Liu\nImpressions of \"Four Quartets,\" by T.S. Elliot\nImpressions of \"The Shepherd of Hermas,\" translated by Daniel Robinson\nImpressions of \"Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief,\" by Jordan B. Peterson\nThe Protoevangelium of James","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Der Digital Service Act und Meinungsfreiheit: Triumph oder Fehler?\nDer Digital Services Act (\"DSA\") ist Teil des lang erwarteten Pakets, das einen Rahmen f\u00fcr Transparenz und Rechenschaftspflicht f\u00fcr Online-Plattformen schaffen und zus\u00e4tzliche Pflichten f\u00fcr gro\u00dfe Anbieter mit Gatekeeping-M\u00f6glichkeiten festlegen soll. Es gibt sicherlich eine Menge zu diskutieren in diesem gewichtigen Vorschlag. Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit den neuen Verpflichtungen und Regulierungsbefugnissen, die durch den DSA eingef\u00fchrt werden, und untersucht ihr Potenzial zum Schutz der Meinungsfreiheit. Er deckt auch einige der umstrittenen Punkte des DSA auf, auf die die Politik im Laufe des Gesetzgebungsverfahrens achten sollte.\nValentina Golunova & Juncal Montero Regules\nIf it ain't broken, don't fix it\nThere is little doubt that the rules on intermediary liability can have a crucial impact on fundamental rights of Internet users. Freedom of expression is subject to the most sizeable impact. A tight grip on service providers can make them precautiously take down controversial materials rather than leave them intact at the risk of incurring liability, thus causing the so-called overremoval of user-generated content. The DSA clearly recognises it: in contrast to the e-Commerce Directive, which mentioned fundamental rights exactly zero times, the DSA abounds with respective references.\nOne of the advantages of the DSA is that it does not encroach on things which already work well. The DSA reaffirms the negligence-based model of liability for service providers: platforms cannot be held liable for user-generated content if they lack actual knowledge of it and, upon obtaining such knowledge, take an expeditious action to remove it. Tilting this fragile balance could again create incentives for service providers to be \"better safe than sorry\" and take disproportionate action on legitimate content. It was also a relief to see that the DSA's scope is limited to illegal content despite the original aspiration to cover harmful content as well. According to V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1, providers should be encouraged to control the distribution and display of harmful content rather than wipe it out completely. In light of controversies provoked by the Online Harms White Paper, the final response to which was published on the same day as the DSA, a more restrictive approach makes perfect sense.\nNew rules on intermediary liability\nWhile the DSA upholds the general rules on intermediary liability, it adds a few twists aimed at fostering fundamental rights of users of digital services. Article 6 DSA stipulates a famous 'Good Samaritan' clause, which serves as a shield from liability for good-faith efforts to remove illegal content in a proactive manner. But recital 18 DSA still maintains that the liability exemptions do not apply when a provider does not engage in \"merely technical and automatic processing\" of the content it stores but rather plays an active role in its dissemination or promotion. The CJEU is expected to clarify \u2013 yet again \u2013 what is meant by active role in pending C-500\/19 Puls 4 TV. If it rules that, by deploying a recommender system, YouTube no longer qualifies for the exemptions for liability, the net effect of the 'Good Samaritan' protection will be questionable.\nIn addition, the DSA reaffirms the prohibition of general monitoring: a provision which has caused substantial controversy in recent years. In fact, the goes beyond mere recognition of this provision and introduces specific provisions which give it a specific meaning. Drawing from the CJEU's jurisprudence, Article 8 DSA sets out criteria of lawful injunctions against ISSPs. Interestingly enough, the type of injunctions authorised by the CJEU in C-18\/18 Glawischnig will likely contravene Article 8(2)(a) DSA as it requires that any order should contain both exact URLs and any additional information necessary for identification of the content at hand. But one question remains: how can Article 8(2)(a) be reconciled with Article 5(4) DSA, which still lets MS to require intermediaries not only to terminate, but also prevent infringements? As it is not possible to identify the content which might only appear in the future by means of an URL, it remains to be seen whether the DSA still allows an exception for copies of illegal content if the latter has been identified appropriately.\nThe DSA also stipulates an EU-wide notice and action mechanism, which is something researchers have called for. But, as rightly noted by Access Now, it does not set out different procedures depending on the type of content. Even though Article 2(g) provides a definition of 'illegal content', as emphasised by Article 19, the DSA still leaves it up to online platforms to decide whether the materials in question deserve protection or are to be discarded. Plus, Article 17 DSA establishes an internal complaints mechanism whereby the complaints are reviewed against both legal standards and the platforms' terms and conditions. This way, platforms would examine their decisions based on their own standards \u2013 an obviously problematic approach. More precise rules in this regard are therefore welcome.\nAutomated content moderation\nThe DSA also contains specific provisions on automated content moderation, which has become a vital point of contemporary research agenda. Researchers have reported extensively on its ominous effect of content-filtering tools on enjoyment of fundamental rights: most of them are inaccurate, biased, and can be easily circumvented. In light of the public outcry provoked by the proposed Terrorist Content Regulation, it is promising that the DSA neither encourages nor condemns the use of content-filtering technologies. Rather, it focuses on ensuring transparency. Under Article 23(1)(c), online platforms are obliged to disclose information on \"automatic means for the purpose of content moderation\". Notably, SMEs are exempted from this duty: Article 13 DSA which sets out general transparency requirements simply asks for \"the number and type of measures\". The rationale of this policy choice is not clear. Was it assumed that service providers which do not qualify as online platforms are not likely to resort to automated content moderation? If so, this is not true: while not many of them develop such systems in-house, more and more smaller providers deploy ones devised by third-party firms. In this line, more favourable approach could be to introduce a horizontal rule on transparency of automated content moderation equally applicable to all service providers.\nOne useful safeguard relating to transparency of automated decision-making is also embedded in the provision on the notice and action regime. Under Article 14(6) DSA, service providers must inform rightholders about the use of automated means for processing of their notices. The provider of content subjected to restrictions by a provider is also entitled to such information under Article 15(2)(c) DSA. This provision also applies beyond a notice and action procedure, for example, when illegal content was detected or identified by means of automated tools. But both these provisions are silent on the necessary scope of disclosure that providers are expected to ensure. Is it enough to merely acknowledge the fact that automated decision-making was engaged, or does the DSA allude to a more sophisticated procedure when a service provider would also need to provide reasons for its deployment as well as account for its effects? Perhaps, the DSA provisions on automated content moderation should be more aligned with Article 13 GDPR, which guarantees that the data subject is entitled to meaningful information about the \"logic\" of automated decision-making as well as its \"significance and the envisaged consequences\".\nAsymmetric obligations\u2026\nInterestingly, the DSA introduces asymmetric due diligence obligations, assigning different duties to intermediaries depending on their size. Only very large online platforms (VLOPs) are subject to the full scope of the Regulation, with other types of intermediaries holding decreasing levels of obligations. At the outset, this approach is only to be welcomed. It materialises the demands from both scholars and the industry to design rules proportionate to the scale of reach and to the technical and operational capabilities of intermediaries. A one-size-fits-all approach would create obstacles to the growth of SMEs and eventually prevent them from entering the market, thus interfering with the fundamental right of freedom to conduct business. By awarding more due diligence obligations to VLOPs, the draft DSA also recognises their vital role in shaping online speech.\nHowever, this approach is questionable from the perspective of tackling illegal content. First, VLOPs are defined by reference to use by population at EU level (platforms with at least 45 million active users in the EU), potentially overlooking significant platforms at national level. Second, some small platforms are widely used by extremist movements and fall outside of the scope of the most relevant obligations against illegal content under the DSA. This can negatively affect the DSA's objective of \"ensuring a safe, predictable and trusted online environment\": if illegal content moves to non-VLOPs, such content will fall out of the scope of action of some parts of the Regulation, including risk management, assessment, and closer scrutiny by the European Commission. Finally, the systemic risk assessment that VLOPs are to carry out pursuant to Article 26 DSA stems as a promising step towards a comprehensive, organic, and proactive risk management. However, the fact that it is the platforms themselves who are responsible for such assessment, with little involvement of public independent oversight, brings this measure into question.\nOther than establishing different obligations for different types of service providers, the DSA creates a new institutional architecture. Just like due diligence obligations, regulatory powers are also asymmetric, with national Digital Services Coordinators of Member States regulating non-VLOPs (Article 38 \u2013 46 DSA) and the European Commission regulating VLOPs (Articles 52 \u2013 59 DSA). The powers of the Commission are intense \u2013 it will have a central place in platform governance, as it holds a vital role under the current version of the DSA. But such architecture is expected to have a controversial impact on protection of fundamental rights. The institutional bodies who have a say on content moderation are the ones deciding the content moderation procedures and mechanisms which impact fundamental rights, be it through advisory actions, monitoring, application, enforcement or fine imposition. The regime laid down in the DSA does not reflect scholarly demands for providing an Ombudsperson entrusted with fundamental rights protection in dispute settlement proceedings reviewing content moderation, nor does it follow the European Parliament's proposition to establish a new EU entity with monitoring functions.\nThe draft DSA is definitely a promising start of the ambitious legislative reform. It rests on the noble objective to safeguard fundamental rights of EU citizens and puts forward profound approaches to some acute issues. But the DSA does not do much to alter the hands-off approach to regulation of online content. This issue looks even more urgent in the aftermath of the Great De-Platforming resulting in accounts of the former president being suspended by the whole range of social media companies. The EU legislator might want to consider if the DSA should clamp down on voluntary moderation efforts of service providers and reaffirm that regulation of online content is entrusted to competent public institutions. It is also crucial to keep in mind that regulation of digital services does not only trigger freedom of expression, but also a plethora of other fundamental rights, including the right to data protection and the right to effective remedy. This holistic approach should underpin the forthcoming discussions on the DSA.\nValentina Golunova, PhD researcher at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University (the Netherlands)\nJuncal Montero Regules, PhD fellow of Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Law, Hasselt University (Belgium)\nDieser Beitrag spiegelt die Meinung der Autorinnen und Autoren und weder notwendigerweise noch ausschlie\u00dflich die Meinung des Institutes wider. 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{"text":"Digital Subscriptions > Skeptic > 23.1 > Brazilian Cancer Quackery\nBrazilian Cancer Quackery\nBY NATALIA PASTERNAK TASCHNER\nTHE CURE FOR CANCER HAS BEEN FOUND YET AGAIN, this time in Brazil. And like many others before, it involves a desperate people, a populist government, and a scientifically illiterate society.\nThe story began 25 years ago, within the largest and most prestigious University in South America: University of S\u00e3o Paulo. In a small town called S\u00e3o Carlos, a full professor from the Institute of Chemistry, Gilberto Chierice, decided to play messiah. Convinced that he had found a cure for cancer in a molecule called phosphoethanolamine\u2014phospho, as it became known, probably because not a single journalist could pronounce it correctly\u2014he started to manufacture the compound at his laboratory at the university, and distribute it to the local population in the shape of blue and white miracle pills, with the promise to cure cancer.\nMind you, Chierice had never before worked in cancer research. He worked with analytical chemistry, and his field of expertise was castor oil. He did not run any tests on his dream molecule other than general toxicity. He did not test it in cell cultures. He did not test it in animals. He just knew, as every messiah does, that he was right! How did he know? He had read a 1979 paper that showed the presence of that very substance in breast cancer tumor sites. He concluded that the only reason for its presence there was that it had obviously been released by the immune system to fight the cancer.\nChierice decided to synthesize and produce phosphoetanolamine. He even patented the synthesis process, just in case some bad Big Pharma company tried to steal his precious formula. And with every passing year, he grew more certain that his formula worked, because people kept coming back for more tablets! Who needs more evidence than that? Why would people come back and recommend it to their friends and family if phospho didn't work? It looks like the professor skipped scientific methods classes when he was a student. Surprisingly though, it did not affect his career. I pity his students.\nEVIL, THEISM, and ATHEISM Answering the Hard Question \"You're an Atheist?! How Do You Find Meaning and Morality in Life if There is No God?\"; God, Heaven, and Evil: A Renewed Defense of Atheism; The Devil's Mark: The Evaluation of Evil, the Measurement of Morality, and the Statistical Significance of Sin; Whence Cometh Evil? The Concept and Mechanics of Natural Evil; Virtuous Reality: Why Right and Wrong Seem Real: a Critique of Moral Realism; Tearing Down Mr. Hume's Wall: A Response to Moral Realism Skeptics; Brazilian Cancer Quackery; The \"Sonic Attack\" on U.S. Diplomats in Cuba: Why the State Department's Claims Don't Add Up; Understanding Human Skeletal Variation; Updating the Software and Hardware in Educational Practice: A Way Forward for Science and Mathematics Education; Why Freud Matters: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and the Skeptical Humanist Tradition; Hope and Hype for Alzheimer's; I, Too, Am Thinking About Me, Too; Junior Skeptic: The Incredible Claims of Pet Psychics\u2026\nThe \"Sonic Attack\" on U.S.Diplomats in Cuba\nI Am Not an Alien!\nUpdating the Software and Hardware in Educational Practice\nAnswering the Hard Question\nGod, Heaven, and Evil\nThe Devil's Mark\nWhence Cometh Evil?\nVirtuous Reality\nTearing Down Mr. Hume's Wall\nWhy Freud Matters\nThe Wizardry of Freud\nTHE INCREDIBLE CLAIMS OF PET PSYCHICS\nSkeptics T-shirts & Hoodies","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LEATHERFACE (2016) FILMING LOCATIONS\nThe Resort Maui Filming Locations 2021\nScream (1996) Filming Locations\nGhostbusters (2016) Filming Locations\nOriginal Release Date\nDownloads \/ Posters \/ Toys\nDo you know of a filming location? Send us a tip here >>\nLeatherface was filmed on location in Bulgaria\nTwitter Tips > @Hollywood_Sets\nDirected By: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury\nWritten By: Seth M. Sherwood (screenplay)\nStarring: Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, Nicole Andrews\nDownload on iTunes\nRelated Topics:2016 Movie Filming Locations, Horror, Horror Movies, Lili Taylor, Nicole Andrews, Stephen Dorff\nMore in 2016 Movies\nThe Nigeria building seen in the film is actually the Richard B. Russell Building located on...\nBy Jenna Sims October 17, 2022\nMore than 30 years after the original took the world by storm, the Ghostbusters are back....\nLa La Land (2016) Filming Locations\nBy Jenna Sims December 25, 2017\nLOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 10\/20\/2016: Ryan & Emma were spotted filming inside the Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach,...\nInternet Famous (2016) Filming Locations\nLOS ANGELES \u2013 Tacos La Estrella google street view > 3430 Fletcher Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90065 Thank...\nGood Kids (2016) Filming Locations\nBy Jenna Sims May 7, 2017\nLocation #1 Boston, Massachusetts unknown location Location #2 unknown location Location #3 Duxbury, Massachusetts unknown location...\nManchester By The Sea (2016) Filming Locations\n05\/2016 \u2013 Matt Damon & Casey Affleck were spotted filming a new movie \"Manchester By The Sea\" at the...\nCatfight (2016) Filming Locations\nJune, 2016: Sandra Oh, Anne Heche & Alicia Silverstone were all spotted filming \"Catfight\" in New York City Location #1 Tons...\nThe Great Wall (2016) Filming Locations\n03\/02\/2016 \u2013 The largest casting call China's history went out today for extras in a new...\nLion (2016) Filming Locations\n\"Lion\" was filmed on location in Tasmania, Australia Location #1 Scenes where the family plays cricket...\nMeet the Blacks (2016) Filming Locations\nLocation #1 coming soon! unknown locations \u2013 Got a Tip? Location #2 Got a Tip? Watch...\nCRASH PAD (2017) FILMING LOCATIONS\nSwiss Army Man (2016) Filming Locations","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Geology is often called Earth Sciences or Geoscience and there are many institutions that offer the chance to gain a Research Masters in this field. For those without a Geology undergraduate degree, a masters is a gateway to an exciting future in a diverse and expanding field.\nGeology is studied around the world and there are plenty of opportunities to study this masters degree overseas.\nHere's our list of the Top 10 Masters Degrees in Geology in the UK and Europe.*\nMasters in Earth Science \u2013 ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology\nDuration: 2 or 3 semesters plus a thesis.\nCost: CHF 580 per semester for all students.\nWhat You Will Study: Research is an important part of the Masters in Earth Science, and students can focus on one of four topics \u2013 Engineering Geology, Geophysics, Mineralogy and Geochemistry, and Geology. This course is taught in English.\nMPhil by Research Thesis in Earth Science \u2013 University of Cambridge\nDuration: 1 year full time.\nCost: \u00a37,392 for UK and EU students \/ \u00a325,239 for international students.\nWhat You Will Study: The University of Cambridge's Earth Science's Department only offers this course as a research masters. Recent research topics have included Igneous, Metamorphic and Volcanic Studies, Mineral Sciences, Geodynamics and Tectonics, and Geophysics.\nMaster in Earth Structure and Dynamics \u2013 Utrecht University\nDuration: 2 years full time.\nCost: \u20ac2,006 per year for UK & EU students \/ \u20ac18,201 per year for international students.\nWhat You Will Study: Combining the fields of geology, geophysics, mathematics, physics, and chemistry together with field trips this Masters in Earth Structure and Dynamics teaches students to understand how the processes that are seen above ground start below it. This course is taught in English.\nMSc by Research in Earth Science \u2013 University of Bristol\nDuration: 1 year full time or part time by agreement.\nCost: \u00a34,185 total cost for UK and EU students \/ \u00a319,700 total costs for international students.\nWhat You Will Study: This highly rated Earth Sciences Department at the University of Bristol has a range of topics for research including the Geochemistry, Geophysics, Petrology, Volcanology and Paleobiology.\nMSc in Structural Geology with Geophysics \u2013 University of Leeds\nWhat You Will Study: Students on the MSc in Structural Geology with Geophysics at the University of Leeds will gain the knowledge and understanding to enable them to solve geological problems with structural and geophysical techniques.\nMSc by Research in Earth Sciences \u2013 Durham University\nDuration: 1 year full-time.\nWhat You Will Study: Durham University offers an MSc by Research in Earth Sciences, and recent research topics have included Relating Shale Mineralogy & Microstructure to Swelling Activity and 2D or 3D? The Perils and Pitfalls of Stereoscopic Projections.\nMSc in Geoscience \u2013 University College London\nDuration: 1 year full time or 2 years part time.\nCost: \u00a39,840 for full-time and \u00a34,970 per year for part-time UK and EU students \/ \u00a327,540 for full-time and \u00a313,770 per year for part-time international students.\nWhat You Will Study: Students at UCL will cover a broad range of subjects suited to their previous study and future plans. Topics include Earth and Planetary Physics, Earth Systems Science, Environment, Palaeobiology and Hydrogeology.\nMRes in Marine Geology and Geophysics \u2013 University of Southampton\nDuration: 1 year full time or 2 to 5 years part time.\nCost: \u00a39,000 total cost for UK and EU students \/ \u00a320,550 total cost for international students.\nWhat You Will Study: As a research student at the University of Southampton you will be part of a world-renowned active research group that studies a diverse range of Marine Geology topics.\nMSc in Applied Earth Science \u2013 Delft University of Technology\nCost: \u20ac2,006 pear year for EU students \/ \u20ac13,942 per year for international students.\nWhat You Will Study: The course at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands has six specialisms; Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, Applied Geophysics, Geo-Resource Engineering, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Geo-Engineering, and Environmental Engineering. This course is taught in English.\nMasters in Earth Science \u2013 University of Bergen\nCost: No tuition fees.\nWhat You Will Study: Students at the University of Bergen will gain a broad understanding of Geology with a focus on one of the following areas; Quaternary Geology and Paleoclimate, Geodynamics, Petroleum Geoscience, Marine Geology and Geophysics, and Geobiology. This course is conducted in English.\n*SOURCE: TOP UNIVERSITIES WORLD RANKINGS\nPLEASE NOTE: As a result of Brexit, from Autumn 2021 postgraduate students from the European Union studying at a UK university will be charged the same tuition fees as international students. UK students studying their postgraduate course at a European university are also likely to incur higher tuition fees than their EU counterparts. It is advisable to check with the individual universities in the UK and Europe for up-to-date information on tuition fees for all postgraduate programs.\nMasters Degree In Geology Course Search\nMasters Degree In Geology\nSpotlight On: Postgrad Study In Geology\nPostgraduate Programs In The Environment\nonline masters in geology May 13, 2019, 11:01 a.m.\nThe Cal Poly Pomona Geology Department offers a program of study leading to a Master of Science degree in Geology. This graduate program is offered collaboratively by the College of Science and the College of the Extended University.\nIf you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:\nAll contributors must be over 16 year olds","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DC FanDome 2021: What to know about DC's virtual spotlight of Black Adam, The Batman, Peacemaker, Aquaman 2 & more\nAugust 31, 2021, 8:46 AM ET\nBy Josh Weiss\nCredit: DC\/Warner Bros.\nYou knew this one was coming, folks. After sitting out Comic-Con@Home for the second year in a row \u2014 at least in terms of major reveals \u2014 DC and Warner Bros. have confirmed the official return of their virtual (not to mention global) DC FanDome event dedicated to comics, television, film, video games, and more.\nThe second annual edition of FanDome is scheduled to take place Saturday, Oct. 16 at 10 a.m. PST \/ 1 p.m. EST. It'll be free to stream right here with closed captioning available in 12 different languages. In addition to its central website, FanDome will also host live-streams on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. A virtual experience for younger audiences \u2014 DC Kids FanDome \u2014 will run concurrently with the main lineup of programming in the \"Hall of Heroes.\"\nJust like last year, DC and WB are pulling out all the stops with sneak peeks for highly-anticipated titles Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam, Matt Reeves' The Batman, James Wan's Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Ezra Miller's standalone Flash movie, James Gunn's Peacemaker TV series coming to HBO Max, Ava DuVernay's DMZ, Doom Patrol Season 3, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, DC League of Super-Pets, The CW's Naomi, and Legends of Tomorrow (celebrating 100 episodes).\n\"DC FanDome 2020 was a first-of-its kind global virtual fan experience and showcased every aspect of the DC Universe with unprecedented scale and access. This year, we're taking everything that people loved about DC FanDome and supercharging it to super-serve fans with even more exclusive first-looks, breaking news, in-depth interviews and insight from the stars and creative teams of their favorite DC content,\" Ann Sarnoff, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, said in a statement.\nCredit: Warner Bros. \/ DC\nOther titles and events on the docket include:\nBatman: Caped Crusader\nBatman: Fear State\nthe Batman\/Fortnite comic crossover\nBatwheels\nBlack Manta\nCatwoman: Hunted\nStargirl Season 3\nThe Flash Season 8\nHarley Quinn Season 3\nUpdate on the Milestone Universe\nSupergirl's sixth and final season\nSuperman & Lois Season 2\nSweet Tooth Season 2\nYoung Justice: Phantoms\nWonder Woman Historia\nWonderful Women of the World\nIn the run-up to Oct. 16, DC Universe Infinite (formerly the DC Universe streaming platform) will make over 300 comics and graphic novels available to read at no extra cost \u2014 just so long as folks register with the service.\nShazam: Fury of the Gods","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inside Bitcoins New Year Press Release\nby Ruben Alexander\nInside Bitcoins Conference and Expo in Las Vegas drew over 1,500 attendees from all over the world. The show was 15 times the size of the inaugural Inside Bitcoins Conference in NYC in July 2013. Mediabistro has a bright and ambitious future planned for Inside Bitcoins events and will be taking the conference on a world tour in 2014 with stops in Germany, Hong Kong, London, and New York City among other locations.\nInside Bitcoins is unique because it the only event to cover the origins, features, value propositions, and future impact of the first decentralized digital currency across all verticals and industries. Beyond banking, also examined is Bitcoin's history in gaming and its impact on global liquidity for casinos. Inside Bitcoins brings together the entrepreneurs and visionaries who are leading the charge into the future of money to share their successes, their failures and help spark new ideas along the way.\nGovernmental regulation of cryptocurrencies, financial tech, bitcoin mining, new business models, and the rapidly changing landscape of Bitcoin is all part of the discussion here.\nRiver Financial Joins Hawaii's Digital Currency Innovation Lab\nVisit Media Bistro's Inside Bitcoin Berlin website for more information about their next conference.\nInside Bitcoin Press Release\nRuben Alexander\nThe Bitcoin community has shown me that nothing can stop a group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. In our case, we believe everyone in the world deserves the right to financial freedom. My goal is to make sure everyone can see that this Bitcoin movement has the power to change the world for the better through every story we publish. Before working with Bitcoin Magazine I was involved in freelance writing, illustration, renders, making electronic music, and 3d print designs (http:\/\/www.behance.net\/urbenz). I'm also a married dude and a father of 2 who loves to have fun with his family, cook, and travel. Contact me by shooting a message to: ruben [at] bitcoinmagazine.com\nRuben Alexander January 2, 2014\nThe Second Order Effects Of Bitcoin: Digitization, Decentralization And Deflation\nPress Release: Knox Custody Completes Soc 2 Type II Audit\nPress Release: SatoshiLabs Introduces Invity.io\nPress Release: BitStarz Player Lands Record-Breaking Win at the Bitcoin Casino","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wings defenseman Jonathan Ericsson suffering from back spasms\nBy Joe YerdonOct 9, 2010, 3:35 AM EDT\nWhile the Red Wings' season got off to a hot start with a 4-0 win over Anaheim, it didn't come without some worry. Defenseman Jonathan Ericsson left the game in the first period with back spasms and will miss Saturday's game in Chicago. The Wings will have to call on rookie defenseman Jakub Kindl to take Ericsson's place in the lineup.\nEricsson's absence provides Kindl with a big opportunity to make a name for himself as Ericsson's play suffered last season, and while he showed slight improvement in training camp it's not as if he's irreplaceable in the lineup as the team's sixth defenseman. Kindl won a spot on the Wings roster out of training camp, beating out Derek Meech for the position.\n(Photo: Claus Andersen \u2013 Getty Images)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Program Verification Techniques for Understanding Security Properties of Software\nLead Research Organisation: University College London\nDepartment Name: Computer Science\nThis proposal aims to develop automatic program verification methods that help security engineers to understand software that they have not written themselves. The engineer will be able to make sophisticated queries about resource requirements and temporal behaviour of code, such as about memory safety, privileges, or information flow. Our methods will even support synthesis of behavioural properties for the engineer: rather than make a closed-world assumption, where the complete program and physical computing device are known, our tools will discover logical descriptions of execution environments (preconditons, protocols, invariants, etc.) that pinpoint the assumptions necessary for code safety or those that trigger violations. Such tools would aid engineers by, for example, advising where to concentrate effort when looking for critical security breaches. They would also suggest where to place effort in hardening an application. Finally, by using strong analysis techniques based on verification, guarantees of security properties could be obtained, as well as flaws discovered.\nTowards realising this vision we have assembled a team whoseexperience ranges from program verification research on logics and algorithms to systems security research involving new operating system primitives and software structuring principles that achieve robust security goals.\nThe work on this proposal will have potential for impact into the industry and the public sector.\nWe have links into Microsoft, both into static analysis research and into the security division on the product side. The London-based SME Monoidics ltd markets a static analysis tool which would be well placed to be influenced by the theoretical work and analysis prototypes done in this project. We also have a longstanding collaboration with Google on Native Client (NaCl), which securely runs untrusted native code downloaded from the Internet within the Chrome web browser.\nThese specific connections provide viable avenues for industrial impact of the results of this project. More generally,\nstatic analysis is gaining more attention in industry as time goes on. Major players in avionics, consumer electronics, and the automotive and defence industries use static analysis for bug-catching in-house. Thus, if this project were to achieve its aims there would appear to be opportunity for further industrial impact in the mid- to long-term (.e., 5-10 years and out).\nIn the public sector, the mere fact of GCHQ's support for the Research Institute in Automatic Program Analysis and Verification indicates interest, and potential for impact. The UK Government has made clear that they view cybersecurity as important, from the Cabinet Office Cybersecurity Strategy document in 2009, through to a parliamentary briefing note \"Cybersecurity in the UK\" in 2011, to the Cybersecurity Challenge launched in 2012. Generally speaking, as far as the public sector goes, work under this RI call will likely have more avenues for impact into the public sector than static analysis work has had before.\nOct 13 - Apr 17\nEP\/K032542\/1\nPeter O'Hearn\nBrad Nelson Karp\nInfo. & commun. Technol. (100%)\nFundamentals of Computing (100%)\nUniversity College London, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)\nMozilla Research (Collaboration)\nUniversity of California, San Diego, United States (Collaboration)\nGoogle (Collaboration)\nPeter O'Hearn (Principal Investigator)\nBrad Nelson Karp (Principal Investigator)\nMark James Handley (Co-Investigator)\nJuan Antonio Navarro Perez (Co-Investigator)\nByron Cook (Co-Investigator)\n|< < 1 2 > >|\nAlbargouthi A (2015) Compiler Construction - 24th International Conference, CC 2015, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015, London, UK, April 11-18, 2015, Proceedings\nBrockschmidt M (2015) Learning to Decipher the Heap for Program Verification\nBrockschmidt M (2016) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems\nChen H (2014) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems\nCook B (2014) Faster Temporal Reasoning for Infinite-State Programs in Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2014 (FMCAD 2014)\nCook B (2014) Disproving Termination with Overapproximation in Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2014 (FMCAD 2014)\nCook B (2015) Computer Aided Verification\nCook B (2015) Principles of Security and Trust - 4th International Conference, POST 2015, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015, London, UK, April 11-18, 2015, Proceedings\nGvozdiev N (2017) Low-Latency Routing on Mesh-Like Backbones\nStefan D (2014) Protecting Users by Confining JavaScript with COWL in Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2014)\nDescription Today's web developers cobble together JavaScript code from libraries and other web applications written by potentially malicious third parties. The threat to web users' privacy is severe: unbeknownst to either a web application's user or its developer, malicious code included in the application may leak the user's sensitive data to unauthorised third parties. With our collaborators at Mozilla, Google, Stanford, and UCSD, we have designed and built Confinement with Origin Web Labels (COWL), a confinement system for modern web browsers that prevents malicious JavaScript code in web applications from exfiltrating such sensitive data. COWL strengthens privacy for users while also increasing flexibility for application developers: its approach to confinement enables the creation of featureful web applications (e.g., third-party mashups) that are disallowed in the status-quo web.\nWe have produced implementations of COWL for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chromium web browsers, and released the former as open source. We have demonstrated the applicability of COWL to a wide range of web applications. We have taken a major first step toward the adoption of COWL in mainstream web browsers by standardising COWL with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the web; the First Public Working Draft (FPWD) of COWL was released in October 2015, and our standardisation efforts with the W3C continue. COWL also appeared in USENIX OSDI 2014, the co-premier venue (with ACM SOSP) for computer systems research.\nVulnerabilities in modern server-side applications that give rise to sensitive data disclosures arise when programmers make errors: e.g., forgetting to sanitise input from the remote user before executing a dangerous operation with that input, or forgetting to include the appropriate access control check before sending access-controlled data to a remote user. We have designed and built G8, a run-time policy system for the popular Node.js JavaScript development framework for server-side applications. By enforcing security invariants at runtime, G8 blocks unsafe operations and unauthorised disclosures of sensitive information that would otherwise have resulted from programmer errors.\nWe have produced an implementation of G8 for the Node.js development environment that augments the V8 JavaScript runtime to enforce labeled information flow control-based policies. We have demonstrated that G8 successfully prevents exploits of vulnerabilities in popular server-side Node.js applications, such as the etherpad collaborative text editor.\nTo understand whether or not software may exhibit a specific dangerous (or desirable) behaviour, formal proof of invariants that hold in all the software's possible executions is invaluable. We have devised new formal program analyses and built tools that implement these analyses for real-world program source code.\nWe have produced analyses and tools that, e.g., prove when an event may happen infinitely often in the future of a program's execution; prove whether fairness is achieved in the execution of a program with infinite branching; and disprove termination of a program through overapproximation.\nExploitation Route COWL may be deployed in mainstream web browsers, for use by the world's web users; our activity to standardise COWL is ongoing.\nG8 may be used to secure Node.js server-side applications against attacks that disclose sensitive information to unauthorised parties.\nOur program analyses may be used by researchers and practitioners alike to determine whether real-world software exhibits desired security properties.\nSectors Digital\/Communication\/Information Technologies (including Software)\nDescription Our work on COWL (for web privacy) has led to the creation of a draft standard (First Public Working Draft) with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that standardises how the web works (and thus the features included in web browsers, servers, and sites). This standardisation process, which is ongoing at this writing, may eventually lead to the incorporation of COWL into widely used web browsers (e.g., Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome), and thus to widespread use of COWL to improve privacy for web users.\nSector Digital\/Communication\/Information Technologies (including Software)\nImpact Types Economic\nDescription GCHQ Business Continuity Proposal\nFunding ID 4196846\nOrganisation Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)\nDescription UCL-Stanford Collaboration on Web Browser Security\nDepartment Research at Google\nPI Contribution Collaborated on the design of new privacy techniques for web browsers. Contributed to the research problem definition, design of the privacy techniques, selection of test-case applications, design of experimental evaluation, and writing up of the research in peer-reviewed publications.\nCollaborator Contribution Same as the contributions our research team has made; we are equal collaborators on all aspects of the research.\nImpact HotOS 2013 paper, Toward Principled Browser Security OSDI 2014 paper, Protecting Users by Confining JavaScript with COWL\nOrganisation Mozilla Research\nCountry Global\nDescription UCL-UCSD collaboration on web security and privacy\nOrganisation University of California, San Diego (UCSD)\nDepartment Department of Computer Science and Engineering\nPI Contribution Ongoing design extensions and improvements to the COWL (Confinement with Origin Web Labels) system for web privacy.\nCollaborator Contribution Ongoing design extensions and improvements to the COWL (Confinement with Origin Web Labels) system for web privacy.\nImpact Not multi-disciplinary; all within Computer Science. No outputs yet.\nTitle COWL Confinement Systems for Web Browsers\nDescription Implementations of a confinement system to protect users' privacy in the Google Chromium and Mozilla Firefox web browsers.\nImpact Early thus far, but press coverage about the code release and research project: http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/10\/07\/boffins_build_cowl_web_privacy_system_to_cut_malware_off_at_the_knees\/ http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/10\/06\/cowl-web-privacy\/ http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/2691741\/microsoft-subnet\/researchers-unveil-cowl-a-new-system-to-protect-surfers-privacy.html\nURL http:\/\/cowl.ws\nDescription Invited talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA\nResults and Impact Received an invitation to give a talk at Microsoft Research in Redmond in the USA on my work on the COWL web browser privacy project. Delivered a 90 minute-long talk (including Q&A) on the design and implementation of the system to influential researchers at Microsoft, including people involved with web security-related products and research at Microsoft.\nURL http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/apps\/video\/default.aspx?id=244746&r=1\nDescription Presentation on Browser Privacy to UK Cyber Security Research Conference 2014\nPrimary Audience Policymakers\/parliamentarians\nResults and Impact Presentation led to questions and interest from representatives of the UK government (GCHQ, BIS, OCSIA).\nJames Quinault, CBE, the head of OCSIA in the UK government, initiated the meeting by citing my research on COWL (the subject of my presentation) as an example of the sort of world-leading technical work on security and privacy that the UK excels at.\nAfter my talk, two representatives from GCHQ asked if I would visit their site and give a longer technical talk on my research on web browser privacy.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kim Kardashian to 'try' for third child with Kanye West\nThe couple are already parents to daughter North and son Saint.\nKim Kardashian (R) and Kanye West attend the Harper's Bazaar Icons party on September 9, 2016. The reality star discusses the possibility of another pregnancy in a preview for Sunday's episode of \"Keeping Up with the Kardashians.\" File Photo by Andrea Hanks\/UPI | License Photo\nKim Kardashian (L) and Kanye West attend the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, 2016. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo\nKim Kardashian attends the Vogue 100 gala on May 23, 2016. File Photo by Paul Treadway\/UPI | License Photo\nMarch 27 (UPI) -- Kim Kardashian says she wants to \"try\" for a third child with husband Kanye West.\nThe 36-year-old reality discusses the possibility of another, high-risk pregnancy in a preview for the April 2 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.\n\"I'm going to try to have one more baby,\" Kardashian tells mom Kris Jenner and sisters Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian in the clip.\n\"I want my kids to have siblings, but the doctors don't feel like it's safe for me,\" she adds in a confessional shot.\nKardashian already shares 3-year-old daughter North and 15-month-old son Saint with West. She previously considered using a surrogate for a third child after doctors told her another pregnancy might be dangerous.\n\"Using a surrogate is not an unreasonable option,\" a fertility specialist told the star in Season 12. \"If our goal is to grow your family like you want to, then a surrogate makes sense.\"\nKardashian had preeclampsia during her first pregnancy and experienced placenta accreta -- a condition where the placenta remains attached to the uterus -- after giving birth to North. She also had complications while pregnant with Saint.\nKeeping Up with the Kardashians returned for a 13th season this month. Kardashian opened up about her Paris robbery for the first time on last week's episode, saying she expected to be raped and killed during the October incident.\nRob Kardashian says he 'can't wait' for Dream's first word Kim Kardashian says she expected to be raped during Paris robbery Jon Gosselin to perform as stripper in New Jersey 'Pirates of the Caribbean 5': Javier Bardem swears revenge in new trailer\n'Godzilla vs. Kong' to debut March 26\nLiv Tyler reunites with children after battling COVID-19\nTaylor Swift's 'Evermore' tops U.S. album chart\nJohn Legend, Bruce Springsteen to perform during Biden inauguration special\nKaley Cuoco mourns the death of dog Norman\nCelebrity splits of 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Agency Insight\n5 Networking Mistakes to Try to Avoid\nNetworking can bring about anxiety and stress for anyone. But love it or hate it, networking plays a key role in job growth. Here's how to avoid committing five common networking blunders that could potentially impact your professional image.\n1. Card Blasting and Collecting\nHanding out cards left and right, and racking up a stack in return, can come across as disingenuous. The point of networking isn't simply collecting contacts. Rather, the value lies in making connections with people and discovering how you can benefit each other's career paths.\n2. An Inauthentic Approach\nYou've probably heard the advice to \"just be yourself\" throughout your life but this holds true in the business world, as well.\nWhen you're networking, you want to put your best foot forward \u2013 but you must do it authentically. Instead of exaggerating or boasting, let your experience and knowledge shine through naturally. You'll come across as confident and someone who's worth getting to know.\n3. Overworking the Room\nWhen you're at a networking event, it's all too easy to fall into the trap of trying to connect with as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. It's a given that you want to grow your network sooner rather than later. But talking to everyone for a few minutes might not allow for the creation of deeper, meaningful connections that lie at the heart of successful networking.\nRather than trying to speak with everyone for a short period of time, take a deeper dive with fewer people. Focus your efforts on those that can teach you and with whom you can build mutually beneficial relationships.\n4. The Hard Sell\nWhen you're attending a networking event, it's fine to talk about your business or your successes. However, keep in mind that a \"hard sell\" approach may not be appreciated or effective.\nAn aggressive or pushy approach may backfire, turning off potential prospects. Your goal should lie in marketing, rather than selling, yourself.\nWhat's the difference? When you're selling, your focus is on yourself and your accomplishments. When you're marketing, you're making an effort to learn about your audience and best understand how you can offer value to them.\n5. Not Minding Your Manners\nAt its core, networking is a social activity. Manners matter, and a polite demeanor can go a long way toward establishing trust.\nAvoid interrupting or talking over people\nPay attention and really listen during conversations, rather than looking around the room to identify your next target\nResist the temptation to \"hide\" by playing on your phone\nDon't ask for a business referral from someone you've just met\nApproach people with a \"giving\" rather than \"taking\" mindset\nDon't hijack conversations by talking only about yourself\nRemember to use common courtesy \u2013 say thank you and express appreciation that others have taken the time to interact\nIt's easy to make networking mistakes, but an awareness of these common mistakes will help you enjoy an effective, successful networking experience.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"People v. Butera, 23 A.D.3d 1066 (NY Ct. App. 2005)\nState: Federal\nPEOPLE v. BUTERA\n23 A.D.3d 1066 (2005)\n803 N.Y.S.2d 856\nTHE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent,\nCALOGERO BUTERA, Appellant.\nAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.\nPresent \u2014 Hurlbutt, J.P., Scudder, Gorski, Smith and Lawton, JJ.\nIt is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.\nMemorandum:\nOn appeal from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of murder in the second degree (Penal Law \u00a7 125.25 [1]), defendant contends that he met his burden of establishing the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance by a preponderance of the evidence (see generally People v. Roche,98 N.Y.2d 70, 75 [2002]), and thus that his conviction of murder should be reduced to manslaughter in the first degree. We reject that contention. It is undisputed that defendant had been diagnosed with a delusional disorder, paranoid type, and he testified at trial that he believed that the victim was a threat to him and to his family. Although defendant thereby arguably established that his conduct was influenced by an extreme emotional disturbance, we nevertheless conclude that the jury was entitled to find that defendant failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the \"emotional disturbance was supported by a reasonable explanation or excuse\" (id.at 76). According to the evidence presented at trial, the victim was dating defendant's estranged wife, and it is undisputed that there had been a prior physical altercation between the two men. Furthermore, moments before the shooting, the victim had sworn at defendant and had flicked a cigarette at him. Thus, the jury was entitled to find that defendant killed the victim as a result of \"malevolence rather than an understandable\n[ 23 A.D.3d 1068 ]\nhuman response deserving of mercy\" (People v. Casassa,49 N.Y.2d 668, 680-681 [1980],cert denied 449 U.S. 842 [1980]).\nWe reject the further contention of defendant that the People failed to meet their burden of disproving his justification defense. Defendant testified at trial that the victim approached him and that he observed the outline of a gun in the victim's pocket. According to defendant's trial testimony, the victim threatened to use the gun and defendant therefore shot the victim in self-defense. The record establishes, however, that no gun was found on the victim's person or in proximity to the victim. In evaluating a justification defense, a jury must determine whether the defendant \"actually believed that deadly force was necessary \u2026 [and must] assess the reasonableness of defendant's belief that he was in deadly peril by judging the situation from the point of view of defendant as though [the jury was] actually in his place\" (People v. Wesley,76 N.Y.2d 555, 559-560 [1990]; see People v. Goetz,68 N.Y.2d 96, 114-115 [1986]; see generally People v. Stokes,19 A.D.3d 1069 [2005], lv denied5 N.Y.3d 795 [2005]). Even assuming, arguendo, that the jury found that defendant believed that deadly force was necessary, we conclude that the jury was entitled to find that defendant's belief was not reasonable. We further conclude that the verdict is not against the weight of the evidence (see generally People v. Bleakley,69 N.Y.2d 490, 495 [1987]).\nWe reject defendant's further contention that Supreme Court erred in admitting an autopsy photograph in evidence. The photograph depicted the victim's face, including the gunshot wound to the victim's left eye. The photograph thus was probative of the calculated manner of the shooting and therefore was admissible for the purpose of rebutting the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance and disproving the defense of justification (see generally People v. Wood,79 N.Y.2d 958, 960 [1992]; People v. Stevens,76 N.Y.2d 833, 835-836 [1990]). Contrary to defendant's contention, the fact that the original autopsy photograph is not included in the record on appeal does not require reversal. Although we agree with defendant that the photograph has \"`substantial importance'\" with respect to his contention that the photograph was unduly prejudicial (People v. Yavru-Sakuk,98 N.Y.2d 56, 60 [2002]), the record on appeal contains a black-and-white photocopy of the photograph, and we conclude that the loss of the original color photograph does not \"preclude[] meaningful appellate review\" (id.; see People v. Jackson,98 N.Y.2d 555, 560 [2002]). Even assuming, arguendo, that defendant's contentions in the pro se supplemental brief\nare preserved for our review, we conclude that they are without merit. The sentence is not unduly harsh or severe.\nBy Andrew Branca| 2012-12-20T11:21:36+00:00\tDecember 20th, 2012|0 Comments","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Comedian Joey Bishop, last of Sinatra's Rat Pack, dead at 89\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Joey Bishop, the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, has died at 89.\nHe was the group's last surviving member. Peter Lawford died in 1984, Sammy Davis Jr. in 1990, Dean Martin in 1995, and Sinatra in 1998.\nBishop died Wednesday night of multiple causes at his home in Newport Beach, publicist and longtime friend Warren Cowan said Thursday.\nThe Rat Pack became a show business sensation in the early 1960s, appearing at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in shows that combined music and comedy in a seemingly chaotic manner.\nReviewers often claimed that Bishop played a minor role, but Sinatra knew otherwise. He termed the comedian \"the Hub of the Big Wheel,\" with Bishop coming up with some of the best one-liners and beginning many jokes with his favorite phrase, \"Son of a gun!\"\nThe quintet lived it up whenever members were free of their own commitments. They appeared together in such films as \"Ocean's Eleven\" and \"Sergeants 3\" and proudly gave honorary membership to a certain fun-loving politician from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, at whose inauguration gala Bishop served as master of ceremonies.\nThe Rat Pack faded after Kennedy's assassination, but the late 1990s brought a renaissance, with the group depicted in an HBO movie and portrayed by imitators in Las Vegas and elsewhere. The movie \"Ocean's Eleven\" was even remade in 2003 with George Clooney and Brad Pitt in the lead roles.\nBishop defended his fellow performers' rowdy reputations in a 1998 interview.\n\"Are we remembered as being drunk and chasing broads?\" he asked. \"I never saw Frank, Dean, Sammy or Peter drunk during performances. That was only a gag. And do you believe these guys had to chase broads? They had to chase 'em away.\"\nBishop's comedic schooling came from vaudeville, burlesque and nightclubs.\nSkipping his last high school semester in Philadelphia, he formed a music and comedy act with two other boys, and they played clubs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They called themselves the Bishop Brothers, borrowing the name from their driver, Glenn Bishop.\nJoseph Abraham Gottlieb would eventually adopt Joey Bishop as his stage name.\nWhen his partners got drafted, Bishop went to work as a single, playing his first solo date in Cleveland at the well-named El Dumpo.\nDuring these early years he developed his style: laid-back drollery, with surprise throwaway lines.\nAfter 3 1\/2 years in the Army, Bishop resumed his career in 1945. Within five years he was earning $1,000 a week at New York's Latin Quarter. Sinatra saw him there one night and hired him as opening act.\nWhile most members of the Sinatra entourage treated the great man gingerly, Bishop had no inhibitions. He would tell audiences that the group's leader hadn't ignored him: \"He spoke to me backstage; he told me 'Get out of the way.\"'\nWhen Sinatra almost drowned filming a movie scene in Hawaii, Bishop wired him: \"I thought you could walk on water.\"\nBorn in New York's borough of the Bronx, Bishop was the youngest of five children of two immigrants from Eastern Europe.\nWhen he was 3 months old the family moved to South Philadelphia, where he attended public schools. He recalled being an indifferent student, once remarking, \"In kindergarten, I flunked sand pile.\"\nIn 1941 Bishop married Sylvia Ruzga and, despite the rigors of a show business career, the marriage survived until her death in 1999.\nBishop, who had one son, Larry, spent his retirement years on the upscale Lido Isle in Southern California's Newport Bay.\n\u2014 Associated Press Writer Bob Thomas contributed to this report.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How To Make Detroit Zip Sauce?\nCreates 3\/4 cup of sauce.\nButter, unsalted, 8 tablespoons\nWorcestershire sauce, half a cup\n2 teaspoons freshly minced rosemary\n1 teaspoon fresh thyme minced\n1\/2 kosher salt spoon\n0.5 teaspoons of pepper\nIn a small saucepan over medium heat, bring all the ingredients to a barely boil while whisking continuously. When ready to serve, remove from heat and cover to maintain warmth.\nFrom what is zip sauce made?\nMany refer to it as a dipping sauce. Some people call it a buttery, salty coating. The wonderful sauce known as Zip Sauce is the perfect accompaniment to steaks, soups, seafood, and even vegetables, according to foodies of all stripes.\nFor those who are unfamiliar, Zip Sauce is one of the mysteries that help Detroit become known for its cuisine and illustrious restaurateurs. There is debate over what ingredients are used in Zip Sauce, who made the best version, and how to make it at home, just like there is debate over who belonged to the Purple Gang or what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.\nLike SpongeBob's Krabby Patty, the true formula for Zip Sauce is a closely-kept secret. However, all culinary geniuses use a few common components. Most people claim that Zip Sauce is made up of a mixture of butter, beef base, Worcestershire sauce, occasionally mustard, and a variety of spices, including garlic, thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper.\nMario Lelli, who started an upscale Italian restaurant along Woodward Avenue in 1939, is the first person in the history of Zip Sauce. According to the legend, northern Italian cuisine were king at Lelli's restaurant. However, it was their steaks and renowned Zip Sauce that made it a household brand.\nIs Zip sauce a specialty of Michigan?\nThe 1940s saw the creation of Zip Sauce in the Detroit, Michigan, kitchen of Lelli's Inn, an Italian eatery. Because the butter-based steak sauce was so well received by guests, word of it quickly traveled, and soon imitation sauces started to appear at nearby restaurants.\nToday, due to entrepreneur chef Michael Esshaki, Zip Sauce can be purchased in bottles both offline and online in Detroit. But this Zip-Style Sauce is a great substitute if you're looking for a homemade version that will enhance any roast beef cut.\nAside from the fresh thyme and rosemary's aromatic taste, the nicest thing about Cook's Country's rendition is how easy it is to prepare. You can make the ideal side dish for roast beef in just one step, combining all the ingredients in a matter of minutes.\nDoes zip sauce require cooling off?\nStir the melted butter into the first four ingredients, which have been combined. After that, add everything else and gently reheat for about a minute. Avoid overcooking it. Use it within a few weeks and store it in the refrigerator in a jar with a tight lid.\nTo use, create the sauce by combining a little over 1\/4 cup of this sauce with a little under 1\/4 cup of the steak drippings. (creates roughly 2\/3 cup).\nWhat ingredients are in demi-glace sauce?\nDemi-glace is a tremendously rich, thick sauce that is created by simmering red wine or Espagnole sauce and brown stock (traditionally produced from veal or beef) until they have the consistency of practically syrup.\nIt frequently serves as the sole sauce in traditional recipes or serves as the foundation for other sauces. Chefs adore incorporating it into their dishes and soups because it adds such a rich depth of flavor. It is a really useful tool for a chef to have on hand.\nIs Demi-Glace the same as gravy?\nSimple no is the response. When making gravy, a roux is used to thicken the stock. To mask the flavor that the flour imparts, a substantial amount of seasoning is needed. Demi-glace is essentially concentrated stock that thickens by removing the water and enhancing the naturally meaty flavor.\nHow long is zip sauce still edible after being opened?\nOnce the sauce has cooled to room temperature, it should be stored in an airtight container or placed in a zip-top bag. can be kept for up to five days in the refrigerator.\nDescribe zip pasta.\nCream, zip sauce, chicken, mushrooms, carrots, and fresh basil are mixed with thick rigatoni noodles. Together, the heavy cream and zing sauce produced a flavor that was satisfyingly thick and savory\u2014far too delicious to share.\nHow long can homemade sauce be kept?\nDownload Food Network Kitchen to register and have access to in-app grocery ordering, meal planning, a place to save all of your recipes, live and on-demand cooking lessons, and much more.\nIt is simple and affordable to increase the yield if you plan to manufacture your own sauces, whether they are barbeque, classic marinara, or something else. Fortunately, freezing sauces is a simple process. The majority of sauces, including tomato-based sauces, meat sauces, and even bechamel and creamy alfredo sauces, freeze nicely. One of the simplest ways to preserve freshly produced sauces in your kitchen is to freeze them. Determine specifics like how long your sauce will survive, how to avoid freezer burn, and the best way for thawing before you fill your freezer with Sunday gravy. If you want to freeze sauces safely and effectively, whether you are meal planning or just trying to preserve leftover sauces, follow these guidelines.\nBest Practices for Storing and Freezing\nOnce your sauce is prepared, the first thing to do is to securely cool it. An already-prepared sauce that is room temperature can be put into storage right away, but a hot or warm sauce should never be put straight into the freezer since you run the danger of boosting the freezer's internal temperature. According to food safety regulations, food should be cooled to an interior temperature of 120 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within the first two hours, and 70 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit within the first four. Simply let your sauce out at room temperature for up to two hours, then put it in the refrigerator to cool. The alternative is to put the sauce in a container and then submerge the whole thing in a big bowl of ice water. To hasten the cooling process, stir the sauce every now and then. Your sauces can then be properly stored and frozen once they have cooled.\nSelecting the right kind and size of container is the next step. Avoid storing sauces or any other food products in glass containers because they may break if the food inside expands during freezing. Use freezer bags, Tupperware, or plastic containers as an alternative. Instead of freezing large batches, portion your sauces according to how you will use them once they have thawed. If you only need a little sauce, pour it into an ice cube tray or snack-size freezer bags. This will not only save waste and free up room in your freezer, but it will also make reheating individual servings much simpler. Simply remove as much surplus air as you can, or choose a container that is so compact that there is little room for air to flow, to prevent freezer burn.\nHow Long Will Sauce Last in the Freezer?\nIn your refrigerator, homemade sauces will normally remain fresh for 3 to 4 days. These same sauces can be safely frozen and kept for up to 6 months. It's crucial to remember that after six months, your sauces may still be safe to eat, but the flavors may have changed and you run a higher risk of freezer burn.\nHow to Defrost Sauces?\nThe best way to defrost sauces is to let them slowly defrost in the fridge. It takes some time, but it will guarantee that the temperature of your meal is safe. Put the sauce container in a big bowl in your sink for a quicker solution. To thaw the container, pour cold water over it. Note: This approach should not be used with hot water as it may cause the meal to become unsafely hot.\nIt's also crucial to remember that different sauces will thaw differently from one another. For instance, a cheese- or cream-based sauce like bechamel may split or break once it has thawed. When reheating, simply whisk the sauce again to make sure it is not broken. In order to lower the danger of foodborne germs, it is preferable to defrost meat-containing sauces in the refrigerator before reheating them to at least 165 degrees F.\nAlthough emulsified sauces, such as mayonnaise or homemade vinaigrette, can be frozen with outstanding thawing outcomes, they shouldn't be since it's practically hard to thaw them correctly and restore the sauce to its original texture and flavor.\nIs outdated steak sauce still edible?\nHow long does opened steak sauce last? The precise response mostly depends on the storage conditions; to extend the shelf life of opened steak sauce, keep it refrigerated and always well covered.\nHow long will a bottle of opened steak sauce keep in the fridge? Continuously refrigerated steak sauce often retains its peak quality for two years.\nIs it safe to use unsealed steak sauce after the \"expiration date\"? Yes, as long as it has been properly stored, the bottle is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage (see below). Commercially bottled steak sauce will frequently have a \"Best By,\" \"Best if Used By,\" \"Best Before,\" or \"Best When Used By\" date; however, this is not a safety date; rather, it is the manufacturer's prediction of how long the steak sauce will stay at its best.\nAfter that, the steak sauce's texture, color, or flavor may change, but if it has been kept consistently chilled, the bottle is undamaged, and there are no signs of spoilage, it will typically still be safe to eat. The storage time indicated for opened steak sauce is only for best quality; after that, it may lose some of its original flavor or color (see below).\nHow can you determine whether steak sauce that has been opened is rotten or bad? The best method is to smell and inspect the steak sauce; if it starts to have an off flavor, smell, or appearance, or if mold starts to grow, it should be thrown out.\nWhat is the shelf life of homemade cheese sauce?\nCheese sauce can be prepared in advance and kept in the refrigerator for two to five days. To prevent burning, reheat it in a saucepan over low heat.\nIs demi-glace merely a topping?\nDefining what demi-glace isn't is almost always simpler than defining it. It isn't au juice, it's not pan dripping gravy, and it's not typically something prepared in a tiny quantity to go with a single meal. In essence, it is a brown stock that has been simmered for a long time and has been reduced, coupled with Espagnole sauce, one of the traditional mother sauces of French cooking. The traditional demi-glace is produced with veal, but it can also be made with beef or chicken; in these cases, the variation is known as a beef demi-glace or a chicken demi-glace, respectively. The word \"demi,\" which means \"half,\" denotes a 50\/50 mixture of the Espagnole sauce and the reduced stock (glace).\nDemi-glace is a sauce that can be used as a seasoning for soups, stews, and other sauces in addition to serving as a meat complement.\nDemi-glace is both traditional and contemporary. No matter what kind of meat is utilized, the stock is essentially a bone stock. At least one day of low heat simmering is required, and many recipes call for two or three days. Bone stocks date back to a time when food was prepared over a fire in a fireplace or fire pit, where a boiling soup or stock was frequently kept on the heat. When real nose-to-tail feeding was practiced, the stock was boiled not only to remove the meat from the bones but also to utilize the bones' own nutritional value and ability to thicken the liquid.\nTomatoes, a product of the New World and a component of Espagnole sauce, are the modern contribution to demi-glace.\nProfessional French chefs who anticipated spending several hours in the kitchen made demi-glace and espagnoli sauce. The same could not be said for individuals who prepare meals for themselves, and the lengthy preparation time for demi-glace prevented it from gaining popularity among affluent home cooks. Instead, throughout the years, a wide variety of prepared stocks and brown sauces have crowded shop shelves, but none of them perfectly replicate the flavor of demi-glace. There is some evidence that the tide may be shifting in favor of real demi-glace due to the resurgence of nose-to-tail eating and the growth of serious home chefs.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Roger Ebert December 07, 1990\nClint Eastwood's new film, \"The Rookie,\" plays like an anthology of stuff that has worked before in action pictures. It's jammed with material and the budget was obviously large, but somehow not much pays off. It's all there on the screen, but lifeless.\nThe title alerts us to the possibility that this will not be a work of dazzling originality. How many other movies have used the same premise, about a veteran cop whose partner is killed, and who then gets paired up with a greenhorn rookie, who has to be taught the rules of the street? The screenplay by Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel torturously tries to devise new angles (this time the kid comes from a rich family but wants to be a cop because he blames himself for his brother's death). But the characterization is paper-thin, and not helped by Charlie Sheen's low energy and absent-minded performance.\nEastwood is dependable in the movie, as always, but some of his trademarks seem more affected than usual. He likes to use a dialogue catchphrase in his action pictures, and sometimes that's fun, but after \"Make my day,\" his \"Got a light?\" seems anticlimactic.\nIn the movie, he's a veteran auto theft detective who's on the trail of a big-time chop-shop operator (Raul Julia) whose sidekick is a machine-gun-wielding sexpot (Sonia Braga). Eastwood has a personal vendetta against the crook, and so of course we get the obligatory scene where his superior officer pulls him off the case.\nWe know the drill: The cop will wage a private war no matter what his orders are, and the rookie will come along for the ride. The movie contains a lot of big action scenes, including a spectacular chase, some sensational car stunts, and one barroom brawl too many.\nBut none of the characters really comes alive in any interesting way. Sheen keeps a poker face and laconic voice through much of the movie, and doesn't generate the kind of vigor and intensity the role needs; a more nervous actor might have been a better choice.\nAnd what's the deal with Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, as the chop-shop tycoon and what appears to be his mistress? They're given hardly any dialogue together that isn't flat and functional, and there's no chemistry between them - not even jealousy from Julia when he sees a videotape of Braga having sex with Eastwood. Action movies rise and fall on the strength of their villains, and \"Rookie\" fills two potentially interesting roles with good actors and then gives them little to do.\nThat leaves the stunts and special effects. There are some good ones, including a chase down an expressway, with Eastwood driving his car right up the loading ramp of a semi auto-carrier. But other moments raise questions. It's quite a stunt, all right, when Eastwood and Sheen race a sports car through a factory wall just before the factory explodes, but does Eastwood really have to shout \"Fasten your seatbelt!\" as the car is in mid-air and the rest of the screen is filled with flames? It's a neat twist on \"North by Northwest\" to have Eastwood and Sheen pursued by an airplane on the ground - but what about that final shoot-out in the airport terminal, which goes on forever without seeming to draw the attention of cops or security guards? What \"The Rookie\" feels like is an assembly of scenes that were not attached to characters we can care about. The dialogue is wooden, or artificial, or self-consciously cute. Most of the characters are not given even perfunctory development. Plausibility is an early casualty. And although \"Got a light?\" has already entered into the nation's vocabulary, this time I don't think Eastwood is going to be able to claim credit for it.\nRoger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.\nIf These Walls Could Sing\nThe Super 8 Years\nMarya E. Gates\nThe Seven Faces of Jane\nMatt Zoller Seitz\nThe Rookie (1990)\nClint Eastwood as Nick Pulovski\nCharlie Sheen as David Ackerman\nRaul Julia as Strom\nSonia Braga as Leisel\nLara Flynn Boyle as Sara\nTom Skerritt as Eugene Ackerman\nJack Green\nScott Spiegel\nHoward Kazanjian\nSteven Siebert\nLennie Niehaus\nJoel Cox\nSundance 2023: A Little Prayer, Eileen, Bad Behaviour\nSundance 2023: Past Lives, Passages, You Hurt My Feelings\nSundance 2023: Slow, Girl, Mami Wata\nSundance 2023: Heroic, Scrapper, Sorcery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How Tim Cook Makes and Spends his Money?\nTim Cook is worth an estimated $625 million.\nAs the CEO of Apple,\nhe's the first openly gay CEO in the Fortune 500.\nAnd in 2018, Apple became the first US startup ever to be worth $1 trillion.\nBut compared to his counterparts in the tech world,\nhis net worth is pretty relatively moderate.\nGoogle founder and Alphabet CEO, Larry Page, is worth $53 billion.\nFacebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is worth just under $70 billion.\nAnd Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos is the first person in modern history to\naccumulate a fortune north of $100 billion.\nTim Cook doesn't lead a luxurious lifestyle and has said,\n\"I like to be reminded of where I came from,\nputting myself in acceptable surroundings helps me do that.\"\nHistory of Promotion\nThe Alabama native had a humble start in life as the son of a shipyard worker and pharmacy employee.\nWhen he was promoted as Apple's CEO in 2011, his base salary was $900,000,\nand has risen to $3 million in 2017.\nHe also receives a cash incentive based on the company's performance, which pushed his total pay for\n2017 to over $12 million.\nMain source of cook's wealth\nHis net worth consists mainly of\n$622 million worth of Apple's stock and options,\nhe has collected since becoming CEO.\nAnd $3.4 million of Nike stock options he gets as a\nmember of Nike's board of directors.\nHow does Apple's leader spend his fortune?\nQuite differently than other CEOs of tech giants.\nIn 2012, he bought a 2,400 square foot home in Palo Alto,\nfor $1.9 million, the median cost of\na home in Palo Alto in 2018 is $3.3 million.\nAnd his frugality doesn't stop at the housing market.\nHe reportedly buys his underwear\nat Nordstrom's semi-annual sale.\nTim Cook does splurge when it comes to\ndonating to good causes, a philosophy that differs from that\nof his predecessor, who lacked a record of public giving.\nHe encourages his employees to give and\nhas led Apple into many philanthropic endeavors.\nIn 2011, he instated a company-wide,\nnonprofit donation matching program.\nOver the past 10 years,\nApple has contributed $130 million to\nhelp RED fight AIDS.\n$100 million to advance diversity in tech,\nthrough President Barack Obama's ConnectED initiative.\n$50 million to hospitals and more.\nCook practices what he preaches, too.\nHe's donated to civil rights efforts.\nAnd in 2018, he donated more than 23,000 shares of\nhis Apple stock, valued at just under $5 million to\nan undisclosed charity.\nHe also regularly makes campaign donations.\nHe's hosted fundraisers for\nBarack Obama and Hillary Clinton.\nAnd in 2016, he donated $236,000\nto the Hillary Victory Fund.\nCook's altruism even applies to his future financial plans.\nHe intends to use his wealth to\nput his nephew through college.\nAnd upon his death, he plans to\ngive away all his money to good causes.\nHe told Fortune magazine, \"You want to be the\npebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.\"\nBy MR|2020-07-02T10:02:19+02:00August 4th, 2019|Categories: INTRO|0 Comments\nShare This Story, Platform!\nAbout the Author: MR\nJune 9th, 2019 | 0 Comments\nThe 9 best startup books you should read + Bonus\nBusiness Model Canvas (BMC)\nWhat is Entrepreneurship?\nHow to Find a New Business Idea That's Right for You\n5 Reasons New Product Launch Fails\n6 Principles of Startup Team Building\nTop 250 Fintech Startups of 2018\nHow to Create a Brand?\nBest Digital Payment Trends 2020\nWhat is PropTech?\nHow to Create Your Business Plan\n4 Characteristics of Entrepreneurs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dark Souls 3 Beaten by Someone Only Using Their Feet\nWhere do they go from here?\nBy Alex Newhouse on June 8, 2016 at 11:50AM PDT\nDark Souls III is a hard game. For most players, it's really hard. But as always, there are those people who just want to make a challenge even more challenging. As a result, we get people beating Dark Souls games with Rock Band controllers, with Donkey Kong bongo drums, and in twenty minutes.\nBut now, YouTube user Celesterian Games has beaten all of the Dark Souls 3 bosses using only his feet.\nHonestly, I'm not sure how he pulls it off. There are entirely too many buttons on the PlayStation 4 controller he uses for feet to be able to respond quickly enough to play it, but he has managed to do it. In the video above, you can watch him beat the final bosses in the game.\nHe also simultaneously filmed himself playing it with his feet, so you can see for yourself that the accomplishment is real.\nDevoted players have beaten Dark Souls games in a variety of creative ways, including one person who completed Dark Souls 3 without leveling up, rolling, or blocking. Another player used only voice commands to get through the first Dark Souls game.\nFor all of you players who haven't managed to master the art of playing games with your feet, Dark Souls 3 is still fun to play normally. Publisher Bandai Namco announced last month that the game has sold 3 million copies and it got an 8\/10 from GameSpot. Critic Mike Mahardy wrote, \"There are a few stumbles along the way, but in the end, Dark Souls III is well worth the riveting climb.\" You can read our full review here.\n$5.99 on Walmart\nThere are 43 comments about this story","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Florida home furnishing retailer miami may have to shut down because of safety concerns\nFlorida home furnishing retailer mondo was ordered to close after the company's online sales portal received an influx of complaints about customers getting into dangerous situations.\nAccording to a letter from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, mondo's online marketplace had nearly 1,400 complaints about people getting into situations where they \"were unable to safely enter or leave their home due to personal or personal injury.\"\nThe company was forced to suspend sales and temporarily shut down its website in order to address the issues.\nThe company is now working with the Department of Consumer Protection and the Florida Emergency Management Agency to review its policies and procedures and determine how it can implement safety protocols for future events.\nWhile mondo will be allowed to reopen, it will have to make a few changes, including limiting the number of people it can sell its furniture at a time and reducing the number it will allow to buy items.\nIt will also be forced to reduce the number people it will offer online shopping.\n\"We are taking this matter seriously and have put in place safety protocols to prevent any future safety issues,\" a spokesperson for mondo told The Miami Herald.\nMondo, which has more than 1,300 stores in Florida, has been operating under a temporary restraining order since April, but has faced backlash for its safety protocols and its failure to implement them.\nThe temporary restraining orders prohibit businesses from selling items from outside the state, and prohibit sales of items from stores outside the Florida mainland.\nIt also bans businesses from offering discounts for customers who pay in cash or credit cards, and restricts the amount of products that can be sold for any reason.\nIn September, the company issued a safety advisory that it is \"working with the Florida Public Safety Commission to further assess the company and its practices, and to identify any areas of concern.\"\nAccording to the Florida Daily News, monda's safety concerns are not the only ones with which the company is grappling.\nAccording to the paper, it was also ordered to hire more safety inspectors for its online marketplace and to limit sales of its products in the state.\nTags:best home furnishings recliner, coaster home furnishings, fisher home furnishings, furnished apartments miami, furnished finders login","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UK markets open in 2 hours 2 minutes\nFTSE 100 slides on weak factory data, bank dividend halt\nBy Sruthi Shankar and Devik Jain\n1 April 2020, 3:23 am \u00b73-min read\nTraders looks at financial information on computer screens on the IG Index trading floor\n(Reuters) - London's stock markets tumbled on Wednesday as banking shares dived after suspending dividend payments, while plunging factory activity in Britain and elsewhere underlined the severe economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\nShares of Barclays <BARC.L>, HSBC <HSBA.L>, Lloyds Banking Group <LLOY.L>, Royal Bank of Scotland <RBS.L> and Standard Chartered <STAN.L> dropped between 5% and 12%, dragging the FTSE 100 <.FTSE> lower by 3.8%.\nThe lenders said on Tuesday they would halt dividends, bowing to pressure from the regulator, to save their capital as a buffer against potential losses from the virus outbreak.\n\"We worry that the move undermines confidence in the regulatory framework and raises cost of capital,\" BofA Global Research's Rohith Chandra-Rajan wrote in a client note, adding he expected no payouts from domestic UK banks until 2021.\nCommodity miner Glencore <GLEN.L> fell 3.7% as it delayed its $2.6 billion dividend pay out for this year and said there could be material disruption to production due to the coronavirus.\nThe FTSE 100 recorded its worst quarter since 1987 on Tuesday amid growing evidence of pain for businesses and economic growth from the pandemic that led to a 27% increase in the number of deaths in Britain on Tuesday.\nDespite policymakers injecting trillions of dollars into the global economy, the blue-chip index is down about 29% from its Jan. 17 peak, while an index of mid-cap shares <.FTMC> are more than 34% below all-time highs.\nFactory activity data from the UK echoed that of Asia and Europe, with output from Britain's manufacturing sector in March shrinking at the fastest pace since the euro zone debt crisis.\nWall Street also dropped as data showed new factory orders slumped to an 11-year low last month, adding to woes after U.S. President Donald Trump warned the country faced a tough two weeks ahead in its battle against the coronavirus. [.N]\n\"What the market really wants to see is the number of cases and deaths starting to come down in Europe and the United States and the impact of the lockdown on companies,\" said Roland Kaloyan, head of European equity strategy at Societe Generale.\n\"It is not so well known. Two-thirds of European companies have not changed or withdrawn guidance.\"\nCompanies listed on the pan-European STOXX 600 <.STOXX> are expected to report a 21.9% decline in earnings in the second quarter, according to Refinitiv data, down from a 14.9% drop forecast the week before.\nOil major BP Plc <BP.L> fell 3.1% after rating agency Moody's cut its outlook to \"negative\". The company also slashed its 2020 spending plan by 25% and will reduce output from its U.S. shale oil and gas business in the wake of a collapse in oil prices.\nOnline car market place Auto Trader <AUTOA.L> dropped 11% after saying it would sell new shares worth 5% of its capital to shore up its finances and liquidity position.\n(Reporting by Devik Jain and Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Ken Ferris)\nJPMorgan's New Singapore Home Struggles to Find Tenants\n(Bloomberg) -- Three years ago, it was touted as a development that would rejuvenate Singapore's central business district. But an upcoming building in the city-state could have fallen victim to the pandemic, which has upended the office market as work from home remains a long-term arrangement for some companies.CapitaSpring, a 51-floor integrated development with JPMorgan Chase & Co. as an anchor tenant, has only managed to secure about 38% out of 647,000 square feet (62,600 square meters) of net lettable area. That's low considering it's 75% completed. Typically at that stage, buildings would have leased out more than half of their space.And in another sign that the health crisis has hit the commercial property sector, CapitaSpring's completion has been pushed back to the second half of the year from the first half. It's the only premium Grade A office development in the city's central business district that's scheduled to finish this year.CapitaLand Ltd., which jointly owns the building with CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Mitsubishi Estate Co., said that after including leases which are in advanced negotiations, the development is on track to get more than 60% commitments by completion. To date, committed office tenants are mainly from the legal as well as the banking and financial services sectors, CapitaLand said in a statement on Tuesday. About 10% of the office space in the building is set aside for flexible workspace. JPMorgan became its first anchor office tenant in 2018, and the bank will take up seven floors.The setback reflects how the pandemic has battered Singapore's commercial property sector. While tech behemoths are expanding, banks such as Citigroup Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. are cutting back office space in part due to the success of working from home, with such arrangements potentially to be long term.Rents FallPrime grade office rents in the Raffles Place and Marina Bay precincts contracted about 10% in 2020, according to Knight Frank. Early termination of spaces continued to rise in the fourth quarter of last year to an estimated 330,000 square feet from 260,000 square feet in the third quarter.And the prospects aren't bright this year. Knight Frank expects office rents in the city-state to decline by around 5% in 2021 before bottoming out and recovering next year, it said in a quarterly report published on Monday. That's not taking into account if new virus strains could result in subsequent lockdowns. The property consultancy firm foresees lower net new demand for office space given that some companies have adopted a rotational remote working approach.\"The rethinking of traditional office space usage in an age of flexible work arrangements, and the casualties of the Covid-19 pandemic as the government withdraws business support measures, will likely add to contractionary pressures for office space,\" Knight Frank said in its report.DBS Group Holdings Ltd. and United Overseas Bank Ltd., two of Singapore's largest banks, have allowed employees to work remotely on a permanent basis, part of the major work-culture changes triggered by the pandemic.In contrast to the office sector, Singapore's residential housing market is holding up. Home sales rose the most in six months in December, signaling the market has weathered the recession. Authorities may be considering another round of measures to cool residential prices, according to market analysts.(Updates with flexible workspace reference in the fifth paragraph)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.\u00a92021 Bloomberg L.P.\nThe Grammy-winning singer sparked speculation with a post on Instagram.\n(Bloomberg) -- Gold steadied as investors awaited commentary from Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen on the dollar and stimulus when she testifies on Capitol Hill a day ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration as president.Yellen's Senate confirmation hearing is likely to feature foreign-exchange policy, and will also serve as the first congressional forum where lawmakers will vet Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan, parts of which have already drawn opposition. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported Yellen is expected to affirm the U.S.'s commitment to market-determined exchange rates.\"No doubt Yellen will lean to the dovish side when it comes to any comments on fiscal policy,\" said John Feeney, business development manager at Guardian Vaults, a Sydney-based bullion dealer. \"Depending on how convincing that will be, we could see gold react positively, but the question would be how much the market has priced that in already.\"Bullion has fallen about 3% this year as benchmark Treasury yields and the greenback climbed on forecasts that coronavirus vaccines and stimulus packages will aid the economic recovery. In Asian trade on Tuesday, a gauge of the currency slipped after climbing over the past two weeks.\"Gold, along with other commodities, are all in a wait-and-watch mode for more clarity in possible policy changes under the Biden administration,\" said Madhavi Mehta, an analyst at Kotak Securities Ltd. \"A bigger fiscal stimulus package and a market driven approach on the U.S. dollar has been factored in but there are lots of uncertain factors such as tax hikes and U.S.-China relations. Meanwhile, there is also wariness about the impact of higher stimulus and the improving U.S. economic outlook on inflation as well as interest rate hike expectations.\"Spot gold declined 0.1% to $1,839.70 an ounce at 5:01 a.m. in London, after rising 0.7% on Monday. Silver fell, while palladium and platinum gained. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index dropped 0.1%.Traders are also monitoring President Donald Trump's last full day in office, when he may issue a slew of pardons. Biden's swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday will come amid an unprecedented level of security given the still-simmering threats of violence in Washington.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.\u00a92021 Bloomberg L.P.\nFood parcels are distributed by charity groups in Tokyo to help the the growing number of Japanese pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.\nCourtesy of my Instagram saves.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Polk County Schools Closed Thursday, Friday\nWUSF Public Media - WUSF 89.7 | By WUSF Staff\nPolk County officials announced that public schools will be closed Thursday, Oct. 6, and Friday, Oct. 7 because of Hurricane Matthew.\nPolk County is the only Tampa Bay area school district so far announce it will close schools.\nGov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for the entire state, and Polk, Sumter, and Highlands Counties are under a Tropical Storm warning.\nScott also closed state offices in 26 counties on Thursday and Friday, including Polk and Highlands.\nJason Geary, a spokesperson for Polk County Schools, said the school buildings need to be available for those who evacuate.\n\"Some of our schools are going to be serving as shelters for those who are more directly impacted by Hurricane Matthew. We also anticipate that there could be some significant wind and other weather conditions.\"\nIn addition, school sports and activities scheduled for those days are being rescheduled, and in some cases, canceled. After school activities and evening adult classes are also being cancelled on those days.\nGeary said parents will be kept in the loop through automated phone calls.\nThey can also check Polk Schools' website, and Facebook and Twitter pages for updates.\nThe decision to close is not binding to charter and private schools, so parents should contact them directly for more information.\nWe'll post additional closures here as they're announced.\nPolk County Shelters:\n- Alta Vista Elementary, 801 Scenic Highway in Haines City\n- Ridge Community High, 500 Orchid Drive in Davenport\n- Spook Hill Elementary, 321 Dr. J. A. Wiltshire Ave E. in Lake Wales\nLocal \/ State Hurricane Matthew\nGovernor: Florida Facing Largest Evacuation As Hurricane Matthew Approaches\nHurricane Matthew Makes Landfall In Haiti\nShift Brings Hurricane Matthew's Track Closer To Florida","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Showing results for tags 'bunga bunga'.\nTNF - Techy Nerd Forum\nXMF - Arguing over ex Managers Forum\nHOF - Hall of Fame Forum\nTLW website content\nPremier League \/ International Round Ups\nTLW T-Shirts\n'Number Six' Collection\nCurrent Heroes\n60s & 70s Legends\n80s Legends\n90s, 00s Legends\nIstanbul Heroes\nCult Heroes\nDouble Acts & Trios\nAC Milan (A) - CL, Tue 7th Dec 2021 (8:00pm)\nTrumo posted a topic in FF - Football Forum\nAnd so onto the final Champions League group game. We're already through with a 100% record from the first five games so can afford to take it easy in this one. It's not quite a dead rubber as Milan could still join us in the knockouts if they beat us and Porto and Atletico cancel one another out. I can only imagine the level of shithousery likely to be on display in that one. Porto, like Wolves, regularly tried to disrupt our rhythm at Anfield with their players hitting the deck and needing treatment for bugger all. And Atletico are Atletico. It's a bit weird to think that the two coaches Conceicao and Simeone were both key figures in the Lazio team that won Serie A under Eriksson in 2000. Anyway (and I realise it's odd to ask for these): Tactical know-how. Heart. Effort. Luck. Accuracy. Skill. Tenacity. Supremacy. Urgency. Poise. Purpose. Effervescence. Resolve. I don't ask for much. We've only faced the Italian giants on 3 previous occasions, all in this competition, and 2 of which were in the biggest club game on the planet. The group game at Anfield back in September was, barring a mad last 10 minutes of the first half, a comfortably dominant performance from the Reds. The 3-2 scoreline didn't reflect the gulf between the sides. A closer game was the Champions League final in Athens in May 2007. Unlike in Istanbul two years earlier, we were the better side for the most part. However, we lacked a cutting edge and Milan's centre back pairing of Nesta and Maldini coped pretty comfortably whenever we got anywhere near the penalty area. I think Rafa made a mistake starting with Zenden and Pennant as part of the 3 alongside Gerrard in our 4-2-3-1. We needed something more unorthodox to get Gerrard more involved in the final third. Crouchie up top would have been a handful, especially with Dirk's workrate and knack for getting into goalscoring positions alongside him. Maybe even the pace and ability to drag defenders away that Bellamy possessed could have proved fruitful. Pennant didn't have a bad game, but he was ultimately ineffective because our set up was totally unsuited to what brought the best out of him back then. Milan seemed to have learned from their Istanbul and were much cagier in both set-up and approach. Instead of 2 strikers (Shevchenko and Crespo in 2005) and 2 attacking midfielders (Seedorf and Kaka), he opted to start with Inzaghi up front with Kaka just behind, and Seedorf playing more of a 'Gini' role. The midfield was shored up with the defensive-minded Ambrosini. A first half of very few chances ended with Milan going in at half time a goal to the good. A mistimed challenge by Xabi on Kaka on the edge of the area presented Pirlo with a chance to have a shot at Pepe Reina's goal. The free kick wasn't great but it took a hefty deflection off Inzaghi's arm to wrong-foot the Spaniard. Stevie had a very good chance early in the second half but his low effort was well saved by Dida. As the half wore on and Milan's defence remained stubborn, Rafa decided to go for broke and replaced Masch who up to then had shackled Kaka pretty well. Soon afterwards, the Brazilian found space and played a pass into Inzaghi's run. The Italian rounded the keeper and rolled the ball into the net from a narrow angle for 2-0. With only minutes to go, Dirk buried a header past Dida and suddenly as the game entered stoppage time, Milan were twitching. Crouchie hammered an effort at goal that Dida did well to save. Any chance of completing the comeback was killed off by the ref who decided not to play the allotted stoppage time and blew early. Twat. Milan had got their revenge. It's doubly galling because they'd initially been booted out of the competition for their part in the Calciopoli scandal of 2006. Rafa's post-game frustration spilled over as he went on and on about the need to act quickly and decisively when negotiating transfers. It was obvious that he was frustrated at being unable to bring in his first choice players because we had a habit of faffing about and low-balling. That summer he would grow a goatee and take on a more divisive persona, moving away from the friendlier figure of his first couple of years at Anfield. May 2007 saw Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow return for the third instalment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. At World's End saw the main characters return alongside him for another high seas adventure. A bit like the Austin Powers series, the POTC sequels were heavy on cameos but failed to capture what made the original so brilliant. It's a trend with loads of films where the original worked brilliantly but everything was overblown when they decided to do sequels. Curse of the Black Pearl had been somewhat of a surprise hit in 2003 but it got everything right and had something for everyone. Depp had always played quirky characters in more low-key fare but that was when he went mainstream. It remains hugely entertaining nearly 20 years on. At World's End is merely alright like the rest of the series, and not a patch on the first film. It's not even close. I don't imagine Klopp will want to take the game at the San Siro lightly, but at the same time even he must know that there isn't much reward for winning millions of pounds after a Champions League group game win when you've already topped your group, if there is a distinct possibility that key players will pick up an injury that affects the team's chances of success. It seems obvious to go with a second string for this one, and give game time to the likes of Keeva, Big Nat, Tsimi, Tyler and Taki. If Bobby is able to take the field, he might be worth a go too. If not, then Div should certainly be involved. Whatever the line-up, use it as an opportunity to show the boss you should be considered for a regular place. Whatever the circumstances, at least try to get the job done.\nda vinci code72","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here:Home-TFPC-Going back to the drawing board\nGoing back to the drawing board\nIn the new year The Future Perfect Company will be changing. Gone will be the shop and instead the emphasis will shift to \"Designing for the Future\". And here's why.\nWhen I opened the shop 6 years ago, it was an attempt to focus on the ageing market. I was in my late 40s and after a legal career in the City was wanting another challenge. I didn't have far to look. Around me my family and friends' lives were changing in ways we had not expected. Whilst we had anticipated our older family members' deaths, many of us had not expected their longer lives. Suddenly many of us were becoming carers for our older family members and whereas our parents might have been responsible for one older parent, suddenly our more complicated extended families were populated by multiple older relatives. And yet our own children were still at home and dependent.\nAlongside these juggling acts, we were becoming aware of our own longevity. Pension ages were pushed back, working lives extended. The prospect of an affluent retirement became a pipe dream for many.\nSo what to do? With a passion for good design, my initial thought was to identify and make available products which could not only \"make life easier\" (the promise of all assistive products at that time), but also celebrate and enrich these newly found later years.\nSix years ago design for ageing was in its formative years. To use a commuting analogy, the train had left the station just about but was still chugging slowly through the outer suburbs with many stops and starts. Much of the rolling stock was dull and uninspiring but the occasional express train rushed by enough times to revive flagging spirits.\nWhen I started The Future Perfect Company the aim was to gather together all the best examples of well designed products available and sell brands such as OXO Good Grips, Healthy Back Bags, Alex lamps as well as commission new products such as the beautiful double handled mugs and teapots made for us by online dating ukraine. At the time this was a pretty revolutionary idea with the market in its infancy. Six years on, there are now some great companies retailing the best of product design for ageing such as cook together date, Designed2Enable, Active Minds and The AbleLabel.\nElicia Oliver-Knox\nAt the same time as running the shop, I have been working on a project called \"Designing for the Future\" which encourages students to consider the challenges of ageing. Working with the University of Brighton and the College of Richard Collyers, hundreds of students have had exposure to the design challenges posed by an ageing population and produced models, prototypes and drawings of a huge range of products and services to explore, assist and celebrate later life. We have built a network of older users, tutors, industry experts, students as well as early stage designers whom we have supported and encouraged such as Chloe Meineck whose compelling Music Memory Box has its origins in \"Designing for the Future\".\nSo with the retail side being amply catered for by others, we are going to refocus our efforts on supporting the creative people behind the new ideas and design thinking which will enrich and transform our later lives. We also have a couple more projects in the pipeline.\nWe are always looking for supporters and sponsors to join our \"Designing for the Future\" network. Please contact philippa@www.thefutureperfectcompany.com for more information.\nPhilippa Aldrich2017-02-03T14:54:26+00:00TFPC|","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nicotine Tob Res. 2016 May;18(5):647-53. doi: 10.1093\/ntr\/ntv193. Epub 2015 Sep 18.\nVaping as a Catalyst for Smoking? An Initial Model on the Initiation of Electronic Cigarette Use and the Transition to Tobacco Smoking Among Adolescents.\nSchneider S1, Diehl K2.\nMannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine (MIPH), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany Sven.Schneider@medma.uni-heidelberg.de.\nMannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine (MIPH), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.\nThe popularity of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) among adolescents is growing worldwide. A more accurate model than the much discussed but inadequate Gateway Hypothesis is needed to explain some adolescents' initial preference for e-cigarettes over tobacco cigarettes, as well as any transition from e-cigarettes to tobacco smoking. Our aim was to summarize the diffuse fear that adolescents will be indirectly encouraged to begin smoking tobacco via the use of e-cigarettes and to systematize the disparate causal hypotheses used thus far in relevant literature.\nWe summarized the vague and fragmented hypotheses formulated thus far in literature on both trajectories from abstinence to e-cigarette use and from there to tobacco smoking into a set of empirically testable hypotheses and organized them into a comprehensive model.\nOur results indicate that the perceived health risks, specific product characteristics (such as taste, price and inconspicuous use), and higher levels of acceptance among peers and others potentially make e-cigarettes initially more attractive to adolescents than tobacco cigarettes. Later, increasing familiarity with nicotine could lead to the reevaluation of both electronic and tobacco cigarettes and subsequently to a potential transition to tobacco smoking. The suggested \"catalyst model\" takes variations in the nicotine content of e-cigarettes as well as the dual use of different substances into account.\nOur model provides causal hypotheses for the initiation of e-cigarette use and for the potential transition to tobacco smoking which, after being tested in empirical studies, could lead to the formulation of concrete recommendations for healthcare intervention and prevention measures.\nIMPLICATIONS:\nWe developed a model that provides causal hypotheses for the initiation of e-cigarette use and for the potential transition to tobacco smoking.\n\u00a9 The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.\nAdolescent Behavior\/psychology*\nElectronic Nicotine Delivery Systems\/economics\nElectronic Nicotine Delivery Systems\/psychology\nElectronic Nicotine Delivery Systems\/statistics & numerical data*\nSmoking\/economics\nSmoking\/epidemiology*\nSmoking\/psychology\nSmoking and Youth - MedlinePlus Health Information\nE-Cigarettes - MedlinePlus Health Information\nChild Behavior Disorders - MedlinePlus Health Information","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Give Me Love (Give Me #1) by Kate McCarthy\nBy Jen in Bookland - April 11, 2016\nAmazon.com * Amazon.de * Barnes & Noble * Goodreads\nEvie Jamieson, a former wild child, is not only a headstrong, smart-mouthed trouble magnet, she is also a lead singer with a plan. That plan involves relocating her band, including her two best friends guitarist Henry and band manager Mac, to Sydney to kick off their dreams of hitting the big time.\nJared Valentine is the older brother of Evie's best friend Mac and also the man determined to make Evie his. They strike up a long distance friendship which suits Evie because she's determined to avoid the distraction of love, not only because it doesn't fit in with her plan but because twice in the past it has left her for dead. Moving to Sydney however, has put her directly in Jared's path and he has decided it's the perfect opportunity to make his play.\nUnfortunately Jared, co-owner in a business that 'consults' in dangerous hostage and kidnapping situations, makes an enemy who's determined to enact revenge. When this enemy puts Evie in his sights, Jared not only has a fight on his hands to make her his own, but also to keep her alive.\nIs accepting the love he's so desperate to give worth the risk to both her heart...and her life?\nGive Me Love was felt like it was trying to be a few different books, but didn't really succeed at any of them. It starts off as a romance, Jared trying to win Evie over and get her to admit she has feeling for him. That worked okay, but Evie could be frustrating. I didn't really understand why she was so adamant about keeping away from Jared. Sure when she was young and acting out she made two really bad decisions with guy and she got hurt, but they were bad people. Jared is not. She is best friends with his sister who keeps trying to push Evie to give him a chance. Mac, the best friend, knows all about Evie's past, so she should know if Jared was a jerk like the other guys. I don't know. It was just...I didn't understand. So you got your heart broken twice you are just going to give up? Date \"safe\" guys who she likes, but not really like that.\nWhen Evie first met Jared she was instantly drawn to him, and that hasn't changed since then. She used to live a plane ride away, but as this book opens she is going to be moving to the same town as him. How will she ever keep him from hurting her? Annoying. She obviously really likes him and he her so why not see what happens? She was really frustrating to read and I didn't like her much.\nThen suddenly she decides okay, we are doing this, and then it is like they are living together right away. Okay, way to move like lightning speed. Fine, but the book is not even halfway over yet. So what is the rest of the story? Well some not so good suspense story. Someone is after Evie to hurt her because Jared and crew where there when bad guys brother got killed or something. It was a bit ridiculous in the way it played out. I just...it didn't seem realistic especially if Jared and crew had a company where their job was hunting down bad guys and such. They just can't find this one, he keeps causing trouble and getting away. It was a bit too unrealistic and underdeveloped I think. If it would have been the main focus of the story with Jared and Evie falling in love at the same time it might have worked. As it was it felt like two different books neither of which I really loved.\nThere are a lot of characters in this story and it can be hard to keep everyone straight, especially with all of the nicknames. I think my biggest issues, the thing I liked the least, was that they all felt very immature. All the names they called each other and such I didn't really like. I felt like I wanted to tell them all to grow up already. That and the \"retard\" name calling is not cool.\nOh and there is plenty of extra drama added for no reason. Like ton of guys getting thrown at Evie that make Jared freak out that she is cheating and stuff. By the end I got to the point where it was like really? This is what we are doing now? Why not throw in a few more things just for fun? It was all a bit much.\nI did like that Evie was the female lead singer in the rock band. I don't see too many books where it is a female rock star as the lead. But overall it was not my favorite read.\nRating: \u2605 \u2605\nBlog Tour: Delta: Revenge (Delta #2) by Cristin Ha...\nThe Player and the Pixie (Rugby #2) by L.H. 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{"text":"Liberaltarianism: Back the Future\nHere are the sort of political\/economic thinkers whose substantive views I find most congenial: Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, James M. Buchanan. If I tell most highly-educated people that these are the thinkers whose views of desirable institutions are most like mine, they might infer that I am some kind of rabid libertarian ideologue. But when I actually defend something like the arguments for an economic safety net each of these giants of libertarian thought actually set forth, lots of libertarians accuse me of not really being libertarian at all. And many liberals act surprised, as if I'm being saucily iconoclastic by wandering so far off the reservation. I can tell them that Hayek was actually in favor of a guaranteed minimum income and that Friedman basically invented the idea behind the EITC, but they'll still think I'm some kind of congenial squish. But what I am is a market liberal just like Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan \u2014 the same intellectual role models who make me a rabid libertarian ideologue. So, which is it?\nFrankly, \"liberaltarianism\" and \"progressive fusionism\" don't really amount to much beyond what Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan thought anyway. So the fusionism here isn't really a fusion of anything. It's just seeing our way back to a pre-existing economically literate political liberalism.\nHere's my conjecture about why this now looks more like an attractive position than it might have a few years back.\nThe 20th century libertarian-conservative alliance was based on anti-communism\/socialism. The reasonable, sophisticated consequentialist pragmatism of the great 20th century market liberals seemed an insufficient bulwark against the slippery slope from the liberal, capitalist welfare state to full-on illiberal, totalitarian socialism. (Indeed, Hayek himself made the slippery slope argument powerfully, though unsoundly.) So there was a good deal of motivation for radical anti-socialists to coordinate around strongly categorical prohibitions against state coercion.\nMisean economics, disinfected of the open-minded empirical consequentialism of Mises' Liberalism, and filtered through Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard's peculiar views of rights and coercion delivers a powerfully moralized brief for capitalism that calls into question even taxation for the purpose of financing genuine public goods. That Rothbardians and Randians have wasted so much time fighting with each other on the question of the minimal state versus anarcho-capitalism obscures their unity on a rights-based bulwark against the slide from the welfare state to socialism. Sadly, \"libertarianism\" has become identified rather strongly with this ideology \u2014 an ideology some of the thinkers most strongly identified with libertarianism, like Hayek and Friedman, never shared.\nThe death of socialism as a viable competitor to the liberal-capitalist welfare state makes continued slippery-slope-to-socialism thinking look densely anachronistic. Other liberal welfare states, like the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, etc., have moved in a rather more market-liberal direction, becoming rather less of a soft-socialist middle-ground between the American model and full-on economic socialism. The question these days is whether the U.S. will have the good sense to adopt more rational market-based old-age pension policies, like Sweden or Australia, or lower corporate tax rates to a level more in line with the rest of the wealthy world. Slightly higher personal tax rates and slightly more redistribution is a possibility, but a slide into socialism just isn't on the table. In this context, the negative income tax looks much less like a dangerous concession to the world-historical forces of evil.\nMeanwhile, with the obsolescence of the anti-communist alliance with conservatives, many libertarians have sloughed off much of their previously tactically useful sympathy for socially conservative initiatives. Freed to be full-on social liberals, many libertarians are left sensing a much deeper cultural affinity for the left than the right. And this leads naturally to seeing more clearly their ideological affinities with welfare liberals. And then you read thinkers like Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan, and you think: Oh, yes. This is extremely sensible. And now that the welfare-liberal elite has become rather more economically literate and is no longer sighing over five year plans, there is no reason to think they cannot find this sensible, too.\nSo that's where I'm at. An old-fashioned market liberal who thinks Hayek, Friedman, and Buchanan get it right, and who thinks Rawlsian welfare liberals should be able to recognize themselves in these thinkers.\nIn \"Political Philosophy\"\nSurprise! I'm a Libertarian!\nHey, I'm a Statist!\nWith 1 comment\nPrev Wherein I Do Not Accept Crispin Sartwell's Challenge\nNext Positively Heretical?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a Finance\nWhat CFOs are Reading: The SmartBrief Seven\nA biweekly recap of the key trends and developments being followed by corporate finance professionals.\nBy Colin Hogan\nConcerns mount over credit flow\nThe extra yield investors require to own investment-grade corporate bonds, instead of Treasurys, had risen past 150 basis points to reach the widest spread in two years at the end of June, according to Bloomberg data. The spread is raising concern of disruption in credit flow, a factor the Federal Reserve needs to weigh when considering raising interest rates.\nThe S&P 500's worst H1 in more than 50 years\nBy the end of the June, the S&P 500 had fallen 20.6% since the beginning of the year, marking the biggest decline for the first half of the year since 1970, with other major indexes also falling in June and in the second quarter. This does not necessarily indicate a torrid H2, S&P Dow Jones Indices analysts say, noting little historical correlation in S&P 500 performance between H1 and H2.\nAre we in a recession? Wells Fargo says yes\nSpeculation of when a recession will occur is over because the US is already in one, according to the Wells Fargo Investment Institute. The investment-strategy unit cites forecasts of rising unemployment, deterioration of consumer sentiment and fewer discretionary purchases as shoppers focus on food and other basic needs.\nThe recession dichotomy\nIf the US is in or near a recession, it doesn't look like any other on record: Economic output is declining, but so is the unemployment rate. Demand for workers remains strong, and labor is scarce, with even pessimistic economists seeing only a modest job downturn in coming months. \"We are going to have a very unusual conflict between the employment numbers and the output numbers for a while,\" says Northwestern University economics professor Robert Gordon.\nCompanies walk post-Roe tightrope\nCompanies are carefully approaching a response to the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade, with some avoiding public statements and others, such as Amazon, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, announcing financial support for travel and medical expenses incurred by employees. Even if companies aren't rushing to speak publicly, they likely are \"readying their internal policies and practices to mitigate the harm,\" says Jen Stark of consultancy BSR, and expanded sick leave and travel stipends likely are \"the new floor for large employers.\"\nEY's massive cheating scandal and record $100M fine\nEY will pay $100 million, the largest fine levied against an auditing firm by the Securities and Exchange Commission, to settle accusations that hundreds of auditors cheated on ethics exams to keep or obtain professional licenses and that the firm failed to stop the cheating. The SEC said EY misled investigators, withheld evidence and violated public accounting rules, with SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal stating: \"It's simply outrageous that the very professionals responsible for catching cheating by clients cheated on ethics exams of all things.\"\nWill inflation become entrenched?\nMinutes from the Federal Reserve suggest policymakers were concerned during a June meeting that \"elevated inflation could become entrenched if the public began to question the resolve\" of the Fed's response. The policymakers indicated \"an even more restrictive stance could be appropriate if elevated inflation pressures were to persist.\"\nIf you want a daily rundown of the top stories affecting corporate finance professionals, sign up for SmartBrief for CFOs. It's among SmartBrief's more than 250 industry-focused newsletters.\nTags \u22c5 S&P 500 \u22c5 EY \u22c5 credit flow \u22c5 credit spreads \u22c5 corporate debt \u22c5 inflation \u22c5 CFO \u22c5 corporate finance \u22c5 business finance \u22c5 recession","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Amitabh cites health reasons for missing ICC, ACC meetings\nChoudhary remains a director on the ICC and ACC Board; a Supreme Court order of April 17, 2017 allowed him to attend the ICC meetings.\nG. Viswanath\nMUMBAI 29 September, 2019 20:54 IST\nThe Committee of Administrators (CoA) had show caused Choudhary for his absence at the two meetings and observed that his \"conduct left the BCCI unrepresented in the meetings and exposed the organisation to considerable risk.\" - PTI\nThe BCCI's acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has cited health and visa-related issues for not attending the International Cricket Council's annual conference in London last July and the Asian Cricket Council meeting in Bangkok in the first week of September. Choudhary is a director in the ICC and ACC Executive Boards.\nThe Committee of Administrators (CoA) had show caused Choudhary for his absence at the two meetings and observed that his \"conduct left the BCCI unrepresented in the meetings and exposed the organisation to considerable risk.\"\nFive more associations become BCCI compliant\nThe Committee of Administrators (CoA) has approved the constitutions\/ bylaws of Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. This is in addition to the constitutions of 18 BCCI member associations it had approved before.\nThe CoA had told the Supreme Court on September 20 that only three to four associations have to amend their constitutions in terms with the BCCI's.\nThe CoA has set October 4 as the deadline for all the BCCI member associations to conduct its election. The BCCI election officer has also issued an advisory stating that associations have to nominate its representative for the BCCI AGM\/election on or before October 4.\nThe CoA requested the ICC to allow the BCCI's CEO Rahul Johri as an alternate director, but it was turned down. Johri, though, was allowed to attend the ICC Board meeting as an observer.\nChoudhary remains a director on the ICC and ACC Board; a Supreme Court order of April 17, 2017 allowed him to attend the ICC meetings. The same order also named Johri to attend the ICC Chief Executives meeting.\nThe next quarterly meeting of the ICC is to be held in Dubai from Oct. 12 to 14 and Choudhary is expected to travel to the UAE. But Vinod Rai, the head of CoA, said that all decisions related to Dubai meeting will be taken at the CoA meeting in New Delhi on Oct. 1.\nThe BCCI will get a chance to nominate a new representative (director) to the ICC and ACC at its Annual General Meeting here on Oct. 23.\nVijay Hazare Trophy: Asif four-for hands Kerala first win\nRemoving Arthur as coach was a tough decision: PCB official\nTrying to take Dhoni's place always difficult: Parthiv Patel\nIndian coaches of Bangladesh women's team won't travel to Pakistan: BCB\nVinod Rai\nAmitabh Choudhary\nLiverpool vs Manchester United LIVE: Van Dijk gives Liverpool lead","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Human Error Disasters\nThere is no simple way to completely eradicate human error from your business. Humans are not perfect; to expect 100% accuracy is unrealistic. However, accuracy is critical in many fields like healthcare or construction. When people in these fields make mistakes, not only are they putting individuals at risk, but the company is often also subject to a large fine or penalty. If your company doesn't have tools and systems in place to catch and correct human mistakes as well as ensuring proper training, you become vulnerable to a higher likelihood of workplace accidents, errors, and the corresponding fallout. By setting contingency plans to catch mistakes and fix them, your business is better protected.\nBelow, we share some of the more shocking human error disasters we've encountered, and the steps businesses can take to overcome them. Our intent is not to poke fun or make light of the tragedy, but to illustrate the importance of accuracy.\nThe Institute of Medicine estimates that at least 40,000 deaths per year are the result of medical errors. Though there may be multiple factors contributing, human error accounts for the majority of mistakes made including miscommunication between care team members, misreading patient files, inaccurate recording, or worst of all, illegible handwriting. When handwritten prescriptions thrived 7,000 deaths per year could be directly related to doctors' sloppy handwriting in the United States alone. Accurate handwriting now becomes a life-or-death issue for patients. Many countries have moved to digital methods of prescribing and authorizing prescriptions in order to overcome this, but not all countries can afford the luxury.\nFamous engineering disasters such as the Hindenburg airship explosion, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster and fallout, and the sinking of the Titanic can all be attributed to forms ofhuman error: poor training or insufficient knowledge, incorrect math, and poor design that fails under stress.\nThese fatal disasters are well-taught in history books to illustrate the true potential of human errors. However, the daily hazards involved in constructing our bridges, roads, and homes didn't make it into the history books.\nIn the last five decades, construction made huge strides to safeguard employees from the hazards of the job. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration, OSHA, is largely responsible for these changes. While construction site managers dread OSHA inspections and fines, the reality is that the administration's goal is to make workplaces safe.\n[Related: The Real Life Importance of Training and Compliance]\nIn July of 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a supersonic airplane, crashed almost immediately after takeoff. The plane crashed into Gonesse, a suburb of Paris, killing all 109 passengers and 4 other people in the neighborhood. How? A strip of metal fell off a different plane and was left on the runway, blowing out one of 4590's tires. A large piece of rubber from the tire shot into the fuel tank under the wing, which is believed to have caused the full fuel tank to rupture from within. The leaking fuel ignited, and the fire brought the plane down.\nAirplane security processes have tightened significantly in the last decade, including the steps that air traffic controllers must take to ensure that flight lanes are cleared. However, Boeing estimates that 70% of commercial airplane hull-loss accidents are the result of human error, so stronger training systems to check error and limit mistakes may be warranted.\nCybercrime is a newer threat affecting industries such as healthcare, security, and data information. Cyberattacks often result in users being locked out of their programs until they pay a ransom, or in other cases, private client information is sold on the black market. In July of 2019, Capital One announced that more than 100 million people's personal information was hacked: credit scores, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and income information.\nMuch of cybercrime relies on human error. In fact, 99% of targeted cyber attacks in 2018 relied on an inside person's interaction to execute. From clicking on an unsecured link from a stranger to leaving yourself logged in on a secure server, many cyber attackers wait for a human mistake that leaves the system exposed. By creating strong training programs and updating your team on the latest trends in cybercrime, a business can prevent many of the mistakes that cyber attackers rely on to execute their attacks.\nHuman error is inevitable but can be overcome. Putting plans in place to double-check for errors is critical, but it's just as important for your business to have contingency plans in place for when mistakes are made. Proper training is a crucial component that can help prevent and reduce human error disasters. By using a tool such as Training Tracker you can ensure that all training requirements are met and documented, and accurate reports can be generated in the event it is ever needed for official inspection. Try Training Tracker risk-free for 30 days and see how it can help reduce the risk of human error for your team.\nHave some questions?\nCheck out FAQs\nTry it now! Schedule a Demo\nTrainingTracker \u00a9 2019\nWords from us\nLead the Way in Food Safety and Stay Ahead of Industry Changes\nThe United States has arguably the most stringent and progressive takes on consumer safety when it comes to the food manufacturing ...\nWhat Drives Training Tracker?\nAs a values-based organization, all of Training Tracker's guiding principles can be applied on multiple levels ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posts Tagged\t\u2192 music\nCoachella Could Be Headed To New York City\nposted in Music\ton\t September 30, 2015\t by\tJim\t0 Comments\nAccording to multiple reports, AEG, the guys behind Coachella, are vetting a park in Queens for a brand new musical festival called \"Panorama\".\nThis isn't AEG's first dip into the NYC festival market. They launched \"All Points West\" festival back in 2008 but ended up shutting down the fest after just 2 years.\nReports say the festival would kick off in June of 2016, which put its right on the heels of fellow NYC festival \"Governor's Ball\". We'll have to wait and see if two festivals can co-exsist with such little time between them.\nWe'll be keeping an eye out for any more details, including a lineup, as they become available.\nRead more at Consequence of Sound\nQ101 Has More Than One Alternative\nposted in Alternative Rock, Music\ton\t September 24, 2015\t by\tSal Amato\t0 Comments\nWhy listen to just one version of Q101 when you can get so much more.\nQ101.com features all the classic Q101 you remember from all the different generations of its existence.\nEnjoy any of them in the Q101 app or listen below\nClassic Alternative (90s)\nAll Alternatives (Today's modern rock alternative and Q101 classics)\nAll Hard Rock (Godsmack, Pantera, Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold Etc.)\nCorey Taylor Plays Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake & More On Q101\nposted in Music, People\ton\t September 23, 2015\t by\tJim\t0 Comments\nRemember when Corey Taylor took over Q101? We sure do and we have video in case you don't.\nTaylor is known for turning up the volume with his bands Slipknot and Stone Sour but when he comes to Q101 he's known for\u2026MJ?\nBelieve it or not Corey's iPod is full of one thing and one thing only\u2026Jams.\nCheck out the video and let us know what you think about Corey's music selection below:\nMuse Announces World Tour, New Stage Set-Up\nEnglish Electro-rockers Muse has quickly earned the reputation of pushing the boundaries of stage set-up and production.\nAnnounced today, the band's latest tour will start off with a tour of the west coast and feature the band \"in the round\" for the first time ever.\n\"In the round\" means the band will perform from the middle of the arena, allowing for 360 degrees audio\/visual experience.\nThere's no Chicago date just yet\u2026but we're confident the band will get close enough to the city to check out this already intriguing show.\nHere's the announced tour dates:\nDecember 13, 2015 Portland, OR Moda Center On Sale 9\/25\nDecember 15, 2015 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena On Sale 9\/25\nDecember 16, 2015 San Diego, CA Valley View Casino Center On Sale 9\/25\nDecember 18, 2015 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center On Sale 9\/25\nCheck out www.muse.mu for more information.\nR.E.M Bans Donald Trump For Using One Of Their Songs\nPhoto via Twitter\nIt may not be the \"end of the world as we know it\" but it certainly is the end for Donald Trump using R.E.M songs during his Presidential campaign.\nTrump recently used R.E.M's 1987 hit \"It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)\" at one of his campaign rallies\u2026but neglected to get permission for it.\nThe band took to Facebook and posted a response asking the candidates to stop using their music.\n\"While we do not authorize or condone the use of our music at this political event, and do ask that these candidates cease and desist from doing so, let us remember that there are things of greater importance at stake here. The media and the American voter should focus on the bigger picture, and not allow grandstanding politicians to distract us from the pressing issues of the day and of the current Presidential campaign.\"\n-R.E.M.\"\nWhile the band's Facebook message was kept PG, frontman Michael Stipe took to Twitter with some thoughts of his own.\n\"Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you\u2013you sad, attention grabbing, power-hungry little men. Do not use our music or my voice for your 1)\n\u2014 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) September 9, 2015\n\u2026moronic charade of a campaign.\"\u2013Michael Stipe \u2014 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) September 9, 2015\nTwitter Photos Hint At New Radiohead Album\nposted in Music\ton\t September 9, 2015\t by\tJim\t0 Comments\nPhoto via Consequence of Sound\nA string of vague, and now deleted, twitter photos has fans speculating over a new Radiohead album.\nThe photos were tweeted by composer Robert Ziegler, who worked with the band on their last album \"The King of Limbs\" in 2011.\nIt has been rumored that the band is getting ready to release their 9th studio album this fall and a recent interview with drummer Phil Selway seems to confirm that rumor.\nThe photos, which feature a full orchestra, could be the all the evidence fans need.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Printed from https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/f\/pst596.html\nMy authors Follow this author\nIryna Stewen\nFirst Name: Iryna\nMiddle Name: S.\nLast Name: Stewen\nRePEc Short-ID: pst596\nTerminal Degree: 2010 Institut f\u00fcr Volkswirtschaftslehre; Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakut\u00e4t; Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich (from RePEc Genealogy)\nVolkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrst\u00fchle\nGutenberg School of Management and Economics\nMainz, Germany\nhttp:\/\/wiwi.uni-mainz.de\/vwl.html\nRePEc:edi:vlmaide (more details at EDIRC)\nJump to: Working papers Articles\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Stewen & Michael Stiefel, 2021. \"Growing like Germany: local public debt, local banks, low private investment,\" ECON - Working Papers 380, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Jul 2021.\nHoffmann, Mathias & Stewen, Iryna & Stiefel, Michael, 2021. \"Growing Like Germany: Local Public Debt, Local Banks, Low Private Investment,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 15912, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Stewen & Michael Stiefel, 2021. \"Growing Like Germany: Local Public Debt, Local Banks, Low Private Investment,\" Working Papers 2103, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t Mainz.\nHoffmann, Mathias & Maslov, Egor & S\u00f8rensen, Bent E & Stewen, Iryna, 2018. \"Are Banking and Capital Markets Union Complements? Evidence from Channels of Risk Sharing in the Eurozone,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 13254, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nMathias Hoffmann & Egor Maslov & Bent E. S\u00f8rensen & Iryna Stewen, 2018. \"Are banking and capital markets union complements? Evidence from channels of risk sharing in the eurozone,\" ECON - Working Papers 311, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.\nStewen, Iryna, 2016. \"Banking Deregulation and Growth: A Reappraisal,\" VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change 145586, Verein f\u00fcr Socialpolitik \/ German Economic Association.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Stewen, 2014. \"Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation,\" ECON - Working Papers 183, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Stewen, 2020. \"Holes in the Dike: The Global Savings Glut, U.S. House Prices, and the Long Shadow of Banking Deregulation,\" Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 18(4), pages 2013-2055.\nStewen, Iryna & Hoffmann, Mathias, 2015. \"Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation,\" VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy 112834, Verein f\u00fcr Socialpolitik \/ German Economic Association.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Stewen, 2015. \"Holes in the Dike: The Global Savings Glut, U.S. House Prices and the Long Shadow of Banking Deregulation,\" CESifo Working Paper Series 5332, CESifo.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Stewen, 2016. \"Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation,\" CAMA Working Papers 2016-06, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.\nHoffmann, Mathias & Stewen, Iryna, 2015. \"Holes in the Dike: the global savings glut, U.S. house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation,\" HIT-REFINED Working Paper Series 27, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.\nStewen, Iryna, 2014. \"Is Real Exchange Rate Hedging Motive Still Important in Determining Equity Home Bias?,\" VfS Annual Conference 2014 (Hamburg): Evidence-based Economic Policy 100571, Verein f\u00fcr Socialpolitik \/ German Economic Association.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Shcherbakova, 2009. \"Consumption Risk Sharing over the Business Cycle: the Role of Small Firms' Access to Credit Markets,\" CESifo Working Paper Series 2544, CESifo.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Shcherbakova-Stewen, 2011. \"Consumption Risk Sharing over the Business Cycle: The Role of Small Firms' Access to Credit Markets,\" The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 93(4), pages 1403-1416, November.\nMathias Hoffmann & Iryna Shcherbakova, 2008. \"Consumption risk sharing over the business cycle: the role of small firms' access to credit markets,\" IEW - Working Papers 363, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.\nMathias Hoffmann & Egor Maslov & Bent E. S\u00f8rensen & Iryna Stewen, 2019. \"Channels of Risk Sharing in the Eurozone: What Can Banking and Capital Market Union Achieve?,\" IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 67(3), pages 443-495, September.\nMany of the citations below have been collected in an experimental project, CitEc, where a more detailed citation analysis can be found. These are citations from works listed in RePEc that could be analyzed mechanically. So far, only a minority of all works could be analyzed. See under \"Corrections\" how you can help improve the citation analysis.\nCited by:\nMorais, Bernardo & Perez-Estrada, Javier & Peydr\u00f3, Jos\u00e9 Luis & Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia, 2021. \"Expansionary Austerity: Reallocating Credit Amid Fiscal Consolidation,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 16511, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nMorais,Bernardo,Perez-Estrada,Javier,Peydr\u00f3,Jos\u00e9-Luis,Ruiz Ortega,Claudia, 2021. \"Expansionary Austerity : Reallocating Credit Amid Fiscal Consolidation,\" Policy Research Working Paper Series 9655, The World Bank.\nBernardo Morais & Jos\u00e9-Luis Peydr\u00f3 & Claudia Ruiz-Ortega, 2021. \"Expansionary Austerity: Reallocating Credit Amid Fiscal Consolidation,\" International Finance Discussion Papers 1323, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).\nGaetano Basso & Francesco D'Amuri & Giovanni Peri, 2019. \"Immigrants, Labor Market Dynamics and Adjustment to Shocks in the Euro Area,\" IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 67(3), pages 528-572, September.\nGaetano Basso & Francesco D'Amuri & Giovanni Peri, 2018. \"Immigrants, labor market dynamics and adjustment to shocks in the Euro Area,\" Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 1195, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.\nGaetano Basso & Francesco D'Amuri & Giovanni Peri, 2018. \"Immigrants, Labor Market Dynamics and Adjustment to Shocks in the Euro Area,\" NBER Working Papers 25091, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nJoseba Martinez & Thomas Philippon & Markus Sihvonen, 2019. \"Does a Currency Union Need a Capital Market Union? Risk Sharing via Banks and Markets,\" NBER Working Papers 26026, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nMartinez, Joseba & Philippon, Thomas & Sihvonen, Markus, 2019. \"Does a Currency Union Need a Capital Market Union? Risk Sharing via Banks and Markets,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 14220, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nBadarau, Cristina & Carias, Marcos & Figuet, Jean-Marc, 2020. \"Cross-border spillovers of macroprudential policy in the Euro area,\" The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 1-13.\nHerzberg, Valerie & McQuade, Peter, 2018. \"International bank flows and bank business models since the crisis,\" Financial Stability Notes 5\/FS\/18, Central Bank of Ireland.\nJokivuolle, Esa & Vir\u00e9n, Matti, 2019. \"Cross-border loan portfolio diversification, capital requirements, and the European Banking Union,\" BoF Economics Review 3\/2019, Bank of Finland.\nDaisuke Ikeda & Toan Phan & Timothy Sablik, 2020. \"Asset Bubbles and Global Imbalances,\" Richmond Fed Economic Brief, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, vol. 20, pages 1-4, January.\nDaisuke Ikeda & Toan Phan, 2019. \"Asset Bubbles and Global Imbalances,\" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 11(3), pages 209-251, July.\nDaisuke Ikeda & Toan Phan, 2018. \"Asset Bubbles and Global Imbalances,\" Working Paper 18-7, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.\nMathias Hoffmann & Lilia Ruslanova, 2020. \"Softening the blow: U.S. state-level banking deregulation and sectoral reallocation after the China trade shock,\" ECON - Working Papers 365, Department of Economics - University of Zurich, revised Apr 2021.\nMathias Hoffmann & Lilia Ruslanova, 2021. \"Softening the Blow: U.S. State-Level Banking Deregulation and Sectoral Reallocation after the China Trade Shock,\" CESifo Working Paper Series 8913, CESifo.\nAlina K. Bartscher & Moritz Kuhn & Moritz Schularick & Ulrike I. Steins, 2020. \"Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016,\" Working Papers Series inetwp124, Institute for New Economic Thinking.\nBartscher, Alina & Kuhn, Moritz & Schularick, Moritz & Steins, Ulrike, 2020. \"Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 14667, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nAlina K. Bartscher & Moritz Kuhn & Moritz Schularick & Ulrike I. Steins, 2020. \"Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016,\" CESifo Working Paper Series 8273, CESifo.\nAlina K. Bartscher & Moritz Kuhn & Moritz Schularick & Ulrike I. Steins, 2020. \"Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016,\" ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 015, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.\nAlina K. Bartscher & Moritz Kuhn & Moritz Schularick & Ulrike I. Steins, 2020. \"Modigliani Meets Minsky: Inequality, Debt, and Financial Fragility in America, 1950-2016,\" Staff Reports 924, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.\nTorsten Ehlers & Mathias Hoffmann & Alexander Raabe, 2020. \"Non-US global banks and dollar (co-)dependence: how housing markets became internationally synchronized,\" ECON - Working Papers 374, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.\nTorsten Ehlers & Mathias Hoffmann & Alexander Raabe, 2020. \"Non-US global banks and dollar (co-)dependence: how housing markets became internationally synchronized,\" IHEID Working Papers 18-2020, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies.\nTorsten Ehlers & Mathias Hoffmann & Alexander Raabe, 2020. \"Non-US global banks and dollar (co-)dependence: how housing markets became internationally synchronized,\" BIS Working Papers 897, Bank for International Settlements.\nCat\u00e3o, Lu\u00eds A.V. & te Kaat, Daniel Marcel, 2021. \"Capital account liberalization and the composition of bank liabilities,\" Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).\nLu\u00eds A.V. Cat\u00e3o & Daniel Marcel te Kaat, 2018. \"Capital Account Liberalization and the Composition of Bank Liabilities,\" Working Papers REM 2018\/53, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa.\nMathias Hoffmann & Egor Maslov & Bent E. S\u00f8rensen, 2021. \"Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's Great Recession,\" ECON - Working Papers 397, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.\nHoffmann, Mathias & Maslov, Egor & S\u00f8rensen, Bent E, 2019. \"Small Firms and Domestic Bank Dependence in Europe's Great Recession,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 13691, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nMathias Hoffmann & Egor Maslov & Bent E. S\u00f8rensen, 2019. \"Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's great recession,\" CAMA Working Papers 2019-76, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.\nHoffmann, Mathias & Maslov, Egor & S\u00f8rensen, Bent E., 2022. \"Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe's great recession,\" Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).\nMathias Hoffmann & Egor Maslov & Bent E. S\u00f8rensen, 2019. \"Small Firms and Domestic Bank Dependence in Europe's Great Recession,\" CESifo Working Paper Series 7897, CESifo.\nMathias Hoffmann & Bent E. Sorensen, 2015. \"Small Firms and Domestic Bank Dependence in Europe's Great Recession,\" European Economy - Discussion Papers 2015 - 012, Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission.\nFranziska Bremus & Thomas Krause & Felix Noth, 2021. \"Lender-Specific Mortgage Supply Shocks and Macroeconomic Performance in the United States,\" Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1936, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.\nBednarek, Peter & Ma, Chang & Rebucci, Alessandro & Te Kaat, Daniel Marcel, 2019. \"Capital Flows, Real Estate, and Local Cycles: Evidence from German Cities, Banks, and Firms,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 14187, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nPeter Bednarek & Daniel Marcel te Kaat & Chang Ma & Alessandro Rebucci, 2020. \"Capital Flows, Real Estate, and Local Cycles: Evidence from German Cities, Banks, and Firms,\" NBER Working Papers 26820, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nBednarek, Peter & te Kaat, Daniel Marcel & Ma, Chang & Rebucci, Alessandro, 2019. \"Capital flows, real estate, and local cycles: Evidence from German cities, banks, and firms,\" Discussion Papers 45\/2019, Deutsche Bundesbank.\nPeter Bednarek & Daniel Marcel te Kaat & Chang Ma & Alessandro Rebucci, 2021. \"Capital Flows, Real Estate, and Local Cycles:Evidence from German Cities, Banks, and Firms,\" Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 34(10), pages 5077-5134.\nElena Carletti & Steven Ongena & Jan-Peter Siedlarek & Giancarlo Spagnolo, 2019. \"The Impact of Stricter Merger Control on Bank Mergers and Acquisitions. Too-Big-To-Fail and Competition,\" Working Papers 16-14R2, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.\nCarletti, Elena & Ongena, Steven & Siedlarek, Jan-Peter & Spagnolo, Giancarlo, 2020. \"The Impacts of Stricter Merger Legislation on Bank Mergers and Acquisitions: Too-Big-To-Fail and Competition,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 14449, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nCarletti, Elena & Ongena, Steven & Siedlarek, Jan-Peter & Spagnolo, Giancarlo, 2021. \"The impacts of stricter merger legislation on bank mergers and acquisitions: Too-Big-To-Fail and competition,\" Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 46(C).\nAlexander Raabe & Christiane Kneer, 2019. \"Tracking Foreign Capital: The Effect of Capital Inflows on Bank Lending in the UK,\" IHEID Working Papers 10-2019, Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International Studies.\nChristiane Kneer & Alexander Raabe, 2019. \"Tracking foreign capital: the effect of capital inflows on bank lending in the UK,\" ECON - Working Papers 326, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.\nKneer, Christiane & Raabe, Alexander, 2019. \"Tracking foreign capital: the effect of capital inflows on bank lending in the UK,\" Bank of England working papers 804, Bank of England.\nBremus, Franziska & Krause, Thomas & Noth, Felix, 2021. \"Lender-specific mortgage supply shocks and macroeconomic performance in the United States,\" IWH Discussion Papers 3\/2021, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).\nMarkus Leibrecht & Johann Scharler, 2009. \"Banks, Financial Markets and International Consumption Risk Sharing,\" Economics working papers 2009-14, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.\nMarkus Leibrecht & Johann Scharler, 2012. \"Banks, Financial Markets and International Consumption Risk Sharing,\" German Economic Review, Verein f\u00fcr Socialpolitik, vol. 13(3), pages 331-351, August.\nMarkus Leibrecht & Johann Scharler, 2009. \"Banks, Financial Markets and International Consumption Risk Sharing,\" Department of Economics Working Papers wuwp128, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics.\nLeibrecht Markus & Scharler Johann, 2012. \"Banks, Financial Markets and International Consumption Risk Sharing,\" German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 13(3), pages 331-351, August.\nLeibrecht, Markus & Scharler, Johann, 2009. \"Banks, financial markets, and international consumption risk sharing,\" Department of Economics Working Paper Series 128, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.\nHo, Chun-Yu & Ho, Wai-Yip Alex & Li, Dan, 2015. \"Intranational risk sharing and its determinants,\" Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 89-113.\nFratzscher, Marcel & Imbs, Jean, 2007. \"Risk sharing, finance and institutions in international portfolios,\" Working Paper Series 826, European Central Bank.\nFratzscher, Marcel & Imbs, Jean, 2009. \"Risk sharing, finance, and institutions in international portfolios,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(3), pages 428-447, December.\nFratzscher, Marcel & Imbs, Jean, 2007. \"Risk Sharing, Finance and Institutions in International Portfolios,\" CEPR Discussion Papers 6496, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.\nEsposito, Federico, 2019. \"Demand Risk and Diversification through Trade,\" MPRA Paper 99875, University Library of Munich, Germany.\nFederico Esposito, 2019. \"Demand Risk and Diversification through Trade,\" Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University 0833, Department of Economics, Tufts University.\nEsposito, Federico, 2020. \"Demand Risk and Diversification through Trade,\" MPRA Paper 100511, University Library of Munich, Germany.\nHalla, Martin & Scharler, Johann, 2008. \"Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing,\" IZA Discussion Papers 3744, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).\nMartin Halla & Johann Scharler, 2012. \"Marriage, Divorce, and Interstate Risk Sharing,\" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 114(1), pages 55-78, March.\nMartin Halla & Johann Scharler, 2008. \"Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing,\" Economics working papers 2008-16, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.\nMartin Halla & Johann Scharler, 2008. \"Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing,\" NRN working papers 2008-03, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.\nMathias Hoffmann & Thomas Nitschka, 2008. \"Securitization of Mortgage Debt, Asset Prices and International Risk Sharing,\" IEW - Working Papers 376, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich.\nMathias Hoffmann & Thomas Nitschka, 2009. \"Securitization of Mortgage Debt, Asset Prices and International Risk Sharing,\" CESifo Working Paper Series 2527, CESifo.\nEsposito, Federico, 2020. \"Demand Risk and Diversification through International Trade,\" MPRA Paper 100865, University Library of Munich, Germany.\nBuch, Claudia M. & K\u00f6rner, Tobias & Weigert, Benjamin, 2013. \"Towards deeper financial integration in Europe: What the Banking Union can contribute,\" Working Papers 02\/2013, German Council of Economic Experts \/ Sachverst\u00e4ndigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung.\nBuch, Claudia M. & K\u00f6rner, Tobias & Weigert, Benjamin, 2014. \"Towards deeper financial integration in Europe: What the Banking Union can contribute,\" Working Papers 02\/2013 [rev.], German Council of Economic Experts \/ Sachverst\u00e4ndigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung.\nBuch, Claudia M. & K\u00f6rner, Tobias & Weigert, Benjamin, 2013. \"Towards Deeper Financial Integration in Europe: What the Banking Union Can Contribute,\" IWH Discussion Papers 13\/2013, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).\nClaudia M. Buch & Tobias K\u00f6rner & Benjamin Weigert, 2015. \"Towards Deeper Financial Integration in Europe: What the Banking Union Can Contribute,\" Credit and Capital Markets, Credit and Capital Markets, vol. 48(1), pages 11-49.\nThomas Nitschka, 2012. \"Banking sectors' international interconnectedness: Implications for consumption risk sharing in Europe,\" Working Papers 2012-04, Swiss National Bank.\nNitschka, Thomas, 2011. \"Banking sectors' international interconnectedness: Implications for consumption risk sharing in Europe,\" VfS Annual Conference 2011 (Frankfurt, Main): The Order of the World Economy - Lessons from the Crisis 48684, Verein f\u00fcr Socialpolitik \/ German Economic Association.\nDennis, William J, 2008. \"Small Business Access to Credit: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,\" Working Papers 2008:1, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.\nGilles Dufr\u00e9not & Jean-Baptiste Goss\u00e9 & Caroline Clerc, 2021. \"Risk sharing in Europe: new empirical evidence on the capital markets channel,\" Post-Print hal-02978130, HAL.\nDufr\u00e9not Gilles & Goss\u00e9 Jean-Baptiste & Clerc Caroline, 2020. \"Risk Sharing in Europe: New Empirical Evidence on the Capital Markets Channel,\" Working papers 781, Banque de France.\nGilles Dufr\u00e9not & Jean-Baptiste Goss\u00e9 & Caroline Clerc, 2021. \"Risk sharing in Europe: new empirical evidence on the capital markets channel,\" Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(2), pages 262-276, January.\nStephen Teng Sun & Constantine Yannelis, 2016. \"Credit Constraints and Demand for Higher Education: Evidence from Financial Deregulation,\" The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 98(1), pages 12-24, March.\nTeng Sun, Stephen & Yannelis, Constantine, 2013. \"Credit Constraints and Demand for Higher Education: Evidence from Financial Deregulation,\" MPRA Paper 48726, University Library of Munich, Germany.\nCuratola, Giuliano, 2017. \"Optimal portfolio choice with loss aversion over consumption,\" The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 345-358.\nNitschka, Thomas, 2010. \"Securitization, collateral constraints and consumption risk sharing in the euro area,\" Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 106(3), pages 197-199, March.\nRangvid, Jesper & Santa-Clara, Pedro & Schmeling, Maik, 2016. \"Capital market integration and consumption risk sharing over the long run,\" Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 27-43.\nMathias Hoffmann, 2014. \"The Consumption\u2013Income Ratio, Entrepreneurial Risk, and the U.S. Stock Market,\" Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(6), pages 1259-1292, September.\nChristian Beer & Walter Waschiczek, 2018. \"Capital markets union: a more diverse financial landscape in the EU?,\" Monetary Policy & the Economy, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austrian Central Bank), issue Q2\/18, pages 71-86.\nVidhi Chhaochharia & George M. Korniotis & Alok Kumar, 2020. \"Prozac for depressed states? 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{"text":"Starbucks, Emmet Place, in Cork City, is housed in the very elegant 'Queen Anne House'. This has unusual cornice shaped keystones over the windows which are interspaced with fine gauged brickwork. Inside, much of the detail is gone, and most rooms are stripped back to the brickwork. However it has character and an elegant period staircase remains. The building has been claimed to date from 1730.\nIn recent years, a large shopping centre has been built around and to the rear of the building which swamps its setting and makes it look a bit incongruous. The development also encroaches along its side in the form of a narrow glazed extension to the coffee shop and is attached at the rear. The effect is reminiscent of the extreme contrast between old and new found in places like Boston Massachusetts.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kidney: Renal cell carcinoma: an overview\n2003-06-01 Eva van den Berg , Stephan Storkel Affiliation\n1.Clinical cytogeneticist, Department of Clinical Genetics, Academic Hospital Groningen, Ant. Deusinglaan 4, 9713 AW Groningen, the Netherlands\nRenal cell cancer (RCC) constitutes a group of epithelial tumors that are highly heterogeneous with respect to morphology and clinical behaviour.\nThe major morphological classifications (WHO\/AFIP; modified Mainz classification, and the Heidelberg classification) discriminate eight subtypes of renal cell tumors related to the basic cell types of the nephron from which they are derived, and in line with the genetic facts as presently understood:\n1) metanephric adenoma and metanephric adenofibroma,2) papillary adenoma,3) renal oncocytoma, all three benign parenchymal neoplasms.\nMalignant parenchymal neoplasms are:4) common or conventional (clear cell) renal carcinoma,5) papillary (formerly chromophilic or tubulopapillary) renal carcinoma,6) chromophobe renal carcinoma,7) collecting duct carcinoma, and8) renal cell carcinoma, unclassified.\nAlthough common RCC and papillary RCC both are derived from the same part of the renal tubule and have a similar antigenic phenotype, they differ in genetic changes. This might be explained by the fact that common RCC arises from mature renal tubular cells, whereas papillary tumors are from embryonal origin.\nEmbryonic origin\nIn former times it was believed that certain clear cell epithelial renal tumors are derived from ectopic adreno-cortical elements as expressed by Virchow and advocated by Grawitz. This has led to the term hypernephroma or Grawitz tumor. Nowadays, there is evidence that the usual (nonembryonic) RCC in all its variants derives, in principle, from the mature uriniferous tubule (nephron). This evidence is corroborated by animal experiments and observation of pre-stages and early stages of epithelial renal tumors in human kidneys.\nA specific factor in the etiology of RCC is not known at the moment, although a number of dietary, environmental factors, hormonal, celllular and genetic factors associated with increased risk. RCC consists of a number histologically defined entities which may occur either non-hereditary or hereditary, e.g. the influence of genetic factors in VHL disease, in hereditary papillary RCC and familial RCC.\nRCC is the most common malignant tumor arising in the kidney and accounts for 2% of all new cancers diagnosed, representing 85% all primary renal neoplasms in adults. RCC affects males twice as often as females and shows a peak in the sixth decade. Although rarely, RCC can occur in children and adolescents. There is no clear geographical or ethnic preference. An increased incidence of RCC has been associated with end-stage renal disease and with acquired cystic kidney disease. RCCs are often large at detection and frequently already have metastasized.\nThe present classification is primarily based on cytologic appearance and the cell type of origin in combination with growth pattern and genetic alterations.\nCommon (or non papillary or clear cell) RCC is the most common form of RCC, comprising 70-75% of cases.They show a male preponderance of 2:1. The tumor mass of common RCC is multicolored, with a predominantly yellow cur surface with white or gray foci. The tumor shows a solid growth pattern, but in some cases cystic appearance is seen. The cytoplasm is clear, due to an intensive intracytoplasmatic accumulation of glycogen and lipids. Usually, the nuclei are condensed and hyperchromatic. Electronmicroscopical features resembling the proximale tubule can be found i.e. brush border formation and basal infoldings. Tumor cells express antigens of the proximal tubule.\nPapillary (or chromophilic) cell tumors (thought to arise from the proximal tubule) comprise 10-15% of RCC cases. Papillary RCC can be devided in adenomas and carcinomas. The adenomas tend to beige- to white colored small tumor masses whereas the carcinomas show an extensive greasy-brown colored central necrosis resulting from consecutive hemorrhages. The tumor cells exhibit centrally located small nuclei and the cytoplasm is contains few organelles only, especially endoplasmatic reticulum. As a rule the tumor cells are arranged in a (tubulo) papillary architecture.\nFor both common and papillary RCC, hereditary as well as sporadic cases of papillary RCC have been found. Hereditary RCC is characterized by the appearance of multiple and bilateral tumors and an early age of onset.\nThe chromophobic type (2-5%) resembles the intercalated cells type B from the cortical collecting duct. The antigen profiles of the chromophobic tumor exhibit collecting duct phenotypic features. No male preponderance is found. Chromophobic RCC consists of one or more solid tumor nodules with a slightly lobulated surface and the cut surface appears orange. The tumor cells are polygonal with a transparent, not clear, but reticulated cytoplasm. Nuclei are moderate with clear nucleoli. Ultrastructurally, the cytoplasm is crowded with glycogen deposits and numerous, sometimes invaginated, vesicles. Chromophobic RCC is diagnosed by a positive Hales acid iron colloid stain and is positive for carbonic anhydrase C, but does not express band-3 protein.\nRenal oncocytoma (thought to arise from the distal nephron) comprises 5% of RCC and shows a 2.5:1 male to female ratio. Renal oncocytomas are solitary, well circumscribed, slightly lobulated solid tumors with a tan-brown cut surface and in larger tumors a central scar. The tumor cells show abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm and arranged in solid nests.The nuclei are generally round. Ultrastructurally, the cytoplasm is packed with numerous mitochondria. Renal oncocytomas find their origin in the intercalated cells type A of the cortical collecting tubule, which is substantiated by the shared expression of carbonic anhydrase C and band-3 protein.\nCollecting duct (duct Bellini) RCC comprises 1% and is closely related to the princi-pal cells of the medullary collecting duct. These tumors are usually localized in the renal medulla and white colored. The growth pattern is mainly tubular. The tumor cells have a basophilic cytoplasm due to pronounced formation of endoplasmatic reticulum and glycogen deposits. Nuclei are anaplastic.\nVariants can be assigned to all these basic types which are characterized by augmentation of mitochondria leading to a stronger eosinophilia or granularity, respectively, of the cytoplasm. Spindle-shaped\/pleomorphic variants as a result of sarcomatoid transformation can also be deduced from all the basic types.\nThe differential diagnosis between renal cell adenomas and carcinomas has been a matter of controversy for long time. Although initially Bells rule generally was followed (3 cm: carcinoma), this appeared unreliable and is still a matter of debate.\nThe standard treatment for RCC is surgery by radical or partial nephrectomy. At present there is no effective therapy for metastatic RCC and patients with irresectable disease have a poor prognosis.\nAbout 50% of patients with localized disease progress with distant metastasis.\nThe anatomic extent of the disease represented by stage of disease is the single most important indicator of prognosis in RCC.\nCytogenetically, no differences are observed between hereditary tumors (usually presenting as multiple\/bilateral tumors at an early age of onset) and sporadic papillary tumors.\nIncreasing evidence exists on the presence of clonal, mostly numerical, chromosomal changes in apparantly normal kidney tissue from patients with a normal constitutional karyotype like trisomy 7, 5, 8, 10, 18 and loss of the Y chromosome. These changes are not an in vitro artefact and are independent of the length of cell culture. The presence of clonal and non clonal aberrations in apparantly normal kidney tissue merely indicates a chromosome instability pattern or mosaicism, and this condition should not be considered as strictly neoplastic.\nThe most frequently encountered RCC subtype is common or conventional type renal cell cancer characterized by loss of (part of) the short arm of chromosome 3 due to (a) deletion(s) or unbalanced translocation(s). Regions frequently lost are are 3p12-14, 3p21 and 3p25. Loss of at least two of these regions are necessary for kidney cells to develop into common type renal cell carcinoma, and loss of 3p21 is obligatory. Therefore, if a tumor shows only one deletion at 3p, either 3p14 or 3p25, it should be designated common type renal cell adenomas.\nOther aberrations frequently found incommon RCC are (partial) trisomy of chromosome 5, especially the 5q22-qter segment. Trisomy 12, and 20, and loss of chromosomes 8, 9, 13q, 14q, and structural abnormalities of the long arm of chromosomes 6 and 10 are also found and correlated with progression.\nMost papillary renal adenomas and carcinomas are characterized by a unique combination of autosomal trisomies with trisomy 17. Papillary adenomas specifically show a -Y,+7,+17 chromosomal pattern as well as trisomy 3 or gain of the long arm of chromosome 3, probably reflecting malignant transformation. Trisomy of chromosomes 12, 16, 20 as well as loss of the extra copy of chromosome 17 or loss of 17p are associated with progression from the adenoma into the carcinoma stage, i.e. papillary renal cell carcinomas. The high incidence of loss of the Y chromosome combined with the strong male preponderance suggests that loss of specific sequences harboured on the Y chromosome probably is important for developing this subtype.\nA small subset of papillary RCC is characterized by X; autosome translocations. The t(X;1)(p11.2;q21), resulting in a fusion of the transcription factor TFE3 on the X chromosome, with a novel gene, designated PRCC, on chromosome 1, appears to be a specific primary anomaly characterizing a distinct subgroup of papillary RCC with common RCC like features as clear cytoplasma. These tumors occur preferentially in young (male) adults and children.\nMetanephric adenoma or adenofibroma shows gain of chromosomes 7 and 17 with Y chromosome loss suggesting a relationship with papillary renal cell adenomas and carcinomas.\nIn renal oncocytoma several genetic subsets can be distinghuished: one with mixed populations of normal and abnormal karyotypes without any cytogenetic similarity (yet), a group defined by (variant) translocations involving 11q13, and one with specifically defined numerical anomalies, in particular loss of chromosomes 1, and Y\/X.\nThe finding of mitochondrial DNA changes and the loss of Y\/X in both renal oncocytoma and chromophobe carcinoma might indicate progression from renal oncocytoma to chromophobe renal cell carcinomas through additional chromosome losses, also explaining the occasionally malignant behavior of renal oncocytomas.\nChromophobe renal carcinomas show multiple losses of entire chromosomes, i.e. loss of chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10, 13, 17, 21, and the Y or X chromosome, leading to a low chromosome number.\nCollecting duct carcinomas do not show consistent chromosomal abnormalities as yet: probably involvement of the short arm of chromosome 8 related to poor prognosis and loss of the long arm of chromosome 13 as well as loss of part of the long arm of chromosome 1q32.\nLosses of chromosome1 material seem to be a hallmark for all distal nephron tumors.\nSarcomatoid transformation in RCC represents the highest form of dedifferentiation and can in principle be derived from all the basic cell types. Cytogenetic data on sarcomatoid RCC is scarce: some show structural abnormalities of chromosomes 1, 5, 16, and 19 and losses of 3p, 4(q), 6q, 8p, 9, 13, 14, 17p, and gain of 5, 12, and 20 as well as TP53 mutations.\nThe most frequent occurring RCC is common RCC characterized by loss of (part) of the short arm of chromosome 3 due to a deletion or unbalanced translocation and restricted to this type. Until today no tumor suppressor gene responsible for, or at least contributing to, cRCC has been identified -except for VHL-, in the different regions, although many candidate genes have been suggested such as FHIT(fragile histidine triad); TTRC1 (two-three-renal-cancer-1); DUTT1 (deleted in U-twenty twenty); locus NCR-1 (nonpapillary renal cell carcinoma 1) and RASSF1A (RAS association family 1).\nIn papillary RCC, the TP53 gene most likely does not play an important role, since no mutations of TP53 have been observed in this subtype. 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She has sympathetically, carefully and patiently taught me how to start playing in addition to explaining the theory. I have learned to play pieces by Bach, Chopin and Borodin in this short time. It has all been done with her great good humour, tremendous encouragement and understanding and with a strong emphasis on it all being done for pleasure while acknowledging the important role it plays in maintaining good mental health. Her lessons continue to make a very major contribution to the happiness and fulfilment of my retirement.\"\nMARK CHARNOCK\n\"Five years ago, at the age of 67 and approaching retirement, I decided to do something I'd had an urge to do for many years, but never got round to it \u2014 learn to play the piano. I think there are many out there in the same circumstances as I was: having lessons at school when I was about 10 but giving it up after six months because I was frankly bored because, on reflection, my teacher was a very dull, old lady certainly without any idea of how to motivate a young lad and probably with limited teaching skills. Now looking back I rue the fact that I wasted all those years in terms of the rich enjoyment to be had from mastering this wonderful, complete instrument. I spent a lot of time searching for a piano teacher in the Oxfordshire area and seemed spoilt for choice, but narrowed the field down to a shortlist of five. It was not difficult to make my choice \u2014 Liana Ainge. She was the only one who remotely fitted the description of 'professional' in her approach which is indeed outstanding. Unlike Liana, all the others came over as unimpressive, had no proposal as to how they would teach a senior from scratch and in two cases did not even have any qualification to teach. I signed up for her initial course of ten lessons for a beginner, during which she assessed me to see whether I had any real ability to play. This impressed me because I felt assured that she would tell me if she believed the piano was not for me. In the event I made the grade and I have continued with my weekly lessons ever since. Liana is aware that unlike child students, adults, particularly seniors, do not have a lot of time to become proficient. For this reason she has developed a special programme for older people designed to fast-track them through the training. With virtually no boring, repetitive scales, arpeggios etc that can quickly sap one's enthusiasm, but rather getting on to play actual pieces of music that incorporate these basics, results in the learning process being most enjoyable. This method makes you feel you have achieved right from the start. Some people, at least initially, believe they want to simply play for their own pleasure but central to Liana's philosophy is getting her students to realise how much more one can get out of the piano if one performs in front of other people. Now your audience enjoys you playing as well as yourself! However, at first most people find this a difficult barrier to overcome, often finding their nerves take over or they suffer a 'dry' as can happen to an actor on the stage. Liana has all the answers to get you over this hurdle by combining her skills gained from her doctorate degree in Psychology with teaching the piano. It works! Personally I am not interested in passing the Grade examinations, but am learning to play purely for pleasure. Only five years in, I am currently studying a Bach Little Fugue that is a subject of Grade Seven examination. Obviously learning to sight-read is a major part of the learning process but the end game is to be able to play from memory to create a repertoire of pieces for a performance. I have recommended Liana to several of my friends, who were unimpressed with their lack-lustre teachers and now they are inspired and delighted that their efforts have some meaning and purpose. Liana has certainly inspired me, being a great motivator, an outstanding teacher and, most importantly, a lovely person.\"\nMARTIN MELLOR\n\"I first started having piano lessons with Liana 4 years ago, she was highly recommended to me by a friend. I had piano lessons up until the age of 11 years and had not touched the piano for 48 years so I had to learn the basics again. Liana's method of teaching is inspiring, there are no boring scales instead one learns to play beautiful music learning each piece by heart and slowly building up a repertoire. My confidence is growing all the time and my family and friends are really impressed with my progress. I can now play Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart and I so look forward to my weekly lesson and really enjoy practising as well. \"\nCATHY NICHOLLS\nNot sure what level you are?\u200b\nIf you are interested in learning and want to be inspired then please fill out the form to the right and I will get back to you as soon as possible\nLessons in Oxfordshire\nFor lessons located in Oxford and South Oxfordshire including Henley and Wallingford areas, please contact us.\nlianaainge37@gmail.com\nBook your piano lesson\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Piano Prima Lessons\nPowered by Piano Prima Lessons","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Napoleon defeated, God dead, confidence up: How one London church reveals our secret history\nThis is a short story about what really happens to the things we think are permanent and powerful. And how they may not be at all what they seem.\nIn 1818, the British Government announced a bonanza of one million pounds to be spent on celebrating victory over Napoleon. Buildings, events, whatever. But make it impressive.\nOne result was a rash of 'Waterloo churches' such as Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone \u2013 designed and built by Sir John Soane, and completed in 1826.\n(The picture shows its second, outdoor pulpit: a ballsy move amid the noise and thoroughfare, like a rock band promoting a new album by playing loud from the back of a truck. Turn heads, stop traffic. Or perhaps it was a desperate move. More of that in a moment.)\nYet once it was finished in 1826, the church saw service for barely100 years.\nBy the 1930s, it was derelict. By 1936, it had been retooled as a warehouse for Penguin Books, who figured they could store inventory for longer in its dry, dark crypt. The crypt was down some stairs, lower than delivery vehicles or wheeled trolleys could get. So they put a slide from a children's playground going from the street down into the darkness below, and used that as a book chute.\nSince the second world war, it's been an art installation space (once exhibiting a piece involving a crucified ape), and a Christian publishing office. There are currently proposals to redevelop the building's interior, and turn it into a shopping arcade.\nThe building itself is a blank page. Every age has written its own narrative of very different kinds of redemption and salvation on it.\nFirst, relief at the defeat of Napoleon and the need to manifest the national feel-good factor. Then, with the addition of the street pulpit, the crisis of faith and the urgent need for 19th-century Anglicanism to attract new adherents out there \u2013 to propagandise against Darwin and Owen and the ebbing of the tide, to save the religion itself by street preaching to the masses.\nIt was a books warehouse for Penguin amid the great rise in literacy, with the boom of state education, and the pressing need to serve affordable books to this new, empowered readership, lifted from the slums.\nPost-war, as attendance lapsed, it became offices \u2013 a manifestation of the property developer phenomenon that promised to take all that was old and make it new. The regeneration of space.\nAnd finally, the new national mission: shopping. Lift yourself and benefit the nation through consumer spend. Retail therapy as patriotic duty. Self service, customer service and service industry as the new national service; religious service, even.\nAfter all, the term for converting money and credit into goods has always been \"redemption\".\nPosted in History, Journalism\t| Tagged History, London, politics\t| 1 Reply\nZombies, punks & immigrants: What J.G. Ballard's 'High Rise' says about Britain in 2015\nIt's there if you look for it, snaking like mist around the tower blocks of West London, from Acton to Ladbroke Grove. An atmosphere. A message for us, maybe.\nThis part of London was the inspiration and setting for JG Ballard as he wrote his 1975 dystopian novel High Rise.\nIn the book, life for residents of a luxury high-rise development degenerates as they turn inwards, shutting off the world outside. Soon, the usual (1970s) assortment of malfunctioning elevators, power cuts, small annoyances, neighbourhood frictions, and petty tiffs spiral into terrifying violence along class and block floor lines. As factions develop and amplify, the block tumbles into savagery and eventually, cannibalism and total isolation.\nSo what? High Rise is a dystopian novel; one from 40 years ago. That's what they were like. What has it got to do with reality? And more to the point, what does it have to do with us?\nThe '70s was a time of huge anxiety around social cohesion. In Britain, it was the heyday of Class War, Punk, the National Front, and heightened paranoia about immigration, domestic and international terrorism and Britain's relationship with Europe. Fear of Armageddon was measured by the Doomsday Clock's minutes-to-midnight time. The Left, with the Labour Party having seemed so powerful, with a charismatic, modernising leader (for Tony Blair, read Harold Wilson) until so recently, was fragmenting, running out of steam, and turning on itself.\nAcross the developed West, recession and stagnation combined with high rates of urbanisation and urban development (all those high rises) to put fear of urban crime at an all time high. Ballard's Britain in the early 1970s was beset by power cuts, strikes, and shortages of everything from bread to water. Industrial action caused backlogs of refuse (striking binmen) and cadavers (striking cemetery workers). In 1975, New York City was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy \u2013 so close that emergency services faced the prospect of paralysis. Public blocks went unrepaired, living conditions degenerated. The following year, West London saw the second wave of Notting Hill race riots. By 1977, New York had descended into lawlessness amid a blackout. The same summer saw the Battle of Lewisham, with National Front, locals and antifascists in pitched battles across South east London.\nThe social fabric, the contract we made with each other, seemed to be letting us down just when we needed it to protect and comfort us.\nTo those who remembered it a decade on, it must have seemed that Margaret Thatcher's \"There is no such thing as society\" was less a credo than a statement of fact. The masses were fundamentally hostile; or at least, they were in competition with us, for whatever we wanted to take for ourselves and our family. They were everywhere, and they wanted to raid our pockets: communists pushing redistribution of wealth at home; criminals on our streets; strikers on the shop floor; immigrants at the gates; Europeans around the negotiating table.\nIn this context, the Conservatives' famous Saatchi & Saatchi-produced 1979 General Election campaign poster, with its advancing, shuffling queue, looks very different.\nThis fear of the hordes, the masses \u2013 the Other, who looks like us but means us harm \u2013 was also behind the high 1970s' other big cultural explosion: the zombie movie.\nA slow trickle had started a few years before against a backdrop of student riots, assassinations and impending anarchy with Night of the Living Dead (1968). But with the high '70s, the flood broke. Zombies were everywhere. Suddenly, they were overrunning shopping malls, rural farms, homes, city streets. Unintelligible, irreducible, shambling and inelegant, ragged but unstoppable, they were the perfect metaphor for the invasive, alien masses Mr & Mrs Average saw moaning at the gates. In just under a century, those \"poor\u2026 huddled masses\" had gone from being beckoned by the Statue of Liberty to being decapitated by full-blood American heartlanders with shovels.\n(The zombie movie explosion arrived in perfect sync with its twin, the other great, quintessentially 1970s American cinema phenomenon. Blaxploitation movies attempted to deal with precisely the same anxieties of lone citizens standing alone against a rising tide of violent and degenerate Other, only from the other side. We can read in Shaft's urbanity and Superfly's threads an analogue to the British Mods' emphasis on style as an outward expression of 'clean living under difficult circumstances'.)\nNo wonder politics got so beleaguered and panicky. No wonder Reagan's winning 1980 manifesto was called 'Morning In America'.\nThe mid-1970s was a dream from which it seemed we were trying to awake. A dystopia, narrowly averted. As Ballard wrote High Rise, he channeled this feeling. The block was a metaphor for society, its tribal split by floor \u2013 upper, middle and lower \u2013 mirroring the strata outside. But others were picking up on the mood too.\nThink about that mood. Zombies \u2013 immigrants, the poor, the Other \u2013 were all over popular culture. Terror and immigration were all over the news. Urban high-density development was driving out residents. Atavism as politics, driven by a deep anxiety about the future, and about securing what we have. It was all very 1970s.\nAnd in its own way, it's all very 2010s, too. It's no surprise that High Rise is being made into a film by Kill List director Ben Wheatley. So what does the rise of that old hysteria, those old anxieties mean? What do The Walking Dead, World War Z, I Am Legend and Zombie Apocalypse say about us? Who are our shambling, malevolent hordes, in ragged clothes, destroying the brains of young people and advancing on our gates?\nAnd just as importantly, who are the people promising us easy answers, this time around? Answers that involve barricades, and turning inwards, and everyone for themselves? Or even turning our guns on these \"unstoppable cockroaches\" and crying \"show me the dead bodies\"?\nAnd if we know that, then might we begin to change what happens next, in our very own luxury fortress-like High Rise?\nPosted in Comment, History\t| Tagged History, Journalism, London, politics, terrorism, Writing\t| 1 Reply\nCrime & corruption: Are you a terrorist? If Yes, please tick box below\u2026\nEver get the creeping feeling that the fight against corruption, money laundering and tax avoidance are doomed? Well, you'd be right. And here \u2013 in one phone call \u2013 is why.\nI had a conversation with my bank about money laundering today.\nI denied everything, naturally. Well, you would, wouldn't you? These are tough times for money-launderers. We know they are because the government tells us, the police tell us, and the news media tells us.\nSomali remittance services like Dahabshiil are getting the third degree amid claims they are conduits of funds to Al Shabaab. David Cameron recently \"pressed the EU\" on tax evasion, and has committed to a public register of company owners. \"Those who want to evade taxes,\" he thundered after this year's G8 summit, \"have nowhere to hide\".\nLet's leave aside for the moment the fact that the Prime Minister's cherished City of London is one of the leading global hubs for money laundering licit and illicit (and if you haven't read Nicholas Shaxson's eye-opening book Treasure Islands: Tax Havens & The Men Who Stole The World, I would urge you to do so): the overall message is clear. Money laundering by the rest of us is a Very Bad Thing, and Inspector Cameron, HMRC and the G8 are totally on it.\nSo it was that, having announced I wished to make a deposit with my bank (actually switching some money from another account somewhere else), I was made to feel what it's like to have nowhere to hide. Here's how it went.\nMe: \"Hello, I'd like to make a deposit, please.\"\nBank: \"OK. Now, I do need to ask \u2013 in accordance with the new money-laundering regulations \u2013 where this money is from?\"\nMe: \"It's mine.\"\nBank: \"OK, that's great, I'll tick 'savings'. Thanks.\"\nAnd that was it. That was the full extent of the change wrought by the new money laundering regulations.\nSo if you're a Mexican drug lord, Al-Shabaab fighter or common-or-garden tax avoider from the UK, remember: you have nowhere to hide. Except, y'know, a mortgage or current account. So long as you don't confess under thorough interrogations like this.\nAs the Monty Python sketch says: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition\u2026\nPosted in Comment, Somalia\t| Tagged Corruption, crime, finance, politics, Somalia, tax, terrorism\t| Leave a reply\nComment: Reign of Errors \u2013 The Merchant of Death story ends the way we all figured. Or does it?\nPosted in Comment, News, Russia\t| Tagged Corruption, crime, politics, Russia, Viktor Bout\nComment: Duwayne Brooks and the London riot story that never got written\nSome stories write themselves. Some never get written, though they're better by far. There's something irreducible about them, too many loose ends. They don't have neat beginnings and endings. They don't fit our (journalists', readers') idea of the arc. Sometimes they're just collected impressions.\nThis one's like that, and I'm setting it down here simply because I think someone should write the story that never got written. Maybe it isn't a story after all, but a diary of sorts. You tell me.\nIt starts (though I didn't know it at the time) nearly 20 years ago. As a newly arrived, young, white Londoner, I followed the Stephen Lawrence case through the 1990s, then the 2000s, if not avidly then certainly with an odd mixture of horror, casual compulsion, mounting disbelief at the catalogue of establishment errors or worse, and something\u2026 what was that other thing? I guess it was a bit like shame, only less easily pinned down. It was a vague, nagging, sticky discomfort that came and went. Something I didn't like feeling, but knew it wasn't to be shied away from. It was an itching unease about what might, for others, lurk beneath the surface of a society that I, white, lower-middle-class and male, may not always have liked, but had always, personally at least, experienced as fair and neutral in its justice.\nI knew names, places, details from the news. I remember Martin Bashir's documentary on the Dobson-Norris gang as a consensus TV moment: the one we all knew we'd all watched, whatever our age, background or colour. That photograph of the teenage Stephen Lawrence \u2013 striped top, grin, one arm folded upwards \u2013 was one of the defining images of 1990s Britain. Printed and reprinted, flickering on screens from electrical shops and pub TV sets, for a generation it became as ubiquitous, as powerful, as any shot of Neville Chamberlain, heavy-eyed, monochrome Myra Hindley or triangular, flag-topped Iwo Jima.\nI knew the names of the gang members. Acourt, Acourt, Norris, Knight, Dobson. The first two sounding posh and French, then the three identikit English names. They took on a strange voodoo, these names. Bad luck to utter them. Creepily average. I looked at the faces, and tried to remember them too.\nThere was one name I did not know. The other person who'd been present \u2013 Stephen Lawrence's friend, the boy who managed to escape. I'm not sure how I missed it, but somehow it never registered. Eventually, that boy faded from my memory altogether, and only the crime \u2013 the innocent victim, the actions of the mob \u2013 remained.\nBy 2011, I was living in south-east London. It's a big, open, hilly place. A few train stops and two decades separated my neighbourhood from early-1990s Eltham. Still, some things bubble and blister beneath the surface, and occasionally they rise. The London riots, when they came that summer, tore through the High Street, smashing faces and homes and shops and trust, then slipped round quiet neighbourhood corners and into evacuated parks, until the following day.\nI wasn't watching it on TV this time. Walking home, passing groups of people heading the other way, I took it all in. There were fights, screams and the sound of car doors. There were chases, and mock-furtive, too-loud talk of where was next, which houses were marked for tonight, and who was doing what. Like everyone, I was on edge, cautious, rattled. But I was curious too. So sometimes I followed as close as I could, to see what happened next. I set up multiple TweetDeck feeds, to monitor the streets, neighbourhoods and tags I suspected would see action. I began examining coverage, mapping claim against reality.\nAnd what I saw, on the streets, in the galloping updates on my Twitter feeds, and when I turned on the TV that night, was fear. Any journalist knows TV cameras can do that \u2013 point a camera at a burning car or smoking Tube station from enough angles, and that night it will look like the whole city is ablaze. But somehow, those flickering black-and-orange images leaped off the screens and captured the popular imagination.\nFear bowled along the streets of Lewisham, even when nobody else did. Rumours spread. More riots would be coming tonight. The freesheets ran with it. Offices buzzed with it. A group of 1,000 rioters had been spotted heading North along the next road. EDL members were marching now. A race riot was about to kick off. Shops were being looted.\nThere were no police. Senior members of the Government were all caught out, still on holiday, as was Boris Johnson, the mayor of London. Tracked down by broadcast news, they looked lost, floundering, and smaller somehow. So did London. I knew it wasn't an apocalypse, and that cover of Time was just silly, but the speculation, more than any fires or smashed windows, quickly lay waste to a lot of the residual trust people there felt, not just in the police and government, but in fellow Londoners.\nThere was one public figure in the city who seemed to be playing a blinder, though. I'd never even heard of him before \u2013 or at least I didn't think I had. He was a Lib Dem Councillor in Lewisham, and suddenly he was everywhere. He seems, at one point early on, to have made it his personal mission to take on the misinformation, the rumour-mongering, the panic and the suspicion. His tweets tell the story today if you care to look back over them. He went from place to place and tweeted what he saw. When even the normally reliable Alex Tomlinson of Channel 4 News repeated an unverified rumour about a brewing race riot near Eltham, the Councillor debunked it. He replied publicly to people who claimed they'd witnessed improbable acts of mass violence, and asked them for details over the 3G airwaves. Where was this? Had they seen it? Because he was there now and the shop window looked intact. He asked Londoners to refrain from indulging rumours and retweets of things they could not personally verify. One tweet said simply: \"No fighting no riots no looting no NF in #lewisham. Please stop tweeting nonsense. This is not a game. People are scared. #fixup please.\"\nHe went further. He put his personal mobile number on his site, and tweeted it, so people could call and ask him what was happening, anywhere in the area, when they had no reliable information. He became, briefly, the single most trustworthy medium for news on developments in South London's melting pot turned bubbling cauldron. He replied to enquiries and appeals on Twitter \u2013 all of them, publicly or individually. Again and again, he damped wild speculation about the racial demographic of rioters, and quashed rumours about white racist vigilante groups.\nHis huge presence, his championing of perspective and truth, was quite a contrast to the vacuum the Met and the Cabinet had left us inhabiting those first few hot, suspicion-filled, dangerous days. I remember tweeting his details at the time, \"[Councillor's name] \u2013 he's on fire. This is what politicians are for!\"\nAnd all the while, in the midst of the chaos, I had two images in my head. One was of something this local politician reminded me of, an image drawn from the book I had just finished. It was Boris Yeltsin clambering up on a tank in front of Moscow's Parliament building during the attempted Russian coup of 1991, and facing down the crisis with sheer presence (and reportedly some vodka too). It made me laugh with its bathos even then, but on some level it was true too.\nThe other image?\nThat didn't make me laugh, it made me tense. It was an image of the worst that can happen in South London. It was a picture of what the city had to avoid, at all costs. It was a picture from 1993, of what happens, of what is lost, when people let themselves hate and mistrust, blindly. It was that shot of Stephen Lawrence, and I kept it in mind every time something immoderate appeared on a front page, or crackled over the airwaves.\nThe riots ended with the run of hot weather, and with the late, slow arrival of the police. I meant to thank the Councillor. I'd heard phrases like 'community leaders' before, and I'd always sort of thought they referred to self-appointed spokesmen or religious elders among discrete, probably ethnically or culturally homogeneous communities. Muslim community leaders. Black community leaders. I suppose for the first time I saw leadership being shown, rather than claimed, and I realized that I was part of one of those communities experiencing a degree of leadership. So I thought about composing a quick email \u2013 maybe a tweet \u2013 just to say how much of a difference his work for those few days had made.\nBut I never did. I left it just too late. And by then, the man I wanted to thank was in the news again, for very different reasons, and probably receiving more emails than anybody could be expected to handle.\nI saw the Councillor in the news during this winter's trial of two of the men who had killed Stephen Lawrence. His name was Duwayne Brooks, and back on that evening in 1993, he'd been the friend who'd escaped from the gang. I felt stupid for not having remembered the name's significance that summer. Then I thought: wow.\nOver the past couple of months, I've read more about Duwayne Brooks \u2013 the terrible impact of the murder itself; the long campaign of intimidation, prejudice and smears against him by the Metropolitan Police; his treatment at the hands of the law and, often, the media; his transformation from frightened, suspicious virtual fugitive to politician; and his dignity and perseverance at the final reckoning for two of the murderers.\nAnd here's what impressed me most. If there was ever anyone who had the right to feel hate, or suspicion, or to welcome some form of blowback against the power structures of a city that had let him and his friend down so badly, it was Duwayne Brooks. If anyone could have been forgiven for succumbing to paranoia about a police vacuum and rumours of racial conflict in South London, it would have been him.\nBut that wasn't what happened. Instead, for those long, hot days in South London, when those structures let everyone down and fear threatened to take over the streets, he was as a powerful force for tolerance, truth, reason, calm, and \u2013 more than anything \u2013 trust. He was markedly less speculative, panicky or paranoid than most of the better journalists I know.\nWhat I started out wanting to say was this. I don't usually write praise for politicians, but in this era of photo opps, press briefings and presubmitted questions, It's worth remembering Duwayne Brooks was there for the people he represented. On his mobile, on the streets, and on the case.\nAnd yet this is not really about politics either. It's about how we let ourselves feel as people, as Londoners, and about how we react to what shapes us. Because if a city like this can't learn more from Duwayne Brooks than how to survive a terrible ordeal and come through, then we miss the point. And if we can't learn from his incredible presence during that week of madness how to help others through their troubles and suspicion and fear too, then we've got no-one to blame but ourselves.\nSo\u2026 So what? I don't know the rest. Like I said at the start, it's not really a story, and this is too messy to be an ending. But in the years to come, I hope we \u2013 Londoners, people, whatever \u2013 can give it an ending, and make it a proper story. And I really hope we make it a good one.\nUpdate 16th January 2012: After receiving a copy of this piece for syndication, the London Evening Standard ran it, originally changing the byline to one of their staffers. That issue has now been rectified, and you can read their shorter edit of the piece here.\nPosted in Comment, Journalism, News\t| Tagged Journalism, London, News, politics, Riots, Society\nVideo: \"Cocaine coffee tables?!\" CNN bosses, the craziest cop in Brazil, and me\nIt started perfectly innocently. I was out with a friend on Thursday, and the phone rang. I didn't pick up \u2013 it was ten o'clock, and I'd worked my way through six large glasses of what I remember being an increasingly smooth Italian red, and a couple of bottles of Grolsch for good measure. I'm not a big drinker, and it's not my usual style, but this guy was over from Sierra Leone, he's an old friend, and, and\u2026 and it explains why I didn't pick up.\nIt was a New York number.\nThe second time it rang, less than a minute later, I picked up. It was CNN. Could I make it to their London office? They had some story kick off with Brazilian smugglers in a plane, they'd been brought down by a cop using only his cujones and a Toyota corolla, and could I comment?\nNot a chance. I'm a little tipsy. No way. Nope. Find someone else, someone who isn't afraid, I mean really afraid, of making a lemon of himself on a prime-time network news show. I gave them my final 'No'. Put the phone down. That was a close call.\nWell, here's the interview. I guess they got more than they bargained for, and the show's bosses sent out a tweet within the hour hashtagged #justtobeclear, clarifying that they do not condone the use, possession, sale, purchase or production of \"coffee tables made of cocaine\".\nWhat can I say? They're persuasive people.\nPosted in Journalism, Matt, News, Press\t| Tagged aircraft, Aviators, crime, Drugs, Interview, Outlaws Inc, Planes, politics, USA\nAnalysis: Chewbacca, Kurt Cobain & cheap thrills, or life in a post-Soviet West\nWhat if\u2026? is a popular parlour game among historians. How would the world look had World War Two ended differently? What would a Confederate-won Civil War have meant in a parallel 21st-century USA? What if the DDR's army hadn't wavered, and the Berlin Wall had never fallen?\nThis week brought a chance to play a different, even more tantalizing game. Truthdig Radio and the KPFK network in Los Angeles devoted a half-hour segment of their weekend show to discussion with Matt this week, talking Outlaws Inc., the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, and its continuing aftermath.\nTitled 'Dodging Missiles With Russian Smugglers', the segment looked at the way in which everything from free trade to terrorism, our own governments' foreign and fiscal policy, and even our own view of democracy, society and the world continues to be affected by what Soviets called the Cataclysm of 1991. While we in the West were all obsessing about a Reagan\/Lucasfilm showdown with the Evil Empire and its Politburo of Darth Vaders that never materialized, should we have been watching instead for the thousands upon thousands of demobbed, unaccountable and nigh-untraceable Han Solos and Chewbaccas in their rusty old Millennium Falcons that suddenly swamped the skies? And what, from Afghanistan to Iraq and Colombia to Haiti, might have been different if we had?\nWere we distracted by our own propaganda into believing a Cold War could be won outright, to the point of ignoring the aftermath of cheap AK-47s and Strela rocket launchers flooding the market? Is the War on Terror floundering precisely because it's based on the fatal assumption that the War on Communism ended nice and neatly? Where would Rumsfeld and co have found all the 'non-state actors' to fly materiel to Iraq and Afghanistan without all the cheap ex-military Russian labour? How did we not predict the USSR's military-assisted heroin pipelines suddenly redirecting through Europe and America as its newly freelance \u2013 and impoverished \u2013 ex-servicemen strove to make a buck out of their old infrastructure?\nCould it be that, as well as arming a rash of conflicts from Somalia to Afghanistan and Armenia to Liberia and creating the generation of highly educated software dabblers who more or less invented the DDOS and spawned the download and piracy industry, the suddenness of the Soviet collapse was what killed Kurt Cobain and that guy from Alice In Chains?\nSo, how much of all our lives in the West 20 years on is secretly, subtly, Soviet-influenced? Are we ourselves living inside one of those 'What if\u2026?' games after all? You can listen to the interview here, read the book if you want to, and make your own mind up\u2026\nPosted in Comment, Journalism, Press, Russia\t| Tagged Corruption, crime, Downloads, politics, Press, Russia, USA\nComment: \"A chilling indictment of worldwide regulatory failure\" \u2013 or, the book beneath the book\nFive newspapers in the UK have given a unanimous four-star thumbs-up to Outlaws Inc. \u2013 and with some hearteningly perceptive reviews that took me a little by surprise. The Liverpool Echo, Edinburgh Evening News and Yorkshire Post among others, and especially this review (below), from the Manchester Evening News, hit the nail on the head in a way that a lot of the gung-ho stuff misses.\nBecause for all the adventure, the anecdote and the fist-person element, I suppose I think what I might have ended up writing, without trying to really, was a book about what happens when governments take their hands off the wheel.\nI trace the journey of Mickey and the rest of the now-stateless 'outlaws' whose country \u2013 along with all its certainties and the future it offered them \u2013 was snatched away by economic crisis. But somewhere deep down I know, as does the guy from the MEN \u2013 that it's also a book about everything that's happening now, to us. Read the review below, read the first chapter for free here, and let me know what you think.\nPosted in Press\t| Tagged Economy, Outlaws Inc, politics, Press, Reviews\nWhat makes you think it's not me, officer?\nNo, officer, I haven't been drinking\nJust a small post today, happy memories of shopping for fake driving licences in the Urals while out there researching the book in 2007. Though it's fair to say this one is not the best likeness of me, it certainly seemed to work whenever I flashed it at hotel reception check-ins. Serious question, though. This was a \u00a35 readymade. I also bought Russian PM Vladimir Putin's (clean licence, St Petersburg citizen, currently a Moscow resident \u2013 and Roman Abramovich's. Others were bespoke, with the correct picture and whatever else ($10). If you really had a problem and needed to disappear \u2013 let's even say you were someone like the guy on the licence \u2013 how hard would it be? It might cost more that $5\u2026 but not that much more.\nPosted in About the book, Corruption, Crime, Journalism, Matt, Outlaws Inc, Russia\t| Tagged Corruption, crime, Outlaws Inc, politics, Russia, terrorism\t| Leave a reply","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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During workshop, Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP and HOD, Department of Pharmaceutics, Globus College of Pharmacy, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh addressed the gathering on 'Seminar and Journal Club (SJC) Model for Effective Teaching-Learning and Scientific Writing: Perception to Post Graduation Pharmacy Students'. Dr. Dahiya told that theory and practicals are two essential components of pharmacy course curriculum; but in addition to appearing and passing examination with good score grades, pharmacy degree pursuing students are essentially required to develop professional skills which might not be attained solely by conventional class room programs. She proposed a contemporary Seminar and Journal Club (SJC) model and explained how to correlate, practise, implement and utilize the fundamentals of this model to study the theory, practicals topics as well as to prepare the students for scientific writing including preparation for synopsis, thesis and paper publication. This model seems to be a complete training program for UG\/PG students during their course of studies providing in depth knowledge; consequently improving quality and standards of pharmacy students. After the lecture, memento and certificate were given to Dr. Dahiya by Dr. Meena Kishore Sakharkar, Associate Professor and Chair \u2013 Rational in Drug Design, University of Sasketchewan, Canada and Dr. K. Ruckmani, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu and Director, Centre for Excellence in Nanobio Translational REsearch (CENTRE). During workshop, Dr. Sunita Dahiya was honored with 'Young Achiever Award' by Dr. G. Mariappan, Director, Kamla Nehru Institute of Management and Technology \u2013 Pharmacy Institute, Sultanpur (UP) and Dr. S. Latha, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, Tiruchirappalli (TN) for her achievements in pharmaceutical field. Workshop was witnessed by Dr. P. Selvamani, Dr. S. Lakshmana Prabhu; Mr. A. Shanmugarathinam; Mr. R. Suriyakanth; Ms. P.S. Dhivya; Mr. S. Rajkumar from Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu; Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP as Convener and attended by members of APP Rajasthan State Branch, faculties of ANNA University and students of surrounding pharmacy\/biotechnology departments of various universities\/institutes.\nNATIONAL SEMINAR\nAPP Rajasthan State Branch and Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy (SIP), Rajsamand, Nathdwara (RJ) jointly organized a National Seminar on \"Current Perspectives of Analytical Techniques in Pharmaceutical Sciences\" on 24th September 2014 at the college premise. The main motive of this scientific meet was to provide a forum for in-depth discussion on importance of diverse analytical techniques in pharmacy research projects. Programme was started with 'Maa Saraswati Pooojan' and welcome of all the guests by the chairman, principal, faculties of the hosting institute. Seminar was inaugurated by Dr. L. D. Patel, Director and Professor, C. U. Shah College of Pharmacy and Research, C. U. Shah University, Wadhwan, Gujarat as the Chief Guest; Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Principal, Globus College of Pharmacy, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh as Organizing Chairman; Dr. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, President, APP Rajasthan State Branch and Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar, Rajasthan as Convener; Dr. R. S. Bhadauria, Principal, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara as Organizing Secretary and Dr. Gunjan Jadon, Joint Secretary APP Rajasthan State Branch as Co-ordinator of the programme.\nThe scientific session of the seminar was initiated with the inaugural talk of Prof. L. D. Patel on \"Quality by Design (QbD)\" which was followed by lecture of Dr. Rajesh Kumar Maheshwari, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, SGSITS, Indore on the topic \"Eco-friendly Analytical Techniques employing Novel Applications of Hydrotropic Solubilization, Mixed-hydrotropic Solubilization and Mixed-solvency Concept\". Another speaker, Mr. Rahul Taneja, Scientist, Patent Information Centre, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Haryana (Panchkula) addressed the audience on \"Patenting System in Healthcare\". Scientific session was ended with lecture of Mr. Ashutosh Pareek from Department of Pharmacy, Banasthali University, Banasthali who addressed the gathering on \"Validated Reverse Phase HPLC Method for Pharmacokinetic Study of Developed In Situ Gelling Ocular Drops of Pefloxacin Mesylate in Rabbit Aqueous Humor\". The event was witnessed by Mr. Ashok Parikh, Chief Patron and Chairman of the hosting institute; Mr. Dipesh Parikh, Patron of the seminar; Dr. Ashok Dashora, Director and Professor, Geetanjali Institute of Pharmacy, Geetanjali University, Udaipur; Dr. Kalpesh Gaur, Secretary, APP Rajasthan State Branch and Head, Department of Pharmacology, Geetanjali Institute of Pharmacy, Geetanjali University, Udaipur; Dr. Narendra Nyola, Joint Secretary, APP Rajasthan State Branch and Associate Professor, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar, Rajasthan and directors\/principals of other colleges of the Shrinathji Society for Higher Education, Nathdwara. Besides two best poster presentation awards, Dr. Deshbandhu Joshi, Associate Professor, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara was honored with \"Best Teacher Award\" and Mr. Ashish Kushwaha, B.Pharm 3rd year student of hosting institute was honored with \"Best Student Award\" by Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) during valedictory function of the event. Programme was terminated with vote of thanks by Dr. R. S. Bhadauria, the organizing secretary of the seminar.\nAssociation of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Rajasthan State Branch celebrated \"National Pharmacy Week 2014\" by organizing a National Seminar on \"Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Education and Research: Global Concerns\" on the inaugural day of National Pharmacy Week \u2013 16th November 2014 at Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar. Seminar was inaugurated by Sh. Ajay Phatak, Assistant Drug Controller, Jaipur, Rajasthan as the 'Chief Guest'; Dr. V.K. Agarwal, Chancellor, SunRise University, Alwar, Rajasthan as 'Chief Patron'; Dr. Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Assistant Registrar, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur as 'Guest of Honor'; Prof. B. L. Raina, Vice Chancellor, SunRise University, Alwar as 'Special Guests' from Academia; Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Principal, Globus College of Pharmacy, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh as 'Organizing Chairman' and Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar, Rajasthan as 'Convener'. After the inauguration, Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP made the gathering aware of objectives of Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP).\nFelicitation of Sh. Ajay Phatak, Asst. Drug Controller, Jaipur, Rajasthan \u2013 the 'Chief Guest' of the event, was done by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President of the Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP), with bouquet of flowers and appreciation certificate. During seminar, Dr. Saurabh Dahiya, recipient of \"Young Achiever Award\" and a Faculty of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Apeejay Stya University, Gurgaon, Haryana, addressed gathering on 'Compulsory Licensing: A Key Regulatory Issue'. The scientific session of the event continued with the lecture of Prof. Ashutosh Kar, Sr. Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Apeejay Stya University, Gurgaon, Haryana on the topic \"Time Controlled Secondary Pharmaceutical Products vs Chronopharmacology\". After his talk, Prof. Kar was felicitated by memento and certificate by Prof. Geyabalan Jeyabalan, convener of the seminar and President, APP Rajasthan State Branch. Another lecture was delivered by Dr. Hemendra Gautam, Vice President APP and Principal, Smt. Vidyawati College of Pharmacy, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh who addressed the professional gathering on the topic \"Drug-Drug Interactions: Identification and Prevention in Patients\".\nAfter the last talk, oration was given by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Mourya, HOD, Department of Biotechnology, Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh who addressed the gathering on \"Clinico Pathological Analysis of Gallbladder Carcinoma from North India\". Dr. Mourya was conferred with 'Best Oral Presentation Award' for his oration, by President APP and President APP Rajasthan State Branch during the seminar. Another 'Oral Presentation Award' was given to Mr. Ajit Kumar Yadav, Research Scholar, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan for his oration on \"Phytopreventive Values of Plants against Dental Caries Urban and Rural Variation\". During the programme, Dr. V. K. Agarwal, the Chairman of the hosting institute, honored all guests and speakers including Sh. Ajay Phatak, Dr. Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Dr. Saurabh Dahiya, Dr. Hemendra Gautam, Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, Prof. Ashutosh Kar, Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, Sh. Tarsem Jain (Editor, Pharma Pramarsh) and Prof. B. L. Raina (Vice Chancellor, SunRise University, Alwar) with 'Maa Saraswati Memento', Shawl, Bouquet of flowers and the traditional 'Pagdi'.\nDuring seminar, Mr. Suresh Kumar Beniwal, Research Scholar, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Haryana; Mr. Manoj Jadon, UG student, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar won 'Best Poster Presentation Awards'. In addition to oral\/poster presentation awards, Mr. Ashutosh Upadhyay, Research Scholar, NIMS University, Jaipur and Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar was honored with \"APP Best Teacher Award\" and Ms. Tiaba Rashid, B.Pharm 4th year student of hosting institute was honored with \"APP Best Student Award\" by Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) during valedictory function of the event. The workshop was witnessed by Dr. Narendra Kumar Nyola, Joint Secretary, APP Rajasthan State Branch and faculties\/students of Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar, Rajasthan and surrounding pharmacy institutions. During the event, Dr. V. K. Agarwal, Chancellor, SunRise University (SRU), Alwar was conferred with \"APP Appreciation Award\" by President APP for his contribution toward pharmacy profession. Programme was ended with vote of thanks by Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan.\nAssociation of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Rajasthan State Branch organized National Conference on 'Medicinal Chemistry Perspective in Drug Discovery and Therapy' on 12th December, 2015 at Pacific College of Pharmacy, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan. Event was witnessed by Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, President, APP Rajasthan State Branch and Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar, Rajasthan as 'Chief Guest'; Mr. Suresh Samar from Drug Control Officer, Udaipur Zone, Rajasthan State as 'Special Guest'; Dr. Rita Mourya, Treasurer, Association of Pharmacy Professionals from Faculty of Pharmacy, VNS Group of Institutions, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and Prof. Bhagwati Prasad Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Pacific University, Udaipur as 'Guests of Honor'; Prof. Indrajeet Singhvi, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pacific College of Pharmacy, Pacific University, Udaipur as 'Organizing Secretary' and Dr. Alka Agarwal, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pacific College of Pharmacy, Udaipur as 'Programme Coordinator'. Moreover, Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Mizan-Tepi University, Ethiopia acted as 'Organizing Chairman' and Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP acted as 'Chairman \u2013 Scientific Committee' in absentia.\nInauguration was started with 'Prayer' followed by welcome of all the guests on the dias with bouquet of flowers. Scientific session was initiated with keynote lecture of Prof. Bhagwati Prasad Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Pacific University, Udaipur who addressed the gathering on 'Pharmaceutical Trading'.\nIn his talk, Dr. B. P. Sharma focused on the key concepts and challenges in pharmaceutical trading with respect to indian and global scenario. He also emphasized on the \"Consumer Concerned Policy\" of the pharmaceutical companies as well as industry ethical marketing. Dr. Sharma was felicitated with 'APP Appreciation Award 2015' for his outstanding contribution in education sector by Dr. Rita Mourya, Treasurer, Association of Pharmacy Professionals, India.\nScientific session was continued with lecture of Prof. Narsimhan B., Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana on the topic 'CADD \u2013 Computer Aided Drug Design'. Dr. Narsimhan told that drug discovery is an expensive process involving high R & D cost and extensive clinical testing. A typical development time for drug discovery is estimated to be 10-15 years and modern drug discovery process involve several critical steps including target identification and validation, lead identification and optimization as well as preclinical phase. He also discussed about physicochemical parameters (including lipophilicity, electronic, stearic, topological parameters) commonly used in QSAR.\nProf. Narsimhan B., Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana was felicitated with 'APP Young Scientist Award 2015' by Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, President, APP Rajasthan State Branch; Prof. Indrajeet Singhvi, President, APTI Rajasthan State Branch and Prof. B. P. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan during the event. Dr. Narsimhan has more than 110 research publications to his credit covering a cumulative ISI impact factor of more than 165. Scientific session was terminated with lecture of Prof. Mohammed Ali, Ex-Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi on the topic 'Aromatherapy : Chemistry and Medicinal Uses'. Dr. Ali told that aromatherapy is a natural and noninvasive gift of the nature for humans and it regulates the physiological, spiritual and psychological functions and provides a new phase of life.\nDuring conference, Dr. Indrajeet Singhvi, Dr. Alka Agarwal, Mr. Khem chand Gupta and Mr. Narayan Lal from Pacific College of Pharmacy, Udaipur were honored with 'APP Appreciation Award', 'APP Best Teacher Award', 'APP Best Research Scholar Award' and 'APP Best Student Award' respectively. Conference was attended by huge crowd of pharmacy teachers\/students and papers were presented in 'poster' session by more than 100 delegates.\nDuring valedictory function, first prize in poster competition was given to Mrs. Veenu Bala from Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur on her presentation on topic 'Drug Designing via Established Molecule: Most Fruitful Basis of Drug Discovery'. Second and third prizes were given to Mr. Khemchand Gupta from Pacific College of Pharmacy, Pacific University, Udaipur and Mrs. Joohee Pradhan from Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur on topics 'Formulation and Evaluation of Stable Dry Powder Inhaler for Tiotropium Bromide with Better Lung Deposition' and 'Computer Aided Drug Design Studies for Anticonvulsant Activity of Some Newly Synthesized Pyrazolyl Pyridines' respectively. Moreover, students of B. N. Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Udaipur and Shree Nath Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara won two consolation prizes.\nConference was attended by Dr. Satish Chandra Tewari (Director, Rotam Pesticides, Udaipur); Dr. Ashok Dashora (Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Geetanjali University, Udaipur); Dr. S. C. Ameta (Director, Pacific College of Basic and Applied Sciences), Dr. Hament Kothari (Dean, PG, Pacific University) and Principals\/faculties of surrounding and hosting pharmacy college.\nINDO-AFRICAN CONFERENCE\nAssociation of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Rajasthan State Branch and APP Ethiopian International Branch jointly organized 12th Indo-African Conference on \"Trends, Challenges and Future Scenario of Pharmaceutical Sciences\" on 6th March 2018 at Arya College of Pharmacy, Kukas, Jaipur, Rajasthan, in collaboration with APP Drug Design & MedChem Division.\nDuring this international-level conference, Sh. Ajay Phatak, Drug Controller, Jaipur, Rajasthan acted as 'Chief Guest'; Dr. Rajesh Kumar Yadav, Assistant Registrar, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur as 'Guest of Honor'; Dr. Arvind Agarwal, President, Arya Group of Colleges, Jaipur as 'Chief Patron'; Dr. Puja Agarwal, Er. Anurag Agarwal, Dr. Surendra Sharma, Vice President, Chairman and Academic Director, Arya Group of Colleges, Jaipur as 'Patrons'; Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP from School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA acted as 'Convener'; Prof. Raghvendra Singh Bhadauria, President, APP Rajasthan State Branch and Principal, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara, Rajsamand, Rajasthan acted as 'Co-convener'; Prof. Vandana Sharma, Principal, Arya College of Pharmacy, Jaipur acted as 'Organizing Secretary'; Prof. B. P. Nagori, Director, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur; Prof. G. Jeyabalan, Ex-President, APP Rajasthan State Branch and Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar and Dr. Gaurav Gupta, National Head, APP Molecular Pharmacology Division from Jaipur National University, Jaipur as 'Invited Guests' and Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, Founder President APP & Director, School of Pharmacy, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago acted as 'Scientific Committee Chairman'.\nScientific session of the conference was enriched with invited lectures of Dr. Rita Mourya, Joint Secretary, APP Ethiopian International Branch from School of Pharmacy, University of Gondar, Gondar, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Prof. Alka Agarwal, National Head, APP Drug Design & MedChem Division and Principal, U.S. Ostwal Institute of Pharmacy, Mangalwad, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan and Dr. Saurabh Kumar Banerjee, Executive Member, APP Rajasthan State Branch from IIHMR University, Jaipur on topics of pharmaceutical interest like 'Biopotential of Peptides and Proteins', 'Pharmacy Orientation : Introduction to the Pharmacy Profession and the Future of the Pharmacist', 'Assessment of Drug Use Patterns using WHO Prescribing Indicators at Health Facility'.\nDuring valedictory function, Mr. Mukesh Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Mr. Ashok Kumar Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics; Mr. Shailendra Tripathi, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology; Ms. Anshika Gupta, B.Pharm student, Arya College of Pharmacy, Jaipur were honored with 'APP Best Teacher Award', 'APP Best Researcher Award', 'APP Best Achiever Award', 'APP Best Student Award' respectively. The event continued with cultural programmes and felicitation of guests\/organizers with 'APP Appreciation Awards' and distribution of prizes to three best poster presentees. Finally, the programme ended with vote of thanks to guests\/delegates and distribution of APP life membership certificates.\nINDO-WEST INDIES CONFERENCE\nAssociation of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Rajasthan State Branch and APP West Indies International Branch jointly organized 6th Indo-West Indies Conference on \"Challenges and Recent Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences\" on 14th July 2018 at Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara, Rajsamand, Rajasthan, in collaboration with APP MolPharm Division.\nDuring this APP-SIP collaborative conference, Prof. B. L. Choudhary, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur & Chairman, Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, Ajmer (Rajasthan) acted as 'Chief Guest'; Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar as 'Guest of Honor'; Mr. Ashok Parikh, Secretary, Shrinathji Society for Higher Education, Nathdwara as 'Chief Patron'; Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP from School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA as 'Convener'; Prof. Raghvendra Singh Bhadauria, President, APP Rajasthan State Branch & Principal, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara as 'Organizing Secretary'; Dr. Kamal Dua from Discipline of Pharmacy, University of Technology Sydney, Australia as 'Scientific Committee Chairman' and Dr. Gunjan Jadon, Associate Professor, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara, Rajsamand, Rajasthan as 'Coordinator'.\nScientific session of the conference was enriched with lectures of Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, Founder President APP & Director, School of Pharmacy, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago; Prof. Saurabh Dahiya, President, APP Haryana State Branch & Head, Department of Pharmacy, Lingaya's University, Faridabad, Haryana; Dr. Gaurav Gupta, National Head, APP MolPharm Division from School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jaipur National University, Jaipur and Dr. Saurabh Kumar Banerjee, Executive Member, APP Rajasthan State Branch from School of Pharmaceutical Management, The IIHMR University, Jaipur who addressed the professional gathering on diverse topics of pharmaceutical interest like 'Cancer: Impact on Public Health & Pharmacist's Crucial Role in its Prevention', 'Digital India, Digital Pharmacy Profession', 'Recent Advances in Insulin Therapy for Diabetes' and 'Pharmacovigilance: A Bright Career Opportunity for Pharmacy Graduates'. During his lecture, Prof. Dahiya discussed that pharmacists, being important part of the health care team need to take lead in using digital technologies towards betterment of healthcare deliverable for all patients.\nDuring the valedictory function, Prof. B. L. Choudhary, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur & Chairman, Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, Ajmer was conferred with 'APP Outstanding Achievement Award' given in memory of Late Sh. Ranbir Singh Dahiya; Mr. Ashok Parikh, Secretary, Shrinathji Society for Higher Education, Nathdwara and Prof. Raghvendra Singh Bhadauria, Principal, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara with 'APP Appreciation Awards' and Prof. G. Jeyabalan, Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar and all the speakers of the conference with 'APP Certificate of Recognitions'. Further, Dr. Gunjan Jadon, Associate Professor, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara was felicitated with 'APP Best Teacher Award'; Mr. Vikram Choudhary, B.Pharm (IV) year student, Shrinathji Institute of Pharmacy, Nathdwara with 'APP Best Student Award' and Mr. Sunil Singh, Ph.D Research Scholar, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan with 'APP Outstanding Oration Award' given in memory of 'Late Mr. Manas Tripathi'. The programme ended by extending vote of thanks to all the resource persons and delegates of the conference.\nAPP Life Membership\u2026\n*APP MEMBERSHIP FORM*\n*BROCHURE APP 9TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONVENTION*\nProfessionals from USA honored for their talent and achievements during APP 9th Annual Convention\nOn the occasion of APP 9th Annual Virtual International Convention on \"Recent Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Potential Role of Herbs and Health Challenges\" at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, SunRise University, Alwar, Rajasthan on 19th-20th December, 2020, Prof. Yashwant V. Pathak, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, USF Health Taneja College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA was conferred with 'Academic Excellence Award'; Dr. S. Narasimha Murthy, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, Mississippi, USA with 'Eminent Scientist Award'; Dr. Ruhul Amin, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA with 'Distinguished Researcher Award'; Dr. Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Assistant Professor of Biopharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Chapman University, Rinker Health Science Campus, Irvine, California, USA with 'Young Scientist Award' and Dr. Priyank Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Marshall B. Ketchum University, Fullerton, California, USA with 'Young Investigator Award' for their outstanding performance in pharmaceutical research...\nDr. G. Sandeep conferred with 'APP Research Grant Award 2020' at Warangal\nProf. Gummadevelley Sandeep, Head, Department of Drug Regulatory Affairs, Pathfinder Institute of Pharmacy Education and Research, Warangal, Telangana was conferred with 'APP Research Grant Award 2020' of Rs 1,00,000\/- for his research project on \"Development and Evaluation of Novel Semisolid Sunscreen Formulations - Assessing Tewl in Quality of Life\" by Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP from Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, United States and Dr. P. Shanmugasundaram, Director, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vels Deemed to be University (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai, Tamilnadu during 10th Indo-US Conference 'GTOPT-2020' organized by APP Tamilnadu State Branch and APP American International Branch on 7th January, 2020 at Vaagdevi Pharmacy College, Bollikunta, Warangal, Telangana, in collaboration with APP Warangal Local Branch...\nDr. G. Sandeep felicitated with 'Outstanding Oration Award' at Gandhinagar\u2026\nDr. Gummadevelley Sandeep, Professor & Head, Department of Drug Regulatory Affairs, Pathfinder Institute of Pharmacy Education and Research, Warangal, Telangana was honored with 'APP Outstanding Oration Award 2020' by Prof. M. M. Patel, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat and Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP from School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA during 9th Indo-US Conference on \"Advances and Challenges in Pharmaceutical Education and Research\" at Saraswati Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dhanap, Gandhinagar, Gujarat on January 06, 2020...\nDr. Kashyap Nagariya honored with APP Award at Warangal, Telangana\nDr. Kashyap Nagariya, Principal Scientist, Jamp India Pharmaceuticals Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat was conferred with 'APP Young Talent Award 2019' by Dr. G. Sandeep, Head, APP Warangal Local Branch and Vice Principal, Pathfinder Institute of Pharmacy Education & Research, Warangal and Dr. V. Rajkumar, Principal, Chaitanya College of Pharmacy Education and Research, Warangal on the occasion of APP 3rd Indo-Swiss Conference on \"Current Practices in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Drug Development\" at Chaitanya College of Pharmacy Education and Research, Warangal, Telangana on December 24, 2019...\nDr. Padmalatha honored with 'APP Appreciation Award' at Vijayawada\u2026\nDr. K. Padmalatha, Principal & Professor, Vijaya Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences for Women, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh was conferred with 'APP Appreciation Award 2019' by Prof. Alekha K. Dash, President, APP American International Branch from School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA during 8th Indo-US Conference 'RSPTUP-2019' organized by APP American International Branch and APP Tamilnadu State Branch at Vijaya Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences for Women, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh on 6th December, 2019...\nProf. Alekha K. Dash from Creighton University, USA; Dr. Behl from Chitkara University, Rajpura (PB) honored at Jaipur\u2026\nProf. Alekha K. Dash, Associate Dean (Research), School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA was conferred with 'APP Academic Excellence Award 2019' for his outstanding contribution in pharmaceutical education and research by Prof. Rajesh Asija, President, APTI Rajasthan State Branch and Principal, Maharishi Arvind Institute of Pharmacy, Mansarovar, Jaipur and Prof. Hemlata Dullar, Treasurer, APTI Rajasthan State Branch and Principal, Swami Keshvanand Institute of Pharmacy, Jagatpura, Jaipur during 7th Indo-US Conference 'PTBPS-2019' organized by APP American International Branch and APP Punjab State Branch at Swami Keshvanand Institute of Pharmacy, Jaipur, Rajasthan on 5th December, 2019. In addition, Dr. Tapan Behl, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Chitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab was conferred with 'APP Fellow Member Award 2019' by Prof. G. Jeyabalan, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur & Principal, Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar and Prof. Alekha K. Dash, President, APP American International Branch...\nProf. Alka Agarwal felicitated with 'Research Grant Award' at Bhupal Nobles University, Udaipur\nProf. Alka Agarwal, Principal, U. S. Ostwal Institute of Pharmacy, Mangalwad, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan was conferred with 'APP Research Grant Award 2019' of Rs 50000\/- for her research project on \"Extraction of Policosanol from Beeswax\" by Prof. Jeewan Singh Ranawat, Vice Chancellor, Bhupal Nobles' University, Udaipur; Sh. Gunwat Singh Jhala, Chairperson, Bhupal Nobles' University, Udaipur and Prof. Indrajeet Singhvi, Vice Chancellor, Sai Tirupati University, Udaipur during 6th Indo-US Conference 'RAPRGH-2019' organized by APP Gujarat State Branch and APP American International Branch on 4th December, 2019 at Bhupal Nobles' Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (BNIPS), Bhupal Nobles' University, Udaipur, Rajasthan...\nLaunch of APP Warangal Local Branch at PIPER, Warangal, Telangana\u2026\nAPP Warangal Local Branch headed by Dr. Gummadevelley Sandeep, Professor & Head, Department of Drug Regulatory Affairs, Pathfinder Institute of Pharmacy Education and Research, Warangal, Telangana with coordinators - Dr. T. Manish Kumar, Professor & Head, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Balaji Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Narsampet; Dr. V. Mehender Reddy, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Sahasra Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Warangal; Dr. P. Vivek Sagar, Associate Professor, Department of Quality Assurance, Vaagdevi Pharmacy College, Warangal was launched by Prof. Alekha K. Dash, President, APP American International Branch and Associate Dean (Research), School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (USA) during 5th Indo-US Conference 'MTCPTS-2019' organized by APP American International Branch and APP Karnataka State Branch at Pathfinder Institute of Pharmacy Education and Research, Warangal, Telangana on 3rd-4th December, 2019...\nDr. Molugulu from Monash University, Malaysia conferred with \"Young Talent Award\"\u2026\nDr. Nagashekhara Molugulu, Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Monash University, Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya, Petaling, Selangor, Malaysia was felicitated with 'APP Young Talent Award 2019' by Smt. Mamina Patnaik, Drugs Controller, Drug Control Administration, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Odisha; Prof. Bhakti Bhusan Barik, President, APP Odisha State Branch and Academic Director, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Puri, Odisha; Prof. Santosh Kumar Mahapatra, Vice President, APP Odisha State Branch and Dean, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha and Prof. Amiyakanta Mishra, Secretary, APP Odisha State Branch and Principal, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Puri, Odisha during 13th Indo-Malaysian Conference on \"Issues and Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology\" at College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Puri, Odisha on 11th November 2019, organized by APP Odisha State Branch in collaboration with APP Malaysian International Branch...\nDr. Shrivastava honored with 'Prestigious Award' at Tadepalligudem, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh\nDr. Jyoti Shrivastava, HOD & Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Oxford College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, Karnataka was felicitated with 'Young Pharmacy Teacher Award 2019' by Sri Grandhi Sataynarayana, President, Sri Vasavi Educational Society and Dr. K. Srinivas, Principal, Sri Vasavi Institute of Pharmaceutial Sciences, Tadepalligudem during 17th Indo-African Conference on \"Global Challenges and Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences\" at Sri Vasavi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tadepalligudem, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh on 7th September 2019, organized by APP Karnataka State Branch and APP Ethiopian International Branch...\nProf. Dahiya conferred with 'APP Award' at AIMST University, Malaysia\u2026\nProf. Saurabh Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, Lingaya's University, Faridabad, Haryana was conferred with 'APP Principal of the Year Award 2019' by Prof. Mohd. Baidi Bahari, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Semeling, Malaysia and Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, Founder President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals and Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago during International Symposium on \"Trends in Drug Design, Discovery and Development\" organized by APP Malaysian International Branch in collaboration with APP Drug Design MedChem Division at Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Semeling, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia on July 29, 2019. This occasion was witnessed by Dr Neeraj Kumar Fuloria, Joint Secretary, APP Malaysian International Branch and Dr. Shivkanya Fuloria, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Semeling, Malaysia...\nDr. Dahiya conferred with 'APP Appreciation Award' at the AIMST University, Semeling, Malaysia\nDr. Sunita Dahiya, Assistant Professor (Industrial Pharmacy), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA was conferred with 'APP Appreciation Award 2019' by Prof. Manickam Ravichandran, Ex-Vice Chancellor, AIMST University, Semeling and Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, AIMST University, Semeling, Malaysia during International Symposium on \"Trends in Drug Design, Discovery and Development\" organized by APP Malaysian International Branch in collaboration with APP Drug Design MedChem Division at Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Semeling, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia on July 29, 2019...\nPharmacy Professionals honored with APP Awards at Ooty, Tamilnadu\u2026\nProf. K. Chinnaswamy, President, Indian Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Chennai, Tamilnadu was conferred with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2019' and Prof. Dhanabal Palanisamy, Principal & Dean, JSS College of Pharmacy, Rocklands, Ooty was honored with 'APP Academic Excellence Award 2019' by Dr. P. Shanmugasundaram, President, APP Tamilnadu State Branch and Director, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vels Deemed to be University (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai during APP 8th Annual Convention & 4th Indo-US Conference on \"Research and Innovations in Pharmaceutical Sciences: Progress and Problems\" at JSS College of Pharmacy, Rocklands, Ooty, Tamilnadu on July 24-25, 2019. Also, Dr. Gaurav Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy. Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan was honored with 'APP Young Scientist Award 2019' during the convention. This occasion was witnessed by Dr. Sunita Dahiya, General Secretary APP from School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR, USA; Dr. Palanisamy Selvamani, Secretary, APP Tamilnadu State Branch and Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Anna University, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli and Dr. Natarajan Jawahar, Joint Secretary, APP Tamilnadu State Branch and Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, JSS College of Pharmacy, Ooty...\nDr. Pran Kishore Deb conferred with APP Award at Chennai, Tamilnadu\u2026\nDr. Pran Kishore Deb, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Philadelphia University, Jordan was conferred with 'APP Innovative Researcher Award 2019' for his outstanding research output during 1st Indo-Jordan Conference on \"Global Trends in Drug Design, Discovery and Pharmaceutical Sciences\" organized by APP Tamilnadu State Branch in collaboration with APP Brazilian International Branch at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vels deemed to be University (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai, Tamilnadu on July 23, 2019. This award was provided by Prof. P. Shanmugasundaram, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Tamilnadu State Branch and Prof. S. Sriram Narayanan, Pro Vice Chancellor, Vels deemed to be University (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai...\nProf. Vandana B. Patel felicitated with 'APP Best Researcher Award' at DDU, Nadiad, Gujarat\u2026\nProf. Vandana B. Patel, President, APP Gujarat State Branch & Principal, Babaria Institute of Pharmacy, Vadodara, Gujarat was conferred with 'APP Best Researcher Award 2019' by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, Founder President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals, India and Director, School of Pharmacy, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago during 4th Indo-Caribbean Conference on \"Current Trends in Drug Design, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences\" organized by APP Gujarat State Branch and APP Drug Design MedChem Division at Faculty of Pharmacy, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad, Gujarat on July 22, 2019...\nDr. Fuloria honored with Appreciation Certificate at Gandhinagar, Gujarat\nDr. Neeraj Kumar Fuloria, Senior Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, AIMST University, Semeling, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia honored with 'Certificate of Appreciation' by Prof. Madhabhai M. Patel, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat during 7th Indo-Malaysian Conference on \"Recent Trends and Research in Medicinal and Sustainable Chemistry\" organized by APP Gujarat State Branch in collaboration with APP Malaysian International Branch and APP Molecular Pharmacology Division on 11th March 2019 at Sharda School of Pharmacy, Pethapur, Gandhinagar, Gujarat\u2026\nVice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad conferred with 'APP Award'\u2026\nProf. (Dr.) Navin Sheth, Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat was felicitated with 'APP Outstanding Achievement Award 2019' by Prof. B. N. Suhagia, Chief Advisor, APP Gujarat State Branch and Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, DD University, Nadiad during 5th Indo-Malaysian Conference on \"Advances and Global Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research\" at Babaria Institute of Pharmacy, BITS Edu Campus, Vadodara, Gujarat on February 27, 2019. This occasion was witnessed by Shri Dhruv J. Patel, CMD-Governing Body, BITS Edu Campus, Vadodara; Dr. Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Vice President, APP Malaysian International Branch from MAHSA University, Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia; Prof. Vandana B. Patel, Principal, Babaria Institute of Pharmacy, Vadodara, Gujarat; Prof. Alka Agarwal, Principal, U.S. Ostwal Institute of Pharmacy, Mangalwad, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan...\nProf. Patel, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Charotar University of Science and Technology, Anand was honored at Vadodara\u2026\nProf. B. G. Patel, Advisor & Ex-Vice Chancellor, Charotar University of Science and Technology, Changa, Anand, Gujarat was felicitated with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2019' by Dr. Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Vice President, APP Malaysian International Branch and Prof. Alka Agarwal, National Head, APP Drug Design MedChem Division during 5th Indo-Malaysian Conference on \"Advances and Global Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research\" at Babaria Institute of Pharmacy, BITS Edu Campus, Vadodara, Gujarat on February 27, 2019. This event was organized by APP Malaysian International Branch in collaboration with APP Gujarat State Branch and APP Drug Design & Medicinal Chemistry Division...\nDr. V. Subramaniyan from MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur honored at BNU, Udaipur, Rajasthan\u2026\nDr. Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was conferred with 'Appreciation Award' by Prof. Jainendra Jain, President, APP UP State Branch and Principal, RamEesh Institute of Vocational and Technical Education (Pharmacy), Greater Noida and Prof. Chetan Singh Chauhan, Principal, Bhupal Nobles' Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Bhupal Nobles' University, Udaipur during APP 4th Indo-Malaysian Conference on \"Future Scenario and Present Trends in Drug Design and Pharmacological Aspects\" at Faculty of Pharmacy, Bhupal Nobles' University, Udaipur, Rajasthan on February 26, 2019, organized by APP Uttar Pradesh State Branch in collaboration with APP Malaysian International Branch and APP Drug Design MedChem Division...\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya attended 11th PAHO Conference and honored pharmacy professionals at Quito\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago participated during 11th Pan American Conference on Pharmaceutical Education on October 2-4, 2018 at Quito, Ecuador (South America). During the conference, Dr. Dahiya interacted with Dr. Jeffrey W. Wadelin, Associate Executive Director, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), Chicago, USA regarding issues concerning to accreditation of pharmacy schools. Conference was witnessed by representatives from Central Latin American\/North & South American\/Caribbean countries including Prof. Wanda T. Maldonado, Dean, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Dr. Patricia Acuna Johnson, Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Valparaiso, Chile; Prof. Joseph Saseen, Vice Chair, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, USA; Prof. Magaly Rodriguez De Bittner, Associate Dean, Clinical Services and Practice Transformation, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA; Dr. Andrea M. Wilkins Daly, Head, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, University of Technology, Jamaica; Prof. Lucy Gabriela Delgado, National University of Colombia, Bagota, Colombia; Dr. Janeth Montalvo Jaramillo, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Central University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador etc. Dr. Dahiya also honored different speakers including Prof. Isabel Fierro A, Dean, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Central University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Prof. Santiago Rodriguez, Director, School of Pharmacy, Latin University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica; Prof. Rosa Eugenia Buitrago Del Rosal, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Panama, Panama; Mag. Federico Giraudo, Dean, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Catholic University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina; Dr. Carlos Volonterio, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Republic of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay; Mrs. Jewel Edmondson Carter, Lecturer, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Guyana, Greater Georgetown, Guyana; Mrs. Lydia Harris-Thurton, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Nursing Allied Health and Social Work, University of Belize, Belize, with 'APP Certificate of Appreciations' during the event...\nProf. Y. Madhusudan Rao honored with 'APP Award' at Bollikunta, Warangal\u2026\nProf. Y. Madhusudan Rao, Director, Vaagdevi Group of Pharmacy Colleges, Warangal, Telangana was conferred with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2018' by Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati, Vice President, APP Ethiopian International Branch from Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia during 15th Indo-African Conference on \"Global Trends and Innovations in Translational Research and Herbal Technology\" at Vaagdevi Group of Pharmacy Colleges, Bollikunta, Warangal on September 19, 2018. This occasion was witnessed by Prof. M. Himaja, Vice President, APP Tamilnadu State Branch from Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu; Dr. Digambar Ambikar from Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, College of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia; Dr. B. Chandra Shekhar Reddy, Head, Department of Pharmaceutics, Vaagdevi Pharmacy College, Warangal, Telangana etc...\nDr. Digambar Ambikar from University of Gondar, Ethiopia honored at Mandvagan Pharata\u2026\nDr. Digambar Balkrishna Ambikar, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, College of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia was felicitated with 'Certificate of Appreciation' by Dr. Mrunal K. Shirsat, Principal, L.S.D.P. College of Pharmacy, Mandvagan Pharata during APP 14th Indo African Conference on \"Current Challenges in Pharmaceutical Drug Design & Pharmacology\" at L.S.D.P. College of Pharmacy, Mandvagan Pharata, Shirur, Pune, Maharashtra on 8th September 2018, organized by APP Maharashtra State Branch in collaboration with APP Ethiopian International Branch and APP Drug Design MedChem Division...\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, UWI, Trinidad & Tobago visited University of South Florida, United States\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, visited University of South Florida (USF) as a initiative for UWI-USF collaborative research and delivered a lecture on 'Peptides and Their Therapeutic Potential: Synthetic Approaches and Chemistry Involved' at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USF College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States on 20th August, 2018. Lecture was attended by faculty of USF including Prof. Yashwant Pathak (Associate Dean, College of Pharmacy, USF), Dr. Sunita Dahiya (Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan), Dr. Vijaykumar B. Sutariya and Dr. Sheeba Varghese Gupta (Assistant Professors, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, USF), and Ph.D students of the department.\nDr. Sunita Dahiya honored with 'Appreciation Award' at Secunderabad\u2026\nDr. Sunita Dahiya, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA was felicitated with 'Appreciation Award' by Prof. G. Tulja Rani, Principal, Malla Reddy Pharmacy College, Secunderabad during 3rd Indo-US Conference on \"Innovative Strategies in Pharmaceutical Education and Research\" on 28th July 2018 at Malla Reddy Pharmacy College, Maisammaguda, Secunderabad, Telangana...\nDr. Shanmugasundaram, Director, SPS, VISTAS honored with 'APP Award' at Pallavaram, Chennai\u2026\nDr. P. Shanmugasundaram, Director, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vels Deemed to be University (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai, Tamilnadu was felicitated with 'APP Principal of the Year Award' by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, Founder President APP and Director, School of Pharmacy, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago during APP 7th Annual Convention & 2nd Indo-US Conference on \"Modern Trends, Current Challenges and Future Scenario of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology\" on 27th July 2018 at VISTAS, Pallavaram, Chennai. Dr. Shanmugasundaram was also nominated as 'President' of the APP Tamilnadu State Branch...\nDr. Dubey conferred with 'APP Prestigious Award' by Vice Chancellor, VISTAS at Pallavaram, Chennai\u2026.\nDr. Sachin Dubey, Head, Formulation Development (Biologics), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A., Switzerland was honored with 'APP Young Achiever Award' by Prof. P. Swaminathan, Vice Chancellor, Vels Deemed to be University (VISTAS), Pallavaram, Chennai during APP 7th Annual Convention & 2nd Indo-US Conference on \"Modern Trends, Current Challenges and Future Scenario of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology\" on 27th July 2018 at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, VISTAS, Pallavaram, Chennai, Tamilnadu...\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya felicitated with 'Excellence Award' by Vice Chancellor, MMDU, Ambala, Haryana\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago was conferred with 'Excellence Award' by Prof. Vipin Saini, Vice Chancellor, Maharishi Markandeshwar Deemed to be University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh during 2nd Indo-Caribbean Conference on \"Advanced Trends in Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Designing & Development\" organized by APP Delhi State Branch on 21st July 2018 at MM College of Pharmacy, MMDU, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, in collaboration with APP West Indies International Branch...\nDr. Kamal Dua conferred with 'Excellence Award in Pharmacy' at Mullana\u2026\nDr. Kamal Dua, Lecturer, Discipline of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia was conferred with 'APP Excellence Award in Pharmacy 2018' for his vital achievements in Pharmaceutical Technology area during 5th Indo-Australian conference on 'Modern Aspects of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences' held on 8th January 2018 at MM College of Pharmacy, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana. This award was provided by Prof. Vipin Saini, Vice Chancellor, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh and Vice President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Haryana State Branch...\nDr. A.D. Shukla, Director, SSCSSN, DD University, Nadiad (GJ) honored at Kodad, Suryapet\u2026\nDr. Atindra D. Shukla, Director, Shah-Schulman Center for Surface Science and Nanotechnology, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad, Gujarat conferred with 'APP Young Scientist Award 2017' for his outstanding research achievements during 1st Indo-Australian conference on 'Current Trends in Pharmaceutical Technology and Nanoscience' held on 27th December, 2017 at Anurag Pharmacy College, Kodad, Suryapet, Telangana. This award was provided by Dr. Kamal Dua, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Australian International Branch and Dr. M. Chinna Eswaraiah, Principal, Anurag Pharmacy College, Kodad, Suryapet...\nProf. K. H. M. Nazmul Hussain Nazir from BAU, Bangladesh honored during APP Conference\u2026\nDr. K. H. M. Nazmul Hussain Nazir, Professor, Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh was conferred with 'APP Young Achiever Award 2017' by Dr. Ajay Sharma, President, APP Madhya Pradesh State Branch and Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, ShriRam College of Pharmacy, Banmore, Madhya Pradesh, on the occasion of 1st Indo-Bangladesh Conference on \"Recent Breakthroughs in Pharmaceutical Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges\" organized by APP MP State Branch at ShriRam College of Pharmacy, Banmore, Madhya Pradesh on November 07, 2017.\nProf. R.K. Goyal, VC, DPSRU honored with \"APP Award\" at Ludhiana, Punjab\u2026\nProf. Ramesh K. Goyal, Vice Chancellor, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University (DPSRU), Puspvihar, New Delhi was conferred with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2017' by Prof. Saurabh Dahiya, President, APP Haryana State Branch & Head, Department of Pharmacy, Lingaya's University, Faridabad, Haryana and Prof. Satvinder Kaur, President, APP Punjab State Branch & Principal, GHG Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana (PB) during IKG PTU Sponsored National Conference on \"Challenges and Future Vision in Phytomedicines - An Alternative to Modern Medicine\" jointly organized by APP Punjab State Branch and GHG Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana on 22nd September 2017 at college campus.\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, UWI attended the installation of UWI New Chancellor\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago attended the installation ceremony of Mr. Robert Bermudez as the sixth chancellor of The University of the West Indies at Daaga Stadium, UWI, St. Augustine, alongwith Dr. Kenneth Charles, Deputy Dean, Graduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and Dr. Russel Ramsewak, Deputy Dean, Physical Facilities and Safety, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. The occasion was witnessed by Mr. Justice Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona S.C., President, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Dr. Keith Christopher Rowley, Prime Minister, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Mr. Anthony Garcia, Minister of Education; Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, The University of the West Indies; Pro-Vice Chancellors, UWI campuses \u2013 Cave Hill, Mona, Open Campus and St. Augustine; Chairpersons, Campus Councils; University Registrar, Bursar, Librarian, Public Orators etc.\nDr. Kuntal Das, President, APP KA State Branch, honored with Certificate of Appreciation\u2026\nProf. Kuntal Das, President, APP Karnataka State Branch from Krupanidhi College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, felicitated with 'Certificate of Appreciation' by Prof. J. N. Suresh Kumar, Principal, Narasaraopeta Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Narasaraopet, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh and Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati, Vice President, APP Ethiopian International Branch on the occasion of APP 10th Indo-African Conference on \"Global Challenges in Natural Product Based Research and Medicines\" at Narasaraopeta Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Narasaraopet, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on September 06, 2017.\nDr. Rita Mourya from University of Gondar, Ethiopia, felicitated with APP Prestigious Award\u2026\nDr. Rita Mourya, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia, felicitated with 'APP Young Pharmacy Teacher Award 2017' by Prof. Basava Raju, Director, Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, Bhimavaram, West Godavari on the occasion of APP 9th Indo-African Conference on \"Global Trends and Recent Progress in Pharmaceutical Sector\" at Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, Bhimavaram, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh (India) on September 05, 2017. The occasion was witnessed by Dr. Raja Abhilash Punagoti, Dr. Krishna Mohan Chinnala and Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati.\nProf. Subas C. Dinda from Mekelle University, Ethiopia, felicitated with APP Appreciation Award\u2026\nProf. Subas Chandra Dinda, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia, honored with 'APP Appreciation Award 2017' by Prof. A. Muralidhar Rao, President, APP Telangana State Branch and Principal, St. Mary's College of Pharmacy, Secunderabad, Telangana and Prof. J. Venkateswara Rao, Principal, St. Pauls College of Pharmacy, Turkayamjal, Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad on the occasion of APP 8th Indo-African Conference on \"Advances and Challenges in Pharmaceutical Technology and Biotechnology\" at St. Pauls College of Pharmacy, Turkayamjal, Ranga Reddy, Hyderabad, Telangana on September 01, 2017.\nDr. Raja Abhilash Punagoti from Gondar University, Ethiopia honored with APP Appreciation Award\u2026\nDr. Raja Abhilash Punagoti, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Gondar College of Medical Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia honored with 'APP Appreciation Award 2017' by Dr. Kishore Babu, Vice Principal, D.C.R.M. Pharmacy College, Inkollu, Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh on the occasion of APP 7th Indo-African Conference on \"Nanotechnology and Organic Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sector: Issues and Concerns\" at D.C.R.M. Pharmacy College, Inkollu, Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh on September 01, 2017.\nProf. M. Himaja conferred with 'Academic Excellence Award 2017' at Acharya Nagarjuna University\u2026\nProf. M. Himaja, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Division, Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu honored with 'APP Academic Excellence Award 2017' by Prof. K. John Paul, Registrar, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on the occasion of APP 6th Indo-African Conference on \"Advances and Challenges in Pharmaceutical Sciences\" at University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on August 31, 2017. The occasion was witnessed by Prof. Prameela Rani Avula, Prof. G.V.S.R. Anjineyulu, Prof. Subas Chandra Dinda and Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati.\nVice Chancellor, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur (AP) felicitated by Vice President, APP Ethiopian Int. Branch\u2026\nDr. Suresh V. Chennupati, Vice President, APP Ethiopian International Branch from College of Medical and Health Sciences, Wollega University, Nekemte, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, felicitated Prof. A. Rajendra Prasad, Vice Chancellor, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh with 'APP Appreciation Award 2017' on the occasion of APP 6th Indo-African Conference on \"Advances and Challenges in Pharmaceutical Sciences\" at University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on August 31, 2017.\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, UWI, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago visited University of Puerto Rico, San Juan\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, visited School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico (UPR), San Juan, PR, United States as a initiative for UWI-UPR collaborative research and interacted with Dr. Cornelis Vlaar, Chair, Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, UPR Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan regarding possible collaboration and extension in peptide research for docking and other advanced studies on 19th August, 2017. Also, discussion with Dr. Lynette Bueno P\u00e9rez, Assistant Professor (Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy), Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, School of Pharmacy, UPR remained productive with idea of isolation of cytotoxic cyclooligopeptides from plant resources followed by their synthesis by solution-phase technique.\nProf. Prabhakar Reddy Veerareddy honored by President, APP Andhra Pradesh State Branch\u2026\nProf. Prabhakar Reddy Veerareddy, Principal, College of Pharmacy, Palamuru University, Mahabubnagar, Telangana and President - APTI Telangana State Branch, felicitated with 'Certificate of Appreciation' during APP 3rd Indo-Gulf Conference on \"Recent Breakthroughs in Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine\" organized by APP AP State Branch in collaboration with APP AnalChem Division at A. M. Reddy Memorial College of Pharmacy, Narasaraopet, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh (India) on 5th August 2017...\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago, visited University of South Florida (USF) as a initiative for UWI-USF collaborative research and delivered a lecture on 'Bioactive Cyclopeptides: Synthetic and Pharmacological Aspects' at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, USF College of Pharmacy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States on 18th July, 2017. Lecture was attended by faculty of USF including Dr. Srinivas Tipparaju (Interim Chair), Dr. Vijaykumar B. Sutariya (Assistant Professor) and Ph.D students of the department.\nProf. Kapil Deo Mishra, Vice Chancellor, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur honored with 'APP Appreciation Award'\nProf. Kapil Deo Mishra, Vice Chancellor, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (India) was felicitated with 'APP Appreciation Award 2017' by Dr. Sachin Dubey, International Head, APP Industrial Pharmacy & Drug Regulatory Affair (IP-DRA) Division and Head of Formulations and Analytical Development, Glenmark Pharmaceutical, Switzerland, during 1st Indo-Swiss Conference on 'Industry-Academia Interaction: Global Issues and Concerns' on 15th April, 2017 at Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.\nDr. Sushil Kumar Kashaw honored with 'APP Young Scientist Award 2016' at Detroit, Michigan, USA\u2026\nFor his significant scientific output, Dr. Sushil Kumar Kashaw, Assistant Professor (Stage-III), Division of Medicinal and Computational Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India, was felicitated with 'APP Young Scientist Award 2016' by Prof. George B. Corcoran, Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit and Dr. Arun K. Iyer, Director, Use\u2010inspired Biomaterials & integrated Nano Delivery (U\u2010BiND) Systems Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, on January 12, 2017 on the occasion of National Pharmacist Day at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA.\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP, attended PAHO\/WHO 10th Pan American Conference at Antigua, Guatemala (Central Latin America)\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Director, School of Pharmacy, FMS, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, represented School of Pharmacy, UWI during 10th Pan American Conference on Pharmaceutical Education on 8th-10th November, 2016 at Antigua, Guatemala (Central Latin America). Conference was witnessed by representatives from Central Latin American\/North & South American\/Caribbean countries including Prof. Rosa Eugenia Buitrago Del Rosal, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Panama; Prof. Wanda T. Maldonado, Dean, School of Pharmacy, University of Puerto Rico; Dr. Sarah Scoular, Director, Pharmaceutical Care Learning Center, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado; Ms. Karishma A. Jeeboo, Head, Dept. of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Guyana; Mrs. Lydia Thurton, Sr. Lecturer, Pharmacy Department, University of Belize etc...\nProf. V.K. Kapoor honored with 'Academic Excellence Award 2016' by APP Punjab State Branch at Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana\u2026\nProf. Vijay Kumar Kapoor, Professor Adjunct, G.H.G. Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana, Punjab was honored with \"APP Academic Excellence Award 2016\" by Prof. Satvinder Kaur, President APP PB State Branch & Principal, G.H.G. Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Gurusar Sadhar and Prof. Bhakti Bhusan Barik, International Head, APP Community Pharmacy Division from Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Aarbia during National Conference on \"Innovations and Challenges in Pharmaceutical Research\" jointly organized by APP PB State Branch and G.H.G. Khalsa College of Pharmacy, Gurusar Sadhar, Ludhiana on 20th October, 2016...\nDr. Ajay Sharma from MTU Mizan, Ethiopia honored with the 'APP Award' at Faridabad, Haryana\u2026\nDr. Ajay Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan Teferi, Ethiopia and Vice President, APP Ethiopian International Branch was felicitated with 'APP Young Achiever Award 2016' by Prof. Saurabh Dahiya, Vice President, APP Haryana State Branch and Prof. Ashutoshkar, Professor Emeritus, Lingaya's University, Faridabad, Haryana during Indo-African Symposium on \"Biotechnological Production of Phytopharmaceuticals\" organized by Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Haryana State Branch at School of Pharmacy, Lingaya's University, Faridabad, Haryana on 7th September, 2016, in collaboration with APP Ethiopian International Branch...\nDr. D. Satyanarayana, Professor Emeritus, VIPS, Rajahmundry, West Godavari (A.P.) honored with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award'\u2026\nDr. D. Satyanarayana, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Vikas Institute of Pharm. Sciences, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh was honored with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2016' by Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati, President, APP Andhra Pradesh State Branch during APP 2nd Indo-Gulf Conference on \"NanoTechnology: From Basic Research to Nanomedicines\" organized by Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Community and Clinical Pharmacy Division and APP Biotech Division at Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, Bhimavaram, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh on 2nd September, 2016, in collaboration with APP Andhra Pradesh State Branch...\nPresident APP with Indian cricket team's head coach \u2013 Mr. Anil Kumble and chief selector \u2013 Mr. Sandeep Patil' and Indian bowlers\u2026\nDr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) and Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago met Indian cricket team's head coach Mr. Anil Kumble, Indian cricket team's chief selector Mr. Sandeep Patil, Indian bowlers Mr. Ravichandran Ashwin, Mr. Bhuvneshwar Kumaron the occasion of India-West Indies 4th test match at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, WI during Aug 2016 and conveyed good wishes for victory of Team India....\nThe Honourable Minister of Health, Trinidad and Tobago with President APP during UWI School of Pharmacy Oath Taking Ceremony 2016\u2026\nOn the occasion of The University of the West Indies, School of Pharmacy Oath Taking Ceremony 2016 at FMS, Mount Hope, Trinidad, Honourable Minister of Health, Mr. Terrence Deyalsingh, Ministry of Health, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago interacted with Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago and focused on implementation of Pharm.D and MSc Pharmaceutical Science programme for the benefit of young graduates.\nDr. Chad Martin VanDen Berg from Midwestern University, Arizona, USA felicitated by President APP at SoP, UWI\u2026\nOn 13th May, 2016, Dr. Chad Martin VanDenBerg, Associate Director, The Institute of Healthcare Innovation, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona, United States was felicitated with 'Certificate of Appreciation' by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Director, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago during International Symposium on \"Clinical Drug Development Process\" at SoP, FMS, UWI, West Indies...\nDr. Deepak Kumar from Changwon National University, South Korea honored by President, APP Karnataka State Branch\u2026\nFor his outstanding contribution in pharmaceutical research, Dr. Deepak Kumar from Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea was honored with APP Young Investigator Award 2016 (Late Smt. Khazani Devi Memorial Award) by Dr. Kuntal Das, President, APP Karnataka State Branch during APP 2nd Indo-Korean Conference \"HPPIC-2016\" at Gokula Krishna College of Pharmacy, Sullurpet, Nellore, Andhra Pardesh on 30th March, 2016.\nProf. Ulrich Pfeffer from Genoa, Italy honored with \"APP Prestigious Award\"\u2026\nProf. Ulrich Pfeffer from National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy was felicitated with 'APP Outstanding Researcher Award 2016' by Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) Andhra Pradesh State Branch and Dr. Oommen V. Oommen, Secretary, Society for Translational Cancer Research and an Emeritus Scientist of CSIR, Govt. of India, during APP 5th Annual International Convention \"RPERTDRI-2016\" hosted by Anna University, BIT Campus, Trichy, Tamilnadu on 22nd-23rd January, 2016...\nProf. B. P. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Pacific University, Udaipur honored with \"APP Appreciation Award\"\u2026\nProf. B. P. Sharma Vice Chancellor, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan was honored with 'APP Appreciation Award 2015' by Dr. Rita Mourya, Treasurer, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) during National Conference \"MCPDDT-2015\" organized by APP Rajasthan State Branch and hosted by Pacific University, Udaipur on 12th December, 2015...\nProf. Narsimhan B. from M.D. University, Rohtak felicitated with \"APP Young Scientist Award\" at Pacific University, Udaipur\nProf. Narsimhan B. Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, M. D. University, Rohtak, Haryana was felicitated with 'APP Young Scientist Award 2015' by Prof. Govindasamy Jeyabalan, President, APP Rajasthan State Branch; Prof. Indrajeet Singhvi President, APTI Rajasthan State Branch and Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan and Prof. B. P. Sharma Vice Chancellor, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan during National Conference on \"Medicinal Chemistry Perspective in Drug Discovery and Therapy\" organized by APP Rajasthan State Branch in collaboration with Pacific College of Pharmacy, Pacific University, Udaipur (RJ) on 12th December, 2015...\nDr. Weidner Andreas from Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Germany felicitated with \"APP Prestigious Award\"\u2026\nDr. Weidner Andreas from Magnetic Nanoparticles Group, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMTI), Technische Universit\u00e4t Ilmenau, Germany was felicitated with 'APP Young Talent Award 2015' by Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati, President, APP Andhra Pradesh State Branch, Dr. K. S. Prasad and Dr. M. V. Nagabhushanam during 1st Indo-German Conference on \"Current Scenario and Future Findings in Pharmaceutical Research\" organized by APP AP State Branch at Shri Vishnu College of Pharmacy, Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh on 28th November, 2015...\nProf. Chandrakant Kokate, Vice Chancellor, KLE University, Belgaum honored with \"APP Prestigious Award\"\u2026\nProf. Chandrakant Kokate, Vice Chancellor, KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka was honored with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2015' by Dr. A. Muralidhar Rao, President, APP Telangana State Branch and Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati during International Symposium on \"Bioactive Natural Products: Synthetic and Pharmacological Aspects\" organized by APP Maharashtra State Branch, in collaboration with OMICS Group International, USA, at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Telangana on 26th-27th October, 2015 ...\nDr. Xulin Chen from Wuhan Institute of Virology, China felicitated during APP International Symposium\u2026\nDr. Xulin Chen, Professor, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China was felicitated with 'APP Young Achiever Award 2015' by Dr. A. Muralidhar Rao, President, APP Telangana State Branch during International Symposium on \"Bioactive Natural Products: Synthetic and Pharmacological Aspects\" organized by APP Maharashtra State Branch, in collaboration with OMICS Group International, USA, at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Telangana on 26th-27th October, 2015 ...\nDr. Raghavendra Yarlagadda from Jimma University, Ethiopia honored at Mangalagiri\u2026\nDr. Raghavendra Yarlagadda, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia was felicitated with 'APP Young Talent Award 2015' by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Sister P. Alphonsa, Secretary Correspondent, Nirmala College of Pharmacy, Mangalagiri, for his vital contribution in pharmaceutical field, during '3rd Indo-African Conference' organized by APP Andhra Pradesh State Branch at Nirmala College of Pharmacy, Mangalagiri, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 4th September, 2015...\nProf. R. Jothi Ramalingam from Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia honored at Puducherry..\nDr. R. Jothi Ramalingam, Professor, Wolaita Sodo University, Sodo, Ethiopia was felicitated with 'APP Young Achiever Award 2015' by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Dr. S. C. Parija, Director JIPMER, Gorimedu, Puducherry, for his outstanding achievements throughout his career, during '2nd Indo-African Conference' organized by APP Karnataka State Branch at College of Pharmacy, Mother Theresa Postgraduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences (A Govt. of Puducherry Institution), Union Territory of Puducherry on 3rd September, 2015...\nProf. B. B. Barik from Jazan University, Saudi Arab felicitated at Tenali..\nDr. Bhakti Bhusan Barik, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was felicitated with 'APP Eminent Pharmacy Teacher Award 2015' by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP and Dr. Suresh V. Chennupati, President APP AP State Branch, for his vital contribution in pharmaceutical education in India and Abroad, during '1st Indo-Gulf Conference' organized by APP Andhra Pradesh State Branch on 8th August, 2015 at ASN Pharmacy College, Tenali, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh...\nDr. Alex Nivorozhkin honored with APP Award at Dubai, UAE\u2026\nAPP Distinguished Scientist Award 2015 was conferred to Dr. Alex Nivorozhkin, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Neo-Advent Technologies LLC, Massachusetts, United States of America on 16th March, 2015 during APP 2nd International Workshop at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Dubai, UAE. Award was given by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President of the Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) and Dr. Saurabh Dahiya, Vice President, APP Haryana State Branch...\nFelicitation of Dr. Tsann- Long Su with APP Award\u2026\nAPP Innovative Researcher Award 2015 was conferred to Dr. Tsann-Long Su, Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 16th March, 2015 during APP 2nd International Workshop at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Dubai, UAE. Award was given by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals.\nProf. M. M. Patel honored with APP Life Time Achievement Award..\nAPP Life Time Achievement Award 2015 was conferred to Prof. M. M. Patel, Ex-Vice Chancellor, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University (HNGU), Patan, Gujarat and Principal, Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Pharmacy (SVBIP), Gandhinagar, Gujarat by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals on the inaugural day of \"Research Week-2015\" organized by Faculty of Pharmacy, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad on 18th February, 2015. The occasion was witnessed by Prof. B. N. Suhagia, Dean, DD University, Nadiad and Registrar, GTU...\nProf. T. V. Narayana conferred with APP Appreciation Award\u2026\nAPP Appreciation Award 2015 was conferred to Prof. T. V. Narayana, Chairman, IPA Education Division, by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals during 1st Indo African Conference on 'Global Trends and Ongoing Development in Pharmaceutical Sciences' organized by APP AP State Branch at Chebrolu Hanumaiah Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chowdavaram, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh on 14th February, 2015. The occasion was witnessed by Prof. K. P. R Chowdary, Chairman, BOS in Pharmacy, JNTU, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, Prof. Suryadevara Vidyadhara, Principal, CHIPS, Guntur, Prof. G. Devala Rao, Principal, KVSR Siddhartha College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vijaywada.....\nChancellor, Invertis University, Bareilly (UP) honored with APP Award..\nAPP Appreciation Award was conferred to Dr. Umesh Gautam, Chancellor, Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals during APP 4th Annual National Convention (IPAI:NOUPP) on 31st January, 2015...\nVice Chancellor, KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka, felicitated by President APP\u2026\nProf. Chandrakant Kokate, Vice Chancellor, KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka (Ex Vice Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh & Ex President, Pharmacy Council of India) was felicitated by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals during a meeting at Bhopal on 27th November, 2014...\nChancellor, SunRise University, Alwar, honored with APP Award..\nAPP Award was conferred to Dr. Vishnu Kumar Agarwal, Chancellor, SunRise University, Alwar, Rajasthan by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals during National Seminar (FPER:GC) on 16th November, 2014...\nDr. Dahiya honored by Vice Chancellor, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh\u2026\nMemento was conferred to Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) by Prof. Avinash C. Pandey, Vice Chancellor, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (UP) for delivering lecture during National Conference (EBDD:PC) on 15th November, 2014...\nVice Chancellor, People's University, Bhopal (MP), honored with APP Award..\nAPP Award was conferred to Prof. Vijay Kumar Pandya, Vice Chancellor, People's University, Bhopal (MP) by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) during National Workshop (DWDD:PTM) on the occasion of 'World Diabetes Day' on 14th November, 2014...\nVice Chancellor, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur (MP), honored with APP Award..\nAppreciation Award was conferred to Prof. Kedar Nath Singh Yadava, Vice Chancellor, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur (MP) by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) on the occasion of National Conference (PBMP:RA) on 9th November, 2014...\nPresident APP conferred with Prestigious Award..\nDistinguished Pharmacy Professional Award was conferred to Dr. Rajiv Dahiya (President APP) by Dr. Krishna Menon, President, Cellceutix Corporation, United States, during International Conference at HICC, Hyderabad... Click here to read more...\nSecretary APP honored during International Conference..\nDistinguished Pharmacy Teacher Award was conferred to Dr. Sunita Dahiya (General Secretary APP) by Dr. Nigel Rulewski, Vice President, Quintiles, United States, during International Conference at HICC, Hyderabad...\nVice Chancellor, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad (GJ), honored with APP Award..\nAPP Award was conferred to Prof. H. M. Desai, Vice Chancellor, Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad, Gujarat by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President, Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) during APP 3rd Annual National Convention (NDDD:CSCA) on 18th January, 2014...\nAPP Life Time Achievement Award 2014\u2026\nProf. M.C. Gohel (Consultant to Pharma Industries & Ex-Principal, LM College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad, Gujarat) honored with 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2014' during APP 3rd Annual National Convention on 'Novel Drug Discovery and Development: Current Issues & Challenges Ahead' at Faculty of Pharmacy, DD University, Nadiad, Gujarat on 18th January 2014 by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya, President APP & Dr. Abhay Sapre, Vice President, Zydus Technologies Limited, Ahmedabad. Prof. Mohammed Ali from Hamdard University, New Delhi is recipient of 'APP Life Time Achievement Award 2013' during APP 2nd Annual National Convention on 'Pharmacist as a Vital Part of Health Care System' at Chandwad, Nashik, Maharashtra on 17th March 2013.\nAPP Eminent Researcher Award 2014\u2026\nProf. Suresh P. Vyas from Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh honored with 'APP Eminent Researcher Award 2014' during APP 3rd Annual National Convention on 'Novel Drug Discovery and Development: Current Issues & Challenges Ahead' at Faculty of Pharmacy, DD University, Nadiad, Gujarat on 18th January 2014. Prof. N. K. Jain from Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh is the recipient of 'APP Distinguished Researcher Award 2013' during APP ASU Collaborative National Symposium on 'Modern Aspects of Drug Design, Discovery and Development' at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on 19th April 2013.\nAPP Eminent Teacher Award 2014\u2026\nProf. M.R. Yadav, Head, Department of Pharmacy, The M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat honored with 'APP Eminent Teacher Award 2014' during APP 3rd Annual National Convention on 'Novel Drug Discovery and Development: Current Issues & Challenges Ahead' at Faculty of Pharmacy, DD University, Nadiad, Gujarat on 18th January 2014.\nAPP Principal of The Year Award 2015\u2026\nProf. R. Govindarajan from Hindu College of Pharmacy, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh honored with 'APP Principal of The Year Award 2015' during APP 4th Annual National Convention on 'Industry Participation in Academic Intervention: Need for Overall Upgradation of Pharmacy Profession' at Invertis Institute of Pharmacy, Invertis University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh on 31st January 2015. Prof. A. Muralidhar Rao from Maheshwara Institute of Pharmacy, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana is recipient of 'APP Principal of The Year Award 2014' during APP 3rd Annual National Convention on 'Novel Drug Discovery and Development: Current Issues & Challenges Ahead' at Faculty of Pharmacy, DD University, Nadiad, Gujarat on 18th January 2014. Prof. G. Jeyabalan from Alwar Pharmacy College, Alwar, Rajasthan is recipient of 'APP Principal of The Year Award 2013' during National Conference on 'Current Trends in Human Health Care, Pharmacy and Pharmacology' at Smt. Vidyawati College of Pharmacy, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh on 1st December 2013.\nAPP Academic Excellence Award 2013\u2026\nProf. A. N. Nagappa from Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka honored with 'APP Academic Excellence Award 2013' during APP 2nd Annual National Convention on 'Pharmacist as a Vital Part of Health Care System' at Chandwad, Nashik, Maharashtra on 17th March 2013.\nCopyright (C) 2014 AppConnect.in Powered By Hyvikk Solutions","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pacific Health Research at Otago\nCommunity and partnerships\nUniversity of Otago 20Twenties Young Alumni Awards announced\nTuesday 26 October 2021 10:49am\nTop from left: Arina Aizal, Calum Rickard, Diana Shaul, Namrata Chand and Emma Jefferies. Bottom from right: Hamid Zawari, Breen Cowie, Cam Burrow, Ben Abraham and Caitlin Helme.\nAn inspirational group of 20 young Otago alumni have been recognised in this year's 20Twenties Young Alumni Awards.\nFrom around New Zealand and as far afield as Sydney and California, these young graduates are already making their mark in their diverse communities, in their workplaces, through their research, and in volunteer and leadership roles.\nThe awards aim to recognise 20 alumni in their twenties who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, contributed widely to their communities, or have shown exceptional leadership in their personal or professional lives. Nominations were received from the wider Otago alumni community, friends, employers and colleagues.\nBetween them, the 2021 award recipients' contribution to local, national and international communities and initiatives covers a wide range of areas, including: giving marginalised groups and minorities a voice; providing key advice on climate change policy; stepping into rural leadership roles; working to improve M\u0101ori and Moana Pacific peoples' health outcomes and wellbeing; forging a career in high performance sport; and helping roll out a cutting-edge heart health startup.\nAt Otago, they studied across all subject areas of the University, including Arts, Sciences, Social Work, Human Nutrition, Commerce, Applied Science, Law, Dentistry, Physical Education, Business Administration, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences.\nAlumni Engagement Manager Donnella Aitken-Ferguson says the calibre of all nominations was extremely high, and the panel of judges drawn from across the four academic Divisions at the University had a difficult task in choosing the 20 award recipients.\nTop from left: Hanna Van der Giessen, Tisiola Talalima, Rachel Tombs, Thomas Kindley and Umi Asaka. Bottom from right: Katie Batterton, Joshuaa Alefosio-Pei, Maddi Ingham, Jay Barrett and Mary Jane Kivalu.\n\"These inspiring young alumni are all making incredible contributions to our society, many of them only recently out of University. Some are trailblazers in their field, others are committed to improving the lives and outcomes of people across diverse communities. All of them are passionate about what they do, and we are very proud of the positive difference they are making to people's lives and futures, here in New Zealand and around the world,\" says Ms Aitken-Ferguson.\nAward recipient Tisiola Talalima, a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences graduate, says she was \"extremely happy and grateful to be recognised by the University\". Tisiola received her award for her contribution to reducing health inequalities in the Moana Pacific community and for her engagement with the student community.\n\"This award means a great deal to me, as I want to highlight the importance of improving Pacific health outcomes and be a positive representative for my community,\" says Tisiola.\u202f\"Also,\u202fI am not only happy for myself, as I hope this award will encourage and inspire other Pasifika students who are interested in scientific research and want to remove the inequities of Pacific health.\"\nRecipients of the 20Twenties Young Alumni Awards for 2021:\nBenjamin Abraham, BA(Hons)\nIn recognition of contribution to policy development for climate change.\nBorn and raised in Dunedin, Ben now works as a Senior Analyst at the Climate Change Commission. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University where he completed an MSc and a PhD in Public Policy. He has worked as an activist, researcher, and consultant on climate policy in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Most recently, Ben was hired by the British High Commission to lead their Aotearoa engagement for the COP 26 United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow.\nArina Aizal, BA\nFor contribution to showcasing diversity within ethnic communities.\nCommunity Connector at Otago Access Radio OAR FM, Arina has highlighted unheard voices to the local community showcasing the hidden diversity present in Dunedin. She has made a series of podcasts under the title The Arinality, presenting notable females of ethnic communities in New Zealand.\nJoshuaa Alefosio-Pei, BSc\nIn recognition of leadership and representation of minority groups, including the Moana Pacific student community.\nJoshuaa has served on many student associations, representing Pasifika voices and perspectives. These include SSPIA, OUSA, UOPISA, and work with the national bodies NZUSA and Tauira Pasifika. He has mentored students for many years and in recognition of his leadership abilities, has been awarded honours such as the PFP Scholarship, Pacific People's Entrance Scholarship and Pacific Health Scholarships from the Ministry of Health. He has also undertaken policy internships with the New Zealand Police, the National Emergency Management Agency and MBIE.\nUmi Asaka, BSW\nFor contribution to identifying health and wellbeing rights violations, and advocacy for international students and students with disabilities.\nUmi secured the role of OUSA International Officer in her third year of study, where she was a tireless advocate for international students, and students with disabilities. Recently Umi received national recognition by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) for her contribution to the community. She is part of a Disabled Person-Led research team at the Donald Beasley Institute and has gathered evidence for the United Nations by conducting interviews with more than 100 disabled New Zealanders, identifying human rights violations in health and wellbeing experiences. She has co-authored a book about diversity in Japanese and is working on two more. Umi is also the South Island representative on the National Board of CCS Disability Action.\nJay Barrett, BSc\nIn recognition of extensive contribution to improving wellbeing within the workplace and developing a bi-cultural psychosocial risk model which considers Te Ao M\u0101ori worldviews.\nJay has been working with The Effect, an Organisational Psychology Consultancy since 2020, where he has moved into the capacity of an Intern Psychologist in 2021. During this time, he has led the development of a bi-cultural psychosocial risk model that considers Te Ao M\u0101ori worldviews. His project ensures that Tangata Whenua's worldviews and western worldviews are held equal when dealing with psychosocial risks in the workplace.\nKatie Batterton, BSc\nFor contribution to health and nutrition through the provision of school lunches and teaching the importance of healthy eating.\nKatie graduated with a BSc in Human Nutrition and is now working back at her old school, Bay of Islands College, providing free healthy lunches to over 400 school children. Katie is passionate about creating change for these children and teaching them the importance of healthy eating.\nCameron Burrow, BCom\nIn recognition of voluntary service to rugby and surf life saving.\nA Chartered Accountant (CA), Cameron is currently Chairman of two of New Zealand's oldest clubs in their respective fields, the Dunedin Rugby Football Club and the St Clair Surf Life Saving Club (St Clair SLSC). He plays a prominent role across the Otago\/Southland region and has been recognised with South Island Service and Distinguished Service awards as well as a National Service awards.\nNamrata Chand, BAppSc\nIn recognition for leadership in improving climate resilience in communities.\nAfter graduation Namrata went back to Fiji for five years. During this time, she contributed towards the field of marine science and climate change in several ways, from assisting in teaching marine science to undergraduates at the local university, to her most recent role as a resilience officer under a UN-Habitat project based at the local council. This job was focused on working with multiple informal settlements that were the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and sea level rise. This role involved engaging with community members to collect data on climate vulnerability that would aid in implementing future actions to improve the resilience of these settlements. Namrata is now back at Otago, working on her PhD.\nBreen Cowie, BCom\nFor contribution and leadership in the horticultural sector.\nBreen runs her own contract harvesting and orchard maintenance team business in Whang\u0101rei. She is currently enrolled in Kellogg's Rural Leadership Program which involves an intensive research project to graduate. Breen's topic is on the sustainability of the rapid growth of the avocado industry and the effects it has on surrounding communities. She is currently working with Horticulture New Zealand to meet the demands of the labour shortage in New Zealand's Horticulture industry and make the primary sector an attractive career path.\nCaitlin Helme, BA(Hons)\nIn recognition for support of disability justice.\nCaitlin is paving the way for disabled sexual violence survivors to receive equitable support and care. Passionate about disability justice and the intersection of marginalised identities, she is a past holder of the New Zealand Psychological Society Social Justice Scholarship, and a two-time recipient of the Ian Campbell Scholarship that supports physically disabled students working towards qualifications that promote the wellbeing of disabled people.\nMaddi Ingham, BCom LLB\nIn recognition of community service and creating positive change in organisations.\nMaddi was the Chief Coordinator of the Te Whare Pounamu (Dunedin Women's Refuge) Fundraising Campaign while at University, raising over $100,000. For this and other volunteering activities she was awarded the Outstanding Member of the Dunedin Community Award (2018), the University of Otago Gold Award for Contribution to the Community (2017), and the Otago University Student Leadership Award (2018). Maddi is an ex-BCGer (Boston Consulting Group), who was selected to be a Startmate Fellow, and has recently begun as Chief of Staff at a Sydney startup, ChefPrep.\nEmma Jefferies, BDS\nIn recognition of innovation in the areas of dentistry and mental health.\nEmma's postgraduate research combines the disciplines of dentistry and mental health. She has investigated the oral health status and oral-health-related quality of life of a group of young adults using mental health services in Christchurch.\u202fThe impact of providing oral health care to this group is far-reaching, with the ability to greatly improve the day-to-day lives of people with severe mental illness.\nThomas Kindley, BPhEd\nIn recognition of high-level sports management and coaching.\nThomas is the Performance Director of the first ever professional men's rugby team in Boston, USA. The team is called the New England Free Jacks and represent the six states of New England, competing in the nationwide Major League Rugby competition.\nHe has also overseen the development of an academy program across New England encouraging a new generation of Americans to play rugby and learn about the sport. Thomas was a staff member for the USA Eagles rugby team at the last Rugby World Cup in Japan, attending as an assistant analyst and assistant strength and conditioning coach. He will continue to work with the squad intermittently as they attempt to qualify for the 2023 RWC in France.\nMary Jane Kivalu, BCom, MBA\nFor voluntary contribution to many community organisations, including sporting and Tongan youth communities.\nMary Jane 's volunteer roles include producing The Lave Show which she co-founded on Otago Access Radio. She is also a Member of the Southern Zone Rugby League Board, a Member of the Otago Polytechnic External Pacific Advisory Committee, and is the Board Advisor for the New Zealand Tongan Tertiary Students Association. She leads the facilitation of the Koloa 'o Tonga Programme funded by Pasefika Proud, which looks at an innovative way to address domestic violence in families of Tongan youth.\nCalum Rickard, BSc (Hons)\nFor contribution to the mathematics, triathlon and student communities.\nCalum won a Fulbright New Zealand Science and Innovation Graduate Award in 2015 and pursued a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Southern California (USC), which he completed in 2021. While at USC, he published three papers in his research area of partial differential equations. In addition, he was awarded a USC Graduate Research Award in 2021 and a USC Graduate Teaching Award in 2020. Calum has now started his postdoctoral career at the University of California, Davis where he is currently an Arthur J. Krener Assistant Professor of Mathematics.\nDiana Shaul, BPharm\nIn recognition of leadership against social and political antisemitism.\nDiana is President of the New Zealand branch of the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS). In her capacity as AUJS National President, she leads, organises and administers a substantial nation-wide organisation. She attended He Whenua Taurikura, New Zealand's first hui on countering terrorism and violent extremism, as a student representative for the New Zealand Jewish Council. She is also an executive of the New Zealand Jewish Council. She is also a currently member of the University of Otago Alumni Board in Auckland.\nTisiola Talalima, BBiomedSc\nFor contribution to reducing health inequalities in the Moana Pacific community and for her engagement with the student community.\nTisiola was awarded the Toloa Tertiary Scholarship from the Ministry for Pacific Peoples to pursue her Honours degree, focusing on tuberculosis in the Pasifika community. Tisiola has been involved in the Pacific Outreach Programme for Sciences (POPS) at the University of Otago to engage Pasifika youths (Year 7-8), and their communities. Tisiola was part of the team to host high school Pasifika students in association with Pacific Trust Otago and Division of Sciences (Pacific), University of Otago. Tisiola was also involved in the inaugural M\u00e5\u00fcr lelei: Health and Wellbeing Together Fono in South Auckland to engage and connect the community with science through her research.\nRachel Tombs, BA(Hons)\nFor contribution to sexual violence education in our communities.\nRachel is committed to lifting the silence about sexual violence and preventing such violence. Her research for her MA thesis is on the topic of sexual violence in marriage. Rachel runs workshops to raise awareness as a peer facilitator at the University's Te Whare T\u0101wharau initiative and she has been an executive member and volunteer for Thursdays in Black Otago.\u202f Rachel organised 'Stories of Faith, Hope and Love' and 'Tenx9' events celebrating the intersections between faith and LGBTQ* Pride during the Dunedin Pride Festivals in 2018 and 2019. She is an elder at Knox Church Dunedin and member of the Student Christian Movement. She participated in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women as part of the Presbyterian Women Aotearoa delegation in 2017.\nHanna Van der Giessen, BSc(Hons), MHealSc\nIn recognition of bridging the gap between Artificial Intelligence and the medical world.\nSince completing her master's degree, Hanna has continued advancing heart health by landing a role at a startup company on the frontiers of cardiology and artificial intelligence, HeartLab. Bridging the gap between the Artificial Intelligence world and the medical world, Hanna is working with cardiologists, sonographers, engineers, and entrepreneurs to get their ground-breaking technology into hospitals, both at home in Aotearoa and eventually, the world. She is executing the company's primary clinical trial in NZ, handling all ethical applications, research protocols, and is the first point of contact for the nationwide roll out of their technology to DHBs.\nHamid Zawari, BSc\nIn recognition of support for refugee families.\nHamid supports former refugee Afghan wh\u0101nau settle in Dunedin, particularly youth. He started the Afghan Students' Association (ASA) at University of Otago and has helped youth develop leadership skills through his various roles and with his team, most importantly, supporting pathways to higher education.\nStory by Margie Clark, Communications Adviser, Development and Alumni Relations Office\n\u00a9 Pacific Health Research\nat Otago\nEmail pirssu@otago.ac.nz\nFuture researchers\nPacific-relevant health research","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tim Kee turns key on SWO exclusive.\nAuthor Topic: Tim Kee turns key on SWO exclusive. (Read 7822 times)\nRe: Tim Kee turns key on SWO exclusive.\nQuote from: Sam on February 01, 2013, 12:10:53 PM\nQuote from: dinho on February 01, 2013, 12:08:08 PM\nSo exactly what is this article supposed to accomplish?\ndinho, when articles suppose to accomplish anything ?\nIts information\/news, either yuh take it or yuh leave it,,,, like every other story in this world.\nWake up nah, news, news.... extra, extra.....\nLeh meh ask you a question now....\nSo what exactly yuh podcast episodes suppose to accomplish ?\nIt's actually not news, it's an editorial piece. You do understand the difference right?\nIf this forum is seeking an audience with Mr. Tim Kee, I just don't see how this article helps it towards that goal.\nBy the way.... How you commenting up on it and moving defensive so?\nIs you who write the article or what??\n\u00ab Last Edit: February 02, 2013, 06:20:06 AM by dinho \u00bb\nPolice face and dog heart.\nI not moving defensive I just replying in the manner de question was ask, but when certain things get exposed I dont see nothing wrong in saying something.\nFaster than a speeding pittbull\nStronger than a shot of ba-bash\nCapable of storming any fete\nBESBRAHN\nJr. Warrior\nFootball is life!\nThe man has inherited a mess...administrative and otherwise..I think Tim Kee has to be given time to get things in order or get the TTFF to a state of stability. We like quick fixes in this country but some things take time. Give the man a year at least and then judge. Warriors we there supporting on Wednesday!!\nchristiano\nSr. Warrior\nRalphe for TTFF President !\nThe way things going , i feel Ralphe will be in line soon !\nErrol\nMr Tim Kee.\nWhat are our plans for the month of May?\nsocalion\nWant to give some just credit to mr. Richard Tim Kee for his efforts to resolve the 2006 world cup players outstanding issues . its a positive step, and should begin hopefully the healing for the federation( ttff) and the players !! hopefully many lessons were learned by all ....\nSocapro\nRas Shorty-I, Father of Soca, Chutney-Soca & Jamoo\nQuote from: socalion on May 04, 2013, 09:51:56 AM\nLesson no.1: Never believe anything Jack tells you especially when he doesn't put it in writing.\nDe higher a monkey climbs is de less his ass is on de line, if he works for FIFA that is! ;-)\nBrownsugar\nSoca in mih veins, Soca in mih blood!!\nDe cheque has not been written as yet far less to be deposited and cleared. I'm holding off on popping the champagne and starting my happy dance until then.....\n\"...If yuh clothes tear up\nOr yuh shoes burst off,\nYou could still jump up when music play.\nOld lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...\nDingolay, ay, ay, ay ay,\nDingolay ay, ay, ay...\"\nRIP Shadow....The legend will live on in music...\ncoache\nFire Tim Kee..he want money..he is a CROOK!!\nGood job Tim Kee, he told me he did not like Flex questions and how Flex was disrespectful that is why he never did the interview.\nJack Warner will rise again and the world will beg him him to return and he will say \"NO\".............\nQuote from: Jack Horner on May 29, 2013, 05:45:26 AM\nso what! he only answering questions he like ?\n\u00ab Last Edit: May 29, 2013, 07:11:32 AM by royal \u00bb\nweary1969\nQuote from: royal on May 29, 2013, 07:09:20 AM\nY u responding 2 Horner who still realling from the fact that 13 fellas stared eveil in d face and won.\nToday you're the dog, tomorrow you're the hydrant - so be good to others - it comes back!\"\nI thought the Concacaf give the money back to de fellas..what Tim Kee have to do this? Why he getting credit ?\nSo much money tief..so much money lorse..yet dey find money to pay de fellas..I hope Latapy get he millions..\n..what Tim Kee have to do this?\nIt happened under his watch. So the \"credit\" must go to him.\nTim Kee full of shit, Flex forward me the email he sent him and he was never disrespectful.\nDe man just did not have the balls to answer the questions. Flex should post de questions here and allyuh woulda see for allyuh self.\nDe man say he cant wait to work with the SWO, yea right, he full of tata !!!\nHe is a two face Harvey.\nA Trini 4 Real.\nWhat kind of name is Tim Kee?\nHis he Chinese ?\nThe real measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.\nYes, he is of chinese descent on his father side\nQuote from: Flex on June 10, 2013, 08:25:13 AM\nTHE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES\nThanx FF\nTim Kee: I have no shoes to fill.\nBy Andrew Gioannetti (Guardian).\n\"Let me not try to renovate anything, but rather break down and rebuild.\"\nPresident Raymond Tim Kee, in a continued effort to restore confidence in the new-look T&T Football Association (TTFA), made his intention clear, which is for the association to create a proper business module, while it rebuilds confidence from the T&T football public, something he says was lost by the former administration.\nTim Kee, an insurance executive and businessman, was the feature speaker at the Trinidad Union Club's Speaker Series, which continued on the club, in Nicholas Towers, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.\nIn his presentation, Tim Kee, who was elected TTFA president unopposed last November, focused directly on the steps currently being taken to reform and develop the state of football in T&T, while he explained the significant leaps made since his election.\nThus far, the association has seen a rebranding via the reverting from the former T&T Football Federation to the TTFA, as well as the launch of a new logo. The TTFA also recently launched a new kit for all of its teams, from the national senior women's team, to the beach soccer team, to the under-15 national team, in a partnership with Spanish brand Joma.\nIn the run up to his election, Tim Kee campaigned on the need to restore confidence from the football public to the new executive, stressing that football belongs to the country and to the players and not the association. Despite the withdrawal of his initial challenger, Colin Murray, Tim Kee maintained his campaign directive all the way through to his maiden speech, when he made it clear that accountability and transparency were needed for corporate and private partners, as well as the Government to begin, once again, to invest in national football.\nSpeaking yesterday, Tim Kee said upon his election, his initial change was that in the association's human resources. \"I emphasised who I wanted to come join me should be brighter than I am, and smarter than I am, and that was where my journey started.\n\"There will be cultural challenges, because you're talking about a culture that existed for many years, and, therefore, we had to start working with the younger people.\"\n\u00ab Last Edit: August 29, 2013, 07:00:39 AM by Flex \u00bb\nTim Kee wants stability for all local coaches.\nT&T Newsday Reports.\nRAYMOND TIM KEE, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), plans to secure the services of coaches, for the various national teams, on a long-term basis.\nThe TTFA boss, during a recent interview, said, \"What I do know is I have had some discussions with (coach Stephen) Hart, (director of football Leo) Beenhakker and (technical director Anton) Corneal, all with a view of putting in place coaches and technical staff for each segments of our game.\nHe continued, \"It is hoped that those people who would be appointed would have some sort of security of tenure, in that we want to go into contracts. Not only that, we would no longer be having engagements of football when there is a tournament ahead.\n\"It's a matter of all the teams from the Under-23s going right back down would be engaged in football throughout the year. So there is need for full-time coaches in the purer sense because, if we don't have that, we'll have to forget things like World Cup. That is being put in place and we'll have some good coaches, many of who I suspect would be pleased with (this),\" added Tim Kee, who also serves as Mayor of Port-of-Spain.\nOn the topic of funding for the game locally, Tim Kee stated, \"The support has been overwhelming from the Ministry (of Sport) and the Sports Company and, of course, the Sports Minister (Anil Roberts) from whom instructions will come.\n\"There are times when there are little impediments and hiccups and some of them are very present in the Government service, in terms of how money is distributed,\" he said. \"Even when the Ministry can do something, it has to go through the Ministry of Finance for them to release the funds.\nSometimes you get the impression that they're just some bureaucracies and the time takes too long, but if that's how it is, that's how it is. The only unfortunate thing though is you cannot forecast some of these things to put things in place properly.\"\nEarlier this year, Trinidad and Tobago narrowly missed qualification for the 2014 FIFA Women Under-20 World Cup in Canada.\nTim Kee was asked what plans are afoot for womens football this year.\n\"What you see here didn't start yesterday,\" he commented. \"There was emphasis on womens football before. What has happened though is that there has been some more emphases on playing womens football and therefore we have done several things to pull them together and keep them together.\n\"Albeit, some of the (women) coaches have not been paid all their monies but that shows a kind of dedication,\" said Tim Kee. \"There is hope.\nWhen I came into office a year ago, what I did was try to sell hope for successful futures. I have backed that up by the way I treat with them, the way I talk with them, the initiatives that we have taken and I guess they have latched on to that.\n\"There is a degree of confidence and optimism for the future. So what you see there now is nothing to do with more money but rather hope that when they do things, they'll be recognised and rewarded for what they have done, so long as resources permit.\"\nGo On ......Get In There!!!!!!!!\nWaRRioR fOr LiFe!!!!!\nRe: Tim Kee wants stability for all local coaches.\nQuote from: Flex on March 06, 2014, 03:02:02 AM\nI guess this is where the ad for coaching and administrative staff from the MoS comes in.\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/blUSVALW_Z4\nTim Kee optimistic about TTFA support\nRAYMOND TIM Kee, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), is backing CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb to transform the regional confederation into a more dynamic and successful organisation in the months ahead.\nThis was the reaction from Tim Kee following meetings with Webb when the two met to hold discussions on local and regional football during his visit to Port-of- Spain recently. Tim Kee added that while there has been some type of organisational analysis of the TTFA since he has been president, he intends to see the process continued particularly through the work of the Independent Football Reform Commission.\nHe intends to have a closer look at the environments in which the TTFA, its future role and influence in taking the game forward, and the impact of its interaction with other organisations and stakeholders.\nWebb, mere days before his visit to Port-of-Spain, on behalf of CONCACAF, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UEFA to mutually develop the game in the Confederation\nThe agreement is similar in nature to that signed between CONCACAF and the Confederation of African Football in April 2013. Webb and UEFA president Michel Platini signed the agreement which will provide CONCACAF with technical assistance and support while building a strong connection with sporting, social, cultural and educational benefits.\n\"I can say without a doubt that the CONCACAF president is on the right path to ensuring that CONCACAF remains a strong organisation within world football and that it continues to expand and experience growth that will be commendable and one that will allow it to stand firmly among the rest,\" Tim Kee said.\nAmong some the areas of discussions held with Webb included establishing systems and operations to see the TTFA itself become a more viable organisation through partnerships with stakeholders and corporate TT as well as the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.\nWebb maintained that TT is among the top ranked countries in the region when it comes to the product and the resources and infrastructure for development of the game, as well as hosting of different football-related events.\n\"Our discussions were all geared towards the development of the game in Trinidad and Tobago and ways in which both CONCACAF and TTFA can work together to promote and enhance the sport.\nMr Webb has our country's interest at heart and he said to me that while he is aware of the challenges we are faced with, he is committed towards working with us to solve the issues we are faced with and to help us gain momentum as we try to move forward,\" added Tim Kee, who went on to state that Webb was also pleased with the support afforded to the TTFA by the Ministry of Sport and the Ministry of Tourism as well as SPORTT (Sports Company of TT).\nFIFA development officer Howard McIntosh continues to work with the TTFA as it attempts to pick up speed and recently FIFA women's football consultant Andrea Rodebaugh visited TT for two days of meetings aimed at improving local women's football. CONCACAF will also stage a grassroots development event in TT in May.\nAnd FIFA recently announced that TT would be among those benefiting from nine projects approved within the FIFA Income Generation Programme, a special initiative launched by the FIFA Executive Committee in 2011 with the objective of fostering revenue creation in member associations with high football development potential.\nBoth Tim Kee and general secretary Sheldon Phillips will attend the FIFA Congress in Sao Paolo in early June, prior to the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Finals.\nThese fellas are real Warriors.\nLooks good to me. A big improvement from the wanton slackness of the prior Renraw-lead junta.\nOne can clearly say: Mr Renraw, you are not needed. The myth that you were essential had been destroyed.\nNot surprisingly his disciples have gone silent and maybe found a new religion.\nGo warriors.\nSupportin' de Warriors right tru.\nTim Kee: Active two years for T&T football.\nT&T Guardian Reports.\nT&T Football Association (TTFA) president Raymond Tim Kee has suggested that Soca Warriors fans can look forward to two big years of international football.\nT&T's senior men's team will meet Argentina in an international friendly at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, tomorrow from 6.30 pm (TT time). This, T&T's most high profile friendly fixture in recent years, is a continuation of an action-packed two-year schedule, according to Tim Kee.\n\"If you recall when I started my tenure last year, I did indicate that Trinidad was too small a world (challenger) in terms of football for us to make sense in the global environment. And, therefore, we had to look at going outside, which we did. And, you would also recall, we had quite a few international games,\" said Tim Kee.\n\"That was the focus. That was the plan, and we are working towards that plan and sustaining (it). Really, what we experience outside is far different from what we do at home. If we want to be relevant in Concacaf and the world of football, we have to play games of this nature so that we build our game. So, I am quite happy with what is happening. In fact, this year and next year promise to be quite active for us in terms of getting international games, all things being equal.\"\nTim Kee is among a large traveling contingent in Argentina, which also includes President Anthony Carmona, former West Indies captain Brian Lara, members from several government ministries and supporters.\nHe said he was \"extremely happy and excited (and) in great anticipation\". \"The trip yesterday was quite comfortable and quite good, although it took us just over seven hours to be here.\"\n\"It (Buenos Aires) is a beautiful city. I'm really looking forward to this game tomorrow. I've been told the facility has been sold out. (We're) talking about over 62,000 people,\" he said.\n\"Of course, for some of our players (based in) Europe and other places in the eastern part of the world, they would be used to this kind of patronage or crowd at the stadiums. Some of our younger players home, they are just (exposed to) Pro League and stuff like that, they may be somewhat overwhelmed by the whole atmosphere in those facilities in those big countries.\n\"I hope that they would be settled. I hope that they would settle early as a matter of fact, because I don't know if we have the luxury of time to settle. We have to get down there and as the whistle blows, we have to start playing the game. So (with) that, I expect us to give a good performance. I wouldn't bet Trinidad (and Tobago) would beat Argentina by any means, but I am prepared to stand behind Trinidad and expect that we'll do a good performance.\"\nTim Kee said he was in talks with the players and members of the technical staff, who have expressed enthusiasm ahead of tomorrow's friendly. He thanked Minister of Tourism and Minister of Sport Anil Roberts for \"extending that hand of assistance that we so badly needed to make this possible\".\nSWF Reporter\nMr Live Wire: Stretcher for Tim Kee; Warner's odd bro-mance with 'Scamps'\nStretcher for Tim Kee; Warner's odd bro-mance with 'Scamps'\nBy Mr Live Wire (Wired868)\nStretcher for Raymond Tim Kee.\nTwo weeks after leaving Opposition Leader Keith Rowley slightly disoriented with a \"Cruyff turn\" on the Pension Bill Amendment, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar blindsided the TTFA president with a \"Zu\u00f1iga\" to the nuts and bolts by making good on the 2006 World Cup bonus agreement that slipped out of Tim Kee's grasp.\nMr Live Wire tried to call Tim Kee, who also happens to be the Port of Spain mayor and PNM treasurer, to give him the news but the TTFF's telephone lines are down. Ouch!\nGranted that Persad-Bissessar dipped into the Treasury as if it was her handbag and the result is that taxpayers must now pay twice for the World Cup 2006 squad although Stern John hasn't scored a goal for his country in six years.\nBut then Tim Kee does not look so clever by repeatedly suggesting that the only feasible way to raise funds is at a government ministry - with cap in hand.\nOkay, so it would be nice if you can get all the taxpayers' money you need. But do you have any other ideas? Selling Native Spirit tee-shirts? Been there, done that!\nGive him time. Mr Live Wire thinks Tim Kee will soon be making overtures to the Ministry of the People to have the TTFA's debts paid off. After all, their creditors are people you see. Right?\nAs for former TTFF special advisor Jack Warner, what can I say? The man must have testicles the size of calabashes to turn up uninvited at the party of the players who he said would only be paid over his dead body.\nWarner crunched some figures that suggested the players were paid close to $50 million for three games in which they did not score a goal.\nFirst, the Chaguanas West MP should forward the $7 million from FIFA that he included but no one ever heard about. Let's start there. And, while he is at it, he should bring the accounting books that the London-based Sport Dispute Resolution Panel (SDRP) requested and the Port of Spain High Court ordered him to produce so that everyone can see what he pocketed for three games without a goal that someone else played.\nIt is, of course, dishonest to suggest that the players were paid that sum for three games at the World Cup finals. The truth is that the payment was also for the 20 World Cup qualifying matches the Warriors played on the road to Germany; 29 is the number of goals scored in those.\nIf the players were paid more than the going rate, Warner should be the one to apologise. He it was who made the contract with the players; all they did was try to get it honoured.\nFunny that Warner declared the $50 million\u2014really $38\u2014was a waste of money. He was not nearly as miserly in spirit when, as a minister of government, he insisted that he would happily spend another $6.8 million to salvage an unusable fire truck if the situation arose?\nNot surprisingly, people tend not to call Warner for a tow when they are in trouble. Well, except Life Sport director Ruth Marchan. But let's wait and see what bill she gets at the end of her stay at his \"safe house.\"\nCouldn't she just have got a room at Hotel California?\nWarner also took the opportunity to make a plea for former TTFF president Oliver Camps who is supposedly about to lose his home after being unable to cough up enough cash to settle a US$480,000 promissory note he signed to secure the services of Dutchman and former Soca Warrior coach Wim Rijsbergen.\nMr Live Wire would like to ask who Camps' special advisor was when he signed that note. If memory serves me right, it was Warner.\nRijsbergen's last game in charge of the Warriors was on 17 October, 2007. That means Warner, who advised Camps to personally stand security for a football debt, had all of seven years to help his buddy get out of it, rather less time, it is true, than he himself had to pay off the Soca Warriors.\nDuring that period, FIFA paid the TTFF $6.3 million (US$1 million) to handle its operational affairs\u2014excluding the $1.6 million ($US250,000) the governing football deducted for Warner's failure to relay emergency funds to earthquake-hit Haiti\u2014as well as the millions generated from television rights, gates and\/or sponsors from the 2010 and 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign.\nAs its share of the Brazil 2014 World Cup revenue, the TTFA will receive US$500,000 for just being part of FIFA.\nSo what did the TTFF get from the 2010 World Cup? Did Warner advise Camps of all these opportunities to pay that debt? Did he even alert him to the existence of that money at all?\nIn those seven years, Warner also got millions in \"consultancy fees\" for the Qatar World Cup bid, sold television rights in the Caribbean that he purchased for US$1 and was plied with numerous gifts from World Cup bidding nations.\nAnd Camps helped him too.\nWhen evidence suggested that Warner facilitated the bribery of Caribbean delegates by FIFA presidential nominee, Mohammed Bin Hammam, Camps wrote a letter to the governing body which swore it was untrue.\nAn affidavit by former TTFF general secretary Richard Groden revealed that Camps, at the request of Warner, urged him to falsify testimony to FIFA.\nAnd, at that point, facing a FIFA inquiry into his conduct and disciplinary punishment, Camps resigned his post in disgrace.\nAnd Warner, presumably, stood by and watched Camps face the threat of losing his house for the sort of money he could have made\u2014and probably did!\u2014in one afternoon with Bin Hammam.\nMr Live Wire can only hope that, if the worse comes to the worse, poor old Ollie will at least get a bunk not far from Marchan.\nPhoto: An excerpt from Richard Groden's FIFA affidavit.\n\u00ab Last Edit: July 12, 2014, 07:44:52 AM by Flex \u00bb\nRe: Mr Live Wire: Stretcher for Tim Kee; Warner's odd bro-mance with 'Scamps'\nNicely put although I think Warner & Scamps shoulda been a separate article. People really need to be made aware of the sh*t that Warner spouts.\nAre you a match? It's too late for Emru, but maybe you can help save someone's life: http:\/\/www.healemru.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"November 29, 2021 Albert Halstead\nArmy Wives is a U.S. drama television series which follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband as well as their families.\nThe series first aired on Lifetime on 3 June 2007. It ran for seven seasons and ended on 9 June 2013. The show had the biggest series premiere in Lifetime's 23-year history. In addition, this series had the largest viewership in the 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm time slot \u2013 since December 2007 \u2013 for Lifetime. Army Wives received favourable reviews in addition to several award nominations. The show won five ASCAP Awards in addition to one Gracie Allen Award.\nOn 21 September 2012, the show was picked up for a 13 -episode, seventh season which aired in 2013. In November 2012, it was confirmed that the season 6 main cast members \u2013 Catherine Bell, Wendy Davis, Terry Serpico, Brian McNamara, Kelli Williams, Alyssa Diaz as well as Joseph Julian Soria \u2013 would come back as regulars. Kim Delaney's character, who was not seen in the final episodes of the sixth season, was written out.\nWhat's It All About\nThe main characters in Army Wives aren't afraid to be vulnerable or make mistakes, learn from them and then move forward. It's not a reality show, however the characters which Lifetime has created certainly feel authentic.\nViewers flocked to the show. As we said beforehand, it's the highest-rated series in the network's 25-year history. While that may be because there aren't many other scripted series on this network known for its made-for-TV movies, Army Wives had already been renewed for a fourth season before its third season has even started to air.\nWhere Is The Cast Now?\nDenise Sherwood Played By Catherine Bell\nDenise Sherwood, or \"Dee\" as her husband affectionately calls her, tackles her husband's deployments, in addition to her son Jeremy's anger issues which result in physical abuse while his father is overseas. Bell is perhaps best known for playing Cassandra \"Cassie\" Nightingale on the Hallmark channel in The Good Witch TV films. The Good Witch spawned its own TV series that's been on the air since 2015.\nColonel Joan Burton Played By Wendy Davis\nColonel Joan Burton begins the show after getting back from deployment and also struggling with PTSD As a result, she needs to receive treatment. The couple endures more deployment, pregnancy as well as unfaithfulness throughout the series.\nSince her Army Wives days Davis has since had a recurring role on Scandal. She has also acted in Castle, Criminal Minds, NCIS and Star Trek: Picard.\nRoxy LeBlanc Played By Sally Pressman\nRoxy LeBlanc is certainly a fish out of water when she marries Trevor LeBlanc after knowing him for four days. Roxy moves her two boys from different fathers to his military base. Although she's a little out of her element at first, she finds a bartending job and ultimately makes some friends.\nPressman went on to appear in Grey's Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, 13 Reasons Why, Good Girls in addition to Younger.\nPosted in: Reviews Filed under: Army Wives\n\u2190 Why We're Obsessed With Chicago Fire\nRemakes Of Shows Worth Watching \u2192","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Saatva Return Before Delivery\nAre you looking for a mattress that's able to give you solid comfort and the ability to move around the bed without a struggle? Are you searching for one that will give you the much-needed relief you need while lying flat on your stomach or back?\nIn this review, we'll take a detailed look at the Saatva Classic mattress, one of the top mattresses in America currently. We'll also conduct some tests on its performance to find out how it is able to adapt to a range of body types. Finally, in the end, we'll be attempting to answer the biggest question you might have in mind: Is Saatva Classic the best mattress for me? Saatva Classic the best mattress for you? Let's discover!\nOverview Saatva Return Before Delivery\nSaatva Classic Saatva Classic is a luxury bed mattress with a sturdy spring foundation that is built into. Ranked and celebrated as one of America's best-selling luxury beds online It is the name-brand product and brand of specialty bed and furniture company Saatva. Since its founding back in 2010, Saatva has produced a diverse range of mattresses for various requirements. The Saatva Classic offers high-grade support and relief, particularly in those susceptible to aches in the back and hips, shoulders and various other essential areas of the body.\nPrice range \u2013 912 dollars (lowest) to $2,396 (highest)\nFor those who typically sleep flat, especially on the back \u2013 this mattress has been widely recognized for providing incredible relief from back pain.\nFor sleepers who prefer to change positions often, the Saatva comes with features that offer great-quality pressure relief and bounce.\nFor those who are in hot weather The mattress's construction allows airflow to be distributed equally, instantly cooling off while they sleep.\nPeople who like firmer, sturdier and more durable beds.\nWho Shouldn't Use the Saatva Classic?\nPeople who want to feel the body-warming feel of their memory foam.\nThe people who prefer to sleep in extremely soft beds, because certain versions of Saatva Classic Saatva Classic may be too firm for their liking.\nIts Saatva Classic mattress comes in three comfort levels as well as two height options with no extra cost. It's available in six standard bed sizes, starting with the Twin bed for $912. Split-bed is only available for King-sized or California King beds. For more information we've listed all sizes available and the price each one is in the table below.\nSplit King 76\u2033 (38\u2033 for each section) 80\u2033 11.5\u2033 or 14.5\u2033 $2,396\nSplit California King \" 72\u2033 (36\u2033 for each section) 84\u2033 11.5\u2033 or 14.5\u2033 $2,396\nWhen you are looking for the perfect mattress, firmness and feel are only a few of the essential aspects. How does the Saatva Classic on your body? Do you think it is sturdy enough to support you if you rest in different positions? Or is it too stiff for you? We tried it out to test the possibilities!\nHow Firm is the Saatva Classic?\nThe Saatva Classic has three varying firmnesses: Plush Soft, Luxury Firm, and Firm. The answer to this question is based on your personal experience and the circumstances. But if you want to get firsthand information about the issue, we've put each one of three Saatva Classic versions to the test to see how it performs on our firmness scale, ranging from 1 to 10.\nWe started our test by sleeping on our Plush Soft mattress, which we've ranked three out of ten. The one thing that we've observed right off the start is that it feels so comfy sleeping sideways facing the pillow at the top. It was as if we were more likely to be in the body of Saatva Classic. Saatva Classic thanks to its more supple foundation than other foundations. However, this more flexible feel might not be a good fit for people who tend to lie flat, either on their stomachs or on their back. Saatva Return Before Delivery\nThen, we'll have the Firm variant that is a stark difference to Plus Soft in terms of the materials used and the rigidity. We barely felt our bodies sink into the mattress \u2013 the version surely is up to the hype! It is particularly beneficial for people who sleep on their stomachs or backs since it provides more visible support. Some users may take issues with sleeping on the side. But despite this, we give this rating a solid 8 out of 10.\nWhen we looked at this Luxury Firm version One of the first things we noticed was how soft it felt on the top of the pillow. The coils which keep the mattress in place are firmer, making this version of Saatva one that is mixed in construction. In this case, as we lay down flat on our backs and slept, we not only get the right amount of sinking and support, but also the sinking that we needed. It's the same for sleeping on the stomach, but how about side sleeping? Depending on the different personal experiences, it can be a bit of a hit or miss. On that note, we give our Luxury Firm mattress an 6.5 out of 10 firmness scale.\nApart from the test of firmness We've also analyzed how different body weights react sleeping on three different versions of the Saatva Classic. The first is The Plush Soft mattress. Made from a less sturdy coil foundation and an even more soft top layer, it's no wonder why it's been popular with light weights. People who weigh 130 to 200 pounds may appreciate the body hugging and sinking sensation of Plush Soft. Plush Soft, but heavyweights might have an issue. Saatva Return Before Delivery\nThe firm mattress could be too rigid for those that weigh under 175 pounds, however when you weigh way above that, this model is likely to be the best alternative. With a stronger foundation across the mattress, the Firm model offers much more reliable support when sleeping on your side or on the back especially with heavyweights. For those who weigh less, they may find lying on the bed a bit uncomfortable, with the mattress not having enough soft foam to remedy this.\nFor the Luxury Firm mattress, most of its attributes are sufficient to accommodate a variety of body weights. If you're either someone who weighs 130lbs or 250 pounds, you'll find a sense of ease and comfort while lying flat on your back when you sleep on this type of mattress. Stomach sleepers can benefit from this as well, although it might require additional support for heavier folks. For side sleepers it's generally suitable for most body weights however it's somewhat unpredictable.\nHow does this Saatva Classic fare in terms of performance? From motion transfers to durability and even how it behaves during intimacy, we dug further into the depths to test its capabilities. These are the results!\nThe Saatva is not the best in terms of motion isolation when as compared with other hybrid mattress. The foam layer built within is only one-half inch, yet the mattress is still able to absorb an impressive amount of motion thanks to its high-tech fiber fill. The two firmer options may not be effective in separating movements. The Plush Soft variant, however, fares a little better in comparison.\nIf you're in a relationship and you're looking forward to a mattress where one of you moves and the other doesn't be able to tell, the Saatva Classic may not be the best. As we tried it to see if it could transfer motion We noticed how one of our team slowly got distracted as soon as the other member began moving \u2013 from minor to moderate , and then high-intensity. Innerspring mattresses have been notorious for having poor motion absorption and the Saatva happens to be composed of innerspring elements. It's also a poor choice for a mattress, especially if you're a light sleeper who is easily disturbed.\nPressure relief refers to the mattress's capacity to relieve tension that is felt by the body's pressure points. We evaluated the Saatva's pressure relief levels by placing the map of pressure on the surface. Upon receiving the results, it's been discovered that the mattress in three different firmnesses, provides stellar pressure relief at the back. In terms of shoulder and hip points, this can vary depending on a variety of variables including the level of firmness the individual's situation, as well as the weight. Saatva Return Before Delivery\nThe Saatva Classic mattress may be plenty of things, but we can't deny that this is one of the most comfortable that has incredible cooling capabilities. The mattress is made up of two layers of spring coil, one of which is wrapped in a pocket. The structure allows air to circulate through the mattress, eventually cooling people who typically are hot to sleep on. It's not just capable of cooling temperatures, but the pillow top's cover is made of organic cotton, making the Saatva Classic more breathable than other hybrid beds made with memory foam. This is an ideal cooling mattress for those who live in tropical conditions and for couples that, if they sleep together, heat the bed more quickly than one person could.\nEdge support is a measure of the strength of those edges can support. In the case of Saatva Classic, the edge support is extremely strong. Saatva Classic, the edges hold up very remarkably. Upon testing, we ruled that they were noticeably robust enough to permit people to sleep near the edges without worrying much about sagging, sinkage, and falling off the mattress. This is because of the foam encasement which is secured around the coil layers in the mattress. The strength of the mattress can vary based on the firmness level that are present in the Saatva. Couples, for example, will not feel too much sagging on the Firm and Luxury Firm options but may feel a certain degree of discomfort at the edges of Plush Soft. Plush Soft. Additionally, those who are heavier will feel more sinkage than lightweight ones.\nIn the event that you or your companion have a sexually active relationship, it's crucial to find an appropriate mattress that will respond with ease when having intimate moments. That's where Saatva Classic comes in, offering a great combination of both the ability to respond and friction, making it designed for a variety of sexual activities. The pillow top is shaped to the bodies in close to the bed's surface, while the innerspring foundation causes the bed to be bouncy enough to permit movement but not loud enough to create the irritating noise of squeaking. The strong edge support allows couples to take full advantage of the whole area of Saatva. While this Plush Soft comfort level may provide a little sexual traction, it felt quite lacking when compared to its more rigid counterparts.\nThe Saatva Classic is made out of synthetic foam. However, what sets it apart from others is how it doesn't take up much part of the mattress. It doesn't smell as unpleasant upon delivery and purchase. When we received the Saatva mattresses for testing we noticed that instead of the standard boxes of cardboard, delivery personnel arrived to put up the bed for us. We also inspected whether it emits less of the usual 'new mattress smell' in comparison to similar mattresses and it went away quickly \u2013 this may be due to the way the mattress was made. Saatva Return Before Delivery\nThe Saatva has been found to be more comfortable in movement than other hybrid mattresses, due to the unique combination of innerspring and polyfoam employed as the foundation for its structure. The bed is fixed against the physique of the person as they lay on the surface, but regains its original shape quickly after they have left the bed. To contrast, mattresses that have a memory foam top adhere to the body in the same way as usual, but the feeling of being 'trapped in a comfortable environment is much more apparent which makes it difficult for the user to remove themselves.\nInnerspring beds have made an unpopular image over the years due to their annoying sounds that get more pronounced with continued use. The Saatva Classic, on the other hand, doesn't fully fit into this category. As we mentioned before, the mattress's inner structure contains the encasement of foam wrapped around the coil systems. Not only does it provide solid support around the edges, but also muffles out the noise coils typically create. When we tried out shifting places and moving around the mattress, we noticed that less noise and squeaking were generated. However, as the Saatva mattress rests on coils you shouldn't expect the no-noise capabilities to last for long.\nNow that we managed to conduct all tests of performance with the Saatva Classic mattress, the most important thing to think about is these questions: \"How durable is the Saatva? How long will it be able for to stand the test of time?\" Considering the high-grade quality of the material and structure and how well it performs when it comes to comfort, relief and motion as well, the Saatva is expected to be sturdy enough to last up to about 7-10 years.\nThe Saatva Classic is composed of at least four layers each of which has unique abilities. However, when they're taken together, they make an extremely durable, strong as well as bouncy and solid hybrid mattress that is suitable for any purpose. Let's have a closer look at the different components and layers that comprise the Saatva mattress.\nThe first layer is three inches of thick Euro pillow top, which is used to serve as the bed's sleep surface. It's made up of a mix of fiberfill, polyfoam and Dacron to create an incredibly comfortable and cushioned area for you to lay down on. In both Plush Soft and Luxury Firm models there is a 1.25-inch layer of soft polyfoam has been used, and the Firm option makes use of 1.5\u2033 worth of firm polyfoam.\nThe top is quilted using a specially-made Lumbar Zone quilting design that is designed to offer much-needed pressure relief for the back and hips. Organic cotton fabric is used to protect the pillow's surface. Not only is it soft and breathable, it also comes with antibacterial qualities.\nIn all three levels of firmness, an inch-thick support foam is placed under the first layer, creating a better support for the lumbar region. This special foam is composed of the following: more than half of the layer is made of polyfoam, while the rest is composed out of memory foam. It is placed strategically along the center of the mattress. This allows the back to be more aligned, without creating any discomfort that might arise. Saatva Return Before Delivery\nThe Saatva's third layer is a support layer, and additionally, another of the coils that comprise the mattress. The 4-inch-thick, individually foam-wrapped micro coils is responsive enough to bind to various body shapes and ever-changing movements. It also facilitates breezy air circulation, keeping the sleeper cooled and away from becoming too hot.\nThe underlying structure of all three layers is a foundation of durable steel hourglass coils that are underneath them. Customers can choose between two heights that are 4 inches for mattresses that measure 11.5\u2033 or 7-inch layers for 14.5\u2033 beds. These core coils aid the coils with pockets of foam to create an enhanced airflow system throughout the Saatva and the high-quality components are strong enough to withstand the weight of heavier people and other objects. Wrapped around is a thick foam perimeter encasement.\nSaatva Classic mattress Saatva Classic mattress is covered by a lifetime guarantee. In the first two years the Saatva company will replace mattresses with defects that are covered by the guidelines for terms and conditions. In the next time, beginning in the third year, they will shoulder repairs and mattress refurbishments, and the customer will then shoulder the cost of transportation, which is $149.\nIn addition to the lifetime warranty, the Saatva also comes with the option of a trial sleep for an extended period of 365 nights or a full year. This is a feature that is unique from other mattress manufacturers, Saatva lets customers determine whether it's the best fit for them. The trial period for sleep starts when the bed is delivered and all refunds and returns are accepted during this time.\nThe Saatva Classic is available to purchase and ship in the mainland United States, as well as certain selected territories in Canada. Free in-home delivery is available exclusively within US territory, where white-glove professionals bring the new mattress into the homes of customers and then set it up for them. Customers can also choose to have their mattress replaced with an alternative.\nSaatva's return-and-refund policy is included when you purchase Saatva's mattress. Saatva mattress. If you're in any way unhappy with the quality of the product , or if you discover any of the concerning defects in the product, you can get a refund or a reimbursement in exchange for an alternative mattress. It's possible to get it for only $99 in transportation costs, however that's only valid for one year of the trial period. Saatva Return Before Delivery\nYou may purchase the Saatva Classic mattress, and select between a variety of heights, comfort levels and sizes only at Saatva's official online store. If you'd like to test the Saatva mattress and experience it for yourself, you may visit the showroom of the company at New York.\nIn addition to the standard innerspring mattress in addition, Saatva also makes Saatva company makes various types of mattresses, each designed to satisfy a wide range of personal requirements. If the thought of a bed made of springs doesn't excite you then why not check out Saatva's other mattress brands instead?\nLoom & Leaf is the Saatva-owned brand specializing in mattresses made of all foam\nIt doesn't have coils for the structure that is its foundation \u2013 instead, it relies on foam-based layers that are fully made, making it ideal for side sleepers\nZenhaven is a different Saatva brand that is focused on offering sleepers effective back, hip, and joint relief with all-latex luxurious mattresses\nIt's constructed using a fully natural Talalay latex material, as well as other natural fibers that have antimicrobial properties\nIt has two sides that can be flipped over and used on the sides \u2013 Luxury Plush as well as Gentle Firm\nNow that we provided everything you required to learn concerning the Saatva Classic mattress, let's answer this important question: is this is the right one for you?\nThe answer, of course, is highly subjective however, in terms of providing all the features that you could like in a mattress the Saatva has all of the most desirable areas. It is not only excellent in offering exceptional pressure relief for those who sleep flat and those who usually change positions without the sinking feeling. Furthermore, you have the option to choose between three different levels of firmness according to what you prefer most.\nThe only issue, however, is that it lacks motion isolation, which can be a problem for those who prefer not to be interrupted. However, the luxury products and services \u2013 for a a great-value price \u2013 are enough to earn Saatva Classic as a Saatva Classic a solid 4.5 out of 5 stars!\nFAQ Saatva Return Before Delivery\nWhat is the place where Saatva Classic mattresses made?\nThe Saatva Classic and other mattresses designed by Saatva are manufactured by the Saatva company are made from the United States, where they have 19 factories as well as 140 fulfillment centers across the nation.\nIs Saatva Classic a good mattress? Saatva Classic a good mattress?\nIt's true, but not quite. The Saatva Mattress is perfect for those suffering from recurring hip and back pains due to its specially-designed lumbar zones to ensure your body stays well-balanced and at ease. This may also be perfect for couples who would like to get the most benefit of their mattress, however there are some disadvantages regarding motion transfer. Our opinion is that, in the end this Saatva mattress is a good choice for all aspects, which makes it a solid choice.\nDo I require an extra box spring bed frame to use with Saatva Classic? Saatva Classic?\nYou don't necessarily have to buy a box spring to give the Saatva an additional benefit. If you have a different mattress foundation that isn't that of the spring box, keep in mind that many of them may not be equipped to offer an airy, level and comfortable full-body support better than frame for box springs.\nAre the Saatva Classic an ideal mattress for sleepers on the side?\nDepending on how firm the mattress's comfort is, along with different personal circumstances, the answer could be different. But if you want to know how comfortable it is, the Saatva Classic is for side sleepers, check the Plush Soft option. Unlike the other two models that are firm, the plush mattress is flexible and comfy enough to support side sleepers, especially with a lighter or average weight. Saatva Return Before Delivery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nashville government lobbyists also support pro-voucher group, councilman calls it 'ridiculous'\n\"They should not be lobbying in direct opposition to the city,\" Councilman Dave Rosenberg said.\nNashville government lobbyists also support pro-voucher group, councilman calls it 'ridiculous' \"They should not be lobbying in direct opposition to the city,\" Councilman Dave Rosenberg said. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2019\/04\/09\/nashville-government-lobbyists-also-work-pro-voucher-group-adams-reese-esa-dave-rosenberg-bill-lee\/3376783002\/\nAdam Tamburin, Nashville Tennessean Published 4:57 p.m. CT April 9, 2019 | Updated 5:03 p.m. CT April 9, 2019\nNashville's lobbying firm is coming under fire from the Metro Council because it also advocates for school vouchers \u2014 an issue one councilman says puts the lobbyists at odds with the city's interests.\nAccording to state records, Adams & Reese managing partner Gif Thornton and three other firm employees are registered to represent both Nashville city government and a prominent pro-voucher group TennesseeCAN, once known as StudentsFirst Tennessee.\nCouncilman Dave Rosenberg said the city hamstrung itself by hiring lobbyists that can't represent the city's opposition to vouchers, particularly because the issue has dominated the legislative session this year.\n\"That's something that they should be lobbying against on our behalf,\" Rosenberg said. \"At least they should not be lobbying in direct opposition to the city.\"\nDave Rosenberg (Photo: Submitted)\nConsequently, Rosenberg wants to make the conflict illegal.\nRosenberg's newly filed legislation would bar the city from paying a lobbying firm that also supports efforts to divert money away from public schools, as voucher programs generally do. It would apply to future negotiations and contracts, not retroactively.\nThe new city bill is the latest way local officials have put pressure on city's prominent and influential lobbying firm, which has a $1.1 million five-year contract to represent Nashville interests in at the statehouse and before the federal government.\nState lawmakers representing the Nashville area criticized Adams & Reese earlier this year for not aggressively defending the city's new police oversight board from legislation that would remove its subpoena power.\nIn a statement, Mayor David Briley's spokesman Thomas Mulgrew said the mayor's office was reviewing Rosenberg's legislation.\nHelp us power more stories like this one. Become a subscriber.\nMulgrew said \"vouchers were not discussed during contract negotiations with Adams & Reese,\" but he added that the mayor continued to support the firm.\n\"Mayor Briley believes Adams & Reese is an effective advocate for Nashville at the state legislature and appreciates the work they've done and continue to do on behalf of the city,\" Mulgrew said.\nThornton declined to respond to questions about how Adams & Reese handles conflicts of interests, and deferred to the mayor's office.\nSchool vouchers have become a potent issue in Tennessee politics\nThe 111th Tennessee General Assembly in session in 2019\nGov. Bill Lee gives his first State of the State address before a joint session of the Tennessee General Assembly inside the House chambers at the state Capitol in Nashville on Monday, March 4, 2019. Shelley Mays \/ The Tennessean\nGov. Bill Lee exits his first State of the State address before a joint session of the Tennessee General Assembly inside the House chambers at the state Capitol in Nashville on Monday, March 4, 2019. Shelley Mays \/ The Tennessean\nLawmakers applaud Gov. Bill Lee during his first State of the State address before a joint session of the Tennessee General Assembly inside the House chambers at the state Capitol in Nashville on Monday, March 4, 2019. Shelley Mays \/ The Tennessean\nClaire Fox, 4, left, hides behind her mother Jessica as her husband Sean speaks with Tennessee State Senator Rusty Crowe, R-Johnson City, during Disability Day on the Hill Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Families and advocates of people with disabilities in Tennessee met with lawmakers to express concerns and the needs of the disabled in the state. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nHouse Republican Cameron Sexton,left, and others lawmakers hold press conference inside the Supreme Court chambers of the state Capitol in Nashville on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2019 regarding health care. Shelley Mays, \/Tennessean\nNashville Mayor David Briley arrives to hear Gov. Bill Lee give his first State of the State address before a joint session of the Tennessee General Assembly inside the House chambers at the state Capitol in Nashville on Monday, March 4, 2019. Shelley Mays \/ The Tennessean\nGlen Casada, R-Franklin, talks with Former Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, before the House of Representatives opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nLegislative member Yusuf Hakeem, D-District 28, Sandra Charles, and Addison Bone have their photograph taken before the start of the opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nLegislative members and their families pray during the House of Representatives opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nOutgoing House Speaker Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, left, receives a kiss from newly elected House Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin, after Harrell handed him the gavel on the opening day of the 111th General Assembly Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nLegislative members are swore in on the opening day of the 111th General Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nLegislative members convene in the House of Representatives chamber during 111th General Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nFormer House Speaker Beth Harwell cries as she receives a standing ovation from her colleagues and newly elected House Speaker Glen Casada during the opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville. Harwell made history eight years ago as the state's first female speaker of the House. Mark Zaleski\/For The Tennessean\nMadelyn Hicks, 3, daughter of legislative member, Gary Hick, plays with her cell phone before the start of the House of Representatives opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nLegislative members stand with their families as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the House of Representatives opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nGlen Casada, R-Franklin, is greeted as he walks to the podium after being elected as House Speaker during the 111th General Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nHouse Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin, left, is sworn in by Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeff Bivins, second from right, on the opening day of the 111th General Assembly Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Holding the Bible for Casada is his mother, Karen, and standing to far right is his his father, Dick Casada. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nNewly elected House Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin, hugs his parents Karen, left, Dick, after being sworn in by Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeff Bivins on the opening day of the 111th General Assembly Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nNewly elected House Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin, speaks after being sworn in on the opening day of the 111th General Assembly on Jan. 8, 2019. Mark Zaleski\/For The Tennessean\nFlowers for Former Speaker of the House Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, rest on a bench during the House of Representatives opening day of the 111th General Assembly, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nOutgoing House Speaker Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, left, hands the gavel over to newly elected House Speaker Glen Casada, R-Franklin, on the opening day of the 111th General Assembly Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. Mark Zaleski\/ For the Tennessean\nVoucher programs use public money to pay for students to attend private schools. That money comes from the funding public schools would get to educate the same students.\nTennesseeCAN has lobbied for vouchers for years. The effort gained new traction in 2019 after Gov. Bill Lee announced his own voucher-type plan that won key votes of support.\nVouchers have united the otherwise fractured Metro Nashville Public Schools board. The board has opposed vouchers for years, saying they pull money away from public schools that already are struggling.\nIn February, just before Lee announced a new push for vouchers in Tennessee, board members unanimously approved an anti-vouchers resolution.\nLee's controversial plan would create education savings accounts for eligible students in Nashville and other districts with three or more schools in the bottom 10 percent according to state performance metrics.\nUnder the plan, parents could use the education savings accounts to attend private school or cover other education-related expenses.\nGov. Bill Lee gives his first State of the State address before a joint session of the Tennessee General Assembly on March 4, 2019, inside the House chambers at the state Capitol. (Photo: Shelley Mays \/ The Tennessean)\nPart of Lee's plan would include a separate grant program that would temporarily replace some of the money pulled from public schools.\nWhile similar proposals have stalled in recent years, the governor's latest proposal has successfully cleared early hurdles at the Tennessee General Assembly.\nBreaking news, at your fingertips. Download our free app today.\nSeparately, Metro Nashville Public Schools partnered with multiple organizations that lobby against vouchers. Briley's spokesman said the mayor \"supports the organizations that lobby on behalf of MNPS against the state voucher legislation.\"\nBut Rosenberg said the newfound momentum for a voucher-type program underscores the need for more vocal advocates for the city's position.\n\"We need all the opportunities we can find to inform legislators about the damage this would do,\" Rosenberg said. \"It's ridiculous that we don't have anybody to lobby for us on one of the most important pieces of legislation up there this year.\"\nAdams & Reese is influential, but has faced scrutiny\nAdams & Reese is one of the most influential law firms in the city. The firm also provides legal counsel to the Metro Health and Educational Facilities Board and the Airport Authority, and lobbies on behalf of the airport.\nBut the firm's clout hasn't shielded it from scrutiny.\nThe law firm faced criticism last year when a partner in its Memphis office wrote a letter asking District Attorney General Glenn Funk to recuse himself from the criminal investigation into former Mayor Megan Barry, just after the city boosted the payout for Adams & Reese.\nEarlier reporting on bond deals: Charter school bond deals criticized over transparency, academics\nThat attorney, Lucian Pera, was president of the Tennessee Bar Association at the time and had worked with the American Bar Association on a revision of model rules of professional conduct for lawyers.\nCouncil members also questioned the health and education board in recent years because it approved tax-free bond deals for charter school construction. Rosenberg and others said those deals contradicted the city's position on charter school facilities.\nCouncilman Bob Mendes recently wrote about the health and education board's lack of transparency and its decades-long relationship with Adams & Reese and its predecessor law firms.\nGet the headlines you care about most.Discover our slate of newsletters.\nNate Rau contributed to this report.\nReach Adam Tamburin at 615-726-5986 and atamburin@tennessean.com. Follow him on Twitter @tamburintweets.\nRead or Share this story: https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/2019\/04\/09\/nashville-government-lobbyists-also-work-pro-voucher-group-adams-reese-esa-dave-rosenberg-bill-lee\/3376783002\/\nDickson woman's body found at river marina, officials say\nHow Ford transmission defects impacted one Hendersonville woman\n$198 million winning Powerball ticket sold in Hendersonville\n220K kids faced loss of TennCare due to paperwork | Investigation\nWhere Nashville's leading mayoral candidates stand on education\nHurricane Barry to bring rain, flooding to Nashville","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Discover the spark for science at Queensland Museum\nYoung scientist don't have to wait any longer to wait to explore their curiosity at SparkLab, Sciencentre at Queensland Museum. The brand new interactive exhibition is now open to all those curious! The new multi-million dollar interactive gallery will allow visitors to unleash their inner scientist through 40 interactive exhibitions across three zones.\nMinister for Science and Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch said this was the first major renovation to the Sciencentre since it opened at Queensland Museum in 2004.\n\"The new space will showcase hands-on interactive STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) exhibits to inspire generations,\" Minister Enoch said.\n\"The State Government investment of $9.4 million to redevelop the space will help put our state at the forefront of STEM learning, ensuring our young people are well positioned to capitalise on the jobs of the future, and further supports our Advance Queensland initiative.\"\n\"This is a great outcome for Queensland and the Museum, which continues to capture people's imaginations as one of the most visited museum networks in Australia.\"\n\"I know families, science enthusiasts and teachers across Queensland will be delighted to experience SparkLab, and I am sure it will inspire many students to study STEM subjects and go on to have exciting careers.\"\nSparkLab offers an immersive experience for young and old with high-energy science theatre shows, a Maker Space that will allow you to design and make creative solutions to challenges and a Science Bar where visitors can get up close to experiments. SparkLab has been designed to allow visitors to explore our world and how it works using the same skills that scientists, engineers and mathematicians use every day.\nQueensland Museum Network Acting CEO and Director Dr Jim Thompson said visitors will delight in the redeveloped space that is centred on inquiry-based learning.\n\"SparkLab offers brand new world-class interactive STEM experiences to visitors and gives them the opportunity to be a scientist by asking questions, testing ideas and finding creative ways of solving everyday problems,\" Dr Thompson said.\n\"STEM is all around us and relevant in everything that we do and we hope visitors to SparkLab will be curious and adventurous to discover how these skills enrich and impact their lives.\"\n\"I'd like to thank our visitors and members for their support and patience over the past several months and we look forward to welcoming everyone when we open.\"\nSparkLab allows you to explore 40 exhibits in three zones:\nOur world and how it works : 10 interactive exhibits about the Earth, space, and states of matter. Our planet is part of a larger universe and our relationship with our nearest celestial neighbours impacts our world and our daily lives. This zone will explore matter, how it moves, behaves and changes, which helps us to uncover how the world around us works.\nHow do we perceive our world? With 11 interactive exhibits in this space, you will look at if we all perceive our world in the same way. Our sense of hearing and our sense of sight are two of the ways we gather information about our world. In this space visitors can explore and understand how the science of sound and light can help us question, challenge, test and change how we perceive our world. Compare your perception to other people and also, other animals!\nHow can we change our world? What does this change do? 19 interactive exhibits will help you to learn even more. Explore and manipulate forces, transform and transmit energy and test out structures as you imagine the possibilities. Every tool, machine or structure in our world started as an idea from someone's imagination with the inspiration for design often found in nature.\nThe new spaces allow for flexible facilitated learning experiences; new science shows, a science bar featuring hands on experiments and demonstrations, and a maker space that gives visitors the opportunity to design, make, test and evaluate their creations in response to a 'big question' or challenge.\nAlong with the new exhibits, old favourites such as Thongophone and Touch the Lightning will return.\nAs plans for SparkLab continue, Dr Thompson said they are also exploring ways to extend the Sciencentre experience to other campuses in the network, including Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba, The Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich and Museum of Tropical Queensland in Townsville.\n\"Over the coming months we will be working towards extending the science gallery concepts to our regional campuses that will include some favourite exhibits from the original Sciencentre,\" Dr Thompson said.\n\"Energy Queensland has come on board as a partner to help us redevelop our science spaces at The Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich and at Cobb+Co Museum in Toowoomba.\"\nEnergy Queensland CEO David Smales said the company and its subsidiaries Energex and Ergon Energy had been very proud partners of the Queensland Museum for more than a decade and were looking forward to supporting another education program.\n\"The Queensland Museum has continuously provided locals and visitors to this state with some of the most amazing exhibitions that continue to open our eyes up to the wonders of science,\" Mr Smales said.\n\"We're always proud to support the educational work of Queensland Museum encouraging youngsters' involvement in science, and it's these students who may one day help Energy Queensland and our communities to develop new energy solutions for the future.\"\nCome in today and ignite your spark at SpakLab Sciencentre! SparkLab is open and ready to explore, get your tickets here and unleash your inner scientist.\nQueensland Museum partnered with Science Museum London, to deliver SparkLab, based on the group's popular Wonderlab galleries.\nPrevious PostFlying antennaeNext PostDaily discoveries are coming to you","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Boskernovel \u2013 Chapter 1155 tin legal suggest-p3\nThriven and thronovel fiction \u2013 Chapter 1155 mine number suggest-p3\nChapter 1155 tooth rich\nHis thundering speech shocked Farrina.\nHer sound, in the end, was hardly over a whisper.\n\"If perhaps Woman Alice, Girl Eleanor and Woman Natalie could see whatever we have now\u2026\"\nShe hoped they had not attained a parting in the means just because a variety of viewpoints.\n\"She's the share picture of them,\" Betty stated as she walked to Zooey and leaned up against the porthole. \"If she have been delivered 400 a long time before, and when she have been a witch, then throughout the last Union achieving\u2026\"\nThe words of California king Roland gradually originated drifting away from Kajen's remembrances.\n\"I discuss much more with Emperor Roland,\" Zooey replied indifferently.\nNow she got her frustration on Farrina.\nConsiderably to his consternation, he got not alone been told a tale about appreciate and redemption but additionally mastered a key, appalling good reputation for the chapel.\nthe medicinal plants of the philippines\nConsiderably to his consternation, he got not merely listened to a story about love and redemption but additionally figured out a key, appalling past of the chapel.\nThe cathedral was the young from the Union?\nNow she required her rage on Farrina.\nthe decameron of giovanni boccaccio summary\n\"You need to understand what 'based on' implies.\"\nJoe grabbed her by the arm and reported feverishly, \"I did so mainly because I want to be around you! Attach the Superior Pontiff! Screw the Struggle of Divine Will!\"\nWithout stable and conclusive proof, three of the Chiefs would inevitably make exact same option if everything experienced started over again.\n\"Yeah, we need to, but it doesn't seem like some thing you should say.\" Zooey paused for a moment and claimed, \"Cling on\u2026 you're just gloating over her misfortune, aren't you?\"\n\"Without a doubt,\" Zooey mentioned using a sigh. \"She does appear to be them.\"\nShe resembled a small grouping of survived Union witches going through an doubtful and disappointing long term.\nRegardless if he was introduced the choices to back out, he would not accomplish this.\nOn that assembly which had confirmed their destiny, Alice had completely squashed Natalia, earning the assist of the excellent majority. At the end of the reaching, individuals on the floor acquired put in place a chant of \"the human competition will perpetuate. Prolonged exist the witches\", together with their voices reverberated throughout the hall. In fact, even some Natalia's supporters obtained end up hesitant eventually, uncertain regardless of whether their choice would lead them to the sunshine following the tunnel. Zooey, at the moment, could not a single thing for that Queen of Sunchaser but stomped her toes in agitation.\n\"Permit me to finis.h.!.+,\" Joe talked over her. He has been looking forward to this opportunity to put his heart and soul out for days on end. He got once idea he would have not had the opportunity accomplish that. Now, he simply could not allow this to opportunity slide through his fingers once again. \"When you were taken, I tried each and every possible suggests to come to your save. It experienced absolutely nothing with regards to the way forward for Hermes, due to the fact I do know the globe wouldn't be any different without having the church. All I needed is you\u2026 I don't want to shed you\u2026 We need you!\"\n\"Shouldn't men and women are concerned about the other?\"\nMerely a guy using a center of stainless steel was effective at supporting all people finish that darker instances when the plan of your Union was tottering.\nIt had been Kajen Fels' newbie to pry into others' privacy. However he understood it was actually not so suitable, the temptation was just too fantastic to face up to. This was similar to a reality clearly show where famous actors doc.you.mented unscripted actual-daily life circumstances. He, on the other hand, was obviously a audience plus recorder with the reveal.\nJoe grasped her hand, a peek of despair on his experience and bl.you.s.tered, \"I rescued you not for the d.a.m.n church!\"\nConsiderably to his consternation, he possessed not alone been told a narrative about really like and redemption but will also figured out a secret, appalling reputation of the church.\nFarrina did not look like a distinct personal, but a selected group.\n\"I want to finis.h.!.+,\" Joe talked over her. He have been anticipating this chance to fill his coronary heart out for too long. He obtained once thinking he would have never had the opportunity do this. Now, he simply could not allow this to prospect fall through his fingertips once again. \"After you have been shot, I tried each probable signifies to come to your save. It acquired nothing at all regarding the way forward for Hermes, simply because I do know the globe wouldn't be any different without having the chapel. All I want is basically that you\u2026 I don't want to reduce you\u2026 I need you!\"\nBetty, who had been awaiting her for the railing, handled Zooey as she originated away from the cabin.\nThe quill in Kajen's palm snapped.\nRoentgen peeped throughout the doorstep restlessly, as though worrying some guards would suddenly burst open in, organize a burlap sack over her travel and dump her in to the sea.\n\"She would definitely service Woman Alice rather than us,\" Zooey furnished Betty's response. \"That's the reason why me angry.\"\nWhat she obtained wished to say most badly was \"if perhaps they can place within just a little longer\u2026\"\n\"Our job is to recover the ancient value and save the seized believer. If she's still living or otherwise not, that's not any of our own organization,\" Zooey reported as she ended and narrowed her vision at Betty. \"Speaking of you\u2026 considering that when do you set out to are concerned about a mortal?\"\nJoe grabbed her from the arm and mentioned feverishly, \"I did so since I want to be around you! Screw the Superior Pontiff! Attach the Combat of Divine Will!\"\n\"Yeah, we need to, but it surely doesn't could be seen as some thing you might say.\" Zooey paused for a second and said, \"Hang on\u2026 you're just gloating over her misfortune, aren't you?\"\nFarrina failed to resemble a selected particular, but a selected population group.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jennifer Lori Burleigh1\nJennifer Lori Burleigh was born in 1975.1 She is the daughter of Robin Richard Burleigh and Joanne Irene Theining.1\n[S137] Colin J. Burleigh, The Burleigh Family Descendants: 1784-1984 (50 Cunliffe Street, Wellington: author, 1984), page H. Hereinafter cited as The Burleigh Family Descendants.\nAlice Rose Burleigh1\nAlice Rose Burleigh was born in 1978.1 She is the daughter of Robin Richard Burleigh and Joanne Irene Theining.1\nFrancine Barbara Burleigh1\nFrancine Barbara Burleigh was born in 1980.1 She is the daughter of Robin Richard Burleigh and Joanne Irene Theining.1\nHenry Bennison1\nHenry Bennison was born circa 1860. He married Maria Sargeant on 25 December 1883 at Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaG.1,2\nChildren of Henry Bennison and Maria Sargeant\nHenry Bennison1 b. 1885\nEric Mervyn Bennison1 b. 1887\nRichard Leslie Bennison+1 b. 1890, d. 27 Jan 1929\n[S3038] Archives Office of Tasmania, online http:\/\/pioneers.archives.tas.gov.au. Hereinafter cited as Archives Office of Tasmania.\n[S3072] Henry Bennison, International Genealogical Index (IGI) (unknown repository address: unknown repository, 25 Dec 1883).\nMaria Sargeant1\nMaria Sargeant married Henry Bennison on 25 December 1883 at Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaG.1,2\nFrom 25 December 1883, her married name became Bennison.1\nChildren of Maria Sargeant and Henry Bennison\nHenry Bennison was born in 1885 at Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaG.1 He was the son of Henry Bennison and Maria Sargeant.1\nEric Mervyn Bennison1\nEric Mervyn Bennison was born in 1887 at Hobart, Tasmania, AustraliaG.1 He was the son of Henry Bennison and Maria Sargeant.1\nKendall Millar1\nM, #289838, b. 9 March 1995\nKendall Millar was born on 9 March 1995.1 He is the son of Graeme Millar and Deborah Jane Wilson.1\n[S2838] Interview with Pauline Lundy (15 Orkney Street, Invercargill), by Darryl Lundy, 19 October 1995. Darryl Roger Lundy (128 Heke Street, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand).\nRobert Burleigh1\nM, #289839, b. 1855, d. 8 April 1918\nRobert Burleigh was born in 1855 at Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, ScotlandG.1 He married Sarah Pennington, daughter of William Pennington and Sarah Heath, in 1884 at Home of William Pennington, Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.1 He died on 8 April 1918 at Milton, Otago, New ZealandG, handling dangerously aged explosives, which blew up.2\nRobert immigrated to New ZealandG, arriving on 1874.3 He was a farm labourer after 1874 at Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.3 He was a farm labourer after 1884 at Central Otago, New ZealandG.4 He was (an unknown value) after 1884 at Kaitangata, Otago, New ZealandG.3 He was a coal miner in 1890 at Kaitangata, Otago, New ZealandG.5 He and Sarah Pennington were a boarding house owner from 1910 to 1913 at Kaitangata, Otago, New ZealandG.2 He and Sarah Pennington were a hotel keeper from 1914 to 1918 at Milton Hotel, Union Street, Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.2\nChildren of Robert Burleigh and Sarah Pennington\nSarah Ann Burleigh+1 b. 1 Dec 1884, d. 1947\nRichard Burleigh+1 b. 1886, d. 1960\nEmma Isobella May Burleigh+1 b. 1888\nMary Burleigh1 b. 18 Aug 1891, d. 19 Oct 1891\nWilliam Burleigh1 b. 13 Jun 1892, d. 16 Jun 1892\nRebecki Burleigh1 b. 13 Jun 1892, d. 15 Jun 1892\nJennie Mabel Burleigh1 b. 19 Sep 1895, d. 22 Dec 1902\nRobert George Burleigh+1 b. 11 Jun 1899, d. Feb 1963\nJohn Francis Burleigh+1 b. 22 Aug 1903\n[S137] Colin J. Burleigh, The Burleigh Family Descendants: 1784-1984 (50 Cunliffe Street, Wellington: author, 1984), Page A. Hereinafter cited as The Burleigh Family Descendants.\n[S137] Colin J. Burleigh, The Burleigh Family Descendants, Page 14.\n[S137] Colin J. Burleigh, The Burleigh Family Descendants, Page 9.\nSarah Pennington1\nF, #289840, b. 8 June 1865, d. 1941\nSarah Pennington was born on 8 June 1865 at Borghy Street, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, EnglandG.2 She was the daughter of William Pennington and Sarah Heath.2 She married Robert Burleigh in 1884 at Home of William Pennington, Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.1 She died in 1941 at Riverton, Southland, New ZealandG.3 She was buried in 1941 at Fairfax Cemetery, Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.3\nSarah, William, Emma, George and Henry immigrated with his parents to Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New ZealandG, on the ship Lady Jocelyn, arriving 6 November 1873.2 She was a pottery works assistant with the Milton Pottery Works before 1884 at Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.4 From 1884, her married name became Burleigh.1 She and Robert Burleigh were a boarding house owner from 1910 to 1913 at Kaitangata, Otago, New ZealandG.5 She and Robert Burleigh were a hotel keeper from 1914 to 1918 at Milton Hotel, Union Street, Milton, Otago, New ZealandG.5 She was a boarding house owner from 1920 to 1935 at Dunedin, New ZealandG.3\nChildren of Sarah Pennington and Robert Burleigh","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Video Podcasts Vinnie Duber Standings Stats Schedule rotoworld golf NBCS-Logo\nTorri Stuckey: Moving from suicide note to self-help books\nFitzgerald on Trevor Siemian returning to Northwestern\nCollins: 'It's about putting the pieces together'\nLovie on returning to Tampa to face USF\nLovie Smith on freshmen getting playing time for Illini\nFitz on state of Cats after blowout loss to Duke\nSTL: Is Michigan the class of the Big Ten?\nNorthwestern's Jackson, Thorson rivals turned friends\nBig Ten Subscribe:\nNorthwestern tries late comeback but drops conference opener to Wisconsin\nBy Vinnie Duber September 30, 2017 2:45 PM\nIf the preseason prognostications are to be believed, Wisconsin should run away with the Big Ten West.\nOne game in, the Badgers are on their way.\nNorthwestern put up a fight, leading at halftime and even staging a late comeback effort, but a mostly dominating performance by Wisconsin in the second half meant an improvement to 4-0 and a win in the conference opener for the team from Madison.\nThe Wildcats took the ball away three times in the first half and got a lengthy touchdown drive to carry a 10-7 lead into halftime. But it was almost entirely Badgers after the break, a near-perfect third quarter highlighted by an unrelenting pass rush and a pair of touchdowns.\nAdding a field goal and a pick six in the fourth quarter, Wisconsin briefly sent this one into blowout territory. But Clayton Thorson threw a pair of touchdown passes in the final five minutes to bring it to a one-score game. Northwestern even got the ball back with a little more than a minute remaining, but the attempt at a miracle comeback was thwarted when Thorson was sacked in the end zone for a game-ending safety.\nNorthwestern made it interesting late, but Bucky buckled down.@DcotaDixon1 sealed the @BadgerFootball win with this safety: pic.twitter.com\/WSbLmsODE6\n\u2014 Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) September 30, 2017\nWisconsin's defense stepped up big time after halftime and brought incredible pressure on Thorson, finishing with eight sacks on the afternoon. The Badgers also held the Cats to a paltry 25 rushing yards, the same total that went to star running back Justin Jackson, who carried the ball only nine times.\nMeanwhile, Alex Hornibrook rebounded from a bit of a shaky start. After completing 18 of his 19 passes in the Badgers' previous game, Hornibrook threw two interceptions in the first half but had a better second half, throwing a touchdown pass in the third quarter. Running back Jonathan Taylor had two touchdown carries on the day.\nDespite Thorson's late drives, Wisconsin continues to look like the kind of team that can run over the division and pile up a ton of wins this season. Northwestern's 14 fourth-quarter points were the first Wisconsin's defense allowed in the second half this season, but it was still a very impressive performance from that side of the ball.\nThe Badgers have outscored their opponents 163-54 in their four wins this season.\nNorthwestern dropped to 2-2 on the season with the loss and is still struggling to put together much offensive consistency. The offensive line has a lot to do with that, as exhibited by Wisconsin's sack total and the meager rushing total. Jackson has now been effectively silenced in two of the Cats' four games this season, something that cannot happen if Northwestern expects to win games.\nAnd, as Pat Fitzgerald pointed out after the game, only scoring three points off those three first-half turnovers was a huge development.\nNorthwestern gets no time to rest, as a brutal 1-2 punch to start conference play continues next weekend with another top-10 team, Penn State, in Evanston.\nTags: Big Ten football, Northwestern Wildcats, Wisconsin Badgers\nNorthwestern running back Jeremy Larkin diagnosed with cervical stenosis, will retire immediately\nBy Tim Stebbins September 24, 2018 11:39 AM\nTough news out of Evanston this morning: Northwestern announced that running back Jeremy Larkin will retire immediately after being diagnosed with cervical stenosis.\nSophomore Jeremy Larkin will retire from football, effective immediately, due to a recent diagnosis of cervical stenosis. The condition is not life threatening but prevents continued participation in football.https:\/\/t.co\/5BZO8naHCn#B1GCats pic.twitter.com\/0XKWqvhd1J\n\u2014 Northwestern Football (@NUFBFamily) September 24, 2018\nCervical stenois is the narrowing of the spinal canal in one's neck, according to Mayo Clinic. Larkin's condition is thankfully not life-threatening, though it does prevent him from continuing to participate in the game of football.\n\"Football has been a lifelong passion and it has been a process to reconcile the fact I won't be on that field again, given I've played this game since I was five years old,\" Larkin said.\n\"I'm extremely appreciative of the Northwestern sports medicine and athletic training staffs for uncovering this condition, and for my coaches and the medical staff for always putting my health first.\n\"I came to this University to engage at the absolute highest level on the field and in the classroom, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue one of those while supporting my teammates from the sideline.\"\nHead Coach Pat Fitzgerald called the news \"heartbreaking.\"\n\"This is heartbreaking because I see every day how much Jeremy loves the game, loves his teammates, and loves to compete,\" Fitzgerald said in a statement. \"But this is the absolute best possible outcome for him.\n\"The discovery of this condition allowed Jeremy and his family to make an informed decision for his long-term health and well-being. For those of us who have known Jeremy Larkin since his high school days, his future is exceptionally bright. I can't wait to see the impact he makes in our world.\"\nLarkin is a sophomore from Cincinnati. He finishes his Northwestern career with 156 carries for 849 yards and 10 rushing touchdowns.\nTags: Northwestern Wildcats, Jeremy Larkin\nFormer Illini champion Kevin Anderson upsets Roger Federer in Wimbledon quarterfinal\nBy Ben Bokun July 11, 2018 2:35 PM\nFormer University of Illinois tennis star Kevin Anderson completed a marathon upset against an all-time great on the highest stage of professional tennis.\nAnderson came back from two sets down to beat Roger Federer in Wimbledon's quarterfinals 2-6, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4, 13-11 on Wednesday morning. He will play in the semifinals of the tournament for the first time in his career.\nAs a native of South Africa, Anderson played three seasons with the Fighting Illini and won the NCAA doubles championship during the 2005-06 season as a sophomore. The 32-year-old was a three-time All-American in singles at Illinois.\nWe have a new GOAT on the \ud83c\udfbe court!! No. 8\u20e3 seed \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 @KAndersonATP wins against No. 1\u20e3 seed and reigning @Wimbledon champion \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded @rogerfederer 2-6, 6(5)-7, 7-5, 6-4, 13-11 in the quarterfinals.#Illini \ud83d\udd37\ud83d\udd36 | #Wimbledon pic.twitter.com\/dTDtw2tRq3\n\u2014 Illinois M Tennis (@IlliniMTennis) July 11, 2018\nNow, as the eighth ranked singles player on the ATP World Tour, Anderson is a force to be reckoned with at the professional level. He made it all the way to the US Open final in 2017.\nThe former Illini star will look to keep his recent success going when he represents Illinois in the semifinals of Wimbledon this Friday.\nTags: Illinois Fighting Illini, Kevin Anderson, Roger Federer, Wimbledon\nNorthwestern running back Jeremy Larkin diagnosed with cervical stenosis, will retire immediately Former Illini champion Kevin Anderson upsets Roger Federer in Wimbledon quarterfinal Northwestern set to play Wisconsin at Wrigley Field in 2020 See how they stack up: Week 12 college football top 25 rankings See how they stack up: Week 11 college football top 25 rankings Will Illini go winless in Big Ten? Picture ain't pretty after loss to Indiana See how they stack up: Week 10 college football top 25 rankings Northwestern becomes first FBS team ever to win three straight games in overtime See how they stack up: Week 9 college football top 25 rankings Northwestern's end-zone interception seals triple-overtime upset of Michigan State Illini turn it over three times, give up touchdown to offensive lineman in loss to Wisconsin See how they stack up: Week 8 college football top 25 rankings Illini play freshman quarterback Cam Thomas for first time, but still fall at Minnesota Big play from Justin Jackson sets up Northwestern's overtime win over Iowa See how they stack up: Week 6 college football top 25 rankings New quarterback but similar result as Illini get walloped by Iowa Northwestern's offense goes missing as Penn State sends Cats to blowout loss Wisconsin rolls on: Ten big things from the weekend in Big Ten football See how they stack up: Week 5 college football top 25 rankings Northwestern tries late comeback but drops conference opener to Wisconsin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Richest resort counties rank worst for health coverage\nPosted on 01 August 2013.\nBy Katie Kerwin McCrimmon\nTwo ritzy resort counties in Colorado have made a list of the 50 worst counties in the U.S. for working people who are living without health insurance.\nEagle County, home to swanky Vail and Beaver Creek, ranked 42nd worst among U.S. counties with nearly 29 percent of people who earn between 138 and 400 percent of the poverty level surviving without health insurance. Garfield County, home to many service workers for Aspen in neighboring Pitkin County, also made the list. Garfield ranked 48th worst in the U.S. with about 28.5 percent of working people lacking health insurance, according to U.S. Census data from 2010.\nIn Colorado's ski resort towns, workers often have multiple jobs, none of which comes with health insurance. Even people earning decent salaries have to spend so much money on living expenses that many can't afford health insurance. (Read more: Posh Aspen provides dismal health coverage.)\nThe list of worst counties comes in a new report from the liberal group, Center for American Progress Action Fund.\nThe study finds that many of the counties in the U.S. that will benefit most from the Affordable Care Act have Republican representatives who have been trying to obstruct implementation of the ACA.\nSome of the counties with the highest rates of uninsured are also in states such as Texas and Florida where state leaders have blocked expansion of Medicaid to a greater percentage of the poor. That means people who need access to health care the most may reap the fewest benefits from the reform law, which goes into full effect in 2014.\n\"Too many politicians are putting more energy into political stunts than helping their constituents take advantage of benefits from the Affordable Care Act,\" Tom Perriello, president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said in a news release. \"Sadly (the report) demonstrates that many of the counties that stand to benefit the most from the new health care law are represented by Obamacare opponents who refuse to help families and businesses in their communities benefit from these reforms.\n\"Elected officials should meet their obligation to help constituents comply with and benefit from the laws and healthcare programs that exist.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE)\nSupporting essential economic activity - protecting informal businesses, small producers and women workers\nImpact Of Covid-19 On Women Workers In The Urban Informal Economy In Uganda And Kenya\nImpact-of-COVID-19-on-Women-Workers-in-the-Urban-Informal-Economy-in-Uganda-and-Kenya-Secondary-Data-Review.pdf (7.171Mb)\nSuubi, Kirabo\nYegon, Erick\nAjema, Carol\nWandera, Naome\nAfifu, Chryspin\nMugyenyi, Cleopatra\nGlobally, 2 billion of the world's employed population aged 15 and older work informally, representing 61.2 percent of global employment, with the vast majority of employment in Africa (85.8 percent) being informal (ILO, 2018). In Uganda, nearly 14 million or 98 percent of Uganda's total working-age population is engaged in the informal sector; of these, 87 percent are women workers. The informal sector has, for the last decade, consistently contributed more than 55 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In Kenya, the informal sector by 2019 provided a livelihood to approximately 15 million people and absorbed up to 88 percent of the women workers, according to the International Labour Organization. The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is implementing REBUILD, a research project that seeks to understand how the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis and policy response affected informal women workers of Kenya and Uganda. ICRW undertook a review of secondary data on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on informal women workers in Kenya and Uganda. This report presents summary findings and recommendations from our study, we conducted an analytical review of data from institutional reports, published articles, journal papers, policy reports, and secondary data analysis\nSuubi, K.; Yegon E.; Ajema, C.; Wandera, N.; Afifu, C. and Mugyenyi, C. (2022) Impact of COVID-19 on Women Workers in the Urban Informal Economy in Uganda and Kenya: Secondary Data Review. Kampala, Uganda and Nairobi, Kenya: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)\nhttps:\/\/www.icrw.org\/publications\/impact-of-covid-19-on-women-workers-in-the-urban-informal-economy-in-uganda-and-kenya-secondary-review\/\n\u00a9 2022. International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). All rights reserved. Sections of this document may be reproduced without the express permission of but with acknowledgment to ICRW.\nhttps:\/\/www.ids.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Latest_IDSOpenDocsStandardTermsOfUse_CC_BY.pdf\nSupporting essential economic activity - protecting informal businesses, small producers and women workers [109]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The contrasting world views of Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo\nIt matters that the US President and his secretary of state have radically different world views. The President is transactional. Mr Pompeo moralises.\nJanan GaneshContributor\nJul 30, 2020 \u2013 10.17am\nHere follow some excerpts from a speech about China by Mike Pompeo last week. The US Secretary of State chose as his setting Richard Nixon's presidential library in California \u2013 whether in honour or repudiation, it was not always clear.\n\"The free world must triumph over this new tyranny\"; \"the sweet appeal of freedom itself\"; \"freedom-loving nations of the world\"; \"the free world is still winning\"; \"it's time for free nations to act\". Perhaps fearing that he had buried the lede, Pompeo named the speech itself \"Communist China and the Free World's Future\".\nDonald Trump's grievance with China stops at economics and power politics. Mike Pompeo goes further and rejects its governing values. Bloomberg\nNow, resist for a moment the cry of double standards. To judge by the administration's foreign policy, \"free\" nations include Saudi Arabia and Russia. Set aside also that jarring venue. China was not free when Nixon, the dry realist, employer of Henry Kissinger, enlisted it as a counterweight to the Soviet Union.\nThere is a presidential mouth in which the F-word is even harder to imagine. It just happens to belong to Pompeo's boss.\nFor all his animosities with other countries, Donald Trump tends not to mind their internal doings. The US President regards China as a trade malefactor and a usurper of his nation's primacy. That it is also authoritarian does not \u2013 though it is hard to verify these things \u2013 seem to disturb his sleep.\nHis previous villain, the economic rival that was 1980s Japan, was a pacifist democracy.\nIt matters that Trump and his Secretary of State have radically different world views. The President is transactional. Pompeo moralises. Trump's grievance with China stops at economics and power politics. Pompeo goes further and rejects its governing values. For Trump, another nation's treatment of religious minorities is by the by. For Pompeo, a former deacon, it seems personal.\nAmong his first acts at the State Department was to host a now annual gathering on religious freedom. He also set up the Commission on Unalienable Rights.\nThe question is whether it is to be a rift over earthly interests or stray into first principles.\nUnder the President, the US-China schism has been vicious but practical. If Pompeo now sets the tone, it promises to be a clash of belief systems. And all the harder to finesse.\nIt matters, too, that Pompeo seems so ascendant. Over his tenure, the administration's rhetoric against China has widened from the specificities of trade to points of principle.\nBrute, commerce-minded nationalists such as Rex Tillerson, Pompeo's predecessor, have made way. He is also helped by the weakness and domestic distraction of a boss who is doing poorly in the polls. Authority, as Alfred Tennyson wrote, forgets a dying king.\nBut Pompeo's advantage runs deeper than that. He taps into a moral dualism in Washington, a belief in clearly delineated good and bad, that survives any misadventures it might inspire. Even the fiasco of Iraq (a war that was sold on appeals to freedom) only held it back for a while.\nIt would take an Alexis de Tocqueville, or perhaps a Sigmund Freud, to divine where it comes from, this craving for a black-and-white picture of the world. Maybe a young nation finds its sense of self in opposition to something else.\nEither way, Trump's election in 2016 was as much a rejection of this righteous militancy as of effete \"globalism\". Of those two impulses, the first has proved the harder for him to overcome.\nIt is as much the way of the Washington establishment as international summitry and free trade. Remember that Pompeo, a former intelligence chief and congressman, a graduate of the West Point military academy and Harvard Law School, is no outsider to the system.\nAt one point, his speech looked back to the Cold War. \"And if there is one thing I learned,\" he said, \"communists almost always lie.\" You half expect a swipe at the fluoridation of tap water, evoking General Jack D Ripper in Dr Strangelove. But such moral absolutes are not rare in Washington.\nThe question is no longer whether the US should be more vigilant on China than it has been. That debate has been settled in the affirmative, and with some justice. The question is whether it is to be a rift over earthly interests or stray into first principles. The one is more negotiable than the other.\nWe are used to the idea of Trump as a force to be contained by more rational subordinates. It is the theme of almost every insider memoir about the administration.\nIn his materialism, though, his reluctance to build a foreign policy on moral abstractions, perhaps he is a restraining influence on them, too. There are worse traits in a world leader than cynicism.\nJanan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.\nTrump's America\nTrump's White House\nTrump diplomacy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bayley: 'Contingency Plans' In Place for Spectrum\nRoyal Caribbean International is evaluating plans for redeploying the Spectrum of the Seas due to the coronavirus outbreak in China, where Royal Caribbean's newest ship is deployed year-round.\n\"We have contingency plans for all of our ships deployed globally as part of our overall planning process,\" said Michael Bayley, president and CEO of Royal Caribbean International, speaking on the company's 2019 fourth quarter and full year earnings call on Tuesday.\nAs far as the Spectrum, Bayley said the company had plans in place, but it was difficult to understand what was happening in China at the moment.\n\"We can redeploy regionally or outside the region,\" Bayley commented, declining to elaborate citing a competitive environment.\nThe ship currently sits docked in Busan, South Korea, with crew onboard.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Parnassus Classical CDs and Records\nClassical CDs and Re-issues of Quality and Convenience\nOur Own CDs\nParnassus Wins Legal Victory\nSviatoslav Richter CDs\nSviatoslav Richter \u2013 Richter in Brooklyn \u2013 PACD 96061\/2\nPACD 96056 Richter Rarities with Orchestra\nSviatoslav Richter in the 1940s\nSviatoslav Richter \u2013 Szymanowski \u2013 Limited Edition \u2013 Richter 100 Series\nSome thoughts about Szymanowski\nRichter in Warsaw: The Scriabin Recital\nRichter in Leipzig\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume One\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume Two\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume Three\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume Four\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume Five\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume Six\nSviatoslav Richter Live in the 1950s: Volume Seven\nColorado Quartet CDs\nColorado Quartet \u2013 Early Beethoven Quartets\nColorado Quartet: Beethoven Quartets\nColorado Quartet: Late Beethoven String Quartets\nColorado Quartet: Schubert & Mendelssohn\nColorado Quartet: Brahms\nVarious Artists \u2013 Black Swans \u2013 PACD 96067\nCopland: Before the LP\nJanos Starker: The Road to Cello Playing +\nErwin Schulhoff: His Complete Piano Recordings\nEugene Drucker \u2013 Bach: Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas\nThe Lost Art of Jacob Lateiner\nKatherine Hoover: String Quartets and Trio\nPiano Music of Katherine Hoover\nKokopeli: Katherine Hoover Plays\nNight Skies: Orchestral Music of Katherine Hoover\nCarole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs\nCarole Bogard Sings Baroque Cantatas and Arias\nProkofiev and Stravinsky \u2013 Composers Conduct\nThe Stuyvesant Quartet Plays 20th Century Quartets\nArthur Grumiaux: The Boston Recordings\nKipnis and Kushner \u2013 Piano, 4 Hands\nCarole Bogard: A Century of French Songs\nHandel \u2013 Tamerlano\nDanielle Woerner Sings Luening and Starer\nGregorian Chant: The Early Interpreters\nTom McDermott \u2013 All The Keys And Then Some\nDVD \u2013 Inesa Sinkevych in Havana\nDVD \u2013 Sviatoslav Richter Plays Beethoven and Chopin\nDVD \u2013 Sviatoslav Richter Plays Mozart Concertos\nDVD \u2013 Sviatoslav Richter Plays Schumann & Russians\nDVD \u2013 Janos Starker Cello Recital\nDVD \u2013 Mravinsky Conducts Shostakovich\nDiscography: The Recorded Legacy of Sviatoslav Richter 1947-2012\nBuy Colorado Quartet \u2013 Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 via Amazon (CD or MP3)\nBuy Colorado Quartet \u2013 Brahms: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 via ArchivMusic (CD or MP3)\nDownload Colorado Quartet \u2013 Brahms: Two String Quartets, Op. 51 from iTunes\nIn a ten-day period in 1983, the Colorado Quartet made history by winning two of the music world's highest honors: the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Since that time it has been praised on four continents as one of the finest quartets of our time, cited for its musical integrity, impassioned playing and lyrical finesse.\nCurrently based in the New York City area, the Colorado quartet appears regularly in major halls around the globe. Highlights of their career include tours of more than twenty countries, New York concerts in Carnegie Hall and on the Great Performers at Lincoln Center series, appearances at Washington DC's Kennedy Center and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and performances at festivals in Scandinavia, the Czech Republic, and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. The Colorado Quartet celebrated the 1995 B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k centennial with the first complete performance of the Bart\u00f3k String Quartets to take place in Philadelphia. The Quartet memmbers have been featured on radio and television worldwide, with numerous radio broadcasts in America, England and Canada, as well as television programs in The Netherlands, Norway, Puerto Rico, Peru and Mexico, Their recordings include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and contemporary composers on CD's from Fidelio, Albany Records and Parnassus Records.\nThe Colorado Quartet is equally at home performing standard literature or newer works, and has premiered compositions by leading composers.such as Ezra Laderman and Karel Husa, as well as composers of the younger generation. They have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Aaron Copland Music Fund.\nThe members of the Colorado Quartet are inspiring teachers, who have held residencies at Swarthmore and Skidmore Colleges, Philadelphia's New School of Music, Bard College and Amhesrt College in Massachusetts. They are founders and Artistic Directors of the Soundfest Chamber Music Festival and Institute of String Quartets in Falmouth, Massachusetts.\nColorado String Quartet on this recording:\nJulie Rosenfeld, Violin 1 \u2013 Deborah Redding, Violin 2 \u2013 Francesca Martin Silos, Viola \u2013 Diane Chaplin, Cello\nComplete Contents\nQuartet No. 1 in C Minor, op.51, no.1 ;33:21\n1) Allegro 11:30\n2) Romanze: Poco adagio 6:58\n3) Allegretto molto moderato e comodo 8:26\n4) Allegro 6:12\nQuartet No. 2 in A Minor, op.51, no.2; 35:23\n5) Allegro non troppo 14:05\n6) Andante Moderato 9:33\n7) Quasi minuetto, moderato 5:06\n8) Finale: Allegro non assai 7:24\nFanfare Review\nI had already accepted this disc for review (eagerly\u2013if the world were going down and I could save only two composers, they would be Lassus and Brahms) when El Jefe Flegler added: \"Parnassus is the label run by our own Leslie Gerber\" That gave me pause for thought: what if the disc wasn't very good, the playing poor, the notes sloppy, the sound inadequate? The first responsibility of any critic is to his readers, of course, so how\u2013if the worst came to the worst\u2013was I going to avoid stabbing a colleague in the front? In the event, my problem is indeed something of that nature\u2013but precisely the other way around. This disc is so good that it might be difficult to persuade you, dear readers, that the rave review you are about to be offered is not an example of confraternal complicity. When 1 tell you that the notes are by Bernard Jacobson, another Fanfare colleague and an old pal from our days in London, and that the design and layout are by ex-Fanfare writer John Wiser, you will be highly suspicious, and justifiably so: read this review with, not a pinch, but a handful of salt. But rave I must: this is quite simply one of the best discs of chamber music to come my way in a long, long time.\nSo what is it about the performances that make them so special? A phrase from Hans Keller, writing about Franz Schmidt's playing in the Schubert C-Major Quintet, comes to mind: \"the imagination he pumped into the notorious second-cello passages in the slow movement had to be heard to be believed.\" And that is exactly what you hear in these performances: four musicians of the highest caliber thinking deeply about what they are doing, listening, reacting to one another, giving and taking -these are living, breathing performances. The old cliche about the string quartet being four individuals in discussion comes to glorious life here: you can listen to any one of the lines, follow it through its interaction with the others, jump ship from cello to viola, say\u2013wherever you focus your ears, you can hear the sheer amount of considered passion being put into the playing. And the control of pitch is absolute: so many quartet recordings these days are vitiated by sloppy intonation, even in some fairly well-known ensembles. No such worries here: even in such tricky places as the explosive chordal sequence that opens the finale of the C-Minor work, the intonation is bang on.\nI do have a criticism, you'll be relieved to read. This is not big Brahms: the Colorados don't play him with the powerful, broad bowstrokes that would have made these performances colossal. Instead, it's rather more delicate, more sensitive than that. This is, dare I say it, ladies' Brahms-or, to convey more or less the same image but offending only a few million people, it's French Brahms. Whatever the stylistic approach, though, what you hear on this disc is nothing less than exquisite quartet-playing.\nOssa upon Pelion: the recorded sound is first-rate, and Bemard Jacobson's notes are masterly\u2013 they combine insight and understanding within a wide frame of reference (he knows his Brahms, this man) with an easy style that makes the technical accessible, even obvious, now that he draws your attention to it. I learned a good deal from his essay.\nIt gladdened my heart, this disc. So many of the quarter recordings I get sent for review disap point (usually, as I say, because poor intonation from one of the players\u2013often the first violin, sur prisingly enough-scupper the entire project at the outside). This one disappointed no whit. I have played it again and again since it arrived, and every time it sets my musical adrenaline coursing. Do yourself a favor and buy it.\nLeslie Gerber isn't going to be short of ideas to keep the Colorado players busy, but let me chuck one at him anyway. Their playing of the Brahms A-Minor Quartet reminded me of how much Franz Schmidt learned from Brahms in his own two quarters\u2013and we could certainly do with a good modern recording of those two works. The only recent recording I know of them\u2013by the Franz Schubert Quartett, Wien, on Nimbus NI 5467\u2013is exactly one of those discs where inaccurate intonation mars the product from the outset, though here the players also misjudge the music. Ilthe Colorados did to Schmidt what they have just done to Brahms, Parnassus would walk straight into a thousand Want Lists.\nMartin Anderson Fanfare November\/December 1997\nAmerican Record Guide Review\nWhat I like most about this recording, besides the immaculate intonation (rare in performances of these pieces) and extremely precise rhythm (the music is loaded with duplets against triplets), is the fact that the recording favors the inner voices. The quartet plays the music from tile inside out, building on a very strong center of second violin and viola. Parnassus has recorded them so that as listeners we get a view from the inside where we can observe the crystalline formations of the music like a stargazer looking at the sky on a very clear night These four people play with such a like mind that it is easy to imagine that they could he playing irnstruments made by the same maker, of wood from the same tree. The Colorado Quartet, whose members come mostly from California, had its beginnings at the University of Colorado at Boulder and is now based in New York. They have had an impressive international reputation for many years and have won many awards, including the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, both in 1983. From this recording it is clear why. For a real treat, listen with the score!\nFine American Record Guide November\/December 1997\nParnassus Records CDs and DVDs are distributed in the U.S. by E One, in Italy by La Tosca, elsewhere by alto Distribution and associated companies. If you cannot find our CDs and DVDs, please contact us.\nParnassus CDs are distributed in the U.S. by Alliance and elsewhere by alto distribution and associated distributors.\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Parnassus Classical CDs and Records - All Rights Reserved - Sitemap\nBuilt by Mark Zip","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chris Pratt Mistakes Ariana Grande for Latina in New 'SNL' Spot \u2013 She's Not? (Video)\n\"Problem\" singer implies the \"Guardians of the Galaxy\" star makes boring movies in NBC promo for \"Saturday Night Light\" Season 40 premiere\nTravis Reilly | September 26, 2014 @ 10:13 AM\tLast Updated: September 26, 2014 @ 3:56 PM\n\"Saturday Night Live\" host Chris Pratt and musical guest Ariana Grande have less chemistry than oil and water in the teaser for their upcoming episode, which is also the Season 40 debut.\nSee video: Chris Pratt Is Not a Piece of Meat in 'SNL' Promos, But He Can Open a Jar of Pickles\nThe \"Guardians of the Galaxy\" stud began the NBC promo by praising the \"Problem\" pop star's body of work.\n\"You know, Ariana, I work out to your music \u2014 it gets me pumped,\" he said.\n\"Oh, that's crazy!\" she replied. \"You know, I'm such a big fan of your movies. Whenever I can't sleep at night I watch them and they make me so \u2026 uh \u2026 tired.\"\nSee video: Bill Hader Impersonates Former 'Saturday Night Live' Co-Stars on 'Conan'\nAfter an awkward silence, the camera cut away and the pair tried again.\nThe second take has Pratt introducing them before awkwardly turning it over to Grande: \"Ariana, do you want to translate for our Spanish viewers?\"\n\"I'm actually Italian,\" she responded.\n\"Eehhhh. That's \u2026 no \u2026 that's what I meant,\" Pratt stuttered. \"I meant, do you want pizza?\"\n\"Saturday Night Live\" returns for its 40th season on Sept. 27 at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC.\nChris Pratt Is Not a Piece of Meat in 'SNL' Promos, But He Can Open a Jar of Pickles (Video)\nBy Jason Hughes | September 23, 2014 @ 11:10 PM\n'Marvel's Agents of SHIELD' Star Chloe Bennet on Chris Pratt Crossovers and Peeing Her Pants (Video)\nBy Travis Reilly | September 23, 2014 @ 3:39 PM\n'Big Bang Theory' Star Mayim Bialik Wants Ariana Grande to Keep Her Clothes On\nBy Greg Gilman | September 16, 2014 @ 8:21 AM","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Backup goalie Vasilevskiy leads Lightning victory\nin general, Tampa Bay Lightning\nVasilevskiy stood up as the Islanders took over, then won the game.\/TRAVIS PENDERGRASS\nFriday, 4 a.m.\nWhat do you do when a comfortable lead grows uncomfortable? How do you respond when a walkaway win turns wobbly?\nAt such a moment, you turn to your goaltender.\nAnd at such a moment, more and more, Andrei Vasilevskiy looks large enough.\nTake Thursday night, when a solid victory turned scary. One instant, and the Bolts had a 3-0 lead, and they looked like they were putting together a highlight tape. The next minute, and team was on its heels, and only contorting saves by\nKucherov kept his hot streak alive.\/TRAVIS PENDERGRASS\nVasilevskiy kept the margin at two goals. If you believe in your gut, the Islanders seemed as if they were an instant from scoring.\nAnd Vasilevskiy made sure they did not.\nHe sprawled. He bent. He twisted. And time after time, he kept the puck out of the net in the Lightning's 4-1 victory over the New York Islanders.\n\"He played unbelievable,\" said defenseman Victor Hedman. \"He bailed us out especially there in that last part of the second period. He came up big for us. He stopped the breakaway in the third and had a lot of big saves and moved the puck well too. We have two of the best goalies in the league and that's comforting for us to know that we have him there to bail us out.\"\nCaptain Steven Stamkos agreed.\n\"Vasy was outstanding,\" he said. \"He made some huge saves. He was big with a couple breakaway saves. We know what we're going to get from Vasy, and he's going to make some huge saves with his athletic ability.\"\nHe is growing up, you know. He remains a stranger in a strange land, learning the game, learning the language. Like a lot of foreigners, he didn't trust his verbal skills a year ago.\nStralman takes a shot during Lightning's victory.\/TRAVIS PENDERGRASS\nNow, he still speaks in cliches. \"I stayed relaxed. I stayed in the blue paint.\" But he seems more mature, more in control. He looks, frankly, like the goaltender of the future.\nA year ago, even, the odds of the Lightning winning went down considerably when Vasilevskiy played and Ben Bishop sat. But Vasilevskiy looks ready to play this season.\n\"I just think he's a year older,\" Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. \"A year wiser. A year stronger, a year quicker, a year better. He's a year more experienced in the league. Thats what you need. He's learning the league. He's an outstanding goaltender, but you have to learn the league, the players, the angles. But he's a student of the game, and he works his tail off.\"\nVasilevskiy's performance made Thursday night one of the Bolts' best games. They finally took a lead. They got great goaltending. They scored on the power play. They got goals from stars like Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov and Tyler Johnson. They closed well (Vasy's saves and a third-period goal by Brian Boyle led the Bolts).\nBoyle's goal, 68 seconds into the final period, stopped the Islanders' momentum.\n\"It kind of ultimately popped their balloon a little bit,\" Cooper said.\n\"It's 3-1. It's a game, plus they had momentum. We needed that buzzer to go in the second period and it helped us being up two instead of just one and then you get that fourth one and it kind of sucked a little air out of their tires.\"\nStamkos, standing next to Boyle, shrugged off his buddy's goal.\n\"Lucky shot if you ask me,\" Stamkos said, laughing. \"I didn't think it was a big deal at all. No, anytime you get a two-goal lead, they say that's probably one of the worst ones to have in the third. That was a big goal. It gives you some breathing room and still allows you to make plays, and I thought we had a really solid third period.\"\nHedman had an assist, giving him 188 for his career. He moved into first place ahead of Dan Boyle in the category.\n\"Yeah, I knew about it,\" Hedman said. \"It's a good feeling and something I'm proud of. It's tough not to notice it.\"\nThe Lightning is home against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.\nLightning celebrate a Stamkos goal, and an early lead for a change.\/TRAVIS PENDERGRASS\nPrevious post: Ask the expert: Jerry Angelo\nNext post: Ask Gary: Should NFL officials be full-time?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tea Party Groups Want Ohio Voters Purged\nThe Root Staff\nJewel Samad\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\"Too much of this is going on for this not to be a coordinated effort,\" said Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party. He was referring to the efforts of Tea Party groups to remove names from the state's voter rosters in what they say is an attempt to prevent ballot fraud.\nThe Rev. Rousseau A. O'Neal, one of a group of black ministers from Cincinnati who provide buses to take African Americans to the polls, is more explicit. He calls the project \u2014 which has identified names for purging that include hundreds of college students, trailer park residents, homeless people and African Americans in counties President Obama won in 2008 \u2014 \"bigotry of the highest order.\"\nThe interesting thing is, he's not the only one acknowledging the racial dimension of the controversy. GOP Chairman Doug Preisse, who supports the purging efforts, recently told the Columbus Dispatch, \"We shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban \u2014 read African-American \u2014 voter-turnout machine.\" At least he's honest? From the Los Angles Times:\nThe tea party groups, scattered around the state, have joined forces under the banner of the Ohio Voter Integrity Project. It is an offshoot of True the Vote, a Texas organization that has recruited volunteers nationwide to challenge voter rosters and work as poll watchers.\nTrue the Vote was founded by Catherine and Bryan Engelbrecht, a couple who run an oil field equipment manufacturing firm in Rosenberg, Texas.\nIn Ohio, election records show, one of the project's top priorities has been to remove college students from the voter rolls for failure to specify dorm room numbers. (As a group, college students are strongly in Obama's camp.)\nVoters challenged include 284 students at the Ohio State University campus in Columbus, 110 at Oberlin College, 88 at College of Wooster, 38 at Kent State \u2014 and dozens more from the University of Cincinnati, Miami University, Lake Erie College, Walsh University, Hiram College, John Carroll University and Telshe Yeshiva, a rabbinical college near Cleveland.\nSo far, every county election board that has reviewed the dorm challenges found them invalid.\nRead more at the Los Angeles Times.\nRecent from The Root Staff\nAuntie Who? Ava DuVernay Sets Some Boundaries and Sparks Major Debate\u2014and The Root Digs In\nLeaving Neverland Accused of Key Discrepancy, Michael Jackson Estate Issues Statement [Updated]\nBeyonc\u00e9's Ivy Park Has a New 'Cheerleading-Inspired' Collection\u2014and The Root Crew Has Jokes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What does it mean to \"Challenge the Character\"?\nPage 59 of 67 First ... 949505152535455565758596061626364656667 Last\nThread: What does it mean to \"Challenge the Character\"?\nWednesday, 22nd May, 2019, 08:48 PM #581\nTony Vargas\nTitan (Lvl 27)\nSan Jose\/Santa Clara, CA\nSorry if I mostly riff off your post for humor purposes....\nOriginally Posted by Chaosmancer\nIf they just tell you they know something, then that is what they know. The only check upon that is that they might be wrong out of the game because you as the DM changed something. In which case, why do we even bother to have an Intelligence stat and the skills for recalling various types of lore. It seems meaningless under this style.\nAny stat or skill could conceivably be rendered moot by the DM's style or choice of setting & challenges, I suppose.\nExcept what counts as a \"meaningful consequence\"? Not knowing something obviously isn't meaningful enough\nI don't see why not knowing anything isn't a meaningful consequence. I mean, recalling something useful certainly is. Is the idea that you start off not knowing anything, so you might as well try?\nUltimately, isn't the whole knowledge check\/INT roll\/trying-to-recall-lore-using-INT-with-a-trained-skill-possibly-applying-because-5e-is-rules-lite thing just gating exposition?\nIf, as a DM, I want to provide some exposition, I can have a (suspiciously Gandalfy) NPC do it, or I can look at a player and say \"your character knows \/whah\u2026\/\" and that's that. I don't really need to call for a check, and if I do, failure, though it might have severe consequences for the party, is awfully blah.\nEven if a player actually wants to play a Gandalf\/Prof.Zarchov type who's main purpose is to provide exposition, and take high INT and tons of useless skills to model it mechanically, it's still pretty meh for that player to make his checks, and have \/you\/ tell the whole table what he knows - and completely inefficient and annoying and no more satisfying to have you tell him privately so he can parrot it.\nThe way I've seen some systems (none of them D&D) both make such a character fun to play, and give meaning the sorts of mechanics in question, is if the player making the successful knowledge check \/gets to make stuff up\/ to his party's advantage. \"It's a Klick-Klick, if we all shout 'November!' it'll drop dead...*\" on a failure, the consequence is the DM makes stuff up, or maybe that the made-up stuff is wrong... (depends on exactly how the mechanics are handled - FREX, the Expositionator could make a declaration like the above, make a plan around it, and it's only when the plan is executed that he makes the check to see if he was right about it.) But I couldn't see any ed of D&D playing nice with something like that, (OK, except, as always, 4e, which already has some Schrodinger's Mechanics like that). It'd certainly turn the whole 5e describe-declare-resolve-describe DM-PC-DM-DM cycle on it's ear...\ntaking a lot of time is probably not meaningful enough especially if players don't take these checks while under a time pressure or in dangerous territory. You have to actively work to make things worse for the players in response to them attempting things, just to allow them to make checks, or they auto-succeed on trying anything.\nSure, \"the players just succeed\" sounds really easy on paper, but it opens things to abuse that I don't want to deal with, and makes failing a roll dangerous enough that my players might not end up attempting interesting things. After all, who would try and woo a princess if failing the charisma check ends up with her ordering your execution. After all, her just not being interested isn't \"meaningful\" enough, you have to end up making things worse for you and your party.\n\"Fail Forward\" doesn't sound so bad, now.\nYou are right, they didn't explicitly say \"I try to remember what the vulnerabilities of earth elementals are.\" Instead, they just declared \"I know that Earth Elementals are weak to Thunder damage.\"\nSo... if they player just tells you they succeed and get the end result, they don't need to make a check? That is ludicrous. You would never allow a player to simply state \"I walk off with the Queen's Crown\" and just let them do so, why then do we allow them to state \"I perfectly recalled the weaknesses of this monster\"?\nOf course, that's true. In general, it seems, in pondering issues like this, drawing an analogy from knowledge\/social check to a concrete ability\/skill makes it obvious. But acceptance of such analogies is surprising hard to win.\nAs we established before, I would likely ask them why a character who cannot use magic scrolls is going to go and buy magic scrolls. This would likely get their intent, which brings us back to the beginning of this discussion.\nHmm... I guess this is another example of how establishing a goal & method can be like peeling an onion. The goal isn't really \"buy magic scrolls\" it's \"defeat some earth elementals...\"\nOne DM I know is really sensitive to these kinds of player shenanigans, she's always cutting to \"What are you \/really\/ trying to do?\"\nI think some of the current we may be swimming against, here, flows from the classic game, when it was a tad bit more adversarial, and developing 'player skill' was an objective of play. In the absence of concrete systems, and within the dogma of DM omnipotence, players would learn to couch questions carefully and declare actions piecemeal, in a way that would box the DM into letting some harebrained scheme actually (maybe) work.\nDid 3.5 have a rule that explicitly said \"Players are not expected to have all the information on a monster from the monsters statblock, if they wish to use this information, they should make a knowledge check\"\nSomething about that sounds familiar.\nSo players can bring modern designs, knowledge of chemistry, gunpowder, ect to the game.\nOne of the fun things about a setting that's \/not\/ scientific, at all:\n\"I build a modern ship out of steel!\"\n\"It sinks\"\n\"What, but I'm a naval architect IRL, that design is sound!\"\n\"Sorry, on the Flat Earth of Nevereilli, the Element of Metal always sinks in the Element of Water - every 7-year-old Alchemist's Apprentice knows that...\"\n* I did not make that up, it's a joke from an old Dragon mag.\nLast edited by Tony Vargas; Wednesday, 22nd May, 2019 at 08:51 PM.\nMonday, 27th May, 2019, 11:57 PM #582\nChaosmancer\nSpellbinder (Lvl 16)\nOriginally Posted by iserith\nThe rules of the game don't seem to indicate I should care about this as DM. The only exception is to encourage players not to waste game time or their characters' lives on bad assumptions and I do that.\nIt seems more likely to me that Intelligence is seen as a dump stat because there is only one class and a couple of sub-classes that use it regularly for attack rolls and DCs and very few spells or monsters that force Intelligence saves.\nIntelligence checks can also come up in exploration challenges involving traps and secret doors. They may also come up in social interaction challenges (e.g. recalling lore trying to prove a point or trying to communicate wordlessly). Intelligence might also be used to resolve tasks performed with certain tools. The section on ability checks has a number of other tasks that might be resolved with Intelligence checks. XGtE expands on this in some ways with its Tools & Skills section.\nAt this point I'd like to retract my earlier statement that your game may have more Intelligence checks than mine. That doesn't seem like the case now if what I quoted of your statements above is something you believe to be true. Unless your players are asking to make Intelligence checks or asking a lot of \"Do I know anything about...\" questions during play.\nThe DM determines whether there is a meaningful consequence for failure given the fictional context. So if you're the DM, it's up to you.\nThere was no attempt to recall lore described by the players in that example. A player is simply stating what the character thinks which is under the player's control. The DM is overstepping his or her role by calling for a check without a corresponding action described by the player. The smart play for this player is, of course, to try to recall lore to verify that assumption, but that is not the DM's problem.\n\"Walking off with the queen's crown\" is (perhaps partially) describing what they want to do and as DM I get to say how that turns out in Step 3 of the play loop. \"I know that earth elementals are weak to thunder damage\" is just a statement of the character's thoughts and there's nothing I can do with that as DM.\nThe DM determines whether there is a meaningful consequence for failure. So if you're the DM, it's up to you.\nHowever, the issue with this specific example is not that there is or isn't a meaningful consequence for failure. We don't even get to that point in the adjudication process since the player is only stating what the character is thinking and since the player is the one who determines what the character thinks, there is no uncertainty as to the outcome. If there is no uncertainty as to the outcome, then there can be no ability check. We don't have to imagine meaningful consequences for failure here.\nThat's not how I would or did resolve it. The player was aware of the consequences of failure because I usually tell them what that is so they know the risks. You succeed, you figure out what it is. You fail, you figure out what it is but take damage in the process. Or you can skip that and throw the ice knife at the crates and hope you didn't just waste your last spell slot. Easy to understand the risks and trade-offs here.\nA player describes wanting to draw upon logic, education, memory, or deductive reasoning, often coupled with some elements of their background or adventuring experience to recall the specific lore they seek. Like any other action declaration, I decide if there's uncertainty as to the outcome and a meaningful consequence for failure. If both elements are present, I ask for a roll. If either element is absent, I decide if they succeed or fail and narrate accordingly.\nI don't see why that's any of the DM's business. But in any case, there are countless reasons that can be given. Some might even be worth Inspiration, if they play into the character's personality traits, ideal, bond, or flaw.\nI haven't stated that \"the rules allow the player to know this stuff.\" I said what the rules say - that it's the player who determines what the character thinks, does, and says. You seem to be conflating \"thinking\" and \"knowing\" as I have mentioned before.\nThat's for the players to work out among themselves in accordance with the shared goals of play as outlined by the rules.\nI'm hands off where it comes to the player determining what the character thinks, does, and says. That is what the rules tell me to do.\nPlayers and DM are all individually responsible via the shared goals of play to create a fun experience and an exciting, memorable story as a result of play.\nPerhaps you forget that it's the DM who narrates the result of an adventurers' actions.\nI was off for a few days because holidays lead to crazy schedules, and looking back over this... I'm just not sure if there is a point in continuing this conversation. I mean, looking at this part here\nThe smart play is to recall lore... on the lore they already decided? Again, sure, you might have changed earth elementals, but the player stating \"Earth Elementals are vulnerable to Thunder Damage\" has read the monster manual. They know this is true for standard earth elementals, and they also know that if the ones they face are not standard, then you will telegraph that, so they will just ask to roll arcana then. Wait, no, you don't allow that. They will say they try and deduce the nature of these strange earth elementals calling upon their knowledge of the arcane arts, so they can make an Arcana check. And even then, these elementals are still likely weak to thunder or ambivalent to thunder, so it isn't like the scrolls are a waste. There is just no good reason.\nI also love how you describe the action of recalling lore.\nAnd then somehow don't seem to understand that my claims about why they shouldn't just be able to declare \"Earth Elemental are weak to Thunder Damage\" as a fact. After all, to recall knowledge they need to draw upon their memories (which the player controls as well, but let us not get back down that Francis-shaped rabbit hole) or their education (which... seems like that part would help determine what things they could declare as things they know, like a barbarian that has never studied the arcane knowing all the lore of the various planes of the multiverse) and coupling that with their experience (like how low-level new adventures probably don't know the secrets of the multiverse that the player discovered three years ago in a previous game). These are the things that I am talking about why players can't just know these things.\nAnd, of course, the difference between \"Thinking\" and \"knowing\". Problem with that is, the player does know what the Monster Manual said. And they may rightfully assume that since it is an objective source, they are right. Yes, the DM can change things, but the rules of the game state that Earth Elementals are weak to Thunder Damage and are siege monsters that deal double damage to structures. They know this, so they declare that their character knows this. You, however, are stating \"well, they think it. If they want to know it they need to make a check\" which will.... what? The player has been playing their character as knowing it, but now that they stop and think they remember they are wrong? I mean, confirmation bias is a thing, people will think they are right unless given evidence they are wrong. And even then they will likely keep thinking they were right.\nOriginally Posted by Tony Vargas\nI'm just going off what iserith has said. There seems to be no meaningful consequence (by their definition) so even if I was allowed to ask a player to make a check to declare their out of character knowledge as in character, then they would auto-pass.\nThe character might know a lot about the world. But, how much? To give an IRL example, I know poison ivy is dangerous to touch. Didn't know what a fully adult vine of poison ivy looks like if it doesn't have leaves on it. (Turns out is looks like a slightly hairy wooden vine) so I didn't take proper precautions a few years ago when pulling some off an apple tree.\nSo, I don't like players just telling me things they know because it was in the Monster Manual and they read it, and assuming their character has the same knowledge (despite Iserith trying to distinguish between thinking and knowing in this scenario). I feel like there should be a check. Because while it might be something your character knows, it might not be.\nI'm not sure what exposition has to do with it.\nYeah, if it something I want the players to know, I'll just tell them. Like, for example, I've told my groups that there are no such things as metallic and chromatic dragons in my world, because color-coded alignment is boring as heck. I don't even tell them through an NPC. I just tell them, because they grew up in a world with stories of dragons, but they never heard of a \"green\" dragon or a \"blue\" dragon. They might have heard of a storm dragon able to breathe lighting and possessing the primal force of a thunderstorm that terrorized a kingdom from the mountains. Or one born of stone and flame whose breath could melt the very stones of the castle and kidnapped a princess. So, I'm telling the players \"don't go forward with this assumption, it is a bad assumption.\"\nAnd yeah, I've noticed players who figure out lore or discover a clue often aren't super excited about relaying what I've let them in on. I like using notecards, so I'm not vocalizing only for them to parrot, other times I'll just relay the information they've learned and the player will say \"I tell them that\" and we move on, but none of that has any bearing on what me and iserith are discussing, so I'm really not sure what the point is.\nYeah, I can sometimes pull on that. But, I'm the type of person who then try and figure out how that effects how the world works. Or I'd be worried about opening a new avenue of shenanigans.\nEasier if players just don't try and bring modern knowledge into a distinctly non-modern world.\nTuesday, 28th May, 2019, 01:43 AM #583\nExposition is what happens in a narrative that is analogous to what happens in an RPG when there's a knowledge check.\niserith\n\"I'm just not sure if there's a point in continuing this conversation... allow me to continue it.\"\nThe reason would be to verify the player's assumption that the earth elementals they are about to face are vulnerable to thunder. This will in part determine their resource allocation and tactics in the upcoming battle.\nI would add that the smart player in my view doesn't seek to \"make an Arcana check.\" The smart play is to shoot for automatic success. The d20 is nobody's friend.\nIt's really not my description. It's almost verbatim from the rules. Much of the stuff I say is.\nPlayers can know whatever they want and establish that their characters think whatever they want. And to be clear, I do understand your claims. It's just that they are not derived from a reading of this game. There's simply no support in this game for your position. Which is not to say you shouldn't play that way. It's just a position that's better suited for a different game.\nRegarding what I bolded above, NO, that is NOT what I am stating. Not only do you appear to conflate \"thinking\" and \"knowing,\" but you seem to be conflating \"action\" with \"check.\" I absolutely do not think that in order for the character to know something the player must make a check. Not even a little bit. In order to verify an assumption, the player describes what he or she wants to do to achieve that end. That may or may not involve a check. From the player's perspective, it is always better if it doesn't, provided they are shooting for automatic success.\nNo. If there is no uncertain outcome and\/or meaningful consequence for failure, the character would either succeed OR fail. Just because there is no check doesn't mean you always succeed.\nThe interesting thing to examine in my view is why you \"feel like there should be a check.\" I submit it is because you learned this behavior from another game where that sort of thinking was more supported than in this game. Again, this isn't a problem on its own. Play how you want. But it's useful as I see it to understand why you choose to play that way so that you can perhaps understand the position of others who don't.\nOvinomancer\nOrcus on an Off-Day (Lvl 22)\nIf I may, at this late juncture...\nThis argument is about something that's entirely downstream of the real issue, which isn't being address clearly enough (although @iserith has touched on it repeatedly): what a character thinks is irrelevant to the game structure. The game let's players have the authority to declare actions for their characters. This is, really, the only authority players have outside of character build (creations and leveling). What a character thinks is just something the player establishes as color for the action declaration if they care to do so. So, of course the player has complete authority over what the character thinks, because the rule say that they player has complete authority over what the character tries to do. You cannot have the latter if you have restrictions on the former.\nSo, in the case of the thunderwave scrolls, the player has the authority to declare this action for their character. What the character is thinking here is color -- it's not important at all; the game doesn't care at all. If, however, the player wants information from the setting, then they can establish an action declaration for how their character is attempting to gain this information, which, presumably, the player will then use for future action declarations. Again, though, what the character is thinking is not part of this except as a emergent phenomenon of play.\nNow, this is entirely anathema to a number of playstyle conceptualizations, but it is how this system is written. Anything that the players or GM wish to layer on top of the 5e system is up to them @iserith has pounded this point home often), and more power to them. But, again, if you, as GM, are placing limits on what characters are allowed to think, the outcome is that you are declaring certain categories of action declaration as off-limits. Consider why you want to do this -- what does this gain you? I used to think that it was important to have such controls to encourage \"roleplaying\" in my players, but it turns out they're adult people that don't really need such external controls and I'm having much more fun not playing thought police with my players. It's also made me realize that if my game rests on the players pretending they don't know things, then I really need to step up my game. If I'm using Earth Elementals, for example, the players maybe knowing they're weak to thunder damage is the last thing I care about -- them knowing this will not, in any way, reduce any part of my game.\niserith, Celebrim, Fenris-77, Elfcrusher, Aldarc gave XP for this post\nFenris-77\nMyrmidon (Lvl 10)\n@Ovinomancer\nI agree with everything you just said. However, i do have a lingering issue with point buy 5e. INT is a dump stat for a lot of classes, but that doesn't stop whole parties of shortbus INT 8 characters from quoting chapter and verse from the MM or coming up with diabolically fiendish plans on a regular basis. No, the game doesn't care, and as a GM running actual games, neither do I, but conceptually, or perhaps even philosophically (ecumenically?) it sets my teeth on edge.\nThe DM describes the situation. Implicit in that is what got the characters to that situation - ultimately, the entire imagined world, it's past, and the PCs experience and knowledge of the world to that point.\nSo, should DMs really decline to disabuse players of a misconception about all that scene-setting? Just on the grounds that it's interfering in what bailiwick the game leaves them?\nNow, sure, hypothetically, a player could willfully declare an action notwithstanding that description or any supplemental information the DM provides.\n\"Count Nepherii descends the grand staircase, his malevolent gaze flickers over you without betraying a hint if recognition, but you're sure it's him.\"\n\"I set my phaser on 'kill and shoot the Klingon!\"\n\"I catch butterflies!\"\n\"I invite everyone in the grand ballroom to play an RPG that doesn't suck!\"\n\"I apologize for my friend's aberrant behavior, and explain that their still recovering from a Mindflayer's psionic blast.\"\n\"Roll diplomacy again...\"\nCould be fun, actually. Players reading this thread should totally try it at their next session.\n... or not.\nI fail to see how this example wouldn't be equally bad in any approach, nor how you should expect to deal with this using an in-game approach. This problem seems much better dealt with out of game.\nCelebrim gave XP for this post\nTuesday, 28th May, 2019, 03:30 PM #589\nOriginally Posted by Ovinomancer\nIt's not a problem, just an example illustrating the latitude given players in declaring actions under one interpretation.\nThere's no need to deal with it out of game, the DM accepted their control of what their characters think\/know and the actions they declared, determined one of those actions was uncertain, and called for a check, next he'll narrate the results....\nNo, you're presenting degenerate play as a necessary outcome, if only on the edges, of the presented idea. 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{"text":"The White Horse Bookshop Marlborough\nBiology (Animal and Human)\nWine, Beer and Cocktails\nBusiness, Management & Industry\nArt, Music & Film\nHistory of Art & Design\nMusic and Film\nThe Arts: General\nArt Forms\/Techniques\nPoetry & Criticism\nAustralasia and Pacific History\nFamily History, Genealogy and Heraldry\nNat History & Nature\nDomestic Pets and Farm Animals\nPlant Life, Minerals and Countryside\nTravel, Leisure & Transport\nHistorical, Political & Military Biographies\nArts & Entertainment Biographies\nLiterary Biographies\nRoyal Biographies\nReligious & Spiritual Biographies\nScience, Tech & Eng Biographies\nDiscovery & Scientific Biographies\nEndurance & Survival\nDIY and Home Maintenance\nSociety, Education & Politics\nHorror and Ghost Stories\nWar Fiction\nEspionage and Spy Thrillers\nAdventure Thrillers\nThrillers, Crime and Mystery\nFiction Dealing With Specific Issues\nMyth, Legend and Traditional Stories\nWars and Westerns\nTeenage Romance\nChildren's Sporting Stories\nChildren's Non Fiction\nPop Up, Novelty and Sticker Books\nBaby and Board Books\nLetters, Numbers and Shapes\nGift Books For Children\nLocal Interest Wiltshire\nAuthor Signed Copies\nAudio Books & DVDs\nShopping Basket 0 item(s) - \u00a30.00\nCary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise\nAuthor: Scott Eyman\nFilm historian and acclaimed bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.\nDelivery Information for Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise\nFree delivery on all orders of \u00a320 and over orders below this value charged at \u00a32.95. An additional charge will be applied for Highlands and Islands, please see full delivery information here - Read more.\nDescription of Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise\nFilm historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished-and beloved-actors of his generation, who remains as popular as ever today. Born Archibald Leach in 1904, he came to America as a teenaged acrobat to find fame and fortune, but he was always haunted by his past. His father was a feckless alcoholic, and his mother was committed to an asylum when Archie was eleven years old. He believed her to be dead until he was informed she was alive when he was thirty-one years old. Because of this experience Grant would have difficulty forming close attachments throughout his life. He married five times and had numerous affairs. Despite a remarkable degree of success, Grant remained deeply conflicted about his past, his present, his basic identity, and even the public that worshipped him in movies such as Gunga Din, Notorious, and North by Northwest. Drawing on Grant's own papers, extensive archival research, and interviews with family and friends, this is the definitive portrait of a movie immortal.\nOpening hours from 5th January 2021\nTuesday, Thursday, Saturday: 10am - 2pm\nEmail us here: Contact Us\nTerms & Conditions and Returns Policy\nSign up to our shop newsletter\nAddress : 136 High Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1HW\nWhitehorsebooks.co.uk is the trading name of Anthony Ralph Ltd a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 08908742\n\u00a9 2015 The White Horse Bookshop Marlborough. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The faster and more powerful MINI John Cooper Works GP is set to be launched in 2020, with a limited production run of just 3,000 units worldwide.\nWith more than 295bhp and featuring MINI TwinPower Turbo Technology, the new MINI John Cooper Works GP is set to become the fastest and most powerful MINI ever to be approved for use on the road and will be produced in a limited number of just 3,000 units for worldwide sale.\nThe MINI John Cooper Works GP is currently under the production development phase and will have a limited production run of just 3,000 units The MINI John Cooper Works GP Concept was presented for the first time in September 2017 at Frankfurt Motor Show. With large front and rear aprons, a striking roof spoiler and the extensive use of lightweight materials, the design study picked up where the previous two John Cooper Works GP production models left off.\nSerial production development of the new MINI John Cooper Works GP is now entering its crucial phase - namely on the race track, where whole-vehicle testing is set to be carried out in the coming months.\nDrawing on tradition-steeped John Cooper Works expertise, the suspension developed specifically for this model will be precisely adapted to the exceptionally high output of the new engine. Rigorously defined aerodynamic properties and optimised weight will be combined with the brand's finest drive and suspension technology to ensure thrilling performance characteristics.\nThe new MINI John Cooper Works GP is based on the principle of tapping into the sporting genes of the MINI brand's DNA to create a superior racing machine.\nThe Nurburgring Nordschleife lap time achieved by the predecessor model was eight minutes and 23 seconds - faster than many a sports car from higher segments. The 2012 model was produced in a limited quantity of 2,000 vehicles, as was the MINI Cooper S with John Cooper Works GP Kit which was released in 2006. Both have since become much-coveted collector's items.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NFL Week 10 Preview: Detroit Lions @ Chicago Bears\nPosted By: Charlie Kelbel November 8, 2018\nChicago Bears Quarterback Mitchell Trubisky Will Look To Build On The Team's Turnaround Season Against The Detroit Lions Who Have Won Nine Out The Last Ten Matchups Between The Two Teams.\nThe Detroit Lions season is rapidly disappearing. The team is now in a position where they likely have to win seven out of their final eight games to make the postseason. Although that's not out of the realm of possibility, it really is not looking likely at this point. The Golden Tate trade was a sign that the team is really looking to the future and is not going all in on this season in particular. Special Teams Coordinator Joe Marciano was also let go this week with head coach Matt Patricia calling it a \"necessary move.\" All that being said, fans need to do their best to enjoy the second half season because once it's over we have another eight months with no real football. For now, we turn our attention to the Chicago Bears.\nThis Weeks Opponent: The Chicago Bears\nThe Bears come into this week as a 5-3 team and in a tie with the Minnesota Vikings at first in the division. The last two weeks have been laughers for Chicago: a 41-9 win against Buffalo, and a 24-10 win against the Jets. If you look at the Bears on a surface level statistically, they look like a legitimate Super Bowl contender. You also have to take their level of competition to this point into the equation though. A 5-3 record is a disappointment to this point for a team that boasts the league's fifth-rated offense and fourth-rated defense.\nI can take shots at Chicago all I want but the reality is that the Lions haven't exactly won every game that they should have either. While Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky is by no means a proven quarterback, the one thing about the Bears that really is not up for debate is the eliteness of their defense. When they added linebacker Khalil Mack prior to week one, that really put them over the top, but even with him sidelined for the last two weeks they only gave up a total of 19 points. Chicago's defense will almost undoubtedly do their job, but even with the number of possessions that his defense has given him, there are still a lot of question marks around the Trubisky and the Chicago offense.\nDo The Bears Really Have A Legit QB?\nLast season, cornerback Darius Slay had five total passes deflected and two interceptions against the Bears. Trubisky's QBR in the two games against the Lions last year were 53 and 15 respectively. Unfortunately for their rookie QB, the Bears really didn't try to make it difficult for opponents to smother their receivers last season. Wide receiver Dontrelle Inman against Slay, who wins that matchup 90 percent of the time? This season they brought in Allen Robinson, Taylor Gabriel, and second-round pick Anthony Miller to add depth at wide receiver. These additions have proven to be helpful in the progression of the young quarterback.\nTrubisky was able to keep the Bears in it at home last season, despite not having any weapons outside of running backs Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen, and the Lions needed a field goal in the final two minutes to win it. This worries me because, with a few decent receivers at his disposal and a crazy good defense, the mediocre play might be all that's necessary to beat the Lions in Chicago.\nThanks for reading! Don't forget to follow @charleskelbel on Twitter and leave your thoughts on the Detroit Lions subreddit.\nThe Eighth Day of Draftmas: April 27, 2017\nDetroit Lions Draftmas 2018: Five Draft Rumors\nWriters' Round Table: Most Exciting Detroit Lions Rookie Addition\n2017 Season Position Overview: Depth Nonexistent On Defensive Line","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"World Press Photo Disqualification and the Use of Photoshop\nPaul Sullivan\nPaul Sullivan looks at some of the nebulous \"industry standard\" practices regarding photoshopping and journalism in the context of the World Press Photo contest disqualifying a recent winning entry.\nAs reported on by the New York Times and the British Journal of Photography, last week saw the World Press Photo disqualify Stepan Rudik, one of the winners of this year's contest, after concluding that he had digitally manipulated his work.\nRudik's disqualified entry, called \"Street fighting, Kiev, Ukraine\", was shot for the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. It had won 3rd prize in Sports Features before being ruled out.\nThe manipulation involved removing the foot of one of the subjects in a photo, which broke the competition rule that stated: \"The content of the image must not be altered. Only retouching which conforms to the currently accepted standards in the industry is allowed.\"\nRudik has announced that he is not arguing with the decision of the jury and has decided to make the original photograph public in order to save his reputation as a photographer. You can see it here.\nI think it's both savvy and brave of Rudik to face up to the WPP decision in this way, but the decision itself is interesting too, in that it gives an insight into the world of photo reportage and image correction generally.\n. . .it seems not to bother the WPP jury that the photo has been cropped, desaturated, vignetted and granulated to create a vastly different image to the original (in terms of appearance, if not subject or theme). They only ruled it out on the grounds that the small portion of foot was removed.\nFor instance if we peek at the original, it's in all honesty a fairly average shot. The manipulated image is much more dramatic than the original, honing in on the essence of the original scene without necessarily misrepresenting the \"story\" Rudik wants to tell.\nYet it raises some questions: why didn't Rudik shoot more frames, from different angles? Why didn't he focus in on the fighter's hand at the time? Why didn't he even leave the foot in the final shot, since there was so much manipulation it would have been barely noticed?\nAlso, it seems not to bother the WPP jury that the photo has been cropped, desaturated, vignetted and granulated to create a vastly different image to the original (in terms of appearance, if not subject or theme). They only ruled it out on the grounds that the small portion of foot was removed.\nTheir rules about \"currently accepted standards in the industry\" seem a little vague don't they? And you have to wonder what the real difference is between, say, cropping out all the other unwanted elements in the original and taking out a few cm of errant footwear. As can be seen over at Peta Pixel, the decision has opened up a whose can of worms on issues of authenticity and photographic post-processing in general.\nWe'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter in the comments box below.\nMore on Photo + Video + Film\nThe 9 most liked photos on Matador's Instagram in 2019\nAryana Azari\n22 solo female travelers give their top travel tips\nKarl Watson\nWatch: Earth's lost 8th continent is in the South Pacific\nPhotos: Meet the cat and dog besties hiking the Colorado wilderness together\nHere is why traveling to Iceland is the best way to reconnect with yourself and nature\nMatthew Hutchinson\nWatch: Timeline of same-sex marriage equality around the world\n17 female travel photographers who slayed 2017\nKate Siobhan Mulligan\nWatch: nightmare landing at a Turkish airport ends up with the airplane over a cliff\nMatador Original Video Series: People of Paradise Ep. 4\nMatador Team\nWATCH: Are there ancient Mayan secrets in this giant underwater cave?\n13 ways to take stronger, more powerful images of the ocean\n13 travel photographers you need to watch for in 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bruins Alumni, Light Foundation Annual Game is About More than Hockey\nDecember 20, 2022 \/ Gayle Troiani \/ 0 Comments\n(Photo Credit: Gayle Troiani\/BNG Productions, LLC)\nBy: Gayle Troiani | Follow me on Twitter @LadyBruinsFan\nWhen the Boston Bruins Alumni lace up the skates and take the ice for a game, it's not for points, to move up in the standings, or even for awards, it's to help an organization raise money and awareness for their charity. That was precisely the case when the black and gold of yesteryear took the ice against the Light Foundation All-Stars at Warrior Ice Arena on December 18.\nThe latest game saw the Alumni defeating the All-Stars 13-9, but the game meant so much more this time because it was the last event for President Rick Middleton before he hands the reigns over to Frank Simonetti. Middleton served 15 years as alumni president. Unfortunately, Middleton had to miss the game against the Warrior for Life Foundation on December 3 due to the flu.\n\"I did not want to miss this one,\" Middleton said. \"We've played this game for years down in Providence. It's always a fun game. It's always a bit of a competitive game. Matt (Light), at his Foundation, is such a great guy. We always like to help out other athletes and their causes.\"\nJohn Horrigan interviewing @NHLBruinsAlumni President Rick Middleton before the @LightFoundation game pic.twitter.com\/VI98nctvei\n\u2014 Gayle (@LadyBruinsFan) December 18, 2022\nMiddleton said that even though they play to win, putting the roster together for each charity event can be tricky because he never knows what type of players the opposing team will have. In addition, he has a lot of alumni to consider.\n\"My job is to keep our guys happy,\" he explained. \"I can't just put in all our young guys every game because we want to win. And we play to win, but we don't play to blow teams out. That's why it's real out there; it's a competitive game.\"\nMiddleton added that it's more important for the former players to become a part of the alumni, whether they play in games or not. The alumni had 35 former Boston players that may have played just a handful of games for the Bruins or years for the Bruins. It doesn't matter how long they wore the uniform. Middleton said marquee players and guys that just played maybe even one game are treated the same way, and he believes the guys appreciate that.\nThe Alumni put former players Zdeno Chara, Ray Bourque, Joe Mullin, Chris Bourque, Mark Mowers, Bob Sweeney, Tim Sweeney, Bob Beers, and Simonetti on the ice against the Light Foundation All-Stars. In contrast, Light Foundation Board Member Bob Loffredo put together a team of Rhode Island hockey guys he grew up playing hockey with, and the results were not what he wanted.\n\u2066@LightFoundation\u2069 All-Stars Captain Bob Loffredo talking with John Horrigan after the \u2066@NHLBruinsAlumni\u2069 \"grudge match\" pic.twitter.com\/qrf0Ru2Fz1\n\"We had them for a while, but a couple of their goals were a little sketchy if you ask me,\" Loffredo joked. \"It's all for a good cause. We'll get them next year.\"\nLoffredo not only plays in the game but is also the organizer of the event, which Matt Light, founder of the Light Foundation, appreciates.\n\"It was all Bobby; he knew I know nothing about hockey,\" Light explained. \"He told me he would take care of everything. [\u2026] This (event) has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. Those dollars go a long, long way.\"\nMatt Light of the @LightFoundation and Mark Willand of @NHLBruinsAlumni before the game pic.twitter.com\/7o8i5gGUwR\nLight said being an athlete from New England is special and recognizes that the success of the sports franchises in the region would be nothing without the fans. He expressed that fans' support does not go unnoticed, which is why he takes the time to talk with them at events like these.\n\"For anybody that has played in this region, everyone takes pride in seeing the organization do well,\" Light said. \"I think what you have in New England is unique because you have every major sports team and franchise; they are very well represented. It's a brotherhood across the board.\n\"I think the Bruins Alumni, without a shadow of a doubt, are the best at what they do within their communities. I don't think there's another NHL team that holds a candle to what they do and how they organize it, and that speaks to the fans here.\"\nThe Bruins Alumni may have defeated the Light Foundation All-Stars, but the kids that the Foundation helps are the true winners. Loffredo and Light said the best part of what they do is seeing the kids they help come back and talk about their success to those in the program.\n2022-23, Boston, Boston Bruins, Bruins Alumni, Bruins Charity, Bruins History, Warrior Ice Arena\nBob BeersBob LoffredoBob SweeneyChris BourqueFrank SimonettiJoey MullenJohn HorriganMark MowersMark WillandMatt LightRay Bourquerick MiddletonTim SweeneyZdeno Chara\nPatience is A Virtue: Jeremy Swayman\n94 To Pass Orr: Boston Bruin Brad Marchand Chases History","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New renewables lead created at Ashtead Technology\nBy Reporter\nScott Stephen\nAshtead Technology has created a new role to head up its increasing activities in renewable energy.\nThe integrated underwater technology and services company has appointed Scott Stephen to oversee the firm's growing presence and enhance its service offering to support the global renewables market.\nBased at Ashtead's recently opened Thainstone technology centre in Aberdeenshire, UK, Mr Stephen has been promoted to the role after four years with the company latterly as an asset integrity business development manager and formerly as NDT sales manager.\nFollowing a handful of strategic acquisitions over the past four years, Ashtead Technology has offshore operational bases in key locations including Abu Dhabi, Broussard, Halifax, Houma, Houston, London and Singapore. The company has been servicing the energy sector for 36 years with its bespoke underwater solutions, tools and systems.\nThe firm has in recent years been diversifying into the renewables market where its equipment fleet and engineering skills developed to support the oil and gas industry are also suited to the requirements of offshore wind developers' installation and operations and maintenance (O&M) work.\nCommenting on his appointment, Mr Stephen said: \"Over the past four years with Ashtead Technology, I have developed a deep understanding of our customers' strategic priorities and how best to drive results for them. I am very excited about my appointment and I'm looking forward to supporting our expanding renewables client base around the world.\"\nDavid Mair, Ashtead Technology business development director, added: \"Scott has proven to be a great asset to the business, developing many long-term customer relationships through commitment to supporting their project requirements. The offshore renewables industry is a fast-growing market, and we want to harness the momentum building within Ashtead Technology and with our clients to realise our full potential across the global energy sector.\"\nA specialist in underwater construction, O&M and decommissioning services, Ashtead Technology boasts one of the largest equipment fleets in the industry, coupled with the R&D capabilities to develop bespoke solutions.\nBalmoral 'ready to go' on new offshore wind factories, but standardisation needed\nAshtead Technology\nPetronas and ExxonMobil sign CCS project deals\nJapan to drive low-carbon energy investment into Western Australia","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Use products made of dung, urine; help protect cows: Minister\nBengaluru, Jan 7 (PTI) Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chauhan on Thursday appealed to people to help protect cows by using soaps, shampoos, incense sticks and other products made of cow dung and urine.\n'Besides milk, curd, butter and ghee, there are products made from cow dung and urine such as soap, shampoo, incense sticks, gaubhasma, panchagavya, vermicompost, gaunyle and pesticides. People should use them more and cooperate in protecting the cow. A study will also be conducted about this,' Chauhan said in a statement.\nThe Minister's statement comes in the backdrop of the state government promulgating on January 5 the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Ordinance that awards punishment for killing of cattle and offers protection to those acting in good faith to save them, as the Bill to this effect is yet to be cleared by the legislative council.\nStating that officials have been asked to ensure that cows rescued from smuggling and slaughter are handed over to gaushalas, the Minister said details have been gathered regarding estimated cost incurred in management of cows and arrangements in this regard following cow slaughter ban.\nAfter discussion with the Chief Minister, further action would be taken, he said.\n'Action will be taken regarding gaushalas and management of cows in the days to come,' he said.\nUnder the ordinance, slaughter of cattle would lead to imprisonment of upto 3 to 7 years and a fine ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh, and subsequent offences would attract imprisonment of upto 7 years and a fine from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh.\nThe Minister also said that the citizens would be encouraged if they come forward for rearing cows that have been rescued.\n'If financially able and those interested come forward to rear them at their houses, it would give further strength to conservation efforts,' he added. PTI KSU NVG NVG\nKim Kardashian shoots racy pictures amid divorce rumours\nIGM Recruitment 2021: 54 vacancies open for various positions, apply at igmkolkata.spmcil.com\nThere are 54 vacancies available, of which 16 are for the position of Junior Technician, 12 for Junior Office Assistant, 10 each for Junior Bullion Assistant and supervisor and there are 6 vacancies for the post of Engraver III.\nIGM Kolkata Announces Recruitment on 54 Vacancies for Various Posts, Check Details Here\nIGM will conduct the online examination 2021 at selected centres tentatively between March and April 2021.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Business JPMorgan CEO says 2022 could bring more than four rate hikes\nJPMorgan CEO says 2022 could bring more than four rate hikes\nFILE PHOTO: JP Morgan Chase & Co. corporate headquarters in New York\nBy David Henry and Matt Scuffham\nNEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said on Monday the economy is generating so much inflation that the Federal Reserve might have to raise short-term interest rates https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/funds\/goldman-sachs-expects-four-fed-rate-hikes-this-year-2022-01-10 more than four times this year.\nSpeaking to CNBC, Dimon said, \"It's possible that inflation https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us\/us-consumer-prices-increase-further-november-2021-12-10 is worse than people think. I, personally, would be surprised if it's just four increases this year. Four would be very easy for the economy to absorb.\"\nDimon spoke after economists at JPMorgan and some other Wall Street banks said they expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates four times this year in a quicker pace than they had predicted earlier.\nCiting signs that the economy is strong, Dimon said consumers had never been in better financial shape, evidenced by high checking account balances, payments on debt and increased home values.\nBut he also warned that financial markets will fluctuate regardless of how the economy is going.\n\"We're expecting that the market will have a lot of volatility this year as rates go up, and people do projections and look at the effects of interest rates on businesses differently than they did before,\" Dimon said.\nAs Dimon spoke, volatility in the stock and bond markets continued.\nWall Street's main indexes tumbled on falling prices for technology stocks, which have been hit hard by expectations for higher U.S. Treasury yields. The Nasdaq was down nearly 2% and about 9% below its Nov. 19 closing record.\nThe benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rose to its highest level in nearly two years. Investors sold the securities in anticipation that the Federal Reserve will begin its tightening policy with an interest rate hike as soon as March.\nThe yield on the 10-year reached as high as 1.805%, up every day this year from 1.5118% on New Year's Eve.\nThe Fed has already begun reducing the pace of asset purchases, the first step in paring back stimulus measures introduced during the pandemic.\n\"If we are lucky, the Fed will slow things down and we will have a soft landing,\" Dimon said.\nAsked about remote working policies during the coronavirus pandemic, Dimon said JPMorgan would continue to be flexible on working from home, provided it benefited the bank's clients.\nLast week, Citigroup Inc said staff in the United States who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 14 would be placed on unpaid leave and fired at the end of the month unless they are granted an exemption.\nDimon suggested that JPMorgan's current policy of requiring New York City employees to be vaccinated before coming to the office could be extended to terminate those who refuse to be vaccinated.\n\"If you aren't going to get vaxxed, you won't be able to work in that office. We're not going to pay you to not work in the office,\" Dimon said.\nOn return-to-work questions, Dimon said, \"We don't have to answer this right away.\"\n(Reporting by David Henry and Matt Scuffham in New York; Editing by Nick Zieminski and David Gregorio)\nPrevious articleWhatsApp co-founder Acton named Signal's interim CEO\nNext articleTilray posts surprise profit on cost cuts, pledges more savings\nChina to order developers to disclose commercial paper debt every month \u2013 sources\nExclusive: Toshiba CEO faced board ouster before $20 billion buyout offer \u2013 sources\nOmicron turbulence looms over U.S. airline earnings\nBristol Myers first-quarter earnings miss expectations as cancer drugs underperform\nKnighthead, Certares sweetened bid values Hertz at over $6.2 billion: Bloomberg News\nExclusive: Leonardo hack targeted military plane details, arrest warrant shows\nHigh-end cognacs lift spirits at Remy Cointreau\nNew Exxon board member Hietala brings business transformation experience","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dennis Port man charged with 7th OUI\nCynthia McCormick\ncmccormick@capecodonline.com\nBARNSTABLE \u2014 A 62-year-old Dennis Port man pleaded not guilty Thursday in Barnstable District Court to a charge of operating under the influence of alcohol for the seventh time.\nEdward Flanagan also was charged with negligent operation of a motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license after nearly hitting a Barnstable police cruiser Wednesday evening, according to a police report filed with court documents.\nFlanagan had stopped for a red light at Phinney's Lane just before 7 p.m. Wednesday but suddenly took a right turn on Falmouth Road, causing the officer heading west on Falmouth Road to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision, a police report says.\nAfter pulling Flanagan over in a parking lot, the officer noticed Flanagan had a strong odor of alcohol, slurred, thick speech and bloodshot and glassy eyes, the report says.\nFlanagan was unable to recite the entire alphabet and was unsteady on his feet, according to the report, which said police found two one-liter bottles of peppermint schnapps under the driver's seat, both of which were partially empty.\nFlanagan was arrested on a total of five charges, including having an open container of alcohol in the vehicle and failure to yield at an intersection.\nHe is scheduled to return to court Jan. 9 for a pretrial hearing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Intersection of faith, culture, and politics\nHelp JWR Survive and Thrive\nPause for a moment and recall all of the articles you\\'ve read this year that left you impressed. And all of those you\\'ve forwarded to others. Or shared on social media.Remember that sense of gratification \ufffd especially when you were able to effectively dismantle those who mock our shared values?\nRemember your gratitude for having found JWR?\nNow is the time to act on those feelings.\nIndeed, help guarantee that they continue\nIf we all gave $10, this fundraiser would be over in less than 30 minutes.\n$5 $10 $20 $50 $100\n' ); });\nHome Columnists Toons Lifestyles About JWR \u25b8 Daily Newsletter\nIrresponsible 'Education'\n#rba1_08 \/ gettyimages.com\nContact The Editor Articles By This Author\nAlicia Colon: Jewish self-loathing\nDmitriy Shapiro: Rand repents?\nKelsey Dallas: OMG: Is profanity losing its punch?\nEric Schulzke: Daydreaming may be the next childhood psychiatric target\nKathryn Moody: Investors, Are You Ready for the Next Global Crisis?\nManuel Schiffres\nMutual Fund Rankings, 2014\nMeghan Streit: Pitching In When Caregivers Need Help\nJanet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D.N., F.A.N.D: How to prevent a second (and first) heart attack thru diet\nThe Kosher Gourmet by Diane Rossen Worthington: Caprese is a light, fresh salad; the perfect quick and easy accompaniment to any summer meal\nMark Steyn: You Want Nazis?\nGabriel Schoenfeld: War Crimes in Gaza?\nJonathan Tobin: Care about the Jewish state's future? Obama, in interview, reveals even more reasons to worry\nAlan M. Dershowitz: Confirmed: Needless death and destruction in Gaza\nKatie Nielsen: As a mother, I'm all I need to be\nCameron Huddleston: 18 Retailers That Offer Price Adjustments\nNellie S. Huang: The Best Health Mutual Funds to Buy Now\nBrierly Wright, M.S., R.D.: Try these 'secret-weapon' foods to boost your changes of losing weight\nThe Kosher Gourmet by Jessica Yadegaran: Take some relish in pickled goodies (5 recipes!)\nRabbi Berel Wein: Mission men\nMona Charen: The UN Prevents Peace\nMark A. Kellner: OMG: Is profanity losing its punch?\nKimberly Lankford: 50 Ways to Cut Your Health Care Costs\nJames K. Glassman: Investors, Are You Ready for the Next Global Crisis?\nThese foods can help keep your skin smooth and supple\nMarsha McCulloch, M.S., R.D.: Think twice before giving up grains\nThe Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert\nGoddard College's recent decision to have its students addressed from prison by a convicted cop killer is just one of many unbelievably irresponsible self-indulgences by \"educators\" in our schools and colleges.\nSuch \"educators\" teach minorities born with an incredibly valuable windfall gain \u2014 American citizenship \u2014 that they are victims who have a grievance against people today who have done nothing to them, because of what other people did in other times. If those individuals who feel aggrieved could sell their American citizenship to eager buyers from around the world and leave, everybody would probably be better off. Those who leave would get not only a substantial sum of money \u2014 probably $100,000 or more \u2014 they would also get a valuable dose of reality elsewhere.\nNothing is easier than to prove that America, or any other society of human beings, is far from being the perfect gem that any of us can conjure up in our imagination. But, when you look around the world today or look back through history, you can get a very painfully sobering sense of what a challenge it can be in the real world to maintain even common decency among human beings.\nLiving just one year in the Middle East would be an education in reality that could obliterate years of indoctrination in grievances that passes for education in too many of our schools, colleges and universities. You could go on to get a postgraduate education in reality in some place like North Korea.\nIf you prefer to get your education in the comfort of a library, rather than in person amid the horrors, you might study the history of the sadistic massacres of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire or the heart-wrenching story of Stalin's man-made 1930s famine in the Soviet Union that killed as many millions of people as Hitler's Holocaust did in the 1940s.\nMao's man-made famine in China killed more people than the Soviet famine and the Nazi Holocaust combined. And we should not deny their rightful place in history's chamber of horrors to the 1970s Cambodian dehumanization and slaughters that killed off at least a quarter of the entire population of that country.\nWhat about slavery? Slavery certainly has its place among the horrors of humanity. But our \"educators\" today, along with the media, present a highly edited segment of the history of slavery. Those who have been through our schools and colleges, or who have seen our movies or television miniseries, may well come away thinking that slavery means white people enslaving black people. But slavery was a worldwide curse for thousands of years, as far back as recorded history goes.\nOver all that expanse of time and space, it is very unlikely that most slaves, or most slave owners, were either black or white. Slavery was common among the vast populations in Asia. Slavery was also common among the Polynesians, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere enslaved other indigenous peoples before anyone on this side of the Atlantic had ever seen a European.\nMore whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.\nIn addition to the chilling picture that it paints of human nature, it means that Americans today \u2014 all Americans \u2014 are among the luckiest people who have ever inhabited this planet. Most Americans living in officially defined poverty today have such things as central air-conditioning, cable television, a microwave oven and a motor vehicle.\nA scholar who spent years studying Latin America said that what is defined as poverty in the United States today is upper middle class in Mexico.\nDo we still need to do better? Yes! Human beings all over the world are not even close to running out of room for improvement.\nThere is so much knowledge and skills that need to be transmitted to the young that turning schools and colleges into indoctrination centers is a major and reckless disservice to them and to American society, which is vulnerable as all human societies have always been, especially those that are decent.\nComment by clicking here.\nThomas Sowell, a National Humanities Medal winner, is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.\n\u00a9 2021 Creators Syndicate","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Out of the dust, a new empire\nI recently watched Empire of Dust, the 2011 documentary about Chinese development in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\nPerhaps you, like me, have trouble keeping straight in your head which is which between Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo has Brazzaville, and is merely very bad. The Democratic Republic of Congo has Kinshasa, and stakes a strong claim to being among the worst countries on the planet. An easy mnemonic is that because democracy makes everything in Africa worse, the Democratic Republic of Congo is obviously the bad one. The DRC is a country so screwed up that you can have a war where 5-6 million people die, and you never hear about it because the whole thing is so confusing and depressing that nobody knows what narrative to give, and it's hard to cast as a simple morality play.\nI'd seen the trailer linked in a few places, and wanted to watch the whole thing. If you don't have the patience for the remaining 75 minutes, the trailer below is well worth watching for a flavor:\nThe whole documentary can be found here.\nAs is appropriate, the trailer contains the most hilarious and quotable lines. No-BS Chinese guy (Lao Yang) delivering some tough realtalk to an African guy (Eddy), saying that the latter's country was left lots of infrastructure and development potential by the colonials when they left, and they (the Congolese) squandered it all through laziness and poor governance. Plus since the Chinese guy is actually working there, he has a lot more scope to claim that he knows whereof he talks. In other words, you can't just accuse him of ignorance - have you been to the DRC? Of course not. So if you don't like his words, you have to find some other angle of attack.\nTo a western audience, it has the wonderful frission similar to playing cards against humanity - hearing someone utter hilarious taboos, but here with the possibility that they might be true. Eddy gives textbook rationalizations, but with a look as though he doesn't really believe them, and just smiles as he's called on them. Meanwhile, Lao Yang has the easterner's qualified immunity from charges of racism that forces the audience to listen a little longer. Of course, modern progressives would say he is racist (I think - it's hard to keep track of whether minorities can still be racist in The Current Year, or whether the Chinese count as minorities). But in any case, even if one could address him directly, one knows with certainty that if you accused him of racism, neither he, nor his employers, nor his countrymen, would give a flying fig. Take away the power of accusations of witchcraft, and watch how quickly people lose interest in the whole topic of witches.\nWhile the density of both hilarity and insight is lower in the rest of the documentary than in the trailer, it is nonetheless interesting. Because while the trailer mostly gores progressive oxen, the rest of the documentary contains parts that might somewhat surprise a reactionary.\nIn particular, when the subject of the Chinese in Africa comes up, the standard perspective seems to be that the Chinese are swallowing the choicest parts of the continent in a quest for resource extraction and strategic pieces of infrastructure. They are on track, so the narrative goes, to be the continent's next colonial powers, and probably a lot less charitable than the Europeans they belatedly replace.\nIf the documentary has one lesson, it is this: rumors of a massive Chinese empire rising rapidly on the African continent are greatly exaggerated. Instead, one gets the impression of Chinese management having to battle with the same problems as everyone else in Africa.\nSuppliers are unreliable. Lao Yang drives for a long time to try to find a gravel supplier for his cement project. When he gets there, the workers are standing idle around the machines, because the boss hasn't turned up yet. It's midday. They don't know when he'll be in. They've called him. They can't do anything until he arrives.\nIndeed, similar problems arise with the Chinese company's own native workforce. It's a rotating cast who sometimes turn up, and sometimes don't. They need to have basic instructions repeated to them. Don't lose your equipment, or your pay will be docked. Don't slack off, but take your work seriously. Don't steal from the worksite. These are all things that I wouldn't have thought to mention as a manager, since they seem to go without saying. Apparently, not in the DRC. Various Chinese employees recount how they would leave a worksite having given instructions for the Congolese to complete a task, and find out later that the whole Congolese workforce had just wandered off ten minutes later.\nThe other slightly incongruous aspect that you might be pondering from the trailer - how did they find a well-dressed, eloquent, Chinese-speaking Congolese guy to be the interlocutor to the main Chinese boss, in the middle of nowhere DRC? And why is he so willing to just sit there and take Lao Yang's abuse? You quickly learn that Eddy is the translator, so doesn't really have a choice in the matter. He seems quite competent, and indeed a workforce of Eddies would likely do well. But the rest of the workers seem cut from quite a different cloth. And even with Eddy, one senses flashes of resentment and dual loyalty. When talking with a gravel supplier, Lao Yang is trying to find out where the guy is buying it. Eddy tells the Congelese gravel guy that the Chinese will just try to buy the entire operation - in other words, don't tell him, because it will put you out of business. Eddy of course doesn't translate this part of the discussion back into Chinese, but we as the audience get to hear both parts.\nAll of which might make you wonder - why do the Chinese put up with all this? Why don't they just bring in their own workforce? Towards the end, one gets the answer. They don't have a choice. Far from being a superpower, in the middle of the DRC, they're a very small minority, and their continued viability is dependent on them being able to give jobs to the Congolese, and presumably grease enough palms in the local government that everyone finds them to be beneficial overall.\nIndeed, for all the claims about how the Chinese will make nasty neo-colonial dictators, the overwhelming attitude of the Chinese characters to their Congolese workers and circumstances is weariness and low level frustration. There's little evidence of abuse, or terrible work conditions, or even any threat of force whatsoever. It's quite possible that this exists, and the filmmakers just chose to not depict it in order to get access. Yet the picture presented seems credible, and you can see why. The workers in the Chinese company are basically like a foreign embassy. They're a tiny number of foreigners who are not only far from home, but far from any help that home can offer. If the natives turn hostile, you're done. The ability of the Chinese to project force into the middle of the DRC in a targeted, credible way on short notice is pretty damn close to zero. The same would probably be true for westerners, to be honest. If you all get chopped up, what's the Chinese government going to do? Send its one aircraft carrier to bomb random bits of the DRC in revenge? The country barely even has a functioning government. What would it even achieve?\nAnd so you just have to muddle along as best you can. The narrative of the story is primarily about the attempt to find gravel for a cement factory, and the various travails they encounter along the way. It's portrayed as a microcosm of the struggle of the whole Chinese project. And the general sense one gets is that it's far from obvious that they'll actually succeed. The things that would make it hard for you to get a successful commercial operation going in the DRC are pretty much the same problems that the Chinese face. In the battle between Chinese commercial zeal, and Africa's intractably inhospitable commercial environment, it's not clear who to bet on.\nThere's a related aspect, which reactionaries will admit about China, but then oddly forget when it comes to the Chinese in the African context. To wit: the Chinese approach to development isn't exactly first rate either. It tends to be a bit slap-dash and poorly planned, with strong central demands to just get things done resulting in buildings that have a habit of falling down, collapsing holes in sidewalks, poisoned baby formula etc. And that's in China. In other words, this ain't a Japanese Just-In-Time inventory management system. When Lao Yang finally finds a potential gravel supplier, he can't tell him exactly how much gravel he's going to need, or when he's going to be paid. Lao tells him, essentially, I'll pay as the money comes in. To which I found myself thinking - they haven't committed the damn money yet? Stop just blaming the Congolese if your own lines of credit aren't set up. How is this guy meant to plan ahead to supply you with gravel if you can't give him a clear timetable of what you need and when?\nAnd if you know anything about operations management, you know that the problem of unreliable suppliers has a well known solution - stockpile inventories in advance to take into account the estimated distribution of delays, so you only have a managably low probability of running out. In other words, it's only the first instance of delay that is a good excuse for running short. If you know you're dealing with jokers, you should be able to at least partially plan around them being jokers. Did the need for gravel just suddenly arise yesterday? Was this an unanticipated event in the development of a cement factory? Don't make me laugh.\nInstead, for all the view of China as a monolith engaging in development, the individual Chinese managers seemed pretty much on their own, trying to scrounge around as best they could, and not always succeeding. In other words, watching the documentary I came away with an unexpected feeling of sympathy for the Chinese in the DRC. Maybe they're going to take over the place, but it's going to be a hell of a slog in the mean time for the people on the ground. It's like with neighbourhood development. Sometimes, the gentrifiers beat out the ghetto. Sometimes the ghetto wins. It's not always easy to say in advance which way it will go.\nBut I can say the following. The Holmes Investment Trust is sure as hell not going to be setting up any cement factories in the Congo anytime soon.\nLabels: Development, Pop Culture, The Third World\nThe Button C Option","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[ARCHIVED] Bismarck Fire Department responds to fire trailer home\nAt approximately 11:01 AM on Tuesday, October 23, the Central Dakota Communications Center received a report of a fire at a residence on the 200 block of Boeing Avenue. The Bismarck Fire Department was dispatched to investigate. The first arriving fire crew reported a trailer home with fire and heavy smoke showing from the exterior. The fire crew established command, and made contact with a resident who reported that everyone was out of the home.\nCommand conducted a scene size-up and found heavy fire and dark smoke showing from the West side of the home. The fire crews deployed hose lines and attacked the fire. Additional fire units arrived on scene and assisted with establishing a water supply, deploying additional hose lines, and conducting a search of the trailer. Once the fire was extinguished, fire crews conducted an overhaul operation to find and extinguish any smoldering materials. When the overhaul operation was complete the trailer home was ventilated and a fire investigation was conducted.\nSix fire department apparatus and seventeen firefighters were dispatched to the scene. Bismarck Police Department assisted with scene control. Metro Area Ambulance was on scene to provide medical support. MDU and Capital Electric were called to the scene to secure utilities. Crisis Care Chaplaincy was on scene to support the occupants and the American Red Cross was notified.\nThere was substantial fire and smoke damage to the structure. The building was occupied at the time of the fire. There were no injuries to the occupants of the home. The occupants of the home were displaced by the fire. There were no injuries to first responders. The fire originated in a bedroom of the home and the cause has been classified as undetermined.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.\"\n~Chinese Proverb\nIt's easy to stay stuck in what we \"should have, could have, would have done if things had been different\" mode. But what about today? What's our excuse for not doing it now?\n\u25aa Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her first book, Little House on the Prairie, at age 65.\n\u25aa Julia Child had her first taste of French food at 35 and wrote her first cookbook at 49.\n\u25aa Grandma Moses began painting at the age of 76 after arthritis made embroidery too difficult.\n\u25aa Sister Marion Irvine started running at 47 after being overweight and smoking two packs a day. She went on to qualify for the Olympic marathon trials at age 54.\nChoose today to rekindle a dream, passion, or wish you have let lay dormant. It's never too late!\nWishes to you for a simply beautiful day!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Entertainment News Celebrities across the world pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth...\nEntertainment NewsWorld\nCelebrities across the world pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II\nQueen Elizabeth II departs the Service of Thanksgiving for the life of the Duke of Edinburgh in London in March. File Photo by Neil Hall\/BP\nSept. 9 (BP) \u2014 Tributes from celebrities across the globe poured in following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reining monarch in British history.\nThe queen died on Thursday following seven decades on the throne, and public figures released statements and messages on social media to pay their respects.\nThis includes some of the most iconic figures in British pop culture.\nElton John, who knew and worked with the queen extensively, wrote that he was \"deeply saddened\" to hear of her passing.\n\"She was an inspiring presence to be around and led the country through some of our greatest and darkest moments with grace, decent and a genuine caring warmth,\" the iconic singer said. \"Queen Elizabeth has been a huge part of my life from childhood to this day, and I will miss her dearly.\"\nThis sentiment was echoed by Mick Jagger, the lead singer of iconic British rock band The Rolling Stones, who wrote, \"For my whole life Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has always been there.\"\n\"In my childhood I can recall watching her wedding highlights on TV. I remember her as a beautiful young lady, to the much-beloved grandmother of the nation. My deepest sympathies are with the royal family,\" Jagger added.\nFor my whole life Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has always been there. In my childhood I can recall watching her wedding highlights on TV. I remember her as a beautiful young lady, to the much beloved grandmother of the nation. My deepest sympathies are with the Royal family. pic.twitter.com\/3JLILZDKwK\u2014 Mick Jagger (@MickJagger) September 8, 2022\nRounding out the cast of musical legends were Beatles icons Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, both of whom penned tributes to the queen.\n\"God bless Queen Elizabeth II, may she rest in peace, long live the king,\" McCartney said in a short statement.\nStarr similarly wrote, \"God bless Queen Elizabeth, peace and love to all the family, peace and love, Ringo,\" followed by a number of emojis.\nBeyond the music world, many on- and off-screen legends honored the deceased monarch as well.\nHelen Mirren, who portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 biographical film The Queen, wrote in a statement that she was \"mourning along with the rest of my country, the passing of a great queen.\"\n\"I'm proud to call myself of the Elizabethan age,\" Mirren added. \"If there was a definition of nobility, Elizabeth Windsor embodied it.\"\nJennifer Garner called the queen an \"elegant, incredible woman\" on Instagram.\nTheater icon Andrew Lloyd Webber, known for helming plays such as Phantom of the Opera and Cats, wrote, \"For the whole of my life, the queen has been the constant anchor of not just Britain and her beloved Commonwealth, but an inspiration to the world for her lifetime of service.\"\n\"Her legacy will be remembered as a selfless beacon for love, understanding and the celebration of fellow human beings all over the world, no matter their race or creed,\" he added. \"Our thoughts and prayers are with Her Majesty and the queen's family.\"\nWebber was later seen among the mourners at Buckingham Palace, stopping to pay tribute and leave flowers.\nPeople from the sports world also penned tributes, including retired soccer star David Beckham, who wrote on his website that he was \"truly saddened by the death of Her Majesty, the queen.\"\n\"What an outpouring of love and respect we saw for the Platinum Jubilee for her life of service. How devastated we all feel today shows what she has meant to people in this country and around the world\u2026until her last days she served her country with dignity and grace. This year she would have known how loved she was,\" he said.\nRetired tennis player Billie Jean King wrote on Twitter that she was \"saddened to learn of the passing\" of the queen.\n\"For 70 years, her leadership, impact, and influence on the United Kingdom and the entire global community has been immense,\" King said. \"She was the longest reigning British monarch in history, the only woman from the royal family to serve in the armed forces, and a respected leader around the world. She earned her place in history, and she will be missed.\"\n(1\/2) I am saddened to learn of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.\nFor 70 years, her leadership, impact, and influence on the United Kingdom and the entire global community has been immense. I met her in 2010 at Wimbledon, and it was a special moment for me. pic.twitter.com\/ByFAfQQPJH\u2014 Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) September 8, 2022\nQueen Elizabeth II greets Liz Truss at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 6, 2022. The queen asked Truss to form a new administration. Truss accepted and was appointed prime minister and first lord of the treasury. Photo courtesy of The Royal Family\/Twitter\nPrevious articleBritain's King Charles III to give first national address after death of Queen Elizabeth II; official proclamation set for Saturday\nNext articlePakistan floods: U.N. chief Antonio Guterres asks countries for billions in emergency aid","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Damages from Solomon Islands earthquake reach US$223,858\nSolomon Star\/Pacnews\nearthquake, Solomon Islands\nCement plaster at AJ Building at Lungga, Honiara peels off and fall causing damages to vehicles parking below.\nThe 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands last Tuesday has left an estimated total loss of roughly around $1.85 million (US$223,858.48) from damages it caused to buildings in Honiara.\nThis is according to a quick assessment conducted by the Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) in the city.\n\"Costs related to physical damage to buildings was estimated at around $0.65 million and foregone sales by businesses approximately $1.2 million (US$145,203.84).\n\"Loss in productivity was also accounted for in terms of afternoon office closures in the government ministries and disruptions to businesses.\n\"Replacement and reconstruction costs of damaged buildings and infrastructures were not covered in this assessment. Thus, the total damage and loss costs are likely to be higher than the $1.85 million, once additional data becomes available.\nCBSI said against the background of initial damage and loss assessment, the overall short-term and long-term direct impact of the earthquake on the economy is expected to be negligible.\nIt said in the short-term, the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and some anecdotal evidence confirmed minimal casualties sustained as well as minimal damage to few households.\nAs for businesses, CBSI said the total damage was moderate and related disruptions were temporary for only a few hours.\n\"As a result, the long-term impact will be minor and is expected to have little or no ripple effect on future economic activity,\" it added.\nNevertheless, CBSI said it is important that proper assessments be carried out by engineers on affected buildings to ensure their continued safety and stability. Furthermore, it said the recent quake perhaps has provided the authorities the opportunity to relook and reassess the national building code and standards and amend accordingly to withstand such calamity.\nSolomon Islands ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"now in new york\nNow in New York!\nPeter Greenaway's Vision of Leonardo's Last Supper of 1498 has just arrived at the Park Avenue Armory: a major arrival. It hasn't actually been taken off the wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, but the enormous replica has come. This replica or \"clone\", that Factum Arte took five weeks to construct, was \"painted\" by an inkjet printer, but will last longer than the original\u2026 The projection in the massive armory is likely to astound those who haven't seen Greenaway's previous such projections, such as the Rembrandt Nightwatch (but iin that case, the projections were onto the real canvas) and the Veronese Wedding at Cana in Venice last year. Some are intensely furious at such playing with the works of art, some are just shocked, and some are moved. Full disclosure: I am one of the latter, having seen the projection of the Wedding at Cana during the Venice Biennale. The spectators sat and stood everywhere, scarcely an inch of room to make any protesting or acclaiming gesture during the projection. The whole thing stuck in my mind, along with the music, and I found it impossible to recount to those who hadn't experienced it. Now we New Yorkers can have a Last Supper experience\u2026.\nNot exactly on the same scale is one among the tropical terrariums (terraria?) constructed by Paula Hayes at MOMA, under the alluring title: \"Nocturne of the Limax maximus,\" delightfully translated as \"Night music of the great slug.\" Now the fact that that the Great Slug is really called the \"leopard slug\" added to this delight. My favorite terrarium is just plain \"Slug\" \u2013 fifteen feet in length, and it hangs on a wall, whereas \"Egg\" (filled with plants, not slugs) stands upright. Perhaps MOMA will buy \"Slug,\" but that we don't know yet.\nRight up there with living things as part of spectatordom are the pigeons squatting atop the glass coffin in the see-into portion of the Houdini exhibition constructed by Matthew Barney for his Cremaster project, and recreated in the Jewish Museum here. (Last week, we went on a Saturday, always free entry, because they can't handle money on a Saturday, and in this case, we were given jelly doughnuts on our departure, to celebrate Channukah.) Back to the pigeons. They were put there deliberately to \"deface\" the coffin, are properly and continually nourished and given breathing room \u2013 as a wall text reassures us. I hadn't known that the world-famous Houdini (80, 000 spectators for his stunts, out of straitjackets, out of buildings, off bridges, out of milk cans and steamer trunks and so on) was the son of a rabbi, thus the Jewish Museum venue. Nor had I remembered that his character was played by Norman Mailer and by Matthew Barney himself in various parts of the Cremaster series (2 and 5, if I have my numbers right.) And, of course, by Tony Curtis in a Hollywood film, but that I remembered.\nNow I wasn't in Washington when the National Portrait Gallery recently removed a video from the exhibition called \"Hide\/Seek: Difference and Desire in American portraiture\" because it was deemed offensive to the public. The video, made by David Wojnarowicz to depict the suffering caused by Aids, is called \"A Fire in my Belly\" and features a scene of a crucifix across which ants are crawling. Didn't see it, no, but I do vividly remember the fuss over the Piss Christ also in Washington, and, in Brooklyn, Mayor Giuliani's horror over Chris Offil's Madonna made with dung, to such an extent that he wanted to close down the subway stop nearest to the museum.\nIn any case, Houdini's pigeons are still there, doing their thing.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gunner Stockton Will be Honored as a 2022 All-American as Part of All-American Bowl's Road to the Dome Tour\nBy Gus RamosSep 14, 2021, 2:23 AM EDT\nQuarterback Gunner Stockton (Tiger, Georgia\/Rabun County H.S.), the University of Georgia commit, will be officially honored tomorrow as a 2022 All-American during a virtual jersey presentation as part of the first episode of the Road to the Dome digital series.\nHaving been selected to play in the twenty-second edition of the All-American Bowl, Stockton will play in the annual East vs. West matchup inside the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The Bowl will be nationally televised, live on NBC, and will feature the nation's top 100 high school football players.\nStockton was selected by the All-American Bowl Selection Committee, consisting of the All-American Bowl and 247Sports. All-Americans are eligible for the All-American Bowl Player of the Year Award, the Anthony Mu\u00f1oz Lineman of the Year Award, the Defensive Player of the Year Award, the All-American Bowl Man of the Year, the All-American Bowl MVP Award.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tonight: Guerilla Toss\nby Steven Knapp | Aug 19, 2016 | Preview\nBrooklyn-based band Guerrilla Toss has garnered a reputation for their ecstatic, genre-defying live performances. Their visceral, psychedelic take on funk, post-punk, and no wave is a barrage of frenetic instrumentation that centers around eccentric percussion and bass grooves. After moving to New York from Boston and signing with DFA records the now five-piece band released their latest album Eraser Stargazer which incorporates elements of disco and other dance music while preserving their idiosyncratic yet concise sound. Tonight, the band will perform at Buffalo art venue Sugar City at 7pm. Local experimental electronic musician Lesionread will open the show accompanied by his live band. Also opening are Buffalo progressive rock band Luanjie. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased at the door.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2,475 children homeless in Glasgow last Christmas\nThere were over 12,300 children deemed homeless across Scotland at this time last year.\nThe Scotland-wide figures have been branded 'tragic' (Image: Daily Record)\nAlmost 2,500 children were homeless in Glasgow last Christmas, figures indicate.\nStatistics reveal over 12,300 children were homeless across Scotland this time last year.\nScotland's Housing Minister Kevin Stewart released the figures showing 12,343 children were part of live homelessness applications on Christmas Day 2018.\nThe figures were released in response to parliamentary questions by the Scottish Liberal Democrats.\nThe local authority with the largest number of children on its live homeless applications last Christmas was Glasgow City Council at 2,475, followed by Edinburgh City Council on 2,153.\nDead rats discovered in Glasgow primary school's deep fat fryer\nCharity urges families check for signs of malnutrition in elderly relatives this Christmas\nOutside these cities, figures dropped sharply, with South Lanarkshire Council having the third largest number at 796.\nThe number of children homeless across Scotland had been rising since the 2015 figure of 10,508, until last year when it fell by 424 to 12,858.\nThe party has said the numbers are \"tragic\" and called for a \"revolution\" in social rented housing.\nScottish Liberal Democrat housing spokeswoman Caron Lindsay said: \"Housing is a basic human need and it is a key responsibility of any government to ensure that people have a warm and secure home, especially at this time of year.\n\"These new statistics show that over 12,000 children - almost the capacity of the Hydro - are not so lucky.\n\"What's more, there were almost 2,000 more children homeless last Christmas compared to 2015 - a 17.5% increase. That is a tragedy.\"\nThe figures were released at the same time as Labour highlighted the rise in people citing mental health problems as a reason for becoming homeless.\nGlasgow weather forecast for Christmas week\nRutherglen Library to open on Christmas Day to help homeless\nThe number of people citing this as the reason why they could not stay in their accommodation increased by 99% in the five years up to 2018-19, to 6,031.\nOver the same period there was a 64% increase in the number of people who became homeless because of physical health problems, with this affecting 2,340 people last year.\nCommunities spokeswoman Pauline McNeill claimed: \"The SNP's lack of action on homelessness prevention is disappointing.\n\"Local authorities are chronically underfunded meaning frontline services are struggling to cope with the demand for support.\"\nShe added: \"The Scottish Government's commitment to rapid rehousing is of course welcome, but without investment in preventing homelessness the issue continues to grow.\"\nBut Mr Stewart said: \"Scotland has some of the strongest rights in the world for anyone experiencing homelessness, including the right to emergency temporary accommodation when homeless. While this provides an important safety net, we are clear such arrangements must be for as short a time as possible and be of good quality.\nMan's body found near wooded area in Kilbarchan\nATM scam warnings for Glaswegians during Christmas and new year\n\"That is why we have invested \u00a332.5 million into Rapid Rehousing and Housing First to minimise the length of time people spend in temporary accommodation.\n\"We also changed the Unsuitable Accommodation Order in 2017 so families with children and pregnant women are only able to stay in accommodation such as B&Bs for a maximum of seven days.\n\"We are proud of our record on delivering social housing. Recent statistics show that 61,356 homes for social rent have now been delivered since 2007.\n\"With our investment of more than \u00a33.3 billion over this parliamentary term we'll continue to push towards our ambitious target of delivering 50,000 affordable homes - including 35,000 for social rent - and take forward our actions to end homelessness for good.\"\nHave you downloaded the new and improved Glasgow Live app? Get all the latest news and events at the touch of a button on Android and Apple .","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Single Saturdays: Tony Junior feat. Ben Adams \u2013 Won't Let You Down\nmusiflo\tPop\t September 19, 2020 1 Minute\nDutch singer Tony Junior has released a new single, Won't Let You Down, featuring British Pop Star Ben Adams. The song is about a guy who asks for a second chance from the girl.\nThe music is a mix of Pop and Brit Pop, mix with some Electric\/Dance beats. The composition is flowy and wavy, with a catchy beat. The rhythm parallels Darude's works (the electric sound) and some of the a1 songs. The fast pace of the tune complements the subject of second chances in a relationship. The mix of Pop and Electric is impressive.\nTony Junior and Ben Adams's voices compliment each other nicely. There's a smooth transition between their respective parts. Both artists capture the range of emotions felt in the song.\nThe lyrics are sincere and from the heart. The repetition in the song shows how the guy is begging for a second chance in the chorus. The verses describe the situation in more detail about how the man feels guilty for his mistake. The simplicity of the words demonstrates the importance of choosing the right words in these circumstances. Impressive!\nThe single Won't Let You Down is available.\nPrevious Post Single Saturdays: Ehab Tawfiq \u2013 Heya Donya\nNext Post Besoin De Rien- The Latest Album by Pat Groulx et les Bas Blancs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Wellspring Leadership\nCaroline Cascio, LPC, LMFT\nCaroline Cascio was named President & CEO in January 2014. She is responsible for The Wellspring's staff and programming, and supports the work of The Wellspring Foundation. Caroline earned her undergraduate degree in Child Life and Family Studies from Louisiana Tech University and her master's degree in Marriage and Family from Northeast Louisiana University, now ULM. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Caroline joined The Wellspring in 1993 as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and became the Director of Professional Services in 1998, overseeing the work of the Counseling & Family Development Center. She served in this capacity until stepping into her current role as President & CEO in 2014. Caroline is a graduate of Leadership Ouachita, a former member of the Jr. League of Monroe and has served on the Boards of Directors of LaFASA (Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault) and the Children's Coalition of Northeast Louisiana. Caroline is an active member of Jesus the Good Shepherd Catholic Church.\nValerie Bowman, MS, RSW\nDirector of Domestic Violence Program and Family Justice Center of Ouachita Parish\nWith The Wellspring since 2001, Valerie Bowman is the Director of the Domestic Violence Program as well as the Family Justice Center of Ouachita Parish. The Domestic Violence Program serves nine parishes in Northeast Louisiana and three parishes in Central Louisiana. Both programs focus on providing a coordinated community response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The Domestic Violence Program and the Counseling & Family Development Center work together to address human trafficking, particularly among survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.\nValerie has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and a Master's degree in Family and Consumer Science with a specialization in Family and Children. She has also received Certification on Dynamics of Domestic Violence from Louisiana Tech University. Valerie is the current Chair of the SAFE Taskforce for Ouachita Parish, the past Chair and current Secretary of the Board of Directors for LCADV (Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence) as well as the Committee on Quality Assurance (COQA) for domestic violence programs in the State of Louisiana. She recently completed the Advocacy Learning Center, a national training\/certification program sponsored by the DOJ\/Office on Violence Against Women, which focused on advocacy and best practices in domestic violence programs.\nLisa Longenbaugh, LPC, LMFT\nDirector of Professional Services\nAs Director of Professional Services, Lisa is responsible for the leadership and supervision of the clinical staff. Lisa and her staff at the Counseling & Family Development Center, the region's Accredited Sexual Assault Center, are responsible for implementing the mission of strengthening and valuing individuals and families through the Counseling, Sexual Assault, Supervised Visitation, Crisis Line and Employee Assistance (EAP) programs.\nLisa is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Clinical Member of the American Counseling Association. She is a play therapist and is certified in Mediation and Parent Coordination. Lisa serves on the Board of Directors of LaFASA and the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana. She has been a member of the staff since 2005.\nChristy Gwin, GMCP\nDirector of Financial and Administrative Services\nThe Administrative and Financial Services staff is under the direction of Christy Gwin. She is responsible for overseeing and monitoring the financial and administrative services for The Wellspring. Christy and her staff work to assure compliance with state and federal grant requirements and to provide documentation of program outcomes to funders who affirm their confidence in the work of The Wellspring.\nChristy is certified by Management Concepts in Federal Grants Management. She is a past Sustaining Member of the Jr. League of Monroe, past Treasurer of the Board of Directors of LaFASA (Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault) and a Leadership Ouachita Graduate. Christy has been a member of The Wellspring staff since 1991.\nKristie Hodges, RSW\nDirector of Outreach, Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing\nLed by Kristie Hodges, The Wellspring's Outreach, Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing (OPRRH) Program is responsible for developing and implementing a wide range of outreach, prevention and rapid re-housing services to Northeast Louisiana's most vulnerable populations. These programs provide outreach and referral services to the community's street homeless, prevention and rapid re-housing to families with children under the age of 18, and outreach, prevention and rapid re-housing to homeless Veterans or Veterans at risk of losing their housing. The Outreach, Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program serves 12 parishes in Northeast Louisiana.\nKristie has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and has a Registered Social Work license (RSW) with the state of Louisiana. She has served two United Methodist Churches as youth director for 17 years. Kristie joined The Wellspring in 2004 as the domestic violence child advocate for the Morehouse Parish office. When The Wellspring initiated its first general homeless program in 2006, Kristie became one of the first case managers for the Home At Last program, which is still in existence under the OPRRH department. Kristie has served as the Program Manager for the OPRRH program and in 2015 was selected to serve as the Director.\nCindy Roach, RSW\nDirector of Permanent and Transitional Housing\nCindy Roach, Director of the Permanent and Transitional Housing Program, is responsible for leading the staff that provides permanent supportive housing and rural victim services throughout Northeast and Central Louisiana. Her program provides permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless, rural transitional housing for victims of domestic violence,and a coordinated community response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking in our rural service area. The P&TH program has offices in Morehouse, Franklin, LaSalle and Catahoula parishes and has service sites in spaces located in partner agencies in Caldwell, Concordia, East Carroll, Richland, Tensas and West Carroll parishes.\nCindy has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and is a Registered Social Worker. She provides leadership and advocacy in addressing the issues of domestic violence and homelessness by serving on the Boards of Directors for LCADV (Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence) and the HOME Coalition. Cindy is currently serving as Board President for the HOME Coalition. She is also the current secretary and a past treasurer for LCADV, and the past treasurer and secretary of the HOME Coalition. Cindy joined The Wellspring in 2007.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All the 2010 Penn Assert Football Schedule Comes with Various Awesome Match up with Ups\nDecember 8, 2020 Sports\t No comments\nThe 2010 Penn State Football Schedule has been released, this means Nittany Lion football fans can begin the comprehensive evaluation procedure of where wins and losses will come from, and also start out arranging their gameday travels to Happy Valley too as road trips. This season's schedule is characterised as featuring its normal level of big style Big 10 conference match ups, some poor out of conference match-ups, and a single absolute monster clash.\nPenn State plays its standard Big 10 opponents. This season you'll find Big 10 home games in State College versus Illinois, Northwestern, and Michigan State (who continue becoming a PSU menace). Illinois could be the homecoming game on October 9th, which will be perfect time of yr to be in Happy Valley.\nPSU gets away games in conference against Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio State. One could claim the tougher games are traveling inside Big 10 this yr. The Lions skip Wisconsin this season which is a break https:\/\/racalai.com\/.\nOn big schedule development may be the Indiana game, which was to have played traveling, will now be played at FedEx Field in Landover, MD (outside Washington DC). In essence, Indiana took a significant pay day to permit 80,000 Penn State fans to see the game closer to home in the DC region.\nCertainly, the signature game on the growing season is vs. Alabama on September 11th. Penn State vs Alabama football ticketswill be among the toughest college football tickets to obtain early in the growing season as both of these storied football programs match up in Tuscaloosa, AL.\nThe PSU vs Bama game assures to be among the highly regarded early season matchups in college football. Obviously it is going to be really a complicated game for Penn State, for the reason that, Alabama could be the returning national champion and guarantees to be good next year.\nThe remainder of the Penn State 2010 schedule arguably is incredibly weak. You can find out of conference games versus Youngstown State, Kent State, and Temple, all at home. Granted Temple was a dish team last yr, but none of the matchups guarantee to become contests.\nObviously with the talk of Big Ten conference expansion going on, the appear of future PSU football schedules could to start to appear incredibly, extremely various. The chance of teams like Syracuse, Rutgers, UConn, and PSU's in-state rival from the past Pitt could most of a sudden be back as conference opponents. That could certainly shake things up, and for just one create an unbalanced schedule which will mean additional rotation of teams on the schedule from year to year.\nAll round, it is a good schedule for PSU in 2010. They've the Alabama game to have through, several difficult road Big 10 games, and controllable games at property in the Big 10. The game at Fed Ex field is intriguing and can make for fun for the group of fans and is going to be beneficial to recruiting in a region that's been beneficial to them.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How many times have the Springboks won the World Cup?\nWhen did South Africa win Rugby World Cup?\nWho has won the Rugby World Cup the most times?\nHas Bafana Bafana won a World Cup?\nHas South Africa won the Rugby World Cup?\nHow much money did South Africa make from the 2010 World Cup?\nWho is best rugby team in the world?\nWho is the best rugby player in the world?\nWho won the 2020 Rugby World Cup?\nWhere is Bafana Bafana ranked in the world?\nWho won World Cup South Africa?\nWhat is soccer called in South Africa?\nHow did South Africa won the Rugby World Cup?\nWho won the World Cups?\nThe Springboks have played in three Rugby World Cup finals \u2013 in 1995, 2007 and 2019 \u2013 and were victorious on all three occasions.\nThe 1995 Rugby World Cup was the third Rugby World Cup. It was hosted and won by South Africa, and was the first Rugby World Cup in which every match was held in one country. The World Cup was the first major sporting event to take place in South Africa following the end of apartheid.\nWith three titles, one runners-up finish and 49 wins to their name, New Zealand are the most successful team in Rugby World Cup history. The All Blacks conquered the world as hosts in 1987 and 2011 and then again in 2015, becoming the first nation to win back-to-back Rugby World Cups.\nIT IS INTERESTING: Frequent question: When did Argentina win their first World Cup?\nKorea\/Japan 2002 was expected to be an opportunity for Bafana Bafana to step up to the next level but they were eliminated at the group stage despite drawing to Paraguay and beating Slovenia 1\u20130 for their first-ever World Cup win.\nFIFA World Cup record\nD*\nSouth Africa are one of only two teams, alongside New Zealand, to have won Rugby World Cup on three occasions.\nFIFA reported it made a $631 million profit from the 2007-10 World Cup cycle and earned income of $3.65 billion from 2010 World Cup contracts. FIFA said it spent $1.298 billion on the World Cup in South Africa and also gave $100 million to the World Cup Legacy Trust, a fund that supports grassroots soccer projects.\nFull Rankings\n1 (1) South Africa RSA\n2 (2) New Zealand NZL\n3 (4) England ENG\n4 (5) Ireland IRE\n10 of the best rugby players in the world in 2020\nSemi Radradra. A game-changer.\nAntoine Dupont. The French scrum-half is just sheer quality, perhaps the finest proponent of a pre-emptive supporting line in Test rugby at the moment. \u2026\nCheslin Kolbe. \u2026\nMaro Itoje. \u2026\nAaron Smith. \u2026\nSiya Kolisi. \u2026\nPieter-Steph Du Toit. \u2026\nPablo Matera. \u2026\nThe England result meant Ireland needed to beat France by seven points (six if they scored a try) to lift the trophy while France needed to win by a margin of 31 points and score four tries. Neither side could achieve their target \u2013 France won 35-27 \u2013 so England have duly been crowned champions.\nIT IS INTERESTING: What does the circle mean in soccer?\nBafana Bafana are still ranked 71st in the world, which is the same position they ended the year 2020 on. This does not come as a surprise as Bafana have been inactive since November 2020 when they played two 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers against Sao Tome and Principe.\nThe 2010 World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship between 32 men's national football teams.\n2010 FIFA World Cup.\nFIFA World Cup South Africa 2010\nChampions Spain (1st title)\nRunners-up Netherlands\nThird place Germany\nThe governing body is the South African Football Association (SAFA).\nSoccer in South Africa\nGoverning body SAFA\nNational team(s) South Africa\nNickname(s) Bafana Bafana (National team)\nFirst played 1992\nThe Springboks then made history when they beat England in the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan despite losing a pool stage match. The win was achieved under the leadership of captain Siya Kolisi and the coaching of Rassie Erasmus, whose game plan ultimately outsmarted the tactics of England coach Eddie Jones.\nWhat percentage of soccer fans are female?\nGlobal share of women's soccer fans in 2019, by gender. Women's soccer worldwide has\nQuestion: What does RS mean in soccer?\nIn soccer, the abbreviation \"RS\" means Right Striker. The right striker(RS) is positioned on\nFrequent question: Who was the best football team in 2016?\nYou asked: Is there offsides in flag football?\nYour question: How do football teams travel in England?\nYou asked: Who owns the Green Bay Packers football team?\nAre Illinois high schools playing football this fall?\nCan I play Champions League on FIFA 19 Standard Edition?\nHow many professional football teams are there in Scotland?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Amid '2G' Vaccine Passport System, COVID-19 Cases Surge Across Germany\nby The Epoch Times\nin Lede, News, Top\nGerman officials confirmed that daily COVID-19 cases surpassed 50,000 for the first time during the pandemic, coming weeks after a number of states have implemented \"2G\" rules that increased restrictions on individuals who haven't been vaccinated.\nArticle by Jack Phillips from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times.\nUnder the rules, which have been in effect since September, the states allow businesses like restaurants and bars to choose to exclude individuals who are not vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19. Hamburg, Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Lower Saxony, and Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg have opted-in, reported The Local.\nBut on Thursday, the country's public health body, the Robert Koch Institute, showed that the total case numbers hit 4.89 million with 97,198 fatalities.\nAs a result, Chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz told Parliament on Thursday that new measures are needed \"to get through this winter \u2026 we must shelter our country from the winter.\" Government spokesman Steffen Seibert was quoted by VOA News as saying that the virus is \"spreading dramatically\" and asserted that a \"quick and unified response\" was needed.\nIt comes as cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus have significantly increased across Europe in recent days, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).\nThe WHO said in a weekly update that Europe leads the world in percentages of new virus deaths and cases. The number of deaths rose by 10 percent and the number of new cases rose by 7 percent, the body said.\nStarting Monday, Berlin will block all unvaccinated individuals from entering restaurants, gyms, bars, and other businesses, EuroNews reported.\nBulgaria reported 334 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, the highest daily toll since the pandemic started. It requested oxygen devices, patient monitors, and hospital beds, VOA reported. The Eastern European nation last month implemented a \"green pass\" required to enter restaurants, gyms, and other locations.\nThe Slovak Health Ministry also reported that the daily increase of new COVID-19 infections hit 7,055 on Tuesday, setting a new record. In nearby Czech Republic, CCP virus infections jumped to levels close to record numbers earlier this year, according to EuroNews. Authorities in both Central European nations said they are considering additional measures to deal with the outbreak.\nOn Thursday, Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg confirmed the country is just days away from placing millions of people who aren't fully vaccinated on lockdown. Daily infections hit a record high of about 11,398 on Wednesday, data shows.\n\"According to the incremental plan we actually have just days until we have to introduce the lockdown for unvaccinated people,\" Schallenberg told a news conference.\nElsewhere, the Dutch government confirmed Thursday it is considering whether to impose Western Europe's first partial lockdown since the summer. The country implemented a vaccine passport system earlier this year.\nUkraine's Health Ministry on Thursday reported 27,377 new infections, about 500 more than the previous high tallied last week. Ukraine has faced protests against vaccination certificates for teachers and other public employees, as well as for passengers on airplanes, trains, and buses.\nHungary said 107 people died from COVID-19 between Wednesday and Thursday, the highest daily total since May 5. Authorities confirmed 6,268 new infections, roughly 2.5 times more than last Thursday.\nWe Often Feel Like David Taking on Giants\nToday's Goliath is the Mainstream Media Industrial Complex that brainwashes the masses.\nOur mission is very straightforward: To counter the false narratives and nefarious agendas destroying America today. It isn't easy for obvious reasons; despite incredible growth over the last year we are still a very tiny fish in a huge media pond. But we're fighting and we will continue to do so, Lord willing, for as long as we possibly can. The battle for America's present and future is too important for us to back down to the giants that stand in our way.\nWe need help. I don't want to say \"desperately,\" but the need is definitely great. If you have the means, please donate through our GivingFuel page, PayPal, or our Substack page. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We've had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.\nThank you, and God Bless!\nTags: 2GCoronavirusCovid-19GermanyLedeThe Epoch TimesTop StoryVaccine MandatesVaccine PassportsVaccines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Interviews November 3, 2013 October 30, 2016\nNotFilm: New Documentary on Samuel Beckett's Film\nMilestone Film production aims to shed light on Samuel Beckett's only motion picture\n\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/71237012?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\nA press release from IndieGoGo:\nDocumentary will reveal for the first time the rediscovered missing first scene of Samuel Beckett's FILM and a long-forgotten sound recording featuring Beckett himself. The first-ever Milestone Film production, directed by well-known filmmaker\/archivist Ross Lipman.\nIn 1964 author Samuel Beckett set out on his only journey to America, to undertake one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his collaboration with silent era genius Buster Keaton on a short, almost-silent avant-garde film. The production FILM BY SAMUEL BECKETT, was beset with trouble from the start. The entire first scene was unhappily eliminated, and Keaton suffered terribly in the hottest days of a blistering Manhattan summer. The soon-to-be Nobel laureate Beckett never saw eye-to-eye with the legendary slapstick star, and the film they made \u2013 along with theater director Alan Schneider, renegade publisher Barney Rosset, and Academy Award\u00ae-winning cinematographer Boris Kaufman \u2013 opened at the Venice and New York Film Festivals to a bewildered reception. In the decades since, it's been the subject of praise, condemnation, and ongoing controversy. Yet the eclectic participants are just one part of a story that stretches back to the very birth of cinema, and spreads out to our understanding of human consciousness itself.\nNearly fifty years after FILM's making, archivist\/filmmaker Ross Lipman was at Barney Rosset's Fourth Avenue walkup apartment to begin work on the restoration of the 22-minute short. Innocently, he asked about the footage of the famed missing scene, which was initially to comprise nearly a third of the film. Rosset 's mournful reply was, \"No, that's lost. But I have other outtakes in the cupboard.\" Lipman then foraged under Rosset's kitchen sink, where he found piles of rusty film cans, unopened for many years. This was intriguing, but it wasn't until Lipman's return to Los Angeles that he inspected the reels and made the biggest discovery \u2013 the cans did in fact contain the missing sequence, which Beckett had reluctantly jettisoned under duress after the first day of shooting. An even bigger surprise, a short time later Rosset delivered old audio recordings of Beckett at work on FILM's production, in impassioned dialogue with director Schneider, cinematographer Kaufman, and the rest of the production team. These tapes are all the more unique in that the notoriously media-shy Beckett made a rare exception to his close friend Rosset in allowing the recording. Until this discovery, there were only two known existing audio fragments and one brief video with Beckett's legendary melodious Irish voice \u2014 totaling just a few minutes. Rosset's compiled recordings lasted over two hours and offered a view of Beckett's work in the midst of creation! Together with the recovery of the missing scene's footage, they comprise a once-in-a-lifetime find and a major addition to our understanding of one of the past century's greatest artists. The audio recordings have been preserved at the Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center.\nFILM has now undergone a complete 4K digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive under Lipman's supervision, in collaboration with the British Film Institute, and with funding from Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation Foundation. At the same time, Milestone Film \u2014 the company who distributed Lipman's ground-breaking UCLA restorations of KILLER OF SHEEP, THE EXILES, WORD IS OUT and many others \u2014 licensed worldwide rights from Rosset for all the material. Together, Milestone and Lipman are now creating a documentary utilizing these remarkable treasures and telling the world of the amazing story behind FILM's production. Included is an astounding collection of recollections from actor James Karen, critic Leonard Maltin (who visited the set as a teenager), Beckett's beloved actress Billie Whitelaw, his close friend and biographer James Knowlson, Alan Schneider's widow Jean, Rosset's childhood friend Haskell Wexler, and Barney Rosset himself. Sadly, it was to be the last recorded interview of the incendiary publisher before his death in 2012. The film's score will be by Richard Einhorn \u2014 the brilliant composer known worldwide for VOICES OF LIGHT, the stunning accompaniment to silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer.\nNOTFILM is now in production as a feature-length essay on FILM's production and its philosophical implications, utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings, and other rare archival elements. Archives from around the world including UCLA and the Austrian Filmmuseum are contributing rare footage. Milestone will be producing the film by raising half of the film's budget through IndieGoGo.\nYou can find the campaign going up today at http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/notfilm\/x\/4836694.\nTax deductible contributions are also possible under fiscal sponsorship of the Los Angeles Filmforum.\nFor stills or interviews, please contact Dennis Doros at Milestone Films\nPhone: (800) 603-1104 or (201) 767-3117 \/ Email: milefilms@gmail.com [Read More]\nPosted in Interviews and Tagged James Knowlson\nPrevious articleEventsSteve Gough, Godot\nNext articleNewsStaging Beckett: Constructing Performance Histories","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Experimental Therapeutics\nAttenuation of Colistin Bactericidal Activity by High Inoculum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Characterized by a New Mechanism-Based Population Pharmacodynamic Model\nJ\u00fcrgen B. Bulitta, Jenny C. Yang, Liliana Yohonn, Neang S. Ly, Silvia V. Brown, Rebecca E. D'Hondt, William J. Jusko, Alan Forrest, Brian T. Tsuji\nJ\u00fcrgen B. Bulitta\nSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260Ordway Research Institute, Albany, New York 12208\nFor correspondence: btsuji@buffalo.edu j@bulitta.com\nJenny C. Yang\nSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260\nLiliana Yohonn\nSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York\nNeang S. Ly\nSilvia V. Brown\nRebecca E. D'Hondt\nOrdway Research Institute, Albany, New York 12208\nWilliam J. Jusko\nAlan Forrest\nBrian T. Tsuji\nSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260Departments of Pharmacy and Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14260\nDOI: 10.1128\/AAC.00881-09\nColistin is increasingly being utilized against Gram-negative pathogens, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, resistant to all other antibiotics. Since limited data exist regarding killing by colistin at different initial inocula (CFUo), we evaluated killing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by colistin at several CFUo and developed a mechanism-based mathematical model accommodating a range of CFUo. In vitro time-kill experiments were performed using \u22658 concentrations up to 64 \u00d7 the MIC of colistin against P. aeruginosa PAO1 and two clinical P. aeruginosa isolates at CFUo of 106, 108, and 109 CFU\/ml. Serial samples up to 24 h were simultaneously modeled in the NONMEM VI (results shown) and S-ADAPT software programs. The mathematical model was prospectively \"validated\" by additional time-kill studies assessing the effect of Ca2+ and Mg2+ on killing of PAO1 by colistin. Against PAO1, killing of the susceptible population was 23-fold slower at the 109 CFUo and 6-fold slower at the 108 CFUo than at the 106 CFUo. The model comprised three populations with different second-order killing rate constants (5.72, 0.369, and 0.00210 liters\/h\/mg). Bacteria were assumed to release signal molecules stimulating a phenotypic change that inhibits killing. The proposed mechanism-based model had a good predictive performance, could describe killing by colistin for all three studied strains and for two literature studies, and performed well in a prospective validation with various concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+. The extent and rate of killing of P. aeruginosa by colistin were markedly decreased at high CFUo compared to those at low CFUo. This was well described by a mechanism-based mathematical model, which should be further validated using dynamic in vitro models.\nDuring the last decades, important strides have been made in our understanding of antimicrobial pharmacodynamics (PD) (16, 21). Identification of the pharmacokinetic\/pharmacodynamic (PKPD) index that best predicts a successful outcome became a cornerstone of optimization of antimicrobial therapy (2, 16, 21). However, PKPD target values may vary between antibiotics and pathogens (2, 3) and may not be universal for all infections (27) and types of outcomes (44, 59). For example, severe infections, such as endocarditis, infections of prostheses, and ventilator-associated pneumonia are known to have a high density of bacteria, which is associated with a higher mortality (25, 47, 54, 60). Furthermore, an increased density of bacteria represents a greater challenge to the immune system and may result in higher bacterial toxin concentrations. In addition, bacterial killing by antibiotics has been shown to be attenuated at high initial inocula (CFUo) compared to low CFUo (9, 10, 47, 53, 67, 69).\nColistin, also known as polymyxin E, was introduced to the market nearly half a century ago (40). Due to the increasing prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains resistant to virtually all other commercially available antibiotics, polymyxins are now being increasingly utilized as salvage therapy against infections due to multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, including P. aeruginosa (40, 42).\nAs the initial site of action, the polycationic polymyxin molecules displace Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions that cross-bridge between adjacent negatively charged phosphate groups of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria (19, 33, 39, 48, 61). High concentrations of Mg2+ and Ca2+ can competitively inhibit the effects of polymyxins (48, 55, 56). Changes in the composition of LPS reducing the net negative charge of the outer membrane and modifying the hydrophobic side chain have been proposed as a mechanism of resistance to polymyxins (14, 36). P. aeruginosa can sense certain environmental conditions that cause adaptive resistance to polymyxins (49, 51).\nInfections by P. aeruginosa are especially difficult to treat if they are deep seated or sequestered or have a biofilm matrix at high bacterial densities (15, 28, 71), and infections with a high CFUo often carry a high number of resistant mutants. To limit the emergence of resistance, optimizing the PKPD of antimicrobials to combat infections with a high CFUo is therefore of the utmost importance. Adler and Finland (1) reported higher MICs for polymyxin B when tested at high compared CFUo to low CFUo, and Peyret et al. (52) and Tam et al. (65) found a lower rate of killing of P. aeruginosa by polymyxin B against high versus low CFUo. We are not aware of studies on the impact of CFUo on the rate and extent of killing by colistin. To our knowledge, there are no published mathematical models for the rate and extent of killing by polymyxins. We proposed and evaluated the first inoculum effect model studying ceftazidime against P. aeruginosa (10-11; J. B. Bulitta, J. C. Yang, B. T. Tsuji, W. J. Jusko, and A. Forrest, presented at the post-ICAAC symposium of the International Society of Anti-Infective Pharmacology, Chicago, IL, 20 September 2007), and subsequently, Udekwu et al. (70) proposed a simulation model with one subpopulation to describe the inoculum effect.\nThe objectives of the current study were to evaluate the impact of CFUo on the rate and extent of killing of P. aeruginosa by colistin and to develop and evaluate a mechanism-based mathematical PD model that can describe killing by colistin over a range of CFUo.\n(This work was presented in part as a poster [no. A-6] at the 47th Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, IL, 2007 [73], in part as an oral presentation at the post-ICAAC meeting of the International Society of Anti-Infective Pharmacology in Chicago, IL, 2007, in part as a poster [abstr. 1829] at the AAPS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2007 [11], and in part as a poster [no. A-119] at the 109th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Philadelphia, PA, 2009 (74)).\nBacterial strains, media, and MICs.Three isolates of P. aeruginosa were studied: a genetically characterized clinical isolate, PAO1, obtained from the R.E.W. Hancock Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (62), and two clinical isolates, URMC1 and URMC2, obtained from the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY. Fresh solutions of colistin sulfate (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO), dissolved in sterile water, were prepared prior to each experimental run. Luria-Bertani (LB) broth supplemented with Ca2+ (25 mg\/liter) and Mg2+ (12.5 mg\/liter) was utilized for all time-kill experiments. Bacterial counts were determined on LB agar. Luria-Bertani broth and agar were selected as rich media to facilitate growth at high CFUo in time-kill experiments (30). The MICs were determined by broth microdilution in quadruplicate using colistin sulfate according to Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines in cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth (MHB) or cation-adjusted LB broth. The MICs in MHB (LB) broth were 2.0 (4.0) mg\/liter for PAO1 and 0.5 (1.0) mg\/liter for URMC1 and for URMC2.\nTime-kill experiments.Fresh bacterial colonies from an overnight growth were added to normal saline and adjusted spectrophotometrically to provide a standard suspension. This suspension was diluted with LB broth to achieve the desired CFUo. Each 20-ml culture was incubated in a water bath at 37\u00b0C with constant shaking. Initial inocula were 104, 106, 108, and 109 CFU\/ml for PAO1 and 106, 108, and 109 CFU\/ml for URMC1 and URMC2. Bacteria were allowed to grow for approximately 45 min in LB broth before colistin was added from a standard antibiotic stock solution to achieve 11 colistin concentrations up to 256 mg\/liter colistin (64 \u00d7 MIC in LB broth) for PAO1 and to achieve nine colistin concentrations up to 64 mg\/liter colistin (64 \u00d7 MIC in LB broth) for strains URMC1 and URMC2 at each CFUo.\nSamples were collected for determination of bacterial counts at the following time points: 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24 h for PAO1 for initial characterization of colistin pharmacodynamics and 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 24 h for URMC1 and URMC2. Antimicrobial carryover was taken into account by serial dilution (10- to 100,000-fold) and centrifuging the bacterial samples for 5 min, after which they were reconstituted with sterile normal saline to their original volumes. Colony counts were determined as previously described (68) using an automated spiral dispenser. Plates were incubated for 18 to 24 h. To determine quantitative viable counts of less-susceptible cells for PAO1, bacterial suspensions at 24 h were centrifuged and resuspended in saline, and 200 \u03bcl of this suspension was manually plated on LB agar containing 0, 2, 4, 8, or 16 mg\/liter colistin (MIC of PAO1 on LB agar, 2 mg\/liter). Drug-containing plates were incubated for 48 h at 35\u00b0C. All time-kill experiments were performed in duplicate.\nTime-kill experiments to assess potential drug binding or degradation.Additional experiments were performed to evaluate the potential effect of binding of colistin to LPS or other molecules in spent broth as a potential mechanism to account for the inoculum effect. A CFUo of PAO1 was grown from 106 to 109.4 CFU\/ml over 24 h in cation-adjusted LB broth. Then, 16 or 64 mg\/liter colistin or no drug was added to this suspension (without filtration of the suspension). After 0.75 or 24 h of coincubation at 37\u00b0C, the suspension was centrifuged and filter sterilized (0.22-\u03bcm filter). Fresh PAO1 cells in log-growth phase were added to the filtrate to achieve a CFUo of 106.2 CFU\/ml. No additional colistin was added to the filtrate. Viable counts were recorded over an additional 24 h.\nTime-kill experiments to support the target site model.Time-kill experiments to assess the effect of Ca2+ and Mg2+ on the activity of colistin against PAO1 were performed as described above. For samples with low colony counts, 200 \u03bcl of the bacterial suspensions in saline were plated to increase the sensitivity of the viable counts. EDTA (pH adjusted to 7.0) as a chelating agent, Ca2+, or Mg2+ was added to LB broth to achieve the following concentrations of added cations or EDTA: (i) 20 mM EDTA, (ii) 2 mM EDTA, (iii) no cations added, (iv) 10 mg\/liter (0.250 mM) Ca2+ and 5 mg\/liter (0.206 mM) Mg2+, (v) 20 mg\/liter Ca2+ and 10 mg\/liter Mg2+, or (vi) 80 mg\/liter Ca2+ and 40 mg\/liter Mg2+. At these concentrations of EDTA, >95% of Ca2+ and Mg2+ should be bound.\nDescriptive data analysis.Initially, an integrated area approach was applied to describe the log ratio area by a Hill-type model as previously described (34).\nDevelopment and qualification of the population PD model. (i) Bacterial populations.Models with two, three, or four preexisting bacterial populations were considered as proposed previously (24, 35, 45, 50). Since we had only time-kill data with a constant colistin concentration, the natural death rate constant (kd) from the work of Meagher et al. (45) of 0.3 h\u22121 was used, since their data were based on a one-compartment in vitro PD model with drug concentrations changing over time.\n(ii) Growth model.The growth model comprised a previously described, saturable growth function (45) with a maximal velocity of bacterial growth [VGmax, expressed in CFU\/(ml\u00b7h)] and the bacterial density that results in 50% of the maximal rate of growth (CFUm, expressed in CFU\/ml). We reparameterized this growth function (see the work of Harigaya et al. [34] for equations) and estimated the maximum population size (POPmax) and the fastest growth half-life at low bacterial densities [t1\/2(kg,low CFU)], since these two parameters can be more readily interpreted than VGmax and CFUm. To incorporate a slower initial growth phase, a lag compartment that contained the susceptible population at time zero was included and linked by a first-order rate constant (klag) with the compartment of the susceptible population subject to growth (Fig. 1).\nStructure of the pharmacodynamic model, including bacterial growth, killing, and the inoculum effect (A) and the receptor occupancy model (B). The bacterial model contains one compartment for the susceptible, intermediate, and least-susceptible (\"resistant\") population and a lag compartment for the susceptible population. In the lag compartment, bacteria do not replicate and are not subject to natural death but are subject to drug-induced killing and the effect of signal molecules. For the other three bacterial compartments, loss of cells occurs via a first-order natural death and a second-order killing process by colistin. Signal molecules were assumed to inhibit bacterial killing by colistin and the rate of bacterial replication (only the arrow for the effect of signal molecules on the susceptible population is shown). Initial conditions (IC) were estimated (see Methods). The target site model comprised a competitive interaction of colistin with Mg2+ and Ca2+ at the LPS binding sites in the outer membrane. Binding sites occupied by Mg2+ and Ca2+ were assumed to decrease the colistin concentration that is available in the active conformation(s) at the site of action.\n(iii) Receptor occupancy model.We assumed that colistin has to competitively displace Mg2+ and Ca2+ from their binding sites on the outer membrane before it can cause killing at the target site. Schindler and Osborn (55) found a similar dissociation constant for Mg2+ and Ca2+ for the binding site on LPS extracted from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. The approximately four binding sites of LPS extracted from P. aeruginosa were shown to have equivalent affinities for polymyxin B (48). In the present modeling, the dissociation constants were fixed to 200 \u03bcmol\/liter for Mg2+ and Ca2+ (KdCations) and to 0.3 \u03bcmol\/liter for colistin (KdColistin) according to data on strain G30A of Salmonella serovar Typhimurium (55). This choice of values for KdColistin and KdCations was assessed in a systematic sensitivity analysis. Under these assumptions, the fractional occupancy (FrCations) of the receptor for these two cations can be expressed as a function of the sum of the molar Mg2+ and Ca2+ concentration (CCations) and the colistin concentration (CColistin in mg\/liter): $$mathtex$$\\[\\mathrm{Fr}_{\\mathrm{Cations}}{=}\\frac{C_{\\mathrm{Cations}}}{K\\mathrm{d}_{\\mathrm{Cations}}{+}C_{\\mathrm{Cations}}{+}\\frac{K\\mathrm{d}_{\\mathrm{Cations}}}{K\\mathrm{d}_{\\mathrm{Colistin}}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\frac{C_{\\mathrm{Colistin}}}{M_{\\mathrm{m}}}}\\]$$mathtex$$(1) The average molecular mass (Mm) of the two predominant components of colistin (colistin A and B) is 1,163 g\/mol. The fraction of receptors not occupied by Mg2+ or Ca2+ was used in a Hill equation to calculate the effective colistin concentration at the target site (CColistin,eff) as a function of the colistin concentration in broth (CColistin). Binding was assumed to be rapid: $$mathtex$$\\[C_{\\mathrm{Colistin},\\mathrm{eff}}{=}\\frac{(1{-}\\mathrm{Fr}_{\\mathrm{Cations}})^{{\\gamma}}}{\\mathrm{EC}_{50}^{{\\gamma}}{+}(1{-}\\mathrm{Fr}_{\\mathrm{Cations}})^{{\\gamma}}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ C_{\\mathrm{Colistin}}\\]$$mathtex$$(2)\n(iv) Drug effect and inoculum effect.Bacterial killing was specified as second-order processes with a different killing rate constant for each population. The data revealed a substantially slower killing at high CFUo than at low CFUo. To characterize this inoculum effect, all viable bacteria were assumed to synthesize and release freely diffusible signal molecules (57) that cause phenotypic changes inhibiting killing by polymyxins. The maximum inhibition of killing (ImaxKill) and of the replication rate (ImaxRep) and the signal molecule concentration associated with 50% of maximal inhibition (IC50) were estimated.\n(v) Composite model.The following equations describe the concentration of all viable bacteria (CFUALL) and inhibition of killing (INHKill) and of replication (INHRep) by signal molecules (concentration, CSign): $$mathtex$$\\[\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL}}{=}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S},\\mathrm{lag}}{+}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S}}{+}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{I}}{+}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{R}}\\]$$mathtex$$(3) $$mathtex$$\\[\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Kill}}{=}1{-}\\mathrm{Imax}_{\\mathrm{Kill}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\frac{C_{\\mathrm{Sign}}}{\\mathrm{IC}_{50}{+}\\ C_{\\mathrm{Sign}}}\\]$$mathtex$$(4) $$mathtex$$\\[\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Rep}}{=}1{-}\\mathrm{Imax}_{\\mathrm{Rep}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\frac{C_{\\mathrm{Sign}}}{\\mathrm{IC}_{50}{+}C_{\\mathrm{Sign}}}\\]$$mathtex$$(5) The differential equations for susceptible cells in the lag compartment (CFUS,lag), replicating susceptible cells (CFUS), cells with intermediate susceptibility to colistin (CFUI), and least-susceptible cells (CFUR) are: $$mathtex$$\\[\\frac{d\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S},\\mathrm{lag}}}{dt}{=}({-}k_{\\mathrm{lag}}{-}\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Kill}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ k_{2\\mathrm{S}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ C_{\\mathrm{Colistin},\\mathrm{eff}})\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S},\\mathrm{lag}}\\]$$mathtex$$(6) $$mathtex$$\\[\\frac{d\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S}}}{dt}{=}\\ \\left(\\frac{\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Rep}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{VG}_{\\mathrm{max},\\mathrm{S}}}{\\mathrm{CFU}_{m}{+}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL}}}{-}k_{d}{-}\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Kill}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ k_{2\\mathrm{S}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ C_{\\mathrm{Colistin},\\mathrm{eff}}\\right)\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S}}{+}k_{\\mathrm{lag}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{S},\\mathrm{lag}}\\]$$mathtex$$(7) $$mathtex$$\\[\\frac{d\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{I}}}{dt}{=}\\ \\left(\\frac{\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Rep}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{VG}_{\\mathrm{max},\\mathrm{I}}}{\\mathrm{CFU}_{m}{+}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL}}}{-}k_{d}{-}\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Kill}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ k_{2\\mathrm{I}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ C_{\\mathrm{Colistin},\\mathrm{eff}}\\right)\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{I}}\\]$$mathtex$$(8) $$mathtex$$\\[\\frac{d\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{R}}}{dt}{=}\\ \\left(\\frac{\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Rep}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{VG}_{\\mathrm{max},\\mathrm{R}}}{\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{m}}{+}\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL}}}{-}k_{d}{-}\\mathrm{INH}_{\\mathrm{Kill}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ k_{2\\mathrm{R}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ C_{\\mathrm{Colistin},\\mathrm{eff}}\\right)\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{R}}\\]$$mathtex$$(9) The CFUo of all populations was estimated. Initial conditions of the intermediate and least-susceptible population were estimated as log10 of the fraction (FrI and FrR) of CFUo (see Table 1 for further explanation of parameters). We considered both models that assume the same FrI and FrR for all CFUo and models that allowed FrI and FrR to differ between CFUo. The initial condition for CFUS,lag was calculated as the difference between the CFUo and the initial condition of the intermediate and least-susceptible populations. The initial condition for CFUS was zero. To consider the potential absence of populations with a low mutation frequency at low CFUo, the initial condition of a bacterial population was set to zero if less than 1 cell would have been expected in 20 ml of broth.\nParameter estimates for population pharmacodynamic modelh\nTo account for a slower growth of the intermediate and least-susceptible populations than of the susceptible population, different VGmax terms were estimated for each population, and the associated t1\/2(kg,low CFU) values were reported. The differential equation for hypothetical signal molecules is as follows (kdeg is the degradation rate constant): $$mathtex$$\\[\\frac{dC_{\\mathrm{Sign}}}{dt}{=}\\ \\left(\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL}}\\ {\\cdot}\\ \\frac{\\mathrm{ml}}{\\mathrm{CFU}}{-}C_{\\mathrm{Sign}}\\right)\\ {\\cdot}\\ k_{\\mathrm{deg}}\\]$$mathtex$$(10) The parameterization of equation 10 yields the same numerical value for the signal molecule concentration as for the bacterial concentration (CFUALL) at steady state.\n(vi) Observation model.The residual unidentified variability was described by an additive error model on a log10 scale, and data were fit as log10 (CFU\/ml) if the observed bacterial density was 100 CFU\/ml or more (equivalent to at least five colonies per plate). The CFUALL,obs is the observed CFU\/ml, CFUALL,pred is the individual fitted CFU\/ml (without error), and \u03b5CFU is a random variable with a mean of zero and standard deviation (SDCFU) describing the additive error on log10 scale: $$mathtex$$\\[\\mathrm{log}_{10}(\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL},\\mathrm{obs}}){=}\\mathrm{log}_{10}(\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL},\\mathrm{pred}}){+}{\\varepsilon}_{\\mathrm{CFU}}\\]$$mathtex$$(11) For observations from undiluted samples with fewer than five colonies per plate, data were fit as actual colony counts, and the additive error on log scale was transformed to a proportional error on the scale of observed colony counts with the same variance as the additive error on log10 scale. At low colony counts, the random error due to observing only an integer number of colonies is most important compared to other sources of error. Therefore, a Poisson error (\u03b5Pois) and an additive error (\u03b5Add) were included if fewer than five colonies per plate were observed: $$mathtex$$\\[\\frac{\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL},\\mathrm{obs}}}{20}{=}\\frac{\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL},\\mathrm{pred}}}{20}\\ {\\cdot}\\ [1{+}\\mathrm{ln}(10)\\ {\\cdot}\\ {\\varepsilon}_{\\mathrm{CFU}}]{+}\\ \\left(\\frac{\\mathrm{CFU}_{\\mathrm{ALL},\\mathrm{pred}}}{20}\\right)^{0.5}\\ {\\cdot}\\ {\\varepsilon}_{\\mathrm{Pois}}{+}{\\varepsilon}_{\\mathrm{Add}}\\]$$mathtex$$(12) Division by 20 converts the CFU\/ml data into colony counts on the plate, since 50 \u03bcl of undiluted sample was plated for these low colony counts. The \u03b5Pois and \u03b5Add are random variables with a mean of 0 and fixed standard deviations of 1 for \u03b5Pois and 0.25 for \u03b5Add. The residual error model was evaluated in an exhaustive simulation-estimation study using a model with two subpopulations of different susceptibilities, first-order growth, logistic plateau function, and 2nd-order killing function.\n(vii) Model qualification.Models were assessed via standard diagnostic plots and a leave-one-inoculum-out internal cross-validation as described previously (10). For external model qualification involving two different clinical strains, selected model parameters for growth and killing of P. aeruginosa at low CFUo were reestimated based on data from the work of Gunderson et al. (31) and Li et al. (41). The Beal M3 method (6) was used for data from Gunderson et al. to appropriately handle data below the reported limit of detection.\n(viii) Computation.Nonlinear mixed-effects modeling in the NONMEM VI (7) and S-ADAPT (version 1.55 and 1.56) (5) software programs was applied as described previously (10). The first-order conditional estimation method with the interaction estimation option was used in NONMEM, and the importance sampling Monte-Carlo expectation-maximization method (pmethod = 4 or 8) was used in S-ADAPT. Variability of PD parameters between individual profiles was described by an exponential parameter variability model. An additive variability model was used for parameters estimated on log scale. A three-stage hierarchical analysis in S-ADAPT was performed to model the data of the time-kill experiments with various concentrations of Ca2+, Mg2+, or EDTA using methods described previously (37). The population PD results of the inoculum effect modeling in S-ADAPT were used as prior information. Plausible but uninformative priors were used for the maximum population size, initial inoculum, and half-life of growth and of the growth lag, since these parameters could be estimated well from the available data set. The sum of the free concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+ and the growth half-life in the presence of EDTA were estimated.\nThe structural mathematical model (Fig. 1) described the rapid, concentration-dependent killing by colistin (Fig. 2) and the inhibition of killing at high CFUo compared to that at low CFUo. At the 106 CFUo, bacterial killing by colistin was rapid and concentration dependent against all P. aeruginosa isolates. For the 106 CFUo, bactericidal activity within 1 h was achieved at concentrations of 1 to 4 \u00d7 the MIC, and concentrations of \u226516 \u00d7 the MIC resulted in bacterial reductions to undetectable concentrations within 30 min. Against the 108 and 109 CFUo, colistin activity was markedly attenuated (Fig. 2). Up to 32-fold-higher concentrations were required at the 109 CFUo than at the 106 CFUo to achieve bactericidal activity. At the 109 CFUo, killing was less pronounced and much slower, with nadir CFU counts at 8 to 12 h for PAO1 (Fig. 2), and regrowth occurred for all three strains. Drug-containing plates (Fig. 3) showed an increased fraction of less-susceptible cells at 2 to 16 mg\/liter for the 106 CFUo at 4 to 32 mg\/liter for the 108 CFUo and at 4 to 128 mg\/liter for the 109 CFUo for PAO1. The overall effect of colistin represented by the log ratio area approach was well described (r2 > 0.97) by Hill-type models (Fig. 4). The maximal effect (Emax) decreased systematically, and the colistin exposure (EC50) associated with 50% of Emax increased systematically with increasing CFUo for all three strains.\nPopulation predicted versus observed log10 (CFU\/ml) for three strains of P. aeruginosa at a low (top), intermediate (middle), or high (bottom) initial inoculum (see also Table 1 and Fig. 1; based on results from S-ADAPT). A log10 value of observed colony counts plotted as zero means no colony was on the plate. Given the volume of 50 \u03bcl plated, one colony is equivalent to 20 CFU\/ml (approximately 1.3 on log10 scale) for an undiluted sample.\nViable counts on drug-free and drug-containing plates at 24 h for P. aeruginosa PAO1 for an initial inoculum of 106 (A), 108 (B), or 109 (C) CFU\/ml (agar MIC of PAO1, 2 mg\/liter). Colistin concentrations above 16 mg\/liter were not studied at the 106-CFU\/ml inoculum. Plates with 8 mg\/liter colistin showed a log10 CFU\/ml between 1.6 and 4.1 for 2 mg\/liter at the 106 inoculum and for 2, 4, and 8 mg\/liter colistin in broth at the 108-CFU\/ml inoculum. The log10 CFU\/ml was 2.75 for 16 mg\/liter colistin at the 108-CFU\/ml inoculum. All other plates with 8 or 16 mg\/liter colistin showed no viable growth.\nPharmacodynamic relationship between colistin concentration\/MIC and the log ratio area [log10 (area under the CFU curve from 0 to 24 h for colistin\/area under the CFU curve from 0 to 24 h for growth control)] at each initial inoculum for three P. aeruginosa strains (all r2 values ranged between 0.978 and 0.999): PAO1 (A), URMC1 (B), and URMC2 (C).\nWe found the following extent of killing by colistin relative to baseline levels in the filtrate after coincubation for 0.75 or 24 h with 109.4 CFU\/ml. For 0.75 h of coincubation, net killing was >5 log10 in the filtrate of the 16-mg\/liter and 64-mg\/liter suspensions. For 24 h of coincubation, net killing was 5 log10 (>5 log10) in the filtrate of the 16-mg\/liter (64-mg\/liter) suspension. The growth control in spent broth grew by 1.5 log10 at 4 h and 3.1 log10 at 12 h.\nIn the mathematical model (Fig. 1), the attenuated effect of colistin at a high CFUo was assumed to be triggered by high concentrations of hypothetical signal molecules. At a signal molecule concentration much larger than the concentration associated with 50% of maximal inhibition (IC50) of 106.17 (Table 1), bacterial killing of all populations by colistin could be almost completely inhibited (ImaxKill = 0.992). The parameter estimates from NONMEM (results shown in the text) and S-ADAPT were well comparable (Table 1) and precise. Relative standard errors of all fixed effects were below 20% in S-ADAPT (results not shown). Parameter estimates for our two clinical strains were comparable to those for PAO1 (Table 1). In agreement with the lower MIC for the clinical isolates, these strains had a faster 2nd-order killing rate constant for the intermediate population (k2I) than PAO1 (Table 1).\nPopulation predictions were reasonably precise and unbiased (Fig. 2 and 5B). The individual fits were more precise (Fig. 5A for PAO1). Slopes (correlation coefficients) of observed versus individual fitted log10 CFU\/ml were 0.986 (r = 0.989) for URMC1 and 0.982 (r = 0.991) for URMC2. At the 109 CFUo, the predicted viable population counts showed more killing than observed for the 4 and 8 \u00d7 MIC profiles. These two profiles primarily caused the mispredictions in panels B and C of Fig. 5. Figure 5C shows predictions for the observations that were not used during the four estimation runs of the cross-validation. Predictions were reasonably precise and unbiased during cross-validation of the three lower inocula. For the 109 CFUo, mispredictions were only slightly more pronounced during cross-validation (Fig. 5C) than during estimation of all data (panel B). The model described the time course of killing for our two clinical strains at three CFUo and the two literature studies (Fig. 6) well. Slopes (correlation coefficients) of observed versus fitted log10 CFU\/ml were 1.023 (r = 0.927) for the data from the work of Gunderson et al. (31) and 1.002 (r = 0.985) for the data from the work of Li et al. (41).\nObserved versus predicted bacterial counts on log10 scale for P. aeruginosa PAO1 (based on results from NONMEM). (A) Observed versus individual fitted CFU\/ml. (B) Observations versus population predictions when all data were used for estimation. (C) Observations versus population predictions from the internal cross-validation. Importantly, none of the observations at the respective inocula were used during cross-validation when data at this inoculum were predicted. A log10 value of observed colony counts plotted as zero means no colony was on the plate.\nFitted and observed bacterial counts versus time for one-compartment in vitro model data from the work of Gunderson et al. (32) (A) (lower limit of detection: log10 CFU\/ml of 2.48; observations below this reported lower limit are plotted as 0 log10 [CFU\/ml]) and time-kill data from Li et al. (42) (B) (plates with zero colonies are plotted as zero).\nThe most important model assumptions are discussed in Table 2. Models with a first-order conversion between the susceptible, intermediate, and least-susceptible populations were estimated, but neither significantly improved either the objective function or the curve fits of our static time-kill data (results not shown). Models with four instead of three populations provided no significant benefit, and models with two populations were inadequate to describe the observations (results not shown). Estimating different FrI and FrR values at each CFUo yielded only a small improvement in the objective function and well-comparable estimates for FrI and FrR for each CFUo (results not shown). Therefore, FrI and FrR were assumed to be the same for all CFUo. Models with different relative affinities of colistin relative to Mg2+ and Ca2+ for the susceptible, intermediate, and least-susceptible populations in addition to a different killing rate constant for each population achieved only a slightly lower objective function in S-ADAPT but did not notably improve the diagnostic plots. Thus, we did not implement different relative affinities of colistin and Mg2+ and Ca2+ for each population following the rule of parsimony.\nOverview of assumptions and supporting data for proposed model features (see Methods and Discussion for further details)\nIt was estimated that 53.7% (EC50) of the binding sites for Mg2+ and Ca2+ were required to be unoccupied by Mg2+ or Ca2+ to achieve an effective colistin concentration of 50% of the colistin concentration in broth (Fig. 1). The Hill coefficient of this relationship was initially estimated to fall between 10 and 20, indicating cooperativity, and subsequently fixed to 10 to improve model stability. This choice did not affect curve fits.\nOur three-stage hierarchical analysis showed excellent individual curve fits at various concentrations of Ca2+, Mg2+, and EDTA (Fig. 7). All ratios of the population mean parameter estimates from the 3-stage hierarchical analysis divided by their prior estimates from the population PD analysis of the inoculum effect data set in S-ADAPT were within 0.90 to 1.13 (average \u00b1 SD: 1.00 \u00b1 0.056). This supported the proposed target site model and indicated consistency between both series of experiments. Compared to LB broth without addition of cations or EDTA (Fig. 7B), addition of cations inhibited killing by colistin (Fig. 7C to E). Addition of 2 mM EDTA to chelate Ca2+ and Mg2+ enhanced killing by colistin (Fig. 7A) but increased the estimated growth half-life of the susceptible population to 48.5 min. The rate and extent of killing were very similar for 2 mM EDTA and 20 mM EDTA (data not shown). However, 20 mM EDTA inhibited net growth of PAO1 substantially, and therefore, these data were not included in the modeling analysis. The sum of the free concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+ in LB broth was estimated to be small (0.06 mM).\nObserved and individual fitted viable counts of P. aeruginosa PAO1 for various concentrations of Ca2+, Mg2+, or EDTA added to LB broth: 2.0 mM EDTA (A), no cations and no EDTA added (B), 10 mg\/liter Ca2+ and 5 mg\/liter Mg2+ (C), 20 mg\/liter Ca2+ and 10 mg\/liter Mg2+ (D), or 80 mg\/liter Ca2+ and 40 mg\/liter Mg2+ (E). Observed viable counts of zero mean no colony on the plate (using a volume of 200 \u03bcl plated manually for samples with low viable counts).\nOur simulation-estimation study assessing the proposed residual error model showed that this model was robust and curve fits were unbiased and precise using the cutoff value of 5 colonies per plate applied in this colistin study (equivalent to 100 CFU\/ml for a 50-\u03bcl plating volume). For fixed-effect parameters, bias was \u22640.07 for estimates on log10 scale and \u22644% for all other estimates. Precision of fixed effects had a standard deviation (SD) of <0.09 for estimates on log10 scale and a coefficient of variation (CV) of <10% for all other estimates. This new residual error model was more robust in NONMEM than the Beal M3 method (6).\nThe increasing prevalence of Gram-negative bacteria, including P. aeruginosa, that are resistant to almost all commercially available antibiotics is a cause for significant concern (22, 40). The lack of alternative therapeutic options has forced clinicians to use polymyxins due to their activity against these multidrug-resistant pathogens (40, 42). Although colistin has displayed rapid bactericidal activity against low CFUo of P. aeruginosa, it has not yet been determined whether this profile would also be seen against high CFUo. We therefore studied the impact of CFUo on colistin killing activity in vitro for three isolates of P. aeruginosa. In our study, killing by colistin was drastically attenuated at high CFUo, and substantially higher colistin concentrations were necessary to achieve bactericidal activity at high CFUo (Fig. 2). Consistent with the inverted-U concept (64), intermediate concentrations caused resistance at 24 h, whereas low or (very) high concentrations did not increase the fraction of less-susceptible cells (Fig. 3).\nHancock et al. (32, 33, 63) highlighted that it is critical to understand the mechanisms of antibiotic killing to prevent emergence of bacterial resistance. Consequently, we developed a mathematical model that incorporates known features of the mechanism of action of colistin (39). After displacing Mg2+ and Ca2+ from their LPS binding sites, colistin disrupts the outer and cytoplasmic membrane, and leakage of small intracellular molecules and bacterial killing are observed within less than 2 min (39, 48, 56, 61). The proposed model (Fig. 1 and Table 2) incorporates the competitive interaction of colistin with Mg2+ and Ca2+ as a first step of colistin action. After colistin sufficiently destabilized the outer membrane by increasing the fraction of receptors not occupied by Mg2+ or Ca2+ to 53.7% (EC50), colistin reached its target site and caused killing. The assumed relative affinity for LPS binding sites was 670-fold higher for colistin than for Mg2+ and Ca2+ (55), which is consistent with the literature as it relates to P. aeruginosa (13, 43, 48). All model parameters except EC50 were essentially unaffected in a sensitivity analysis (in S-ADAPT) that varied the dissociation constants for colistin and Mg2+ and Ca2+ up to 50-fold in either direction. In agreement with data in the literature (43, 48), the (estimated) Hill coefficient of 10 suggests cooperativity in loss of membrane integrity after sufficient displacement of Ca2+ and Mg2+.\nA prospective experimental validation (Fig. 7) coupled with a three-stage hierarchical analysis supported the proposed target site model (Fig. 1B). To our knowledge, this analysis for a mechanism-based model is the first application of a three-stage hierarchical population PD analysis in antibacterial PD. This method is very helpful for borrowing results from other studies in the literature and using these results as prior information with uncertainty.\nThe mathematical model developed in this study incorporates a second-order killing function and three preexisting populations with different susceptibilities to colistin. This characterization of colistin PD is in agreement with the rapid, concentration-dependent killing of P. aeruginosa by colistin and with the regrowth of resistant cells (4, 8, 31, 41). At high colistin concentrations against low CFUo, 99.9% killing was achieved within 15 min and undetectable levels were maintained until 24 h. The descriptive log ratio area method yielded a robust measure for the average drug effect and indicated a systematic trend toward less killing at high CFUo (Fig. 4).\nOur mathematical model could describe the time course of killing and regrowth for a range of CFUo (Fig. 2 and Fig. 5). Initially, the slower killing at high CFUo compared to low CFUo was modeled as different second-order killing rate constants for each population at each CFUo. In this descriptive analysis for strain PAO1, the killing rate constant of the susceptible population was approximately 23-fold (6-fold) smaller for the 109 (108) CFUo than for the 106 CFUo.\nSubsequently, the inoculum effect was described as a phenotypic change of bacterial cells. Potential reasons for the inhibition of killing by colistin are a decreased negative charge of LPS and changes in the hydrophobic side chain in the outer membrane of P. aeruginosa in response to cells sensing their environment (14, 36, 49, 51). Parameter estimates from NONMEM and S-ADAPT using notably different estimation algorithms were well comparable (Table 1). The model described the killing by colistin well for clinical strains URMC1 and URMC2 (Fig. 2B and 2C) and for two literature data sets (Fig. 6). The proposed mechanism-based model incorporates certain features of the mode of action of colistin, can predict the time course of bacterial killing by colistin over a wide range of CFUo, and can be extended to describe killing by combinations of antibiotics. The new proposed residual error model was very robust, yielded unbiased and precise estimates in a simulation-estimation study with a simplified PD model, and could account for plates with zero colonies during estimation and for the Poisson error at low viable counts.\nOur model is largely simplified, since it contains only one compartment for hypothetical, unmeasured signal molecules that were assumed to cause the phenotypic changes of cells leading to a slower killing by colistin (Table 2). Several signal molecules are known to be involved in cell-to-cell communication (quorum sensing) of P. aeruginosa (20, 57) and to cause a delayed onset of expression of quorum-induced genes (57, 58). The proposed model can account for this delay and had a good predictive performance for interpolation (when leaving out data of the 106 or 108 CFUo) and extrapolation (when leaving out data of the 104 or 109 CFUo) between CFUo (Fig. 5C). Further studies are needed to assess the influence of antibiotics on bacterial signaling, gene expression, proteomics, and bacterial physiology at high and low CFUo in vitro and in vivo.\nA potential reason for the inoculum effect of colistin might arise from its antiendotoxin activity in neutralizing bacterial LPS (26, 29, 72). Colistin forms mixed monolayers with phospholipids and is incorporated in micelles in vitro (46). \"Binding\" of colistin to LPS fragments of killed bacteria might decrease the free colistin concentration in vitro and contribute to the inoculum effect. Our coincubation experiments with colistin added to a CFUo of 109.4 CFU\/ml for 0.75 or 24 h suggest that binding to LPS or other molecules in spent broth was not the major reason for the inoculum effect in our study. This coincubation experiment and the slow killing with late nadir CFU counts at 8 to 12 h for PAO1 suggested that a phenotypic change of bacterial cells is the most likely reason for the inoculum effect in our in vitro experiments.\nDavis (17) found no inoculum effect for colistin at the two lower dose levels in mouse protection tests with P. aeruginosa, whereas the mean effective dose increased approximately 16-fold for gentamicin or tobramycin with a 100-fold increase in CFUo. Since there was no washout of signal molecules or other substances, a time-kill experiment as in our study may overestimate the inoculum effect in vivo. However, several animal infection model studies showed the significance of the inoculum effect in vivo (25, 38, 47, 60). It is important to note that the clinical relevance of the inoculum effect has rarely been demonstrated, and numerous factors, such as host defense and severity of infection, greatly influence antimicrobial effect and treatment success in patients.\nBased on our in vitro time-kill data, our mathematical model predicted (results not shown) that colistin regimens with a large colistin exposure during the first approximately 12 h may be able to achieve enough net killing that the immune system can eradicate the remaining colistin-resistant cells. Further in vitro and animal studies are required to substantiate this model prediction.\nOur study has potential limitations. First, the mathematical model of the present study was developed based on data from static time-kill experiments. Our in vitro model also does not account for the complex protein binding of colistin in vivo (23). Second, our study was not designed to assess the mechanism(s) of colistin resistance. To build mathematical models for the time course of colistin resistance, hollow-fiber infection models determining the viable counts of the total and resistant subpopulation(s) and resistance mechanisms will need to be studied for clinically relevant colistin dosage regimens over approximately 10 to 14 days. Finally, other potential limitations of our study are that the resistant subpopulation(s) might have been growing faster in LB broth, which is richer in nutrients than many infection sites in vivo, and that colistin concentrations were not directly measured. However, time-kill experiments in spent broth after coincubating colistin and a high CFUo of PAO1 suggested that drug degradation was not the primary reason for the inoculum effect of colistin in our study.\nIn summary, the extent and rate of killing of PAO1 and two clinical P. aeruginosa isolates by colistin were markedly inhibited at high CFUo compared to low CFUo. Killing of PAO1 was approximately 23-fold (6-fold) slower for the 109 (108) CFUo than for the 106 CFUo. The proposed mechanism-based mathematical model described bacterial growth and killing of three P. aeruginosa strains across a range of CFUo well, had a good predictive performances for all studied CFUo, and could well describe data from two additional clinical strains from the literature. A prospective experimental \"validation\" using different concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+ in combination with a three-stage hierarchical population PD analysis supported the proposed target site model. The proposed mathematical model should be further validated using dynamic in vitro models with colistin in mono- and combination therapy. Overall, this study emphasizes the potential need for higher colistin exposure or combination regimens to treat deep-seated, difficult-to-treat infections with high CFUo. 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Functional relationship between bacterial cell density and the efficacy of antibiotics. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 63:745-757.\nVenkatesan, A., C. Spalding, A. Speedie, G. Sinha, and J. A. Rumbaugh. 2005. Pseudomonas aeruginosa infective endocarditis presenting as bacterial meningitis. J. Infect. 51:e199-e202.\nWarren, H. S., S. A. Kania, and G. R. Siber. 1985. Binding and neutralization of bacterial lipopolysaccharide by colistin nonapeptide. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 28:107-112.\nYang, J. C., J. B. Bulitta, A. Forrest, and B. T. Tsuji. 2007. High inocula Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) attenuates colistin bactericidal activity and alters pharmacodynamics (PD). Abstr. 47th Annu. Intersci. Conf. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (ICAAC), poster A-6. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.\nYohonn, L., S. V. Brown, J. B. Bulitta, A. Forrest, H. Sun, C. McPhee, P. N. Holden, P. A. Kelchlin, E. Dodds Ashley, C. E. Haas, D. Hardy, and B. T. Tsuji. 2007. Bactericidal activity of colistin against clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa at high and low bacterial density, abstr. A-119. Abstr. 109th Gen. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, DC.\nAntimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy Apr 2010, 54 (5) 2051-2062; DOI: 10.1128\/AAC.00881-09\nYou are going to email the following Attenuation of Colistin Bactericidal Activity by High Inoculum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Characterized by a New Mechanism-Based Population Pharmacodynamic Model","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pick of the Plots: Monday 16th September\nThe latest goings on in Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks and Doctors.\nPaul's disgusted to hear about Bernie's pregnancy test scam and that she's back with her old boyfriend Kel, who Paul last saw when he was fourteen. Paul resolves to come up with a plan to get rid of them both. Later, an angry man calls at No.5, claiming to have fallen victim to a hoax pregnancy and vowing to go to the police. Chesney orders Bernie to pack her bags with Gemma's support.\nLater, Kel catches up with Paul in the Rovers' yard and asserts that what happened between them in the past was special but he's committed to Bernie this time. However, Bernie's gutted when Kel leaves, blaming Paul for making him feel unwelcome. Meanwhile, Billy quizzes Gemma about Paul's feud with Kel, and Paul doesn't appreciate his interest.\nElsewhere, Sinead and Daniel visit a hospice, but Daniel admits that as her husband he wants to care for Sinead at home to the bitter end. Later, chemotherapy takes its toll on Sinead.\nAlso, Toyah pointedly lets Ali know she's there for when he's ready to talk; Jenny makes a fuss of Adam as he moves into the Rovers to give the Osbourne's space; Nick forces a reluctant Derek to sign the rental agreement for the factory.\nCoronation Street, Monday at 7.30pm and 8.30pm on ITV, STV and UTV.\nKathy finds out that Bobby is staying with Max and pleads with her grandson to reconsider. Bobby gets a message from his friend, Imran, and quickly exits. When Jack puts the kibosh on Bobby and his friend staying at the Branning's, Bobby returns home where Kathy is concerned to see how uneasy he is, wrongly assuming it's got something to do with Imran. Wanting to help, Kathy takes matters into her own hands leaving Bobby furious.\nMeanwhile, Phil and Sharon notice some unusual withdrawals from the E20's account, with Phil immediately sussing that Mel must be making them to pay for Hunter's funeral. He demands that her access is cut off. Realising what's happened, Mel is distraught at not being able to pay for Hunter's funeral and confronts Sharon.\nElsewhere, Bex tries to distract herself from thoughts of university; Linda takes Ollie to his new school but is put out at the hostility of the other mums; Mitch continues to berate Keegan about leaving school whilst Keegan calms Tiffany's nerves before she starts her course.\nEastEnders, Monday at 8pm on BBC One.\nSarah tries to show off in front of her new friend Danny but gets herself into trouble when Vanessa catches them hanging out together instead of doing school work. Later, Sarah is mortified when Charity gives her a ticking off in front of Danny.\nMeanwhile, Chas tries to offer a fresh perspective.\nElsewhere, Dan finds himself with an admirer; Will's situation leaves him frustrated.\nEmmerdale, Monday at 7pm on ITV, STV and UTV.\nSte gives a speech at Stuart's 'family day' to rapturous applause but Jack is disgusted to stumble on the event at The Teahouse and calls the police. Later, Ste sees Sinead who is upset about Finn's return. It's like old times until talk turns to Ste's beliefs and he finds out that she's engaged to Sami. Back at home, Ste agrees to help with Stuart's big plan\u2026\nMeanwhile, Diane is surprised to hear that Sinead is getting married when Azim tries to book The Hutch for the engagement party. Sinead doesn't want anything to do with her mum while Finn is around.\nElsewhere, James thinks Juliet deserves to be punished for what she did to Brooke and suggests she sees a counsellor. Bobby surprises Mercedes with a 'beach' on The Dog patio. Mercedes tells Bobby that she's happiest when she's with him and he asks why she hasn't had a baby with Sylver yet.\nHollyoaks, Monday at 6.30pm on Channel 4 and a 'first look' at 7pm on E4.\nIt's the day of the court case to decide the fate of Josh: Letherbridge NHS trust are seeking a declaration that continued ventilation is not in the baby's best interests and his parents are protesting this.\nThe court hears from both sides before the judge retires to her chambers to deliberate. Will the judge give the verdict that Theresa and Phil desperately hope to hear?\nAt the Mill, Al finds an unexpected confidante, and Valerie obsesses about Daniel and Becky.\nDoctors, Monday at 1.45pm on BBC One.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"KNAU Local News\nState Capitol News\nBrain Food Archive\nEarth Notes\nPoetrySnaps!\nScott Thybony Commentaries\nSouthwest Book Review Archive\nDay Sponsorships\nCorporate Sponsor Challenge\nKNAU Newsletter\nDiversity and EEO\n\u00a9 2023 KNAU Arizona Public Radio\nArizona Public Radio | Your Source for NPR News\nOn Air Now Playing NPR News and Talk\nOn Air Now Playing Classical Music and NPR News\nKNAU 106.1 in Prescott is currently down due to technical difficulties. Our engineer is working toward a solution and expects a solution tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.\n'There's No Good Dust': What Happens After Quartz Countertops Leave The Factory\nBy Nell Greenfieldboyce\nPublished December 2, 2019 at 6:19 AM MST\nThe Cambria factory in Minnesota manufactures slabs of engineered quartz for kitchen and bathroom countertops. If businesses don't follow worker protection rules, cutting these slabs to fit customers' kitchens can release lung-damaging silica dust.\nEvery day, 20 to 30 trucks roll into a factory in Minnesota. They're filled with quartz \u2014 some of it like a powder, and some of it like sparkling little pebbles, in big white sacks.\n\"It's about 30 million pounds of quartz a month,\" says Marty Davis, the CEO of Cambria, a company that manufactures material for kitchen and bathroom countertops. \"About a million pounds a day.\"\nAll of this quartz gets transformed into a kind of engineered stone that looks like granite and marble, but with more durability and stain resistance. Quartz countertops have really taken off over the past decade, and factories around the world are churning out slabs of the stuff under different brand names.\nHowever, if countertop-making businesses don't follow worker protection rules, cutting these slabs to fit customers' kitchens can release lung-damaging silica dust.\nNatural granite contains silica too, but all of the quartz that goes into engineered stone means that it contains about twice as much.\nSo far, 19 countertop workers in the U.S. are known to have developed severe lung disease after cutting engineered stone along with other stone; two of them died of their illness, and others have been told they will eventually require lung transplants.\nManufacturers such as Cambria say that their slabs of composite stone are completely safe when cut and polished with the proper precautions.\n\"There's clear regulation and clear guidance and governance on how to process materials safely to control dust and respiratory inhalation of dust,\" Davis says.\nHe invited NPR to tour his factory. Above the entrance is a sign that says: \"Through these doors walk the finest countertop makers in the world.\"\nCambria produces around 30,000 slabs of quartz countertop material every month, says Davis, who adds that the company has also spent millions of dollars on air-handling systems to control dust.\n\"There's no good dust. Zero,\" says Davis, who gained an appreciation of safe manufacturing practices while working in his family's dairy business.\n\/ Cambria\nCambria receives raw quartz that is then combined with a binder and pigments to produce engineered quartz slabs, which are then sent out to workshops around the country.\nA sign warns of silica at the door to a huge room filled with mechanical mixers. There, workers wear respirators as they combine quartz, pigments and a binder. The mixture gets spread out onto what looks like a giant baking sheet, then goes through a machine that vibrates the material in a vacuum to remove any voids.\nThis produces a soft, compressed slab that feels almost like cookie dough. It hardens when it gets heated, then cooled and polished. The factory is filled with rows of finished slabs in different colors, ready to be sent out to countertop-makers.\nDavis says these slabs go out to thousands of workshops, and he can't follow his product to each one.\n\"How do you police your customers?\" he says, noting that the dangers of silica have been known for decades. \"There are many products that we make in our world that, if processed or consumed improperly, are dangerous.\"\nHe says the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has clear rules on controlling worker exposure to silica. \"If you follow and adhere, your employees will be safe,\" Davis says.\nHis company's own countertop fabrication shops prove this, he says. In addition to manufacturing slabs, Cambria runs a network of five shops that cut slabs to order.\n\"They're clean as a whistle,\" says Davis, adding that one of his own sons works in the shops.\nIn these workshops, and at the main factory, Cambria uses devices to do real-time monitoring of silica dust \u2014 something that Davis says goes above and beyond what is currently typical for the industry.\nBut some workers in countertop shops run by other companies say they weren't protected from silica.\nJuan (who didn't want to use his last name because of medical privacy) says he had a job making countertops in Washington state, and a lot of what he cut was quartz.\nFor the first couple of years, his workplace practiced dry cutting \u2014 that means no spray of water to keep the dust down. There was so much dust, he says, he couldn't see someone working 20 feet away.\nJuan, who is now 38, says he wore a simple face mask that didn't provide enough protection and that no one told him about silica, or the danger.\n\"At first you don't feel the changes a lot,\" Juan said in Spanish, speaking through an interpreter. \"Then later, with time passing, your body starts telling you that you're missing air, that you're suffocating and you're tired.\"\nIn 2016, after four years at the shop, he developed a cough that wouldn't go away, no matter what medicine he took. About a year later, a friend who was a chiropractor advised him to get his lungs tested.\nAt first, his doctor told him it wasn't necessary. \"Then when he did the tests, the doctor almost cried. He said, 'I'm sorry, you're right, your lungs are very damaged,' \" says Juan, who has a wife and three children.\nHe says he can't carry groceries and gets exhausted just walking from his house to his car. He's being evaluated for a lung transplant.\n\"After this happened, they made lots of changes in the company,\" Juan says. \"Now they don't cut like they used to. They bought a lot of machines and the machines do most of the work.\"\nDry-cutting methods generally are cheaper because they do not require specialized equipment or water recycling systems. One survey of countertop shops in 2012 found that the majority reported using dry methods all or most of the time in at least one fabrication step.\nMargaret Phillips, an occupational health expert at the University of Oklahoma Hudson College of Public Health in Oklahoma City, has done silica sampling in shops to assess worker exposures.\nMichael Conroy \/ AP\nWater applied to cutting equipment, like this computer-operated saw, is one method to control silica dust exposure when cutting quartz slabs.\n\"If workers were doing mostly dry fabrication, so they were grinding, polishing, cutting, without any use of water on their tool to suppress the dust, then exposures tended to be very high,\" Phillips says. \"Like 20 times over the current OSHA limit, maybe even 40 times, or more. Dry fabrication is exposing workers to very, very high levels of silica dust.\"\nHer research has found that even just a few minutes of dry fabrication was enough to put a worker's exposure over the permissible limit. \"Any amount of dry fabrication could really be a problem,\" she says.\nSome shops don't do dry cutting, like Capitol Granite near Richmond, Va. There, big computer-controlled machines cut through slabs while dumping up to 35 gallons of water a minute on the blade to keep down the silica dust.\n\"We do not do any dry work whatsoever. That's the only way that you can eliminate any risk affiliated with silicosis in the shop,\" says owner Paul Menninger.\nHe says if it were up to him, dry cutting would be illegal.\nIn his workplace, machine operators and workers doing touch-ups with handheld tools don't have to wear respirators, because silica is well-controlled. Menninger knows this because he recently invited in an inspector from OSHA, who tested the air.\nBut he says there are a lot of shops, especially smaller operations, that government inspectors never get to. And the stone cutting industry is unlicensed.\n\"It's not like plumbing or electrical or HVAC or any of the other trades,\" he says, \"whereby there seems to be a standard or an international code.\"\nYet consumers rely on the industry and regulators to ensure that products are made safely, says Carolyn Levine, a Washington, D.C., resident who recently replaced her natural granite countertops with engineered quartz.\nThe lung illnesses found in the countertop industry are alarming, she says.\n\"Having regulations and precautions is important, and this is a good example of why,\" Levine says.\nShe had never heard of engineered quartz before deciding to replace her old granite countertops, which she had for more than 12 years.\n\"I just wanted something lighter and brighter,\" Levine says. \"I had two guys give me estimates.\"\nThey both were emphatic, she says, that compared to granite, the superior product was quartz.\nNell Greenfieldboyce\nNell Greenfieldboyce is a NPR science correspondent.\nSee stories by Nell Greenfieldboyce\nLee Born's Weather\nLow pressure will track across Mexico Tuesday night with spotty showers south of the Mogollon Rim, otherwise skies will clear lending to very cold morning low temperatures across snow covered terrain. 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{"text":"Reviews Photography Canon Eos 5D Mark Iv Dslr Camera\nCanon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR camera\ndfcc7494-9b12-4966-9e1b-3cb8728a91eb\nBird photography has never been more popular, and Canon has emerged as the brand of choice in the DSLR market. The EOS 7D Mark II is a particular favourite in the company's enthusiast line-up, but anyone wanting to immerse themselves more deeply in bird photography needs to look at Canon's professional range, including the latest iteration of the long-serving 5D.\nThe 5D Mark IV looks and feels like a classic Canon, and the ergonomics and layout of controls are immediately familiar. Constructed from magnesium-alloy and with weatherproofing Canon describes as \"resilient\", it feels robust and well built. On the rear of the body is a bright, fixed 3.2-inch screen which, unlike in the 5D Mark III, is a touchscreen with a higher resolution of 1,620,000 dots. As with most professional bodies, there is no built-in flash.\nAt the model's core is its 30.4 MP CMOS sensor, a major step up from the 22.3 MP 5D Mark III. You may not get the 1.6x crop factor with this full-frame camera, but it generates impressively large RAW and JPG files of 6,720x4,480 pixels. The ISO range is 100-25,600, expandable to 50-102,400, maximum video resolution is 4,096x2,160 \u2013 double that of the Mark III \u2013 and it boasts an advanced, 61-point dual-pixel CMOS autofocus system. GPS and wi-fi capabilities further enhance this camera's performance, and there are advanced in-camera image-processing options.\nI tested the 5D Mark IV with multiple lenses in a range of conditions, and it produced hugely impressive results. Coupling it with the EF 300 mm f2.8 L IS USM II lens provided the optimal combination in terms of image quality, but it will deliver top-drawer images with any telephoto lens.\nLow-light performance was particularly strong, and I found I could ramp up the ISO to settings normally avoided on other Canon bodies because of noise issues. Its low-light capabilities also extend opportunities at both ends of the day and in dark conditions such as forest. In terms of colour depth and dynamic range, images are exceptional and independent lab tests rate the 5D Mark IV as the best-performing of all Canon DSLRs (see www.dxomark.com).\nBattery life is rated at 900 shots, a slight improvement on the Mark III and 50 per cent more than in the 7D Mark II. I usually leave GPS and wi-fi switched off to avoid battery drain, but used the 5D Mark IV's wi-fi to pair it to Canon's Camera Connect app on my iPhone. Through this I was able to view camera images on my phone, download them direct to the phone's own photo app and quickly edit and share them on social media, without needing to do so on my PC at home first \u2013 a real plus. The app can also be used as a remote shutter control for shooting in live view and movie modes, and this worked well with the camera set up on a tripod in a hide.\nI had just one odd experience when using the 5D Mark IV. In continuous shooting modes, I couldn't initially get the camera to take multiple images while holding down the shutter button, let alone fire at the claimed speed of 7 fps. This was the case with both the review sample and another I tried subsequently. By comparing the settings with another photographer's 5D Mark IV, I discovered that Multiple Exposure and HDR Mode were both disabled and also inactive in the menu, and couldn't immediately be changed. The only way I could find to activate these options was to reset all camera settings, then enable them individually and restore my other settings \u2013 no big deal, but a curious anomaly.\nOtherwise, the 5D Mark IV performed exceptionally well at all times. It is a joy to use, delivering images of the highest quality in all conditions. Getting to know how to use it fully will be a long process, but in this reviewer's case I look forward to that challenge, as Canon's latest version of a long-term favourite has now become my camera of choice.\nSRP: \u00a33,249.99\nSize: 150.7x116.4x75.9 mm\nSensor: 30.4 MP full-frame CMOS sensor\nISO: 100-25,600 (expandable to 50-102,400)\nFPS: 7.0 continuous shooting\nStorage slots: 1xCF, 1xSD\nOther features: 61-point AF, 4K video, GPS, wi-fi, Digic 6+\nWarranty: two-year guarantee\nExceptional image quality with superb detail\nHigh-definition, 3.2-inch touchscreen\nExpensive SRP, but deals are available online\nThis Bar-tailed Godwit was photographed with the EOS 5D Mark IV in failing light on a grey afternoon in winter. At ISO 1,600, noise is undetectable and overall the 5D's low-light performance is excellent (Dominic Mitchell).\nWritten by: Dominic Mitchell\n18:39 Glossy Ibis","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Truth Be Told (Book 3)\nSeries: The Truth in Lies Saga\nAuthor: Jeanne McDonald\nCover Design: Jada D'Lee Designs\nExpected Release Date: May 18, 2015\nJeanne McDonald is an author, a mother, a wife, a student of knowledge and of life, a coffee addict, a philosophy novice, a pop culture connoisseur, inspired by music, encouraged by words, and a believer in true love. When she's not spending time with her family, she can be found reading, writing, enjoying a great film, chatting with friends or diligently working toward her bachelor's degree in literature. A proud Texan, Jeanne currently resides in the Dallas\/Fort Worth area with her family.\nWebsite | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon | Google+ | Smashwords\nFrom the moment Andrew Wise and McKenzie Evans first met, they tried to fight the magnetism that pulled them together. No matter how hard they struggled with their feelings, their love was a force so strong that neither of them could deny it.\nThe news of Olivia Hamilton's pregnancy, and the understanding that Drew is the father, led McKenzie to flee with the hope of rectifying her secret betrayal of falling in love with her best friend's boyfriend. However, when Drew showed up and declared his undying love for her, McKenzie could no longer deny the truth. She and Drew were destined for each other.\nMcKenzie now has no choice but to face Olivia in order for her and Drew to move on with their lives together. Secrets and lies may have kept them apart, but now, in the light of the truth, their legacy shines as pure as their love.\nFor as long as Drew can remember, there has always been tension between him and his father, Jonathan. This time is proving no different. Since sharing the truth of his past with McKenzie, Drew is emboldened by her unwavering love and acceptance of the man he is. He'll do anything necessary to protect the woman he loves and the life he's come to understand she deserves. With Jonathan and Olivia teamed together to rip them apart, Drew and McKenzie, along with the aid of some unexpected allies, must join forces to overcome the obstacles that will inevitably come their way.\nIn this much anticipated final installment of The Truth in Lies Saga, Drew and McKenzie will unite together to conquer the past, face the future, and uncover the truth in lies that threaten to destroy them. Love brought them together and love will set them free.\n\"What are you thinking about?\" The soft rumble of Drew's voice tickled my ear.\nMy head rested on his shoulder, caught between reality and the world of dreaming. After everything that had happened, I was mentally and physically drained. Now, thirty-some-odd-thousand feet in the air and for the first time in months, I felt truly happy, which seemed strange since I was heading straight for a hornet's nest.\nBoston scared me. Facing Drew's family was bad enough, but coming face to face with one of my oldest and dearest friends, Olivia Hamilton, was even harder. For so long, I'd hidden from her my real reason for my leaving Sarasota. My departure hurt her in the worst sort of way. In her mind, I abandoned her when she needed me most. If she only knew the truth of how terrible of a person I really was, she wouldn't consider me her best friend. Losing her friendship altogether was something I had to prepare myself for once we reached Boston.\nGah, how was I to face her?\nOlivia deserved a friend who was there for her, as she had been for me when I lost everything I held dear in my life. She had so much on her plate already with her pregnancy and her job, and I was about to add to her burden by admitting that the father of her child and I were in love. It was because of me that all of her hopes and dreams would soon be destroyed. And while all of that weighed on me, my heart still couldn't bear being another day without Drew. I'd punished myself long enough and suffered more heartache than anyone should have to endure. Losing Evan, then breaking up with Nate, then leaving Drew and abandoning Olivia\u2014I was emotionally drained.\nOnly hours earlier I was in church begging God for guidance. I was conflicted and needed answers. Drew was about to leave for Boston and wanted me with him, and I wanted to be with him. But the idea of openly admitting our love, not only to his family but to Olivia, while at a wedding, seemed in poor taste to me. My heart struggled with its need to be near Drew and my desire to protect my friend. Even though Drew had confessed time and time again he held no feelings for Olivia, I still felt terrible for the predicament she now found herself in.\nBy the end of the service, I thought I was prepared to let him leave. Things were different now between Drew and me. All of the lies that held us back were no longer an obstacle. All that weighed between us was his family and my best friend. Those things could wait a week while he celebrated the union of Gavin, his older brother, and Morgan.\nIt wasn't until Gavin became infuriated with the idea of leaving me behind that I realized I wasn't trying to protect his wedding. I was afraid\u2014terrified, really\u2014of not only being hurt again, but of hurting someone I cared about. By not going to Boston, I was once again running away from my problems. No sooner had the fellas drove off, than I was in my car, barrelling down the E-way back to my apartment to pack. Poor Mackie, my kitten, thought I'd lost my mind as I shoved her little butt in a carryon.\n\"I know what I'm thinking,\" Jared piped up. He turned around in his seat, that winning smile of his plastered over his adorable face. I'd missed the shit out of him. Our long conversations on the phone weren't enough. Out of everyone, including Olivia or Drew, I'd say Jared knew me the best. He had a huge heart and a witty, sometimes sadistic, sense of humor. His shaggy blond hair fell into his golden eyes, but that didn't keep me from seeing them bounce with mischief.\n\"And what's that?\" I dared to ask.\nDrew slipped his hand into mine. A soft chuckle resounded from his chest. It was strange seeing him laugh at Jared. When I left Sarasota, they could barely be in the same room together without daggers flying. My Neanderthal wasn't too keen on the discovery that my best bud had developed feelings for me that surpassed friendship. If I were to be honest, I'd known Jared's heart long before he revealed his secret. But my heart had been conquered by Drew.\nTalk about your messed up quadrangle. Olivia wanted Drew, but he loved me. Jared loved me, but I was in love with Drew. My life was one big soap opera.\nJared drummed his fingers together, the corner of his mouth twitching.\nGavin peered over the plush leather headrest and gave me the cutest little wink. His brown hair was slathered in a thick layer of gel. A thin beard lined his slim jaw. Eyes, blue as the ocean, stared back at me. They weren't quite aquamarine like Drew's, but they were pretty all the same.\n\"So, what are we talking about?\" he buzzed.\n\"Jared here was just about to fill us in on what he was thinking. As if any of us cared,\" Drew declared.\nJared gave a dramatic gasp. \"If that's how you're going to be\u2026\" He started to turn back around in his seat, feigning disappointment.\nMe, the ever gullible one, called out, \"I care. What were you thinking, Jare?\"\nJared sprang back around, his smile flared wide. \"I was thinking about the look on the Skanky Ho Momma's face when she sees you.\" He clapped his hands, flamboyant and giddy.\n\"Someone better have a cell phone ready to snap a pic of that. I want to plaster it everywhere!\" Drew cackled.\n\"Why do you hate Liv so much?\" I questioned.\nAll of them did, and I couldn't understand why. Okay, so she wasn't Mother Teresa, but she'd always done right by me. She took care of me in college, and came to my rescue when I needed her most. Never once did she turn me away. Olivia might be self-centered and a little ostentatious with her wardrobe, but deep down, I knew she had a good heart.\n\"I don't hate her\u2026\" Jared paused, \"\u2026exactly. But I can say if she were ever on fire and I had a bottle of water,\" his eyes bounced between the three of us as he leaned in closer and stage whispered, \"I'd drink it.\"\nLaughter ricocheted from Gavin and Drew throughout the compartment. Jared wore a look of pride at making everyone laugh. Well, almost everyone.\nDrew released my hand and nearly buckled over in laughter. \"Quack, quack,\" he snorted.\nThis caused an even further uproar of laughter that I didn't quite understand.\n\"What the hell does that mean?\" I demanded. It was difficult not to laugh with the three of them howling, but somehow I managed.\n\"Nothing. Nothing.\" Drew gasped for breath, holding his gut.\n\"No! Really. Someone tell me what that means?\"\nDrew, realizing I was getting a little frustrated, managed to calm down enough to tell me a story about Olivia appearing at his place wearing a bright yellow dress and waddling like a duck. \"She's got a baby bump, but she's not big enough to waddle yet,\" he crooned.\nAll at once, the weight of everything came crashing back down on me. Olivia was pregnant with Drew's child. Out of everything I would have to endure, that was probably the worst of it. I'd prepared myself for the shitstorm that would ensue the moment Olivia discovered Drew and I were together. Not that I would blame her for hating me. If the roles were reversed, I'd hate me, too. But her pregnancy was a constant reminder that she would always be in his life. Together, they had something I longed for\u2026a baby.\n\"Wow,\" I muttered, unable to mask my disappointment. \"I guess I missed a lot.\"\nGavin reached over the seat and patted my cheek. \"Nothing you can't get caught up on quickly.\"\nDrew wrapped his arm around my shoulders, drawing me in close to him. \"Honestly, Baby, you haven't missed much. I'm happy to have you with us, Mickie. I can't express how much we all missed you.\"\nIf he only knew that wasn't what really had me upset. This was my secret to keep. A jealousy I would always have to endure. And maybe one day, Drew and I might start our own family.\nI rested my head back on his shoulder and closed my eyes. He smelled so inviting, and his gentle touch was very relaxing. So relaxing, in fact, I fell asleep. I was awakened by the sound of the intercom coming to life.\n\"Ladies and Gentleman, we are beginning our final descent to Boston Logan International. It's now nine twenty-three P.M. local time, and the temperature is currently eighty-one degrees. We have certainly enjoyed having you aboard today, and we hope to see you again soon. Thank you again for flying Skyway Airlines, and have a wonderful evening.\"\nMy stomach lurched as the plane started to descend. I stretched, wiggling my toes inside my sneakers.\n\"How long was I out?\"\n\"Not too long. You looked so peaceful. I couldn't bring myself to wake you.\"\n\"You never could.\"\n\"I enjoy watching you sleep. It comforts me.\" Drew brushed his knuckles across my cheek. \"You comfort me.\"\nI leaned into his hand, content to feel the warmth of his skin and the love in his touch.\nDrew placed a soft kiss to my lips. A bright smile appeared as he pulled back and glanced out the window. \"Look, Baby.\"\nI shifted forward to look out the window. Such beauty and history lay out before me as we lowered closer and closer to the ground. The evening glow of the moon danced over the water, and buildings full of history towered above the trees, beckoning me to explore their mysteries.\n\"It's gorgeous.\"\nHe leaned in and whispered tenderly in my ear, \"Welcome to my home, Baby.\" I turned my head to find the most amazing man staring back at me. His eyes were filled with so much love that it took my breath away. He cupped my face in his hands and kissed me.\nAmazon ~ B&N ~ iTunes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cambridge, Storbritannien\nEast Rd, CB1 1PT Cambridge Storbritannien\nAnglia Ruskin University is like no other higher education institution. That's a bold statement, but we've plenty of evidence to back this up:\nOur research results and innovation in teaching and business development have led to us being named the Entrepreneurial University of the Year (Times Higher Education Awards 2014).\nIn a number of areas, we're generating world-leading research, as recognised by the UK's Higher Education funding bodies. Results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 highlight our research activities as making a significant impact on economies, societies, the environment and culture globally.\n39,400 students choose to study with us every year across the world.\nFrom day one, we help our students work towards a career and graduate with confidence. The results speak for themselves: 9 out of 10 of our graduates start their careers within the first six months.\nWe're the first university to get a Customer Service Excellence Award and our Student Services Team was rated the UK's best (Times Higher Education Awards).\nWe run EU-funded programmes in our region, worth millions of Euros, which help researchers, businesses and organisations get on.\nThe Anglia Ruskin Medtech Campus was launched at the House of Commons. This will be one of the world's largest health innovation spaces, creating 12,500 jobs and boosting the UK's medical technology sector by \u00a31.2 billion.\nWe've five faculties at ARU, each providing students, industry and the academic community with professionally focused and world-leading courses and research.\nOur Five Faculties:\nFaculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences\nFaculty of Medical Science\nLord Ashcroft International Business School\nOur Research Institutes\nIn the last decade, we've forged ahead with our research work. We've research-active staff across ARU, and a growing reputation in this area.\nYou'll now find six high-profile research institutes here. The first of these was our Postgraduate Medical Institute, set up in 2008, which carries out ground-breaking medical research and trains healthcare professionals in a range of sophisticated techniques. The Institute for International Management Practice followed in 2009; it's dedicated to researching in the fields of enterprise, innovation and internationalisation.\nIn 2010, we established the Cultures of the Digital Economy (CoDE) Research Institute to explore the effects of the digital economy on art, culture and society. Next came the Global Sustainability Institute in 2011. It focuses on issues surrounding climate change and sustainability and has quickly gained a reputation for its topical, high-impact research and reports.\nFinally, our two newest institutes were set up in 2014. The Veterans and Families Institute is carrying out valuable research into the impact of military experience on veterans and their loved ones; and the Anglia Ruskin IT Research Institute works to enhance IT systems through intelligent modelling and visualisation.\nAlongside these six institutes is a range of research units, dedicated to subjects as diverse as music therapy, eye diseases, children's book studies, and political history.\nBecome an IB Examiner for Swedish A: Literature International Baccalaureate\u00ae (IB) f\u00f6r 1 m\u00e5nad sedan\nBecome an IB Examiner for Lithuanian A: Literature International Baccalaureate\u00ae (IB) f\u00f6r 1 m\u00e5nad sedan\nBecome an IB Examiner for Khmer A: Literature International Baccalaureate\u00ae (IB) f\u00f6r 1 m\u00e5nad sedan\nBecome an IB Examiner for Croatian A: Literature International Baccalaureate\u00ae (IB) f\u00f6r 1 m\u00e5nad sedan\nBecome an IB Examiner for Danish A: Literature International Baccalaureate\u00ae (IB) f\u00f6r 1 m\u00e5nad sedan\nUniversity of Sussex Brighton, Storbritannien 1 lediga jobb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Patch management costs spiral to US$19 million: ISS\nGreg Meckbach\n@itbusinessca\nPublished: November 13th, 2003\nCompanies that use several different types of network security devices are often doing the same task several different times, according to an executive at one network security firm.\nChristopher Klaus, founder and chief technology officer of Atlanta-based Internet\nSecurity Systems (ISS) Inc., said some organizations use firewalls, anti-virus, intrusion detection or prevention systems and spam filtering tools to examine and analyze packets. Each device opens and analyzes the packet, decides whether to block it or allow it through, re-assembles it, routes the packet and then logs the result.\n\"\"It creates a lot of complexity and a lot of repetition,\"\" Klaus said Thursday at the Canadian launch of the ISS Proventia-M products, held at Toronto's Westin Harbor Castle hotel. \"\"With all this complexity, we're finding a lot of organizations still aren't protected, even after you put it through the firewall, and put anti-virus in place.\"\"\nThe Proventia-M, which ISS plans to ship this month, includes firewall, virtual private networking, intrusion detection and anti-virus features. Next year, Klaus said, ISS will add content filtering and anti-spam.\nKlaus predicted vendors will release more products that combine several security features in one, because customers will save money in the long term.\nOne of the major security problems for businesses is the time it takes to install patches on their systems, he said. ISS did a cost analysis and estimated an organization with 1,000 servers could spend nearly US$19 million per year on installing patches.\nThe estimate was based on four hours per patch, five times per month at US$80 per hour.\n\"\"We ran this past Fortune 1,000 (companies) who said it's actually a conservative estimate,\"\" Klaus said.\nHe added many network managers do not get a chance to install patches before hackers take advantage of software security vulnerabilities and launch attacks.\nThat view was echoed by Parveen Jain, president and general manager of Network Associates Inc.'s Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee network security technologies group.\nJain was in Toronto Thursday for the launch of Network Associates Inc.'s end node security road map, held at the TSX Broadcast Conference Centre.\nNetwork Associates' end node security strategy includes software designed to secure clients and servers against attacks. Its first product, Entercept Desktop Edition, is shipping this month and is designed to protect against buffer overflows, worms and other security breaches.\nIntrusion detection systems have come under fire in the past because many products simply report breaches and do not always stop attacks.\nThe McAfee Protection Solutions are designed to prevent malicious code from damaging systems. They are also designed to detect security violations from within the network, such as employees from one department trying to access another department's confidential data.\nJain said network security breaches cost companies tens of billions of dollars a year, and these figures are only derived from firms that actually admit they've been attacked.\nThe actual damage could be five to 10 times greater, he added.\nComment: info@itbusiness.ca\nChildren's TV producers craft automated sign language\nArchive: November 1999 -- Easy come, easy go","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Alfred Deller: a voice from the past\nOn the centenary of the great countertenor's birth, his grandson recalls how he came to know and love his music\nToby Deller\nThu 31 May 2012 05.52 EDT First published on Thu 31 May 2012 05.52 EDT\nRenaissance man \u2026 Alfred Deller, pictured here in 1973. Photograph: Alamy\nTall and athletically built, debonair and with a thick goatee that he accessorised with a pipe, Alfred Deller cut a distinctive figure. Born a hundred years ago today, he was lauded around the world as the best countertenor of his time, credited with reviving a way of singing that had been dormant for a more than a century. Above all, he was the gent who entertained his young grandchildren at breakfast by chopping bananas on to the table instead of into his muesli, a routine we all found chronically funny.\nA decade after his death in 1979, I was at university studying French, getting ready to spend a year abroad. I had an inkling that my surname might attract attention in France. Deller was especially popular there, partly because it was the home of Harmonia Mundi, the record label that had signed him in the late 60s and promoted him heavily.\nI had not really listened to my grandfather's singing in those intervening years, and had been too young when he died to recall what his voice sounded like live. But clearly, if people were to start asking questions, I needed to be ready. I picked out Music for a While, a collection of Purcell solos, and his final recording.\nNothing had prepared me for what I heard. Admittedly, the more melancholy and introspective the music, the more I was susceptible to it, and these Purcell songs were certainly that. But the sound! Delicate, clear and ringing at the same time, beautifully floated without being winsome, the emotional impact coming from understatement rather than anything contrived or overdone.\nNovelist John Banville summed it up in a piece he wrote for the Observer last year: \"I had never heard a countertenor before I discovered a record of Deller's among my girlfriend's collection. I see myself sitting alone on the floor of her living room one sunstruck morning listening to that unearthly voice \u2026 feeling my scalp tingle and my palms go damp from the effect of such ease, such purity, such transcendent beauty.\"\nIndeed, it was thanks to another revelatory first hearing that Deller's career took off. More or less self-taught, he had learned to sing in church choirs in his native Kent, gravitating naturally to the alto line when his voice broke. In the early years of the second world war he was given a post in Canterbury Cathedral choir, and it was there that, in 1944, composer Michael Tippett heard him for the first time, prompting him to remark that he \"felt the centuries roll back\".\nAt the time, Tippett was preoccupied with reviving early English music from Purcell's time and earlier, but was hampered by the lack of a convincing male soloist for the the 17th-century composer's alto parts. The countertenor voice, in the sense defined by Tippett as \"a male alto voice of exceptional range and facility\", had fallen into decline by the early 19th century, restricted to the choir stalls of English cathedrals and churches and the striped blazers of barbershop groups. Deller solved Tippett's problem at a stroke.\nThe composer's efforts to bring early music to prominence opened up opportunities for Deller, who found the then predominant romantic repertoire not to his taste. He began picking up solo engagements, and was invited to sing at the inaugural concert for the BBC Third Programme (now Radio 3) in 1946. By 1947, he had moved from Canterbury to St Paul's Cathedral, and by 1950 he had created the Deller Consort, an ensemble he envisaged as a vocal equivalent of a string quartet \u2013 a fixed group of singers, rehearsing regularly and devoted to appropriate original repertoire. In 1962, the burgeoning early music movement had gathered enough momentum for Deller to found a festival in east Kent, Stour Music, which celebrates both its own 50th this year, and Deller's centenary with performances by some of today's top countertenors.\nAs the countertenor voice began to be accepted on the concert platform, so the opportunities in opera began to develop. Today opera is an indispensable part of any successful countertenor's work, but Deller himself was not drawn to it. Benjamin Britten wrote the part of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream for my grandfather, and he sang it at the first production at the Aldeburgh festival in 1960. But he bitterly regretted the critics' negative response to his acting (he felt the production let him down) and that he was subsequently overlooked \u2013 against Britten's wishes \u2013 for the Covent Garden production that followed.\nIf Deller felt this slight keenly, it was to the benefit of listeners. It meant he was not distracted from the repertoire that provides the maximum Deller effect: solo songs. He considered Purcell the master at setting words to music but also relished John Dowland, the original miserabilist singer-songwriter whose lute songs carry such titles as In Darkness Let Me Dwell and Flow My Tears.\nHe brought his refined artistry to British folksong, too \u2013 where I usually recommend newcomers to Deller go first. To my mind nobody, not Joan Baez, not even Cliff Richard, can match him in the traditional song The Water Is Wide. And only Nina Simone (singing at a significantly lower pitch, her voice ripe and smoky, his limpid and chilly) runs him close for emotional power in Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair.\nNot everything he sang was black and blue. The old bananas-on-the-table schtick may not have been the most subtle comedy, but it was evidence of a keen sense of humour. In the end, though, his voice and the way he used it seems best suited to more reflective music, turning, for instance, the opening statement of Fran\u00e7ois Couperin's first Le\u00e7on de t\u00e9n\u00e8bres into the most exquisite arabesque and surely the single most beautifully sung phrase of music ever recorded.\n\u2022 The Stour festival's tribute to Alfred Deller is on 31 May and 1 June. Alfred Deller: Portrait of a Legend is out now on Harmonia Mundi.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hosting an international conference to tackle the issue of violence\nIn: Events and fundraising, East Africa\nRailway Children will join charity JUCONI to host Breaking the Cycle, an international conference for anyone working to change the lives of street-connected children, on 17-18 November in Tanzania.\nThe aim of the conference is to provide a rare and important opportunity to share knowledge and expertise from across the world to help address the abuse of an increasing number of children forced to live and work on the streets. Research by Railway Children finds children whose early relationships are characterised by violence often end up in a negative cycle causing further poverty, exposure to danger and negative life outcomes.\nBy working together to host the Breaking the Cycle conference, Railway Children and JUCONI can help change the lives of street-connected children across Tanzania and, crucially, far beyond. Sharing vital information about new research and working methods from around the world increases the number of children who can be reached and who benefit from a greater understanding of the issues they face.\nOver 25 renowned expert guests will speak and run workshops, giving those attending a new understanding of strategies proven to break the cycle of family violence.\nTo find out more about the conference, please go to www.breakingcycle.org.\nViolence and sexual abuse are everyday threats for children on the streets\nA study carried our bt Railway Children found 100% of the children living on the streets in Mwanza, a region in Tanzania, had experience of physical and verbal abuse on the streets. Also, 100% of the girls and 25% of the boys had been sexually abused.\nStreet-connected children need therapeutic and family-based support\nPete Kent, East Africa Regional Director at Railway Children, said: \"Children and families affected by violence are often isolated and are unlikely to ever benefit from mainstream programmes and instead need a more intensive therapeutic and family-based response.\n\"Sustainable livelihoods are also critical in lifting families out of poverty and preventing young people from being pushed back on to the streets. This is why we also provide families with training, mentoring and business support. Over the last three years, our DFID-funded project in Mwanza has helped to ensure that more than 80% of children that we take home actually stay there. For them, we've been able to break the cycle.\n\"Despite these advances and the reduction our work has begun to see in young children sleeping on Mwanza's streets the numbers overall remain alarmingly high, particularly for young girls forced in to commercial sex work at night. This is a huge concern, but the best way we can help is to get better at sharing solutions that put children first and are proven to break the cycle of family violence.\"\nRailway Children Africa's services supporting children in Tanzania continue to benefit from UK support through the Department For International Development Aid Match programme, specifically for services in Mwanza.\nPete Kent said: \"We also welcome the Tanzanian government's efforts in creating support services and protection for the most vulnerable children. The country's status as a pathfinder country in the Global Partnership to end Violence Against Children, shows the political will to truly change the situation for its vulnerable children.\"\nOur latest survey in Mwanza shows:\nAn estimated 1940 children live and \/ or work on the streets in Mwanza, an increase of 25% since last year.\nIn just 12 months, the number of female sex workers has increased by 229%, with those aged between 11-14 seeing the biggest increase.\n418 of the girls are female sex workers, 218 of these are aged under 18.\nThere has been a 40% reduction in full-time 0-14 year olds on the streets over 3 years - our main target population.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Student Support Programs\nCommunity Employment Program\nDeployment Procedure\nFAQs about VA Benefits\nForms for Veterans\nGI Bill\u00ae Chapters\nMilitary Credits Procedure\nVeterans Services Staff\nTuition Waivers\nV.E.T.S. Club\nWebsites and Phone Numbers for Veterans\nTuition & Fee Waivers for Veterans\nShoreline Community College may waive 50% of tuition for Veterans if:\nYou are a Washington state resident;\nYou earned a National Defense Service Medal;\nYou received an Honorable Discharge.\nA copy of your DD-214 or other supporting documentation showing your qualifying service and an Application for Veterans Tuition & Fee Discount is required.\nYou are a Washington State Resident\nYou received an Honorable Discharge\nTuition & Fee Waivers for Children & Spouses of Deceased, Disabled, MIA or POW Veterans\nShoreline Community College will waive 100% of tuition & fees for the children and spouse of an eligible veteran or National Guard member who:\nHas become totally disabled in the line of duty or;\nIs determined by the federal government to be a prisoner of war or missing in action or;\nHas lost his or her life while engaged in active federal military or naval service.\nA child must be a Washington state resident between the ages of 17 and 26 to be eligible for the tuition waiver. A child's marital status does not affect eligibility.\nA surviving spouse must be a Washington state resident and has up to 10 years from the date of the death, total disability, or federal determination of prisoner of war or missing in action status of the eligible veteran or National Guard member to receive the benefit. Upon remarriage, the surviving spouse is ineligible for the tuition waiver.\nAn Application for Veterans' Dependent Tuition & Fee Discount and documentation showing the eligible veteran is deceased or declared totally disabled or documentation showing federal determination of prisoner of war or missing in action status for the eligible veteran or National Guard member is required.\nGI Bill\u00ae is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). More information about education benefits offered by VA is available at the official U.S. government website at benefits.va.gov\/gibill.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Some in-person service resumes at city hall and Victoriaville\nCounters will now be open during the regular hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.\nTHUNDER BAY \u2013 Thunder Bay City Hall and the Victoriaville Civic Centre will reopen to the public for select, in-person services starting on Monday, Dec. 6. These buildings have had limited in-person service since March 24, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\"We learned a great deal as a result of the pandemic. Customer service demands and the nature of service delivery have changed,\" said City Manager Norm Gale. \"Our goal is to maximize effort, reduce cost, and meet demand and customer needs.\"\nCounters will now be open during the regular hours of 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, with some exceptions where appointments will be required to access specific City services. City Hall lobby hours will also be extended during significant cold weather events.\nThe following areas will be open in City Hall:\n\u2022 The Office of the City Clerk, lobby and main floor washrooms\n\u2022 Provincial Land Tax service counter\nThe following areas will be open in the Victoriaville Civic Centre:\n\u2022 All service counters, with the exception of Cashiers, Supply Management, and Community Services\nAppointments will still be required to access the following city services:\n\u2022 Community Services\n\u2022 PRO Kids\n\u2022 Financial Services\n\u2022 Human Resources\n\u2022 Revenue (Tax and Water Billing)\n\u2022 Supply Management\nWith the success of digital services being offered to the public throughout the pandemic, the City will trial the continued, primary delivery of certain city services digitally, with in-person services available on an appointment basis.\nThe health and safety of residents and City staff remain key priorities in all reopening plans. Restrictions and capacity limits, in accordance with provincial and public health guidelines will be in place, including mandatory masks, physical distancing, protective barriers and increased sanitization and cleaning protocols.\nFor a detailed list of city services, electronic services, information, and a list of phone numbers to make appointment bookings, visit the city's online directory at: www.thunderbay.ca\/AtoZ","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb DID YOU KNOW THAT \u2026 the assisted negotiation is extended to labour disputes and the Fornero procedure has been repealed?\nDID YOU KNOW THAT \u2026 the assisted negotiation is extended to labour disputes and the Fornero procedure has been repealed?\nCategories: DLP Insights, Do you know that\nOn 25 November 2021, the Chamber of Deputies definitively approved the bill that provides for a delegation to the Government for the civil procedure efficiency and the discipline revision of the alternative methods for dispute resolution and a series of urgent measures for procedure optimisation in the personal and family rights and enforcement fields. As far as we are concerned, the main changes affect the extension of assisted negotiation for labour disputes to lawyers and the unification of procedures for challenging dismissals, and repealing the Fornero special procedure. The civil procedure reform allows disputes referred to in Article 409 of the Code of Civil Procedure to resort to an assisted negotiation. This is without prejudice to the provisions of Article 412-ter of the Code of Civil Procedure and without this constituting a condition for proceeding with an action. This is provided that each party has a lawyer or by respective labour consultants if this is wished. The protected stability regime provided for in Article 2113, paragraph 4 of the Civil Code is assured in the relevant agreement. In addition, the procedures for challenging dismissals, which currently differ according to the worker's employment date, are unified in the single ordinary labour procedure (Articles 409 et seq. of the Code of Civil Procedure).\nBILL APPROVED CONCERNING NEW CIVIL LAWSUITS\nCollective dismissal: irrelevant initiation of multiple \"Fornero procedures\"\nDISMISSAL FOR JUST CAUSE\nThe Italian Budget Law 2023 (Italian Law No 197\/2022) was published in the Official Journal (Gazzetta Ufficiale) on 29 December 2022 and comes into force on 1 January 2023 and introduces the following important initiatives in the employment law field. Agile working: as of 1 January 2023, the categories of workers with the right to ....\nCertification of gender equality: the Italian Ministry of Labour establishes the criteria and procedures for granting tax exemption\nWith the press release of 28 November, the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy publicised the ministerial decree of 20 October 2022 which defines the criteria and procedures for granting the tax exemption for private employers who obtain the certification of gender equality introduced into our legal system by Italian Law No 162\/2021. This ....","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nathan Fillion Proves He's King of the Castle and Comic-Con\nAs Nathan Fillion took to the stage at Comic-Con for the Castle panel on Sunday amid deafening cheers, he brought along a shopping bag full of goodies for a few lucky fans. Throughout the course of the ...\nRob Moynihan July 25, 2011, 7:45 a.m. PT\nAs Nathan Fillion took to the stage at Comic-Con for the Castle panel on Sunday amid deafening cheers, he brought along a shopping bag full of goodies for a few lucky fans. Throughout the course of the Q&A session, those audience members asking questions were presented with a signed copy of TV Guide Magazine from the whole cast, as well as a trinket from Fillion, including Green Lantern merchandise. \"Use these for the power of good... or awesome,\" said Fillion.\nA lucky fan was also brought up to the stage by moderator and TV Guide Magazine Senior Editor William Keck to fill in for missing panelist Stana Katic and reenact dialogue from the show's introduction. \"They're eating it up,\" whispered Fillion to the blushing girl. \"I'd be happy to let you spank me,\" Fillion added. \"Was that out loud?\"\nHis cast members were even joining in on the fun, as Molly Quinn took to the stage dressed as Fillion's Firefly character Captain Mal Reynolds. \"Oh my God, I just noticed what Molly's wearing,\" said Fillion a few minutes into the panel. \"I have a gun just like that that I can't find.\" \"When I was having dinner with your mom, she gave me something of yours I always wanted,\" replied Quinn. \"I found your cat, too.\"\nHijinks aside, the panel \u2014 also consisting of cast members Jon Huertas, Tamala Jones and Seamus Dever \u2014 revealed several upcoming storylines for the new season, including a superhero-themed episode and Beckett's fate after last season's cliffhanger. \"The outcome,\" teased Jones, \"is going to be more epic than the season finale.\"\nSubscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ News Release \/ Hospitals failing to follow legal safeguards for mentally ill patients...\nCommitted to Change News Release, Committed to Change - Infographic\nThe legal rights of mentally ill patients involuntarily admitted to psychiatric facilities across the province are being denied according to an investigative report issued by the BC Ombudsperson today.\nOmbudsperson Jay Chalke released Special Report No. 42, Committed to Change: Protecting the Rights of Involuntary Patients under the Mental Health Act. The report makes 20 findings highlighting the lack of compliance with the legal documentation required on involuntary admission to designated psychiatric facilities in the province. The report finds legally required admission documents were missing, late or improperly completed including forms outlining reasons for detention, consent and description of treatment, notification of a patient's rights and notification to relatives. In some cases facilities used standard rubber stamps to generally authorize treatment for individual patients instead of describing the specific treatment proposed for that patient. In other cases, physicians failed to explain why a person met the criteria for involuntary admission yet the patient was nonetheless admitted. Some forms lacked the necessary signatures or dates.\n\"Involuntary detention and treatment is the most intrusive form of mental health care available,\" said Chalke. \"This is a failure to comply with the Mental Health Act, the law that allows people who are gravely ill - our friends, daughters, sons, parents and grandparents \u2013 to receive timely treatment while protecting their legal rights,\" he said adding involuntary admissions are often a necessary last resort for mentally ill people who are at risk of harming themselves or others. \"The state, when it uses such an extraordinary power, has a critically important duty to follow the law. This includes properly completing documentation of what is happening to an individual and why. To not do so is not only unacceptable, it is contrary to law.\" said Chalke.\nThe report's findings were based on an investigation that reviewed admission records of every involuntary admission in the province that took place in June 2017. A detailed analysis of mandatory admission forms found that across the province, all of the required forms were was completed in only 28% of involuntary patient admissions. Vancouver Coastal Health, Northern Health and the Provincial Health Services Authority had the lowest overall compliance rates. Additional findings include:\nA number of directors of designated facilities admitted and detained people involuntarily without adequate information and reasons to demonstrate how the patient met the criteria for admission\nThere was no consent for treatment form in 24% of patient admissions across all health authorities. There was a wide variation among hospitals in the issuance of the consent to treatment form with a low of 9% compliance at the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia\nA number of directors of facilities acted contrary to section 8 of the Mental Health Act in permitting the psychiatric treatment of involuntarily detained patients in circumstances where the patient objected to treatment and no Consent for Treatment form was completed\nThere was no rights advice form for more than half of the involuntary patients. This form advises the patient of their legal rights including how to get legal advice and challenge their detention\nThe Ministry of Health and the health authorities acted unreasonably in failing to adequately monitor, audit and address designated facilities' compliance with the involuntary admission procedures under the Mental Health Act\nThe report highlights several personal cases including a story of a woman who was held in a seclusion room without hospital staff telling her she had been involuntarily admitted. She was not told the reason for her involuntary detention nor was she notified of her rights during her detention. When she requested a copy of her file after she was discharged, she found no form notifying her of her legal rights. \"Going through experiences like this is stressful enough,\" said Chalke. \"This lack of compliance with legal requirements naturally raises many questions for patients and their families. Without documentary evidence, reasons for detention and treatment as well as awareness of how to question decisions can be extremely unclear. Public confidence in the system at large is also put into doubt.\"\nThe report makes 24 recommendations, all of which have been accepted in principle by government and health authorities and focus on three key areas:\nIncreasing oversight and accountability by conducting regular compliance audits, setting 100 percent compliance targets and increasing public reporting about involuntary admissions\nTraining staff and physicians regarding the necessity of form completion and the codification of standards for compliance with the Mental Health Act\nThird and most importantly, the Ministry of Attorney General has committed in principle to develop an independent rights advisor service that would work in designated facilities in the province and provide advice to patients about the circumstances of their detention and their options if they disagree with the detention or a related decision.\n\"Implementing these recommendations will make a significant impact by ensuring that someone who is involuntarily detained receives the best mental health treatment in a manner that is respectful of their human rights,\" said Chalke. \"While the findings in this report are troubling, the commitment by government and the health authorities to the recommendations made is cause for optimism. These changes will help ensure those who are involuntarily detained in B.C. are afforded the same rights that all Canadians expect.\"\nThe Ombudsperson will monitor implementation by the provincial government and the health authorities of the recommendations in this report and will report publicly on progress.\nView the full report: https:\/\/bcombudsperson.ca\/documents\/committed-change-protecting-rights-involuntary-patients-under-mental-health-act","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sabanc\u0131 Group\nManagement Approach\nHonorary PhD For G\u00fcler Sabanci From Hong Kong\nHONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY , GLOBAL LEADER OF INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION, HAS GRANTED G\u00dcLER SABANCI, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SABANCI UNIVERSITY, WITH HONORARY PHD\nThe Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Sabanc\u0131 University, G\u00fcler Sabanc\u0131 has been granted an Honorary PhD by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has announced the decision to grant G\u00fcler Sabanc\u0131 with Honorary PhD due to her social contribution and success.\nThe Honorary PhD title will be awarded to G\u00fcler Sabanc\u0131 by Prof. Timothy Tong, the President of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, at a ceremony in Hong Kong in the next October.\nThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University is regarded a global leader within the context of industry-university collaboration. The university has also a prominent place in the fields of applied research, innovation, and technology.\nProf. Chung K. Law, from Princeton University, TAL Group President Prof. Harry Lee, Prof. Xie Heping from Sichuan University and designer Kan Tai-Keung are among the privileged individuals who have been awarded honorary PhD by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.\n-OTHER AWARDS OF SABANCI-\nG\u00fcler Sabanc\u0131 is a holder of many awards including Spain's highest order of merit \"Encomienda De Numero\", French \"Legion d'Honneur\" order, as well as Clinton Global Citizen Award, Raymond Georis Prize for Innovative Philanthropy, Schumpeter Prize and the Responsible Leadership Award granted by the European School of Management and Technology. In 2011, she was named 2nd on the Financial Times' list of the Top 50 Women in World Business.\nSabanci Group In Brief\nUnforgettables\nSabanc\u0131 of New Generation\nLetter From The Chair\nCEO's Letter\nCEO, Strategic Business Unit Presidents\nSabanc\u0131 Group Code of Business Ethics\nAnti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Policy\nOur Social Responsibility Principles\nOur Social Responsibility Activities\nSabanc\u0131 Volunteers\n2022 \u00a9 All rights belong to Sabanc\u0131 Holding.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Immigration System Must Work for Best Interests of Americans\nPublished on June 16th, 2015\nBlog, interior enforcement\nAmerica's immigration laws were originally enacted to protect innocent lives and the jobs of American workers by preventing the entry and continued presence of aliens engaged in crime, espionage and terrorism and aliens who would provide unfair competition for American workers.\nToday the administration seems focused on how to enable immigration policies to provide for the needs of aliens, not on the well-being and concerns of American citizens.\nCongressman Lou Barletta\nIn December 2014, Congressman Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about amnesty, the 9\/11 Commission report and the potential unfair cost benefits of hiring illegal aliens over American workers. Barletta noted, in part, \"When it comes to illegal immigration, the conversation is always about the illegal immigrant and not about the (American) people that it will affect \u2026 and it's not fair.\"\nIncredibly, Johnson responded that most restaurants in Washington, D.C., employed \"undocumented workers\" and that he wanted to get all of those undocumented workers \"on the books\" by giving them work authorization. This outrageous \"solution\" does not deter illegal immigration, but encourages it.\nUnlike Barletta, too many of our \"representatives\" today do not represent American workers and their families, but the super wealthy, the special interest groups and industries that fill their campaign coffers.\nI began my career with the former INS in 1971. While that agency had its problems, the leaders and personnel understood that the best way to combat illegal immigration was to create deterrence through enforcement, by arresting and seeking the deportation of illegal aliens.\nUnder the \"Employer Sanctions\" provisions of the immigration laws, added in 1986, employers who knowingly hire aliens may be fined or even criminally prosecuted, but only if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) takes the appropriate action.\nIt would have been unthinkable then for the commissioner of the INS or the Attorney General to state that the goal of the INS was to provide documentation for the undocumented. Had they made such an assertion, they likely would have been relieved of their job quickly \u2013 not unlike the head of the TSA who was forced out of his job when it was determined that weapons were smuggled past security personnel at various airports by internal investigators (Red Teams).\nThe swift reaction to the failures of the TSA stands in stark contrast with the lack of consequences when it was determined that, prior to participating in terror attacks, many foreign-born terrorists, such as the Russian-born Tsarnaev brothers and native Pakistani Faisal Shahzad (the \"Times Square Bomber\"), had committed immigration fraud.\nShahzad first entered the United States at age 20 with a student visa and naturalized less than one year before setting off the bomb he planted in his SUV that he parked in Times Square. In an exchange between the judge and Shahzad at sentencing, Shahzad said, \"We do not accept your democracy or your freedom because we already have Sharia law and freedom.\" According to the Associated Press trial coverage, the judge then asked Shahzad if he'd sworn allegiance to the U.S. when he became a citizen. Shahzad responded, \"I did swear, but I did not mean it,\" to which the judge replied, \"So you took a false oath.\"\nThese are just two examples of failures in our immigration processes. The examples and underlying threats in the administration, management and direction of our immigration system are numerous.\nAs I've said many times, our immigration laws are America's first and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals. However, the true purpose of our borders and our immigration laws appears to be beyond the grasp of most politicians of both parties, including those who aspire to become our nation's next President.\nimmigration law, immigration reform, security, Terrorism\nAutomation Will Silence the Alarmists\nHidden behind the Budget's Happy Headlines, Californians Can't Afford to Buy a House\nMichael W. Cutler","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Academic policies 2 Estate 4 Health and safety 1 Information governance and management 2 Staff 11\nAcademic staff 22 All researchers 21 All schools 25 All staff (Selected) All students 29 PGT only 21 Public 33 Staff and students 39\nUG and PGT students 25 Undergraduate students 23\nA 1 B 1 C 2 F 1 L 1 O 2 P 2 R 3\nS 4 T 2 U 1\nOut of hours protocol incorporating CCTV\nPassword protected https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/estate-facilities-management-security\/internal\/out-of-hours-protocol-incorporating-cctv.pdf\nOut of hours protocol for all staff for the use of CCTV surveillance equipment\u2026\nEstate > Facilities management > Security\nTravel Plan\nPassword protected https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/estate-environmental-sustainability-travel\/internal\/travel-plan.pdf\nTo inform staff of the University's travel plan\u2026\nEstate > Environmental sustainability > Travel\nBiodiversity Policy\nPassword protected https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/estate-environmental-sustainability-biodiversity\/internal\/biodiversity-policy.pdf\nTo inform staff of the University's Biodiversity Policy\u2026\nEstate > Environmental sustainability > Biodiversity\nRecognition agreement between the University and the recognised Trade Unions\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-industrial-relations\/recognition-agreement-between-the-university-and-the-recognised-trade-unions.pdf\nRecognition agreement between the University and the recognised trade unions.\u2026\nStaff > Industrial relations\nSafety co-ordinator role description template\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/health-and-safety-hazard-identification-and-risk-assessment\/safety-coordinator-role-template.pdf\nThis is a template for the duties of a School\/Unit safety co-ordinator\u2026\nRetention and recognition payments\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-pay-and-benefits-reward-and-recognition\/retention-and-recognition-payments.pdf\nSet out the University's position on retention and recognition payments.\u2026\nStaff > Pay and benefits > Reward and recognition\nWorkplace coaching policy\nPassword protected https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-organisational-development-mentoring-and-coaching\/internal\/capod-coaching-policy.pdf\nTo inform University staff about the terms and process for participation in the institutional workplace coaching programme as a coachee and to set out both standards and process for participation as a coach.\u2026\nStaff > Organisational development > Mentoring and coaching\nSustainable design guide\nPassword protected https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/estate-environmental-sustainability\/internal\/sustainable-design-guide.pdf\nThe Estates design guide is intended to lay out design criteria for all those involved in building design, refurbishment and maintenance\u2026\nEstate > Environmental sustainability\nPay rates and arrangements for hourly paid teaching staff (including PGR tutors)\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-pay-and-benefits-pay-rates-arrangements\/pay-rates-and-arrangements-for-hourly-paid-teaching-staff-including-pgr-tutors.pdf\nInformation on employees who are paid hourly rates for teaching.\u2026\nUse of captured content \u2013 Guidance for staff\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/academic-policies-learning-and-teaching-lecture-capture-policy\/lecture-capture-staff-guidance.pdf\nThis guidance supports the Policy on the Use of Captured Content and is for use by University staff.\u2026\nAcademic policies > Learning and teaching > Lecture capture policy\nOvertime policy\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-pay-and-benefits-pay-rates-arrangements\/overtime-policy.pdf\nProvide guidance to managers and employees on the operation of overtime.\u2026\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-employee-relations-retirement\/salary-sacrifice.pdf\nGuidance on Salary Sacrifice for employees in the USS and S&LAS Pension Schemes.\u2026\nRetirement policy (fixed retirement age)\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-employee-relations-retirement\/retirement-policy.pdf\nThis policy sets out the basis for the University's decision to have a fixed retirement age for all employees.\u2026\nFixed term contracts \u2013 briefing paper for the principal investigators and line managers\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-employee-relations-redundancy\/ftc-guidance-briefing-paper-for-the-pi.pdf\nHigh level overview of the procedure for line managers and PI's to follow when a fixed term contract expires.\u2026\nTake-home exams: Guidance for staff\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/academic-policies-assessment-examination-and-award-take-home-exams-and-assessment-deadlines\/take-home-exams-guidance-for-staff.pdf\nThis document provides guidance for staff in organising Take-home exams.\u2026\nAcademic policies > Assessment, examination and award > Take home exams and assessment deadlines\nPersonal relationships at work\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-employee-relations-conduct-management\/personal-relationships-at-work-policy.pdf\nProvides guidance on managing personal relationships between members of the University community and University students\u2026\nCaring fund\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-annual-leave-and-other-absence-family-friendly-leave\/caring-fund-procedure.pdf\nOffers information and guidance on how to apply for financial assistance to cover childcare or other caring expenses associated with attending pre-approved work-related events.\u2026\nStress policy\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/staff-health-and-well-being-mental-health\/stress-policy.pdf\nOutlines the approach to the prevention and management of occupational\u202fstress throughout the University.\u2026\nStaff > Health and well-being > Mental health\nUniversity cyber incident and data breach management procedure\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/information-governance-and-management-information-security\/university-cyber-incident-and-data-breach-management-procedure.pdf\nProtocol for managing suspected data\/personal data breach\u2026\nInformation governance and management > Information security\nAccess to information during periods of staff absence\nhttps:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/policy\/information-governance-and-management-information-security\/access-to-information-during-periods-of-absence.pdf\nThis Policy defines the circumstances under which access to information held in email and files can be made during periods of absence, for business continuity purposes.\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"une initiative de recherche de l'\nCentre d'excellence sur la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration canadienne\nThe Renewed Canadian Senate: Organizational Challenges and Relations with the Government\nEmmett Macfarlane 29 mai 2019\nLe fonctionnement du S\u00e9nat et les relations du S\u00e9nat avec le gouvernement ont sensiblement \u00e9volu\u00e9 depuis que le gouvernement lib\u00e9ral a annonc\u00e9 en 2015 l'instauration d'un nouveau processus de nomination \u00ab non partisan et fond\u00e9 sur le m\u00e9rite \u00bb \u00e0 la Chambre haute. Avec la suppression du favoritisme politique \u2014 \u00e9l\u00e9ment cl\u00e9 de l'ancien processus \u2014, le Groupe des s\u00e9nateurs ind\u00e9pendants (GSI) d\u00e9tient maintenant la majorit\u00e9 des si\u00e8ges (58 sur 105 en mai 2019) d'un S\u00e9nat d\u00e9sormais plus ind\u00e9pendant.\nContrairement \u00e0 certaines voix critiques qui s'inqui\u00e8tent de cette transformation, \u00adEmmett Macfarlane juge favorablement les changements adopt\u00e9s. Le S\u00e9nat n'a tent\u00e9 de bloquer ouvertement aucune disposition l\u00e9gislative, pas plus qu'il n'a entra\u00een\u00e9 la Chambre des communes dans un aller-retour incessant pendant l'\u00e9tude des projets de loi. Et si le nombre des modifications qu'il a propos\u00e9es a notablement augment\u00e9, il s'est chaque fois pli\u00e9 \u00e0 la volont\u00e9 de la Chambre (et du gouvernement) de les accepter ou de les rejeter.\nMais pour le gouvernement, l'ind\u00e9pendance plus grande du S\u00e9nat a manifestement accru l'exigence et la complexit\u00e9 du processus l\u00e9gislatif. Il s'est notamment heurt\u00e9 \u00e0 un probl\u00e8me organisationnel pour faire adopter son programme l\u00e9gislatif par le S\u00e9nat\u2008: la majorit\u00e9 des s\u00e9nateurs n'appartenant plus \u00e0 un caucus de parti, le gouverement ne pouvait plus compter sur un bloc de s\u00e9nateurs qui \u00e9taient \u00ab sur la m\u00eame longueur d'ondes \u00bb que lui. Les ministres ont vite compris qu'ils devaient intensifier leurs efforts pour s'informer de l'avis des s\u00e9nateurs sur certains projets de loi, r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 leurs interrogations et obtenir leur appui.\nPour leur part, les fonctionnaires ont constat\u00e9 qu'il leur fallait parfois adapter leurs m\u00e9thodes, en multipliant par exemple les s\u00e9ances d'information technique pour des s\u00e9nateurs r\u00e9unis en petits groupes, qui repr\u00e9sentaient l'\u00e9ventail des points de vue au sein du GSI. Enfin, le nouveau Bureau du repr\u00e9sentant du gouvernement au S\u00e9nat (cr\u00e9\u00e9 en 2016) a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le important en assurant le suivi des projets de loi et en n\u00e9gociant les calendriers.\nEn somme, conclut Macfarlane, certains des pr\u00e9tendus probl\u00e8mes soulev\u00e9s par la transformation du S\u00e9nat pourraient constituer une fonctionnalit\u00e9 plut\u00f4t qu'une source d'ennui. \u00c0 la fois plus dynamique et r\u00e9ceptif, un S\u00e9nat plus ind\u00e9pendant imposera in\u00e9vitablement un surcro\u00eet de travail au gouvernement et ajoutera \u00e0 la complexit\u00e9 du processus l\u00e9gislatif. Mais d\u00e9lest\u00e9 de son r\u00f4le n\u00e9gatif d'institution client\u00e9liste ou simplement partisane, le S\u00e9nat pourrait fort bien retrouver une l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 perdue. Il n'en reste pas moins en pleine transition, et d'autres changements \u00e0 ses r\u00e8gles seront sans doute n\u00e9cessaires pour consolider cette \u00e9volution.\nDuring the 2015 federal election campaign, the Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau promised a new \"nonpartisan, merit-based\" appointments process for the Senate of Canada. Once the Liberals formed government, an independent advisory committee was established to submit names to the Prime Minister for consideration. Modelled on existing judicial appointment advisory committees and the short-lived Advisory Committee on Vice-Regal Appointments, the Senate appointments body, the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, is composed of at least five members: three permanent federal members and two members from each province or territory where a vacancy is to be filled (Office of the Prime Minister of Canada 2016).[1] A key part of the reform was to eliminate patronage as a criterion for appointment, to reduce partisanship and to increase the independence of the Senate. Senators in the Independent Senators Group (ISG) now form a majority of the Senate's membership (58 of 105 seats as of May 2019).\nThis study investigates how the Senate's functioning has evolved since 2015, with specific attention to the relationship between the government and the second chamber. It finds that, contrary to the concerns expressed by some critics, the Senate has successfully navigated the changes to its composition. Although there are clear signs that a more independent Senate has made the legislative process more challenging and complex from the government's perspective, it has not been unduly obstructionist. By obstructionist, I mean that the Senate has not attempted to block legislation outright or engage in repeated \"ping-pong\" of specific bills with the House of Commons. While there has been a notable increase in amendment activity, the Senate has routinely bowed to the wishes of the House in either accepting or rejecting amendments.\nOne of the most significant challenges relating to getting the government's legislative agenda through the second chamber has been organizational: with the majority of senators no longer in a formal party caucus, the institutional benefits of getting large groups of senators \"on the same page\" have been lost. Government ministers quickly learned that they needed to work harder to ascertain, keep track of and gain senatorial support for certain bills. Public servants have also had to work harder in some instances, providing more technical briefings to smaller groups of senators, reflecting the disparate range of opinions and lack of the information flows that previously existed within parties. Finally, the role of the Office of the Government Representative in the Senate has been important for shepherding legislation through the Senate and efficiently negotiating timelines and votes.\nThe study begins with a brief examination of criticisms of the reform, and critics' concerns about a renewed Senate's potential for activism and dysfunction. It then assesses the Senate's general performance in this vein by examining its record thus far. The progression of two controversial bills is then explored from the perspective of key players in order to provide a snapshot of some of the legislative challenges faced by the renewed second chamber. The bulk of the study then analyzes the evolution of the Senate's organization and the challenges it and the government have faced as the number of independent senators has grown. The study concludes with an assessment of existing challenges and the prospects for the role of a renewed Senate in the future.\nThe analysis that follows draws on 10 interviews conducted from August 2018 to March 2019 with the following: Senator Peter Harder, Government Representative in the Senate; Senator Yuen Pau Woo, Facilitator of the Independent Senators Group; Senator Joseph A. Day, Senate Liberal Leader; Senator Yonah Martin, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate; a senior staff member in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate; and five not-for-attribution interviews with senior public servants in federal government departments and central agencies. The analysis incorporates their views on the Senate's functioning and the evolution of its relationship with the government.\nA New Appointments Process, A New Senate Activism?\nCritics of the Liberal government's reforms to the Senate appointments process have argued that eliminating partisanship as a key criterion for selection would render the second chamber even more undemocratic, more activist or simply unworkable \u00ad(Canadian Press 2015; Coyne 2016; Dodek 2015). Legal scholar Adam Dodek warned that a lack of partisanship may make organization of the Senate difficult:\nPolitics is a team sport. There are only so many mavericks who have the personality to be lone wolves. Most of us want and like to be part of a group \u2014 especially those who are attracted to public service.\nEradicating partisanship may also be undesirable. What the Trudeau government will have to come to grips with is that the Senate is not an expert panel of independent, diverse voices \u2014 although it may serve this function at times, and serve it well. The Senate is a critical and constitutional part of the day-to-day process of legislating in Canada. It is needed to pass the government's legislation. (Dodek 2015)\nNot long after the first round of appointments under the new system, columnist Andrew Coyne complained that the Senate's willingness to propose amendments to a number of bills constituted an \"anti-democratic outrage\" (Coyne 2016). Writer Gordon Gibson warned that the situation was a \"constitutional crisis waiting to happen\" (O'Neil 2017). The concern was that, if the independence of the Senate was emphasized, senators would be emboldened by a newfound perceived legitimacy that would encourage activism.\nIn terms of its overall behaviour in the current Parliament, one early study suggests the Senate's amendment \"activism\" is not significantly greater than in other modern \u00adparliaments (Macfarlane 2019). There are different ways to analyze amendment activity, including as a percentage of bills introduced or as a percentage of bills that receive royal assent. It is therefore difficult to make meaningful comparisons across parliaments until the current one is dissolved. As Paul Thomas notes, statistics need to be interpreted cautiously, and numbers alone do not indicate whether proposed amendments are substantive or technical, nor do they provide \"the wider political context in which the Senate was attempting to modify a given bill \u2014 for example, whether the same party controlled both houses\" (Thomas 2019, 24). Nonetheless, by the end of June 2018, the Senate had amended 14 bills, all but one of which were government bills. Thus, government bills amended represented 14.2 percent of total government bills introduced. This is a greater amendment rate than in other recent parliaments, whether under the majority Liberals in the 37th Parliament (2001-04), at 10.7 percent, or under the minority Conservatives in the 39th Parliament (2006-08), at 10.2 percent (Heard 2014, 146). By contrast, in comparison to the first 41 years of the Senate's existence, when it amended 21.5 percent of bills and rejected another 2 percent, the current amendment activity seems light (Ross 1914, 76). The absolute numbers demonstrate that the overall amendment activity is far from astronomical: 14 amended bills is in line with any number of recent parliaments, including the 33rd (18), 35th (14), 36th (10), 37th (14) and 39th (9).\nMore significantly, the Senate has not acted obstructively by outright rejecting legislation (something that has occurred only five times since 1988), imposing severe delays on the passage of bills or playing multiple rounds of \"ping-pong\" by repeatedly returning bills to the House with amendments. In fact, for every bill the Senate passed with amendments under the current Parliament except one (a transportation bill[2]), either the Senate's amendments were accepted by the House or, if its amendments were rejected, the Senate dutifully passed the legislation as originally passed by the House.\nIf it is clear that the new Senate has not been particularly obstructionist, it is less clear whether its increasing independence has made the legislative process more difficult.[3] In the following sections, I explore the extent to which the executive \u2014 ministers and public servants \u2014 have had to adjust to the new realities of a larger, more diverse group of nonpartisan senators, and how the senators themselves have adjusted to their newfound independence.\nTwo Snapshots of Legislative Wrangling: Bills C-45 and S-3\nAs the number of independent senators increased over time, the executive and, in particular, public servants tasked with helping usher legislation through the second chamber have faced a host of challenges. With most senators no longer part of \u00adpartisan caucuses, the highly individualized environment of the new Senate means technical briefings by public servants on complex or highly salient bills are often given to small groups or even one senator at a time. Tracking support on contentious legislation is increasingly difficult. And procedural surprises, whether the result of the disparate views of individual senators, the relatively high number of inexperienced senators (partly due to the high number of vacancies in the Senate at the time the Liberal government came to power) or an emboldened Conservative opposition have, in the view of some observers, caused additional complexity and delays.\nThese difficulties presented themselves during the course of the current Parliament in relation to a number of bills, two of which I explore here. In interviews with relevant players, the processes affecting these particular bills were identified as generally representative of the challenges faced by the renewed Senate; they also faced a relatively high level of media scrutiny.\nBill C-45 legislated the legalization and regulation of marijuana sales. It was introduced in April 2017 and did not receive royal assent until June 2018. From the perspective of some interviewees who were closely following the marijuana file, the process in the House of Commons was carefully choreographed. The Standing Committee on Health met for intense marathon sessions that began before the House returned from summer break, ultimately proposing amendments supported by the government and the NDP. The Senate process stood in stark contrast; the bill was eventually referred to five different committees for in-depth study, a move one public servant described as \"kind of unprecedented.\" The mandates of the various committees cut across \"umpteen\" ministers' portfolios, with several ministers appearing more than once before committees (public servant interview). There was also a constant threat that the Senate would reconvene the Committee of the Whole, where the entire Senate membership sits as a committee, to invite additional ministers.\nBill C-45 was viewed by some observers as a test case at a time when the Senate was trying to figure out its future. Some interviewees, though not all, described the C-45 process in the Senate as \"not pleasant\" and \"harrowing.\" Public servants, who had to provide all materials to support the Senate's review of the bill and support their minister, were involved in unusually intensive outreach to senators. The highly individualized nature of dealings with the ISG members in particular appears to have generated a sense among those involved that this was a marked departure from what was usually necessary under the old partisan Senate. According to one public servant, the new process \"frankly felt almost American\" (interview).\nOfficials at Health Canada worked closely with Department of Justice counterparts to help steer the bill through the second chamber, and one public servant noted that \"I think they [Justice] had enough experience to forewarn us that the Senate was an independent beast.\"\nThe government delayed its initial timelines for cannabis legalization as a result of the extensive Senate scrutiny. (The original target date was July 1, 2018, which was pushed back to October 17, 2018.) The Senate ultimately proposed 46 amendments to Bill C-45, many of which the government accepted. Thirteen of the Senate's substantive amendments were rejected, including a proposal to affirm the right of provincial governments to ban home cultivation, a provision to create a public registry of investors in cannabis companies and a ban on the distribution of logo-branded pot merchandise. Notably, a late motion in the Senate to return the amendment on banning home cultivation to the bill a second time was defeated 45 to 35. That same day, the Senate voted to pass the bill in a 52-29 vote.\nSome of the senators apparently required an explanation of why \"reasons\" were not attached by the House of Commons when amendments were rejected (public servant interviews). Certain senators also seemed to behave as if ministers of the Crown were \"somehow accountable to them, instead of to Canadians\" (interview). There is a widespread view among different actors familiar with the process that Senator Harder, Government Representative in the Senate, worked to educate senators that their role is to scrutinize but not to hold ministers to account (i.e., the difference between proposing amendments and demanding that ministers or the House provide \"reasons\").\nIt is unclear just how concerned the government was during the C-45 process about the prospects for obstructionism or the threat of a \"ping-pong\" match with multiple rounds of amendments. Some interviewees noted that a long back-and-forth process was unlikely, while others were concerned about mischief and aggressive tactics by the Conservative opposition. The Conservative senators operated as a block and engaged in activities such as bringing props to committee or less than respectful questioning. Three Conservative senators even travelled to Washington to speak with United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions about Canada's pot legalization (Blais-Morin and Zimonjic 2018).\nBill C-45's sponsor in the Senate was Tony Dean, who publicly noted that he thought the Senate functioned well throughout the process (Zimonjic 2018). Dean is credited by observers with taking a read of the situation and doing what was required to navigate the new political reality in the second chamber, ensuring that people were briefed and attempting to have a constructive, nonpartisan discussion.\nYet it is Senator Harder who is cited as instrumental in getting agreement on a timeline and holding the final vote (public servant interviews). This is something even the opposition Conservatives acknowledge. A senior staffer in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, who cited Bill C-45 as an example of negotiation showing how the Senate has generally been functioning well, points out that \"until [Harder] stepped up for proper negotiation, the bill wasn't going anywhere.\u2026There were some trust issues\" (interview). While public servants and members on different sides of the issue generally thought the C-45 process proved effective, not everyone was satisfied. Independent Senator Andr\u00e9 Pratte was angry the bill passed without the more substantive amendments posed by the Senate and questioned whether the government took \"amendments into consideration seriously\" (Zimonjic 2018).[4]\nBill S-3\nBill S-3 dealt with registration of Indian status under the Indian Act. It was introduced in the Senate because of a backlog in the House, so it should have received the same treatment accorded to any government bill introduced in the House. The legislation was in response to a Quebec Superior Court decision that existing registration rules violated section 15, the equality rights provision of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The old rules meant Indigenous women who married non-\u00adIndigenous men lost their status, while Indigenous men who married non-Indigenous women did not. Bill S-3 was intended to resolve the issue of treating the female line the same as the male line.\nThe technical complexity of the legislation presented many of the same challenges for the government and public servants as Bill C-45. It was difficult to explain to senators and other stakeholders why the rules were drafted the way they were. There were many more technical briefings than usual, with more independent senators, who had more fractured views (public servant interview). The office of the Minister of Health was also more involved than it normally would be. The government adopted a two-stage approach to the broader inequities in the Indian Act registration process. The immediate issue was to be addressed under Bill S-3, with consultation on broader issues to continue (this is ongoing).\nThe government also needed the legislation to move quickly because the court initially gave it only 18 months to resolve the constitutional issue. However, as a result of Senate opposition to the bill, the government was forced to request an extension on two separate occasions. Witnesses appearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples were generally very critical of the legislation, wanting more inclusive language that went beyond the court's requirements, something many senators picked up on. The bill initially sought to reverse discrimination for individuals who lost their status since 1951. An intensive period of negotiation followed, and the government agreed to some amendments, while rejecting others, in order to get the bill passed.\nAmong the Senate's amendments to the bill was a provision implementing the new rules in all cases dating back to 1869. The government agreed to implement the change, though only after a consultation period which remains ongoing (Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada 2019). According to estimates by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, up to 35,000 Canadians were immediately eligible to register as status Indians at a cost of roughly $55 million in annual benefits. Once the new rules permit registration for family lines going back to 1869, as many as 670,000 individuals will be eligible (Forrest 2017).\nLike Bill C-45, the process under Bill S-3 left those involved with the clear impression that the new Senate presented distinct challenges. One public servant interviewed had never been involved in a bill with so many amendments put forward by the second chamber. Some within government interpreted this as showing that the current Senate may be less deferential toward the views of government or the House; senators seem more willing to play an active role and attempt to represent voices that have not always been heard.\nInterviewees noted that the Bill S-3 process highlighted a spike in lobbyist activity and the apparent openness of some senators to lobbyists and stakeholders. There is a clear perception among public servants that the impact in this area is different or more significant than in the past (interviews). This perception is borne out by data beyond the Bill S-3 process: records from the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying show that lobbyists made contact with senators twice as often in 2017 as in 2016, and six times as often as in 2015 (Smith 2018). Most of these contacts involved independent senators. At a 2018 Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) round table on the Senate, Elizabeth Roscoe noted that lobbying communications with senators numbered roughly 450 a year from 2011 to 2014; that number rose to 700 in 2016 and 1,450 in 2017. At the same round table, Yaroslav Baran noted that, where lobbyists previously focused their activity on ministers and opposition leaders, independent senators have become more of a focal point because they \"are more concerned with substance and can respond to stakeholders' views by amending legislation or influencing other politicians\" (Institute for Research on Public Policy 2019, 11).\nAs is apparent from this brief account of two high-profile bills' progressions through the second chamber, the increasing complexity of the new Senate environment has presented challenges for the executive. However, it is important not to overstate the dynamics at play. The majority of government bills presented to the Senate have progressed with little of the drama associated with the prominent pieces of legislation just reviewed. Nonetheless, the Senate's record so far and the relevant actors' views on how the less partisan, more independent culture is working raise a number of questions: How is the Senate organizing itself to adjust to its new composition? How is the government \u2014 from ministers to public servants \u2014 reacting and cultivating the new relationship? And finally, what do the current challenges mean for the future of the Senate and its relationship with the government?\nOrganizational Challenges: The Senate in Transition\nOne of the most direct consequences of the reform to the Senate appointments process is that a majority of senators no longer have a partisan affiliation. The ISG is now the largest group of senators, with a majority of total seats. The purpose of the ISG is not to act as a caucus or even as an ideologically coherent faction; instead, it exists to protect the independence of senators and to provide a structure for the representation of nonpartisan members in the broader coordination of the second chamber's work, including the composition of committees. The ISG has a facilitator (loosely analogous to the leader of old government or opposition caucuses) whose role is to represent and help coordinate the group's interests.\nThis organizational mandate means that the ISG should not be regarded as a traditional caucus. There are no whipped votes. In fact, the independence of individual ISG members is prized. One result is that, in the initial year or two following the reforms, information flows and organization in the context of the legislative process were challenging. Under the traditional partisan Senate, senators generally sat as members of the governing or opposition caucus, where they received political briefings on various pieces of legislation and coordinated partisan messaging surrounding the government's legislative agenda. Senators appointed under the new system do not coordinate their actions on the substance of individual bills in this manner. This reality accounts for many of the organizational difficulties that presented themselves in relation to Bills C-45 and S-3.\nThe ISG has taken steps to address some of the organizational and information-\u00adsharing difficulties. It is developing practices to coordinate the sharing of knowledge and expertise in scrutinizing bills through the use of secretariat resources and voluntary measures. Information and outreach data are compiled on shared drives for ISG members to access. Senators with special interests in particular files will take the lead (sometimes as the sponsor of a bill) to help keep colleagues up to date. These innovations stem from the recognition that individual senators do not have the time or resources to comprehensively scrutinize every piece of legislation. They are thus beginning to learn to rely on colleagues to share the burden and prevent duplication of efforts.\nAccording to Senator Woo, the facilitator of the ISG, there is an expectation that, over time, as these forms of coordination are implemented, the problems faced by public servants will become less acute and will require less hands-on management and fewer technical briefings to small groups or individual senators (interview).\nThese coordination efforts are procedural. None of the organizational endeavours imply that ISG members will adopt similar substantive views on pieces of legislation or that the coordination affects how they will ultimately vote. Yet it is significant that the ISG recently adopted the Charter of the Independent Senators Group as a way of formalizing its organization, its role and the responsibilities of the facilitator and deputy. The Charter explicitly limits the ISG membership to nonpartisans, which precludes anyone who is a member of a recognized party, parliamentary group or caucus of the House of Commons, or who has direct involvement in the activities of a recognized political party registered under the Canada Elections Act, including public endorsements or fundraising for political parties or one of their candidates (Independent Senators Group 2018). The Charter outlines the purpose of the ISG as follows:\nMembers of the ISG have joined together for the purpose of affirming and protecting each Senator's freedom to vote as he or she sees fit in respect of their parliamentary duties, and to enhance the ability of individual Senators to conduct their functions as parliamentarians. By sharing expertise, pooling resources and providing mutual support, ISG Senators:\na) contribute to the planning and coordination of Chamber business and committee work;\nb) share information and assist ISG Senators with their administrative needs;\nc) coordinate collective action on issues related to Senate administrative processes and practices that the ISG has designated or may designate, as the case may be, as priorities or matters of common importance to all members of the ISG;\nd) respect that each Senator can only fulfill the role of Senator if she or he maintains their right to express views that are aligned with the Senator's own judgment;\ne) build on ongoing efforts to modernize the Senate in terms of its culture, rules and practices, in order to strengthen the work of the Senate as an effective, respected, and non-partisan Chamber of sober second thought that is complementary to the House of Commons. (Independent Senators Group 2018)\nIn view of these efforts, Senator Woo suggests that some of the problems faced by senators and public servants during the C-45 or S-3 processes might be transitory.\nFrom the perspective of Senate Liberal Leader Joseph Day, a lot of the adjustment stems from both the rapidity of the reform and the lack of a clear idea of what the Senate should look like after the changes to the appointments process. Day notes that \"part of reacting to Mr. Trudeau's decisions was a lack of guidance on where we should go\u2026we're struggling with procedure often when it would be better to get into the substance of how things should be changed.\" The considerable number of new appointees has also made it difficult for the ISG to adjust, according to Day: \"the learning of the role of senator and being given the opportunity and time to develop an appreciation of how the individual can participate and contribute is not as smooth a transition as it could be or should be.\u2026In Mr. Harper's time, when he appointed a larger number at one time, filling a big number of vacancies, they came into the Senate and we noticed the same thing. The ability of these individuals to be nurtured along, to learn the process and to appreciate the unwritten but important aspects of the Senate were lost\" as a result of the sheer number of new senators (interview).\nProcedural adjustments are not the only factors influencing the evolution of the renewed Senate. Two other variables are significant: the composition of the Senate \u2014 the size of the ISG, especially relative to the size of the opposition Conservative caucus \u2014 and the relative inexperience of the recently appointed senators. Each of these factors has influenced the posture different senators have adopted in relation to bills. Further, they are factors that the government and particularly the Government Representative in the Senate have had to account for when steering legislation through the second chamber.\nWhen Senator Harder was appointed as one of the first seven independent senators, the Conservatives enjoyed a majority in the Senate and on every committee (as well as chairing most of them). As the government representative, Harder was tasked with getting the various Senate leaders to agree on managing major bills, particularly by having conversations with then leader of the Opposition, Claude Carignan, in order to allow votes to take place and to prioritize certain bills. A prominent example of this early legislation was Bill C-14, which legislated eligibility requirements and laid out certain regulations for medical aid in dying. Harder notes that \"we were able to get an agreement amongst the leaders on how we would manage the bill \u2014 I do think it worked quite well\" (interview).\nOver time, as the independents grew and eventually outnumbered the Conservatives, adjustments were necessary. Senator Harder and the ISG reached interim agreements with the Conservatives about the composition of committees, in order to achieve greater proportionality of representation. There is a clear sense from Harder that while in some ways the increasing number of independents made the job easier, it also freed the Conservatives to oppose legislation more stridently. As he explains, the Conservatives could \"exercise their opposition stance without fear of defeating legislation because of numerical superiority\" (interview). Harder cites Bill C-45 as an example of this: the opposition members voted against the bill at both second and third readings, which was fairly unusual (interview). \"In an odd way,\" Harder states, \"both procedurally and substantively, the Conservatives [have flexed their] muscles more\" as their numbers have fallen (interview). Despite this, negotiations between the various caucus and group leaders on C-45 ensured the Bill's relatively timely passage. This reflects a broader context of consultation among the Senate's leadership. Senator Day notes, for example, that the various leaders meet every Tuesday morning (during sitting weeks) to discuss priorities and challenges; he argues that this spirit of cooperation among the four leaders (Harder, Day, Smith and Woo) has been very helpful (interview).\nThe Conservatives have a different perspective. In the view of Senator Martin, it is ISG members whose behaviour has changed as their numbers have grown, in part due to an expectation that simple majority rule would make it easier to get what they want done at the committee level and on the Senate floor. Some of the rules that give minority parties power, especially power to complicate procedural matters, have, in Martin's view, proven frustrating for the ISG. Examples of such rules include the facts that the time allocation rule can be applied to only one stage of debate on an item if there is no agreement between parties and that every senator can introduce a variety of motions during debate. (Martin notes that these rules also frustrated the Conservatives when they held the majority.) According to Martin, the result is that trust has eroded on committees as ISG members have sought to change rules, and this erosion of trust has affected day-to-day sittings (interview).\nSenator Woo notes that the opposition has generally wanted to show that they are being a good opposition while also not wanting to create a dysfunctional Senate (interview). However, in some ways the increasing membership of the ISG makes Senator Harder's job more difficult. Where Harder could reach an agreement with Conservative opposition leaders (previously Senator Carignan, now Senator Larry Smith), the government representative and the facilitator of the ISG \"can't have the same conversation as he has with the opposition leader,\" Woo points out, \"because I don't whip my members\" (interview). Negotiations on timelines and prioritizing certain bills will undoubtedly become more complicated in a context where the \"leader\" cannot reliably speak for the group, or even necessarily predict the behaviour of its members.\nSenator Day largely concurs, but notes that a lack of support from the government has made Senator Harder's job more difficult than need be. \"He's performing something we've never had before. That would be a difficult job for anyone to do. He had no experience in the Senate.\u2026He's not, in my view, given the support of government for him to carry out the role it would appear he's expected to perform. So he's sitting there learning his job every day, and he's a capable person and is adjusting nicely, but it has not been an easy road for him.\" Day argues that Harder could do the job a lot better if he were a member of cabinet and had clearer, more direct organizational support from the government (interview). Senator Martin also emphasizes this point, noting that \"Harder is Government Leader, but not [really],\" because he is not at the cabinet table, and this has made his task more difficult (interview).\nSenator Woo notes that, because the numbers have changed so much in the Senate over the course of just a couple of years, there is a different dynamic in the second chamber. \"The traditional duopoly of decision-making and direction between government and opposition has been disrupted,\" Woo states (interview). Meanwhile, the formal rules of the Senate have not changed to incorporate nongovernment, nonopposition input into various decisions concerning bills, time allocation or committee selection. In practice, some of these processes have been adjusted on an ad hoc basis, and matters will not proceed or further changes be made without ISG buy-in.[5]\nLike Senator Harder, Senator Woo also sees the opposition Conservatives becoming more strident in their approach over time as the change in numbers has also \"created a dynamic whereby the opposition has gone from playing the role as the responsible loyal opposition that is trying to make the Senate work to one now that is basically\u2026exercising its prerogative as the opposition and not much more\" (interview). When they were a larger group, there was a sense that the Conservatives were more willing to avoid being disruptive. Now that they are a more distinct minority, \"they've left all the responsibility of ensuring the Senate is working to the government and to the ISG. They're doing that for a strategic reason: if the ISG functions to make things work smoothly, allow bills through, the Conservatives will accuse them of being Liberals. If the ISG is more disruptive, the Conservatives will still criticize\" (interview).\nOne public servant suggests there is evidence that this dynamic encouraged the independents to become more organized: \"At a certain point, it became clear the [opposition was] highly organized and tactically had all the advantage. And at a certain point, you saw the independents start to behave more as a group, with a common interest. They entered into this process kind of altruistic, acting in good faith, and that optimism was extinguished by some of the partisan attacks\u2026and then the independents start to organize a bit more\" (interview).\nThe overall dynamic came to a head in April 2019, when Senator Harder proposed a \"programming motion\" to impose strict deadlines on 11 bills at various stages of the Senate's legislative agenda. The proposal was withdrawn after negotiations between the various Senate leaders apparently broke the impasse, leading to an agreement to expedite much of the legislation but to drop deadlines on three controversial bills (Snyder 2019).\nFrom the perspective of the Conservative opposition, their task is not to stop the government's agenda \u2014 particularly on matters that were in its election platform \u2014 but to use the Senate as a voice for raising legitimate concerns.[6] According the senior staffer, \"we can't fight on what's being done but on how it's being done.\" Therefore, on key pieces of legislation, the opposition has negotiated with Senator Harder to get what they view as sufficient time to scrutinize bills and enough witnesses at committee to \"create a legislative track record we can use when things go bad.\"\nNonetheless, the Conservatives are ambivalent as to whether it is the government's responsibility to ensure that the Senate functions smoothly. So while the process that led to the passing of Bill C-45 demonstrates, from the opposition's perspective, that the Senate is working, the government \"left a lot on the table\" before the summer break in 2018. Bills on environmental assessment, workplace harassment and other issues \"all got stranded because [Harder] said 'you have to sit,' to which the answer is 'Who's responsible for quorum in the Senate? Not us. The government is.' So the Prime Minister chose to go the independent route and can't guarantee quorum.\"\nThe Senate's current composition reminds us that the renewed second chamber is still in transition. With a sizable partisan opposition still in place, it is not yet a fully nonpartisan, independent body. That shifting dynamic makes it difficult to predict how much things will continue to change, although one factor may help stabilize things over the medium to long term: the independent senators' increasing experience.\nIt is apparent that some of the tensions over whether the Senate would act in an obstructionist manner during the Bill C-45 process emanated from the relative inexperience of certain independent senators. If the perception of some individuals involved with the C-45 process is accurate, certain senators had the view that ministers \"answer to\" the Senate, as if the second chamber were a confidence chamber.[7] Similarly, simple procedural misunderstandings \u2014 for example, whether messages from the Commons rejecting amendments should spell out reasons in a manner similar to the written reasons of appellate courts \u2014 suggest that increased experience might alleviate the temptation some senators feel to assert the Senate's authority to interfere more directly with the government's agenda.\nHow some of the new senators conceive of their independence may also need adjustment over time. For example, some ISG members apparently have the view that it would be inappropriate of them to meet informally with, or be lobbied by, cabinet ministers in relation to specific pieces of legislation. Senator Woo acknowledges this view, noting that independent senators are working through some \"doctrinal issues\" and one is the relative distance they should keep from the \"political class\" (interview). Over time, he expects that their views will become more nuanced and less dogmatic. \"It's not difficult to understand that one can obviously talk to a minister and still be independent, so I don't think that will be a big problem in the years ahead,\" Woo notes. The struggle for some senators has thus far been a desire to demonstrate that they are independent in name but also in practice, so they take pains to avoid even the appearance of conflicted behaviour or external influence. \"Many will want to err on the side of caution, but [there is] no contradiction in speaking to a minister and still holding an independent view\" (interview).\nIt is important not to overstate this particular issue. One senior public servant notes that Senate question period with ministers has been helpful and a means for ministers to build relationships within the second chamber (interview). Senator Harder also states that some ministers' relationships with senators have been helpful in marshalling support for certain pieces of legislation (interview).\nThus far, this analysis has examined the different facets of the renewed Senate's evolution as challenges or problems. Yet to the extent that increased complexity, greater diversity of viewpoints, and forthright efforts to scrutinize legislation in line with a \"sober second thought\" role create challenges, they are perhaps properly characterized as a feature, rather than a bug, of the government's reform of the appointments process.\nThis sentiment is echoed by various players involved with the current Senate. As one public servant notes, \"the extent of the reform is completely underappreciated outside Ottawa. I don't think Canadians understand how significant a reform it has been, and how detrimental it has been to the government's interests \u2014 and the government doesn't get credit for it\" (interview). Senator Woo concurs, stating that \"it is precisely in the nature of a more independent Senate that you'll have more independent views! The views will be disparate and will require greater management on the part of public servants to address questions\" (interview). Woo adds that this is precisely why the ISG created its Charter.\nThe Renewed Senate: Its Performance and Its Future\nCritics of the new Senate appointments process asserted that eliminating partisanship would either encourage senators to become obstructionist or effectively render the second chamber unworkable or dysfunctional. The preceding analysis suggests that the general picture is of a robust and active chamber fulfilling its role while adjusting to its new composition. Although there is evidence of a strong willingness to propose amendments, that is distinct from obstructionism, for which there is little evidence. More significant for the present analysis is that, despite delays with certain pieces of legislation, there is little evidence of dysfunction.\nFrom Senator Harder's perspective, the Senate has come through the most difficult part of its transition:\nI do think we are no longer in what I call the experimental stage, that the notion of a less partisan, more independent Senate that is complementary to the House of Commons is taking root.\u2026I don't think it would be easy to turn the clock back to the status quo ante. I think that's significant. The conduct of the Senate has been such that the early concerns among some people that we would either be a rubber stamp or a committee that would oppose anything hasn't happened. [There is] a good deal of confidence that you can have a less partisan and more independent Senate that doesn't impede government. (interview)\nIt is significant, Harder points out, that he has never used time allocation so far, noting that it was used some 25 times in the previous (2011-15) Parliament. Recent events, particularly the aforementioned programming motion to expedite the legislative progress on a number of bills and Harder's threat to employ an aggressive timetable, put this boast in context. It should also be noted that Harder can only propose time allocation, as under the Senate Rules it must be approved by a vote in the chamber.[8] Further, the Senate has generally accepted messages from the House about its amendments. \"I'm reasonably serene that the Senate exercises the independence that the Prime Minister says he wanted,\" Harder states (interview).\nSenator Woo generally concurs with this view, although he notes that the transition period is not quite over. \"The Senate is partially independent [but] has a partisan caucus that can significantly hold back the full flowering of an independent second chamber that is unelected and complementary to the House,\" he states. In his view, the new appointments process is working and is producing appointments \"on par with the best we've seen under the [old] partisan process. That is not a statement of 'we're better than they are,' but the new batch do come to Senate without political connections and involvement of previous connections, and I think Canadians like to see that\" (interview).\nA senior staffer with the Conservative opposition thinks the informal adjustments made to the legislative process and committee system have been fruitful. \"I see no signs that it's not working\" (interview).\nSenator Day takes a historical view, noting that things have not changed so dramatically from the recent past:\nAn outsider might not appreciate some of the things in the Senate ever since I arrived. Even in Harper's time we proposed amendments. I can remember [the Conservative government's] first piece of legislation, Bill C-2, and that went back and forth several times. There were over 80 amendments to that bill\u2026ping-pong is unusual, but does happen and is there as a tool for Parliament to use and for the Senate to use. And it usually happens when the House of Commons starts taking for granted the role of the Senate. And they're not doing that now \u2014 maybe there's more effort on behalf of the executive to inform senators about objectives and goals of the legislation. (interview)\nDay does not make any predictions about how the Senate's legislative process and relationship with the government will proceed, but his comments suggest he is sanguine about its current attitude toward the legislative process.\nSenator Martin notes that increased amendment activity does not necessarily reflect a more robust sober second thought role in the newly reformed Senate but instead is, at least in part, a result of the lack of explicit government and opposition caucuses (interview). \"The ISG is sort of acting like the government caucus, but they're not. When you have a group that isn't congruent with how they're behaving \u2014 that incongruency, that misalignment\u2026makes everything more challenging for everyone.\" ISG senators do not sit in the governing caucus and so they cannot weigh in on legislative proposals, \"so no wonder there are more amendments.\"[9] Further, many of the amendments are narrowly technical rather than substantive changes to bills. Martin adds that the interparty\/group discussions (at the leader, deputy and caucus\/group levels) are starting to look more the way they did before the reform; nevertheless, the incongruencies in the ISG's role create gaps and challenges.\nA senior public servant notes that, while the overall legislative program in the Senate is different, it has not slowed things down. \"One thing people assume is that things are taking longer\" the public servant notes, \"we would say there's not a lot of evidence for that yet\" (interview). [10] When particular bills are slowed by amendments, delays have not usually been particularly long. In this regard, the lengthy Bill S-3 process is regarded as the exception rather than the rule. Moreover, because amendments may effectively bring the bill back to the cabinet table for consideration, part of the delay is not publicly visible and not the result of an inefficient Senate process. This public servant states that the second chamber is still dealing with the changes and how to apply them. \"The overall dynamic is very much in flux,\" which is particularly challenging for new ministers and people new to Parliament. People who have been around a while, like Ralph Goodale, are generally more strategic and adept at navigating the legislative process. More broadly, the government (ministers and the bureaucracy) now recognizes that \"we can no longer take the Senate for granted.\"\nThat the Senate has thus far functioned well in a complex new context is no guarantee that it will continue doing so. A number of questions and issues remain unresolved, particularly as the number of independent senators continues to increase. What will be the impact on the legislative process in the Senate once there is no longer an established, recognized and partisan opposition caucus? Thus far, the Senate has organized the transition via informal agreements between the various groups. Eventually, changes to its formal rules may be necessary to recognize the new reality and satisfy independents that resources, committee spots and procedures are allocated or organized fairly. What form should these changes take?\nOne of these issues was partially taken up by the Special Senate Committee on Senate Modernization, which issued its first report in October 2016. That report included a number of recommendations: update committee membership rules to ensure that senators who do not belong to a political party can participate more fully; introduce televised debates in the Senate; and establish rules to divide certain omnibus bills so that their substance can be properly reviewed by committees (Senate 2016).[11]\nOne of the most important recommendations was allowing for the recognition of nonpartisan caucuses in the Rules of the Senate. A proposal to organize the Senate around regional caucuses was advanced in a 2016 report by former senators Michael Kirby and Hugh Segal (Kirby and Segal 2016b). In their view, \"over the years, an excessively partisan Senate became less fair-minded as it mirrored the House and the Prime Minister's Office. Rules advantaged partisanship while sober second thought became an infrequent experience\" (Kirby and Segal 2016a). Without regional representation as a central organizing principle for the Senate, Confederation would not have occurred, the authors argue. Senate caucuses organized by region would not mean \"like-minded senators can't gather around voluntary groupings: a military affairs group; a minority languages group; a free enterprise group; an anti-poverty group; or even a politically like-minded group. But partisan affiliation should no longer provide the sole basis for authority or a route for any government to subvert independence\" (Kirby and Segal 2016a).\nThe formal rules of the Senate need to be adjusted precisely because they currently serve to entrench partisanship. As Kirby and Segal (2016b) note, \"Independent Senators must secure proportional rights vis-\u00e0-vis partisan Senators in order to play a meaningful role in the management of the Senate agenda, rules on committee membership, the way the Senate budget is spent, and so on. As things stand now, the Independent Senators have no access to funding for research, which is granted to 'parties' only.\"\nAs noted, some of these issues have thus far been dealt with informally. Formal changes to the rules, particularly as the ISG has become the majority, may soon be necessary, but Kirby and Segal's solution \u2014 structuring the Senate around regional caucuses \u2014 has not met with broad acceptance. Independent Senator Andr\u00e9 Pratte, for example, objected to the proposal because of the \"risk that senators will come to see all the issues coming before the Senate only from the perspective of their region. Since the region will be the chamber's organizing principle, it will become senators' dominating preoccupation\u2026 Canada does not need yet another institution fostering regional tensions\" (Pratte 2016).\nIn the short to medium term, there are also signs it may be difficult to change the Senate's formal rules. A senior staffer in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition notes that the government's entire legislative agenda would be at risk if there appeared to be a government-led effort to initiate changes. (I interpret these comments to include anything pushed by Senator Harder's office.) In this Conservative staffer's view, the consensus model the Senate has been operating on should continue to work.\nFor his part, Senator Harder is clear that the formal organization and question of caucuses \"is for the Senate to decide, not for me\" (interview). His own hope for the final year of the current Parliament was that the Senate would devote its time to the legislative agenda. \"A lot of energy and time would be taken up with internal organizational issues, which could distract from our legislative role. I would be on the side of [continued] organic evolution.\" Senior public servants note that, while there was initially plenty of public debate about the Senate's formal organization, particularly the regional caucus proposal, they have not heard much discussion behind the scenes in the last year or two (interviews).\nAnother problem arises given that certain changes to the Parliament of Canada Act, such as giving groups or senators not affiliated with a party the resources and money to spend on research, need to be initiated by the House of Commons. Senator Woo recently called on the Prime Minister to initiate formal changes in law and fulfill his promise to finalize the Senate's transition to full independence. Senator Woo was quoted in the media, saying \"I have been in the Senate now for two years and what I've learned is that the road map depends on him (Trudeau) to finish the job\" (Press 2018).\nIt is an open question whether the Senate needs a designated opposition caucus. As independents come to dominate the second chamber, it is more likely we will see an increasingly dynamic process instead: shifting opposition, varying in membership and size, on an issue-by-issue or bill-by-bill basis. Independence by definition means that senators will not vote in lockstep on a wide range of issues. This is not to say that senators will not coalesce over broad areas of policy, be it fiscal conservatives, environmental activists or members with particular views on criminal justice policy. There is no reason to think the Senate needs a dedicated group of senators as \"the opposition\"; it is not the confidence chamber, and it does not exist to oppose the government's overall legislative agenda. The fact that it has traditionally had a formal opposition caucus is fundamentally the product of its historic partisanship. As the partisan era comes to an end, there is no obvious reason why its organizational vestiges should be maintained.\nMoreover, it is not clear that the Senate needs to be organized in formal caucuses either. Despite the concerns of critics that a Senate composed of untethered independents is unworkable, the record so far suggests the opposite. Like-minded senators will still cooperate on shared interests in particular issues or policy areas, and can do so in parliamentary groups rather than formal caucuses. The Senate may be able to function without formal organization on substantive issues or characteristics such as ideology or regional representation. Rather, the core organizational requirements may be largely procedural, ensuring equitable staffing of committees and a relatively efficient process for getting bills scrutinized and voted on. The type of information sharing and procedural innovations advanced within the ISG may constitute the minimal requirements needed to ensure the Senate functions smoothly in a postpartisan era. Perhaps the only substantive changes needed are those relating to equitable distribution of resources (Press 2018).\nIndependence is also a feature of the institution itself, and the Senate will organize itself as it sees fit. Yet the fact that it has functioned with an increasingly large group of independent senators along precisely the parameters I have described for the majority of a Parliament session is highly suggestive.\nNonetheless, this is not a prediction about how the Senate will ultimately organize itself. One of the outstanding questions about the second chamber's future behaviour is whether independents will continue to operate with a reasonably deferential stance to the government's legislative agenda. When speaking of Senator Harder's role in getting the government's legislative agenda through the Senate, Senator Woo notes that an increasing number of independents might make his job easier, but there are no guarantees. One public servant said that formal changes may be necessary or legislating will \"quickly become very uncertain\" as senators assert themselves and the pace will slow (interview). By contrast, another public servant believes the government has adjusted and become more strategic in its dealings with the Senate. This individual feels the Senate will, in the final year of the current Parliament, appear even more productive and efficient overall than it has over the past three years (interview). As of April 2019, the evidence on these predictions is mixed at best.\nThere are reasons to be uncertain about how things will progress in the Senate. Senators appointed precisely on the basis of their independence, and in a process that came to involve an application process, might reasonably not expect to come to Ottawa to rubber-stamp government legislation. Critics of the reforms to the appointment process expressed concern on these grounds. Moreover, key aspects of Prime Minister Trudeau's approach to appointments seem to encourage a representative aspect to the role of senator. For example, he has made a concerted effort to increase the number of Indigenous members of the second chamber, appointing nine Indigenous senators in under three years (as of May 2019, there were 12 Indigenous senators). The renewed Senate may become an important site for the protection of Indigenous interests (Macfarlane 2018).\nAnother, more cynical, element is the supposition by some critics, as noted above, that because the current ISG members frequently support government legislation, they are somehow \"Liberals\" in all but name. One analysis of recorded votes in the Senate from the beginning of the current Parliament to July 2018 reveals that ISG members appointed by Trudeau voted with the government 84.2 percent of the time, compared to ISG members appointed by previous prime ministers (77.2 percent), Senate Liberals (76.8 percent), and Conservative senators (20.1 percent) (Evelyn and Allen 2018; see also Godbout 2018). The implication of this assertion is that, if a new government takes power in 2019, the renewed Senate may become an antagonistic, obstructionist institution (particularly if that new government is Conservative).\nIt is certainly true that the real test for the nonpartisan behaviour of the Trudeau-appointed independents is a long-term one. It is not clear whether this voting behaviour reflects ideological support of the current government or a nonpartisan approach that generally respects the government's capacity to pass its legislative agenda. Senators appointed under the new process are expected to have a clear understanding of the role of the Senate as a chamber of sober second thought. In other words, there is a presumption that independent senators in particular will have a normative conception of their role, and that of the institution, that guides their behaviour. In political science, the study of role norms finds that they can be influential in shaping and constraining the behaviour of various actors, including independent and unelected ones such as justices of the Supreme Court of Canada (Macfarlane 2010, 2013). Further, such actors are sensitive to the expectations and opinions that other actors and the general public hold about them (Baum 2006). Independent senators should care about the Senate's reputation and legitimacy; if they do, they will not risk it by inappropriately exceeding the limits of the Senate's proper function.\nWhatever attitudinal trajectory senators adopt in the future, the record thus far suggests the Senate has adjusted, albeit with challenges, to its burgeoning independent status. Regardless of the outcome of the 2019 federal election and the future status of the appointments process \u2014 Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has promised to return to the old patronage method of appointments (Bryden 2018) \u2014 a sizable contingent of nonpartisan senators will occupy the second chamber for years to come. Thus far, they are operating largely within the parameters that a merit-based, nonpartisan appointments process would ideally produce.\nThe Senate has been subject to debate since Confederation. In the modern era, efforts to reform the second chamber via formal constitutional changes were ultimately fruitless (Russell 2004; Smith 2003). The recent change to the appointments process, made informally and at the discretion of the Prime Minister, arguably constitutes the most significant alteration to the Senate in its history. Although it is not clear if future prime ministers will retain the independent, nonpartisan advisory process, the reform might also end up being one of the most important legacies of the Trudeau government. Depending on the results of the 2019 election, the longer the new process remains in place, the harder it will be for future prime ministers to revert to the old system of patronage.\nA major reason for this is that, as the preceding analysis has shown, the renewed \u00adSenate is working. Despite inevitable challenges and adjustments, the second chamber is fulfilling its advisory role as a chamber of sober second thought. It has not engaged in undue obstructionism. Nor has it created serious disruptions for the government's legislative agenda (although organizational issues did lead to delays toward the end of the current parliament). The difficulties the renewed Senate has faced derive largely from the added complexity and constraints on organization that have resulted from senatorial independence and the partial (thus far) elimination of partisan caucuses. An increasing number of divergent views among independents has made the work of ministers and public servants \u2014 tasked with getting legislation through the second chamber \u2014 considerably more demanding in certain ways.\nAs explored above, tracking support for bills in the Senate, distributing information and even giving technical briefings to small groups or individual senators have created more work and generated more uncertainty for the government. This may be a feature, not a bug, of the changes to the Senate. A more independent Senate \u2014 a Senate that is more responsive and active \u2014 will inevitably create more work for the government and add to the complexity of the legislative process. As the preceding analysis suggests, ministers and public servants are learning to become more proactive in this regard. Moreover, given that the manner in which some senators have conceived of their independence has contributed to the uncertainty \u2014 whether because of increased willingness to propose amendments or unwillingness to meet informally with cabinet ministers for fear of impinging on independence \u2014 it is likely that as they become acculturated to the Senate's norms this too will evolve.\nA number of developments may help to reduce or eliminate some of the problems analyzed here. The ISG's charter and its other organizational efforts to improve information sharing and address procedural matters should reduce some of the burden currently facing public servants shepherding bills through Parliament. Similarly, as independent senators gain more experience, they may become more comfortable and understand how independence operates in practice. As senators become used to their role, they may realize, for example, that it does not impair their independence to communicate with cabinet ministers or even be lobbied by them for their support.\nNonetheless, there are also reasons to be cautious about drawing firm conclusions about the success of the renewed Senate. There is clear evidence that the Senate remains in a period of transition. As noted in the preceding section, it has not yet adopted formal changes to its rules to accommodate nonpartisan groups or establish an adequate and equitable distribution of resources for them. Thus far, the government has maintained that this is for the Senate to decide for itself, but it may need to initiate action if a bill to amend the Parliament of Canada Act includes spending provisions.\nMoreover, it is not clear what further adjustments might be prompted as independents continue to be appointed. What will a Senate virtually full of independents look like? How will it organize itself? Will it need to create a new set of caucuses, whether on regional grounds or some other basis? Or will it simply adapt procedures to accommodate the new fluidity and dynamism that come with nonpartisan, independent senators? And, if it does adjust procedurally to this new reality, will independent senators become emboldened to act in an increasingly activist, or even obstructionist, manner, as critics of the reforms have argued? It is, perhaps, too soon to tell.\nThus far, the evidence suggests the renewed Senate has the potential to become a significant success story. No longer negatively implicated as a patronage institution, let alone a partisan one, a recently disgraced institution may achieve an unprecedented level of legitimacy. If it manages to conduct itself as the complementary, rather than competitive, body the Supreme Court describes in its 2014 Reference re Senate Reform opinion, it may serve the ideals envisioned by its defenders. This includes the useful function of providing legislative and policy advice and acting as a constitutional safeguard for Parliament's legislative agenda. It might also continue much of the valuable work the historic Senate always did: long-term study and commissions on policy issues of concern to Canadians that members of Parliament rarely have the time to engage in. Time will tell.\n[1] I provided nonpartisan, unpaid advice to the government on the role, design and process of a new appointments process. This included the drafting of a proposal that became the basis for the reform.\n[2] The Senate returned Bill C-49 to the House with 18 amendments. The House accepted two amendments, modified three others and rejected the rest. The Senate Conservatives and a handful of independent senators insisted on sending the bill to the House a second time with two further amendments, something the second chamber had not done since 2006. The House rejected the amendments and the Senate then passed the bill (Canadian Press 2018).\n[3] For context, see a recent report by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (2019).\n[4] The comments from Senator Pratte are interesting because they came after a speech he made during debates on the second version of the bill in which he spoke in opposition to another vote against the bill (see Thomas 2019, 26-7). In other words, although Pratte was unhappy with the government's substantive decision to refuse certain amendments, he did not believe the Senate's role was to obstruct the will of the House.\n[5] For more details on proposed future changes, see Thomas (2019).\n[6] The interviews in this paragraph and the paragraph below are from the same senior staffer in the office of the Conservative Party Leader.\n[7] In fact the House of Commons is the confidence chamber, because it is there the government can be defeated in a vote on a confidence matter.\n[8] My thanks to one of the anonymous peer reviewers for pointing this out.\n[9] A similar point was made by Senator Leo Housakos on the March 18, 2019, episode of TVO's The Agenda.\n[10] Events since this interview was conducted might call this point into question.\n[11] The committee's second major interim report was released in April 2018. 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Accessed October 15, 2018. https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/why-regional-representation-is-the-wrong-basis-for-senate-reform\/article32037411\/\nPress, J. 2018. \"With Eye to Election, Senators Push Trudeau to Fulfill Promise of Non-Partisan Senate.\" Globe and Mail, October 24. Accessed October 24, 2018. https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-with-eye-to-election-senators-push-trudeau-to-fulfill-promise-of-non\/\nRoss, G. 1914. The Senate of Canada: Its Constitution, Powers and Duties Historically Considered. Toronto: Copp, Clark Company, Limited.\nRussell, P.H. 2004. Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? Toronto: University of Toronto Press.\nSenate. 2016. Special Senate Committee on Senate Modernization. 2016. Senate Modernization: Moving Forward. Report of the Special Senate Committee on Senate Modernization \u2014 Part 1. October. Ottawa: The Senate of Canada. 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Accessed April 12, 2019. https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/senate-drops-deadlines-to-pass-controversial-legislation-including-bill-c-69-and-oil-tanker-ban\nThomas, P.G. 2019. Moving Toward a New and Improved Senate. IRPP Study 71. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy. Accessed May 17, 2019. https:\/\/irpp.org\/research-studies\/moving-toward-new-improved-senate\/\nZimonjic, P. 2018. \"Senate Passes Pot Bill, Paving Way for Legal Cannabis in 8 to 12 Weeks.\" CBC News, June 19. Accessed September 1, 2018. https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/senate-passes-government-pot-bill-1.4713222\nABOUT THIS STUDY\nThis study was published as part of the Canada's Changing Federal Community re\u00adsearch program, under the direction of F. Leslie Seidle. The manuscript was copy-edited by Zofia Laubitz, proofreading was by Judith Nylvek, editorial coordination was by Francesca Worrall, production was by Chantal L\u00e9tourneau and art direction was by Anne Tremblay.\nEmmett Macfarlane is an associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. He provided nonpartisan, unpaid advice to the Government of Canada on reforming the appointments process for the Senate. He is the author of Governing from the Bench: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role (2013) and the editor of Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution (2018).\nTo cite this document:\nMacfarlane, Emmett. 2019. The Renewed Canadian Senate: Organizational Challenges and Relations with the Government. IRPP Study 71. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.26070\/47h3-ft74\nMy thanks to the IRPP for inviting me to present on the renewed Senate's relationship with government at the round table in September 2018. Special thanks go to Leslie Seidle for providing thoughtful feedback on this paper, and to the anonymous review\u00aders for their helpful comments.\nI would like to thank the senators who agreed to on-the-record interviews. I am also grateful to the public servants who arranged not-for-attribution interviews \u2014 their per\u00adspectives added important context and nuance to the analysis. I remain responsible for the analysis and opinions expressed in the paper.\nThe opinions expressed in this study are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the IRPP or its Board of Directors.\nIRPP Study is a refereed monographic series that is published irregularly throughout the year. Each study is subject to rigorous internal and external peer review for academic soundness and policy relevance.\nIf you have questions about our publications, please contact irpp@irpp.org. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, IRPP News, please go to our website, at irpp.org.\nCover photo: Senate of Canada.\nUn S\u00e9nat plus ind\u00e9pendant qui red\u00e9finit ses relations avec le gouvernement\nPour diffusion imm\u00e9diate \u2013 Le 29 mai 2019\nMontr\u00e9al \u2013 Une nouvelle \u00e9tude de l'Institut de recherche en politiques publiques examine l'\u00e9volution des relations entre le S\u00e9nat et le gouvernement depuis l'instauration en 2016 d'un processus non partisan de nomination des s\u00e9nateurs.\nEn trois ans, observe son auteur Emmett Macfarlane (Universit\u00e9 de Waterloo), le S\u00e9nat a gagn\u00e9 une ind\u00e9pendance dont t\u00e9moigne notamment l'adh\u00e9sion de la majorit\u00e9 de ses membres au Groupe des s\u00e9nateurs ind\u00e9pendants. Et contrairement \u00e0 ce qu'en disent certains critiques, estime Macfarlane, il a g\u00e9r\u00e9 avec succ\u00e8s les changements apport\u00e9s \u00e0 sa composition et \u00e0 son fonctionnement, qui lui permettent d'agir de fa\u00e7on moins partisane que par le pass\u00e9.\nPour le gouvernement, cette ind\u00e9pendance a toutefois accru la complexit\u00e9 du processus l\u00e9gislatif. \u00ab Dans certains cas, le nombre d'avis divergents parmi les s\u00e9nateurs ind\u00e9pendants a donn\u00e9 du fil \u00e0 retordre aux ministres et aux fonctionnaires charg\u00e9s de faire adopter les lois par la seconde chambre \u00bb, affirme l'auteur. Comme l'a particuli\u00e8rement illustr\u00e9 en 2018 l'\u00e9tude du projet de loi qui a men\u00e9 \u00e0 la l\u00e9galisation du cannabis.\nPour assouplir ce processus, le Bureau du repr\u00e9sentant du gouvernement au S\u00e9nat (cr\u00e9\u00e9 en 2015) a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le important en assurant le suivi des projets de loi \u00e0 la seconde chambre, de m\u00eame qu'en n\u00e9gociant les calendriers.\nMais il est in\u00e9vitable qu'un S\u00e9nat plus actif et plus ind\u00e9pendant impose un surcro\u00eet de travail au gouvernement. \u00ab La r\u00e9cente d\u00e9cision du Comit\u00e9 permanent des transports et des communications du S\u00e9nat de s'opposer au projet de loi C-48 t\u00e9moigne des surprises que nous r\u00e9serve ce S\u00e9nat renouvel\u00e9 \u00bb, note ainsi Macfarlane. 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{"text":"Home|Public Diplomacy and the Third Metric\nPublic Diplomacy and the Third Metric\nJames Pamment\nHuffington Post readers may be familiar with Arianna Huffington's campaign to redefine success away from the two metrics of money and power toward a third which includes well-being, wisdom, and our ability to wonder and give back. The old, masculine signifiers of success lead to burnout, sleep deprivation and general grumpiness. Businesses should instead take care of their workforce, and indeed encourage their workers to take care of themselves. A healthy, happy, motivated workforce should be a symbol of success in its own right.\nWhy am I telling you this (besides the fact that it might inspire you to go home from work early)? Because the mysterious bundle of practices we call public diplomacy are also heavily determined by the same two metrics of success: money and power. Let's be clear about this - our field is littered with euphemisms for these two terms. Influence? Power, indirectly. Soft power? Do what I do, please. Information? This is how it is. Engagement? I want to talk to you about something. Dialogue? What do you think about what I just said. Collaboration? We'll pay for everything if you sign here. Persuasion? Oh, go on. Promotion? Hey, why don't you buy our stuff. Attraction? Buy our stuff, you know you want to. Reputation? Buy our stuff, you know it's good. Public diplomacy is, at the bottom-line, about money and power, power and money.\nBut I think the reason students and scholars are attracted to explore these practices is precisely because of the unavoidable feeling that there is a Third Metric at work. Isn't public diplomacy about doing good, increasing peace, generating goodwill, and improving lives? Didn't it win the Cold War, heal the civilizational rift post-9\/11 and ensure China's rise was peaceful? As Woodrow Wilson suggested nearly a century ago, wouldn't the world be a better place if every nation explained itself and its policies through open public discourse, in an international system of peaceful dialogue rather than selfish belligerence? Public diplomacy stands for all of these things, but it seems to me we spend more time talking about what it could be rather than what it is.\nOver the summer, a number of PD scholars published blog postings on the situation in the Middle East. Phil Seib recently contended, 'Nothing less than a new regional economic structure is needed \u2026, and public diplomacy can help make it happen.' Rhonda Zaharna wrote, 'In an increasingly interconnected global environment public diplomacy practitioners need to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the relational dynamics.' Guy Golan added, 'the United States should revamp its international broadcasting strategy around a systematic, research based, mediated public diplomacy approach.' Spot the similarities? Public diplomacy is (rightly) seen as a solution for major, complex problems in world affairs \u2013 but for it to be a solution, public diplomacy must change. It's a bit like unrequited love for that boy\/girl in high school who never noticed us: they'd be perfect if only they shared our interests, had a different group of friends, and got rid of the nose ring. Public diplomacy could solve some of the world's most significant problems, if only it was completely different to how it actually is.\nAs Ms. Huffington might put it, public diplomacy's big problem is in the disjuncture between the ultimately unhealthy and unsustainable metrics of power and money, and the third metric of doing good, being wise and giving back. We want public diplomacy to be a force for good in a healthy international system. We can see how it might happen, if only practitioners would start using it in different ways. We've had plenty of theories of change within public diplomacy, but relatively discouraging evidence of changing PD practices. So why the disjuncture between theory and practice?\nThere are a number of possible schools of thought among different styles of PD scholarship that each approaches the problem in different ways. For some, PD is an apologist for money and power, fostering the illusion of inclusiveness, wisdom, and giving back. We might call this the critical school, characterized by its anti-capitalist, anti-branding positioning. In this case, any sense of a Third Metric is nothing more than a smokescreen for practices that reinforce existing international political economic structures, and therefore there is little point in attempting to engage with practitioners.\nPD could also be considered a neutral tool currently deployed in the service of money and power, but that could potentially be used to instead support other goals. We might term this the historical school as it is the favored position of many scholars with a background in propaganda research. In this case, shifts towards the Third Metric are found in the decisions of practitioners and policymakers, and are expressed through organisational cultures and political objectives. The integrity of individuals in positions of power is key to changing PD practices, and hence PD education programs are a tool for effecting change over time.\nFor others, PD is considered a work-in-progress, something we all have to help nurture into its optimal form under difficult constraints. This might be termed the recommendations school, on the basis that these scholars contribute policy-relevant research with suggestions for how to improve policy. In this case, we can all participate in shaping a PD based around the Third Metric by analysing real-world problems and suggesting solutions. By sharing the terms of practitioners, incremental change is possible.\nLastly, PD could be considered the partial opening of closed, secretive institutions in line with contemporary expectations of accountability, participation, and transparency. This might be termed the new public diplomacy school. In this case, organisations are being compelled by outside forces to consider the Third Metric if they want their communications to appear relevant. Hence we are all PD actors with a stake and responsibility in PD's intentions and practices.\nEach of these approaches carries the potential for the analysis of different aspects of the Third Metric. I wish, therefore, to make one simple point to students and scholars of PD who want it to stand for something more than simply the first two metrics. If we are to edge the field closer to the vision of public diplomacy so many of us share, we need to demonstrate how and why the Third Metric is a practical complement or even an alternative to the first two. In our investigations of past, present and future campaigns, there is no hard and fast rule that determines the criteria we use to analyse them. The metrics used by PD practitioners do not determine the metrics used by students and scholars. They may be focused on money and power, but we retain the right to analyse PD campaigns according to criteria such as fairness, inspiration, wisdom, generosity, and well-being. While I do think PD research is better when it accurately represents the perspectives and problems of practitioners, one of the most important contributions a PD scholar can offer the field is alternative metrics rooted in reliable data. This may help us go beyond the suggestions of a Third Metric that drive our community to more concrete examples of how and why it works.\nthird metric\nCPD Research Fellow, 2013-2015 and Faculty Fellow\nAssociate Professor, Lund University\nCountering Disinformation: The Public Diplomacy Problem of Our Time\nSweden's Public Diplomacy Must Adapt to Its New Global Role\nBoris Diplomacy, or What Does Brexit Mean for British PD?\nThe PD Opportunity of a Generation\nWilliam Hague's Top 7 Contributions to British Public Diplomacy\nWhat's \"In the Works\" for Nancy Snow?\nIn July 2015, Dr. Nancy Snow was named Professor Emeritus of Communications at Cal State Fullerton after an early retirement as Full Professor. 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{"text":"Cultural partnerships\nGLAM-WIKI\nGibraltarpedia\nGLAM network\nInter-chapter\nOpen Coalition\nOther open groups\nWikimedian in Residence\nWikipedia Loves Art\nFinding our place in the world of Wikipedia\nA photo from the event\nThis post was written by Dr Stephanie Wyse from the Royal Geographical Society (User:Stephaniejwyse)\nThe geographers who joined in a Wikimedia UK workshop at the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in early July found out how Wikipedia can help them to develop their communication skills, enhance their teaching practice and have fun at the same time.\nThe RGS-IBG hosted the workshop to help break down the common misconceptions held by researchers and tutors about Wikipedia and to share ideas for using it as a teaching and research tool. Used as a springboard for further investigation, students (and researchers!) can be encouraged to explore new and interesting avenues of research while developing their digital literacy, online research and critical thinking skills, especially their ability to distinguish reliable sources of information. We all use Wikipedia in some way \u2013 this was an opportunity to think more about how and why.\nOn the flipside, academics are often accused of being out of touch and not practising enough public engagement. By engaging with Wikipedia, geographers can help to improve the quality of geographical knowledge on the web, and build awareness of geography's contributions to the world.\nThe workshop helped to alleviate some of the common barriers \u2013 \"I don't know how\", \"I'm overwhelmed by the size of it\" and \"I'm not enough of an expert\" \u2013 by walking the group through the steps for becoming an editor and encouraging them to contribute to something they were interested in.\nThat's the beautiful simplicity of Wikipedia \u2013 there's something for everyone, somewhere.\nTop tips for researchers working with Wikipedia:\nRead up on Wikipedia etiquette, and don't be afraid to ask for help\nWhy not bookmark the New contributors' help page, a guide to Wikipedia etiquette, and the Wikipedia Manual of Style. When you need help, use the Teahouse to get quick and friendly assistance from other editors, or add {{helpme}} to your talk page.\nUse watchlists and project pages to keep up to date with your interests\nYou can watch pages (via your watchlist) to keep track of and react to what's happening with pages you have created or are interested in. You can join WikiProjects to work with a team of contributors working on a specific topic area of task, and help to highlight areas where contributor input is needed \u2013 geographers can get started with the geographical or geosciences projects.\nFind articles that could benefit from your expertise, but don't practice self-promotion\nResearchers are uniquely placed to help add citations and information around their thematic research areas \u2014 just remember the etiquette and rules around neutrality and verifiability (reliable, published sources \u2013 no citing of original research).\nEngage with Wikimedia UK \u2013 there's training, advice and support available\nWikimania 2014 is a great starting point for finding out what's new in the world of all things wiki, and includes a dedicated pre-event for educators and those interested in working with Wikipedia on their campus. There's also a great booklet with case studies on how universities are using Wikipedia in their teaching.\nDon't get overwhelmed and don't get isolated\nWikipedia is a collective effort \u2013 share the workload. You aren't personally responsible for the world's knowledge, and you need to work alongside other editors for Wikipedia to achieve its goals. Try not to be anonymous \u2013 if people know who you are and what you're interested in, you'll fit into the community more quickly.\nAuthor: Stevie Benton on 30 July 2014\nCategories: Education, Wikimedia\nTags: education, events, Royal Geographic Society\nA Wikimedian approach to digital democracy \u2013 next phase \u00ab\u00bb Working with GLAMs, Working with Wikimedia\nAnnouncing the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit\nWikimedia UK publishes 'Closing the Gender Gap' video\nLeveraging open data at the National Library of Wales\nSupporting the Turkish Wikimedia community from the UK\nCopyright for Wikimedia photographers in the UK\nWiki Loves Monuments UK 2019 winners announced\nSamhuinn at the University of Edinburgh\nArabic Wikipedia is growing fast \u2013 here's why\n\"Masterpieces of the World\" \u2013 A Landmark Partnership between Wikimedia UK and the Khalili Collections\nDoes Wikipedia have enough administrators?\nLast update on 30 July 2014\nAuthor: Stevie Benton\nWikimedia UK's 2019 Annual General Meeting \u2013 election results and more\nEducation in Wales and Wikipedia\nThe first Wikimedia + Education conference\nHow to run a Wikipedia editathon \u2013 for health information professionals at the EAHIL conference\nScience and Wikipedia: a round-up\nAnnouncing the Wikimedia in Education UK Summit 15 January 2020\nWikimedia UK publishes 'Closing the Gender Gap' video 30 December 2019\nLeveraging open data at the National Library of Wales 16 December 2019\nWikimedia UK on YouTube\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w4CcSfdC-PQ\nAll articles on the Wikimedia UK blog are published under an Open, CC BY-SA 4.0 license\n\u00a9 the Wikimedia UK blog! | powered by the WikiWP theme and WordPress. | RSS\nThis website uses cookies to improve your experience. 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{"text":"Kanchipuram Temple\nadmin-2 \/ Winter Tour\/ March 10, 2022\n1 Kanchipuram Temple\n1.1 Kanchipuram, The City of Temples\n1.2 Kailasanatha Temple Travel\n1.3 Historical past of Kanchipuram\n1.4 Places to see at Kanchipuram\n1.5 Excursions\n1.6 Fairs & Festivals of Kanchipuram\n1.6.1 Reach Kanchipuram\n1.6.1.1 Related posts:\nLocation: 70 km from Chennai\nIdeal Time to Visit: September to May\nKanchipuram, The City of Temples\nOne of the most sacred sites in India, Kanchipuram is the seat with the Shankaracharya. The city is situated about 70 km from Chennai within the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Kanchipuram was the money metropolis of your early Chola kings inside the 2nd century BC along with a Pallava money in between the 6th and 8th centuries.\nKailasanatha Temple Travel\nReferred to as the metropolis of thousand temples, it really is one of your 7 most sacred pilgrim centers for the Hindus. Kanchi has about 126 temples remaining incomplete along with a few extra in its outskirts.\nApart from its temples, Kanchipuram can be known for its developing handloom industry. This beautiful modest metropolis has numerous silk weavers residing right here from extra than 400 years ago. This has produced it the best producer of a few of the greatest silk sarees in the country. The Kanchipuram silk sarees are exotic pieces of art, woven from pure mulberry silk. Available in many different designs, these sarees have blazing colors and are decorated with good gold thread (zari).\nHistorical past of Kanchipuram\nThe historic city of temples, Kanchipuram, is one of probably the most important centers of the Hindu religion. It's also one of the most image-ideal towns. It really is thought to be 1 of India's 7 sacred cities as well as the 2nd holiest city following Varanasi.\nIt was as soon as the money city of your Pallavas, Cholas, and also the Vijayanagar rulers. Quite a few from the temples situated right here are developed through the Pallavas and later Cholas.\nSeveral Buddhist stupas remaining here indicate the presence of Buddhism in before centuries. The Kanchi Kamakotti Peetham situated right here is one of the four seats of Sri Adi Shankaracharya (a terrific Hindu sage). It has become a middle of Tamil learning and culture for centuries and presents the glorious Dravidian heritage in the Vaishnavites (worshippers of Vishnu) and Shaivites (worshippers of Shiva).\nPlaces to see at Kanchipuram\nKanchipuram is a frightening pilgrimage with lots of wonderful temples; the holy city is one of the holiest places in India. The temples discovered right here are grand and majestic. They're quite well-liked among devotees, who flock to this temple in substantial numbers. Some of the most essential temples here will be the Ekambaranathar Temple, created by the Pallavas and later reconstructed by the Chola and Vijayanagar kings, which tends to make an excellent trip to Kanchipuram. This temple owns eleven tales and is one of the tallest temple towers in South India. It is beautifully decorated with sculptures. Another sacred temple here will be the Vaikunta Perumal Temple which dates again in the 8th century. It was constructed by Nandivarma Pallava. You will discover scenes from battle carved to the panels encircling the principal parikrama of this Vaishnavite temple. These scenes depict the bravery of Pallava kings. Another temple, the Varadaraja Temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu who's worshipped as Devarajaswamy here. This temple features a 100-pillared hall, constructed by the Vijayanagar kings presenting the skillfulness of their artists.\nOther necessary temples of your region will be the Kailasanathar Temple plus the Kamakshi Amman Temple. The Kailasanathar Temple was made by the Pallava kings in the 8th century AD. It includes a captivating panel portraying Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati in the midst of one of their quite a few dance competitions. The architecture of this temple resembles the Shore Temple at Mahabalipuram. At the exact same time, the Kamakshi Amman Temple has a grand construction, dedicated to goddess Parvati in her incarnation as Kamakshi, the goddess of Adore.\nKanchipuram extends its sacredness and elegance to its close-by areas also. Thus, providing quite a few excursion trip options. Some of those are Tiruttani close to Kanchipuram, one in the six abodes of Lord Subramanya, situated on a hilltop. The temple has 365 steps, primary to your hill; these steps signify the days from the yr. Yet another necessary trip is to the Sriperumbudur, situated about 29 km from Chennai on the way to Kanchipuram. It really is the birthplace of Saint Ramanujar, the father of your Vishishtadvaita philosophy of Vaishnavism and therefore essential pilgrim middle for that Vaishnavites.\nOne of probably the most important places about Kanchipuram could be the Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary situated about 60 km from Kanchi. On your bird-sighting trip to Kanchipuram, one can uncover lots of migratory birds like the sandpiper, white ibis, spoonbill, swan, gray wagtail, etc. Definitely, a worth visiting place. Yet another destination about Kanchi could be Yelagiri Hill. This hill is really a detached and well-liked picnic spot in the Eastern Ghats situated at a height of about 1000 m. The healthy climate, natural attractiveness, and a Murugan temple tend to make it a must-visit place.\nFairs & Festivals of Kanchipuram\nKanchipuram, the city of temples celebrates fairs and festivals all around the yr. Some critical festivals include the Brahmothsavam, Garudothsavam, and Car (rath) festivals celebrated inside the months of January, April, and May respectively.\nReach Kanchipuram\nBy Air Chennai (75 km) is the nearest field from Kanchipuram. One can take breakouts for the utmost of the important Indian metropolises and for abroad from Chennai.\nBy Rail: Trains for Kanchipuram are available from Chennai, Chengalpattu, Tirupati, and Bangalore.\nBy Road: Kanchipuram is 75 km down from Chennai and is well connected by a good network of roads.\nOriginal Transportation Excursionists interested in visiting the tabernacles can rent bikes or use cycle\u2013 cabs, and bus\u2013 cabs.\nTamilnadu Travel Guide\nBest time to visit Dudhwa National Park\nJunagarh Palace, Bikaner\nTags: Historical past of Kanchipuram, Kailasanatha Temple Travel, Kailasanathar Temple, places about Kanchipuram, Places to see at Kanchipuram","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PoliticsSudan\nHome\u203aAfrican Arguments\u203aPolitics\u203aSudan Uprising: We're on the verge of history, even as the world looks away\nSudan Uprising: We're on the verge of history, even as the world looks away\nBy S. Ahmed\nToday feels decisive as the Sudanese people call for President al-Bashir to go. Some soldiers are protecting us, but much remains uncertain.\nFrom the night of 7 April in Khartoum, Sudan. Credit: Ola Alsheikh.\nAfter 30 years in office, President Omar al-Bashir's vicious days in charge of Sudan are numbered. It feels like today \u2013 the third consecutive one in which thousands of us have camped outside Sudan's military headquarters demanding the dictator steps down \u2013 will be decisive. In fact, there are rumours that al-Bashir has already agreed to resign and that senior army officers are busy manoeuvring to work out who will succeed him (or not).\nOn the morning of Saturday, 6 April, the Sudanese people heeded the call to protest from the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA). Young and old took to the streets and converged on Africa Road in front of the military barracks known in Arabic as Alqiyada al Amaah. They organised a sit-in and have been present ever since.\nHuge crowds chanting in Khartoum tonight:\n\"The people demand the fall of the regime.\" pic.twitter.com\/V8m7aS5SSD\n\u2014 Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir) April 7, 2019\nAt different points, members of the powerful Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) and Rapid Security Forces (RSF) have attempted to forcibly disperse the demonstrations. The RSF is al-Bashir's private army within the army and is made up of former members of the Janjaweed, the notorious fighters who committed mass atrocities in Darfur.\nThe sit-in has survived in part due to the brave actions of soldiers in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). They have protected the protesters at great danger to themselves. Some of them, as well as other protesters, have been injured by tear gas and stun grenades, while there have been reports of several deaths. Dozens have died due to their political actions in the last few months.\nThe movement continues, however, to demand that President al-Bashir step down. There have been protests in Sudan for several years against corruption and economic crisis, but the demonstrations since this weekend have been the biggest yet. Filling the streets, the Sudanese people are defiantly repeating Taskut Bas (\"Just Fall, That Is All\") and chanting, outside the military headquarters, for there to be \"One military, one people\".\nSoldiers from #Sudan military provide returning fire toward the direction of the General Command site (\u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u0642\u0648\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u0644\u062d\u0629) \u2013 which can be seen in the background here: https:\/\/t.co\/N7YMGGzGBf #\u0627\u0639\u062a\u0635\u0627\u0645_\u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u062f\u0629_\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0645\u0629 #\u0645\u0648\u0643\u06288\u0627\u0628\u0631\u064a\u0644 pic.twitter.com\/erQmP3Z6PW\n\u2014 Benjamin Strick (@BenDoBrown) April 8, 2019\nThe fact that the Sudanese people are driving the country to a new historic moment can barely be seen in the media. In Sudan itself, the ruling National Congress Party has restricted media coverage across the country. Meanwhile, international coverage has been minimal.\nForeign powers have also not shown themselves to be allies of the Sudanese people. Governments in both the east and west have been slow \u2013 or have just failed \u2013 to condemn the violence against peaceful protesters, with those in the Middle East particularly silent.\nThis might not be surprising given foreign governments' previous behaviour. Despite the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant against al-Bashir due to charges of war crimes and genocide in 2009, for example, he has roamed freely in Africa, Asia and Russia, which he visited recently in search of financial and defence support.\nAl-Bashir has also been propped up by economic help from the countries in the Gulf as well as Egypt and Turkey. These countries all have vital investments or militarised interests in the regime. Their influence has not gone unnoticed by the Sudanese people.\nhttps:\/\/africanarguments.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/khartoum-protest-sudan.mp4\nSudan's popular uprising is driven by people of all backgrounds. It includes the youth, women, children, several political parties, and opposition groups such as SPA and Sudan Call. Together, they are united in protesting against 30 years of brutal dictatorship, skyrocketing inflation, a long-running economic crisis, and the regime's selling off of fertile lands to the highest bidder.\nThese protesters are now banking on forging allegiances within the internally divided and discontented army. How this plays out, however, is unclear and brings with it many risks. I just spoke to some members of the RSF guarding the barracks in Khartoum north who said \"we are with the people\". At the same time, I have recently seen police and NISS vehicles being deployed.\nBoth Kamal Abdel-Marouf, the head of Sudan's army, and Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, the defence minister and first vice-president, are loyal to al-Bashir. Meanwhile, the NISS and its brutal leader Salah Gosh \u2013 a man who has been coddled by the West despite being accused of war crimes \u2013 have terrorised, maimed and incarcerated political dissidents and protest organisers recently. They have targeted not just opposition leaders but SPA members which include doctors, health workers, lawyers and journalists.\nThe regime has particularly harassed and incarcerated doctors, who have become a leading force in the uprising. Security forces have detained medics working to save the lives of injured protesters or those exposed to tear gas. Some trying to enter the protest zone have been even expelled or threatened with imprisonment if found to have inhalers or basic drugs like paracetamol on them.\nOn 6 April 1985, President Jaafar Nimieri's despotic regime was ended in a bloodless military coup. Although the world does not seem to be watching, it feels like \u2013 34 years later \u2013 another authoritarian ruler in Sudan is on the verge of being removed. The Sudanese people continue to organise peacefully in massive numbers, though the threat of violence against them from the embattled regime remains high. Those outside Sudan must pay closer attention to us before it is too late.\nhttps:\/\/africanarguments.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sudan-protest-video.mp4\nhttps:\/\/africanarguments.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/sudan-protest-video-2.mp4\n\"Only the port will remain\": Senegal's grand ...\nEthiopia's first female Chief Justice: \"Women shouldn't ...\nS. Ahmed\nS. 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{"text":"Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation\nAlessandro Bartoletti, Laura Cancedda, Susan W. Reid, Lino Tessarollo, Vittorio Porciatti, Tommaso Pizzorusso, Lamberto Maffei\nGenetic deletion of a single allele of the BDNF gene affects hippocampal LTP and causes several behavioral phenotypes, including deficits in spatial learning. In the developing visual cortex, overexpression of BDNF accelerates the time course of the critical period for monocular deprivation (MD), and exogenous administration of BDNF alters the outcome of MD. We asked whether reduced levels of BDNF could affect visual cortex plasticity by studying long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and the effects of MD in heterozygous BDNF knock-out mice. We found that theta burst stimulation that induced LTP in the layer IV-III pathway of wild-type (wt) mice caused only a transient potentiation in BDNF+\/- mice, and that this potentiation vanished in 25 min. In contrast, LTP elicited by stimulation of the white matter (WM), a form of LTP that can be induced only during the critical period, occurred normally in wt and BDNF+\/-mice. The effects of MD during the critical period were similar in wt and BDNF+\/- mice, indicating that layer IV-evoked, layer III LTP is not required for ocular dominance plasticity. We then asked whether reduction of cortical BDNF levels could prolong the critical period for MD and for the WM-evoked, layer III LTP induction. We found that in adult BDNF+\/- mice, WM-evoked, layer III LTP was not inducible, and that the critical period for MD terminated normally. We conclude that deletion of one copy of the BDNF gene selectively impairs LTP of the layer IV-III pathway but does not alter ocular dominance plasticity.\nNeurotrophins\nOcular dominance\nTrkB\nVisual deprivation\nFingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nCritical Period (Psychology) Medicine & Life Sciences\nBrain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Medicine & Life Sciences\nocular Dominance Medicine & Life Sciences\nWhite Matter Medicine & Life Sciences\nVisual Cortex Medicine & Life Sciences\nSpatial Learning Medicine & Life Sciences\nBartoletti, A., Cancedda, L., Reid, S. W., Tessarollo, L., Porciatti, V., Pizzorusso, T., & Maffei, L. (2002). Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(23), 10072-10077. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/jneurosci.22-23-10072.2002\nHeterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation. \/ Bartoletti, Alessandro; Cancedda, Laura; Reid, Susan W.; Tessarollo, Lino; Porciatti, Vittorio; Pizzorusso, Tommaso; Maffei, Lamberto.\nIn: Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 22, No. 23, 01.12.2002, p. 10072-10077.\nBartoletti, A, Cancedda, L, Reid, SW, Tessarollo, L, Porciatti, V, Pizzorusso, T & Maffei, L 2002, 'Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation', Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 22, no. 23, pp. 10072-10077. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/jneurosci.22-23-10072.2002\nBartoletti A, Cancedda L, Reid SW, Tessarollo L, Porciatti V, Pizzorusso T et al. Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation. Journal of Neuroscience. 2002 Dec 1;22(23):10072-10077. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/jneurosci.22-23-10072.2002\nBartoletti, Alessandro ; Cancedda, Laura ; Reid, Susan W. ; Tessarollo, Lino ; Porciatti, Vittorio ; Pizzorusso, Tommaso ; Maffei, Lamberto. \/ Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation. In: Journal of Neuroscience. 2002 ; Vol. 22, No. 23. pp. 10072-10077.\n@article{0a5e0d5989c9418c8641f5c3f986c986,\ntitle = \"Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation\",\nabstract = \"Genetic deletion of a single allele of the BDNF gene affects hippocampal LTP and causes several behavioral phenotypes, including deficits in spatial learning. In the developing visual cortex, overexpression of BDNF accelerates the time course of the critical period for monocular deprivation (MD), and exogenous administration of BDNF alters the outcome of MD. We asked whether reduced levels of BDNF could affect visual cortex plasticity by studying long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and the effects of MD in heterozygous BDNF knock-out mice. We found that theta burst stimulation that induced LTP in the layer IV-III pathway of wild-type (wt) mice caused only a transient potentiation in BDNF+\/- mice, and that this potentiation vanished in 25 min. In contrast, LTP elicited by stimulation of the white matter (WM), a form of LTP that can be induced only during the critical period, occurred normally in wt and BDNF+\/-mice. The effects of MD during the critical period were similar in wt and BDNF+\/- mice, indicating that layer IV-evoked, layer III LTP is not required for ocular dominance plasticity. We then asked whether reduction of cortical BDNF levels could prolong the critical period for MD and for the WM-evoked, layer III LTP induction. We found that in adult BDNF+\/- mice, WM-evoked, layer III LTP was not inducible, and that the critical period for MD terminated normally. We conclude that deletion of one copy of the BDNF gene selectively impairs LTP of the layer IV-III pathway but does not alter ocular dominance plasticity.\",\nkeywords = \"LTP, Neurotrophins, Ocular dominance, TrkB, Visual cortex, Visual deprivation\",\nauthor = \"Alessandro Bartoletti and Laura Cancedda and Reid, {Susan W.} and Lino Tessarollo and Vittorio Porciatti and Tommaso Pizzorusso and Lamberto Maffei\",\nT1 - Heterozygous knock-out mice for brain-derived neurotrophic factor show a pathway-specific impairment of long-term potentiation but normal critical period for monocular deprivation\nAU - Bartoletti, Alessandro\nAU - Cancedda, Laura\nAU - Reid, Susan W.\nAU - Tessarollo, Lino\nAU - Porciatti, Vittorio\nAU - Pizzorusso, Tommaso\nAU - Maffei, Lamberto\nN2 - Genetic deletion of a single allele of the BDNF gene affects hippocampal LTP and causes several behavioral phenotypes, including deficits in spatial learning. In the developing visual cortex, overexpression of BDNF accelerates the time course of the critical period for monocular deprivation (MD), and exogenous administration of BDNF alters the outcome of MD. We asked whether reduced levels of BDNF could affect visual cortex plasticity by studying long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and the effects of MD in heterozygous BDNF knock-out mice. We found that theta burst stimulation that induced LTP in the layer IV-III pathway of wild-type (wt) mice caused only a transient potentiation in BDNF+\/- mice, and that this potentiation vanished in 25 min. In contrast, LTP elicited by stimulation of the white matter (WM), a form of LTP that can be induced only during the critical period, occurred normally in wt and BDNF+\/-mice. The effects of MD during the critical period were similar in wt and BDNF+\/- mice, indicating that layer IV-evoked, layer III LTP is not required for ocular dominance plasticity. We then asked whether reduction of cortical BDNF levels could prolong the critical period for MD and for the WM-evoked, layer III LTP induction. We found that in adult BDNF+\/- mice, WM-evoked, layer III LTP was not inducible, and that the critical period for MD terminated normally. We conclude that deletion of one copy of the BDNF gene selectively impairs LTP of the layer IV-III pathway but does not alter ocular dominance plasticity.\nAB - Genetic deletion of a single allele of the BDNF gene affects hippocampal LTP and causes several behavioral phenotypes, including deficits in spatial learning. In the developing visual cortex, overexpression of BDNF accelerates the time course of the critical period for monocular deprivation (MD), and exogenous administration of BDNF alters the outcome of MD. We asked whether reduced levels of BDNF could affect visual cortex plasticity by studying long-term potentiation (LTP) induction and the effects of MD in heterozygous BDNF knock-out mice. We found that theta burst stimulation that induced LTP in the layer IV-III pathway of wild-type (wt) mice caused only a transient potentiation in BDNF+\/- mice, and that this potentiation vanished in 25 min. In contrast, LTP elicited by stimulation of the white matter (WM), a form of LTP that can be induced only during the critical period, occurred normally in wt and BDNF+\/-mice. The effects of MD during the critical period were similar in wt and BDNF+\/- mice, indicating that layer IV-evoked, layer III LTP is not required for ocular dominance plasticity. We then asked whether reduction of cortical BDNF levels could prolong the critical period for MD and for the WM-evoked, layer III LTP induction. We found that in adult BDNF+\/- mice, WM-evoked, layer III LTP was not inducible, and that the critical period for MD terminated normally. We conclude that deletion of one copy of the BDNF gene selectively impairs LTP of the layer IV-III pathway but does not alter ocular dominance plasticity.\nKW - LTP\nKW - Neurotrophins\nKW - Ocular dominance\nKW - TrkB\nKW - Visual cortex\nKW - Visual deprivation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archives: James Stewart\nA 'Hare'y Case\nElwood P. Dowd is a heck of a guy. His manners are impeccable. He always has a smile and a kind word for you. He'll meet you as a stranger and leave you as a friend. Speaking of friends, his best friend is an invisible six-foot, one and a half inch tall white rabbit which deals fits to his family. Find out why in Harvey which is currently playing at the Lofte Community Theatre.\nIn Dowd, Mary Chase has created a true disciple to Cervantes' beloved madman, Don Quixote de La Mancha. Not only does Dowd see life as it should be instead of as it is, but he takes it one step further by making life as it should be the reality of his little corner of the world. It's quite a powerful theme and it's truly a joy to watch the magical effect that Dowd's philosophy of just \"being pleasant\" has on the world. Had Chase focused solely on the idea of Dowd's philosophy and madness, she'd have had a nearly perfect story. But her use of several subplots that never really get fully developed or settled waters her work down a bit and turns a nearly perfect story into a pretty good story.\nKevin Colbert's direction is fairly effective. I loved his staging and use of space in the mammoth set. His actors are precisely placed so you not only always see their faces, but it makes the cavernous library and sanitarium feel full. Colbert also has a firm grip on the show's primary theme and gives it the proper focus throughout the production. He's also guided his actors to some sweet and charming performances. As the show does have elements of a farce, I thought the pacing could have been picked up at points and the cue pickups needed to be tighter, but I'll qualify that by saying I did catch this show on its penultimate night and I may have just been seeing the performance fatigue that sometimes hits at the end of a run.\nIn this solid ensemble, you'll see some entertaining performances from Matt Jarvis and Natalie Christina McGovern. Jarvis makes the most of his brief time on stage by being the physical embodiment of Dowd's philosophy. He's very irritable when he enters, but is transformed into a friendly, garrulous man after meeting Dowd. Jarvis also gets one of the night's best monologues as he tells the story of taking patients to and from the sanitarium which paints the difference between happiness and reality. McGovern provides some laughs as a slightly snobby and man hungry high society elitist.\nNeal Herring was sublime as Elwood P. Dowd. When he first entered, I was struck by his physical similarity to Dan Duryea and his Dowd has a personality to match (Duryea was known as the nicest guy in Hollywood in massive contrast to the vicious villains he brought to life on screen). Herring underplays the role beautifully. He is just charming and likable and one cannot help, but be a better person just by being in his presence. This guy isn't crazy, he's simply \"conquered reality\" which makes him saner than most.\nScott Clark is very clinical as sanitarium head, William Chumley. This man is practically a robot, staying in his office and never interacting with patients which explains how he's lost touch with his humanity. Clark is truly amusing as he starts to disintegrate when dealing with the curious case of Dowd and Harvey and has a truly shining moment when he throws off his shell and you realize Chumley is a man who has merely forgotten the simple pleasures of life.\nRosalie Duffy has all the right elements in place as Dowd's sister, Veta Louise Simmons. Duffy's Veta has got a good heart, but also is a little more concerned with her ranking in high society and how she's perceived by others instead of just being happy. Duffy also does a fine job of slowly peeling the onion of her relationship with Harvey and you learn there may be more than madness at play. This is a truly fun role and I think Duffy has the space to go a bit bigger with some of her interpretations and reactions with some of the show's more farcical moments.\nColbert has designed the best set I've seen this season. It breaks apart and rotates like a jigsaw puzzle with one side being the library in the Dowd home with its fine stained wood, gorgeous window, bookshelves, and looming fireplace and the other being the front office of the sanitarium with powder blue walls, office doors, phones, and desk. The sanitarium actually has a homey feeling which would put patients at ease. Janet Sorensen's costumes are on the mark with elegant suits for the men, splendid dresses for the wealthy women, the sterile uniform of the sanitarium orderly, and the practical nurse uniform of Ruth Kelly. I also want to take a moment to praise the wonderful portraits Cindy Mumford has painted of Marcella Dowd plus the one of Elwood and Harvey.\nAnd what of Harvey? Is he delusion? Reality? Or that little spark of happiness that many of us tend to lose? I have my thoughts, but I'd rather you watch it and come up with your own theories.\nHarvey has one final performance at Lofte Community Theatre on April 10 at 2pm. Tickets cost $24 and can be purchased at the box office, by calling 402-234-2553, or visiting www.lofte.org. Lofte Community Theatre is located at 15841 Manley Road in Manley, NE.\nTagged comedy, Dan Duryea, Don Quixote de la Manch, Elwood P Dowd, fairy, Harvey, James Stewart, Lofte Community Theatre, madness, Manley, Mary Chase, Miguel de Cervantes, Nebraska, pooka, rabbit\nBellevue Little Theatre Announces 54th Season\nBellevue Little Theatre Announces Season 54\nFootloose: Sept 16- Oct 2, 2022\n\u2013Footloose celebrates the exhilaration of youth, the wisdom of listening to one another, and the power of forgiveness.\nIt's A Wonderful Life: Nov 4-20, 2022\n-It's the gorgeous love story of George and Mary Bailey, a vivid portrait of the Greatest Generation, a descent into the darkest hour of a man trapped by circumstance and a powerful meditation on what makes a meaningful life.\nAgatha Christie's Spider's Web: Jan 13-29, 2023\n-A conscious parody of the detective thriller, Christie delivers a unique blend of suspense and humor in a intricate plot of murder, police, drug addicts, invisible ink, hidden doorways and secret drawers.\nA Little Night Music: Mar 10-26, 2023\n-Stephen Sondheim's romantic nineteenth-century waltz whisks us away to a weekend in the country.\nGirls' Weekend: May 5-21, 2023\n*Our 250th Production!*\n-From the writer of our World Premiere: Temporary Insanity. Karen Schaeffer's Girls' Weekend is \"Marvelous \u2026 successfully punchy \u2026 be prepared to laugh\"\nTagged Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie's Spider's Web, Bellevue, Bellevue Little Theatre, comedy, Donna Reed, drama, Footloose, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, John Lithgow, Kevin Bacon, musical, mystery, Nebraska\nLofte Community Theatre Announces 2022 Season\nHarvey by Mary Chase\nPerformances: April 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10\nAuditions: February 15 & 16 @ 7 PM\nThis Pulitzer Prize winning play has been adapted many times for film\nand television, most notably a 1950 film starring James Stewart.\nThe Story: Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta's social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarrassment for her family, Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. The search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, and it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on many people\u2026and you will be one of them. Don't miss this theatrical classic!\nVisiting Mr. Green by Jeff Baron\nPerformances: May 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15\nMr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is given a community service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months. This is a moving and often funny story about two men who do not want to be in the same room together. As they get to know each other and come to care about each other they open old wounds they've been hiding and nursing for years. We suggest PG-13.\nLegally Blonde by Heather Hach with Music & Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Neil Benjamin\nPerformances: July 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31\nAuditions: May 24, 25 @ 7 PM\nThis fabulously fun award-winning musical is based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer motion picture. Elle Woods appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside down when her boyfriend dumps her so he can attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle ingeniously charms her way into the prestigious law school. While there she struggles, but with the support of some new friends she quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world. Exploding with memorable songs and dynamic dances \u2013 this musical is so much fun, it should be illegal!\nThe Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Adapted by Wendy Kesselman\nSeptember 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11\nAuditions: July 25 & 26 @ 7PM\nIn this transcendently powerful adaptation Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence\u2014their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief.\nNoises Off! by Michael Frayn\nOctober 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30\nAuditions: September 4 & 5 @ 7PM\nCalled \"the funniest farce ever written,\" Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing's On. Doors slamming, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play.\nEvery Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) by Michael Carleton, James Fitzgerald, and John K. Alvarez\nDecember 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18\nAuditions: October 24 & 25 @ 7PM\nInstead of performing Charles Dickens' beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told \u2014 plus Christmas traditions from around the world, seasonal icons from ancient times to topical pop-culture, and every carol ever sung. A madcap romp through the holiday season!\nTagged comedy, drama, Every Christmas Story Ever Told. . .And Then Some, farce, Harvey, Holocaust, James Stewart, Legally Blonde, Lofte Community Theatre, Manley, musical, Nazis, Nebraska, Noises Off!, The Diary of Anne Frank, Visiting Mr. Green, World War II\nDecember 3, 2017 by Chris Elston\nHo Ho Homicide: Mont Rest & Bellevue, IA\nMont Rest Bed and Breakfast\nAh, Christmas! Without question it is my favorite time of the year. I love the feelings of goodwill, the sense of family, the music, the decorations, going to church, the lights, everything. I also especially enjoy visiting bed and breakfasts during the holiday season just to see how they ring in the holidays. So, it is with great pleasure that I bring to you the tale of my 5th annual Christmas B & B review.\nFor this journey, I would be visiting Iowa's most luxurious inn, Mont Rest Bed and Breakfast of Bellevue, IA, owned by Christine Zraick. I had been looking forward to this inn for quite a long time due to its penchant for offering nearly weekly murder mystery events. When I found out the inn also really enjoys going all out for Christmas, I finally booked the trip.\nMont Rest has a very interesting history. It was built in 1893 by Seth Luellyn Baker, a wealthy land developer for the price of $6,000. Nicknamed \"The Castle\", Mont Rest soon developed a reputation for illegal high stakes poker games. His passion for poker would end up biting Baker hard as he once put the deed to Mont Rest up against a doctor for a $6,000 pot. After the hand, Baker went downstairs and told his wife they had 2 weeks to vacate the property.\nFast forward to 1986, when the property, long since dilapidated and falling to pieces, was purchased by its current owner, Christine Zraick. She began the long arduous process of refurbishing it back to its Victorian glory and opening it as a country inn. It soon developed a stellar reputation for its murder mystery parties.\nOn Dec 24, 1996, the tale of Mont Rest almost came to an end when a devastating fire broke out and gutted the house from top to bottom. Christine almost threw in the towel, but support from the citizens of Bellevue and her own sense of stewardship compelled her to roll up her sleeves and begin the process of rebuilding Mont Rest in the spring of 1997.\nNeedless to say, it was a massive success and today Mont Rest stands as Iowa's most luxurious inn.\nI was truly blessed with some unseasonably beautiful weather for my long trek to Bellevue. When I arrived in town, I was immediately struck by its quaintness. It is a peaceful town right on the coast of the Mississippi River.\nI readily found the inn where my eyes confirmed what the photos had suggested. This was easily the biggest inn I had ever seen. The nickname of \"The Castle\" was well suited as the inn stands alone on top of a large hill and takes up the equivalent of a city block or two and holds an astonishing 13 bedrooms.\nAs I made the way from my car to the large wraparound porch, I smiled at the visage of Jolly old Saint Nick meeting me on the porch. The inn was already into the spirit of Christmas as tinsel decorated the porch and decorations were being set up in the front yard.\nThe kindly staff warmly welcomed me inside and gave me the nickel tour culminating in a stop at the gift shop which holds a representation of the World's Fair complete with lights, sound, and animation.\nFrom there, I was led to Ginny's Woodlawn View, my base of operations for the next few days.\nWhen I think of B & B rooms, Ginny's Woodlawn View is what springs to mind. It has an understated elegance with its soft, blue-green carpet, electric wood fireplace, and Jacuzzi bathtub. With Christmas on the horizon, it even had a lovely little Christmas tree and a stocking hung by the chimney with care.\nFrom there, I did my normal explorations which took a little longer than normal. As I said, this mansion is huge. One could easily get lost in here. I wandered about the house enjoying the numerous Christmas trees and decorations littered throughout the home. The inn even has an observation deck on the top of the home which holds a hot tub as well as magnificent views of Bellevue and the Mississippi.\nI had very little time to get settled in as I had a heavy night of activities planned. Within an hour of my arrival, I was already back on the road seeking an early dinner. I opted for a little good old fashioned comfort food as I stopped at Richman's Caf\u00e9.\nLike the name suggests, it's a quiet little diner, but it dishes up a mean patty melt and shoestring fries. Having the cavity filled, I was then off to the nearby town of Dubuque, IA to begin my night's activities.\nAs I truly love holiday lighting displays, the staff at Mont Rest told me about Reflections in the Park, an elaborate display showcased at Louis Murphy Park. This event has been a Christmas tradition for over two decades and I would like to thank the staff at the event for giving me a free pass to experience this tradition.\nIf you are in or near Dubuque during the holidays, visit Reflections in the Park. It is a truly beautiful and entrancing display of lights and holiday cheer that will brighten your night both literally and emotionally.\nFrom there, I went to the famed Grand Opera House of Dubuque where I took in a production of It's a Wonderful Life. For the first time in years, I attended this play purely as a patron, but was so moved and impressed by the production that I decided to review it anyway. You can read it here.\nAfter the fabulous show, I returned to Mont Rest when I settled into bed with a bone aching weariness where I instantly succumbed to oblivion.\nIn the morning, I took a long Jacuzzi bath before heading downstairs to breakfast. There I met Doug & Pamela and Mark & Holly who would also be joining me for the murder mystery dinner later that night. Breakfast at Mont Rest is served family style so we all enjoyed dishes of fruit along with a repast of blueberry muffins, cherry turnovers, bacon, hash browns, and 2 kinds of omelets along with some conversation.\nNormally I like to schedule a lot of activities to get the full experience of the towns I visit. This time I decided to put the brakes on. After breakfast, I simply wrote my play review and organized my photos. Then I took a very long walk along the riverside where I shared a phone conversation with my best friend and stopped in at Grandpa's Parlor for a vanilla shake. From there, I went back to inn, sampled some delicious homemade brownies, and caught a quick nap.\nWhen I regained consciousness, I walked the few blocks to attend worship services at St Joseph's Catholic Church. After I got my praise on, I returned to the inn for the mystery.\nSt Joseph Catholic Church\nI went downstairs to the living room where I once again met Mark and Holly and began sharing conversation. Shortly later, we were joined by Jim and Elizabeth and by Doug and Pamela a little after that. As we talked, we were treated to some light hors d'ouevres of canap\u00e9s, bacon wrapped water chestnuts, crackers, cheese, meats, and veggies.\nMmm!! Hors d'ouevres.\nWe would take part in the mystery of Where There's a Will, There's Away. We were assigned characters and told that one of us was a murderer, but that the murderer would be unaware of that fact. A very intriguing twist on the mystery.\nI picked the character of Dr. Benjamin Pike. He was a very successful doctor who had grown bored with his work. He had been the personal physician of the wealthy businessman for the past 10 years and was preparing to lead a UNICEF group funded by his friend to teach advanced medical techniques to the locals in South America. Dr. Pike was connected to two other suspects: the businessman's widow, Marion, with whom he had an intense and instant dislike and Nurse Freda Moore with whom he'd had a brief fling. Freda had taken the break-up quite badly and Pike had fired her hoping to put their relationship in the past by keeping her away.\nThe inn has costumes for the event and I was dressed in a tuxedo dress shirtt, black dress pants, a black vest, gray cravat, and white dinner jacket. In my room were waiting my personal dress shoes and socks to complete the illusion. As I read the dossier, I drew on my theatre background and decided Pike should be an arrogant, sharp tongued jerk, but tempered with a powerful sense of morality.\nOnce downstairs, we were met by Gloria Gottrocks, the queen of accessorizing, who furthered our outfits. From Ms Gottrocks, I received a gray fedora, stethoscope, and organ transplant bag. I don't want to spoil the mystery, but I will say the key is to use your knowledge of the characters and their relationships to ferret out clues that point to the truth.\nBut the centerpiece of the event is the dinner. I'd gladly do this again and again simply for the meal. Our night began with a dinner salad with a berry vinaigrette dressing and some fluffy, buttery croissant rolls. During the first course, Officer Ima Fuzz joined us and told us of the death of Arthur and to take our preparation orders. Amazingly, all of us had ordered the Steak Lilli.\nOfficer Ima Fuzz\nAs we discussed the case, the chef brought out the main course of Steak Lilli, butternut squash, and rice pilaf. As I began to cut my medium steak, I noted how tender it was. But after that first bite, I was in heaven. Hands down, the very best steak I have ever tasted. During the main course, Officer Fuzz came back with the autopsy report and pieces of evidence found at the scene of the crime and to take orders for dessert.\nI opted for Death by Chocolate. As I savored dessert, Officer Fuzz came back one more time to bring Arthur's will to his lawyer. We had the reading of the will, a final discussion, and then Officer Fuzz solved the crime.\nIt was truly a grand evening. Once done, I got back into my civvies and shared some conversation with Pamela, Doug, Jim, and Elizabeth before retiring to my room for the evening.\nThis was the best sleep I had enjoyed in ages. I rose early to begin writing and went down to breakfast at 9am where I met the usual crowd and we were joined by another couple, Steve & Sheryl.\nToday's meal consisted of fried potatoes (perhaps with some rosemary), a dish of fruit, sausage, and a quiche made of eggs, peppers, and mushrooms. Again it was another fantastic meal made all the more memorable by great conversation. Sadly, it all had to come to an end and we had to break up the group to go our separate ways. This was the best group of people I had met at an inn and I hope to stay in touch and, God willing, I hope our paths cross again.\nQuiche, fried potatoes, sausage.\nI had a feeling that this particular outing was going to be something special and my instincts were correct. Mont Rest Inn is a must see experience and it gets my highest recommendation for a visit. If you want to experience a vintage B & B, then you need to go to Mont Rest. Naomi and Company are wonderful cooks and hostesses. The inn is comfortable and beautiful. There's much to do in the area. And there is a plethora of dining events to be enjoyed at the inn, though I certainly would recommend your taking part in a murder mystery. This is an inn that I'm going to make a point of returning to at some point in the future. They also know how to do Christmas right.\nUntil the next time, happy travels.\nTagged bed and breakfast, Bellevue, Christmas, Christmas lights, Donna Reed, Dubuque, Father Christmas, Grand Opera House, Iowa, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Kris Kringle, Louis Murphy Park, Mont Rest Bed and Breakfast, murder mystery, Reflections in the Park, Santa Claus, St Nick, World's Fair\nIt's a Wonderful Play\nGeorge Bailey is a good man who has been pushed to his breaking point. Deciding that the world would be better off without him, George contemplates suicide. But a kindly angel trying to earn his wings is about to show George the difference one person can make. This is It's a Wonderful Life by Phillip Grecian and it is currently playing at the Grand Opera House.\nIt's rare, but once in a great while I actually get to attend a show purely as a patron. However, I was so touched and impressed by this production that I felt compelled to put fingers to keyboard and share its wonderfulness. This is a terrific show for the holidays and Grecian has written a beautiful script that is full of warmth, sensitivity, strong dialogue, a bit of melancholy, and is so full of hope. His words are brought to incredible life by a powerhouse cast that maximizes the fullest potential of the script.\nMichelle Blanchard deserves the highest, possible praise for her direction of this story. It is so strong and confident. She knows exactly where this story is going and knows how to get her cast to that destination. Every beat is a bullseye. Every emotional shift is spot on. Ms Blanchard has coached her cast to superb performances and this cast, without question, projected better than any I have previously heard.\nWith a cast of excellent actors, it's very hard to limit myself to just a few choice performances. But some of the quality performances you will see in this show come from Helen Waldmeier who brings a sweetness and fun to her portrayal of Mary Hatch-Bailey; Trenton Sanchez who ably plays the younger version of George Bailey with his integrity and gentleness; and John Gunther whose rich baritone voice rings with a kindly authority as Joseph, God's right hand angel.\nStephen Green is all aces as George Bailey. Green's Bailey is so full of decency and goodness that you feel better about yourself for having met him. Green is so, so convincing as a man who has constantly sacrificed his dreams and desires in order to fulfill a greater good. He also wisely adds just the right touch of sadness to Bailey to show that he often muses about what might have been which makes his joy when he realizes his true value all the more moving. The only slight difficulty with his performance is that Green seems to suffer from the same issue as Gregory Peck. He's so good at being good that his rare moments of anger and frustration seem a pinch off the target.\nRobert Armstrong brings a quiet strength to his take on Clarence. He's a simple angel second class who has been trying to earn his wings for 200 years. He's a good listener and has genuine empathy for people. Armstrong also gives his Clarence the ability to think fast on his feet as his idea of jumping into the river to get George to save him seems very extemporaneous. He also injects a bit of playfulness into the role with his confrontation with the play's de facto villain, Mr. Potter.\nDanny Fairchild's Henry Potter is the guy you love to hate. Fairchild steals his scenes with a Potter who is oily, manipulative, curmudgeonly, and vengeful. Fairchild is an amazing actor with a grand gift for a turn of the phrase. His sense of timing was deadly accurate and, son of a gun, he managed to be humorous in his unlikability as well. It is a well constructed and crowd pleasing performance.\nFrank McClain's sounds were some of the best I've heard in a production, especially the twinkling sound effects when Clarence was communicating with Heaven. Jan LaVacek has made a nearly bare bones set with the bridge over Bedford Falls being the only constant. I liked the efficiency of his set which could rapidly change into Ma Bailey's home to the Bailey home to the Bailey Building and Loan to Potter's office. Gloria Fitzpatrick's costumes were so natural and suitable that I thought the cast was wearing their own clothes.\nAs I earlier stated, this is the perfect show for the holiday season. It's sweet. It's funny. It's hopeful. It also show us just what great gifts we can be and that we all have the power to be that force for good in the lives of others. There are only 2 performances left. Don't miss out on this touching show.\nIt's a Wonderful Life continues at the Grand Opera House until Dec 3. There is a performance tonight at 7:30pm and tomorrow at 2pm. For tickets, contact the theatre at 563-588-1305 or visit www.thegrandoperahouse.com. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $12 for 17 and younger. The Grand Opera House is located at 135 W 8th St in Dubuque, IA.\nTagged Bedford Falls, Christmas, Clarence, Donna Reed, Dubuque, Frank Capra, George Bailey, Grand Opera House, Gregory Peck, guardian angel, Iowa, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Mr. Potter, Phillip Grecian, Pottersville","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Driving Directions Upcoming Events\nIn & Around Elko\nPioneer Christmas\nCalifornia Trail Days\nProgram Gallery\nHistory & Events\nLandmarks & Geology\nChristopher \"Kit\" Carson\nHome \/ People & Culture \/ Christopher \"Kit\" Carson\nAt the California Trail Interpretive Center, we love helping you learn more about the amazing men and women who founded and traveled the trail; people like Christopher \"Kit\" Carson. As far as American legends go, he's one of the biggest. However, unlike people from many famous historical tall tales, his stories are true.\nKit Carson was born on December 24th, 1809 to Lindsey Carson and Rebecca Robinson Carson. His father was a veteran of the American Revolution but sadly died when Kit was only nine years old. His mother eventually remarried, but Kit did not get along with his stepfather and signed up with a merchant caravan traveling the Santa Fe trail at just 16 years old and started his adventurous life.\nMountain Man And Explorer\nKit eventually became a noted fur trapper and explorer, often traveling between the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and the towering Colorado Rockies. It was during this time between 1828 and 1840 that he met John C. Fremont. He led expeditions with Fremont that would lead to the founding of the California Trail and further cement his reputation as a first-rate mountain man.\nAn American Legend\nChristopher \"Kit\" Carson earned a reputation as a trustworthy and honorable frontiersman. He was noted for living a clean and simple life, and for having integrated (as many trappers did) into Native American life. He even married two Native American women. He served proudly in the Civil War and was employed by the U.S. Government as an Indian Agent. Here are some other interesting facts about Kit Carson:\nHe apprenticed in a saddle shop at the age of 14.\nKit served as a Guide for John C. Fremont.\nHe once ran 30 miles to San Diego to get help during a battle.\nKit led New Mexico volunteers during the Civil War.\nCarson married three times and had nine children.\nExplore A Piece Of History\nVisit the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, NV and learn more about the founding of the trail, its impact on westward expansion and the people who traveled its rugged path. Kit Carson is one of many fascinating people who made the journey across the United States or led others along the trail. Explore this vital piece of history for yourself and plan a visit today.\nChristopher \"Kit\" Carson2019-01-232019-10-29https:\/\/www.californiatrailcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/californiatrails-logo.pngCalifornia Trail Interpretive Centerhttps:\/\/www.californiatrailcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/kit_carson_photograph_restored.jpg200px200px\nSouthern Nevada Conservancy, a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Las Vegas, NV, works cooperatively with the Bureau of Land Management through a formal agreement to provide education, informational, and other public services that will add to visitors understanding and enjoyment of the California Trail Interpretive Center. These programs include California Trail Interpretive Center programs, interpretive programming, volunteer management, retail operations, social media outreach, and this website.\nVisit the California Trail\nCalifornia Trail Facts\nEducator Resource Guide\nHike the Trails\nThe California Trail Interpretive Center is open year round, Thursday thru Monday from 9:00 AM \u2013 4:30 pm.\nThe center is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.\nRV & Bus Parking is available.\nCalifornia Trail Interpretive Center\n1 Interpretive Center Way\nHunter Exit 292\nElko, Nevada 89801\n\u00a9 Copyright 2018 - Southern Nevada Conservancy | All Rights Reserved. | Website by: Site Smart Marketing","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Inside La Palma's volcano: lull in activity allows look into crater\n2021-12-16 La Palma\tBy Reuters\nThe main cone of the Cumbre Vieja volcano without activity in the last few hours is seen from the Tajuya viewpoint, on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, December 15, 2021.\n16-12-2021REUTERS\/Borja Suarez\nThe Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma was silent for a second day on Wednesday, giving scientists the first chance to study the main crater from its brink as the eruption appeared to be nearing its end after three months.\nA group of scientists collecting gas geochemistry data reached the crater at 1300 GMT yesterday, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, Involcan, said, sharing the first footage of the interior of the volcano's most active vent not taken by a drone.\nLa Palma volcano has been quiet since seismic activity all but stopped late on Monday. It is the longest period without tremors since the eruption began on Sept. 19.\nAlthough scientists and monitoring systems detected no signs of volcanic activity, except for occasional and sporadic fumes, authorities warned the next few days would be crucial as it is not uncommon for volcanoes to resume expelling lava.\nThe eruption response committee said that in order to confirm that the eruption is finally over, \"the recorded and observable data must remain at current levels for 10 days\".\nAn aerial view from a house surrounded by the lava of the Old Summit volcano near Tajuya, on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, November 27, 2021. REUTERS\/Borja Suarez\n\"The best thing to do is not to give false hopes, for example in the 1949 eruption it stopped for several days, and several days later it got reactivated,\" geologist Eumenio Ancoechea told Reuters.\nThe eruption, which sent rivers of molten rock down the slopes of Cumbre Vieja for weeks and expanded the size of the island by more than 48 hectares, is the longest on La Palma, according to records dating back to the 16th century.\nThousands of people have been evacuated, at least 2,910 buildings have been destroyed and the island's main livelihood, banana plantations, have been devastated.\nLaPalmaeruption","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u203a News \u203a There could be no Microsoft Band 3 in the future\nThere could be no Microsoft Band 3 in the future\nMary Jo Foley, who is a Microsoft watcher, recently reported that the company is distancing itself from a business that seems unsuccessful. According to her, the American company cancelled the team who was working on the next fitness tracker branded Microsoft.\nFoley also declared that she heard there will be no Band 3 fitness tracker this year and probably never. Apparently Microsoft is currently focusing on bringing their own Health app on as many devices and platforms as possible. The company declared in a statement that they are continually investing and innovating in this platform.\nCurrently, the Microsoft Health app is open to all apps or hardware partners on Android, iOS and Windows products. The company added that they will still sell Microsoft Band 2 and that they will offer support for it and even develop updates and other useful things for this wearable.\nHowever, if they produce a Band 3, it might still follow the same firmware Band 2 has, instead of the IoT version used in Windows 10. Band 2 did not raise the success the company expected on the wearable market. It didn't even reach top 5 wearables on IDC list in the second quarter of 2016, which mans thy sold in that quarter less than 1 million devices. On the same period, Fitbit has sold 5.7 million trackers, which is considerably more.\nBand 2 saw its release in October 2015 and this October people expected a replacement at the hardware event Microsoft is hosting next month. The lack of a replacement for the previous model means that Microsoft will fall behind on the consumer market. Under Satya Nadella's lead, it seems that the company will further dive into the lucrative enterprise sector, abandoning the Band series at the risk of some users being unhappy about it.\nFitbit announces Charge 2 and Flex 2 Fitness Bands\nMicrosoft rolls out April update for Surface 3 for better mobile broadband stability\nMicrosoft to release Band 3 in October\nMicrosoft's Health app now available for Surface and Windows 10 PC\nWindows 10 team","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"- Promoting diversity\nDiversity at CNR\nDiversity is a source of wealth that CNR works to cultivate every day:\nBy favouring professional equality and mixing,\nRecruiting and keeping seniors in employment,\nIntegrating marginalised sectors of the public regarding employment,\nAssisting handicapped employees,\nPreventing and combating discriminations.\nCNR awarded a label\nIn July 2014, CNR was awarded the Diversity label, in recognition for its actions carried out over ten years in favour of equality and preventing discriminations.\nIn addition to this label, CNR subscribed to the UN Global Compact in October 2015.\nCNR is also a signatory of the charter on diversity and is committed to combating all forms of discrimination.\nSignatures to agreements\nTwo company agreements drafted by all the social partners have been signed recently: an agreement in favour of employing handicapped persons and an agreement on gender equality at work. These agreements demonstrate CNR's desire to involve itself in promoting diversity.\nThe law of 5 September 2018 \"for the freedom to choose one's professional future\" introduced the obligation to provide results for wage equality between men and women, measured by an index (out of 100 points).\n5 measurement indicators for 5 objectives:\nEliminate the differences between the salaries of women and men.\nGive the same opportunity to women as for men to obtain increases.\nGive the same opportunity to women as for men to obtain promotion.\nGrant an increase to women in return for maternity leave.\nCount at least 4 women out of every 10 employees receiving the highest salaries.\nThe value of the CNR 2018 index: 74 points\nThis score reflects our technical trades traditionally exercised by men. CNR is pursuing its policy in favour of equal treatment between women and men through negotiations alongside action plans.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Posted on December 16, 2019 December 16, 2019 by Insights Editor\nSECURE SYNOPSIS: 13 DECEMBER 2019\nNOTE: Please remember that following 'answers' are NOT 'model answers'. They are NOT synopsis too if we go by definition of the term. What we are providing is content that both meets demand of the question and at the same time gives you extra points in the form of background information.\nTopic: The Freedom Struggle \u2013 its various stages and important contributors \/contributions from different parts of the country.\n1. What was the Nehru-Liaquat Agreement of 1950 that was recently referred to in the debates for Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), 2019? Discuss its salient features (250 Words).\nWhy this question:\nAmit Shah referred to the Nehru-Liaquat pact on a few occasions in Parliament to justify the Citizenship Bill.\nKey demand of the question:\nDiscuss in detail the salient features of Nehru-Liaquat Agreement of 1950.\nDirective:\nDiscuss \u2013 This is an all-encompassing directive \u2013 you have to debate on paper by going through the details of the issues concerned by examining each one of them. You have to give reasons for both for and against arguments.\nStructure of the answer:\nStart by stating that It was an agreement between the Governments of India and Pakistan regarding Security and Rights of Minorities that was signed in Delhi in 1950 between the Prime ministers of India and Pakistan, Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan.\nDiscuss why the pact came into existence \u2013\nThe need for such a pact was felt by minorities in both countries following the partition, which was accompanied by massive communal rioting.\nIn 1950, as per some estimates, over a million Hindus and Muslims migrated from and to East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), amid communal tension and riots such as the 1950 East Pakistan riots and the Noakhali riots.\nExplain the salient features of the pact and associated nuances.\nUnder the Nehru-Liaquat pact \u2013\nRefugees were allowed to return unmolested to dispose of their property.\nAbducted women and looted property were to be returned.\nForced conversions were unrecognized.\nMinority rights were confirmed.\nConclude with relevance of it as of today.\nDelhi Pact, also called Nehru-Liaquat Pact, was made on April 8, 1950, following the escalation of tension between India and Pakistan in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after economic relations between the two countries had been severed in December 1949. An estimated one million people\u2014Hindus from East Pakistan and Muslims from West Bengal\u2014crossed the borders during 1950. Union Home minister referred to the Nehru-Liaquat pact on a few occasions in Parliament to justify the Citizenship Bill\nSalient features of Nehru-Liaquat Pact:\nAt the time the pact, officially the Agreement Between the Governments of India and Pakistan Regarding Security and Rights of Minorities, Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan were the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan.\nIt was a bilateral agreement signed between India and Pakistan in order to provide a framework for the treatment of minorities in the two countries.\nThe need for such a pact was felt by minorities in both countries following Partition, which was accompanied by massive communal rioting.\nIn 1950, as per some estimates, over a million Hindus and Muslims migrated from and to East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh), amid communal tension and riots such as the 1950 East Pakistan riots and the Noakhali riots.\nThe Governments of India and Pakistan solemnly agree that each shall ensure, to the minorities throughout its territory, complete equality of citizenship, irrespective of religion, a full sense of security in respect of life, culture, property and personal honour, freedom of movement within each country and freedom of occupation, speech and worship, subject to law and morality.\nMembers of the minorities shall have equal opportunity with members of the majority community to participate in the public life of their country, to hold political or other office, and to serve in their country's civil and armed forces.\nBoth Governments declare these rights to be fundamental and undertake to enforce them effectively.\nIt was agreed that both governments would ensure complete and equal right of citizenship and security of life and properties to their minorities.\nEnsuring full fundamental human rights which included the rights of freedom of movement, freedom of thoughts and expression and the right of religion, was part of the deal.\nA minorities commission was to be set up to make sure that they would be represented.\nThey vowed to not violate the rules of the pact and to make all efforts to reinforce it.\nIf the minorities faced any problem, it would be the duty of both the governments to redress their problems without delay.\nDefending the Citizenship Amendment Bill, Union Home minister reiterated that both Pakistan and Bangladesh failed to protect religious minorities after Partition and claimed that the Narendra Modi government was correcting the historical wrong by offering citizenship to the religious minority refugees from these countries.\nIn spite of the opposition of his colleague Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India, concluded a pact with Liaquat Ali Khan, prime minister of Pakistan, whereby refugees were allowed to return unmolested to dispose of their property, abducted women and looted property were to be returned, forced conversions were unrecognized, and minority rights were confirmed. Minority commissions were established to implement these terms, and confidence was in fact restored for a time; however, in the months following the pact, more than a million additional refugees migrated to West Bengal. The continuing struggle over Kashmir also strained relations between the two countries.\nTopic: Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.\n2. With 2.3 million children not vaccinated against measles last year, India has much to do to protect its young citizens, in the context of the above statement discuss the case of vaccine hesitancy and need for public awareness of vaccines. (250 Words).\nVaccine hesitancy has been highlighted for the staggering spread in cases globally. The article discusses the case of India and prevalence of Measles.\nOne must present the case of Measles and discuss the phenomena of vaccine hesitancy.\nDefine what you understand by vaccine hesitancy; Vaccine hesitancy has been highlighted for the staggering spread in cases globally. Vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services.\nFirst explain why the issue of vaccine hesitancy persists \u2013 take the case of measles and discuss.\nUse facts to substantiate your answer and provide for a detailed analysis of the causative factors, impact and what needs to be done to prevent and cure the situation.\nConclude that Vaccine hesitancy is threatening the historical achievements made in reducing the burden of infectious diseases, which have plagued humanity for centuries.\nOnly a collaborative effort between pediatricians, family doctors, parents, public health officials, governments, the technology sector, and civil society will allow myths and misinformation around vaccination to be dispelled.\nVaccine Hesitancy is defined as a reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines. According to WHO, vaccination prevents between 2-3 million deaths each year, a figure that will rise by another 1.5 million if vaccine coverage improves.\nThere were over 1,32,000 reported cases in 2016. The numbers shot up to over 3,53,000 in 2018.\nThe numbers in 2018 were more than double the previous year, the numbers in 2019 have already surpassed those of 2018. By mid-November 2019, over 4,00,000 cases were reported globally.\nWHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated the number of measles cases and deaths. Based on an updated estimation model, there have been nearly 10 million cases and over 1,42,000 measles deaths in 2018.\nThe situation worsened in Congo, with a nearly four-fold increase in cases (from 65,000 in 2018 to 2,50,000 in 2019) and over 5,100 deaths.\nReasons for Vaccine hesitancy:\nVaccine hesitancy has been highlighted for the staggering spread in cases globally.\nIn DR Congo, there is low institutional trust, misinformation, vaccine shortage and even attacks on health-care centers and workers leading to the spread of both measles and Ebola.\nThe Philippines and the small Pacific island of Samoa serve are textbook cases of the sudden emergence of vaccine hesitancy.\nMass immunization using a newly approved dengue vaccine in the Philippines, before the risks were reported by the manufacturer, shattered public trust in vaccines. Low vaccine coverage led to measles and polio outbreaks.\nIn Samoa, an error in preparing the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) injection led to the death of two infants. Fear-mongering led to a fall in vaccine uptake, leading to an outbreak of measles.\nIn many European countries and the U.S., vaccine hesitancy has been on religious grounds and primarily due to anti-vaccination campaigns spreading fake news about vaccine safety.\nSome religious leaders prohibit vaccines, some cultures do not want men vaccinating children, some cultures value boys over girls and fathers don't allow children to be vaccinated.\nVaccine mandates can provoke vaccine hesitancy not necessarily because of safety or other concerns, but due to resistance to the notion of forced vaccination.\nA population can have general confidence in a vaccine and health service but hesitate as the health center is too far away or access is difficult.\nIndustry may be distrusted and influence vaccine hesitancy when perceived as driven only by financial motives and not in public health interest\nMeasures needed:\nAll child health workers must promote vaccination and must be afforded sufficient time with each family to effectively do so.\nA clear presentation of the risks that delaying or refusing vaccination might pose to the child is pivotal to help parents understand how critical their decision is.\nGovernments and health policy makers should play an essential role in promoting vaccination, educating the general public, and implementing policies that reduce the public health risks associated with vaccine hesitancy.\nPaediatricians and family doctors have a key role in helping parents appreciate the benefits of vaccination. In this context, physicians' advice has been shown to be the most important predictor of vaccine acceptance.\nFacebook announced that groups and pages that share anti-vaccine misinformation would be removed from its recommendation algorithm. Such partnerships are crucial for allowing widespread promotion of evidence-based information explaining the benefits of vaccination.\nEffective use of counselling on immunisation should be implemented during contact with care seekers under Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana or National Health Protection Scheme.\nAvailable opportunities must be maximised, including the \"home-based newborn care\", where health workers promote breastfeeding as well as programmes to promote the use of vaccines.\nTo counter rising hesitancy, about a dozen European countries have already introduced laws making vaccination mandatory.\nNew York City too introduced such a law when the U.S. nearly lost its measles elimination status.\nSuch laws may prove counterproductive in the long run, and the only way to increase vaccine uptake is by educating the public.\nIn most cases, interventions should be dialogue-based and directly targeted to a specific under-vaccinated population group.\nBy engaging collaboratively with health workers, caregivers\/parents, and their families and communities, national authorities can generate the insights to develop better quality health services, systems, policies, and communication strategies that support and enable recommended vaccination behaviours.\nVaccine hesitancy is threatening the historical achievements made in reducing the burden of infectious diseases, which have plagued humanity for centuries. Only a collaborative effort between paediatricians, family doctors, parents, public health officials, governments, the technology sector, and civil society will allow myths and misinformation around vaccination to be dispelled. If we fail, the future health of unvaccinated children and their communities will suffer greatly.\nTopic: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.\n3. A wrangle between Executive and Judiciary over judicial appointments hampers entry to justice. Discuss the issues involved in the appointment procedure and suggest what needs to be done. (250 Words).\nThe question is based on the Important aspects of governance and tends to evaluate the wrangle between Executive and Judiciary over judicial appointments.\nOne must discuss the ongoing wrangle between Executive and Judiciary over judicial appointments and in what way it hampers justice delivery.\nIn a judicial order, the Supreme Court has said that two hundred and thirteen names recommended for appointment to various High Courts are pending with the government\/Supreme Court Collegium.\nStart by explaining the order \u2013 The order states that at least the names on which the Supreme Court Collegium, the High Courts and the governments had agreed upon should be appointed within six months.\nIt emphasized that the appointments required a continuous, collaborative and integrated process, where the government is an important consultee.\nThe order is significant, coming at a time when inordinate delays in the appointment of High Court judges and depleting numbers in the higher judiciary threaten to affect the justice delivery mechanism.\nExplain how the system works. Discuss why there is delay in the system.\nConclude that Vacancies in the higher judiciary threaten every aspect of the justice delivery system, the government may disrupt the process through delays, but it is for the court to take an increasingly firm hand to ensure that the collegium system that it fought so hard to protect, despite flaws, actually functions effectively.\nThe list of alarming numbers and figures relating to the depleting numbers in India's higher judiciary has a new addition. The Supreme Court of India recently said that 213 names recommended for appointment to various High Courts are pending with the government. Data show that 38% of all sanctioned posts for High Court judges are lying vacant as of December 1. High Courts of some states including Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan are functioning at below half their actual capacity.\nProcess of appointment of judges:\nIn the Third Judges Case (1998) (by a follow-up President's Reference to the Court), the Supreme Court expanded the Collegium formed in the first (1981) and second (1993) judges cases to include the CJI and the next four (up from two) senior-most judges.\nOnce the collegium clears the names, the Law Ministry has to put up the recommendation to the Prime Minister in 3 weeks who will, in turn, advise the President. Thereafter no time limit is prescribed and the process comes to a standstill.\nIf the collegium reiterates the names, the court said that the government has no option but to appoint the judges.\nWith the 99th constitutional amendment act and NJAC Bill 2014, National judicial appointment commission was established by the union government to bring transparency and accountability in appointment of judges.\nIn the Fourth Judges Case (2015), Supreme Court set aside the 99th constitutional amendment creating the National Judicial Appointments Commission. The Supreme Court ruled that the amendment was a threat to judicial independence, an integral part of Basic Structure Doctrine. A majority of judges took pains to point out how much the independence of the judiciary was guaranteed by the collegium system of appointments.\nThe controversies often associated with the collegium system are\nCredibility of the SC:\nControversial collegium system of judicial appointments undermines the independence of judges and raises doubts about the credibility of the highest court.\nThere is a failure to make an assessment of the personality of the contemnor at the time of recommending his name for elevation.\nExample: The controversy over the proposed elevation of Justice P.D. Dinakaran of the Karnataka High Court to the Supreme Court by the collegium of the Chief Justice and four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court was criticised for overlooking apparently suitable judges by the collegiums\nThe judiciary off late has been caught in many such situations of credibility crisis off late.\nThe executive has little or no role in the appointment of judges as a result.\nSupreme court is overburdened:\nThe Supreme Court did not realise the burden it was imposing on the collegium of selecting judges for the Supreme Court and High Courts and transferring them from one High Court to another.\nAn administrative task of this magnitude must necessarily detract the judges of the collegium from their principal judicial work of hearing and deciding cases.\nLacking this infrastructural backup, the collegium resorts to ad hoc informal consultations with other judges in the Supreme Court who are expected to know the merits of a proposed appointee from a High Court or occasionally by sounding a member of the Bar.\nThese methods are poor substitutes for a full time intensive collection of data about an incumbent, his work, standing, merit, integrity and potential which requires to be made considerably in advance for filing in the vacancy.\nThis system overlooks several talented junior judges and advocates.\nBesides, the collegium's deliberations are secret, the system is opaque and the choice of a judge is only known when his name is forwarded to the Government for formal appointment.\nThe collegium has necessarily limited its field of choice to the senior-most judges from the High Court for the appointments to the Supreme Court, overlooking the several talented junior judges in the High Courts or members of the bar.\nSkewed representation of socio economic backward classes like women, scheduled castes and tribes in the Supreme Court.\nThe collegium system needs reforms:\nThe need of the hour is to revisit the existing system through a transparent and participatory procedure, preferably by an independent broad-based constitutional body guaranteeing judicial primacy but not judicial exclusivity.\nThe new system should ensure independence, reflect diversity, demonstrate professional competence and integrity.\nThe system needs to establish a body which is independent and objective in the selection process. In several countries of the Commonwealth, National Judicial Appointment Commissions have been established to select judges. Such judicial commissions have worked with success in the U.K., South Africa and Canada.\nSetting up a constitutional body accommodating the federal concept of diversity and independence of judiciary for appointment of judges to the higher judiciary can also be thought of as an alternate measure.\nThere should be a fixed time limit for approval of recommendations.\nAs of now, instead of selecting the number of judges required against a certain number of vacancies, the collegium must provide a panel of possible names to the President for appointment in order of preference and other valid criteria.\nNew memorandum of procedure:\nAfter the Second and Third Judges Cases, a Memorandum of Procedure had been formulated to govern how the process of how the Collegium would make recommendations to the Executive.\nThe government therefore suggested that a new MOP be drafted and finalised for appointment of SC judges and the Executive to get a veto over candidates for national security reasons in this new MOP.\nFaced with intense public scrutiny and government pressure, the judiciary's institutional weaknesses are being laid bare. These are not simply the moral failings of one individual or the consequences of the misjudgement of a few. It is another illustration of the institution's inability to accept its internal infirmities.\n4. E-governance is not only about use of the clout of new technology, but also much about grave importance of the 'use value' of information. Explain. (250 Words).\nGovernance in India by Lakshmikant\nThe question aims to evaluate the relevance of 'use-value' of the information and technology to the e-governance aspects of the government.\nOne must discuss the concept of e-governance and present the case of use of technology along with significance of utility of the information.\nExplain \u2013 Clarify the topic by giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurred, or what is the particular context. You must be defining key terms where ever appropriate, and substantiate with relevant associated facts.\nDefine E-governance; it is application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at all the level of the Government in order to provide services to the citizens, interaction with business enterprises and communication and exchange of information between different agencies of the Government in a speedy, convenient efficient and transparent manner.\nExplain that although e-governance is about utilization of the power of new technology like satellite technology, GPS, computer, internet, mobile, biometrics etc. in an efficient manner, it is also very much about how the information collected is utilized to better cater to the needs of the citizens.\nThe information collected should help in 'clarity' in the objective setting, not only in ICT terms (computers, networks etc.) but also the process outcomes and the measurements post implementation.\nInformation should be used for data mining and for supporting the management decisions and not merely for word processing.\nBy knowing the value of information and its foundation, information can be improved and can provide better support in decision making and better assessment can be made.\nConclude that thus the focus of e- governance should not only be limited to efficiently utilizing new technologies but it should also be oriented toward ensuring good governance using the information gathered.\ne-Governance which also known as electronic governance is basically the application of Information and Communications Technology to the processes of Government functioning in order to bring about 'Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent' governance.\ne-Governance involve the use of ICTs by government organisations for exchange of information with citizens, businesses or other government departments, faster and more efficient delivery of public services, improving internal efficiency, reducing costs \/ increasing revenue, re-structuring of administrative processes and improving quality of services.\nE-governance is about utilization of power of new technology:\nInitiatives by government like National optical fibre network, Digital India, Aadhar card, DISHA etc. focus much on the technological aspect and digitization and less on governance. Participative and decentralised decision making is missing as the programmes initiated by government mostly follow top down approach.\nE-RTI focused upon e-filing of RTI's making it a quick and efficient process. But there has less focus on redressal of public grievances.\nThe networks like E-SWAN in states have been commended for connecting all government departments to websites. But websites are not uploaded regularly and this defeats the purpose of transparency, openness and accountability in governance.\nSimilarly, national judicial data grid has not reduced pendency of cases.\nDue to low digital literacy the real benefits of the initiatives do not reach the common man.\nLack of matured technicians:\nThere is lack of matured technicians in the country who can advise the government on technical grounds. A good technician will not only help the government to reduce the cost of installation, but will also be able to handle the technical problems easily.\nLack of qualified administrators:\nThere is a lack of qualified administrators in the country, who are not very techno-friendly.\nE-governance is much about the critical importance of the use value of information:\nIncreased effectiveness and efficiency: Improved government services in terms of accomplishing the government purpose and functioning\nBetter services: E-government can provide quick and timely services to stakeholders\nTransparency by dissemination and publication of information on the web: This provides easy access to information and subsequently makes the system publicly accountable. Also as the web enables the free flow of information, it can be easily accessed by all without any discrimination.\nAccessible anytime and anywhere: As e-government services are provided through web-enabled technology they can be accessed anytime and anywhere\nUser-centred ICT enabled services: The services are primarily intended for the use of citizens, businesses, and the government itself\nReduced cost and time: As the services are provided through internet they are effective in terms of time and cost\nEconomic Development: The deployment of ICTs reduces the transaction costs, which makes services cheaper. For example, rural areas suffer on account of lack of information regarding markets, products, agriculture, health, education, weather, etc. and if all this could be accessed online would lead to better and more opportunities and thereby prosperity in these areas.\nSocial Development: The access to information empowers the citizens. The informed citizenry can participate and voice their concerns, which can be accommodated in the programme\/ project formulation, implementation, monitoring and service delivery. Web-enabled participation will counter the discriminatory factors affecting our societal behaviour.\nReduced bureaucracy: E-government minimizes hierarchy of authority for availing any government services\nAutomation of Administrative Processes: A truly e-governed system would require minimal human intervention and would rather be system driven.\nEnhanced communication and coordination between government organizations: An automated services can be accessed by different organizations coordination and further communication became relative\nPaper Work Reduction: An immediate impact of automation would be on the paperwork. Paperwork is reduced to a greater extent with communication being enabled via electronic route and storage and retrieval of information in the electronic form. All this has led to the emergence of less paper office'.\nQuality of Services: ICT helps governments to deliver services to citizens with greater accountability responsiveness and sensitivity. Quality of services improves, as now the people are able to, get services efficiently and instantaneously.\nElimination of Hierarchy: ICT has reduced procedural delays caused by hierarchical processes in the organisation. Through Intranet and LAN, it has become possible to send information and data across various levels in the organisation at the same time.\nChange in Administrative Culture: Bureaucratic structures have been plagued by characteristics aptly described by Victor Thompson as 'bureau-pathology'. From the day s of New Public Administration, efforts have been made to find ways to deal with the pathological or dysfunctional aspects of art.\nStrategic Information System: Changing organisational environment and increasing competitiveness have put pressures on the performance of the functionaries. Information regarding all aspects needs to be made available to the management at every point to make routine as well as strategic decisions.\nSome of the e-Governance models implemented in India: Customs and Excise (Government of India); Indian Railways; Postal Department; Passport\/Visa; Bhoomi \u2013 Automation of Land Records (State Government of Karnataka); Gyandoot: Intranet in Tribal District of Dhar (State Government of Madhya Pradesh); e-Mitra \u2013 Integrated Citizen Services Center\/ e-Kiosks (State Government of Rajasthan) etc.\nWay forward:\nIn the absence of judicial reforms, periodic updation of citizen charter, administrative reforms in terms of business process restructuring (2nd ARC), the E-governance will merely remain \"E\" without governance.\nGovernment should adopt various other effective projects and initiatives to eradicate ICT\nilliteracy and emphasize on the need of digitalization.\nAn initiation towards setting up of number of computer centers and kiosks is needed and also\ntraining to people by setting up IT training centers in various parts of cities and villages is\nThis will help in building an information based society.\nThe government should launch various awareness programs, which will help people to know\nthe benefits of E-governance and will motivate them to accept the change.\nGovernment should encourage technology rich countries and companies to invest in the Indian\nInfrastructure is a crucial part of any country's development. So, the government should work\non improving ICT infrastructure by providing Electricity and good Internet connection.\nStrategic framework for implementation of E-governance is needed.\nIt is important for the government to create a trust factor among the citizens by being consistent in taking feedback and undertaking corrective actions for the deviations.\nAnother important suggestion for the government is to hire highly professional technicians\nwho can easily curb any technical issue and keep the system updated.\nA support from the other political parties is also required to infuse E-governance in the system.\nTopic:Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment\n5. Evaluate the factors leading to the high levels of pollution in Indian rivers. What can be done to protect and prevent our rivers from degradation and slow death? Discuss. (250 words).\nA study conducted by Central Water Commission (CWC) from May 2014 to April 2018 revealed that India's major river systems are contaminated with heavy metals.\nOne must evaluate the factors leading to the high levels of pollution in Indian rivers and discuss what can be done to protect and prevent our rivers from degradation and slow death.\nState the findings of the report; quote the facts and relevant case study.\nFirst discuss the main sources of river pollution \u2013 agriculture, mining, milling, plating and surface finishing industries that discharge a variety of toxic metals.\nDiscuss then their impact.\nQuote the discussion provided by the report of CWC.\nTake hints from the article and cover relevant aspects.\nConclude with urgency to address the issue of River pollution in the country.\nRivers are increasingly being treated as lifelines to an ever-growing population, the realisation of which is still to sink in as far as India is concerned. More than half the rivers in India are polluted, with the developing economic power unlikely to meet demand for fresh water from its still-growing population. Samples taken from two-thirds of the water quality stations spanning India's major rivers showed contamination by one or more heavy metals, exceeding safe limits set by the Bureau of Indian Standards.\nFindings from the third edition of an exercise conducted by the Central Water Commission (CWC) from May 2014 to April 2018:\nThe study spanned 67 rivers in 20 river basins.\nSamples from only one-third of water quality stations were safe.\nThe rest, or 287 (65%) of the 442 sampled, were polluted by heavy metals.\nSamples from 101 stations had contamination by two metals, six stations saw contamination by three metals.\nIron emerged as the most common contaminant with 156 of the sampled sites registering levels of the metal above safe limits.\nNone of the sites registered arsenic levels above the safe limit.\nThe other major contaminants found in the samples were lead, nickel, chromium, cadmium and copper.\nLead, cadmium, nickel, chromium and copper contamination were more common in non-monsoon periods while iron, lead, chromium and copper exceeded 'tolerance limits' in monsoon periods most of the time.\nArsenic and zinc are the two toxic metals whose concentration was always obtained within the limits throughout the study period.\nFactors behind high pollution of rivers:\nChemicals & Effluents\nThe main sources of heavy metal pollution are mining, milling, plating and surface finishing industries that discharge a variety of toxic metals into the environment.\nIndustrialisation along the river belt is polluting the water with chemicals and other industrial effluents.\nWhile large corporations adopt advanced techniques to treat effluents and chemicals to negate or reduce their toxicity, smaller firms often have no such considerations and violate environment safety standards.\nFailure of regulatory agencies and implementation of laws:\nAccording to the recent finding of the Central Pollution Control Board that the number of critically polluted segments of India's rivers has risen to 351 from 302 two years ago is a strong indictment of the departments responsible for environmental protection.\nThe data show that the plethora of laws enacted to regulate waste management and protect water quality are simply not working.\nThe study by CPCB also underscores the failure of many national programmes run by the Centre for river conservation, preservation of wetlands, and water quality monitoring.\nLow priority is accorded to the enforcement of laws by SPCBs and pollution control committees.\nGarbage Dumping\nHigh population density around the river banks and the reckless dumping of non-biodegradable waste, especially plastics, is further adding to water pollution.\nDespite warning and strict fines imposed by local administrations on those found dumping garbage into rivers and their estuaries, this uncivilised practice continues unabated.\nThe other reasons for contamination are population growth and rise in agricultural and industrial activities.\nWashing & Sewage\nLaundering clothes on river banks is a common sight in India. Modern detergents are made of chemicals that contaminate river waters.\nDefecating around river banks is yet another horrible practice in rural parts of the country that contributes to rising pollution of rivers in India.\nThe situation is worsened by local administrations and private operators of sewage collection tankers dumping the waste in rivers and their estuaries.\nCremation & Last Rites\nDevout Hindus attach a lot of significance to life after death. Hence, cremation grounds in rural India are located on the banks of rivers.\nVaranasi, also known as Kashi, is one such place with cremation grounds located right on banks of river Ganga which is also one of the longest rivers in India.\nUnfortunately, lots of Indians families that cannot afford cremation consign mortal remains of loved ones to rivers. These human cadavers cause severe water pollution.\nSand Dredging\nHigh-quality sand from river beds is needed for India's booming construction industry. This has led to rising pollution in Indian rivers.\nDredging operators- usually the unlicensed ones- deploy kerosene and diesel-fueled cheap watercraft manned by cheap labour for sand dredging. Engines of these boats cause pollution.\nMeasures needed to protect and prevent our rivers from degradation and slow death:\nCPCB should be reporting more frequently on pollution, and carrying out intensive measures through State Pollution Control Boards to eliminate pollutants, starting with sewage and industrial effluents.\nLow priority accorded to enforcement of laws by the SPCBs and Pollution Control Committees. So the immediate plan should be to expand the supply of treatment plants. Sustained civil society pressure on governments is vital to ensure that this is done in a time-bound manner.\nOn the industrial side, the plan to bring all liquid effluent discharge from textile units and tanneries to zero has to be pursued vigorously, giving industries the assistance to help them choose the best technologies for the recovery of waste water for reuse.\nThese measures are urgently needed to revive India's many dying rivers, protect its agriculture, and prevent serious harm to public health from contaminated water.\nAll state governments must make it mandatory to have rain water harvesting techniques in government as well as private buildings and make roof water and surface harvesting mandatory.\nInclude embankments, embankment roads, and roads on either side of the river need to be developed as greenways, with walkways, cycle paths and recreational centres to facilitate the link between citizens and the river.\nRejuvenation of wetlands: These wetlands can store millions of gallons of flood water and recharge ground water and also enhance the river flow during lean period\nReforestation and protection of forested catchments: Forested catchments reduce soil erosion and siltation of the river, they regulate stream flows and micro climate. A protected catchment automatically means lesser silt in rivers\nVegetated and protected riparian banks: These protect the river banks, reduce erosion and maintain water quality.\nThe immediate plan should be to expand the supply of treatment plants.\nCivil societies pressure on the Government is the vital aspect.\nAll liquid effluent discharge from the textile units and tanneries should be brought down to zero and it is to be pursued rigorously. Assistance to be given to industries to choose the best technologies for recovery of waste waters for reuse.\nBy adopting a zero-waste lifestyle that consists of \"Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Compost and Close the Loop (4R2C)\", we can limit our trash output and save tonnes of solid waste from ending up in landfills and rivers.\nThe adoption of a river can also be done as a part of corporate sustainability responsibility programmes organised together with the local communities with the support of local government agencies.\nTopic:Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.\n6. \"Agriculture will play a crucial role in addressing the planet's future challenge and is a key to providing important adaptation, mitigation synergies to climate change as well as socio-economic and environmental co-benefits.\" In the context of the statement discuss the concept of Climate Smart Farming Systems and its relevance. (250 Words).\nPIB Government of India\nThe question is based on the concept of Climate Smart Farming Systems.\nOne must explain what is Climate Smart Farming Systems and relevance of agriculture and its contribution in mitigating the effects of climate change.\nStart by stating that International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming Systems' for BIMSTEC countries is being held in Delhi.\nDefine \u2013 Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to help farmers respond effectively to climate change and ensure food security.\nState the objectives of it \u2013\nSustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes;\nAdapting and building resilience to climate change; and\ngreenhouse gas emissions mitigation\ndiscuss the important aspects of it \u2013 methods, impact and utility,\nConclusion: Conclude by highlighting the significance of it.\nAgricultural production systems are facing increasing competition from other sectors for limited natural resources. The availability of these resources and their quality are also being affected by unsustainable management practices and changing climatic and weather conditions. To respond to this situation, the agriculture sectors must improve their sustainability performance and adapt to the impacts of climate change in ways that do not compromise global efforts to ensure food security for all. FAO defines Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as \"agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, enhances resilience (adaptation), reduces\/removes GHGs (mitigation) where possible, and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals\nClimate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach for transforming and reorienting agricultural production systems and food value chains so that they support sustainable development and can ensure food security under climate change.\nRelevance of CSA:\nIncreased productivity: Produce more food to improve food and nutrition security and boost the incomes of 75 percent of the world's poor who live in rural areas and mainly rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.\nEnhanced resilience: Reduce vulnerability to drought, pests, disease, and other shocks; and improve capacity to adapt and grow in the face of longer-term stresses like shortened seasons and erratic weather patterns.\nReduced emissions: Pursue lower emissions for each calorie or kilo of food produced, avoid deforestation from agriculture and identify ways to suck carbon out of the atmosphere.\nThe climate-smart agriculture approach seeks to reduce trade-offs and promote synergies to make crop and livestock systems, forestry, and fisheries and aquaculture more productive and more sustainable.\nWith patchy rains, crop failures become common. There is hardly any greenery in many villages, making it difficult for farmers to even maintain cattle.\nQuick adaptation for new changes is hard, with farmers varying and mixing crops across seasons, along with heavy investments in borewells, tractors, and threshers.\nBecause of continuous crop failures, farmers are increasingly abandoning their lands and heading to nearby towns to find work as laborers.\nThough India is fortunate to have the monsoon, it is also uniquely vulnerable to rising temperatures, with the country ranked 14th on the Global Climate Risk Index 2019.\nIndia has over 120 million hectares of land suffering from some form of degradation. This has consequences, especially for marginal farmers.\nAccording to one estimate, they may face a 24-58% decline in household income and 12-33% rise in household poverty through exacerbated droughts.\nWith rain-fed agriculture practiced in over 67% of our total crop area, weather variability can lead to heavy costs, especially for coarse grains (which are mostly grown in rain-fed areas).\nA predicted 70% decline in summer rains by 2050 would devastate Indian agriculture.\nWithin 80 years, our Kharif season could face a significant rise in average temperatures (0.7-3.3\u00b0C) with rainfall concomitantly impacted, and potentially leading to a 22% decline in wheat yield in the rabi season, while rice yield could decline by 15%.\nFarmers, especially smallholder farmers, need advance warning of emergent weather conditions at a local level.\nMobile telecommunication systems are increasingly cost-effective and an efficient way of delivering weather-based agro-advisories to farmers at a large scale.\nRadio (especially community radio), television, newspapers, folk media, and village level public address systems will also need to be used to bridge this \"communication divide.\"\nWeather-based agro-advisories must be locale-, crop-and farmer-specific; need to also recommend soil, water, and biodiversity conservation practices.\nBuild adaptive capacities to climate variability and strengthen the sustainability of farming systems.\nOn-site training and awareness campaigns, technology demonstrations, farmer-specialist interactions, and engagement with local governance bodies.\nSoil health and need-based irrigation management need to be addressed adequately.\nCloser collaboration between public, civil society, and private technology and financial service providers so that farmers get access to accurate information, and affordable technologies\nClimate-smart agriculture is not a new agricultural system, nor a set of practices. It is an innovative approach for charting development pathways that can make the agriculture sectors more productive and sustainable and better able to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation.\nTopic: Aptitude and foundational values for Civil Service , integrity, impartiality and non-partisanship, objectivity, dedication to public service, empathy, tolerance and compassion towards the weaker sections\n7. What do you understand by the following terms? Point out their specific relevance in public service:\n1. Intellectual integrity\n2. Spirit of service\nEthics by Lexicon publications\nThe question is from the static portions of GS paper IV.\nOne must discuss the terms with suitable examples and also explain two more such attributes that are important to public servants.\nJustify \u2013 When you are asked to justify, you have to pass a sound judgement about the truth of the given statement in the question or the topic based on evidences. You have to appraise the worth of the statement in question using suitable case studies or\/ and examples.\nDefine the terms in question.\nIntellectual integrity is the discipline of striving to be thorough and honest to learn the truth or to reach the best decision possible in a given situation. A person with intellectual integrity has a driving desire to follow reasons and evidence courageously wherever they may lead.\nSpirit of Service; This quality in public service makes the foundation of such job requirement. Spirit of service towards the nation and its people is the cornerstone of pub. Service and requires readiness to serve in all and every condition.\nCommitment: Being always responsible and genuine to the words, deeds and promises. It is the most important ingredient of public servant. There might be a chance to flout promises and rebuild our relationships in personal life. But in official capacity, breaking a promise or vow can't be undone or taken back because it affects public at large.\nExplain each term with suitable and relevant example.\nConclude with their importance to public services.\n1. Intellectual integrity:\nIntellectual integrity is defined as recognition of the need to be true to one's own thinking and to hold oneself to the same standards one expects others to meet. The early Greek philosophers (e.g., Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) changed the world because they forged a new path toward intellectual integrity.\nIntellectual integrity is required in a person in order to lead one's life with principles, dignity, respect and proud. It will help an individual to enhance his\/her credibility in eyes of themselves and people. It if positively conceived will contribute in betterment of society.\nFor a civil servant it is an indispensable quality:\nIntellectual integrity will help him in leadership, team work, professionalism, prudency and in exercise of public ethos in service.\nIt will help him to become more welfare oriented and transparent, accountable like an intellectually oriented person will think twice before indulging in anti-social activity.\nThe intellectual integrity of the person will guide the person in path of right, keep him away from getting involved in corrupt practices and will enhance the institutions efficacy in long term.\n2. Spirit of service:\nSpirit of service is the quality of being committed to public service without any self-motives. It includes inculcation of love and compassion while delivering the duty. It means expecting nothing in return for the services rendered and brings true happiness and security for the service provider. The spirit of service protects, builds and nurtures the constitutional pillars that give us legitimacy and purpose.\nImportance of Spirit of Service in Public Services:\nA civil servant works not for monetary benefits, promotion or easy postings but for the chance to work for the public welfare is a prize in itself.\nIt will help him keep motivated and focused towards his ultimate goal.\nWithout this value, a civil servant will be a machine working in the system.\nHe\/she should have feeling towards the downtrodden and poor citizens.\nSpirit of service will awake a power in him to transform the lives of million people living in poverty\nHelps civil servants to operate in a politically neutral way so that it can loyally and effectively serve successive Governments\nIs open and transparent so that citizens can see the working, engage, and hold to account the civil servants\nExample: A high official from the Water and Sanitation Ministry took upon himself the responsibility to educate people about the safety of twin-pit system. This helped alleviate the notion of 'pollution' in the minds of people\nCategoriesSECURE SYNOPSIS TagsInsights secure synopsis, secure synopsis, Secure Synopsis 2019\nPrevious PostPrevious RSTV: IN DEPTH- CLIMATE PERFORMANCE INDEX\nNext PostNext QUIZ \u2013 2019: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 16 December 2019","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GM Jeffery Xiong\nJeffery Xiong\nOct 30, 2000 (age 20)\u200e\nPlano, Texas (US)\nAmerican GM Jeffery Xiong has completed an impressive career as an elite junior chess player. For starters, he's the third-youngest U.S. player to qualify for the grandmaster title. His array of accomplishments spans winning the world under-10 championship in 2010, taking the world junior championship in 2016, and putting the chess world on notice as the 31st seed at the Chess World Cup by upsetting top-tier GMs Anish Giri and Jan-Krzysztof Duda.\nXiong's career is just beginning. At the time of publishing in June 2020, he's still classified as a junior (under 20 years old). And if it's any indication of Xiong's potential, he's the second-highest-rated junior in the world behind only GM Alireza Firouzja. There's no doubt that Xiong has an extremely bright future.\nPlaying Style\nEarly Chess Career (2005 To 2014)\nBecoming One Of The Youngest GMs In History (2015 To 2018)\nUpsetting Elite Players In Chess World Cup (2019 To 2020)\n\"He has a very solid style, very mature chess,\" GM Garry Kasparov told Chess.com after Xiong took the 2016 World Junior Championship. It's surprising for a player so young, yet it seems to fit. He's comfortable in seemingly equal positions, and he makes the most out of them, even against the best players in the world as illustrated in the following game against GM Magnus Carlsen.\n\"I'm amazed about the maturity of his game,\" GM Yasser Seirwan said about Xiong after the 2016 World Junior Championship. \"We are all used to associating young players with romantic attacking games. Tactics being the dominant feature. With Jeffery I see a well-roundedness. He enjoys playing long games. He keeps his nerves in double-edged positions.\"\nA great example of how Xiong maintains his nerves came in a matchup against GM and five-time U.S. champion Gata Kamsky. The 15-year-old manages to defend a dangerous onslaught from the much more experienced player.\nXiong learned how to play chess when he was five years old when he noticed a friend playing by himself at a birthday party and Xiong decided to join him. Later he joined a school chess camp to get more involved in chess, and, after beating many of his peers easily, he quickly realized he might have a special talent for the game.\nHe was right, of course. Xiong played in his first tournament at seven, became an expert when he was nine years old and captured the FM title a year later at the 2010 World Youth Chess Championships. There he narrowly missed winning a world title as the runner-up in the under-10 category.\nIn 2012, Xiong took part in a new program, Young Stars, which is devoted to help children enhance their skills in chess. Young Stars is run by Michael Khodarkovsky, president of the Kasparov Chess Foundation (he's also the FIDE Vice President, Presidential Board Member and Senior Trainer), and Xiong is one of the many American chess prodigies who has thrived in the system. He received coaching from Hungarian GMs Alexander Chernin and Gabor Kallai with two training sessions a year from Kasparov himself, who has a strong argument for being the best chess player of all time.\nXiong earned his three IM norms and then reached the required 2400 rating in March 2014 to receive the title. Later that year, he tied for first in the 2014 Dallas Open with 5\/7 points.\nA year after winning the IM title, Xiong set his sights on the prestigious grandmaster title. The young teenager's first two GM norms came in 2014 with the final one earned a year later in impressive fashion.\nAt the Chicago Open in May 2015, Xiong stunned the field\u2014which included 24 grandmasters\u2014by winning first place outright. His final win came against the top-seeded Cuban GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista. It clinched not only the tournament but Xiong's final GM norm that made history.\nXiong became the second-youngest GM in American history behind GM Samuel Sevian and the 17th youngest GM ever. He's now the fourth-youngest GM in American history (accounting for GMs Awonder Liang and Wesley So) and 24th on the list of the youngest chess grandmasters in history. Xiong was 14 years, six months and 25 days old at the time he became a GM.\nThe chess prodigy was the highest-rated player in the world under the age of 16 in 2016, and he wasn't finished setting records. First, however, Xiong scored two impressive wins by topping both the 2016 U.S. Junior Closed Championships and the Capablanca Memorial (Premier). Later that year in August, the newly crowned U.S. junior champion would again flirt with history.\nIt happened when Xiong won the World Junior Championship in 2016 and became the youngest player in 28 years to win the event. The 15-year-old simply dominated the field. Xiong scored 10.5\/13 points and took the gold medal with one round to spare. GM Vladislav Artemiev came in second a full point behind Xiong.\nJeffery Xiong vs. Chithambaram Aravindh. Photo: World Juniors.\n\"I'm very happy and very proud of Jeffery for winning and for doing it in such overwhelming fashion,\" Kasparov told Chess.com. \"It's a long and rowdy event, but he showed his best qualities throughout and simply dominated. His progress over the last year or so has been remarkable. He's been part of [the Young Stars] program for four or five years and honestly, I thought he was getting a bit stuck for a while. It sounds silly to call a 15-year-old a late bloomer, but he really exploded last year.\"\nThe next big win for Xiong came when he took the Saint Louis Spring Classic 2018. He went undefeated in the round-robin tournament with 10 GMs and finished one-and-a-half points ahead of the field. His tournament performance rating was an eye-opening 2819.\nFinally, Xiong had a strong showing at the 2018 Chess.com Isle of Man International. He finished in a large three-way tie with big names such as GMs Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura and Wang Hao for third behind GMs Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Arkadij Naiditsch. To say it was an elite event would be an understatement. In addition to those players, GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Viswanathan Anand and Sergey Karjakin finished behind Xiong in a large tie for 10th place.\nPlaces 3-10 together. Vladimir Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Wang Hao, Baskaran Adhiban, Jeffery Xiong, Gawain Jones, Alexander Grischuk and organizer Alan Ormsby. Photo: Maria Emelianova\/Chess.com.\nXiong made it to the finals of the 2019 Junior Speed Chess Championship after beating the number-two seed, GM Parham Maghsoodloo, 14.5-10.5 in the semifinals. That put the number-three-seeded American against the top seed, GM Wei Yi, for the finals. Their match ended in a 13.5-13.5 tie, and four additional overtime games didn't end decisively. Wei won the armageddon game to win the match and take the junior speed championship.\nStill only 18 years old, Xiong's next surprise following the Isle of Man tournament came at the Chess World Cup 2019. Seeded 31st in the 128-player knockout tournament, he was the lowest seed to reach the final eight players.\nHis first major upset came in the third round against Giri, who was rated second in the event and has been ranked as high as third in the world. They went to tiebreaks, and the American teenager edged the Dutch superstar in a complicated tactical encounter.\nXiong accomplished another major upset in the next round. He faced Duda, a 22-year-old who has been ranked as high as 12th in the world. Xiong upset the young Polish superstar in tiebreaks, taking down the tournament's 18th seed. The remarkable tournament came to an end for Xiong in the quarterfinals, however, when he was defeated by the eventual winner, GM Teimour Radjabov.\nXiong's second place at the 2020 U.S. Championship, with a marvelous 8.5\/11 score, was a recent example of his incredible talent. He should become more of a household name in the chess world if he keeps progressing. Don't be surprised if he's a regular at top-level chess events in the future.\nJeffery Xiong at 2018 Tata Steel. Photo: Maria Emelianova\/Chess.com.\nIt's clear that Xiong has a lot of potential. After taking the chess world by surprise with impressive performances the past nine years or so, perhaps he can take that next step by entering the world's top 15 or 20 players. He has plenty of time to get there.\nIndian Game: Knights Variation, East Indian Defense, 3.Nbd2 (11 games)\nRuy L\u00f3pez Opening: Morphy Defense, Closed, Yates, Bogoljubov Variation (9 games)\nSicilian Defense: French Variation (7 games)\nDutch Defense: Hopton Attack (7 games)\nEnglish Opening: Symmetrical Variation, 2.Nf3 (17 games)\nSicilian Defense: Anti-Qxd4 Move-Order (17 games)\nR\u00e9ti Opening: Sicilian Invitation (9 games)\nQueen's Gambit Declined: 3.Nf3 Nf6 (8 games)\nQueen's Pawn Opening: Zukertort Variation (7 games)\nJeffery Xiong (2712)\nVladislav Artemiev (2731)\nNikita Vitiugov (2747)\nYu Yangyi (2726)\nAlireza Firouzja (2723)\nWesley So (2765)\nViswanathan Anand (2758)\nJan-Krzysztof Duda (2758)\nJan-Krzysztof Duda\nMagnus Carlsen (2872)\nJorden van Foreest (2644)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bless the animals + terrible and tragic + vaccines for city workers\nBy Cristina M. Chacon\t Last updated Oct 1, 2021\nHave a nice Saturday folks from Long Beach! Everything is going on in the city today.\nBring your dogs, cats, birds, llamas and pigs for one interfaith blessing! Also the Mayor weighed the Millikan shootout. In the end, City workers have to get shots.\nFirst the weather today:\nMostly sunny. High: 88 Low: 62.\nHere are the top stories in Long Beach today:\nthe 2021 blessing of the animals is on! Scheduled for this Sunday, October 3rd, at 5:45 p.m., you can bring your pets 1 Granada Avenue. There will be five faith leaders on site, making this event a \"One of the world's greatest interfaith blessings for pets. \"When your pet crosses the Rainbow Bridge, bring a collar or photo to let a blessing speak. The inimitable Justin Rudd is the founder of the event. (Haute dogs)\nMayor Robert Garcia has commented on this Millikan shooting. He notes that \"the city is heartbroken over the terrible and tragic shootings\". He also noted that the city with the LA County DA to investigate. (@ LongBeachMayor)\nDistraught at the slowness City employees to get yours Covid-19 vaccinations, compared to the public, the officials increase the stakes. These employees are allowed to no longer receive weekly COVID tests as replacements for vaccinations. In addition, employees can no more self-test but have to prove vaccinations. A deadline is in the works. (LB-Post)\nthe Long Beach Public Library brings the In-N-Out cover-to-cover club return! \"From October 2 to November 13, kids ages 4 to 12 can read five books to earn a certificate for a free cheeseburger, hamburger, or grilled cheese from In-N-Out.\" Go to an LB library to sign up. (@LBCityLibrary)\nIf you've always wanted to run half marathon, next weekend is your chance! It's time for them again LB marathon which usually attracts more than 10,000 participants and many cheering spectators. The race weekend features the Aquarium of the Pacific 5K, a 13.1-mile half marathon, and a 20-mile bike ride fun ride. (Studio LBP)\nToday's Long Beach Daily is brought to you of ring. Joey was home alone when he collapsed on a hot day. See what helped him save his life.\nToday in Long Beach:\nWomen's march for reproductive freedom (10:00 a.m.)\nSteelCraft's annual Oktoberfest celebration! (12.00)\nLong Beach Open Studio Tour (12:00 PM)\nLong Beach Patch Notebook\nLong Beach City: Long Beach Parks, Recreation & Marine is opening the new multi-purpose sports ground El Dorado Park West with a grand opening ceremony! Be there on Saturday October 2nd at 10 a.m. (Facebook)\nLong Beach Airport: Happy October Travelers! When passing Long Beach Airport, arrive 90 minutes before departure, wear a mask indoors, and enjoy the fresh air in our outdoor lounge. (Instagram)\nLong Beach City Employee: Would you like to get married at Long Beach City Hall? Call the office at (562)570-6101 to arrange your civil wedding! (Facebook)\nFrom our sponsors \u2013 thank you for supporting local news!\nSelected companies:\nOpen House of the Alpert Jewish Community Center on October 3rd from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. \u2013 A FREE day in the J! (October 3)\nAppearances & Services:\nYou are all caught up for today! See you all tomorrow morning for another update. If you enjoy these newsletters, consider bringing some of your friends and neighbors on board. You can send them this link to subscribe.\n\u2013 Sylvia Cochran\nAbout me: Sylvia Cochran works in sunny Southern California and has been a full-time freelance writer since 2005. Your SEO-optimized internet copy includes social media marketing projects and business translations from German into English. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays fishdom (do not judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live Micah 6: 8.\nDo you have a tip for the news or a suggestion for an upcoming Long Beach Daily? Contact [email protected] at any time.\nAcademic tenure: desperate for reform or urgent defender?\nDo you want to develop vaccines in Africa? Then invest in know-how and infrastructure\n'It's good to be back'\nFormer manager of the city of Hampton NH, James Barrington, recalled\nFrom net neutrality to Clickwrap: 10 major Internet legal cases since 2000 | National news\nFederal funding would help complete a new state mental hospital for Dallas under the Texas Senate's plan\nThis Berkshire County College offers an engaging and detailed E.\nReal Madrid stars would wear disguises to go into town\nSamsung introduces a fancy new smart projector that can be pre-ordered now\nMake money with a laptop","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Commentary No 43 (December 1976)\n43.2 Traditional Days of Protest in the Soviet Union\n[(1a) 30 October was first marked as Political Prisoners' Day in 1974, see Chronicle 33.1. The USSR ratified the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights in 1973 and its provisions came into force in March 1976.\n43.6 The Helsinki Groups \u2014 Moscow and Ukraine\nNotes [1], [2] & [3]: These documents have been published in English in Reports of Helsinki-Accord Monitors in the Soviet Union, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, US Congress, Washington, DC 20515, Vol. 1 (24 February 1977), vol. 2 (3 June 1977), and in The Right to Know, the Right to Act: Documents of Helsinki Dissent from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, same publisher, May 1978.\nThey have appeared in the original Russian in Sbornik dokumentov Obshchestvennoi gruppy sodeistviya vypolneniyu Khelsinkskikh soglashenii, Khronika Press, New York, vols. 1-3, 1977.\n43.11 Persecution of Participants in a Religious Seminar\n[1] The Religious-Philosophical Society was set up in Moscow in 1906. Its debates and discussions, and those held in the Society in Petersburg, formed part of the Orthodox Renaissance of the early 20th century [JC].\n[2] The Messenger of the Russian Christian Movement (Vestnik Russkogo khristyanskogo dvizheniya) was an emigre publication, first published in France in 1925. Its chief editor after 1969 was Nikita Struve. The inclusion of material from the USSR and its clandestine circulation in the Soviet Union was denoted after 1974 by the indicated place of publication \"Paris-New York-Moscow\" [JC].\n43.12 Events in Lithuania\nNotes [1] & [2], see 43.6 (above) The Helsinki Groups","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Biotechnology: Getting Started\nA guide to library resources and tools for the Biotechnology program at Northeastern.\nDatabases Toggle Dropdown\nSearching PubMed\nMethods & protocols\nDepositing & sharing\nCiting Your Sources\nGetting started: Finding Relevant Sources in Biotechnology\nTackling a new topic?\nTry looking for a review article first. Review articles attempt to summarize the state of research on a scientific topic. While lengthy & not generally including the very latest research, review articles can be a great way to start to get a handle on a topic.\nDon't overlook the literature cited at the end of the review - the bibliography contains a wealth of information about the key discoveries & main researchers in the field.\nMost databases (including BIOSIS Previews, PubMed & Web of Science below) will allow you to limit your search to include only review articles or literature reviews.\nFor articles describing primary research using scientific methods, written by experts in the field or scientists, try these biomedical, biology and life sciences databases:\nWeb of Science indexes over 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences (1975-present). Web of Science's strength is in its interdisciplinary focus and its ability to perform citation searching.\nMore than just medical literature, PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and publishers of life sciences literature. PubMed consists of 29 million citations for biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals and online books.\nThe most comprehensive resource for research in biology, life sciences, preclinical & experimental research, methods & instrumentation, and animal studies. Includes contents of 5,500 life sciences journals\nFor additional databases relevant for biotechnology topics, click here.\nTop 5 Things to Know for Biotechnology Students\nFor more immediate help, use one of the Ask A Librarian options. I'm also happy to meet for in person or web consultations - please contact me for an appointment at a.link@northeastern.edu.\nYour Librarian\nAlissa Link\na.link@northeastern.edu\n3D Printing is Here!\nInterested in 3D printing? Find out more about Snell Library's 3D Printing Studio!\nNU Home\nBiotechnology Program\nNortheastern University Library\nNext: Databases >>\nURL: https:\/\/subjectguides.lib.neu.edu\/biotechnology\nSubjects: Biomedical and Health, Science\nTags: biotechnology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Look up health assessment questionnaire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.\nhealth assessment questionnaire British Glass is calling for seminar presentations, based on practical examples of large manufacturing businesses securing funding for improvement in energy efficiency and carbon reduction, for a one-day glass industry event in November 2017. The whiskey was inspired by masters and apprentices working together at the new Midleton micro-distillery, one of the oldest and most iconic distilleries in the world. The brand combines tradition and innovation to convey a sense of fun and excitement. It uses two opposing patterns throughout the packaging. The straight lines symbolise method and order and the stunning marbled patterns reference madness and liquid experimentation. Awarded a UK patent, Senior's PURe\u00ae range of energy-efficient aluminium windows and doors is the first on the UK market to benefit from an enhanced thermal barrier manufactured from expanded polyurethane foam (PUR). Traditionally used in cladding and insulation products, the innovative use of PUR as a thermal barrier in windows and doors gives the PURe \u00ae range the potential to achieve U-values as low as 0.71W\/m2 K when calculated as a commercial CEN standard window and 0.93W\/m2 K when calculated as a CEN standard door. The new architecture also means the pages on the content rich site now load in milliseconds, ensuring that potential customers visiting the site are engaged for long enough to register their interest.\n1 twinsburg family health center\n2 michiana behavioral health center\n3 john hopkins school of public health\n4 ammonoosuc community health services\nThis auburn health clinic page lists articles associated with the title Seo.\nIf an prayer for mental health led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.\nalign health and wellness\nreligare health insurance","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Elliott makes six birdies, leads 39th Iowa Senior Amateur\niowagolfAugust 30, 20170 commentsChampionships, Iowa Senior Amateur\nWest Des Moines' Gene Elliott (pictured above), fresh off an appearance in the Round of 32 at the U.S. Senior Amateur, didn't let off the gas in the opening round of the 39th Iowa Senior Amateur at Burlington Golf Club. Elliott's opening round 69 (-3) leads by one shot over Burlington's own John O'Neill. Gary Ellis (Norwalk) and Tom Norton (Muscatine) shot 72 (E) and are three strokes back of the pace.\nElliott was able to string together a total of six birdies on the day, including 4 in a ten-hole stretch.\nO'Neill, who grew up just a pitching wedge away from the first hole at BGC, put that 'knowledge' of BGC to work. His day began with 13 straight pars and included 16 pars overall mixed in with a pair of birdies.\nIn the Super Senior Division (65 and older) another 'local' is atop the leaderboard. Fort Madison's Jim Butler put together a 71 (-1) round of his own that included five birdies. Butler managed only three pars on the front nine, but still turned in 35 (-1) thanks to four birdies. John Peters (Muscatine) sits just three back of Butler at 74 (+2).\nClick here for a recap of scoring.\nElliott reaches Rd. of 32 at U.S. Senior Amateur\nBriggs take lead at 39th Iowa Senior Amateur","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"nLogic Receives Gold Boeing Performance Excellence Award\nHuntsville, AL \u2013 nLogic today announced that it has received a 2012 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognize suppliers who have achieved superior performance. nLogic maintained a Gold composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012.\nThis year, Boeing recognized 594 suppliers who achieved either a Gold or Silver level Boeing Performance Excellence Award. nLogic is one of only 153 suppliers to receive the Gold level of recognition.\nnLogic provides services to The Boeing Company on the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD), MDA Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIB, and U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) programs. Core competencies include system engineering and integration, software development, modeling and simulation, test and evaluation, logistics, information technologies, and cyber security. nLogic was founded in July 2009 and has personnel located in Huntsville, AL; Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA; Fort Greely, AK; Colorado Springs, CO; and Arnold Air Force Base Tullahoma, TN.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Destructed Wall\nJoining GTA Myths Wiki is free, and it only takes a minute.\n{{Infobox |image = FallenWall.png |first = ''[[Myths and Legends in GTA Vice City|Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'' |second = [[Downtown Vice City]] |image2 = FallenWallMap.png }} '''Destructed Wall''' is a [[:Category:Myth Locations|mythical location]] in ''[[Myths and Legends in GTA Vice City|Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]''. ==Description== The myth revolves around a particular wall located in [[Downtown Vice City]], with its upper half destructed by an unknown force. The bricks can be seen lying around the wall. The position, in which the wall is destructed, is suspicious, as the wall's destruction serves no purpose in the game, neither as a passage nor as a stunt set. Players have theorized that there could be an unknown force in the region that caused the destruction. However, nothing has ever been demonstrated to be true, as the destruction remains a myth. The [[Psychic]]s are located near the wall. The wall has been theorized to be included in order to give the place an edge with respect to realism and there has been mild debate about the destruction of the myth that varies from users claiming about unknown forces and users debunking the myth in a rational way and overall, questioning the myth's status all together. However, despite all the discussion, the actual cause of the destruction remains unknown. {{Clr}} ==Navigation== {{GTAVC Myths}}\nTemplate:Clr (view source)\nTemplate:GTAVC Myths (view source)\nReturn to Destructed Wall.\nRetrieved from \"https:\/\/gta-myths.fandom.com\/wiki\/Destructed_Wall\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"History Repeats Itself in Myanmar\nby Edoardo DellaferreraPosted on May 5, 2021 May 5, 2021\nWhat happened on February 1st, 2021 in Myanmar has taken the world by storm. Early in the morning, Myanmar leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were detained in a raid carried out by the military after seizing control over the country in a military coup and declaring a year-long state of emergency.\nThe November election was only the second democratic vote since the country emerged from 50 years of isolationist military rule in 2011. The military alleged that voter fraud took place during the poll, which delivered a far bigger majority for Suu Kyi's party than anticipated. The week before the coup, a military spokesperson said it would not rule out a coup if the unfounded allegations of voter fraud were not properly investigated. On Monday it moved to act on that claim, reasserting its authority with the arrest of numerous political leaders for failing to take action. Myanmar's election commission had rejected the allegations made by the military, saying any errors were not enough to impact the result of the vote. Ten years after her release, Aung San Suu Kyi is back in detention in Myanmar. The events of yesterday do not stand alone; they are part of Myanmar's long struggle for democracy, which has been embroiled in a political stalemate since the 1960s.\nThe country's origins\nMyanmar, previously named Burma, achieved independence on the 4th of January 1948, with U Nu as its Prime Minister. The former British colony became a democratic nation based on the parliamentary system, yet Burma would not remain a democracy for long. Less than two decades later, Burma saw the toppling of its democratic regime, and fell under military rule. On March 2nd, 1962, General Ne Win, former Prime Minister in a caretaker government that was established in 1958, carried out a coup d'\u00e9tat. He arrested U Nu and several other cabinet ministers, justifying the coup as a means to prevent the country from disintegrating, an event that could sound familiar. The repressive military dictatorship followed an ideology called \"The Burmese Way to Socialism\", which was marked by a period of nationalisation, isolation, and totalitarianism.\nWidespread anti-government riots broke out in late 1987 in the major cities, followed by even larger student-led riots in 1988, particularly the 8888 Uprising on 8 August 1988. While the 1960s\u20131970s saw sporadic riots as well, the sheer intensity of the 1988 riots made it seem as though the country was \"on the verge of revolution\". In July 1989, Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the NLD and daughter of Aung San, modern-day Myanmar's Father of the Nation, was placed under house arrest as she was involved in the 8888 Uprising and in May 1990, a general election was held.\n(Burma \/ Myanmar: Women demonstrators from La Wa Ka (Immigration Office), Rangoon, 1988, Pictures From History Lintner Collection)\nNearing the end of the 20th century, Myanmar sought to increase its strategic and economic influence in Asia after decades of isolationism. It was admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1997, which implicitly sought to both improve the political and economic climates in Myanmar, as well as contain Chinese influence.\nMyanmar into the new millennium\nDespite this potential for democratic advancement and increased participation in the global community at the beginning of the 21st century, Myanmar faced backlash once more when it detained Aung Sang Suu Kyi again in 2003. This led to harsher US and EU sanctions. The military's violent response to a demonstration by the monastic community in 2007 also resulted in widespread criticism. The government-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) claimed an expected victory in the November 2010 election, the first election in over 20 years. However, many other political parties alleged electoral fraud, with most international observers agreeing that the election was a sham and a mere tool for the military junta to assert its power.\nThe parliamentary election in 2015 gave the NLD a major victory. The election was the first one to be freely contested and was deemed to be relatively fair. The NLD hence could form a new government in 2016, although the military still held control in the police force, army, etc. Aung San Suu Kyi was made Foreign Minister, a minister in the President's Office, and State Counsellor, while Htin Kyaw became President. Yet, while Myanmar looked poised to begin a new chapter in its political history, the emergence of the Rohingya Crisis led to further criticism.\nReactions from the world\nAfter the seizure of power by the military, Tom Andrews, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Myanmar, said sanctions and international pressure should \"be ratcheted up soon and quite vigorously.\" As a matter of fact, Joe Biden has threatened to resume sanctions on Myanmar following the military coup and the suspension of democracy, and called for international solidarity in confronting the country's generals. The US lifted sanctions on Myanmar in October 2016 after it held elections, established a civilian government, and took other steps towards restoring democracy. The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, would not say whether measures other than sanctions were being considered, but said the US was in \"intensive consultations at multiple levels\" with its allies and partners around the world.\nOn the contrary, the Chinese foreign affairs spokesperson merely noted the coup and refused to discuss whether China, which has substantial oil and gas interests in Myanmar, had warned against such a move when the Chinese foreign minister met its military leadership last month after the heavy defeat of its proxy party at the polls. China has warm relations with Aung San Suu Kyi and they have deepened as western countries criticised her civilian government's response to the Rohingya crisis. The military, on the other hand, is perceived as having a more independent streak that sought to balance against Chinese influence.\nThe UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, condemned the coup as a serious blow to democratic reforms in the country. The UN has been at the heart of the so far largely fruitless efforts to arrange for tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees stuck in camps in Bangladesh to return to Myanmar. Bangladesh called for peace and stability in Myanmar and said it still hoped its neighbour would make genuine efforts to move forward the stalled process of voluntary repatriation of Rohingya refugees. Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines mainly recognised the issue as internal to Myanmar.\nHow will ASEAN react?\nAs an international organization, ASEAN has been famous for its strict adherence to the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of member states, such that statements made by political leaders about domestic political crises are frowned upon. There has, however, been a marginal dilution of this principle over the years, most prominently in relation to Myanmar. How can we expect ASEAN to respond to the recent coup?\nIn 2008, ASEAN member states adopted the ASEAN Charter which contains multiple references to democracy, a new addition to ASEAN's vocabulary. Acquiring such a formal commitment to democracy by a group of largely autocratic governments was not an easy task. A common mode of non-coercive, low-degree intervention for democracy enforcement by regional organizations that emerged in the last two decades is election observation. Developing election observation capabilities would serve as a means for ASEAN to prevent political crises in member states. The presence of ASEAN election observers during the 2020 Myanmar general election might have accorded an additional degree of legitimacy to the electoral process, especially as an endorsement by an organization of which Myanmar is a member, as opposed to by other external observers.\n(Mahathir Mohamad, Aung San Suu Kyi and Rodrigo Duterte pose for a photo at the 33rd Asean summit in Singapore. AFP)\nIn response to the coup, Brunei, currently holding ASEAN's rotating chairmanship, released a statement calling for \"dialogue, reconciliation, and the return to normalcy\" in Myanmar, citing the ASEAN Charter's democracy principles. Still, members are not aligned on the decision whether to intervene or not. It remains to be seen whether and how ASEAN's official bodies, the AMM or the ASEAN Summit (scheduled for April 2021), will address the Myanmar coup. A need to go beyond symbolic statements, however, is clear.\nExpectations of coercive measures by ASEAN, such as sanctions, are almost non-existent, but statements of concern regarding Myanmar's internal affairs increased in recent years. While these may be largely symbolic, they represent a form of low-degree, noncoercive intervention \u2013 a step above doing nothing. Whatever be ASEAN's response to the Myanmar coup, the organization stands to learn important lessons from its actions. These lessons will be crucial for developing regional crisis management and prevention mechanisms to fulfil ASEAN's aspirations of strengthening democracy.\nA cloudy future\nThe world was shocked by the events that occurred on the 1st of February 2021 and it seems that the fight for democracy in Myanmar will never end, or will never happen without more years of struggling against the ruling military junta. It is hard to predict the future of the region, but one thing is clear, history continues to repeat itself.\nEdoardo Dellaferrera\nhttps:\/\/segbsa.com\/author\/edf-bsa\/\nThe year of negative oil prices, how could it happen?\nPosted in Articles, GeopoliticsTagged Conflict, Coup, Crisis, Dictatorship, Myanmar, South-East Asia\nPrev Rare-Earth Elements: Basis of The Future Economy or Geopolitical Weapon?\nNext Flags of convenience: a dangerously popular phenomenon","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Vous \u00eates ici : Trend Tablet \u00bb unlocked\nThe constantly changing, ever-evolving stream of naked images displayed through social networks and adult entertainment flood our screens and our minds, yet what does it all mean? We are a lot more accustomed to the changes in the depiction of beauty and fashion throughout the decades and the centuries, however a more taboo subject, comes in the most natural form; nudity. The way we see our bodies, in which situations we imagine ourselves being naked, whether it is lounging in our homes, or taking a shower, how comfortable we are with our bodies can say a lot about us, not only as individuals, but also as a variety of cultures in our society.\nUnlocked is a photo narrative by Vassilis Zidianakis, co-founder of Atopos cvc, a non-profit, cultural organisation created in 2003 and based in Athens. Zidianakis takes us on a journey through a 512-page visual publication, with the participation of more than 140 international photographers, to gain a greater perspective on a very contradictive relationship; the one that lasts us our whole lives. The images we find in the book bring strength to the characterization of the purest yet most sullied of forms, subject to great scrutiny and lavishly adored; the human body.\nAs an original interpretation of our post-photographic digital era, Unlocked represents a new visual language. The book emerged as the first official recording sourced from contemporary digital platforms, and can be seen as evocative, political and leaning towards the subject of anthropological evolution. Daringly crude and delicately intimate images form a way to gain an understanding of our psyche; what shocks, traumatizes, protrudes uncontrollable urges, and unbalances the way we think is exactly what this book aims to do, and it undeniably succeeds in doing so.\nFor the launch of Unlocked, Atopos cvc hosted an exhibition, where the book was presented as an art object. Through a number of site-specific installations Zidianakis unravelled his research and the production process of the book. The installations included the original aluminium offset printing plates, which were used for the production of Unlocked, alongside an announced performance of a nude, young man and woman strolling through the Atopos library and reading or playing with the book completed Zidianakis'concept.\nAs an artist, curator and the Artistic Director of Atopos cvc, Zidianakis studied Ethnology and Anthropology as well as History and Civilization at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. His main focus for the past ten years has been the human body and the various forms and ways of its expression.\nCharlotte Hoareau\natopos.gr\n259aa7e7cc69e5f35e64f21e01b79869QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \/ Products \/ The Heliocentrics \u2013 Out There\nThe Heliocentrics \u2013 Out There\n\"Malcolm Catto is best known as DJ Shadow's drummer; here he emerges as a talent in his own right, leading a nine-piece band through music that merges eastern and African music with funk, jazz and hip-hop. There are echoes of everyone from Bill Laswell's Material to Ennio Morricone to David Axelrod and Sun Ra, but the glue holding this seven-year odyssey together is Catto, who holds down a similar role here to that which Nigerian afrobeat legend Tony Allen does in his big bands. Catto's thundering, heavy beats allow his musicians the freedom to explore musical territories, and the results are swathed in psychedelia, echo and enigma.\" \u2013 The Guardian\n\"The band's use of tribal hip-hop beats and splashes of funk makes Out There infectious. Their deft cinematic touches, sci-fi samples and a willingness to use silence for spacing, allows the band to take the journey to the planets of psychedelic, ethnic and avant-garde without sounding pretentious or fragmented\u2026\n\u2026Fans of Yesterday's New Quintet who always wished Madlib to push it a few notches funkier will swoon from the first twenty seconds of the album's opener, \"Distant Star\". Catto, who has been sampled by Yesterday's New Quintet and Madlib, brings immediacy to the song, which is enhanced by Jake Ferguson's bass guitar. A touch of classic DJ Shadow, who Catto and the band worked with on the Bay Area's turntabalist's last album, can be heard on \"Once Upon a Time\". This is a piece that proves that the flute is nothing to be laughed at, especially with a trip-hop beat behind it.\" \u2013 Pop Matters\nThe Heliocentrics\n2 \u00d7 Vinyl, LP, Album\nElectronic, Hip Hop, Funk \/ Soul\nExperimental, Funk, Psychedelic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Woman Charged with Kidnapping Elizabeth Smart Pleads Guilty and Says Sorry\nWanda Eileen Barzee, the woman charged with kidnapping teenager Elizabeth Smart in 2002, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of unlawful transportation of a minor and kidnapping. The 64-year-old says she will plead guilty to state charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping.\nAt her court hearing on Tuesday, Barzee issued an apology to Smart for the role she played in the teenager's abduction. As part of Barzee's plea agreement, she will help prosecutors with their federal and state criminal cases against Brian David Mitchell, who is her husband.\nNow that she has pleaded guilty, Barzee is expected to serve 15 years in federal prison. Her formal sentencing has not yet taken place. If Barzee had been convicted, she might have been sentenced to life in prison.\nMitchell and Barzee are accused of kidnapping Smart, then age 14, from her home. Barzee has admitted that she encouraged her husband to abduct the young girl and that they planned the kidnapping together.\nIn her plea agreement, Barzee says that she helped her husband control, confine, sexually assault, and transport Smart out of state and back. Smart was found with the couple nine months after her abduction.\nBarzee, who was been staying at a Utah State Hospital, was recently declared competent to stand trial following years of being forced to take psychotropic drugs while at the mental hospital. Her husband's competency hearing is scheduled to continue on November 30. His defense attorney says that he is incompetent and cannot defend himself during a criminal trial.\nKidnapper apologizes to Elizabeth Smart, will cooperate, CNN.com, November 18, 2009\nCaptor of Elizabeth Smart to serve 15 years, Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2009\nRelated Web Resources:\nRead the Plea Agreement (PDF)\nTimeline of Smart Case\nPlea Agreements\nA plea bargain resolves a criminal case that could take months to conclude during a court trial. The outcome of a case is not usually a guarantee when a criminal trial is involved and a plea bargain can allow a defendant to receive a more lenient sentence for pleading guilty to a lesser charge.\nAn experienced Boston criminal defense attorney can help you determine whether going to trial or striking a plea deal will help you achieve the best outcome for your criminal case. You deserve the best defense available.\nPosted in: Felonies and Violent Crimes, Kidnapping and Sexual Crimes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Colorado Space News\nColorado Astronauts\nColorado Missions\nSpacecraft Models\nThe moon is 5 days old\npaypal-donate\nColorado Space News depends on your support. Thanks for helping me report on our incredible space industry!\nLatest Activity On Twitter\nTweets by @CO_Space_News\nCategories Select Category Additive Manufacturing Communications Companies CubeSats Education Explorers Federal Laboratories Government GPS Industry News Instruments Launch Systems Military Missions Museums and Planetariums Organizations People Robotics Rockets Satellites Solar Space Agencies Spacecraft Spaceport Colorado Suborbital Technology Telescopes UAS Uncategorized Virtual Reality (VR) Weather\nDemos, Briefings Highlight 68th SwRI Annual Meeting\nMilton B. Lee, Chairman. Image Credit: SwRI\nFebruary 23, 2016 \u2013 At yesterday's 68th Annual Meeting of the Advisory Trustees and Board of Directors, scientists and engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) highlighted six of the more than 4,000 projects they conduct annually. Many of the attendees also toured facilities for first-hand demonstrations of project work.\n\"The breadth of the science and technology that the engineers and scientists at SwRI conduct is quite remarkable,\" said Board Chairman Milton B. Lee, who presided at the meeting. \"The projects that we get to hear about, and the demonstrations we see today are just a glimpse of the innovative solutions to real-world problems that are worked on every day out here. I am honored to be an integral part of one of the foremost research and development organizations in the world.\"\nDavid S. Zachry, Vice Chairman. Image Credit: SwRI\nLee and David S. Zachry were elected chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of SwRI's Board of Directors. Lee, retired general manager and CEO of CPS Energy, was Board vice chairman from 2014 to 2015. Both Lee and Zachry, CEO of the Zachry Corp., joined the SwRI Board in 2007.\nStaff presented technical programs on a diverse range of subjects, from the SwRI-led New Horizons mission to Pluto, to SwRI lubricant research that helps modern vehicle engines be more efficient, and the Institute's program in large-scale robotics development. Other highlights included a project overview using SwRI-developed software to understand man-made earthquakes and the latest findings on NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to study magnetic reconnection. SwRI is also helping improve solar power and other green technologies.\nAttendees also were treated to live, up-close demonstrations of the Institute's capabilities in automated vehicles, guardrail crash testing, and fire technology.\nAdditionally, SwRI President Adam L. Hamilton, P.E., announced that former astronaut Col. Eileen Collins, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), and Mark Mays, principal, Mays Family Enterprises Inc., were elected to SwRI's slate of Advisory Trustees.\nHamilton was re-elected president, just the fourth person to hold that position since the Institute was founded in 1947.\nThe re-election of Institute officers was also announced. In addition to Hamilton, SwRI officers include: Walter D. Downing, P.E., executive vice president; Beth Ann Rafferty, CPA,CFO, vice president\u2013finance, and Institute secretary; John W. McLeod, vice president and general counsel; and Linda M. Boehme, CPA, treasurer and assistant Institute secretary.\nAlso re-elected are Vice Presidents Kenneth H. Bennett, Applied Physics; Dr. James L. Burch, Space Science and Engineering; Susan B. Crumrine, Automation and Data Systems; Danny M. Deffenbaugh, Mechanical Engineering; Paul D. Easley, Facilities and Services; Dr. Michael G. MacNaughton, P.E., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Steven D. Marty, P.E., Fuels and Lubricants Research; Mary C. Massey, P.E., Applied Power; Dr. Wesley C. Patrick, Geosciences and Engineering; Nils Smith, P.E., Defense and Intelligence Solutions; and Daniel W. Stewart, P.E., Engine, Emissions, and Vehicle Research.\n\u2190 Taking Titan's Temperature\nU.S. Sanctions On Russia Do Not Bar Use Of Russian Rocket Engine \u2192\nMarch 2 \u2013 March 8\n\u00a92017 Colorado Space News. All rights reserved. This site is updated daily by Bambi L. Dingman.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Isracast Weekend Report: Now to Israel's Election Campaign!\nAnalyst David Essing assesses the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel After President Barak Obama's Victory - at least Netanyahu did not spoil Obama's election chances by ordering an attack on Iran before Nov 6\nIsracast also draws some conclusions about clandestine operations against Iran's nuclear weapons project as now revealed by Israel's top leaders\nBenyamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)\nWill Barack Obama now retaliate against Israel for Bibi Netanyahu's betting on Mitt Romney? Netanyahu's rivals are attacking the Prime Minister for acting irresponsibly by showing his preference for the defeated Republican candidate. Although Netanyahu bet and he bet wrong, the issue is unlikely to be a game-changer in Israel's election campaign that has yet to move into top gear for January 22. First Likud and labor must hold their primaries for the party list of candidates and Shimon Peres, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni must decide once and for all whether to throw their hats into the ring. Meanwhile Netanyahu is trying vigorously to repair some of his damaged bridges with Obama with statements like: \"I will continue to work with President Obama to protect the security interests of Israeli citizens\". And the PM stressed:\"The strategic alliance between Israel and the U.S. is stronger than ever'. (In all fairness it should be said that the much maligned Defense Minister Ehud Barak deserves most of the credit for the 'unprecedented' military collaboration between the two countries. Netanyahu often dispatched Barak on special missions to Washington to smooth over the not infrequent tiffs with the White House and keep relations on the rails with the Pentagon. But the overbearing Barak is often his own worst enemy when it comes to Israeli politics and his Independence party might not win even one seat in the election).\nIsrael must use UN as an offensive tool\nIs Obama worse than Chamberlain?\nLet Hezbollah and Islamic State destoy one another\nIRAN & ISRAEL GO TO THE BRINK\nChicago Mayor Ram Emanuel, a close friend and a former aide to Obama, rejects the idea the U.S. President will now pay back Netanyahu. Emanuel told Israel's Channel 1 TV that he expected Obama to continue the close cooperation with Israel. However the differences between Netanyahu and Obama emanated not only from the Iranian nuclear threat but also the Palestinian peace process. In particular, in his Cairo address to the Arab world the President declared: \"Settlements must stop!\" Under Obama's pressure, Netanyahu froze building at settlements for ten months while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas refused to even come to the table and has sought an imposed settlement by the U.N. To top it off the 'moderate' Abbas had now reunited with genocidal Hamas.\nCould Netanyahu and Obama first face-off over recently announced Israeli plans to build new housing units over the 1967 line which has already triggered American criticism? Will this be the first Israeli casualty during Obama's second term? Then there is the $3 billion in military aid that Israel receives annually from the U.S. \u2013 might it fall prey to future belt-tightening by the administration. In another theatre, a new round of nuclear negotiations is in the cards between the U.S. and Iran. Netanyahu is convinced Tehran will again try to string along Washington - the Israeli leader, if reelected, has set a deadline of spring or early summer for stopping Iran from producing their first A-Bomb. All these ingredients will provide plenty of ammunition for Israel's election campaign.\nOn paper there are additional candidates galore who might challenge Netanyahu, but will they throw their hats into the ring again? Starting at the very top, there's Shimon Peres. At age 89, Peres is not in his dotage but is as sharp as ever and one of the most popular personalities on both the international and domestic scene. Actually Peres has never hidden his admiration for Obama. Nor has his bipartisan position of state president ever stopped him from speaking out on burning issues of the day. For example, Peres has stated loud and clear that Israel should not go it alone against Iran and in his view the recent statements by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were 'very important'. Former Kadima leader Tzipi leader has been urging Peres to resign as state president and head up a new Centrist bloc to challenge Netanyahu. Livni also wants a piece of the political action.\nShimon Peres (Photo: Amit Shabi)\nWhile on a trip to Moscow for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, a reporter queried Peres about a possible career change. Peres cracked: \"I'm not planning the theatre or ballet.\" For many, that did not sound as a definite no. Now Peres did not have to replicate Lyndon Johnson's ' I will not seek and I will not accept\u2026.' But he could have been more decisive if he had wanted to but apparently he didn't. After more speculation in the media, the President issued a firm commitment to finish his term that expires in another eight months and would not return to politics. This does sound pretty final but who knows? When it comes to Shimon Peres, never underestimate the drive of Israel's 'energizer bunny'.\nBut if Peres is now out, Ehud Olmert is a potential candidate who does want desperately to take another run at the premiership. Olmert, as has Livni, baited his time awaiting the outcome of the U.S. election hoping that Obama would win. He has never let his perpetual sea of legal troubles even get in the way of his political ambitions. However the State Prosecutor's appeal of a lower court verdict to the Supreme Court could put the kibosh on Olmert's entering the campaign.\nAt present, Labor's Shelly Yachimovich is Netanyahu's closest rival. Known in Israel as Shelly, she has picked up where the massive social protest movement from the summer of 2011 left off. Her campaign has zoomed in on the widening gap between the 'haves' and the spiraling number of 'have-nots' in Israel and the polls indicate that feisty Shelly is on the ascendancy. But while Shelly's hard-hitting articulation has gained her popularity she is in total lack of defense or foreign affairs experience. Nor at present has she succeeded in recruiting any former IDF generals or Mossad chiefs to beef up her team. (She did have retired Gen. Uri Sagie on board before two women informed Shelly that Sagie had made improper sexual advances to them when they served under his command in the IDF. Although denying the allegations, Sagie immediately quit politics. So Shelly is out shopping again for another military type. The irony is that former Labor party leader Ehud Barak would be just the man she needs for the job. But no way - Shelly lead the rebellion in Labor against Barak because he would not quit the Netanyahu coalition but preferred to remain as defense minister.\nIRAN & ISRAELI ELECTION CAMPAIGN\nNever in the history of Israeli conflict have so many heard so much by so few - Winston Churchill's memorable statement from World War II comes to mind in the Israeli context. It has to do with the recent revelations of Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak and Binyamin Netanyahu about Israel's covert war against Iran's nuclear weapons project. Cloaked under tight censorship for years, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the current incumbent Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak threw caution to the wind while being interviewed by investigative reporter Ilana Dayan for Channel 2 TV in Israel. What triggered this sudden outburst by three top leaders on the most sensitive of Israeli security issues? It's election time not only in the U.S. but also in Israel. At a time he is fighting legal prosecution for sticking his fingers into the public cookie jar, Olmert is mulling over the possibility of leading a centrist bloc against Netanyahu in the January election.\nThe Mossad reports directly to the prime minister and it looks as if Olmert was obviously interested in playing up his role in operations that apparently delayed the Iranians from getting their hands on the A-bomb. So he went public in a revealing interview in which he also lambasted his successor Netanyahu and Barak for their handling of the Iran file. Olmert served as prime from 2006 to 2009, when Labor party leader Barak exploited the Winograd Commission Report to force him to resign for his inept handling of the Second Lebanon War. With her explosive Olmert in the bag, Dayan was then able to cajole Netanyahu and Barak into answering Olmert's allegations. The result was a battle royal on Channel 2 giving Israeli viewers, and the rest of the world, a rare inside look into Israel's covert campaign against Iran.\nPrime Minister Ehud Olmert (Photo: Amit Shabi)\nOlmert referred to Israeli covert operations, some of which he ordered aborted because of the risk of harming innocent bystanders. He even revealed that at a one-on-one meeting, he had once handed U.S. President George Bush 'a piece of 'physical evidence from inside a top-secret Iranian facility' that proved that work was proceeding on nuclear weapons. (Former U.S. national security official Steven Hadley said although the U.S. probably has the greatest technological intelligence network in the Middle East, Israel is probably better in 'humint'). During his term, Olmert disclosed that he and Bush had ordered their intelligence services to hold nothing back from one another when it came to Iran's nuclear weapons project. And although Bush went out of his way to collaborate with Israel he stopped short of providing strategic weapons 'if Israel was planning to use them for striking Iran'.\nIn 2007 when Israel uncovered the secret Syrian reactor being built with North Korea's aid, at one point Olmert called Bush to say it posed an unacceptable threat and Israel would take action. Bush replied that he favored a diplomatic solution and the U.S. would not give 'a green light' for the surgical strike. Olmert replied that he had already made up his mind. After the call, the U.S. President turned to one of his aides and said: \"That guy has guts!\"\nOverall, Olmert stressed that his close cooperation with the U.S. had been the right policy and had paid big dividends. The former PM took Netanyahu to task for clashing swords with President Barack Obama. In his view, it was a major mistake to go against America's wishes and threaten to go it alone against Iran: \"Against our best friend that supplies us the aircraft and the weapons to do so and who we will turn to for help, if things go awry\". On this score, Netanyahu later said that Israel could not put its self-defense in the hands of anyone else, even the U.S. He noted that Menahem Begin had not asked for America's permission when he ordered the bombing of Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor. Nor had David Ben Gurion, when he decided to declare the independent state of Israel in 1938, nor had Levi Eshkol when he launched the Six Day War in 1967 to break the Arab stranglehold on the Jewish state. When asked if he could guarantee the eliminating of the Iranian nuclear threat by the end of his next term if he is reelected, Netanyahu answered emphatically: 'Yes!'.\nWhile Olmert took some pot shots at Netanyahu, he saved his heaviest salvoes for Ehud Barak. While admitting that Barak was one of Israel's top generals, Olmert claimed that Barak, the defense minister, needed supervision. Barak retorted that Olmert's bungling of the Second Lebanon War was documented by the Winnograd Commission.\nIsraeli Air Force F15 (photo: iaf.org.il)\nOne of the most startling revelations of the TV program was that Netanyahu and Barak had sought the seven member inner security cabinet to approve the upgrading of IDF preparedness to the very high level of 'P-plus' for an attack on Iran. This was said to be the code-word for a state of readiness that would launch an attack 'within hours or weeks', if so ordered. Mossad Director Meir Dagan objected on the spot contending that such a step could be illegal because only the full cabinet could decide on going to war. IDF Chief of Staff Gaby Ashkenazi was also opposed contending that his forces were not ready yet for such an extensive operation but the insinuation was that he also felt that time had not run out. This developed into a verbal confrontation.\nOn one side, Netanyahu and Barak argued that it was Israel's political leadership that bore responsibility for state security and the military and intelligence branches were to follow orders. In effect this explained the differences inside the Israeli political and defense establishments on when an attack on Iran would be absolutely necessary. Barak also explained that Israel often goes to the high security readiness for many possible operations that are never carried out. In other words, the proposal to go to 'P-plus' for a strike on Iran did not mean that it was to be launched.\nThe conclusion: one prime minister, Ehud Olmert opposed an Israeli air strike against Iran without a green light from Washington. His successor Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak would be ready to give the order as a last resort.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UK lists Nigeria as a country to be avoided except for essential travel due to Covid-19 risk\nAugust 5th, 2020 African News, Health, News, News UK, Nigerian, World comments\nBRITAIN has published new travel guidelines for its citizens in which it has listed Nigeria as one of the countries to be avoided except for essential travel at the moment due to the high risk of exposure to the Covid-19 virus.\nLike most other nations, the UK and Nigeria prohibited all international travel during the height of the coronavirus pandemic but over recent weeks have eased many of these restrictions. In the UK, international airports like Heathrow and Gatwick have been reopened but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is warning against travel to certain countries.\nDespite the fact that Nigeria has been spared the worst of the pandemic with only 44,433 cases so far, with just 910 fatalities, the country is still on the warning list. In the UK, the total number of infected people is 306,293, while the number of deaths that have occurred from the virus totals 46,299, giving the country the second highest ratio of fatalities in the world of 682 individuals per 1m people.\nIn travel advice given on its website, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, said individuals entering or returning to the UK from Nigeria will be required to follow additional UK border measures, which includes self-isolation for 14 days. It added that if travel is essential, travellers should discuss their plans with a health professional, especially those at higher risk of severe Covid-19.\nAlso, the Foreign office admonished intending travellers to consider the risk at all destinations, including any transit countries and the risk during travel itself. Furthermore, the government also urged them to check with the airline\/tour operators about physical distancing measures or other measures in place to reduce risk during travel.\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"Follow the latest social distancing guidance, including any local requirements and maintain good hand, respiratory and personal hygiene at all times. This may be particularly important if staying with friends and family.\"\ncirinavirus\nUK Foreign and Commonwealth Office\nNext article Virgin Atlantic flights between London and Lagos face threat as airline files for bankruptcy\nPrevious article Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers claims monarch arrested for kidnapping was not its member","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Paul Palmer\nPaul Palmer\nCo-Authored Publications:\nCrowell, S., et al. (2019), The 2015\u20132016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9797-9831, doi:10.5194\/acp-19-9797-2019.\nParker, R., et al. (2011), Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground\u2010based TCCON data and model calculations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L15807, doi:10.1029\/2011GL047871.\nBarkley, M. P., et al. (2008), Net ecosystem fluxes of isoprene over tropical South America inferred from Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) observations of HCHO columns, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D20304, doi:10.1029\/2008JD009863.\nLiu, X., et al. (2005), Mapping tropospheric ozone profiles from an airborne ultraviolet\u2013visible spectrometer, Appl. Opt., 44, 3312-3319.\nNote: Only publications that have been uploaded to the ESD Publications database are listed here.\nPage Last Updated: May 20, 2015","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Battery storage is the fastest-growing industry sector on the planet (which could save the planet)\nin: Batteries,Battery,Energy,Green Friendly,Science & Technology News,Solar Power\nBillions of dollars are being invested worldwide in the developing battery boom, involving research into storage techniques to use the growing surpluses of cheap renewable energy now becoming available. Recent developments in batteries are set to sweep aside the old arguments about renewables being intermittent, dismissing any need to continue building nuclear power plants and burning fossil fuels to act as a back-up when the wind does not blow, or the sun does not shine.\nBatteries as large as the average family house and controlled by digital technology are being positioned across electricity networks. They are being charged when electricity is in surplus and therefore cheap, and the power they store is resold to the grid at a higher price during peak periods.\nAccording to Bloomberg, around US$600 billion will be invested in large-scale batteries over the next 20 years to provide back-up to the grid and power for the expected boom in electric cars.\nThe cost of batteries is also expected to fall by 50% in the next decade, following the same pattern as the drop-in cost of solar panels.\n\"The generally-held belief that there was no way to store electricity has been disproved. The battery boom means it is now just a question of finding the easiest and most economic way of doing it\"\nIt is already financially viable for individual businesses to install batteries to buy electricity when it is cheap, so as to use it during peak periods. Two recent examples are the English premier league club Arsenal FC and a hotel in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital.\nFor Arsenal it makes sense to have a giant battery under its London stadium to store cheap power for use when its floodlights are needed during matches which are usually played when electricity prices are at their peak.\nIn Edinburgh, where there is often a surplus of wind power at night, the batteries provide cheap power for the 200-bedroom Premier Inn hotel in the morning and evening rush. In both cases the capital cost of the batteries is soon repaid in lower power costs.\nCurrently most large batteries are made of lithium, a relatively scarce and expensive mineral. Large investments are being made to find a way of making lithium batteries cheaper and more efficient, and the search is on for less expensive materials that can also be used to store electricity in battery form.\nIn Belgium, ironically on the site of a former coalmine, five large experimental batteries have been installed near Brussels to test the best technologies.\nOne of the latest advances is to use another rare metal, vanadium. Vanadium flow batteries are large static batteries that last for decades and can be charged and discharged completely thousands of times. They are not portable, but last for years without deterioration and are increasingly being deployed by national grids to boost supply during peak demand. A Canadian company, CellCube, has just sold a large battery plant to France.\nThis has been hailed as one of the most promising technologies in energy storage, but there are many other possibilities under development including high-energy magnesium batteries and lithium-air batteries, which are an advance on the current lithium-ion versions used in electric cars and for grid storage.\nThere are also new types of chemical batteries under trial as large-scale static installations which allow the grid to pump out more power at peak times.\nThe key battle for all these technologies is beating rivals on price. This means not just other battery types, but other options under development for storing energy. Surplus energy from renewables is also being used to produce hydrogen, while the surplus from solar power is often stored as heat.\nIn the first few years of this century the generally-held belief that there was no way to store electricity has been disproved. The battery boom means it is now just a question of finding the easiest and most economic way of doing it, and in doing so making a giant step towards a carbon-free future.\nVia Vanadiumcorp.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Browns OC on Manziel TD: Coaching is overrated\nPublished: Sep 21, 2015 at 02:01 AM\nWhen Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel escaped a rush, rolled to open space and bombed an improvised touchdown across his body for a game-clinching pass in Sunday's 28-14 win, Browns head coach Mike Pettine heard a silent surrender on his coaching headset.\n\"Certainly wasn't the way the play was designed,\" Pettine said, via Cleveland.com. \"I think Flip (offensive coordinator John DeFilippo) had the best line of the day on the headset after he rolled out of it, ended up throwing backwards across the field, scored the touchdown. He just says real calmly while everybody was cheering, he said, 'Coaching is overrated.'\n\"They did a nice job, brought pressure. We didn't pick it up. Johnny did a nice job getting out of it and finding Travis and making a play.\"\nPettine might have been happier about Manziel's first touchdown, another bomb to Travis Benjamin that was thrown on a near-pinpoint five-step drop from under center, but at this point, he has to be thrilled that he finished 1-1 over these first two games. Manziel was exactly what they needed against the Titans, though he might not be what they need moving forward.\nPettine wouldn't play the hypothetical game of naming a starter for next week's game against the Raiders in Cleveland, but assuming Josh McCown clears concussion protocol in time, he knows there are two very clear choices ahead of him.\nManziel can instantly make something out of nothing, and it seems that as the weeks wear on, he's learning to adapt his playing style to the NFL. McCown will run the offense as designed, but with a lack of defined playmakers outside of Benjamin, is that the correct route for Cleveland to go?\nLike DeFilippo said: 'Coaching is overrated.'","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tracking Trucking\nNew electronic toll tags will speed freight truck inspections. But the industry cries \"Big Brother.\"\nDavid Talbotarchive page\nThose toll-paying radio tags glued to millions of American windshields-four million in the New York metropolitan area alone-are getting more and more roles. In many areas they double as traffic counters, and in a few pilot projects they allow drive-thru debiting of McDonalds purchases and airport parking fees. Now, they're getting their toughest-and most controversial-job yet: helping law enforcement officers decide which tractor-trailers to pull over for inspection.\nNormally, freight-hauling trucks face the random chance of a mandatory stop at a highway weigh station. There, police check the truck's weight, its safety equipment and the driver's logbook. But in a Maryland pilot study, truckers will have the option, when buying a regular toll tag, of instead getting a new \"fusion\" tag. The new tag pays tolls just like the old ones. But there's a key difference: the tag carries a second set of protocols to communicate with a roadside scanner as the vehicle approaches a weigh station.\nThe scanner relays the truck's ID number to the station ahead where a police officer checks safety databases for information about the truck and its corporate owner (though not the driver, due to privacy concerns). At the same time, a \"weigh in motion\" sensor embedded in the pavement records weight on the fly. Within seconds, the officer makes a decision and beams a signal back to the tag. For trucks with clean histories and proper weights, the tag flashes a green light: keep on truckin'. Riskier rigs get the red: pull over for inspection. Good truckers are spared needless stops; police operate more efficiently.\nSuch pre-screening systems are already being used in some parts of the country. But these existing systems use transponders built only for weigh-station screening, not tolls. Adoption has been slow; only 200,000 of the nation's three million trucks carry these screening-only transponders. Transportation officials believe that adding the screening function to popular toll tags-starting with the E-ZPass system in seven northeastern states including Maryland-will bring them into far wider use.\nAnd so the Maryland experiment is being closely watched as the first 3,000 fusion tags are readied for distribution this month; for starters, they'll only be checked at a single weigh station along I-95 in Perryville, MD.\nThis modest beginning is the first step toward a unified nationwide transponder infrastructure. In such a system, a single tag pays tolls everywhere, spares good truckers needless inspection stops and enables police to focus on higher-risk trucks, says Madeleine Marshall, program manager of the Intelligent Transportation Systems program at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, MD, which is developing the Maryland system.\n\"It's been a long time coming,\" she says. \"The grand vision is that trucks traveling throughout the continental U.S. will have one transponder on the windshield for tolls and for electronic screening.\" This could take five years, and initially will focus on the congested Northeast zone covered by E-ZPass, she says.\nLukewarm Welcome\nBut not everyone is enthusiastic. Truckers are wary that toll tags, which until now have had the sole purpose of helping them avoid tollbooth traffic jams, will become a tool to help police slap truckers with violations. \"They are attempting to use electronically collected information as an enforcement tool, and we have some serious concerns with that,\" says Mike Russell of the American Trucking Association, a Washington-based trucking trade group. \"It smacks of Big Brother, and Big Brother hasn't been authorized to do this.\"\nFor now, anyway, Big Brother is being held at bay, says Rich Taylor, director of information systems for the Intelligent Transportation Society, a Washington-based consortium of government agencies and private companies that develops transportation technologies. That's because participation will be voluntary, he says, with truckers having the option of getting the original E-ZPass tag without the screening function.\nTaylor sees a boon to truckers. \"It could be very significant, because it provides the trucking companies, at least in the Northeast, the ability to have common accounts and reduced transponder costs. And it takes up less room on their windshields.\"\nOf course, the initiative raises the question of whether cars, too, will one day be subject to toll tag-based spot-checks of registration and inspection information. After all, in many regions the infrastructure already exists; tag-readers are installed not only at tollbooths, but also along highways, where authorities use them to count cars and detect traffic jams (see \"The Road Ahead\").\nNot to worry, says Taylor. Transportation planners know that linking car toll tags to policing would prompt drivers to tear them off windshields and resume pitching quarters into baskets. That's why states have resisted the temptation to use tag readers as speed traps, he says.\nIn any case, car drivers simply don't face the sort of random checks for weight limits and safety as truckers. So it seems likely that with ordinary car toll tags, you probably won't ever get screened. But you might get fries with that.\nby David Talbot","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Wild After Dark\nBy Wendi Zwaduk, Elizabeth Coldwell, Nan Comargue, Aurelia T. Evans, Helena Maeve & Lucy Felthouse\n'Beyond the Poison Chalice' by Helena Maeve\nCoveting the enemy is simply to die for.\nClaudia Salizar has given blood, sweat and tears to the tenuous armistice between the factions that inhabit St. Louis. She rules the north side with an iron fist, striving to keep the peace between vampires, werewolves and humans no matter the cost. Stumbling across two mysterious intruders who may jeopardize everything she's worked for is no small inconvenience.\nThe pair need safe passage out of the vampire quarter and they're willing to negotiate. Claudia is immediately drawn to Silver, a human with an unusually delectable scent whose tantalizing touch brings her to the height of ecstasy. His taciturn companion is harder to crack, but Claudia has met her fair share of werewolves and giving herself to Lucan awakens desires she has too long suppressed.\nJustice is soon the furthest thing from Claudia's mind, but colluding with outsiders can have unforeseen ramifications. It's not long before running Silver and Lucan out of town seems like the only sensible option. Time for Claudia to decide what she values more\u2014her hard-won reputation or the two men in her bed?\n'Steal Your Soul Away' by Elizabeth Coldwell\nIn Brighton, the undead come alive when the sun goes down. Can a vampire and a werewolf put their differences aside and join a human in the ultimate threesome?\nAngelique is not like other burlesque dancers. For one thing, she's been a vampire for over two hundred years. Her rule has always been 'look but don't touch', until she meets hot young sculptor Tom. But she's also attracted to his friend, Lucas, even though she knows him to be a lycan\u2014the last creature she'd ever want to get involved with. Desire and distrust mix in an explosive combination as Angelique is drawn closer to both Tom and Lucas.\nTom Lawless is a star on the rise about to exhibit his sculptures at the Cities After Dark show at Brighton Pavilion. When he sees beautiful dancer Angelique, it's lust at first sight and his need for her doesn't fade, even when he learns she's one of the undead. If only he could make her realise that his best friend Lucas is a cool guy and not a threat, their twosome could become a very happy threesome.\nLucas Canning has secrets he doesn't feel comfortable sharing. Just how do you tell your closest friend that you sometimes need to shift into wolf form? And now that friend is dating a gorgeous woman vamp. Lucas is crazy about Angelique but can't get involved with her without hurting Tom. Perhaps the night of the exhibition will give him a chance to show her he's not the bad guy in all this and finally give his animal passion free rein. Because everything gets a little wild when the sun goes down\u2026\nReader Advisory: This book contains scenes of voyerism.\n'Taken In' by Wendi Zwaduk\nFind what you need at the Store Front. Blood, sex\u2026we have it all just for you.\nThe supernaturals have taken over the earth, leaving the humans to serve them. The Store Front is one place for the supernaturals to find partners for feeding and sexual needs. Vic, a wolf shifter, and Gale, a vampire, have a special human female they love to visit. They know the bond between them goes far beyond the bedroom, but convincing Kitty the triad should happen might not be so easy.\nKitty longs to leave the Store Front and the total darkness of the earth. The one bright spot in her day is a visit from Gale and Vic. She loves the two supernatural men, even if she can't voice the words. Do they return her affections on a deeper level or is she just a pawn to them? She's not sure, but she's willing to risk her heart and get wild after dark in order to find out.\nReader Advisory: This book contains scenes of anal sex.\n'Intervention' by Aurelia T. Evans\nIt starts as an intervention for a friend, but it ends in bloodshed, lust, betrayal and death\u2026as love often does after dark.\nWhen Emily's husband, Land, calls her to come down to the warehouse district at sunset, she thinks it's just another job for their para-extermination company.\nHowever, he says that he's finally caught Matt, the third member of their team, who was bitten by a werewolf a few weeks ago and has been missing ever since.\nEmily races to the warehouse, where instead of the friendly intervention she and Land had planned, she finds Matt wild in his cage, a creepy vampire duct-taped to a pipe, Land covered in blood from a bite mark on his neck\u2014and not a single easy answer in sight.\nReader Advisory: This book contains scenes of horror, gore and death.\n'Darker Nights' by Nan Comargue\nLawyer Delia Darker's world becomes very dark when two new clients turn out to be immortal vampires\u2014and her long-time fantasy.\nDelia Darker works at her family's law firm, serving vampires and other immortals, but she has long ago gotten over her own lust for vampire males after being hurt and abandoned by one. When her colleague forces her to take over a meeting with two of his clients, she's suddenly thrown into the night-time world of music, partying and incredible sex. How can she resist spending the night with Mark Lyons and Caleb Jennings?\nCaleb has been searching for his and Mark's one true mate, the ideal match prophesized for immortals. However, Mark is skeptical. Immortality just doesn't seem to go with a committed long-term relationship. It doesn't matter how attractive Delia is, he just doesn't think it's going to work\u2014but he's willing to give it a try for his best friend's sake.\nWhen that first wild night turns into a series of sexy encounters, Delia starts worrying that she might be falling for Mark and Caleb\u2014and that certainly wasn't the plan. She isn't sure she wants to become an immortal. Sleeping with both a vampire and a werewolf might be a crazy experiment that's all right for a little while, but the two males couldn't want more than that, could they?\n'Sated' by Lucy Felthouse\nA human, a vampire and a werewolf walked into a bar. Sexy is what happens next.\nSince getting together with her vampire boyfriend, Ace, Aneesa is enjoying a sex life she could never have with a human. Ace has skill, strength, stamina\u2026and is massively adventurous. Aneesa is checking things off her sexual bucket list at a rate of knots. However, she hasn't even come close to experiencing the ultimate item on her list. So when Ace beats her to it, proposing a threesome with his werewolf friend, Barton, Aneesa's definitely up for it.\nBarton is attractive, smart and sexy\u2014almost too good to be true, in fact. Aneesa decides not to jump straight into things, but makes sure it's what she truly wants. However, it turns out Barton's not so easily dissuaded.\nWill Aneesa get the ultimate erotic experience she's desired for so long? Will she be truly sated, or is the plan doomed to failure?\nGeneral Release Date: 22nd May 2015\nExcerpt from Byeond the Poison Chalice\nAlong the river, the fires had finally burned down to timid, smoky wisps rising little by little into the night sky. If I strained my eyes, I could pick out the bodies arranged like soldiers at the foot of the arch. Only char and silver buckles remained. I'd been thorough this time. No runaways to call for reinforcements, no lapses of judgment to come back and bite me in the ass. Mercy was costly.\nAs I smoothed a pleat in my camel-hair coat, my fingers caught on a rough, murky patch. I wrinkled my nose. Blood washed out, but still. I stood violently, my boots pelting the concrete a hundred feet below with a rain of loose pebbles. It served me right for wearing my favorite coat on the job.\nI made a mental note to keep an eye for some of that witch-hazel soap at the market come Sunday night. Maybe washing powder, assuming I found any. I kicked up from the ledge, landing in a barrel roll from which I rose smoothly, if a little dusty.\nThe Mom and Pop stores had gone bust decades ago, yet still I picked my way over their rooftops like a ghost. A whole five hundred people slept below, some underground, most not. I kept the streets clear, didn't make a fuss when my fee was late, and we all went on pretending the quarter was naturally more peaceful than all surrounding boroughs\u2014all except the south side.\nMost of us tried not to dwell on what went on in the south side if we could help it.\nI crept down at the end of the block, grabbing hold of a gutter to slow my descent before I hit the ground. My landing was smooth and silent, like a gust of wind rippling across the concrete. I blew a strand of blonde hair out of my eyes as I stalked across the potholed tarmac.\nA faint breeze was blowing in from the north, ferrying in the blessed chill of winter. I was looking forward to the long-delayed snows. Humans generally lost their appetite for conquest in glacial weather. Long nights kept them cloistered in well-defended strongholds, provisions aplenty to shield them from itinerants of my kind. Bad weather heralded peace, for the most part.\nMy smile soured at the notion. I had no grounds to complain, but we should have found better ways to grow our numbers by now.\nThe next fork in the road presented a range of options. A left would take me to the roadhouse by the Mississippi and open the door to Antwan's bottomless supply of moonshine. I'd curl up in the back of the bar and let him tell me about his day until the first blades of sunshine crept through the window. Or I could take a right and make for the nearest manhole. A splash of pink-and-green graffiti on the grille of an ancient bakery invited me to renounce the Devil, which was no choice at all, seeing as I was purportedly cut from the same cloth.\nThe humans I'd recently dispatched certainly believed so. They hurled slurs like silver bullets, all equally ineffective.\nI slowed my steps. Echoes drifted from across the street, bearing the feeble sounds of a struggle. None of my business. The last time I'd interrupted what I assumed was a werewolf getting a little handsy with a new pack initiate, I'd nearly lost a limb.\nI made to continue my journey to Antwan's, already fantasizing about the sharp burn of homemade liquor as it slid down my throat.\nA growl cleaved the silence of the night. I stopped in my tracks.\nOnce, I would've had to watch out for cars zooming along the streets like motorized arrowheads, red-eyed humans clutching their steering wheels and seeing nothing. No more. I'd cleared the streets of troublemakers a long time ago. Antwan's people should've known better.\nI tracked the racket into the shadows. My eyes adjusted quickly, but still I registered the scene in a series of flashes, like snapshots from a movie.\nTwo bloodsuckers ganging up on a lone wolf. Click. Blood smeared on his collar and staining the front of his checkered shirt. Click. The fetid scent of human fear wafting in the air like a white flag. Click. The human himself, backed into a corner, his blown-open eyes darting nervously in the low light.\nHere was trouble.\nExcerpt from Steal Your Soul Away\nThis city came to life once the sun went down.\nStanding in the walled rooftop garden that had persuaded her to take the apartment, Angelique looked out over the Brighton skyline. The September night retained some heat, though it did not warm her skin, and she wrapped her silk shawl a little tighter around herself. Her preternaturally sharp hearing picked up the sound of music playing and laughter in a bar a couple of streets away. In the distance, the sea was a flat, calm expanse of black.\nTempted as she was to drink in the atmosphere a little longer, work called. Mick might be among the best of the many bosses she'd had in her working life, but the one thing he didn't tolerate was tardiness. With some reluctance, she left the garden, picked up her bag from the living room, then set off for the club.\nClub Peekaboo was housed in what had once been a public house in the Lanes, a good fifteen minutes' walk from Angelique's apartment. Some of the other girls who danced there raised eyebrows at her willingness to travel everywhere by foot, even in the small hours of the morning or on the coldest winter nights, but she never felt afraid. Any would-be mugger who tangled with what they took to be just another slender, fragile-looking brunette would quickly discover their error.\nBy the time she entered the club, the evening's show was already well under way. Walking along the corridor towards the dressing rooms, Angelique bumped into Sally, a girl no more than five feet tall, with dyed scarlet hair and an almost cartoonishly voluptuous figure, all tits and hips. Sally performed under the stage name of Dusty Kaboom. She trotted along carrying her stage outfit of a saucy little nurse's uniform, her round bottom almost totally on display thanks to the tiny thong she wore. When she stripped out of that uniform to the strains of Robert Palmer's version of Bad Case of Loving You, accompanied by saucy stroking motions along the shaft of an oversized thermometer, she damn near brought the house down.\n\"Hey, Angelique.\" Sally's impish face broke into a grin. \"How's it going?\"\n\"Not bad. Mick's not asking where I am, is he?\"\nSally shook her head. \"He knows you never let him down. Though I'm sure he'd allow a bit of leeway for the star of the show.\" As she pushed open the dressing room door, she added, \"I'm off for a drink in that new cocktail bar down by the pier later on. Meeting up with Chrissie and her new man. D'you fancy joining us after you finish here?\"\n\"That would be nice.\" She hadn't seen Chrissie in months, not since the girl had landed a job in a vintage clothing shop in North Laine and returned to the daytime world. And Angelique had made no plans for tonight. She often liked to walk the streets till just before sunrise, luxuriating in the quiet darkness of the sleeping city.\nThe two women went to their usual dressing tables, Sally to change back into what she referred to as her 'civilian clothing', and Angelique to begin the process of turning herself into a figure of pure fantasy.\nShe peeled out of her wine-red dress and hung it up, before taking off her underwear. Like Sally, Angelique was not in the least self-conscious about walking round naked\u2014she'd had a long time to grow used to the way her body looked, after all\u2014and she stretched out the kinks in her limbs before stepping into a nude-coloured silk thong. Next, she fitted diamant\u00e9 pasties over her nipples. After that came the corset, with cups designed to just about cover her breasts and offer tantalising glimpses of her pale flesh as she moved. She completed the outfit with elbow-length gloves in ivory satin, nude stay-up stockings and a feather fascinator that she clipped into her neat updo.\nAs she applied another coat of ruby gloss to already slick lips, Mick popped his head round the dressing room door. He let in the sounds of dance music with a slow, grinding beat and voices raised in excited conversation.\nExcerpt from Taken In\n\"The Earth will never be safe again.\" Kitty Davis peered out of the picture window of the Store Front. \"Not until the balance is restored.\"\nThe street lamps glowed above the sidewalks and a few cloaked figures made their way up and down the main drag of Clarke. She didn't recognize anyone on the street, but then she wouldn't know many of them. Humans no longer owned the world. The Vampires and Shifters now ran things. The humans had become little more than slaves to the supernatural beings and were locked in perpetual darkness.\n\"I don't want to live in the darkness and bear children,\" she muttered. \"I want the chance to be free and find a person who loves me\u2014not this.\"\nCouples paired off around her and disappeared into the various rooms of the building. The law had come down from the Governor stating the humans existed for the sole means of creating children with the shifters and as a blood source for the vampires. She pulled her robe over her shoulders to stave off the chill. The darkness depressed her. She had no future beyond the Store Front.\n\"You're safe inside,\" her friend Maddox said. She hiked up her bra top again. \"We could be out there trying to fend for ourselves. I'm not saying this is great, but it's better than starving.\"\nKitty respected Maddox's tendency to see the bright side of the situation, but she couldn't see the bright side of being a blood slave.\n\"What if there's more to our lives than being what we are? I want a life, not a virtual death sentence.\" Yes, being at the Store Front meant protection. The women were there as courtesans for the supernaturals, and were kept safe in order for them to provide those services. The rules didn't forbid her from leaving if she chose to go, but why bother? If she did leave, she'd be subjected to the law of the supernaturals. Too many bad things could happen\u2014being killed, being attacked or dying of starvation. She refused to risk her chances of staying alive.\nMaybe her men would come in today. She hadn't seen Vic or Gale in what seemed like forever. They always treated her with respect and care. Her blood warmed just thinking about them.\n\"Girl,\" a male voice shouted. \"Kitty.\"\nKitty shuddered. The command from the owner, William, meant one thing. She was being requested as a blood slave. She shrugged out of her robe and handed the garment to Maddox. \"Wish me luck,\" she murmured, then strode over to the vampire at the counter. The guy didn't look familiar. Maybe he wouldn't come back.\n\"Feed him,\" William snarled. He wrapped an arm around her and his tone changed. \"Not much longer and you won't have to service them. You'll get your heart's desire.\" He offered her a smile before he shoved her forward. \"Now do your job, honey. You're not here to look pretty unless they want you for a good time.\"\nAny good feelings she had toward William evaporated the moment she stumbled into the patron's arms. The man smelled of garbage and sweat. Kitty crinkled her nose and grasped his hand. If she had to provide him sustenance, then she wanted to do it away from the prying eyes of the rest of the club. She led the vampire down the plush carpeted hallway to her private room.\n\"Before we enter, show me your bracelet.\" She turned his arm over. The bracelet determined what services he'd paid for and what she was to provide. He wore a purple band\u2014feeding only. Thank God. Screw the job. She refused to have sex with anyone other than her boys.\nThe vampire reached out and palmed her breast. \"Soft,\" he mumbled. \"Pretty.\"\n\"Yes, it's soft and pretty.\" She swatted his hand away, then opened the door. \"Go in and sit.\" She nudged the vampire ahead of her then closed the door behind them. One day she'd be free of the Store Front. She'd have someone who cherished her, not someone who wanted her for her blood or reproductive capabilities. One day\u2026\nExcerpt from Intervention\n\"Land, what time is it?\"\n\"It's seven.\"\n\"What do you mean it's seven? Why didn't my alarm go off?\"\n\"You needed the sleep, Em,\" Land replied.\n\"So you decided to go off on your own at night just so I could get a little shut-eye? Land, we've watched enough horror movies to know that splitting up is not a good idea.\"\n\"I know. But we've also watched enough reality TV to know that not getting enough sleep also isn't a good idea.\"\n\"Touch\u00e9. Did we get a call?\"\n\"No, Em. I found him.\"\nEmily sat straight up in bed. \"You found Matt?\"\n\"The lures worked. He's in the trap.\"\nEmily rocked out of bed and yanked on a pair of leggings. Then she did some fancy moves to get a sports bra on without taking off her long tank sleep shirt. \"That's great. That's really great. Is he okay?\"\n\"More or less,\" Land replied.\nEmily stopped rushing through their dark bedroom. \"Is something wrong? You sound weird.\"\n\"The important thing is that we found him. You should come down. We need to do the intervention together. He won't listen to me. He'll listen to you.\"\n\"Um, okay. I'll get my coffee and drive right over.\"\n\"Love you, Em.\"\n\"I love you, too, Land. Are you sure\u2014\"\nThe call abruptly ended.\nLand had never hung up on her like this, not unless they were in a knock-down, drag-out kind of fight, and they'd only had that twice in their relationship. And both times, Emily had known they were in one.\nHer stomach tightened, but she forced herself not to overanalyze.\nThat didn't mean she couldn't hurry. By the time she made it to the warehouse, it would be full-on dark.\nShe grabbed a large bottle of iced coffee from the second shelf of the fridge. Then she hopped into her subcompact. Land had the company car, but hers had an extermination kit or two for emergencies, so she wasn't going out to the warehouse district half-cocked.\nAs she drove away from the glittery, bustling part of the city, the blue velvet of the sky went black.\n\"Ladies and gentlemen, lock your doors,\" she whispered.\nThree years ago, if someone had told Emily that she was going to be in pest control, she would have laughed in that person's face while spraying a line of Raid around her apartment.\nThese days, she could pick up a cockroach without flinching. They were nothing in comparison to the kinds of infestations she, Land and Matt had to deal with in addition to the usual suspects. It just so happened that the usual suspects tended to hang around the unusual ones so often that they'd get paid on the books for the usual, then off the books\u2014cash, goods or services\u2014for the unusual. Because how were they supposed to put 'rat-sized cockroach demon spawn' on the invoice without raising some red flags during an audit?\nTheir unconventional night job had started as an accident, evolved into a hobby then turned into a full-on occupation.\nThe accident had happened during a bit of urban exploring that had followed Land's side job at the time as an exterminator's apprentice. When rats started having red eyes and a person didn't have holy water on hand, they'd better hope they had a cross necklace or a rosary. Emily had. Land hadn't.\nBack then, it had been a good thing the vampire family hadn't really been interested in bothering or being bothered, otherwise Land might have died then and there.\nAfter that encounter, though, they'd felt like they had a responsibility. 'Once seen, never unseen' and all that. Balancing the work with school had meant creative hours, cat naps, copious amounts of caffeine and a few prayers, but it was totally worth it.\nExcerpt from Darker Nights\n'This business is all about repeat clients,' Delia's father had once told her, and she'd realized this was true the first time she'd handled a vampire divorce case.\nThe vampires were wealthy\u2014all of them. At least, all of the ones who got divorced. It was a function of interest rates and the upward trend of the stock markets. Her father again. Except Delia couldn't quite believe that the restless, beautiful creatures who came to see her at the office checked their margin accounts or even knew what a margin account was. Even less could she picture them once poring over newspapers or ticker tape.\nThey were too modern. Relentlessly so. A vampire never wore last year's fashions, much less stuff from the eighties or nineties. It was almost as if they tried to hide their immortality in the styles of the day.\nHer new client, Rosa Linden, was dressed in haute couture. More incredibly, she managed to pull it off, as so many wealthy women were unable to. It helped that her body would have made a supermodel weep in envy.\nThat was the only way a normal woman could get such a body, Delia reflected with a healthy dose of self-mockery\u2014to never eat. To never have to eat. Delia didn't think she could give up the pistachio macaroons from La Table, even for the black-and-white graphic sheath Rosa Linden was wearing, which must have cost what Delia made in a month. She would rather her boring gray suit\u2014and the macaroons.\nRosa made Delia nervous and she seemed to know it, if the half-smile etched on her exquisite face was any indication.\n\"Where's your father?\" Rosa asked. Again.\nDelia smiled with her teeth alone. \"Retired.\"\nActually her father was in respite care for his advanced stomach cancer but she didn't see the need to tell her client. Vampires exhibited two reactions to the subject of death\u2014relish or pity. Delia wasn't in the mood to deal with either.\n\"He was such a good lawyer,\" Rosa said, as if she knew exactly where he was and figured it was the equivalent of actual death. \"He handled my last two divorces and my takeover of my ex-husband's company. Do you practice corporate law as well?\"\nDelia looked up from the figures on her computer screen, figures that were making no sense. \"What? No, I don't do corporate.\"\nRosa nodded with that same irritating suggestion of having known the answer beforehand. \"No, I can't imagine it would suit you, not like it suits your colleague.\"\nDelia had more than a dozen colleagues, but she immediately knew which one Rosa meant. To the female patrons, there was only one who mattered.\nHenry Merrill.\nGod's gift to women. Young and old. Mortal and immortal.\n\"Henry is competent in a lot of areas,\" Delia agreed, meaning to point out that her own specialty was the exact type of law Rosa seemed to require most often.\n\"Indeed, he is,\" Rosa murmured with another half-smile. \"I'm just wondering how you would possibly know.\"\nHer bright stare moved over Delia just slowly enough to be insulting.\nDelia felt her face color but she did not give way to her first instinct, which was to meet rudeness with rudeness. She was too much a professional. The blood running through her veins was shot through with lawyerly caution, several generations of it, and that caution told her never to insult a customer\u2014no matter how aggravating they could be.\n\"Are you afraid of all your clients? Or just the vampires?\"\nAfraid? What a thought. Delia wasn't afraid of vampires. She was turned on by them.\nBut she couldn't exactly share that fact with the other woman, now could she?\nDelia ignored the taunting questions and somehow made it through the rest of the meeting, but inwardly she was tumbling back years into the past to her first real interaction with a vampire.\nExcerpt from Sated\nA human, a vampire and a werewolf walked into a bar. Sounds like the start of a bad joke. I can assure you it isn't. And telling you that, actually, the human and the vampire walked into the bar together, and found the werewolf already there, probably doesn't make it sound any better. Well tough, because that's the way it went down.\nAce and I met at a Halloween fancy dress party. I know, I know\u2014clich\u00e9 of clich\u00e9s. And yes, he was dressed as a vampire, albeit a horrendously exaggerated one\u2014all slicked-back hair, \u00fcber pale skin and visible fangs. In real life, he actually looks no different to you or I. Okay, he is a bit pale. But at the time, I'd laughed at him and asked if he thought vampires weren't a bit overdone\u2014it was when Twilight was at the height of its popularity\u2014all angsty teens and stalkerish behavior.\nHe'd laughed right back, a joyous, melodious sound that had heat pooling in my groin\u2014then as suddenly as it had arrived, his mirth disappeared. Then he'd said, \"Overdone or not, we're here to stay. And I don't fucking sparkle.\"\nMy heart had been pounding, and my mouth had gone dry. Somehow, I'd known he wasn't joking. And, although my conscious brain had shut down, my subconscious had had my back, because I'd heard myself say, \"Well, thank fuck for that, because I've never been a fan of glitter.\"\nHe'd laughed again, the sound tugging at my very core. And\u2014apologies for yet another clich\u00e9\u2014we've been together ever since.\nSeveral years later and we're still as madly in love as ever, and still fucking like rabbits. Sex with a vampire is everything you'd expect it to be\u2014energetic, powerful, finessed, mind-blowing and packed with stamina. Providing you can keep up, that is.\nIn addition to our unquenchable lust for each other, Ace and I have engaged in bondage, sex toys, spanking, anal, pegging\u2014almost an A to Z of things to do in bed. Some we've tried and discarded, others have been a regular part of our sexual repertoire.\nAnd yet, our latest adventure was the most exciting yet. You see, after mine and Ace's initial meeting, I was given an almighty education in everything it meant to be a vampire. Myths were dispelled, other beliefs were confirmed\u2014he definitely didn't sparkle\u2014and yet more things I'd never even thought of were seared into my brain.\nSo when Ace announced he had a friend who was a werewolf, I didn't even bat an eyelid. It was the follow up information that surprised me.\n\"He wants to what?\" The tone of my voice by the end of the sentence was so high that probably only dogs could hear me. And yet it was genuine surprise, rather than disapproval, that fuelled my reaction.\nRaising his eyebrows, Ace gave me that sexy smirk that always gets my blood pounding through my veins and my pussy aching to be filled. \"You heard me, Aneesa. My friend Barton would like to screw you. With me present, of course, and actively taking part.\"\n\"A th-threesome?\" I stumbled over the word\u2014not because I was horrified. Quite the opposite, in fact. Being fucked by two hot guys at once had long been on my sexual bucket list\u2014a list that, since meeting Ace, had had items checked off it at a rate of knots. I was going to have to start thinking of some more shit to put on it. I was way too young to have completed my bucket list\u2014sexual or not\u2014for Christ's sake!\n\"That's right, baby. And, from your reaction, I'm guessing you're up for it.\"\n\"My rea\u2014\" The penny dropped. Thoughts of two pairs of hands on me, two firm bodies pressed against mine, two hard cocks\u2026 I hadn't said a word that affirmed how much the idea turned me on, but I didn't need to. With his super senses, Ace would've picked up on my elevated heart rate, possibly an increase in sweating, the scent of the slickness growing between my legs\u2026and that didn't include the stuff a human would have noticed\u2014widened pupils, pink cheeks and perky nipples.\nAce's talents didn't extend to mind-reading, but it didn't matter. He'd pegged me right away.\nGenres: M\u00c9NAGE AND MULTIPLE PARTNERS\nWendi Zwaduk, Elizabeth Coldwell, Nan Comargue, Aurelia T. Evans, Helena Maeve & Lucy Felthouse\nWendi Zwaduk\nWendi Zwaduk is a multi-published, award-winning author of more than one-hundred short stories and novels. She's been writing since 2008 and published since 2009. Her stories range from the contemporary and paranormal to BDSM and LGBTQ themes. No matter what the length, her works are always hot, but with a lot of heart. She enjoys giving her characters a second chance at love, no matter what the form. She's been the runner up in the Kink Category at Love Romances Caf\u00e9 as well as nominated at the LRC for best contemporary, best m\u00e9nage and best anthology. Her books have made it to the bestseller lists on Amazon.com and the former AllRomance Ebooks. She also writes under the name of Megan Slayer.\nWhen she's not writing, she spends time with her husband and son as well as three dogs and three cats. She enjoys art, music and racing, but football is her sport of choice.\nYou can find out more about Wendi on her website or on her blog. You can also find her on Instagram, Bookbub and Amazon.\nElizabeth Coldwell\nElizabeth Coldwell is a multi-published author and editor whose stories have appeared in a number of best-selling anthologies. She has written novels in a variety of different genres, from paranormal to BDSM and contemporary romance. She is the former editor of the UK edition of Forum magazine and the proud winner of an International Leather Award. When she is not busy writing, she is an avid supporter of Rotherham United Football Club and can be regularly found on the terraces at weekends, cheering her boys to victory (hopefully!).\nFind her online at The (Really) Naughty Corner, http:\/\/elizabethcoldwell.wordpress.com\nNan Comargue\nNan Comargue is a romance and erotic romance writer who has been reading romance novels all her life. She prefers sexy confident heroes who win over slightly introverted heroines (read: nerdish types) but she writes about everything from angel-warriors to cowboy m\u00e9nage.\nNan blogs about her writing journey and other interesting topics (zombies!) here but lately she tweets more than she blogs (and sometimes more than she writes).\nNan is Canadian, eh?\nAurelia T. Evans\nAurelia T. Evans is an up-and-coming erotica author with a penchant for horror and the supernatural.\nShe's the twisted mind behind the werewolf\/shifter Sanctuary trilogy, demonic circus series Arcanium, and vampire serial Bloodbound. She's also had short stories featured in various erotic anthologies.\nAurelia presently lives in Dallas, Texas (although she doesn't ride horses or wear hats). She loves cats and enjoys baking as much as she dislikes cooking. She's a walker, not a runner, and she writes outside as often as possible.\nHelena Maeve\nHelena Maeve has always been a globe trotter with a fondness for adventure, but only recently has she started putting to paper the many stories she's collected in her excursions. When she isn't writing erotic romance novels, she can usually be found in an airport or on a plane, furiously penning in her trusty little notebook.\nLucy Felthouse is the award-winning author of erotic romance novels Stately Pleasures (named in the top 5 of Cliterati.co.uk's 100 Modern Erotic Classics That You've Never Heard Of, and an Amazon bestseller), Eyes Wide Open (winner of the Love Romances Caf\u00e9's Best M\u00e9nage Book 2015 award, and an Amazon bestseller), The Persecution of the Wolves, Hiding in Plain Sight and The Heiress's Harem series. Including novels, short stories and novellas, she has over 170 publications to her name. Find out more about her writing at http:\/\/lucyfelthouse.co.uk, or on Twitter (http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cw1985) or Facebook (http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lucyfelthousewriter). Join her Facebook group (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/lucyfelthousereadergroup\/) for exclusive cover reveals, sneak peeks and more! Subscribe to her newsletter here: http:\/\/www.subscribepage.com\/lfnewsletter\nReviewed by Night Owl Reviews\nThis collection is definitely filled with wild adventures to be had. The novellas are well paced, spicy and exciting to read. Read the stories and take a trip on the wild side be Wild After Dark. These...\nReviewed by Redz World\nOver all Wild After Dark is a well written diverse anthology. I highly recommend to all paranormal lovers. This has a little bit of something for everyone. I like how the stories tie into th...\nShare what you thought about Wild After Dark and earn reward points.\nWild After Dark exclusive feature\nTotally Bound speaks exclusively to Helena Maeve, Elizabeth Coldwell, Wendi Zwaduk, Aurelia T. Evans, Nan Comargue and Lucy Felthouse about Wild After Dark, our new MFM anthology featuring vampires, werewolves and the paranormal.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Reality Stars Bio\nFitness Personality\nReality Contestant\nVine Star\nReality Famous\nLiane Valenzuela (born August 22, 1986) is a singer\/songwriter, model, dancer, and an internet personality. Liane V is a multi-talented star who found success through Youtube and Vine for cover songs and short comedy skits. Liane was born of Filipino descent, she was raised in Modesto, California where her parents ran a DJ company on the side and owned a nurse registry.\nLiane V resides in Los Angeles, California, she's under management with Brand X Networks. Liane V has been in a relationship with Don Benjamin since 2015, she previously dated comedian 'King Bach\". Liane's popularity keeps growing by the day, her Instagram account currently has 3.1 million follows.\nTrivia on Liane V:\nLiane V was born in San Jose and raised in Modesto, California. After graduating high school, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams of being an entertaining.\nLiane V runs a clothing line called \"Donut Headz\" that offers snapbacks, t-shirts and tank tops.\nLiane V has toured The Far East Movement and appeared in a music video for Tyga.\nLiane V Facts\nAugust 22, 1986 (36 years old)\nDancer, Songwriter, Vine Star, Singer, Internet Personality, Model, Instagram Star, Youtube Star, Actress, Television Personality\nHow do I contact Liane V?\n[Featured Image by Liane V\/Facebook]\nCassey Vinh Ho\nSong of Style, This Month's Top Fashion Vlogger To Watch On YouTube\nMcDonald's announced \"Szechuan sauce will be coming back once again this winter\"\nNelly Arrested In Washington State For Second-Degree Rape\nKim Zolciak-Biermann Jokes on Twitter About Daughter Giving Oral Sex To Meet John Legend\nAriel Winter Defends Her Dress Choice\nMC Jin Returns To Music After 2 Year Hiatus\nConor McGregor Wants His Next Fight To Be In The Boxing Ring\n8 Year Old Boy Badly Burned After Trying Stunt From Viral Video\nUndefeated Boxer Floyd Mayweather Rejects $25 Million Offer From UFC Boss Dana White To Fight\nSteve Harvey Mocks The Idea Of Anyone Who Would Like Asian Men\nRealityFamous is an online magazine focused on past and rising up-and-coming reality stars from Television and Social Media.\nIf you have a awesome news tip or would like to write a guest post be sure to drop us a line!\nOne of the most influential fashion video bloggers on YouTube is Song of Style....\nOn Wednesday, hundreds of Rick and Morty fans had lined up at the popular...\nNelly was arrested early Saturday morning for second-degree rape charges. The incident allegedly happened...\nReal housewives of Atlanta reality star, Kimberleigh \"Kim\" Zolciak-Biermann, made a joke on twitter that...\nAriel Winter from the television Modern Family went on Instagram to defend her dress...\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 RealityFamous.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cindy Zamora, 60, has lived at the Hoback RV Park for the last 17 of her 31 years in Teton County. \"I have no options whatsoever,\" she said.\nRYAN DORGAN\/Jackson Hole Daily\nMilton Powell helps his neighbor Mary Talisman after she woke up with no running water at the Hoback RV Park. Talisman, who is 76 years old and has multiple sclerosis, hoped to find a place in Idaho Falls if she were to be displaced from her Hoback Junction home.\nRYAN DORGAN \/ NEWS&GUIDE\nThe Hoback RV Park has been used as a campground and RV park dating back to the 1950s. The property's current owners are remedying a failing septic system with a smaller replacement, which they say will not accommodate the current number of residents.\nMary Talisman\nJeffrey Meehan\nMilton Powell\nFour-year resident Inanna Reistad organized a petition to garner community support and call for the owners to let residents leave at a more reasonable time of year.\nHoback RV Park residents launch petition, owners negotiate with offer\nAfter mounting pressure, owners offer temporary reprieve at Virginian site, but trailers still must move by Dec. 31.\nBy Emily Mieure\nEmily Mieure\n11 min to read\nResidents of the Hoback RV Park were told via text message and email the evening of Thursday, Nov. 19, that they would need to move their homes from the property by the end of December. Those who have lived there for years are pleading with the park's new owners for more time.\nSitting on a blanket on the floor of her trailer Sunday evening Mary Talisman is in better spirits than she was two days ago.\n\"I cried a lot. A lot,\" Talisman said. \"It devastated me. Devastation is the only word I can think of. I was totally and completely devastated.\"\nTalisman and her neighbors at the Hoback RV Park are scrambling to figure out what's next after receiving notice Thursday evening that they need to leave the property before New Year's Day.\nProperty owners say the land must be cleared to make way for a new septic system that will replace a failing septic system that violates several state and county regulations.\nOn Monday residents started a petition, which has 500 signatures and counting, pleading with the property owners to give them until the end of May to move out.\nOn Tuesday property owners responded to the outcry by sending a press release stating they have secured another location in Teton County where tenants can move their RVs from December through April.\nMany were still digesting the proposed solution on Tuesday. Though some, including Talisman, said it won't be worth uprooting, moving to a temporary space and moving again in April if they can find a permanent home elsewhere. Because two moves in the next five months would be costly.\n\"It's because we are banding together that I have room to breathe,\" Talisman said.\nTalisman lives alone, save for her 19-year-old cat, Ellie, in a trailer at the park.\nIt's not an easy lifestyle for a 76-year-old with multiple sclerosis. Talisman recently got stuck in her trailer for four days when she couldn't clear snow.\nAnd she's been washing her clothes in the sink since March, when property managers closed the on-site laundry facility. She keeps 15 jugs of water in her RV at all times because the water on-site, she said, hasn't been drinkable for nearly a year.\nBecause of her age and her MS, Talisman is at a higher risk of dying should she contract COVID-19. She doesn't want to tempt fate by going to a public laundromat.\nBut her little RV in Hoback provides warmth in the winter, and the price is right: $650 a month.\n\"I'm living on Social Security, so I don't have a lot of money,\" she said. \"It's why I chose this option.\"\nIn her 25 years in Jackson Hole, Talisman has moved seven times. Each move was due to rent hikes or to make room for condominiums.\nBut it's this notice \u2014 in the middle of the winter, a pandemic and the holidays \u2014 that will force Talisman to permanently leave the valley she's called home for decades.\n\"I feel as though I've slipped through the cracks,\" Talisman said.\nMost of the other regional RV parks are full or closed for the winter, forcing her to move to Idaho Falls \u2014 if she can find a space for her RV there.\n\"Part of the depth of my sadness is \u2026 I thought I was done with all this,\" she said.\nTalisman will have to hire someone to haul her 28-foot trailer to Idaho.\n\"God knows what this trailer will do on the highway,\" she said.\nMany residents elderly and high risk\nWalk down the line of RVs at the park and you'll hear similar stories.\nTalisman's neighbor Milton Powell has lived there 22 years. He's discouraged at how impossible it's become for the working class to live in Jackson Hole.\n\"It's time to leave this f---ing valley, as far as I'm concerned,\" he said.\nPowell works in construction, and his wife works at Jackson Hole Airport. The longtime resident, who turns 64 this weekend, relies on his wife's health insurance. But having to move with little notice might mean quitting their jobs and moving out of state.\n\"I have a few health issues going on, and I can't lose my insurance,\" he said. \"But she'll have to quit her job. And we'll have to move. Everything about this, the timing of all of this in my life, is just terrible.\"\nAside from having to uproot mid-pandemic without health insurance, Powell has lived the RV lifestyle long enough to know you don't try to move in winter.\n\"It can be done, but you leave a mess,\" he said. \"They expect the sites to be clean when we leave, but there's no way. That stuff is going to be frozen to the ground.\"\nA few doors down Jeffrey Meehan, who's lived at the RV park for 12 years, is livid.\n\"There is no place to go, especially with my dog,\" he said Sunday. \"Every place is full in town. I cannot find a place.\"\nMeehan feels slighted, saying the new property owners said last year that tenants would be able to renew leases at the end of the year through May 2021.\n\"There was a verbal statement that we would have the option to stay until May no matter what,\" he said.\nReached by phone on Tuesday, Meehan said the temporary spaces the property owner is offering through April might work for him. But he would like more information than what's being provided.\n\"I would literally have to have a trailer come down and haul my vehicle,\" Meehan said. \"But I need more specifics. Will it be pet-friendly? Because I would leave Jackson before I'd leave my dog.\"\nHaving survived lung cancer last year, Meehan is also considered high risk for COVID-19.\nHe can't understand why they're being asked to vacate when health experts and government officials are urging people to stay home.\n\"The governor, the federal government, the local governments: 'Stay at home,'\" he said. \"Our landlord?: 'Get the f--- out.'\"\nSeptic violations, new ownership\nThe Hoback RV Park, which sits on a 2.1-acre lot, changed hands in 2019, when Norris and Layne Brown deeded to Crowley Capital the property that has been used as a campground and RV park dating to the 1950s. According to property records, on Oct. 8 of this year MV Farms I LLC assumed 81.5% interest in the property. Crowley Capital still owns a smaller percentage of the property, records indicate.\nOn the same day in October, MV Farms I was also deeded majority interest in two commercial properties on Berger Lane in Jackson \u2014 the former home of JB Appliance and JB Mechanical \u2014 by Crowley Capital manager Lane LaMure. LaMure was acting as authorized signatory for 1545 \u2014 1565 Berger Lane LLC, which documents show is managed by Robert Huggins. The properties were purchased last year, and the businesses that once operated there are now a subsidiary of Orion Companies, for which LaMure serves as chief investment officer and Huggins as president and CEO.\nOrion is the umbrella company of Huggins' New West Building Company and has greatly expanded its residential and commercial development footprint in Teton County over the past few years, purchasing property and subcontractors including Delcon, JB Appliance and JB Plumbing, Lawngevity, South Park Metal Works, Patagonia Painting and several other businesses.\nThe signatures of either Huggins or LaMure \u2014 who is also a partner and former chief investment officer at former major league baseball player Alex Rodriguez's real estate investment firm A-Rod Corp \u2014 can be found on documents related to several recent high-profile property transfers including Hoback RV Park, The Virginian Lodge, Basecamp and Rations in Wilson and The Mangy Moose Restaurant and Saloon in Teton Village.\nCalls, texts and emails to employees at Orion, New West and Crowley were met with two press releases sent an hour apart Tuesday afternoon, one from Crowley Capital and one from Orion Companies. Orion's press release stated that \"while certain employees of Orion are invested in the Hoback RV Park, Orion is not an investor and is not affiliated with Crowley Capital.\" Property records show addresses for Crowley Capital and MV Farms I match physical and mailing addresses listed for Orion Companies.\nIn a separate press release Crowley Capital described itself as minority owners of the Hoback RV Park and said it had secured a temporary housing solution, with the option for tenants to move to the RV park across from Teton County Library. In addition, Crowley Capital said it is making tenants aware of potentially longer-term alternatives in Victor and Driggs, Idaho.\nMartin offered an apology in his Tuesday press release for lack of coordination with residents.\n\"Providing safe and affordable housing to our community is something we take very seriously. We apologize that we did not coordinate better with our tenants beforehand, but our own information and options were quite limited,\" Crowley Capital Manager Justin Martin said in the news release.\nAn unsigned email sent to tenants from hobackrvpark@gmail.com at 5:12 p.m. Nov. 19, said that owners plan to install a new septic system in early December and that its capacity will be \"well below that of the old one.\"\nPermits submitted to Teton County in October by Martin show the RV park owners were approved for two new separate septic systems. Teton County Engineer Ted Van Holland said it appears as if the owners are moving forward with only one smaller system and will likely withdraw their permit for a second, larger system that would accommodate all the current tenants.\n\"This notice indicates that they aren't going to install the central facilities and wastewater handling facilities,\" Van Holland said Monday.\nCrowley Capital was put on notice by Teton County in the spring for a noncompliant septic system. After a March 10 inspection, the county said Crowley Capital was in violation of several environmental and water quality standards.\nA separate notice by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, dated July 1, faults Crowley Capital for violations of the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act: for discharging more sewage than is permitted (1,950 gallons per day), for operating the septic system with liquid waste on the ground surface, for adding wastewater treatment equipment without permits and for discharging \"water treatment brine\" without a permit.\nOn Monday the Wyoming Outdoor Council, which has advocated for water quality improvements in the Hoback area, emailed Van Holland and the DEQ.\n\"The [Jackson Hole Daily] article reports that a number of residents are being told to vacate the property by the [end] of the year,\" Dan Heilig wrote. \"As part of the pending settlement, I would like to request that you consider a provision requiring the owners of this property to mitigate the impacts to these soon-to-be displaced residents, for example, by helping them find \u2014 and defray costs of \u2014 alternative housing.\"\nHeilig said in the emails that the residents should be given a six-month extension to stay, due to single-digit temperatures and harsh winter conditions.\n\"This business benefited financially by avoiding environmental compliance costs for years,\" he said. \"Helping these residents with alternative housing is the least they can do.\"\nPortions of Hoback Junction have long suffered from poor drinking water quality, and the area is experiencing a long-term rise in nitrates in groundwater, which poses a health hazard to residents who depend on well water. Teton County orchestrated a stakeholder process that culminated in a recommendation that Hoback residents form some type of water district, which could lead to funding and a long-term safe drinking water source.\n\"It is unfortunate we haven't seen that effort moving forward better,\" Van Holland said Monday. \"A public water system in this area would relieve the problems with the wastewater disposal.\"\nThe suspected cause of Hoback's degraded drinking water is a high density of septic systems overlying an aquifer that doesn't recharge quickly enough, though state environmental regulators have launched an investigation to pinpoint the cause.\n\"I understand the residents in the Hoback RV Park are rightly upset, and I sympathize with that,\" Van Holland said. \"But they have to recognize it's being done in terms of the protection of the public ultimately.\"\nResidents at the RV Park are well aware of the septic drama and wonder why \"mass evictions\" are the only option, since the septic and water issues have been at play for years.\n\"I understand the septic system if it's under capacity like that,\" Inanna Reistad said. \"I don't understand why they aren't coming up with some creative solutions just to extend us another four months. ... They're like, 'Merry Christmas, a--holes.'\"\nProposed solutions aren't viable\nCindy Zamora, 60, has lived in her trailer for 17 years, right next door to Jeffrey Meehan.\nShe's on the waiting list at Wapiti RV Park in Alpine in case a spot opens up there. But if it doesn't?\n\"I have no options whatsoever,\" she said on Sunday. \"I had a heart attack last year. And they expect me to un-skirt my trailer, buy new tires and find someone to move it.\"\nZamora has lived in Teton County for 31 years. The thought of leaving her job, her daughter and her grandchildren because she's faced with homelessness brought her to tears on Sunday.\nThursday's email suggests residents contact area RV parks, saying there are sites available nearby.\nThe News&Guide called Wapiti RV Park, Greys River Cove RV Park, Wolf Den Log Cabin Motel and RV Park and Aspen Grove RV Park on Monday and confirmed those parks are either full or closed for the winter.\nFireside Resort Buffalo Valley in Moran has sites available for a nightly rate that would more than triple what residents were paying in Hoback. Teton Valley Resort in Victor, Idaho, has available sites for $800 a month plus electric until the start of its summer season on May 1. But starting then it is completely booked with short-term summer stays. Daniel Junction RV Park, nearly an hour's drive south from Hoback, has monthly sites available for $500.\n\"We recognize that this is an unfortunate and unexpected outcome,\" the original, unsigned email to tenants stated. \"We strived to provide affordable housing in the area. On that front, we kept our average monthly rates below those charged by other RV properties in Jackson, Victor\/Driggs and Alpine. We are disheartened that we are unable to continue providing as much affordable housing as we have in the past, but we also recognize the realities of the situation, which are beyond our control. We are making these changes in the interest of being good stewards to our tenants, neighbors and the broader community.\"\nThat was all residents had heard from Crowley Capital's Justin Martin until he sent another email to tenants and a press release to the News&Guide on Tuesday saying they've secured \"a temporary housing solution\" for tenants. Orion's news release said the Virginian ownership group would open its RV park, normally closed in winter, as a temporary solution for displaced tenants.\nMartin also said in his news release: \"As part of its ongoing commitment to helping tenants, Crowley has also offered to pay for tenants' December rents at the Hoback RV Park or in the other identified Teton County location.\"\nReistad, the Hoback RV Park resident who launched the Change.org petition, said the owners should at least be offering realistic solutions. She said a move in December to a temporary park could complicate things for many of the residents.\n\"Instead of notifying tenants during the summer of 2020, the owners chose to continue to lease the property with the intent of evicting elderly, disabled, and lower income families in the middle of winter,\" she said on the petition.\nMartin said in his release: \"Nonetheless, we remain committed to working with our tenants, the community and related stakeholders to assist in this transition.\"\nThe press release from Orion said: \"Robert Huggins, President of Orion, a local developer and investor in the Virginan, became aware of the situation on Monday and sought ways to help.\"\nThe Orion release said that with the town of Jackson's approval they'll allow tenants to move to the Virginian RV Park starting Dec. 8 with onetime leases that will run through April 30, with no option of renewal.\n\"We are glad to be able to work with Hoback RV Park, tenants and the Town of Jackson to provide short-term housing on our site while they look for a long-term arrangement,\" Huggins stated in the release. \"With the holiday season, winter and COVID, finding secure housing is essential, and we are fortunate to be in a position to help.\"\nThe release said that leases will \"reflect the current affordable rate that tenants pay\" in Hoback and that the Virginian RV Park will not be open to other tenants or visitors this winter.\nBefore Tuesday's temporary solution was announced, community members expressed outrage, with hundreds signing Reistad's petition within hours of her posting it on Monday.\nReistad penned the petition to Mayor Pete Muldoon, the Jackson Town Council, Chair of the Board of County Commissioners Natalia Macker, Teton County Affordable Housing Director April Norton, County Attorney Erin Weisman, Orion Companies Chief Investment Officer Lane LaMure, Crowley Capital and MV Farms I LLC.\nA GoFundMe page also went live Tuesday, to help support residents with the infrastructure needed to make a winter move possible, like new tires for RVs that have been sitting there for decades and are no longer mobile and trash bins and heavy equipment.\n\"This eviction could lead to more than a loss of affordable housing,\" Reistad warned. \"It could mean a loss of life.\"\n\u2014Mike Koshmrl and Ryan Dorgan contributed research and reporting.\nContact Emily Mieure at 732-7066 or courts@jhnewsandguide.com.\nHoback Rv Park\nCrowley Capital\nOrion Companies\nNew West Building Company\nHoback Water Crisis\nHoback Water\nInanna Reistad\nRobert Huggins\nEmily Mieure covers criminal justice and emergency news. She also leads the News&Guide's investigative efforts. She has reported for WDRB TV in Louisville, Ky., WFIE TV in Evansville, Ind., and WEIU TV in Charleston, Ill.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Pushing Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rates up to the levels of income tax could spark a mass exodus of landlords from the market, property experts warn.\nThis follows a report from the Government's tax advisers suggesting that Chancellor Rishi Sunak could bring CGT \u2013 currently 28% on residential property and 20% on other assets \u2013 into line with income tax so that higher rate taxpayers face a flat rate of 40 or 45%.\nIt also suggests reducing the annual CGT allowance threshold from \u00a312,300 to \u00a35,000 or less.\nDavid Alexander, joint CEO of apropos, says this potential increase in tax payments is extremely risky and would have an enormously detrimental impact on the housing market, stifle growth and discourage investment.\n\"Any large-scale exit would flood the market with homes, depressing prices at a time when the property sector is in desperate need of support,\" he says.\nPaul Shamplina of Landlord Action, says: An increase in CGT is likely to prompt a flood of landlords selling up before the deadline, further reducing the supply of rental properties available to tenants.\"\nIncome vs gain\nCurrently, doing up properties to sell them on is considered an income while holding onto property and then selling it for a profit is counted as CGT.\nThe Office of Tax Simplification's (OTS) defends its recommendations, as it says not understanding the difference between these investing and trading activities can lead to non-compliance, where someone can incorrectly declare a capital gain rather than a trading profit.\n\"A greater alignment of rates would create a more neutral tax system, in which people were left free to make the right decisions for their business or family without the complexity of having to worry about unwittingly stumbling across the wrong side of a boundary,\" it says.\nIt also acknowledges that landlords find it difficult not knowing their final CGT liability until they know their annual income tax liability, particularly when completing a 30-day tax return for residential property.\nAbout \u00a38.3bn of CGT was paid in 2017-18, compared with \u00a3180bn of income tax by 31.2 million individual taxpayers.\nGuide: Complete CGT tax guide for 2020\/21.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Scientific Vice-Presidents\nKaiser Wilhelm Society\nResearching and processing the past\nMax Planck - Revolutionary against his will\nYearbook Highlights\nAdministration & Offices\nAdministrative Headquarters\nCentral Gender Equality Officer\nSupporting Max Planck\nScientific Members\nCentrally Funded Projects\nCooperation with Fraunhofer\nLise Meitner Groups\nResearch Groups at Universities\nAwards to Max Planck Scientists\nJapan Prize\nFields Medal\nLasker Award\nLeibniz Prize\nAwards of the Max Planck Society\nMax Planck-Humboldt Research Award\nHarnack Medal\nAwards for Junior Scientists\nResearch and society\nMax Planck Innovation\nJobboard\nGender-equal career development\nPublic sector employer\nServices & Administration\nFirst steps to Max Planck\nBachelor Students\nResearch Group Leaders\nLise Meitner Excellence Program\nAlumni Representatives\nHR Development & Opportunities\nMax Planck worldwide\nPost from...\nMax Planck Centres\nDioscuri Programme\nCountry Portals\nGlobal warming - don't blame the plants\nInternational scientific team reacts to misinterpretation of their research results and provides the correct perspective\nIn a recent study (Nature, 12 January 2006), scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Utrecht University, Netherlands, and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland, UK, revealed that plants produce the greenhouse gas methane. First estimates indicated that this could account for a significant proportion of methane in the atmosphere. There has been extended media coverage of this work with unfortunately, in many instances, a misinterpretation of the findings. Furthermore, the discovery led to intense speculations on the potential relevance of the findings for reforestation programs in the framework of the Kyoto protocol. These issues need to be put in the right perspective.\nThe most frequent misinterpretation we find in the media is that emissions of methane from plants are responsible for global warming. As those emissions from plants are a natural source, they have existed long before man's influence started to impact upon the composition of the atmosphere. It is the anthropogenic emissions which are responsible for the well-documented increasing atmospheric concentrations of methane since pre-industrial times. Emissions from plants thus contribute to the natural greenhouse effect and not to the recent temperature increase known as 'global warming'. Even if land use practices have altered plant methane emissions, which we did not demonstrate, this would also count as an anthropogenic source, and the plants themselves cannot be deemed responsible.\nFurthermore, our discovery led to intense speculation that methane emissions by plants could diminish or even outweigh the carbon storage effect of reforestation programs with important implications for the Kyoto protocol, where such programs are to be used in national carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction strategies. We first stress that our findings are preliminary with regard to the methane emission strength. Emissions most certainly depend on plant type and environmental conditions and more experiments are certainly necessary to quantify the process under natural conditions. As a first rough estimate of the order of magnitude we have taken the global average methane emissions as representative to provide a rough estimate of its potential effect on climate. These estimates (for details, see below) show that methane emissions by plants may slightly diminish the effect of reforestation programs. However, the climatic benefits gained through carbon sequestration by reforestation far exceed the relatively small negative effect, which may reduce the carbon uptake effect by up to 4 per cent. Thus, the potential for reduction of global warming by planting trees is most definitely positive. The fundamental problem still remaining is the global large-scale anthropogenic burning of fossil fuels.\nDetails of calculations used:\nIn our study, we have linked global methane emission estimates to plant growth, which is generally quantified as net primary productivity (NPP). On a global basis NPP amounts to ~62 x 1015 g of carbon\/yr, which corresponds to an uptake of 227 x 1015 g of CO2\/yr. On the emission side, our study suggests annual global methane emissions by plants of 62-236 x 1012 g\/yr CH4. Thus, for each kg of CO2 assimilated by a plant roughly 0.25 to 1 to 4 g of CH4 is released. During growth of a new forest, up to 50% of plant tissue is lost again in the short term through decomposition of plant litter of leaves and roots [1]. This then doubles the estimate to 0.5 to 2 g methane emitted per kg of CO2 assimilated and stored in plants for longer periods. Over a 100-year horizon, the global warming potential of methane is ~20 times higher than that of carbon dioxide. Thus, for climate, the benefits gained by reforestation programs would be lessened by between 1 and 4 per cent due to methane emissions from the plants themselves.\nThomas R\u00f6ckmann1,2, Jack Hamilton3, Frank Keppler2 and Marc Brass1,2\n1 Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands\n2 Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany\n3 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agriculture, Food and Environmental Science Division, Newforge Lane, Belfast BT9 5PX, UK\nScience Magazine\nImages of Science\nDr. Frank Keppler\nMax Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg +49 6221 516-575 frank.keppler@mpi-hd.mpg.de\nProf. Thomas R\u00f6ckmann\n+31 30 253-3858 t.roeckmann@phys.uu.nl\nInstitute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, The Netherlands\nSchulze, Beck, M\u00fcller-Hohenstein; Plant Ecology (Springer Verlag, 2005)\nPublication references\nFrank Keppler, John T. G. Hamilton, Marc Brass and Thomas R\u00f6ckmann\nMethane emissions from terrestrial plants under aerobic conditions\nNature, January 12, 2006\nKeyword Collection\nReceive notifications for English content\nReceive notifications for German content","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cyprus Ports Investing for Future Growth\nWith four ports, Cyprus offers a diversified portfolio of potential cruise ship stops, starting with Limassol, the main commercial port for the country. There is also Larnaka, Cyprus' second largest port, as well as two smaller tender ports Paphos and Latchi.\n\"Larnaka and Limassol have excellent facilities and can accommodate all type of ships,\" said Eftychia Christodoulou, administrative officer, Cyprus Ports Authority.\nAccording to Cruise Industry News, Limassol is seeing the second stage of a multi-million euro project with the construction of a 500-meter extension to the port's existing quay on its Western basis.\nThe first phase of the project saw the port dredged down to 17 meters for not only the Western basis, but the turning circle and entrance channel.\nThere is also a new passenger terminal being built on the Eastern quay, which has 11 meters of water depth and a 480-meter-long pier.\nThe investments aim to increase the capacity of the port as new and bigger ships continue to be built, said Christodoulou.\n\"This year we're nearing 170 calls and 174,000 passengers,\" said Christodoulou, who said traffic is up as ships have dropped other destinations due to security issues.\nSource: Gold News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ancient Rome exhibit opens Feb. 3 at Cranbrook Institute of Science\nTravel through time to the height of the Roman Empire that shaped the world when Ancient Rome: Age of the Caesars opens Saturday, Feb. 3, to the public at Cranbrook Institute of Science. Julius Caesar, mighty centurions and fearsome gladiators come to life in this interactive, hands-on exhibit of larger-than-life machines, art, real artifacts and life-altering technology that examines this epic era in world history. Ancient Rome: Age of the Caesars, presented by Flagstar Bank, is a family-friendly exhibit that runs through July 3.\n\"This exhibit provides families with a rare and unique look into ancient Rome and how its inventions impacted the world we live in today,\" said Michael D. Stafford, Ph.D., director of Cranbrook Institute of Science. \"Adults can experience the feeling of being a Roman legionnaire, interact with and use functional antique Roman technology and children will be enamored with the games, hands-on activities and the indomitable gladiators. There truly is something here for everyone.\"\nChildren can play and learn the way Romans did with these stations, offered throughout the run of the exhibit, including:\nCatapult Challenge: Assemble armies and go head-to-head in mock Roman battles.\nColosseum Construction: Using 3D-printed pieces, re-assemble the Roman Colosseum.\nAssemble an Aqueduct: Learn how to create a scale model aqueduct that brings water from the mountains to the city.\nAbacus Arithmetic: Learn how the ancient Romans used complex math with an abacus.\nArches & Architecture: Using scaled blocks, construct the famous Roman arch.\nLet the Games Begin: Learn how to play and master Romans' ancient games.\nMosaic Madness: Create a mosaic using templates.\nMechanical Muscle: Using scale models, leverage physics to move heavy objects into one place.\nThe exhibit is open during regular business hours and is an additional cost ($6 to $8) to general museum admission. For information on hours and pricing, go to https:\/\/science.cranbrook.edu\/visit\/admission. Anyone who purchases a membership before the opening will have the opportunity to participate in member preview activities.\nAdditionally, guest lecturer Dr. Max Nelson, associate professor of language and culture at the University of Windsor, will be at the Institute 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, to explore the history of making (and drinking) alcohol in the ancient world. Guests 21 years of age and older are invited to attend. Pre-registered tickets are $10 until 5 p.m. Feb. 11, available at https:\/\/science.cranbrook.edu\/explore\/programs\/amor\/registration, and $15 at the door.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Financial regulation and innovative financing\nModelisation macro-economic and environmental\nAccess to Energy\nHome | Research area | Macro-economical and societal challenges | National Carbon Reduction Commitments: Identifying the Most Consensual Burden Sharing\nNational Carbon Reduction Commitments: Identifying the Most Consensual Burden Sharing\n29 December 2017 Gael GiraudHadrien LantremangeMacro-economical and societal challengesPublicationsResearch areaResearch FellowsWorking papers0 comments\nGa\u00ebl Giraud, Hadrien Lantremange, Emeric Nicolas, Olivier Rech\nHow could the burden of GHG emission reduction be shared among countries? We address this arguably basic question by purely statistical methods that do not rely on any normative judgment about the criteria according to which it should be answered. The sum of current Nationally Determined Contributions to reducing GHG emissions would result in an average temperature rise in 2100 of the order of 3\u00b0C to 3.2\u00b0C. Implementing policies that enable to achieve the objective of a worldwide average temperature rise below 2\u00b0C obviously requires setting a more consistent and efficient set of national emissions targets. While a scientific consensus has been reached about the global carbon budget that we are acing, given the 2\u00b0C target of the Paris Agreement, no such consensus prevails on how this budget is to be divided among countries. This paper proposes a Climate Liabilities Assessment Integrated Methodology (CLAIM) which enables to determine national GHG budgets compliant with any average temperature target and time horizon. Our methodology does neither resort to any scenario nor any simulation-based model. Rather, it computes the allocation of 2\u00b0C-compatible national carbon budgets which has a priori the highest probability of emerging from the international discussion, whatever being the criteria on which the latter might be based. As such it provides a framework ensuring the highest probability of reaching a consensus. In particular, it avoids the pitfall of arbitrarily assigning weights according, say, to \"capacity\" or \"responsibility\" criteria, and simultaneously unifies the different methodologies that have been proposed in the literature aiming at setting national GHG budgets. Sensitivity tests confirm the robustness of our methodology.\nAbout chair\nProfitability and Revenue Uncertainty of Wind Farms in Western Europe in Present and Future Climate - 3 October 2022\nCredit Risk Sensitivity to Carbon Price - 13 May 2022\nEnhancing financial transparency to mitigate climate change: Towards a Climate Risks and Opportunities Reporting Index - 1 April 2022\nWhy local initiatives for the energy transition should coordinate. The case of cities for fuel cell buses in Europe - 7 March 2022\nCoordination of sectoral climate policies and life-cycle emissions - 27 January 2022\nExtending the limits of the abatement cost - 14 December 2021\nGreen bond: the emperor wears no clothes - 12 November 2021\nHow to re-conceptualise and re-integrate climate finance into society through ecological accounting? - 3 November 2021\nExpenditure elasticity and income elasticity of GHG emissions: A survey of literature on household carbon footprint - 25 October 2021\nFrom words to deeds? Climate change and the European Central Bank - 28 September 2021\nLast Publications\nLast event reports\nInternational Conference: Innovation and climate change governance\nThe objective of the conference was to improve our understanding of the interaction between climate and innovation policies in this multi-layer governance landscape by bringing together scholars in economics working on innovation policies, multilateral agreements, and sectoral climate policies.\nDownload the presentations by the participants of the international conference on mobility challenges, organized on December 9 and 10, 2021, by the Energy and Prosperity Chair, in partnership with the Armand Peugeot Chair and the Climate Economics Chair.\nAll Event reports\nCHAIR ENERGY PROSPERITY\nPhone: (+33) 1 69 33 30 47\nCopyright 2016 - Chair-Energy-Properity.org","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CYCLE FACILITIES AND PARKING, WAITING AND LOADING AMENDMENTS - EWELL ROAD, SURBITON (REF. KTNGMAP0043)\nNotice ID: MFN0636292\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES\nCYCLE FACILITIES AND PARKING, WAITING AND LOADING AMENDMENTS - EWELL ROAD, SURBITON (REF. KINGMAP0043)\nThe Kingston upon Thames (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 56) Order 2021; The Kingston upon Thames (Charged-For Parking Places) (Amendment No. 56) Order 2021; and The Kingston upon Thames (Bus Priority) (Amendment No. 9) Order 2021.\n1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames on 22 November 2021 made the above-mentioned Orders under sections 6,45,46,49 and 124 of and Part IV of Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.\n2. The general effect of the Orders, which will come into force on 29th November 2021, will be to continue in force indefinitely the provisions of The Kingston upon Thames (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 32) Experimental Order 2020; The Kingston upon Thames (Charged-For Parking Places) (Amendment No. 32) Experimental Order 2020; and The Kingston upon Thames (Bus Priority) (Amendment No. 5) Experimental Traffic Order 2020, due to the introduction of cycle facilities*;\n(a) to introduce a 'pay & display' parking place outside Mellish Court to No. 84 Ewell Road (applying on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 2 hours, no return within 2 hours);\n(b) to introduce double yellow line \"at any time\" waiting restrictions and \"at any time\" loading restrictions outside Nos. 116-134 Ewell Road (in place of existing 'pay & display', 'disabled badge holders only' and 'goods vehicles loading only' parking places);\n(c) to introduce a 'goods vehicles loading only' parking place outside Nos. 140-142 Ewell Road (applying on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 1 hour) (in place of part of an existing 'pay & display' parking place);\n(d) to amend the operating hours of existing 'pay & display' parking places outside Nos. 144-152 and 154-158 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 2 hours, no return within 2 hours);\n(e) to introduce a 'pay & display' parking place outside No. 27-29 Ewell Road (applying on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 4 hours, no return within 1 hour);\n(f) to amend the operating hours of an existing 'disabled badge holders only9 parking place outside No. 111 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.);\n(g) to amend the operating hours of an existing 'pay & display' parking place outside Nos. 113-115 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 2 hours, no return within 2 hours);\n(h) to amend the operating hours of an existing 'goods vehicles loading only' parking place outside No. 117 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 1 hour);\n(i) to shorten and amend the operating hours of an existing 'pay & display' parking place outside Nos. 119-125 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m.( maximum stay 2 hours, no return within 2 hours);\n(j) to amend the operating hours of an existing 'goods vehicles loading only' parking place outside Nos. 145-149 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 1 hour);\n(k) to lengthen and amend the operating hours of an existing 'pay & display' parking place outside Nos. 153-159 Ewell Road (to apply on Mondays to Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., maximum stay 2 hours, no return within 2 hours);\n(1) to alter waiting and loading restrictions in line with abovementioned restrictions and relocated bus stops; and (m) to remove an existing northbound bus lane in Ewell Road (on the west side, between its junction with Langley Road and the northern boundary of Pandora Court, Ewell Road). * cycle facilities are:\n(i) two-way cycleways on the footway in Ewell Road (on the west side, between its junctions with St Mark's Hill and Berrylands Road); and\n(ii) with-flow cycleways on the footway in Ewell Road (on both sides, between its junctions with Berrylands Road and Langley Road).\n3. The made Orders and plans can be inspected:\n(a) online at\nwww.kingston.gov.uk\/unmade-trafnc-management-orders\n(b) at Council libraries; and\n(c) copies of the made Orders and plan can also be obtained by calling 020 8547 5000 (between 9am and 5pm on Mondays to Fridays) or by emailing\nTMO@kingston.gov.uk\n(please quote ref. KingMap0043).\nThe made documents will be available until 10th January 2022.\n4. Any person desiring to question the validity of the Orders or of any provision contained therein on the grounds that it is not within the relevant powers of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or that any of the relevant requirements thereof or any relevant regulations made thereunder have not been complied with in relation to the Orders may make application for the purpose to the High Court by 10th January 2022.\nDated 25th November 2021.\nMERVYN BARTLETT\nGroup Manager - Highways and Transport (Corporate and Communities)\nMFN0636292.pdf Download\nGuildhall , High Street , Kingston upon Thames , KT1 1EU\ninformation@kingston.gov.uk http:\/\/www.kingston.gov.uk 020 8547 5000\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES EXPERIMENTAL CYCLE FACILITIES EWELL ROAD, SURBITON (PHASE 2)\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES EXPERIMENTAL CYCLE FACILITIES EWELL ROAD, SURBITON (PHASE 2) 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of\nINTRODUCTION OF PERMIT PARKING AREA -IN AND AROUND BROWNS ROAD, SURBITON\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES INTRODUCTION OF PERMIT PARKING AREA -IN AND AROUND BROWNS ROAD, SURBITON (REF. KINGMAP0026) The Kingston\nGEORGINA ELIZABETH PORTER (Deceased)\nGEORGINA ELIZABETH PORTER (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1)\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) 1. The Council of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon\nGEOFFREY HOWARD BILTON (Deceased)\nGEOFFREY HOWARD BILTON (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the above\nTOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (AS AMENDED) PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (AS AMENDED) PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 (AS AMENDED) PLANNING (LISTED BUILDINGS AND CONSERVATION AREAS) ACT 1990\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT, 1984 - SECTION 14 AS AMENDED BY THE ROAD TRAFFIC (TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS) ACT 1991 TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS DURING WORKS EWELL ROAD, SURBITON\nROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT, 1984 - SECTION 14 AS AMENDED BY THE ROAD TRAFFIC (TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS) ACT\nROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT, 1984 - SECTION 14 AS AMENDED BY THE ROAD TRAFFIC (TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS) ACT 1991 TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS DURING WORKS EWELL ROAD, SURBITON\nANTHONY PHILIP HOWARD (Deceased)\nANTHONY PHILIP HOWARD (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the above\nTHOMAS GORDON BALLANTYNE (Deceased)\nTHOMAS GORDON BALLANTYNE (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the\nGoods Vehicle Operators Licence\nGoods Vehicle Operators Licence ANTORINA LTD of 15 KINGSWOOD COURT,GROVE ROAD, LUTON LU1 1BL is applying for a licence to use UNIT 1 & 2\nLEE FREDERICK JOHNSTON (Deceased)\nLEE FREDERICK JOHNSTON (Deceased) Pursuant to the Trustee Act 1925 any persons having a claim against or an interest in the Estate of the above","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Naum Stoilkovski\nZaev follows fake Poroshenko's advice: It does not matter how citizens vote, it's important how the votes are counted\nVMRO-DPMNE spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski criticized Prime Minister Zoran Zaev for using the advice of the fake Poroshenko, who in a telephone conversation advised him to use the Stalinist method \"It does not matter how people vote, it is important how the votes are counted.\" A comedian calls...\nMacedonia sinks in poverty, and Zoran Zaev's associates are fighting for multiple positions\nThe arbitrariness of the authorities and the abuse of office and the money of the citizens through the accumulation of positions, ie the illegal performance of multiple elected or appointed positions by the same persons do not stop, Naum Stoilkovski from VMRO-DPMNE said at Monday's press conference. Tasko...\nStoilkovski: Pavle Bogoevski is a serious security risk for the state\nThe Pavle Bogoevski scandal and his trading on the black market are much more serious than his party members want to show, Naum Stoilkovski, a spokesperson for VMRO-DPMNE said at a press conference. According to him, the scandal has two essential moments: Pavle Bogoevski is in the spotlight following...\nStoilkovski: Schools ordered to delete the name Republic of Macedonia from school buildings\nSDSM wiped out the Republic of Macedonia in front of the eyes of the children, in front of the pupils' eyes. With no sense of statehood, on January 31, the municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia received guidelines from the Government, followed by an order to delete the name Republic of Macedonia...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Understanding Domestic Violence Under California Law\nDisagreements are not something unusual in one's life. After all, it is not possible to agree with someone every time. And yet, when someone constantly feels unsafe or has to continuously live in a state of fear, domestic violence could be a major contributor. Any emotional, mental or physical behavior or act, which can have a negative impact on people living in the house or family members to an extent where they feel afraid, furious or nervous can be regard as an act of domestic violence.\nCodes in California defining domestic violence\nHowever, the definition of domestic violence may not be same in all states. Yet, the state of California is somewhat progressive with respect to the treatment of domestic violence incidents. It is also more sensitive with respect to how the court and the police system are directed to handle such cases and the kind of treatments victims of such incidents should get. The law of California has defined an act of domestic violence as an abusive treatment against a minor or an adult who could be a cohabitant, ex-cohabitant, former spouse or spouse. a kid from the individual or a person with whom a victim dated or has been dating according to Penal Code 13700.\nCalifornia has also defined domestic violence as per the Family Code 6211. Its definition is wider as compared to the penal code. The code makes distinctions between non-criminal and criminal situations of domestic violence.\nThe domestic violence laws in California attempts to put an end to violence in intimate or familial relationships. It identifies acts of domestic violence if a person commits any type of criminal act within the purview of any relationship defined by the state's Penal Code as mentioned above. Domestic violence cases are often synonymous with child abuse or abuse of spouses.\nIf a prosecutor brings a charge of domestic violence against the defendant, multiple sections of the California Penal Code can apply. It is the discretion of a prosecutor to select the kind of criminal charges to follow on the basis of how severe the conduct is and the degree of harm caused to the victim.\nState laws of California enable domestic violence victims to file for restraining orders and emergency protective orders in criminal as well as civil courts. Issuing a restraining or a protective order does not essentially signify on how much harm is caused to the victim physically. An individual who has gone through acts of emotional abuse or is apprehensive of imminent harm is also eligible for being protected under the legal system of California. For more clarification on California domestic violence, you should contact an Orange County divorce attorney.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"6 Most Underrated JRPGs From The Golden Era Of Role Playing Games\nTo say the least, I'm a huge fan of RPGs. I'm always currently playing at least one, and I've been an RPG lover ever since I first rented Super Mario RPG from the video rental store.\nI bring up Super Mario RPG because that game falls in what I like to call the RPG golden era. The fourth and fifth generation of consoles gave birth to some of the most beloved titles out there. Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV-IX, Legend of Dragoon, Xenogears, and Breath of Fire, just to name a few. Despite many of the games getting the recognition they deserve, however, I feel like there are a few that just don't get any love. If you're wanting to go on a classic RPG binge without playing Final Fantasy VII for the tenth time, here are a few games to check out.\nAlundra (1997, PS1)\nAlundra was more or less Sony's answer to The Legend of Zelda, sporting many elements of the 2D Zelda games such as a top-down perspective, dungeons brimming with puzzles, and a hoard of secrets to find.\nBut it has its own unique elements as well. Alundra has a focus on platforming, which is absent in most 2D Zeldas The game also possesses a dark story that will make Zelda's darkest moments seem kiddish.\nI played this game a couple years back, and while it was frustrating in some parts, it was one amazing adventure. The game is available on PSN, and at $5.99, it's a steal.\nLufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals (1996, SNES)\nThe original Lufia is a decent RPG, but its second entry, serving as a prequel to the first game, is where the series shines. Lufia II blends traditional JRPG exploring and combat with puzzle-solving worthy enough for any Zelda (or Alundra) game. The story isn't complex, but the characters and villains are definitely interesting enough to keep you playing. I checked this game out in high school, and I wondered why it didn't get recognition.\nUnfortunately, the game doesn't have a Virtual Console release as of this article, and copies are quite expensive, so playing it legally is rather difficult. There's also a remake, Curse of the Sinistrals, for the DS. While I haven't played it, many fans say it's inferior to the original.\nSuikoden II (1998, PS1)\nSuikoden II is a cult classic for a reason. It follows the same basic formula as the first game, where you're able to recruit over 100 people, known as the Stars of Destiny, to join your cause. The story is much darker than the first game's, with best friends turned against each other and parents getting slaughtered in front of their kids by Luca Blight, a villain up there with Kefka in insanity.\nFor a long time, the only way to legally play this game was through buying it from third-party sellers, who would charge around $100 for it. However, in late 2014, the game was rightfully put on the PSN at a much more reasonable price. The first Suikoden was released on the PSN in 2008, so why it took so long, I don't know.\nUnlike Lufia 2, where playing the first game is optional, I highly recommend you playing the first game. While the story is mostly separate from the first, many characters return, and your save from the first game is transferrable.\nBahamut Lagoon (1996, SNES)\nWho doesn't love a good tactical RPG? Bahamut Lagoon has aged quite well in the tactical RPG department, and with a serviceable story and cool characters, it's well worth playing.\nUnfortunately, most of the US didn't notice it. Why? Because it was never released in the US! Nothing quite irks me more than when a good game never got localized. It did come out for the Virtual Console, but only in Japan.\nSo unless you know Japanese and can import it, you may want to try the fan translation.\nTales of Eternia\/Tales of Destiny II (2000, PS1)\nThe Tales series has a decent following in the US, but many have not played its early 2D entries. Due to the original title sharing a name with the planet from Masters of the Universe, Tales of Eternia was released as Tales of Destiny II in the US, despite having nothing to do with the original Tales of Destiny. To make things even more confusing, there's an actual sequel to Tales of Destiny that shares the same title, although it never made it to the US. And you thought the US changing the names of Final Fantasy IV and VI was bad!\nWhile the games before it, Phantasia and Destiny are strong titles, Eternia is where the series begins the shine. The 2D action combat has aged quite well, there are two world maps to explore, and the story will keep you hooked to the very end. Top that off with plenty of sidequests, and you have a game worth checking out. It's also one of the rare PS1 RPGs to include voice acting. Like most PS1 games, however, the voice acting is cheesy. (One interesting tidbit is that the protagonist, Reid, is voiced by Kevin Miller, who is best known for Sly Cooper.)\nThere's no PSN release as of yet, just like there isn't one for Destiny. Bamco seems to have little care for the pre-Symphonia games, sadly. Online copies, surprise surprise, tend to be pricy.. There is a PSP remake that made it to Europe and Australia, but that's about it. But if you can find this game for cheap, or if you can save some money and get it, it's definitely worth playing.\nLunar Silver Star Story\/Lunar Eternal Blue (1992, 1995 Sega CD, Sega Saturn, PS1, PSP, GBA)\nI decided to put both games together because they both are equally worth playing (yeah, yeah, cheating.) The first two Lunar games have an interesting release history. The first Lunar came out for the Sega CD, and enhanced ports came to the PS1, GBA, and most recently, the PSP. The second started on the Sega CD as well, and had Saturn and PS1 ports. Both games were ahead of their time in their storytelling elements, featuring animated cutscenes and voice acting. Combine that with fun gameplay and an emotional rollercoaster of a story and you got yourself two awesome RPGs.\nAs usual, there isn't a PSN release for any of these games (I don't even think the PSP version was released digitally,) and copies tend to be expensive. But they're worth it. I got lucky and found a copy of Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete for cheap, and it was the PS1 version that came with a music CD, cloth map, a pendant, and much more. You can tell the developers were quite proud of this game.\nAnd those are some of my picks you should check out. I've played a lot of RPGs, so if you think there's one I left out, let me know. Also, I'm trying to get caught up on all the classic PC games, so if you know of some good PC RPGs from the golden age, tell me.\nThis article was submitted by Adam Sims.\nAlundra Bahamut Lagoon JRPG Lufia II Lunar Eternal Blue role playing games Suikoden Tales of Destiny II Tales of Eternia\nJulius Jamarque\nMy first job was dusting off videogame cases at a rental store. I once cleaned the bathroom for a copy of Pokemon Blue. I've blown more NES cartridges than I care to admit.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"First Friday | Black\/Pacific: The Geography of Freedom\nRIGHTSTARTER at San Jose Jazz SummerFest 2022. Courtesy of Mosaic America.\nFree admission.\nFor Black History Month, Mosaic America presents Black\/Pacific: The Geography of Freedom, a performance by RIGHTSTARTER at First Friday. Through ancient and contemporary beats, rhymes, and rhythms, RIGHTSTARTER presents a unique Black + Brown musical fusion that showcases the drum as a connective tissue between African and Pacific cultures from pre-colonization to the present.\n7\u20138pm: Performance by RIGHTSTARTER in Wendel Education Center\n8\u20138:30pm: Intermission\n8:30\u20138:55pm: Solo performance by PC Mu\u00f1oz in Skybridge Gallery\nRIGHTSTARTER is a creative and dialectic initiative founded by acclaimed writer\/musician PC Mu\u00f1oz and award-winning rapper\/electronic musician DEM ONE. In an age of rancorous rhetoric and division, RIGHTSTARTER presents a guttural artistic response to this global moment. They aim to illuminate submerged truths, transgress imposed boundaries, subvert expectations, and assert denied identities in hostile times.\nBryan Dyer, vocal percussionist: Bryan Dyer is a musician of many styles, from traditional classical, modern classical, pop, soul, rock, jazz, hip hop, reggae, rock, world, and broadway. He performs a capella with several groups throughout the Bay Area. Several of his groups practice a combination of education and entertainment, teaching children and adults about their self-worth and value; and the history of African American culture and its contributions to society through music.\nDEM ONE, rapper\/electronic musician: Demone Carter has played many roles within the Silicon Valley arts, education, and entertainment circles for over two decades, including being the co-host of the Dad Bod Rap Pod Podcast and a freelance writer for Content Magazine and Silicon Valley De-Bug. Performing under the name Dem One, he has toured internationally, released several albums, and collaborated with notable hip-hop artists like D-Styles, Motion Man, Chali Tuna, and Bambu.\nPC Mu\u00f1oz, percussionist\/poet: PC Mu\u00f1oz's singular music-making aesthetic bridges the gap between pop songcraft, musique concr\u00e9te, jazz-informed improvisation, and the insistent rhythms of funk and hip-hop. His partnership with composer\/cellist\/longtime Kronos Quartet member Joan Jeanrenaud has yielded three highly acclaimed projects: the GRAMMY-nominated Strange Toys, the iTunes-charting Pop-Pop, and the art-inspired Visual Music.\nMosaic America\nMosaic is a nonprofit organization that strengthens communities, cultivates belonging, and catalyzes inclusion through inter-cultural and co-created art. Our team of artists uses inspiration from their cultures and art forms to collaborate on unique performances and expressions that highlight the common threads of our shared American story.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cardiovascular disease: risk assessment and reduction, including lipid modification\nClinical guideline [CG181] Published date: July 2014 Last updated: September 2016\n2 Implementation: getting started\nAppendix A: Grouping of statins\nThis guideline updates and replaces NICE guideline CG67 and NICE technology appraisal guidance 94. The recommendations are labelled according to when they were originally published (see update information for details).\nCardiovascular disease (CVD) describes disease of the heart and blood vessels caused by the process of atherosclerosis. It is the leading cause of death in England and Wales, accounting for almost one-third of deaths[1]. In 2010, 180,000 people died from CVD \u2013 around 80,000 of these deaths were caused by coronary heart disease and 49,000 were caused by strokes. Of the 180,000 deaths, 46,000 occurred before people were aged 75 years, and 70% of those were in men. Death rates from CVD peaked in the 1970s and 1980s but have more than halved since then. Rates have fallen more rapidly in older age groups compared with younger ones, with an approximately 50% reduction in the 55\u201364 year age group compared with a 20% reduction in men aged 35\u201344 years. In spite of evidence that mortality from CVD is falling, morbidity appears to be rising. CVD has significant cost implications and was estimated to cost the NHS in England almost \u00a36,940 million in 2003, rising to \u00a37,880 million in 2010.\nCVD shows strong age dependence and predominantly affects people older than 50 years. Risk factors for CVD include non\u2011modifiable factors such as age, sex, family history of CVD, ethnic background and modifiable risk factors such as smoking, raised blood pressure and cholesterol. CVD is strongly associated with low income and social deprivation and shows a North\u2013South divide, with higher rates in the north of England.\nThis guideline includes recommendations on risk assessment for CVD and on the use of lipid\u2011lowering drugs. The original guideline is updated in part to allow consideration of new evidence on risk assessment tools and to reflect changes in price and availability of generic statins.\nNICE has produced guidance on other modifiable risk factors for CVD and this guideline should be used in conjunction with it.\nIn this update the Guideline Development Group (GDG) recommend the use of non\u2011high density lipoprotein (non\u2011HDL) cholesterol rather than low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Non\u2011HDL cholesterol is total cholesterol minus HDL cholesterol. LDL cholesterol is not directly measured but requires a calculation using a fasting sample and for triglyceride levels to be less than 4.5 mmol\/litre, whereas the measurement of non\u2011HDL cholesterol does not.\nFor the purpose of this guideline, statins are grouped into 3 different intensity categories according to the percentage reduction in low\u2011density lipoprotein cholesterol they produce:\nlow intensity if the reduction is 20% to 30%\nmedium intensity if the reduction is 31% to 40%\nhigh intensity if the reduction is above 40%.\nPlease see appendix A for further details. This grouping was agreed by GDG consensus, informed by analyses in the literature. See also the full guideline for a discussion of this grouping.\nThis guideline recommends some drugs for indications for which they do not have a UK marketing authorisation at the date of publication, if there is good evidence to support that use. The prescriber should follow relevant professional guidance, taking full responsibility for the decision. The patient (or those with authority to give consent on their behalf) should provide informed consent, which should be documented. See the General Medical Council's Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices for further information. Where recommendations have been made for the use of drugs outside their licensed indications ('off\u2011label use'), these drugs are marked with a footnote in the recommendations.\n[1] UK National Statistics.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bone cancer found in 240-million-year-old stem-turtle fossil\nFebruary 8, 2019 by Bob Yirka, Phys.org\nA micro-computed tomography scan shows the undisturbed cortical bone and the extent of the periosteal mass (circled area). CB indicates cortical bone; OS, osteosarcoma; SP, spicular outgrowth. The black scale bar represents 1 cm. Credit: JAMA Oncology (2019). DOI: 10.1001\/jamaoncol.2018.6766\nA team of researchers with Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde and Charit\u00e9\u2014Universit\u00e4tsmedizin, both in Germany, reports a case of a rare type of cancer in a 240-million-year-old stem-turtle fossil. In their paper published in JAMA Oncology, the group describes their study of the unique growth on the ancient fossil.\nThe fossil was from Pappochelys rosinae\u2014a shell-less ancestor of modern turtles. The Triassic period creature was excavated back in 2015 along with 20 others of its kind from a limestone quarry near a town called Velberg, in Germany. The researchers suggest they likely looked more like iguanas than modern turtles. Since that time, all of the fossils have been stored at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart. But one of them was clearly different from the others\u2014it had a large bone growth on a part of its thigh bone (femur). The researchers proposed various theories to explain the growth, but it took the current research effort to nail down what the growth actually was\u2014a periosteal osteosarcoma\u2014one that the team describes as looking \"almost exactly like osteosarcoma in humans.\"\nEvidence of cancer in fossils is rare, because cancerous tumors usually occur in soft tissue. And the kind of cancer found in the fossil was even more rare\u2014just 800 to 900 human cases are reported each year in the U.S. That makes the fossil studied by the team in Germany a truly unique specimen.\nIn order to make the diagnosis, the researchers first had to rule out other possible causes of the bone growth, such as an infection or another disease or injury. Eventually, they subjected it to a micro-CT scan to better examine what was inside and beneath it. That led them to the conclusion that it was a form of bone cancer.\nThe researchers note that because evidence of cancer is so seldom observed in the fossil record, some in the field have questioned whether it was prevalent or even occurred in creatures from millions of years ago. Finds like the turtle offer more evidence that cancer has been around for a very long time.\nMore information: Yara Haridy et al. Triassic Cancer\u2014Osteosarcoma in a 240-Million-Year-Old Stem-Turtle, JAMA Oncology (2019). DOI: 10.1001\/jamaoncol.2018.6766\nJournal information: JAMA Oncology\n\u00a9 2019 Science X Network\nNearly forgotten 'dinosaur' bone found to belong to ancient hippo-like creature\nJul 25, 2018 report\nKey link in turtle evolution discovered\nFossil turtle didn't have a shell yet, but had the first toothless turtle beak\nNew dinosaur species unearthed in Venezuela\nOct 08, 2014 report\nSlow but steady: New study sheds light on the brain evolution of turtles\nFossil evidence reveals that cancer in humans goes back 1.7 million years","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Business & Economy 0\nIrini Reljin: Competition is welcome on the Telecommunications Market\nWhat does the agreement on business cooperation between Telenor and Telekom Srbija bring?\nSource: Beta Saturday, February 27, 2021 | 17:22\nFoto: EPA, \ufffdOR\ufffdE KOJADINOVI\ufffd\nThe entry of the new operator accelerates the competition on the telecommunications market, since the other participants are in some way forced to design attractive offers in order to acquire new and retain existing users, said retired professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade Irini Reljin.\n\"When Vip entered the mobile telephony market in Serbia as the third operator, Telenor and Telekom faced a new competitor, which significantly contributed to improving the quality of services and lowering prices,\" Reljin told Beta, commenting on the business cooperation agreement between Telenor and Telekom Srbija concerning the leasing of optical infrastructure.\nShe added that new technologies, such as the fifth generation of mobile electronic communications, bring large capacities for data transmission, which inevitably leads to existing operators concluding contracts with video content owners and thus increasing the set of services they offer to users.\n\"Telenor is expected to lay optical cables between buildings and houses and provide end users with media content services, which will increase the choice of operators, and thus more attractive offers will be available to the users.\" In this way, the operators will fight for their best possible market positions,\" said Reljin, who has been Assistant Minister of Telecommunications of Serbia.\nAs she explained, Telenor can also take over a number of Telekom customers, which also contributes to increasing competition in the market.\n\"In rural areas, there are settlements where it is not possible to simply provide cable distribution services for media content, so it can be expected that the prepared contract between Telenor and Telekom will solve some of these problems,\" Reljin said.\nWhen asked about her opinion about the allegations that Telenor's contract with Telekom on leasing optical infrastructure is a cartel-like agreement, she said that, from the point of view of electronic communications, renting any infrastructure between operators, whether passive or active, is a necessity in modern networks and it is upheld by the applicable regulations in the field of electronic communications.\n\"The regulatory agency in the field of electronic communications, based on the analysis of existing markets in this area, declares which of the markets is subject to prior regulation and designates an operator with significant market power (dominant operator). Thus, RATEL declared Telekom Srbija the dominant operator in the wholesale market of physical access to infrastructure, as well as in the wholesale market of broadband (bitstream) access that is provided through its network of copper pairs,\" Reljin pointed out.\nAs she explained, the obligation of the operator that has been declared dominant in one of the markets is to provide every other electronic communications operator with access services to its infrastructure, necessary for that market, under the same conditions, if there are technical possibilities for that.\n\"The market of optical communications in Serbia is presently not subject to regulation by the Agency, primarily because it is insufficiently represented. In the absence of market regulation obligations, electronic communications operators may enter into commercial agreements with each other, as part of their own business policies and the needs of their companies. Our operators are well aware of this because they already have a number of mutual contracts on leasing optical cables,\" Reljin said.\nShe added that it is not clear why the contract on the lease of optical infrastructure, between Telekom and Telenor, is now attracting so much attention, since similar contracts already exist between other actors on the electronic communications market.\nIn her words, EU regulations on electronic communications provide for joint construction and use of infrastructure, as well as very flexible mechanisms for joint operation, and thus for leasing of not only fixed infrastructure and the associated installations, but also radio of the frequency spectrum.\n\"These tendencies in European legislation are justified, given the technological advances brought by high-speed optical and mobile networks, which are supported by the implementation of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. \"If there is a need for regulation and coordination of the joint use of different forms of infrastructure, it is expected that the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications will do that in accordance with the adopted legal concepts,\" Reljin said.\nIn her words, the future of electronic communications is based on the assumption of the joint use of all resources,\" and hence the activities of the two large companies on the electronic communications market in Serbia should be welcomed.\"\nAsked whether the Commission for Protection of Competition can be expected to dispel all doubts, with its decision on the contract between Telenor and Telekom, about such contract threatening market competition, Reljin said that the contracts on leasing electronic communications network resources, as well as contracts on joint investment in infrastructure, are a common business practice in the EU and worldwide.\n\"Some operators own a widespread infrastructure that is difficult and economically unprofitable to replicate, and other operators often choose to lease the necessary capacity from infrastructure owners, instead of building their own parallel network and thus provide retail services to end users,\" she said.\nShe added that traffic, especially in video transmission, in electronic communications networks, by its nature and user behavior, has great variability and therefore it is difficult to design a network that would not have periods of unused capacity, which is the main reason why in modern electronic communications, the joint use of infrastructure at all levels is preferred.\nFoto: Depositphotos, Elnur_\n\"Telekom is currently the owner of the largest optical network in Serbia, so it is expected that operators will want to lease either passive or active optical capacities from Telekom, in order to offer retail services to their end users. However, it is also necessary that the operator that uses part of Telekom's infrastructure has the financial and technical capacity to build part of the network for having access to end users. In any case, the network of electronic communications is expanding, and when resources are shared, that process is very efficient\", said Reljin.\nShe stated that the Commission for Protection of Competition will consult with RATEL, as a regulator in the field of electronic communications, which monitors the developments on the telecommunications market and can review these contracts from all aspects and evaluate them based on the market shares of the operators.\n\"If there are any doubts, the relevant institution is there to make the final decision on whether an agreement is restrictive. \"Based on the usual practice of leasing optical capacities in the field of electronic communications, such an inference could not be made,\" Reljin believes.\nCommenting on the view that Telekom should offer to lease its infrastructure at auctions under the same conditions for all market participants, she said that electronic communications networks do not use a limited resource, so auctions, as a resource allocation mechanism, are not used here.\n\"Any complex leasing process is counterproductive, because it requires time for something that is often motivated by emergencies, for example, the interruption of the network of one operator requires a quick reaction of leasing capacity from another operator,\" Reljin said.\nShe added that Telekom, as the dominant operator in the wholesale market of physical access to infrastructure, as well as in the wholesale market of broadband access, has been obligated to provide these services under regulated technical and commercial conditions, published in the standard offers on their website. Hence, the company must provide those services to each operator under the same conditions if there are technical possibilities for that.\n\"The lease of optical infrastructure is not considered a regulated service, so Telekom can lease its optical network to other operators on commercial terms, and in accordance with its business decisions. Other operators are already doing the same,\" Reljin said, adding that domestic cable operators have very large capacities in optical networks.\nRegarding the estimate of some experts that the market in Serbia will be liberalized only when all operators in Serbia are enabled to provide all four services - landline and mobile telephony, internet and television services, she said that the electronic communications market has already been liberalized.\n\"For example, at an auction that was transparently announced and carried out, Telenor received a license for the operation of a fixed electronic communications network. (Telekom already had such a license before). With the adoption of the Law on Electronic Communications and the principle that auctions are not conducted for networks that do not use a limited resource, fixed cable network operators reported their capacities in a simple procedure to RATEL. Thus, many cable operators merely officialized their already existing networks,\" Reljin said.\nShe pointed out that wireless systems that use limited spectrum, such as mobile operators, took part in auctions for the sale of rights to use radio frequency spectrum, which actions were transparently announced and carried out.\nWhat does the director of Pfizer know, and we don't know?\nNew record in Serbia - more than 18.000 newly infected\nVu\ufffdi\ufffd met with Erdogan, a formal reception was organized PHOTO\nVu\ufffdi\ufffd in Turkey, paid tribute to Atat\ufffdrk PHOTO\nBurak Kiroglu: HygieneShield appliances, a part of a safe household in the new normal\nBurak Kiroglu, general manager of Beko Balkans: \"Beko has introduced a new line of HygieneShield products to the market\"\nBusiness & Economy Friday, February 26, 2021 18:54 Comments: 0\n\"A new era begins\": German factory opens in Valjevo - employment for 500 people VIDEO\nPresident of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\ufffdi\ufffd, said that he was especially happy and satisfied to be able to inform the public about the arrival of investors in Valjevo\nBusiness & Economy Thursday, February 25, 2021 13:48 Comments: 3\nMinistry of Finance establishes order in the public sector by controlling salaries\nIn future, Ministry of Finance will control the calculation of salaries for more than 500.000 employees in public sector through the Central Information System.\nBusiness & Economy Wednesday, February 24, 2021 13:00 Comments: 0\nVu\ufffdi\ufffd: \"Belgrade Tower will be completed before the end of the year\"\nPresident of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\ufffdi\ufffd, visited the construction site of Belgrade Waterfront.\nBusiness & Economy Wednesday, January 27, 2021 13:40 Comments: 2\nVu\ufffdi\ufffd at the ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the Gold Gondola on Zlatibor\nThe President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\ufffdi\ufffd, is attending the ceremony on the occasion of the commissioning of the panoramic Gold gondola on Zlatibor.\nBusiness & Economy Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:47 Comments: 1\nSerbia buys additional share of Montenegrin power transmission system\nToday, the Electric Network of Serbia bought another five percent of the shares of the transmission system of Montenegro, Tanjug has learned.\nBusiness & Economy Tuesday, January 12, 2021 13:54 Comments: 1\nA new aid package till Sretenje; \"It will include pensioners\"\nSerbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the economy would get a new package of aid from the government prior to Sretenje\nBusiness & Economy Monday, January 11, 2021 21:35 Comments: 0\n\"A big project is being prepared in Sremska Mitrovica\"\nPresident of Serbia, Aleksandar Vu\ufffdi\ufffd, said that another big project was being prepared.\nBusiness & Economy Tuesday, January 5, 2021 12:13 Comments: 0\npage 1 of 2 go to page","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00a9 2023 M2A Media.\nMaking M2A Media one of the best places to work in TV\nThis year, M2A Media made it into the annual Broadcast Place Best Places to Work in TV, in the Top Non-Indies category. M2A is therefore among this year's qualifying companies where 94% of employees declare themselves 'very satisfied' with their employer and 83% of employees say they have a good work\/life balance.\nAs a people-centric business, this is a badge that we will wear with honour. Other key factors that define the Best Places to Work in TV in 2022 also include a robust training programme to boost skills, with a strong emphasis placed on enabling people to do the work they want to do. With this in mind, we asked our newly appointed Software Developer, Rob Kenworthy, to share the story of his journey from Operator to Engineer \u2013 exactly the career development we champion at M2A.\nHi Rob, thanks for chatting to us today. To start, please could you tell us a little about your background prior to joining M2A?\nFrom a young age I was always interested in computers and how things work. I studied Computer Science, and then gained a First Class Honors degree in Broadcast Technology. After University I found my first job in broadcasting, working for the BBC iPlayer. This was an incredible opportunity and I learned so much about all the work that goes on behind the scenes. A personal highlight was working on the London 2012 Olympics to successfully deliver over 200 hours of live content making it available straight to catch up as soon as the broadcast had finished. This was before the days of cloud computing, which of course has taken live broadcast to another level since then. After that, I worked with some of the UKs biggest broadcasters, in operations and service delivery, before joining M2A Media, where I am today.\nWhen did you join the company and what attracted you to M2A?\nI'm approaching four years at M2A Media. I was already aware of M2A through connections made in previous roles, and from my time at DAZN (an M2A customer), working closely with the Operations team.\nWhat drew me to M2A was the people\u2026 they are a lovely bunch! And of course I have a huge amount of respect for the founders Marcus Box and Marina Kalkanis who bring an immense amount of experience from their time at the BBC. As a company, they are progressive and forward thinking. M2A looks after its staff well and encourages personal development, which is really important to me.\nM2A Media offices\nI understand that you joined the team as a Media Operator. What did that entail?\nBeing a Media Operator, no two days are the same. As a team we manage the delivery of up to 500 million hours of streamed content from 25,000 live events a year, globally. No pressure, then!\nM2A Media's Operations team work 24\/7 and are always on hand to quickly identify any issues, minimise customer impact and take actions to prevent recurrence. The role requires attention to detail and good communication skills. As we utilise AWS Media Services, some technical understanding is beneficial and I think that's where our team excels.\nWhat did you learn in that role? Any particular highlights or challenges?\nThis was my first role directly working with cloud services so a key aspect of my learning was getting to grips with AWS. With training and career progression backed by M2A, I was able to gain an industry-recognised credential by passing the AWS Cloud Foundation Accreditation. This demonstrates an overall understanding of the key technology used in my role.\nIt's difficult to pick out one particular highlight, but there is never a dull moment in operations. Providing support to some of the biggest global sports brands is incredibly exciting!\nMore recently as the pandemic hit, M2A Operations were forced to work from home and this meant adapting to new ways of working. However, we were able to continue to provide the same high level of support to our customers, with the ability to access all of the tools and systems that were available to us in our Central London MCR.\nWhat was the pathway to your new role? Was it a steep learning curve? How did M2A support you through the change?\nFrom my time in Operations I was using our M2A CONNECT product every day. I think this experience has really helped me to look at the product from a user's perspective. What excites me about my new role, as a Software Developer, is being able to work on the other side, playing a key part in providing solutions that make users' lives easier.\nAt M2A staff are encouraged to develop themselves personally and professionally. My new team has been incredibly supportive over the past 10 months, guiding me and encouraging me to get stuck in from the start.\nThere definitely is a steep learning curve, but it's important to take small steps and try not to put too much pressure on yourself. My new team were all juniors at one point, so they understand exactly how it feels to be at this level. Pair programming is an important part of learning and I regularly get together with another team member to work through problems. These collaborative sessions are invaluable to help improve your skills. At the same time I think it's important to think for yourself and own problems from start to finish. Knowing when to ask for help is a key part of the learning process.\nLearning the code can be daunting as it's such a big subject, but with all of the free resources available online these days there definitely has never been a better time to learn.\nHow do you hope to evolve your career from here?\nThis is just the beginning for me working as an engineer and I hope to continue to learn new skills every day. I expect to gradually work on bigger product features as my experience grows and hope to play my part in creating the best user experience possible!\nDo you have any advice for other people looking to evolve their careers in the way you have?\nI think the best advice if you are thinking about a change is to just give it a try and see if it's something that interests you. When I started learning to code, I knew instantly that this was something I wanted to keep doing. What's great about M2A is having a mentor to guide me through the learning. It's one thing taking online courses, but having a mentor really accelerates your learning.\nAnd finally a classic quote that I live by \u2013 fail hard, fail fast and fail often, don't dwell on it if something goes wrong.\nThanks for your time today Rob!\nWe are always on the lookout for talented, switched on individuals to join our team of video experts and help build the business. Please regularly check in at http:\/\/www.m2amedia.tv\/careers for opportunities at M2A Media.\nAdditionally, to learn more about M2A Media and the work we do to support global broadcasters and sport-rights owners transition their live video workflows to the cloud, visit www.m2amedia.tv\nFive steps to Connect: Distribution Operational Efficiency And Software-Driven Localisation In A Post-COVID World Server-side Dynamic Content Insertion: the journey continues\u2026 The Evolution Of Sports Distribution\nBlogsCompanyUncategorized\nPrevious post Streaming Config Made Simple\nNext post Five steps to Connect: Acquisition\nStudio 119, The Record Hall, 16-16A Baldwin's Gardens, London, EC1N 7RJ\ninfo@m2amedia.tv\n\u00a9 2023 M2A Media. Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Persian kitchen\nSpecial dossier\nIran: Germany supports Israeli crimes\nWill Iran and Saudi Arabia de-escalate their feud?\nArmenia will strengthen ties with Iran\nA US-Iran war would be a catastrophe\nSupreme Leader says Iran will continue reducing JCPOA commitments\nPutin: No proof Iran attacked Saudi oil facilities\nZarif: Iran's views must be reflected in the four-point document\nIran supports European plan to bolster nuclear deal\nThe untold facts of Israel-Hezbollah war by Major General Soleimani\nIran setbacks in 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup\nPersian Gulf stability requires realism and compromise\nByShireen T. Hunter\nNews ID: 7587\n(Persia Digest) - In the aftermath of attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil installations, attributed either directly or indirectly to Iran, calls in the United States for punitive military action against Tehran have once more increased. As has often been the case in the past, those clamoring for military strikes against Iran focus mostly on the potential impact of inaction on U.S. credibility, as the patron of the [Persian] Gulf Arab states, and its prestige as a great power. The other argument used is that inaction will embolden Tehran to intensify its provocations. Advocates argue that Washington's unwillingness to retaliate militarily when Iran downed a U.S. drone in June contributed to its engineering\/supporting\/sanctioning these more recent incidents.\nShireen T. Hunter writes in Lobe Log that those who argue in favor of military strikes also tend to play down the risk of escalation and the danger of any strike degenerating into a full-scale war.\nA Flawed Argument\nThe reasoning behind the position of those asking for military retaliation is flawed. The argument that if the United States did not retaliate its credibility would suffer is incorrect. To begin with, Washington does not have any treaty obligation to any of the Persian Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia. Even if such a treaty existed, it would apply only to a direct invasion of any of these countries\u2014as was the case, for example, with Saddam Hussein's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The same objection applies to the argument that U.S. prestige would suffer. It is likely that a hasty resort to military action, with attendant consequences, would do more damage to U.S. international prestige than a show of restraint. This is especially so at a time when traditional U.S. allies in Europe and Japan are unhappy with aspects of Washington's policy towards Iran and, because of their greater dependence on the region's oil, would suffer more from a conflict there. This proved true with the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. That war did little to enhance U.S. prestige. More seriously, any potential damage to U.S. prestige and credibility should be judged in comparison to the human and material costs of such operations.\nAnother flaw in the arguments made by supporters of military action is their assumption that these actions would not escalate to the level of a full-scale war, because Iran will take the punishment without retaliating. But this has for some time been wishful thinking. Several Iranian officials, notably commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, have said that the United States can start the war according to its own timetable, but it cannot end it that way. It stands to reason that Iranian officials have prepared a strategy for engaging the U.S. in a protracted war. Most recently, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif stated that, if there is a war, it will be a \"complete war\" (Tamam Ayar).\nThe mind-set of Iran's hardliners and the fact that they are convinced that Washington is determined to bring about regime change also would push them to escalate the confrontation and increase its cost for the U.S. In other words, they would prefer to be hung for a sheep than for a lamb. Since Iran will be defending its territory and statehood, it will fight and will take the fight to neighboring states. In fact, the smaller Gulf Arab states will pay a heavy price should a war break out. Moreover, although having suffered much, the pain threshold of Iranians is quite high, since the majority of them have never had an easy life. In short, a so-called surgical strike on sensitive targets is unlikely to subdue Tehran. To do so, the U.S. will have to embark on massive bombings and even introduce ground troops and keep them there for a long while.\nRisk of Intervention by Other Powers\nA war with Iran could also lead to the intervention of other powers, such as Russia and China. Iran is much closer than Syria to the Russian Federation, and Moscow is concerned about a potential surge of refugees coming from Iran, passing through the Caucasus, and ending up in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Russia would also be more than happy to see Washington bogged down in Iran and therefore might be willing to help Tehran without actually becoming involved in hostilities. China, too, would feel anxious about having its oil supplies become wholly dependent on American good will. In short, should a war break out, its trajectory cannot be predicted accurately. The so-called cake walk in Iraq turned into a swamp. A surgical strike against Iran could deteriorate into a drawn out war.\n\u25ba Zarif raises prospects of new nuclear accord with Trump\n\u25ba France, Germany, UK hold Iran responsible for Aramco attacks\n\u25ba Saudi claims of Iran attacks on oil facilities baseless\nA Better Alternative\nA more acceptable alternative to war is diplomacy and compromise. But to succeed, it will have to meet the following requirements:\nA realistic assessment of power equations and the limits of military force as instrument of policy. The United States still has a superiority of military power over other international and regional actors. However, regional actors now also have improved their military capabilities and thus are able of inflicting more damage than was the case even two decades ago. Moreover, the U.S. has global responsibilities and concerns and therefore needs to be present in different theaters. These responsibilities restrict Washington's ability to devote a disproportionate part of its forces to a single theater. By contrast, local actors' concerns are limited to their immediate neighborhoods.\nA realization that military power cannot always be translated into political dominance. Again, experiences of Afghanistan and Iraq, and even Syria, demonstrate the validity of this point. Thus even bombing Iran would not necessarily achieve America's political goals.\nUnderstanding that global hegemony is no longer achievable. The emergence of new powers, notably China, together with traditional powers such as Russia, plus local powers, means that no single power can impose its hegemony globally and certainly not by military force.\nThese realities mean that regional and global stability can only be achieved through the predominance of diplomacy, compromise, and respect for international norms by all actors, big and small. Applied to the present situation in the Persian Gulf, these principles would require that international agreements, including the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), be applied; that Iran accept direct talks with Washington on the whole range of issues of concern to both states; and that Iran and Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia, abandon desires for regional dominance, engage in dialogue, listen to each other's concerns and fears, make necessary compromises, and ultimately agree on some form of regional security structure that could secure their basic interests. Of course, for such a dialogue to be possible, it must have the blessing of the United States, since almost all other major actors already favor such measures.\nIf key regional and international actors refuse to accept these realities, then stability will remain elusive and the risk of all-out conflict will increase.\nShireen Hunter is a University Associate with Georgetown University. From 2007 to 2014 She was a Visiting Professor and from 2014 until July 2019 she was a Research Professor at the School of Foreign Service. Her latest publication is Arab-Iranian Relations: Dynamics of Conflict and Accommodation, Rowman & Littlefield International, June 2019.\nClick here for more political news.\n\u25ba Follow us on Twitter\n# War # Washington # US # Zarif # oil # Persian Gulf # Tehran # Patron # Iran # Persia Digest\nSHORT\u200c LINK persiadigest.com\/1001yN\nPersia Digest is not responsible for the content of external sites.\nDesign by iransamaneh","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"[\ub2e8\ub3c5\uc678\uc2e0] MacKenzie Scott gives nearly $4.2B to charity in 4 months amid pandemic\nMacKenzie Scott gives nearly $4.2B to charity in 4 months amid pandemic\nthe ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos \u2014 gave nearly $4.2 billion to charity over the last four months to support struggling Americans during the coronavirus crisis.\nIn a blog post Tuesday, the world's third-richest woman said she doled out the money to 384 organizations across the country, including food banks, social services programs, civil rights groups, colleges and universities.\nScott, 50, said she decided to \"accelerate\" her giving to help people suffering from the pandemic's devastation following her July announcement that she'd donated almost $1.7 billion to dozens of nonprofits. Her latest donations bring her total giving for the year to roughly $5.8 billion.\n\"This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling,\" Scott said in her blog post, noting that the crisis has also \"substantially increased\" the wealth of billionaires like herself.\n\"It would be easy for all the people who drew the long demographic straws in this crisis to hole up at home feeling a mix of gratitude and guilt, and wait for it to be over \u2014 but that's not what's happening,\" she added.\nScott said her team of advisers selected the recipients of her gifts from an initial pool of nearly 6,500 organizations based on their ability to use the money effectively. The advisers conducted extensive research into the charities that involved hundreds of emails and phone interviews and \"thousands of pages of data analysis,\" she said.\nEach donation will be paid upfront and left unrestricted so the organizations have plenty of flexibility in how to use the funds, Scott said.\n\"The responses from people who took the calls [from Scott's team] often included personal stories and tears,\" she wrote. \"\u2026 Their stories and tears invariably made me and my teammates cry.\"\nScott is still a long way from fulfilling her goal of giving away more than half her wealth, which has surged by about $24 billion to roughly $61 billion so far this year, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. Her roughly 4 percent stake in Amazon makes up the bulk of that fortune, Bloomberg says.\nMacKenzie Scott\nScott set her charitable goal by signing onto the Giving Pledge in May 2019 after announcing her divorce from Bezos, who is not among the more than 200 signatories to the pledge despite being the richest man in the world.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WSI Photo Gallery\nPost of the Week\n2013 White Sox\nWSI Extras\nWSI Interviews\nAudio Memories\n2002 Disaster!\n2001 Season Fun!\n2000 Champions!\nHistory & Glory\nSox Greats\nSox Quotables\nSox Fight Songs\nOld Comiskey Park\nSave our Sox!\nby WSI editor George Bova\nPrevious Brushes With Disaster\nThe Chicago White Sox have nearly left Chicago on at least three occasions. The first was 1969 when Sox owner Arthur Allyn considered overtures from Bud Selig and other Milwaukee interests to move the club to County Stadium. Instead, he sold to his brother, John. Six years later John Allyn was broke and placed under enormous pressure from fellow owners to sell his club to Seattle interests and undercut a lawsuit which Seattle had against them. This was a mess of their own creation since the Seattle lawsuit was directly related to the A.L. owners' approval of moving the Seattle Pilots franchise to Milwaukee. Yes, Selig finally succeeded at getting his ball club but only at the expense of legal liability for all the other A.L. owners. The A.L. owners also planned to appease Charlie Finley by making Chicago available to his A's. Charlie wanted out of Oakland and had years earlier tried to buy the Sox. Everyone was lined up against John Allyn and Chicago's Sox fans.\nAs fall turned to winter in 1975, Bill Veeck emerged as leader of the sole investment group intent on saving the club for Chicago and its Sox fans. The A.L. owners reluctantly agreed to his offer and later voted to expand the league to include an expansion franchise in -- surprise! -- Seattle, Washington.\nIn 1979 and 1980, Veeck made overtures to Denver interests but later made an agreement to sell to Ed DeBartolo who pledged to keep the club in Chicago. His offer was turned down by the owners. (Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn referred to DeBartolo as \"not R.P.\" -- \"right people\" as quoted in John Helyar's book \"Lords of the Realm\"). Veeck was forced to sell to a different investment group headed by Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn in 1981.\nWithin five years Jerry and Eddie were clamoring for a new ballpark and had plans drawn for a new stadium to be built on a site they owned at Lake and Swift in Addison, Illinois. The voters in Addison narrowly turned down a non binding referendum approving construction in their community and the Sox began serious discussions with interests in St. Petersburg to make the Sox the first major league franchise in the booming state of Florida.\nThis time there was no brother of the owner to buy out the Sox, nor was there a white knight to ride in and save the Sox. Nobody was waiting in the wings to bring their franchise to Chicago's south side either. The Sox never came closer to leaving Chicago a one team town than June of 1988. The politicians would have to give in to the blackmail of franchise relocation -- the price being a new publicly financed stadium for Jerry and Eddie's White Sox.\nMake no mistake -- it was blackmail, meant to enrich those who extorted it. Old Comiskey Park certainly required many expensive repairs to remain a safe and comfortable place to watch a ballgame. But Jerry Reinsdorf himself admitted, \"You could have waved a magic wand over old Comiskey Park and made it brand new and in mint condition, and it still wouldn't have worked.\" Old Comiskey was torn down because it didn't have enough luxury suites -- and not much else.\nThe Months and Days Leading to June, 1988\nThe leading politician was Illinois Governor Jim Thompson. The tragic death of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington prevented any real leadership on the issue from the city. They had agreed to the creation of of a public sports stadium authority (jointly controlled) with the requirement that the park be built next to Old Comiskey Park to save on the costs of infrastructure improvements and preserve the history of the team at that south side location. Suburban politicians had no real interests in the project though many of them had parochial interests in getting the grandstand at Arlington Park racetrack rebuilt. The downstate politicians were openly hostile to any suggestion of new public spending in Chicago. Many of them were fans of the Cubs and Saint Louis Cardinals. Nothing could be built without approval by the Illinois State Legislature -- and there simply weren't the votes to pass it. The odds did not look good for Chicago, Sox fans, or the governor.\nThe deadline for passing the funding bill was the stroke of midnight on June 30, 1988. By state law, any legislation passed beyond that date would require a three-fifths majority. It would be difficult to muster even a simple majority for the stadium bill. As the deadline drew closer the drumbeat in Florida got louder. New incentives were approved for Florida's proposal. The Suncoast Dome construction was speeded up for a 1989 opening day completion. Fans in Florida began purchasing \"Florida White Sox\" novelty t-shirts.\nThe Final Days\nThere were several rallies in Chicago's Loop to Save the Sox. A grass roots organization by that name was comprised of fans trying to save the old ballpark. Another group, Sox Fans On Deck, lobbied to get the new stadium bill passed, willing to sacrifice the old ballpark so as to save the team for Chicago. Compared to similar groups formed to prevent night baseball games at Wrigley Field, S.O.S. and S.F.O.D. were small, underfunded, and largely ignored by the politicians. Still they had sponsors and made headlines, if not progress, towards achieving their goals. The only real hope for saving the club remained with the politicians, notably Jim Thompson. On June 29, after securing additional rent concessions, Sox ownership signed the lease to play at the new park be built at 35th and Shields. Armed with this agreement, Big Jim really went to work. With approval by Chicago's city council a forgone conclusion, it was Jim Thompson who would bat clean up and either deliver a home run victory or strike out in defeat. Busloads of Sox fans came to Springfield those last days of June but only Big Jim stood between the White Sox and Florida.\nFinal Maneuvering\nThompson gained leverage with several suburban politicians by tying his support for public infrastructure improvements needed to build a new grandstand at Arlington Park to the Sox stadium bill. (The grandstand had burned down in 1985 and no definite plans for replacing it had been approved). To get the required votes, Thompson would need plenty more support. He led a public rally amongst busloads of fans who traveled to Springfield from Chicago. More importantly, he would go behind closed doors and call every state legislator who ever owed him a favor -- and start turning the screws. After twelve years as governor, more than a few of them were in his debt.\nThe 12:03 Miracle\nLate afternoon caucuses amongst House and Senate leadership yielded faint hope that the bill could be passed before midnight. That afternoon of June 30, the governor's limousine pulled up to the steps of the State House. He secured the support of Senate Republican leader Jim \"Pate\" Philip -- the same politician who likely killed the club's earlier chances of moving to Addison. A few key votes changed sides in the last hour including State Senator Dawn Clark Netsch who finally realized school funding would always be an issue but the Sox bill was a one-chance occurrence only. Assurances for minority contractor set asides also garnered new votes.\nThe bill past the Senate at 11:35 pm with the bare minimum required votes. Everyone bolted across the building to carry the fight to the House. Jim Thompson literally rolled up his sleeves and began working the floor. It was the downstate legislators who needed there arms twisted and Big Jim was the only politician who could apply the pressure. Horse trading? Nobody ever admitted to much but certainly a few private attempts were made. Thompson had a lot of chits in downstate Illinois and negotiated from power with many would-be holdouts.\nIt was 11:59 and the last few required votes had not been lined up. Politics is always about math and House Speaker Michael Madigan knew he was a few noses short. He consulted with the keeper of the gavel and made it clear the session would not end until he wanted it to. Officially at 11:59 pm the vote was taken and the bill passed. Everyone's watch read 12:03 except the one that counted -- that of the keeper of the gavel. No judge in the state of Illinois would ever have stuck their nose into the affairs of the state legislature. Bye bye Florida! Don't let the door hit you on the way out! HaHaHaHa!\nTo meet the aggressive 1991 target opening date, the state sports authority had little time to clear buildings and construct the new ballpark. The usual public review of plans to build such a large project were mostly skipped. A clever proposal to build a new park on the site of Armour Park (the Chicago Park District park north of Old Comiskey) was turned down for the laughable excuse that the park house was a historic structure. Sure -- like historic buildings aren't torn down in Chicago all the time. Such a modest structure could easily have been rebuilt on the site of Old Comiskey which would have been converted to a park -- rather than a parking lot. Certainly the Chicago Park District, controlled by the mayor, would have approved any obvious improvement like this, and the state legislature, having already approved the funding, could hardly be expected to turn down simple design revisions. Nope, there was no time for any of this. Residents were paid off and relocated, city blocks leveled, and street grids revised -- but the original plan remained untouched. Opening day was less than three years away and the park would open as scheduled.\nAfter sixteen years as Illinois' governor, Jim Thompson left public service in 1993. A new mayor was elected in Chicago in 1989. Richard M. Daley, the son of the city's \"boss\" mayor of twenty years, is now the foremost fan and political sponsor of the White Sox and their Chicago interests. Michael Madigan continues as State House Speaker. Pate Philip still wields power in the Senate and his home base in suburban Dupage County. The Sox still play at 35th and Shields and fans still complain but now over very different problems. After years of denial, the Sox front office has finally admitted to some issues with the new park, and preliminary plans are being discussed for correcting them.\nNot too much has changed really. Most of all, they are still our Chicago White Sox\nFor a more complete history of events leading to the creation of New Comiskey Park, please read Richard Lindberg's book, \"Stealing First in a Two Team Town\" (1994, Sagamore Publishing).\nDo you have a thought about\nSave Our Sox?\nYou Can Put it on the Board -- Yes!\nSox History & Glory\nWSI Spotlight\n72 Sox Where Are They Now\nPart 2: Sox and the Media\nSox and the Media\nA Second City Trophy\nIn Defense of Sox Hitting\nSox Quest\nA Good Decade\nThe Tongue of Oz","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WBTV Reveals Comic-Con 2018 Official Bags (#WBSDCC)\nJuly 10, 2018 By Funmbi Leave a Comment\nThe designs for this year's Comic-Con bags are here! Plus, check out WB's plans for their booth. #WBSDCC\nI still can't believe Comic-Con is coming right up next week! In case you haven't already, make sure to take a look at the full schedule of panels.\nFor the ninth year in a row, Warner Bros. and Comic-Con have teamed up to provide the official bags of SDCC. For 2018, Warner Bros. is bringing fans 18 different bag designs! And once again, for the second year in a row, each bag will come with a unique collector's pin with 12 DC character designs for 2018.\nFor the bags, WBTV series Arrow, Black Lightning, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Krypton, Supergirl, Supernatural, and the highly anticipated upcoming Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for Netflix and Castle Rock for Hulu; Warner Bros. Animation's DC Super Hero Girls and Young Justice: Outsiders, along with Warner Bros. Animation\/Blue Ribbon Content's Constantine: City of Demons; Feature films include Aquaman, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, The Meg and Teen Titans GO! to the Movies; DC Entertainment will be featured on two bags, one celebrating 80 years of Superman in DC's comic pages and another devoted to the upcoming DC UNIVERSE digital service.\nIn terms of this year's pins, designs will include: Arrow, Aquaman, Batman, Black Lightning, Catwoman, The Flash, Harley Quinn, Joker, Martian Manhunter, Nightwing, Superman and Wonder Woman.\nTake a look at the designs here:\nCourtesy of Warner Bros.\nFans should also plan to make their way to the Warner Bros. booth on the convention floor (#4545)!\nLucifer fans will have a heavenly \u2014 and devilish \u2014 time with life-sized, photo-friendly wings flown in from the City of Angels as a divine treat for the devoted fans who helped keep Lucifer alive! #LuciferSaved\nParents and kids alike can enjoy LEGO\u00ae gaming kiosks. Brave fans can step inside the virtual mouth of the ferocious megalodon ahead of the premiere of The Meg, the upcoming action-horror film featuring the 75-foot-long prehistoric shark that's been missing for 2.5 million years. Fans having a good hare day can snap a picture with Warner Bros. Television's \"Hop, Hop, and Away!\" rabbit statue, which is part of the Rabbitville public art installation which combines the history of San Diego's Rabbitville district (now the Gaslamp Quarter) with some of the most recognizable heroes from the DC Universe.\nAlso, keep in mind that Con-goers who hope to participate in autograph signings must visit Comic-Con.org\/CCI to submit their interest via the Exclusive Signings Portal. WBTVG follows Comic-Con's ticket drawing\/wristband distribution procedure.\nWhat are you most looking forward to at this year's SDCC? Share your thoughts with us in comments and make sure to stay tuned to We So Nerdy. We'll be brining you the latest developments right from the Con!\nFiled Under: Conventions, Film, News, SDCC 2018, TV Tagged With: Aquaman, Arrow, Black Lightning, Castle Rock, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Comic Con International 2018: San Diego, Comic-Con 2018, Comic-Con bags, Constantine: City of Demons, DC Super Hero Girls, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Hulu, Krypton, Netflix, photos, SDCC 2018, Supergirl, Supernatural, Teen Titans GO! to the Movies, The Flash, The Meg, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Television, WBSDCC, WBTV, Young Justice: Outsiders","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"An homage to the birthplace of modern travel\nWE'D BEEN PATIENT MOST OF THE DRIVE. But somewhere around the 6th hour across North Carolina, having dropped from the highlands to the Piedmont to the coastal plain, past the damp winter fields of cotton stubble, past the endless stretches of pine flatwoods, the kids were getting restless. Nobody could wait to reach the Outer Banks.\nWe'd been preparing for this trip. I checked out books on the Wright Brothers, who had become funny-hatted characters in my kindergarten-aged kids' stories. I wondered how old Orville and Wilbur would've perceived this road on their first trip from Dayton in 1900. What levels of anticipation must they have had in these last couple dozen miles?\nThe chain of barrier islands known as the Outer Banks \u2014 or OBX as it's commonly abbreviated \u2014 juts off the coast of North Carolina, with the Albemarle Sound distancing it from any large cities (the closest is Norfolk, Virgina, about an hour and a half away). This was one of the reasons the Wright Brothers originally chose it as the site of their flight experiments. Beyond just winds and soft dunes, it was an area out of the public eye.\nThis distance makes OBX a kind of mini-pilgrimage for many travelers, especially East Coast surfers and anglers. For us, and for different reasons, the Outer Banks is as good as it can get in our part of the world. For one, whereas most of the Atlantic is characterized by a shallow continental shelf that diminishes wave-power, OBX's geography and steep dropoff allows swells to break harder, similar to the Pacific. Kelly Slater said about the role of Hatteras (the most eastward jutting point of OBX) in his surfing development: \"Hatteras was my Pipeline, my Mecca.\"\nBut OBX's position in the Atlantic is also a convergence zone of two major ocean currents \u2014 the Labrador flowing south from the Arctic and the warm Gulf Stream flowing north \u2014 which results in an incredible biodiversity of marine life and some of the best fishing in the Atlantic.\nI wondered how old Orville and Wilbur would've perceived this road on their first trip from Dayton in 1900. What levels of anticipation must they have had in these last couple dozen miles?\nJust when it seemed we couldn't take any more driving, we were on the bridge crossing the Alligator River, and into a kind of terrain I'd never seen before. It looked similar to bogs down in Florida, but with different vegetation. These were pocosins, upland swamps full of tupelo trees, pond pine, and venus flytrap. I was partly tempted to turn into one of the sandy entrances to the Alligator River Wildlife persevere \u2014 but kept going across another long bridge to Roanoke Island, site of Sir Walter Raleigh's English colony in 1587 \u2014 later known as the \"Lost\" Colony. I tried to explain this somewhat arcane piece of history to my wife (a native of Argentina), and kids. \"Where did the colonists go?\"\nI sided with historians who believe these colonists eventually integrated with descendants of the local Roanoke Indians, who had been friendly with the English (and likely helped them survive) on their first encounter in the New World.\nThe final bridge took us across Roanoke Sound and onto the Outer Banks proper. There was a weird light to the early afternoon as the thick cloud banks that were overhead all day now pushed out to sea. After a somewhat bleak February morning, from the giant dunes at Jockey's Ridge to the low country buildings of Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills, everything seemed to glow warmly. Passing several kite stores, whose banners and windsocks flapped strongly towards the sea, I got super excited about the prospect of offshore wind and possibly great wave conditions.\nOver the next four days we explored various pockets of the Outer Banks, from north near the Virginia border on a 4\u00d74 beach road past Corolla, to down south along the National Seashore to Cape Hatteras. I found many parts of the trip strangely moving. From the early contact of the English with the Native Americans here, to the long stretches of open coast where Blackbeard and so many other pirates (including inland pirates that ambushed floundering vessels) pillaged and eventually perished, there seem to be so many juxtapositions of history \u2014 particularly the history of travel \u2014 in this raw edge of the US coast.\nPerhaps most of all, as travelers we all tend to take for granted that every time we get on a plane, the very principles of flight, the system of controls used by pilots today, goes back to the Wright Brothers. They figured it out. The whole concept of adapting to changing wind conditions by \"wing warping\" goes back to their summers testing out gliders, and then, finally, planes, at Kill Devil Hills. It feels like a hallowed ground out there, made more powerful by the fact that it's not a closed off museum but the same wide open fields where they camped and flew. You can walk in the same places and feel these same winds.\nHere were some of our highlights:\nWright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills\nThe set of images gives you an idea of the scale of this place. The stone marker in the middle image shows the launch spot (including a replica of the rail used by the Wright Brothers to launch their plane). The smaller markers set out at different distances show the landing spots of the first four flights on December 17, 1903. The fourth flight was 852 feet, with the \"flyer\" in the air for 59 seconds.\nThis was the fourth year that the Wright Brothers had come to the Outer Banks (a replica of their camp building and hangar is in the bottom shot). The first three years they made thousands of test flights in different model gliders \u2014 both manned and using the gliders as kites \u2014 slowly developing the concept they called \"wing warping,\" adjusting to changing wind conditions and actively turning \/ flying the craft.\nA week before we arrived there was a large snow event in the southern US; more than 6 inches fell in Kill Devil Hills, and locals came to the monument to sled \/ snowboard.\nJennette's Pier, Nags Head\n\"I wish I could create a computer model of what I saw when I come up the ramp each morning.\" This was how Chris Crockett (pictured left) described how he sees the water \u2014 and the always changing currents, tides, wind, weather, even sand compositions along the beach \u2014 that are all interrelated and help one understand where and how to fish. Born in Emerald Isle, he's spent his entire life as a waterman on the shores of North Carolina. On the pro surfing tour as a grom, and learning boat-building and fishing \"from the old-timers,\" he's now an outdoor educator who has taught thousands of North Carolina youth who come each year to Jennette's Pier. A state-run facility, Jennette's is both a working ocean research center and an educational facility offering programs in biology of fish, alternative energy (Jennette's Pier is itself powered by wind and solar), beach exploration, water runoff, plankton, and Crockett's obvious favorite, fishing.\nThe fish weren't biting that morning, so he gave Layla (6) and Micael (3) a beginner's lesson on identifying common local species (drum, spot) and practice casting.\n\"If people would just listen to me,\" he said, \"and everyone just took a break from inland netting and fishing for a year, this would be the best fishery in the world.\"\nCorolla, North Carolina\nThe island of Corolla, North Carolina, is only accessibly by 4\u00d74. If you spend enough time driving along the beach and the various beach houses scattered around the island, you'll eventually see wild horses. Supposedly this is the only place in North America with this particular horse, which has no domestic blood, but is all descended from the same thoroughbred families of colonial Spanish Mustangs that have been on the island for 575 years. The horses are not afraid of humans and basically just wander the island grazing and taking shelter wherever and however they please.\nSurfing OBX\nThere wasn't enough swell while we were there to really shortboard, but I got fun rides in my kayak. Water temp was a frigid 39 degrees, meaning short sessions, empty breaks. It's just you and dolphins.\nNote the tire tracks. People with ORV passes can drive along different beaches in the Outer Banks. At first this threw me: I'm not used to seeing vehicles when I'm out on the beach. But later I realized how good this makes it for locals (and the potential for epic exploration if you have the right vehicle). There's a huge community of anglers and surfers who can dial in exactly where they want to surf or fish, and being able to drive the beach gives them next-level access.\nA couple more things about the Outer Banks: (1) Be careful out there. The steep dropoff is way different than most other beaches along the Atlantic, and it would be easy to get swept out into water deeper than you could stand up in by the shorebreak. (2) Surf conditions in OBX are no joke; it can go off with as perfect wave conditions as you can imagine. Check this shot of last year's Outer Banks Pro at Jennette's Pier for reference. Image via WRV:\nJockey's Ridge\nJockey's Ridge State Park contains the largest sand dunes on the Atlantic, and stretches eastward to Roanoke Sound, allowing you to explore from the dunes back to tidelands. The morning we visited was clear and mild, perfect for flying kites and, as we saw, to learn to fly a para-glider (several local outfitters use Jockey's Ridge as a training ground for hang gliding lessons.) When you're atop the dunes you get sweet views both out to the Atlantic as well as back into the sound. We could've easily explored here all day.\nCape Hatteras National Seashore\nHatteras is one of only 10 federally protected national seashores in the US. It has the feel of driving into a national park, with day-use \/ picnic areas and bathrooms along the way and four campgrounds, each giving an epic setup for extended surf \/ fish \/ kayaking trips. The campgrounds are closed in winter, unfortunately, but the Frisco Woods private campground is open year-round.\nWe saw a ton of wildlife on Hatteras, including these deer which came out at dusk. The dolphins were feeding all day just off the shorebreak. It was pretty windblown and cold, giving a kind of gnarly feel, making it not hard to imagine this area as the \"Graveyard of the Atlantic\" \u2014 a name conferred after the hundreds and possibly thousands of shipwrecks at the Diamond Shoals, a twelve-mile-long sandbar off this stretch of coast where southbound ship are driven by the current.\nMore than anything about being here, it came down to a feeling of solitude and being able to just regroup as a family. I felt lucky to see this place for the first time in the winter, when the population is only 7,000 in Kill Devil Hills (it grows to 40,000 in summer), and the conversations in lines at the grocery stores and gas stations were always slow paced and centered around fishing spots and swell predictions. On the way out I thought again of Wilbur and Orville, wondering at the international fame and crazy trajectory their lives took after their invention. I wondered how much they thought back on those dunes and winds, the place where \u2014 out of view from the rest of the world \u2014 they finally got off the ground.\nEditor's note: Accommodations provided by our friends at The Outer Banks Visitors Bureau.\nWatch the video: Bangkok Vacation Travel Guide. Expedia\nThe important story behind all these dudes posting tiger photos on Tinder\nTips for travel video: How to get engaging interviews\nHere's the music people are rocking in Latin America\nGorkha Palace: A good escape from Nepal's tourist trail\n3 things you should never tell an editor\nCopyright \u00a9 jorgemolder.com | An homage to the birthplace of modern travel...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mehdi Mahdavi\nFind news about Mehdi Mahdavi and check out the latest Mehdi Mahdavi pictures. He has scored seven goals and five assists and is currently on a seven month suspension from the Iranian Olympic Committee for his participation in the 2011 World Cup in Moscow with the International Olympic Committee. He has also represented Argentina at major competitions, including the 2013 Copa Libertadores, the 2014 Giro d'Italia and 2008 World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland....\nFull name: Mehdi Mahdavi\nBorn: ( 1984-02-13) 13 February 1984 (age 36) Karaj, Iran\nHeight: 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)\nWeight: 96 kg (212 lb)\nSpike: 3.30 m (130 in)\nBlock: 3.10 m (122 in)\nPosition: Setter\nCurrent club: Sarmayeh Bank Tehran\nMehdi Mahdavi Pictures\nJapan v Iran - Men's World Olympic Qualification Tournament\nIran v Venezuela - FIVB Men's Volleyball World Cup Japan ...\nIran v Russia: FIVB World Championship 5th\/6th Playoff","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The U.S. World Cup Team's Defense Is Southern Strong\nByEditorial Staff\nThe fan costumed as Elvis in the stands at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, isn't the South's only connection to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. When Team USA went up a goal in the win-or-go-home match against Iran this past Tuesday, even rabid supporters may not have been aware that the defensive duo sent in to protect the lead, Walker Zimmerman and Shaq Moore, both come from the ranks of Nashville SC, which brought Major League Soccer to the Music City three years ago.\n\"They are arguably the best players in their positions in Major League Soccer,\" says Nashville SC general manager Mike Jacobs. \"At that very critical moment for America at the World Cup, the national team coach leaned on our guys.\"\nThe pair's Southern roots reach even deeper than their day job. Zimmerman, whose Thor-like physique makes him an especially imposing center back, was born in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The youngest of three sports-obsessed brothers, he played soccer at Furman University in South Carolina before being drafted by the MLS's FC Dallas in 2013. He was traded to Los Angeles FC in 2017, the same year he earned a spot on the U.S. national team. In 2020, he moved to the new Nashville SC expansion franchise, where he scored the team's first-ever goal. His importance is underscored by the fact that he was named MLS defender of the year for 2020 and 2021 and has signed a contract extension through 2025.\n\"Walker is the prototype of a center back, winning balls in the air with his head and on the field with tackles,\" Jacobs says. (Game highlights often capture Zimmerman soaring through a crowd to head the ball with astounding force.) \"He's competitive and combative\u2014what you look for in a leader.\"\nphoto: Icon Sportswire\nZimmerman in action against Wales on November 21.\nFellow back Shaq Moore was raised just fifty miles to the west in Powder Springs, Georgia. Considering that his father and uncle both played for the Trinidad and Tobago national soccer team, it's little surprise Moore was an early soccer standout, and he honed his skills at IMG Academy, a sports-intensive prep school in Bradenton, Florida. He began his pro career playing for clubs in Spain for several seasons before seizing the opportunity to sign with Nashville SC last summer. While playing abroad, Moore was recruited to the U.S. national team in 2018, and he turned heads in 2020 by scoring just twenty seconds into a match against Canada\u2014the all-time fastest goal for the national team. On November 9, 2022, he was added to the final roster for the World Cup.\nphoto: Hasan Bratic\/Associated Press\nMoore carries the ball in the November 25 match vs. England.\n\"In the modern game, even defenders are involved in the attack, and Shaq is probably the most feared player in the league in that regard. He can defend and attack, and he endures a lot of physical abuse and still can't be stopped,\" Jacobs says. \"When he went into a World Cup game for the first time in Qatar, I was filled with pride to see him have one of his dreams come true.\"\nDoes playing together in Nashville benefit Moore and Zimmerman on the world stage? Jacobs thinks so. \"The cohesion these guys have is evident,\" he says. Jacobs is eagerly awaiting Team USA's next match this Saturday against powerhouse Netherlands, and eventually welcoming his stars back home. \"Very few players ever get to represent their country in the World Cup, so it's special for us, and also for young kids in Nashville who can watch players they know from right here,\" he says.\nEven when Zimmerman or Moore aren't on the field, World Cup viewers can look for these other USA players with Southern connections:\n\u2022 Kellyn Acosta (born in Plano, Texas; currently plays for Los Angeles FC)\n\u2022 Jesus Ferreira (born in Colombia; currently plays for FC Dallas)\n\u2022 Sean Johnson (born in Lilburn, Georgia; currently plays for New York City FC)\n\u2022 Weston McKennie (born in Little Elm, Texas; currently plays for Juventus FC in Italy)\n\u2022 DeAndre Yedlin (born in Seattle; currently plays for Inter Miami CF)\nIL PRIMO ECOMMERCE SPECIALIZZATO IN DELIZIE AL TARTUFO E CAVIALE \u2013 CAVIAREAT.COM\nKorean woman 'molested' on live stream\nWill Big Tech downsize clean energy commitments? | Greenbiz\n\u0e14\u0e48\u0e27\u0e19! \u0e1e\u0e1a \u0e2b\u0e31\u0e27\u0e01\u0e30\u0e42\u0e2b\u0e25\u0e01-\u0e42\u0e04\u0e23\u0e07\u0e01\u0e23\u0e30\u0e14\u0e39\u0e01\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e34\u0e28\u0e19\u0e32 \u0e42\u0e1c\u0e25\u0e48\u0e23\u0e34\u0e21\u0e16\u0e19\u0e19\u0e43\u0e01\u0e25\u0e49\u0e2a\u0e27\u0e19\u0e2a\u0e19\u0e38\u0e01\u0e14\u0e31\u0e07 \u2013 \u0e02\u0e48\u0e32\u0e27\u0e2a\u0e14\nYounger job seekers drive 'climate quitting' | Greenbiz","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Australia: A Structural Story\nChart Of The Week Investment Insights Market Outlook Market Snapshot\nAll Affiliates Brandywine Global Clarion Partners ClearBridge Investments EnTrust Global Legg Mason Martin Currie QS Investors RARE Infrastructure Royce & Associates Western Asset\nAround the Curve\nStephen S. Smith\nManaging Director, Portfolio Manager\nDespite prevailing pessimism, Australian structural realities support a more optimistic outlook.\nThere seems to be a lot of doom and gloom hanging over markets right now, but structurally bullish cases do exist. Australia is one of them. Sure, Australia's economy has slowed, but sluggish growth is currently a global issue. Against a fairly pessimistic backdrop, what makes Australia stand out are the following structural factors:\nImminent tax cuts\nTwin surpluses\nReal effective exchange rate (REER) of the Australian dollar\nMacroprudential policies\nThe recently reelected government is expected to pursue a pro-growth agenda; therefore, we expect different sources of stimulus to support the Australian economy. For example, tax cuts could be announced as early as this month. These tax cuts wouldn't be possible\u2014or at least prudent\u2014without the country's twin surpluses, a facet of the economy that inarguably makes Australia attractive from an investment perspective. The country currently runs a budget surplus, and as shown in Chart 1 below; the budget as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) should move into positive territory in 2020.\nSource: Cornerstone Macro. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.\nAustralia also runs a current account surplus, which we think the country will be able to comfortably maintain for two reasons. Firstly, capital expenditures (capex) have increased across all sectors, pushing investment to levels seen in the 1990s, as shown in Chart 2. We are encouraged that companies are committing to capital-intensive projects and believe activity may have found a bottom in 2018.\nSecondly, the recovery in capex could partly be explained by Australia's commodity-centric exports, which have received continual support from Chinese demand for iron ore and coal. The demand for these two Australian commodities could remain relatively insulated from other potential headwinds because of the Chinese government's recent focus on environmental policies. Australian iron ore and coal are cleaner substitutes when compared to the resources that can be mined locally; Chinese authorities should continue to import them from Australia as long as the government remains focused on anti-pollution initiatives[RB1] . This baked-in demand could help prop up Australian exports (see Chart 3 below), as well as the dollar.\n[RB1]Link to Tracy Chen blog\nSource: Reserve Bank of Australia. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Indexes are unmanaged, and not available for direct investment. Index returns do not include fees or sales charges. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.\nThe Aussie dollar is undervalued on a REER basis as shown in Chart 4 below\u2014making it one of the most undervalued currencies in our universe based upon this metric.\nSource: Brandywine Global. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.\nThe Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) seems to agree and has projected that the currency could comfortably appreciate to around $0.75 from its current level without hindering growth. Chart 5 illustrates the central bank's projection on the currency:\nSource: Reserve Bank of Australia. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. This information is provided for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect the performance of an actual investment.\nThe RBA also recently cut rates, which implies that Australia doesn't have an inflation problem right now\u2014another constructive sign for investors. Perhaps inflation remained benign as Australia's previously overheated housing market began to cool off. A few years ago, the government required borrowers to undergo stress tests in the event of a rising rate environment. The policy was meant to rein in real estate prices, which have seems to have worked since home prices have been weak for the last 18 months. Now, the government is expected to relax these stringent requirements to reinvigorate the housing market.\nWe think these collective structural forces could create tailwinds for the Australian economy. The country's twin surpluses afford the luxury to pursue ambitious stimulus efforts as a way to revive the economy without sacrificing the currency or a benign inflation backdrop. However, risks certainly remain as the U.S. and China continue to hash out their trade dispute while the Chinese government continues to implement its own stimulus.\nThe Australian Dollar (AUD) is the national currency of Australia.\nThe real-effective exchange rate (REER) is the weighted average of a country's currency relative to an index or basket of other major currencies adjusted for the effects of inflation.\nGross Domestic Product (\"GDP\") is an economic statistic which measures the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.\nThe Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organization that promotes policies to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.\nChart 4: These are the appreviations for the national currencies of the countries listed:\nTRY, Turkish Lira; COP, Colombian Peso; BRL, Brazilian Real; AUD, Australian Dollar; SEK, Swedish Krona; ARS, Argentine Peso; MXN, Mexican Peso; CAD, Canadian Dollar; PKR, Pakistani Rupee; NOK, Norwegian Krone; JPY, Japanese Yen; ZAR, South African Rand; CLP, Chilean Peso; MYR, Malaysian Ringgit; RUB, Russian Ruble; GBP, British Pound; NZD, New Zealand Dollar; EUR, Euro; HUF, Hungarian Forint; IDR, Indonesian Rupiah; PLN, Polish Zloty; DKK, Danish Krone; EGP, Egyptian Pound; RON, Romanian Leu; CHF, Swiss Franc; SGD, Singapore Dollar; TWD, Taiwanese Dollar; KRW, Korean Won; PHP, Philippine Peso; PEN, Peruvian Sol; CZK, Czech Koruna; CNY, Chinese Renminbi; INR, Indian Rupee; ILS, Israeli Shekel; THB, Thai Baht; USD, U.S. Dollar; HKD, Hong Kong Dollar\nAll investments involve risk, including possible loss of principal.\nThe value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amounts originally invested, and can be affected by changes in interest rates, in exchange rates, general market conditions, political, social and economic developments and other variable factors. 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{"text":"Tealium CEO: AI, IoT and the ongoing customer data integration challenge\nCMO catches up with the global chief of data management technology provider to discuss the changing martech landscape and how to gain a 360-degree customer data view\nNadia Cameron (CMO)\nJeff Lunsford\nAsk any marketer what's on their to-do list in 2017, and they'll tell you they have a project underway to achieve a 360-degree view of the customer, Tealium's global CEO, Jeff Lunsford, says.\n\"Any marketer is going to be looking to pull in data about that customer or a prospect from the myriad points where data is available in this new world,\" he says. \"This could be IoT, mobile devices, or customer care.\n\"Every marketer will nod yes, they want to leverage all the data they possibly can. So there's vision sync across the industry, the question is, how to do that.\"\nTealium is one of a growing number of vendors looking to provide that answer with its Universal Data Hub, a software solution aimed at addressing data fragmentation for marketers across online and offline channels. The platform brings together the vendor's AudienceStream and DataAccess solutions with its iQ foundational technology.\nIt's the latest in an evolution of the company from its early days as a tag management vendor. Since launching six years ago, Tealium has spent several years integrating its offering with more than 1000 applications across the marketing ecosystem, and recently raised another US$35m in capital, off the back of increased investment earlier in 2016, bringing total funding to $112.9m.\nTealium now has 750 enterprise customers globally, from small digital-first companies to the largest, mature organisations. Australian clients include Cronulla Sharks, Nude by Nature, Greenstone Financial, and Melbourne University, while Asia-Pacific clients include Cathy Pacific.\nSpeaking to CMO during a visit to Australia this week, Lunsford described Tealium as the \"neutral layer down the stack of the marketing cloud\", and the common management component organisations need in order to be able to exchange data across multiple best-of-breed systems in real time. Rather than competing with the large marketing cloud providers, he sees Tealium's role as being a complementary component.\nNot surprisingly, Lunsford sees technology as providing the foundational layer marketers need across customer touchpoints to pull that 360-degree vision off.\nRead more CMO-CIO NZ roundtable: Shifting gears from digital enablement to business transformation\n\"Companies use multiple software applications to create the customer experience, each has its own idea of the customer, and most don't talk to each other,\" he says. \"The average Tealium customer has 26 software applications that contribute to the customer experience.\n\"To successfully pull off the vision of leveraging data, and creating a consistent customer experience, you have to have right technology underpinnings. Our thesis in 2011 has proven to be correct: You need an independent data layer that can speak to all 26 applications, in a common language, about the customer.\"\nLunsford claims being able to process data and take action in real time is table stakes for the long-term survival of brands.\n\"People targeting customers based on what they looked at 24 hours ago are not going to be nearly as competitive as those targeting customers in real time,\" he says.\nRead more CMOs reveal their technology clout and martech plans for 2017\nTealium isn't the only vendor looking to fill the breach left by the amalgamation of legacy systems, applications, data warehouses and business intelligence in the enterprise with more modern marketing and customer platform solutions and needs. Over the past few years, a plethora of different technology approaches have come to the fore for data management in marketing, including data management platforms (DMPs) and customer data platforms (CDPs).\nWhile Lunsford sees point-based competitors in all three areas of Tealium's focus \u2013 client-side data management, data hub layer, and business intelligence\/data warehouse integration - he is pitching Tealium as the one bringing all three together.\nIt's also not just about customer data either. \"The reason we call it a universal data hub is you can bring in a lot more than customer and prospect data into that platform, such as supply chain, loyalty, call centre, point-of-sale data, beacons, and data about your enterprise that may not necessarily be customer information,\" Lunsford says.\nRead more CMO's top 10 martech stories for the week - 27 January 2017\nWith that in mind, Tealium is now working to ensure its platform integrates with these wider data sources.\n\"We needed to integrate with the marketing space, but we're also investing heavily in building out ecosystem beyond customer data to leverage points in IoT, or the call centre. Want to be a truly universal hub, not just a customer data hub,\"he says.\nLunsford highlights artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning as particular priorities in 2017.\n\"Every company that's forward thinking is talking about leveraging AI and machine learning. To do that, you need relevant data sets to feed into these algorithms,\"he explains. \"Any AI expert will tell you the algorithms are proven, and becoming commoditised, you differentiate by the data you pull into these and get the output and take action on that.\nRead more CMO's top 8 martech stories for the week - 8 June 2017\n\"But few are ready from a data readiness standpoint. IoT is another huge bucket. If you think about all the new data sources for customers \u2013 you can now get data about customers in cars, homes, in your stores. There are a lot of clients trying to think through that and we're doing a lot of integration work ourselves on that.\"\nAs an example of how different data sources are now coming together for marketing purposes, Lunsford says several Tealium customers are leveraging weather data and feeding it into AudienceStream, then modifying customer experience activities and communications based on local weather conditions.\nOther customers are bringing in loyalty program data, so that when a customer lands on their website or mobile app, they're getting an experience in line with where they are in the loyalty program.\n\"Some customers have bricks-and-mortar stores, and when their customers come into the store, the store concierge is notified by software of what else they looked at online, and can pull that out and present,\" Lunsford says.\nA large US healthcare provider, meanwhile, is serving data back and forth between the call centre and online systems, again with the aim of improving customer service and personalisation.\nOngoing data hurdles\nBut while technology might be vital, what is also stopping organisations from harnessing customer data across the spectrum of marketing, communications and support is their legacy operational models and culture, Lunsford says.\n\"The larger the company, the bigger the challenge because these companies have organised around different channels and software packages such as email, media buying, Web analytics,\" he explains. \"They have their own ideas of the audience or customer. It's a functional challenge \u2013 the bigger the company, the harder it is to change that inertia. When they do though, they get a high economic benefit.\"\nBest practice starts has to start with good data hygiene, Lunsford says. From there, organisations need to a clear definition of what they view as VIP customers and higher value prospects.\n\"You have to start with that. If you have that agreement at a business level, can easily drive that at a technology level,\" he adds. \"It's the single biggest best practice that is foundational.\"\nTags: digital marketingdata-driven marketingmarketing technologyTealium\nBreaking taboos: Marketing socially awkward products","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\u203aThe Firm\u203aOur Values\nA PARTNERSHIP OF OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES\nA blend of a feeling for quality, an enthusiasm for innovation, a supreme level of performance, a sense of belonging together, and tradition is what sets the culture of Gleiss Lutz apart. For decades we have been unwavering in our commitment to our values of excellence, individuality, partnership, and internationality.\nThe pursuit of outstanding quality is an integral part of the Gleiss Lutz culture.\nGleiss Lutz's lawyers are always counted among the best in their field. And the firm focussed on specialisation from the very beginning, seeing this as a necessary condition for delivering supreme quality.\nFor us, however, excellent legal advice is not just a matter of supreme specialist ability and academic brilliance. Understanding the client and his challenges, reliability, accessibility, pragmatism, efficiency, and flexibility \u2013 our maxim is to breathe life into these words in our day-to-day dealings with our clients.\nThe legal profession is a people business. Gleiss Lutz gives first-class lawyers the freedom to increase their individual strengths and constantly work on their individual development. We are not looking for streamlined, to-the-line lawyers, rather for strong personalities who will not only give our clients excellent legal advice but will also stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them and support through all the challenges of constantly shifting circumstances.\nGleiss Lutz is a partnership. For us this is more than merely an issue of our legal form. The success of our firm is due in great part to the trusting manner in which our lawyers deal with one another. The partnership principle is for us, however, not just a matter of establishing an equal footing for everyone within our firm: we strive also to establish long-term partnerships with our clients, built on respect and mutual trust.\nFrom its very beginnings Gleiss Lutz has had an international outlook. For decades our firm has maintained close ties with leading independent law firms around the world, advising on major international transactions even in its earliest history. Every day our lawyers work on cross-border mandates, with internationality playing an integral role in their working lives.\nMichael Arnold and Alexander Schwarz,\nManaging Partner, Gleiss Lutz\n\"Gleiss Lutz is a partnership of top lawyers who enjoy working together and share a passion for protecting clients' interests. We combine mutual respect with a commitment to the highest legal standards.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A Langford woman spotted a rare spider while walking around Langford's fire hall on Peatt Rd. The Royal BC Museum identified it as a Pacific Folding Door spider, a non-venomous species related to tarantulas that is native to Vancouver Island. (Courtesy of Krysten Leigh)\nRare spider sneaks out of hiding in Langford\nPacific folding door spiders are native to Vancouver Island, non-venemous\nAaron Guillen\nMay. 1, 2020 5:00 a.m.\nWith eight eyes staring up at her, a spider stretched out on the sidewalk stopped Krysten Leigh in her tracks. Leigh was walking her dog in Langford on April 24 when she noticed the eight-legged critter out of the corner of her eye.\n\"I couldn't believe my eyes,\" she said. \"I thought it had to be fake 'cause I'd never something that big.\"\nLeigh was staring at a Pacific folding door spider, also known as Antrodiaetus pacificus. It wasn't moving, but had its legs outstretched on the pavement outside Langford's fire hall on Peatt Road.\nShe quickly pulled her dog behind her as she grabbed a photo and started circulating it to local pest control agencies \u2013 who couldn't give her an exact answer on its origin.\nREAD MORE: VIDEO: Man charged after scorpions, spiders and more seized from B.C. home\n\"This was quite an unusual find,\" said Royal BC Museum entomology collections manager Claudia Copley, who knew exacly what it was. \"These spiders are rare to see because even though they're native to Vancouver Island, they usually stay in their burrows underneath lawns and in old growth forests most of their lives.\"\nThey're called folding door spiders because they use a door made from silk and dirt to surprise prey. They usually grow to about five centimetres or just about two inches. They're related to tarantulas and some females can live up to 20 years.\nALSO READ: Police will no longer be responsible to Saanich dead animals\nWhat makes it more unusual is that this one was a female, as apparent with its bigger abdomen.\nNotably, males come out of hiding during mating season in the fall. Copley believes something disturbed the spider's burrow, perhaps a sprinkler that flooded the home or someone dug it up accidently.\n\"They pose no danger to us because they aren't venomous,\" said Copley. \"They eat pests like earwigs, [insects and smaller spiders]. To be honest, they're pretty impressive.\"\n@iaaronguillen\naaron.guillen@goldstreamgazette.com\nSouth Vietnam flag flies in Victoria to remember liberation\nB.C. salmon farmers donate 60,000 pounds of canned salmon to food banks","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Just another Freethought Blogs site\nI am a theoretical physicist and retired Director of UCITE (University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. My latest book THE GREAT PARADOX OF SCIENCE: Why its conclusions can be relied upon even though they cannot be proven was published by Oxford University Press in December 2019. I am the author of three other books: God vs. Darwin: The War Between Evolution and Creationism in the Classroom (2009), The Achievement Gap in US Education: Canaries in the Mine (2005), and Quest for Truth: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs (2000).\nYou can email me at mano'\"dot'\"singham\"'at\"'case'\"dot'\"edu.\nDjokovic and the French Open\nStephen Colbert, Brian Eno, and Michael Stipe sing Lean On Me\nRadiation paradoxes 13: The mysterious mass of the electron\nThis is a little over the top, no?\nThe full sordid web of Jeffrey Epstein is still to be revealed\nTsunami hits Tonga and heads for US west coast\nChild abuse at an evangelical summer camp\nEven a pandemic does not discourage cruise lovers\nRadiation paradoxes 12: Radiation from a falling charge and the conservation of energy\nmnb0 on Djokovic and the French Open\nHolms on Djokovic and the French Open\nK on Stephen Colbert, Brian Eno, and Michael Stipe sing Lean On Me\nsteve oberski on How the January 6th riot split one family\nbrucegee1962 on How the January 6th riot split one family\nMarcus Ranum on How the January 6th riot split one family\nReginald Selkirk on How the January 6th riot split one family\nsonofrojblake on The full sordid web of Jeffrey Epstein is still to be revealed\nReverend Matt on This is a little over the top, no?\nHow many wrongs will it take? \u00bb \u00ab How Congress protects its own abusers\nThe Trump administration tries to subvert yet another agency mission\nThe Donald Trump administration is likely to be headed to the courts again, this time over the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This was an agency set up to police the consumer financial markets and protect the rights of consumers against big banks and was championed by senator Elizabeth Warren as one means of preventing another financial crisis. Its first director Richard Cordray was quite effective in that role but his term ended in 2018 and he wanted to step down this year, reportedly to run for the governorship of Ohio.\nDonald Trump and the oligarchy absolutely hates the CFPB because it slightly hinders their ability to rip off people and so Trump was planning to do what he does with every agency whose mission he loathes, and that is appoint as its head someone opposed to the mission itself so that the person can undermine it from the inside. In the case of the CFPB, Trump was planning to appoint his budget director Mick Mulvaney, a political hack and a complete pawn of business, as acting director when Cordray stepped down. You can see why Trump thought Mulvaney was good for the job.\n< Mulvaney himself, while in Congress, savagely attacked the bureau, calling it in 2014 \"a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will function if it has no accountability to anybody.\" He added that the CFPB has been a \"sick, sad\" joke.< p>\nBut Cordray, in his last act before leaving yesterday, appointed a career professional Leandra English as deputy director and according to the law creating the CFPB, that person automatically becomes acting director in the case of a vacancy at the top.\nBut Trump has gone ahead and appointed Mulvaney anyway so now there are two acting directors and the issue will likely go to the courts to see who should be the rightful head.\nIchthyic says\n\"his term ended in 2018\"\nHey, you mind if I borrow your time machine?\nhave Americans not figured out yet that the traditional checks and balances no longer apply, and haven't for at least 6 years?\ndo they not realize that sitting around waiting for shit to get worse is not going to make shit get better?\n*shrug*\nJohn Morales says\nIchthyic, aren't you an American?\n(Or did you change citizenship?)\nNZ citizen.\nKiwi now, eh? No worries. Grats.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Torquere Press Calls for Submissions\nJANUARY \u2013 NEW YEAR, NEW EXPERIENCES\nNew Year, New Experiences. We all love beginnings -- and we'd love to have your take on first times, especially (but not necessarily) coinciding with the turning of a new year. Fun, tender, clumsy, hot -- stories should be 3K-8K, and our lengths are firm. Standard royalty rates apply, and separate payments for collected themes may be negotiated. Deadline for stories is December 15, 2012. Please query if you have a story for later in January and you need wiggle room on the deadline. Send your submissions tosubmissions@torquerepress.com with New Year in the subject field. Please see our general submissions guidelines for formatting etc.\nFEBRUARY - BOX OF CHOCOLATES\nThe ubiquitous box of Valentines chocolates is turned on its ear here. Whether you like your love full of spice like dark chocolate or more pure like white chocolate, these Valentine month stories should feature chocolate somewhere in the story. Lengths from 3000-8000 words (firm) will be considered. Our standard royalty rates apply, but collected themes may be negotiated at a different rate. Send your submissions tosubmissions@torquerepress.com with Chocolates in the subject field. Please see our general submissions guidelines for formatting etc.\nDeadline, January 15.\nFollow our general guidelines\nRainbow Awards: Current Submissions (311-320)\n311) Sue Brown - Complete Faith\nPublisher: Dreamspinner Press (April 30, 2012)\nAmazon: Complete Faith\nAmazon Kindle: Complete Faith\nSequel to Morning Report For Tommy Bradley, a hand working on the Lost Cow Ranch in rural Texas, admitting his sexuality is impossible, even if his bosses, Luke and Simon, are gay-Tommy has spent his entire life hiding the truth from his homophobic parents. Then Tommy meets pastor Noah Taylor in Luke's father's hospital room, and his difficult secret becomes that much harder to keep. Noah is unlike any man of God-or any man-Tommy's ever met. For one thing, his congregation is made up primarily of GLBT individuals and their families. For another, he isn't afraid of the attraction he feels toward Tommy, and he makes his intentions very clear. But Noah won't hide his sexuality or his love from the world, and he won't start a relationship with Tommy while Tommy hides his, either. Faced with the choice of losing Noah or coming out to his parents, Tommy takes his first steps out of the closet. But Tommy isn't the only one facing challenges. Thanks to an outpouring of hatred from Pastor Jackson and a group of ranch owners, Noah must cope with the possible loss of his church and his livelihood.\n312) Lisa Worrall - Laurel Heights\nPublisher: Silver Publishing (April 30, 2012)\nAmazon: Laurel Heights\nAmazon Kindle: Laurel Heights\nDetectives Scott Turner and Will Harrison are sent undercover after an apparent murder\/suicide in Laurel Heights, an exclusive gay housing community. Will the two closeted officers be able to hide their attraction while each believing the other is straight? And is there a killer amongst them waiting to claim his next victim?\n313) Vincent Meis - Tio Jorge\nPublisher: Fallen Bros. Publishing (May 1, 2012)\nAmazon: Tio Jorge\nAmazon Kindle: Tio Jorge\nFrom a wealthy cul-de-sac in Hillsborough, California to a dusty village in Central Mexico, Tio Jorge gives us an emotional portrait of a young woman who cannot move forward until she silences the ghosts of her tragic childhood. On her graduation day from Stanford University, she thinks she sees in the crowd the man accused of her mother's death sixteen years earlier, but he flees before she can speak to him. Believing he is the key to unlock the mystery of her father who abandoned her, she sets out to track him down, and in the process discovers the Mexican side of her family. Heartened by the love and warmth of her Mexican relatives, she has the courage to confront her mother's family and seek justice for the man who had been her father's secret lover.\n314) Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray - Fur, The Love of Hair\nPublisher: Bruno Gm\u00fcnder (May 1, 2012)\nAmazon: Fur: The Love of Hair\nGone are the times when sprouting hair on a man's chest was considered to be unstylish. Chest hair and beards are popular again! This fact was also proved by the success of our anthology HAIR two years ago. But since so many of you obviously just can't get enough, we produced a comprehensive follow-up: Fur - The Love of Hair offers you sexy men en masse - and they all show their hair roudly. The pictures by various artists are complemented by informative and entertaining texts.\n315) Jordan Castillo Price - Persistence of Memory\nPublisher: JCP Books (May 17, 2012)\nAmazon: Mnevermind 1: The Persistence of Memory\nAmazon Kindle: Mnevermind 1: The Persistence of Memory\nEvery day, Daniel Schroeder breaks his father's heart. While forgetting your problems won't solve them, it does seem like it would make life a heck of a lot easier. Daniel thought so once. Now he knows better. He and Big Dan have always been close, which makes it all the more difficult to break the daily news: the last five years were nothing like his father remembers. They're both professionals in the memory field-they even run their own memory palace. So shouldn't they be able to figure out a way to overwrite the persistent false memory that's wreaking havoc on both of their lives? Daniel thought he was holding it together, but the situation seems to be sliding out of control. Now even his own equipment has turned against him, reminding him he hasn't had a date in ages by taunting him with flashes of an elusive man in black that only he can see. Is it some quirk of the circuitry, or is Daniel headed down the same path to fantasy-land as his old man?\n316) Chris Quinton - Paradox\nPublisher: Silver Publishing (May 21, 2012)\nAmazon: Paradox\nAmazon Kindle: Paradox\nPhil thrives on the danger and excitement of his job, and he trusts his partner with his life. Until Ryan kisses him. It's a diversionary tactic, but the kiss shakes Phil to his foundations. He doesn't need or want a long-term lover, but now it seems his heart does. A short time later, Phil finds himself trapped in his wrecked car, drifting in and out of a dream-haunted coma where he's living a parallel life. Centuries in the past, someone's trying to kill Caius Marcellus Valens, and nothing is the way it seems. When the dream invades Phil's waking life, he must separate past from present before it tears apart his world--and the best relationship he's ever had.\n317) Piper Vaughn & M.J. O'Shea - One Small Thing\nPublisher: Dreamspinner Press (May 4, 2012)\nAmazon: One Small Thing\nAmazon Kindle: One Small Thing\n\"Daddy\" is not a title Rue Murray wanted, but he never thought he'd have sex with a woman either. Now he's the unwitting father of a newborn named Alice. Between bartending and cosmetology school, Rue doesn't have time for babies, but he can't give her up. What Rue needs is a babysitter, and he's running out of options. He's on the verge of quitting school to watch Alice himself when he remembers his reclusive new neighbor, Erik. Erik Van Nuys is a sci-fi novelist with anxiety issues to spare. He doesn't like people in general, and he likes babies even less. Still, with his royalties dwindling, he could use the extra cash. Reluctantly, he takes on the role of manny-and even more reluctantly, he finds himself falling for Alice and her flamboyant father. Rue and Erik are as different as two people can be, and Alice is the unlikeliest of babies, but Rue has never been happier than when Alice and Erik are by his side. At least, not until he receives an offer that puts all his dreams within reach and he's forced to choose: the future he's always wanted, or the family he thought he never did.\n318) Lewis DeSimone - The Heart's History\nPublisher: Lethe Press (May 5, 2012)\nAmazon: The Heart's History\nAmazon Kindle: The Heart's History\nThis is Edward architect, friend, lover, mystery. Everyone has their own Edward a kaleidoscope of images struggling to define a man who has never let anyone get too close. But now, Edward is dying, and all of his loved ones are desperate to understand him, to connect fully with him, before it's too late. In this beautiful and haunting novel, Lewis DeSimone, author of the acclaimed Chemistry, explores the hidden depths of love, the struggle to maintain a balance between connection and individuality. Edward's illness is set against the backdrop of a sea change in gay culture, a time when AIDS is assumed to be simply a manageable condition, and when the drive for assimilation through marriage, or the military has begun to trump the distinct characteristics that were once a source of pride. Deftly shifting perspectives to paint a compelling portrait of a man and a community on the cusp of a critical transition, The Heart's History gives hope that, despite the impossibility of ever achieving true oneness with another person, it is the attempt itself that gives life its greatest joy.\n319) Charles Raines - Stranger In Translation\nPublisher: Charles Raines (May 5, 2012)\nAmazon Kindle: Stranger In Translation\nAn opinionated young linguist signs a six month contract to translate a 'Bestseller' from English into French, on the condition that he can do the job in France. He has nothing but contempt for the book's author, hates the dull, routine work he has to do, and despises the banality of his own life. Something is missing. Hesitant and frustrated, his ambivalent sexual desires are untapped, but always bubbling below the surface. Feeling like an outsider, the only way to cope is to find a distraction, try to blend in, and strive to fully embrace the French way of life. The local cemetery offers shelter and serenity, and the backstreets of Marseilles offer danger and excitement. Balancing the two, he meets a succession of men and has a series of erotic encounters which gradually mould him into exactly the man he secretly always wanted to be.\n320) Amy Lane - Gambling Men\nAmazon: Gambling Men\nAmazon Kindle: Gambling Men\nQuent Jackson has followed Jason Spade's every move in business and in poker since their first day as college freshmen. Eight years later, when Jace finally decides Quent is the one man he can't live without, he sees no reason for that to change. But as much as Jace believes that poker is life, no one gave Quent the same playbook. After their first passionate night, the real game of love and trust begins, and Jace has been playing alone too long to make teaching the rules easy. Jace only speaks two languages: one of them is sex, and the other one is poker. Between the two, he needs to find a way to convince himself to take a chance on love\u2014and Quent to take a chance on him. It's a lucky thing they're good at reading the odds, because they're playing for keeps, and this is one high-stakes relationship that's definitely worth the gamble.\n321) J.L. Merrow - Hard Tail\nPublisher: Samhain Publishing (April 2, 2013)\nAmazon: Hard Tail\nAmazon Kindle: Hard Tail\nFinding love can be a bumpy ride. His job: downsized out of existence. His marriage: on the rocks. It doesn't take a lot of arm twisting for Tim Knight to agree to get out of London and take over his injured brother's mountain bike shop for a while. A few weeks in Southampton is a welcome break from the wreck his life has become, even though he feels like a fish out of water in this brave new world of outdoor sports and unfamiliar technical jargon. The young man who falls\u2014literally\u2014through the door of the shop brings everything into sharp, unexpected focus. Tim barely accepts he's even in the closet until his attraction to Matt Berridge pulls him close enough to touch the doorknob. There's only one problem with the loveable klutz: his bullying boyfriend. Tim is convinced Steve is the cause of the bruises that Matt blows off as part of his risky sport. But rising to the defense of the man he's beginning to love, means coming to terms with who he is\u2014in public\u2014in a battle not even his black belt prepared him to fight. Until now.\n322) D. Jackson Leigh - Touch Me Gently\nPublisher: Bold Strokes Books (May 8, 2012)\nAmazon: Touch Me Gently\nAmazon Kindle: Touch Me Gently\nSecrets lead to nothing but trouble and heartbreak. Newly arrived in the small Southern town of Oakboro, Salem Lacy is planning to keep a low profile after an ill-timed step out of the closet cost her the corporate job and high-powered friends she had in Atlanta. That plan derails when Salem meets the mysterious and beautiful Knox Bolander, a woman who is whispered to cause odd and sometimes dangerous things to happen. When a fire that occurred twenty years earlier on the Bolander estate threatens to destroy Salem's chance to rebuild her life, she must decide if she will risk everything again for this secretive woman who has been rarely touched and never loved.\n323) Nell Stark & Trinity Tam - Sunfall\nAmazon: sunfall\nAmazon Kindle: sunfall\nIn the final installment of the everafter series, Valentine Darrow and Alexa Newland work to rebuild their relationship even as they find themselves at the heart of the struggle that will determine a new world order for vampires and wereshifters. To survive, they must defeat the growing threat posed by Balthasar Brenner, who has been a thorn in the side of the vampire-wereshifter Consortium for centuries. The search for Brenner leads Val and Alexa deep into the heart of the Alaskan wilderness, where they must confront Brenner's forces and either secure peace between the paranormal races, or die in the attempt.\n324) Terri Richards - Mission of Desire\nAmazon: Mission of Desire\nAmazon Kindle: Mission of Desire\nQuiet and introverted graduate student Nicole Kennedy has always longed to do something far more adventurous than study politics from used textbooks. But when she spontaneously sets off for Africa to volunteer as a teacher over the summer, she gets more excitement than she could have ever imagined. Within hours of arriving in Kenya, Nicole finds herself at the center of an international conspiracy involving millions of dollars and being rescued by beautiful but infuriatingly arrogant government agent Kira Anthony. Despite her suspicions that Kira may not be who she claims to be, Nicole can't seem to fight her growing attraction to the beguiling blonde. Could it be the thrill, the danger, the close proximity that explains her feelings\u2014or is it a glimpse of something she's never known and can't bear to lose?\n325) Rebecca Buck - The Locket and the Flinklock\nAmazon: The Locket and the Flintlock\nAmazon Kindle: The Locket and the Flintlock\nWill the masked outlaw who stole Lucia's locket also claim her heart? When Miss Lucia Foxe is robbed by a band of shadowy highwaymen, she does not realize this frightening event will change her life forever. Her brave quest to retrieve her stolen locket brings her into close contact with the thieves and their dashing and fearless masked leader, Len Hawkins. But there is more to Len than meets the eye. Beneath the robber's mask lies a woman who, in her heart, is not really so very different from Lucia. As their unlikely love grows against the backdrop of the poverty and violent protest of Regency England, Lucia learns how much more there is to the world than her upbringing has taught her. Len flirts with death every day, and eventually, an attempt at exacting revenge on her cruel father threatens to snatch her from Lucia's arms. Will Len survive her encounter with death and avoid the retribution of the agents of justice? And can respectable gentlewoman Lucia love Len enough to sacrifice everything she knows?\n326) Lesley Davis - Dark Wings Descending\nAmazon: Dark Wings Descending\nAmazon Kindle: Dark Wings Descending\nGoodness may appear in many forms; evil need only take one. The Chicago PD Deviant Data Unit specializes in the dark and cruel aspects of criminal behavior. When a serial killer who leaves his victims oddly posed starts terrorizing the city, Detective Rafe Douglas leads the team tasked to find this sadistic killer. Still recovering from severe injuries sustained in the line of duty, Rafe's tenuous hold on what is real is further tested by someone who wants in on the case and won't take no for an answer. Private Investigator Ashley Scott experiences the world through unveiled eyes. She alone can see that Hell's inhabitants are breaking free from their confines and are bringing their evil to Earth. She believes the killer isn't human and knows she has to convince Rafe there are more things happening in the Windy City than anyone could possibly realize. Only together can they solve the secrets revealed in the killer's brutal slayings.\n327) Logan Zachary - Calendar Boys\nAmazon: Calendar Boys\nAmazon Kindle: Calendar Boys\nOver the years, boys grew up sneaking peeks at the Calendar Girls when their fathers brought the family car in for service, while others saw them in Dad's garage working on projects around the house. But now it's man's turn to be the object of desire. Hot young men caught each month, a man a month, who could want anything else? Calendar Boys celebrates each month with a unique story. January's \"Pucking Prince Charming\" finds a fairy tale with a happy ending in the hockey rink. While St. Valentine's Day Massacre gangsters help a couple find lost gold and love in \"The Grandfather.\" March Madness comes in like a lamb, but goes out like a lion when a silly bet forces a player into \"Taking It For The Team.\" Zombies come out with April showers in \"Jay Of The Dead.\" The hot, humid, dog days of summer sees the \"Lumber Jack Off,\" while fall horrors wait at a haunted frat house with a \"Halloween Hard On,\" but the year isn't complete until \"Santa's Big Package\" arrives. Four special seasons fill out the year, adding extra action and a lot more hot men. You have to love the Calendar Boys, each and every day of the year \u2026\n328) Steve Berman - Boys of Summer\nReading level: Ages 13 and up\nAmazon: Boys of Summer\nAmazon Kindle: Boys of Summer\nWalt Whitman referred to a \"Mad, naked, Summer Night!\" In the pages of Boys of Summer, acclaimed editor Steve Berman's latest anthology, talented authors and fresh voices reveal the allure and excitement of the season for gay teens. June always promises romance. July entices with its raw heat, and August offers a languid fire that will burn out before autumn's approach. These are stories of young love and adventure, when the sky's ceiling is a bright blue marvel, when another boy's laughter at the beach can distract from dull summer jobs.\n329) Sasha L. Miller - Saving Liam\nPublisher: Less Than Three Press (May 8, 2012)\nAmazon: Saving Liam\nAmazon Kindle: Saving Liam\nLeyton lived a quiet, simple life as a prosperous, thriving merchant alongside his twin brother Liam. But that life is shattered when Liam goes missing, and Leyton is told that the only way to save his brother's life is to seduce a king. The task proves to be even more difficult than Leyton feared, and soon he is swept up in a tide of political machinations, betrayal, and a looming threat of execution once the men who blackmailed him are caught. But the threat of his pending death is nothing alongside the constant fear for his missing brother's safety-and the tangle of intrigue in which he is caught is nothing like the tangle he put himself in after breaking the heart of a king...\n330) Megan Derr - Burning Bright\nAmazon: Burning Bright, the Lost Gods 2\nAmazon Kindle: Burning Bright, the Lost Gods 2\nNine gods ruled the world, until the ultimate betrayal resulted in their destruction. Now, the world is dying and only by restoring the Lost Gods can it be saved. In the land of Pozhar, the people fear the return of Zhar Ptitsa, the god of souls and rebirth who nearly destroyed them nine hundred years ago in a terrible rage. To prevent his rebirth, the people hunt down and sacrifice Vessels, those born with a piece of Zhar Ptitsa's soul within them. The Sacred Texts say that one thousand such Vessels will be born and all must be sacrificed to destroy Zhar Ptitsa once and for all. Now, only two pieces remain in the bodies of two thieves who will not go to the Flames without a fight.\n331) Steve Turtell - Heroes and Householders\nPublisher: iUniverse (May 9, 2012)\nAmazon: Heroes and Householders\nAmazon Kindle: Heroes and Householders\nHEROES AND HOUSEHOLDERS pays tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Edward Field, Joan Larkin, and James Schuyler, and documents the life of an ordinary, everyday householder in poems critic Marjorie Perloff calls \"charming and subtle\".\n332) Eden Winters - Fallen Angel\nPublisher: Torquere Press (May 9, 2012)\nAmazon: Fallen Angel\nAmazon Kindle: Fallen Angel\nTen years of rescuing lost youth from the streets wear a man out, and Noah Everett buckles under the pressure of being \"The Angel.\" What began as a two-man mission is now going corporate, meaning rules, regulations and inexperienced volunteers needing guidance in a field Noah makes up as he goes along. On top of this, his latest prospective rescue doesn't seem to go to plan. Is he losing his touch? Normally he'd turn to his mentor, Doc, in times of trouble, but the old man's strength isn't what it used to be. Noah's lover would be the next most obvious choice to share this burden with, but Jeremy Kincaid is about to leave for college. After all Jeremy's endured to achieve this goal, Noah won't stand in his way, even though he fears losing the man to the joys of student life. Jeremy may be young and caught up in his own fights, but he's not blind to Noah's plight, and now questions his own choices. Four years at State with a full ride will launch his future, but his present includes Noah--and a meth addict who's become Jeremy's own personal mission. When a physical attack sends Noah spinning out of control, Jeremy must reevaluate his life and plans before the man he knows and loves disappears forever.\n333) Avril Ashton - Love the Sinner\nPublisher: Ellora's Cave (May 9, 2012)\nAmazon Kindle: Love the Sinner\nDetective Gabriel Ashby has never looked twice at another man, yet the criminal across from him, the man he's interrogating, isn't like any other. Gabe can't deal with the sudden, intense need he has for one of NYPD's Most Wanted. Everyone close to Angelo Pagan ends up dead, with the smug gang leader standing amid the rubble. Gabe would love nothing more than to bust Angelo's ass and lock him up. So why is he seeing the bastard in his dreams at night? Angelo Pagan knows attraction to Gabe is suicide. He's resolute to ignore the chemistry\u2026until a police raid goes wrong. He critically injures Gabe, changing the trajectory of both their lives. Now the two can't get close enough. They settle into a forbidden affair threatened by lies and betrayal, living on different sides of the law with no way of breaching the gap between them. With the authorities looking to make an example of Angelo, Gabe has to decide if it's really worth it to hate the sin but love the sinner.\n334) Rob Kaufman - One Last Lie\nPublisher: Rob Kaufman (May 10, 2012)\nAmazon: One Last Lie\nAmazon Kindle: One Last Lie\nPhilip and Jonathan have had the perfect life together for ten years - fulfilling every dream except that of having a child. Along comes Angela, Philip's college friend who apparently conquered her old demons of obesity and manic-depression. After reacquainting and becoming good friends, the three decide to have a child together through artificial insemination of Jonathan's sperm. From that point, Philip and Jonathan's idyllic life begins to unravel. Angela's mask of deceit gradually slips as her pregnancy awakens psychological and physical problems, leaving Philip and Jonathan regretting ever allowing her into their lives. Told from an elderly Jonathan's hospital bed, Angela's tangled web unwinds into heartbreak, deception, legal battles, and finally murder \u2013 with a surprise ending no one could have ever imagined.\n335) Red Haircrow - Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World\nPublisher: Flying With Red Haircrow (May 10, 2012)\nAmazon Kindle: Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World\nAn imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved, he loved with all his heart and soul. A former sex worker and later a husband, he was an amateur activist and philosopher, a startlingly intelligent, passionate individual able to intensely appreciate even the small wonders of the world and the people for whom he cared. Part diary, part dialogue, and part rhetoric, \"Silence Is Multi-colored in My World\" is based on actual experiences. It is a literary portrait of a man with nothing to hide and everything to reveal. It is a slice into the willing veins of a mental and emotional free bleeder. A memoir\/biography with photos.\n336) Mickie B. Ashling - Cleave\nPublisher: Dreamspinner Press (May 11, 2012)\nAmazon: Cleave\nAmazon Kindle: Cleave\nSequel to Vessel On New Year's Eve, Cole Fujiwara stands vigil at his father's deathbed while his surrogate wife, Noriko, gives birth to twins. As Cole contemplates his future, he acknowledges that he's living his father's dream... and that he's probably destroyed his chance at happiness with Sloan, the love of his life. Finding harmony in an emerging D\/s relationship has not been without issue for Sloan Driscoll and his Master, Trent Hamilton. Their journey has been littered with mishaps, but their powerful love and sexual connection continue to bind them together-until Sloan comes face to face with Cole for the first time in nine months. The meeting means different things to each of them. To Cole, it's the first step on the path to a reunion. To Sloan, it's a terrible mistake, one he confesses immediately. As for Trent, the bitter realization that a connection between the former lovers still exists forces him to issue an ultimatum. Is Sloan willing to do anything to prove their relationship is worth saving, including becoming Trent's 24\/7 slave? And if Sloan stays with Trent, how can Cole ever hope to find happiness again?\n337) Amy Lane - The Talker Collection (3 novellas)\nAmazon: The Talker Collection\nOne day, Tate \"Talker\" Walker sits next to Brian Cooper on a track meet bus-and sees him like nobody else on the planet has ever seen him before. One day, Brian Cooper looks at Talker's bright punk facade and listens past his constant chatter-and knows him like nobody else on the planet will ever know him again. One day, two boys meet, and even though they fall in love, it's still a long and bumpy ride. Tate needs to learn to listen, Brian needs to learn to speak up, and the event that teaches them both exactly what they need from each other almost destroys Tate and leaves Brian no recourse but violence. For their love to survive, Tate and Brian have to overcome the pain of violation and the repercussions of revenge. Even more difficult, they have to hold each other steady while one finds his peace and the other his voice, because a dream boy isn't really a dream boy if he doesn't know his own worth. Talker (September 2010), Talker's Redemption (January 2011), and Talker's Graduation (October 2011) were previously published individually in eBook format by Dreamspinner Press.\n338) Erica Pike - Absolutely Eric\nPublisher: MLR Press (May 11, 2012)\nAmazon: Absolutely Eric\nAmazon Kindle: Absolutely Eric\nTwenty year old college student Eric Wesley is looking for love, but instead of choosing Mr. Right, he goes after Mr. Wrong. Eric Wesley is short and snazzy, hot and happy. Or that's what he thought. After three years of living on the wild side he's tired of being a playboy and wants to find love. Eric, however, has never been in love before and doesn't see that the guy who's been gazing at him all summer might be Mr. Right. Alexander Centauri isn't only style-less and clumsy, but also terribly awkward. After a miserable date, Eric plants Alex on another guy's lap and goes after Mr. Wrong...who looks so right. When Eric realizes his mistake, it might be too late.\n339) Andrea Speed - Infected, Shift\nAmazon: Infected: Shift\nAmazon Kindle: Infected: Shift\nBook 5 of the Infected series by Andrea Speed In a world where a werecat virus has changed society, Roan McKichan, a born infected and ex-cop, works as a private detective trying to solve crimes involving other infecteds. Between his mutating virus and his rocky relationship with his artist boyfriend, Dylan, Roan has enough problems to solve without taking on other people's, but that's the nature of his work. Someone has to look into the case of the murdered trans woman, and if the perp is the dirty cop Roan suspects it is, the police are not the right people for the job. But now Roan has a new obstacle to overcome: someone caught part of his transformation on video, and the media frenzy is making it hard to do his job. One case nets him a hockey team full of new friends. Another leads to an attempt on his life. And Roan's hustler sidekick drags him on a quest for revenge. With his world and his body both in turmoil, Roan is finding it harder and harder to see the line between justice and vigilantism.\n340) Rodney Ross - The Cool Part of His Pillow\nAmazon: The Cool Part of His Pillow\nAmazon Kindle: The Cool Part of His Pillow\nThe mid-40's are that time in a gay man's life when his major paradigm shifts from sexy to Sansabelts. But when Barry Grooms's partner of twenty years is killed on Barry's forty-fifth birthday, his world doesn't so much evolve as it does explode. After navigating through the surreal conveyor belt of friends and family, he can't eat another casserole or swallow much more advice, and so, still numb, he escapes to Key West, then New York. He embraces a new mantra: Why the hell not? First, he gets a thankless new job working for a crazy lady in a poncho, then has too many drinks with a narcissistic Broadway actor. Next, it's a nude exercise class that redefines flop sweat, and from there he's on to a relationship with a man twenty years his junior, so youthfully oblivious he thinks Karen Carpenter is a lesbian woodworker. Yet no matter how great the retreat from the man he used to be, life's gravity spins Barry back to the town where he grew up for one more ironic twist that teaches him how to say goodbye with grace.\nRainbow Awards: Next season... a feedback\nI ask to Dusk permission to share the feedback he gave me, since I think it's important and something that really, I have difficult to have perception of in other way.\nDusk Peterson is an independent author, and last year he won the Rainbow Awards for Best Gay Fantasy with The Eternal Dungeon.\nthis is what he wrote to me:\n\"Some of us spend $0 publishing our books, because we're low-income. Twenty-five dollars is about 25% of my monthly income at the moment, which is why I don't submit my books to any other fee-requiring contest. (Also, when I was growing up, lots of the articles aimed at new writers warned them not to submit to literary contests that required fees. Back in those days, at least, most fee-requiring contests were scams.)\nBUT I'd be willing to pay that much for *your* contest, and I'm especially pleased to hear that most of the money is going to charity. Heck, I've earned much more than $25 from \"The Eternal Dungeon,\" which rose in sales right after it was honored in your contest.\"\nI really appreciated this feedback, other than for the kind words that Dusk used for the Rainbow Awards (and for me by connection), also since, being an independent author he has the chance to check the up and downs of his sellings, and I trust him when he said one of those up is connected to the Rainbow Awards.\nMoreover I hope I was not insensitive when I told that 25$ was a small amount in comparison to what an author has to face when publishing a book, that is what was referred to me (I'm not an author nor a publisher), but probably it's not the same for all authors, and what seems few money to one could be an huge amount to another one. Forgive me if I was too direct, it was not my intention to hurt anyone.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Time to ring the bell\nIn 1986, the Thatcher government deregulated public transport, especially of our bus services.\nIts 1984 White Paper stated there \"has been too little incentive to develop markets, to woo the customer\" and that without \"the dead hand of restrictive regulation\" fares could be reduced, new and better services would be provided and more people would travel. That White Paper also said \"if the customer has the final say, bus operators will look keenly to see where and when people want to travel. If one operator fails to provide a service that is wanted, another will.\"\nOf course, the opposite has happened.\nBetween 1986 and 2016, bus patronage in England outside London declined by 35%.\nThe decline in S Yorkshire has been almost twice that. In 1986, 286 million bus journeys were made. Today, that figure has fallen by 62% to 102 million.\nBu,t in London, where bus services remained regulated, bus patronage rose by 99%.\nBus fares in England outside London rose by over 156 per cent between 1995 and 2016, whilst the retail price index (RPI) rose by 77 per cent, which means bus fares have risen more than twice inflation.\nThe market is now dominated by five big bus operators \u2013 locally First and Stagecoach - with bus services run effectively as private monopolies. Unsurprisingly, they have high operating profits.\nToday, about 40% of bus funding is public, but there is little local say about services.\nSo, the result of deregulation is that fares rose massively, passenger numbers fell dramatically, the number of routes fell, service frequencies suffered and congestion increased exponentially, at great cost to local businesses as well as to commuters.\nGiven the current considerable concern about adult social care, it is also worth recalling that the bus deregulation changes led to a significant increase in demand for care services, as many relatives and friends found they were unable (increased costs, cuts in frequency) to continue to give the voluntary care they had previously provided.\nAs the Bus Services Bill goes through Parliament, the government still needs to be persuaded that local transport and city region authorities must have greater powers to improve local public transport, through franchising and, if necessary, by establishing their own bus companies.\nRacing to stay ahead\nSelf-employed shambles\nNot another broken promise?\nForget what they say; consider what they do","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Harvick swipes Sprint Cup Series win from McMurray at Talladega\nAl Pearce\nRichard Childress Racing recently lost a longtime sponsor, and one of its marquee drivers is openly trolling for another gig. So just how important was it that Kevin Harvick--the driver in question--won the record-setting Aaron's Sprint Cup 499 at the Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon?\n\"This is about as sweet as it gets,\" said team owner Richard Childress, a six-time Cup-winning owner. \"This is as good a race as you'll ever see at Talladega. This is great for our company. This is just what we needed.\"\nAnd it was especially great for crew chief Gil Martin. \"This shows everybody exactly what we were talking about going into the season,\" he said. \"This shows that our cars are good. I hate that Shell Pennzoil is leaving, but the fact of the matter is, we've got a top-notch team, so we're looking for somebody to come on board and start the next chapter at RCR.\"\nDespite its recent mini-slump, RCR remains one of NASCAR's most-storied organizations. It's been shaken lately with news that Shell Pennzoil is leaving Harvick's No. 29 Chevrolet for Penske Racing. And Harvick has made no secret of his relative unhappiness at Childress and his interest in perhaps driving for owner-driver Tony Stewart next year.\nBut his attitude didn't affect his performance at Talladega, where he snapped his 115-race losing streak with a textbook last-second pass of Jamie McMurray. The race was scheduled for 188 laps and 499 miles, but turned into a record three-overtime show for 200 laps and 532 miles. It was the first win for Harvick since the 2007 Daytona 500 and the first for RCR since Jeff Burton won at Charlotte in the fall of 2008.\nThe finish was about a spectacular as it gets. Harvick patiently followed McMurray to the white flag on the third overtime and pushed him around the 2.66-mile track. Their breakaway separated them from a large pack that had been chasing them for a lap. Harvick stayed close enough through the tri-oval on the last lap to briefly get McMurray loose nearing the checkered flag. Harvick deftly swung low and made the winning pass as McMurray guessed wrong.\n\"I was guarding against him going to the outside,\" said McMurray, who won last fall's Talladega race and this year's Daytona 500. \"I thought he'd go up there because I thought I was close enough to the yellow [out-of-bounds] line that there was more racetrack to the right. When he got up behind me and went left, it really loosened up my car. It was like I'd pulled a parachute. It literally feels like you lose 3 to 5 mph. When that happens, the car doing the passing has the momentum. Once he got under me, all I was doing was side-drafting and hoping I could stall him out.\"\nHarvick wanted to be second approaching the checkered flag because he knew he'd get only one shot to win. \"It was all about timing and it worked out perfectly,\" he said of his 11\/1,000th-second margin of victory. \"I stayed up against his bumper, and it slowed him up when I went to the inside. It slowed him for the few hundred feet that I needed.\"\nMcMurray finished second, followed by Juan Pablo Montoya, Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin, David Ragan, Clint Bowyer, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch and Mike Bliss. The race featured a record 88 lead changes among a record 29 drivers. The old NASCAR standards were 75 lead changes (also at Talladega) in May of 1984 and 28 leaders (also at Talladega) in October 2008.\nHarvick led only twice, at lap five and then at 200. His teammate, Burton, led the most laps, five times for 28, but was eliminated in a late-race crash that also took Jeff Gordon from contention. McMurray led four times for 27 laps, Kyle Busch eight times for 22, Hamlin nine times for 19 and Brian Vickers four times for 13 laps. Seven drivers each led once for one lap and 17 others led between two and nine laps. Harvick's pass ended McMurray's race-high stretch of 23 laps in the lead.\nThe race was unusually calm until the final 23 laps, when four of the eight cautions waved. There was a minor two-car incident at lap 177, a five-car incident at 183, a nine-car melee at lap 190 (in the first overtime), then a two-car incident at 196 in the second overtime. The first four cautions were for oil on the track, a single-car, noncontact spin, a competition caution to check tire wear and a 10-car accident in the front stretch.\nThe list of drivers in the six accidents is longer than the list of those who weren't. Those involved included Hamlin, the Busch brothers, Johnny Sauter, Max Papis, Michael Waltrip, Marcos Ambrose, Joey Logano, Ryan Newman, Brad Keselowski (last year's winner), Elliott Sadler, Burton, Jimmie Johnson, Brian Vickers, Paul Menard, Bobby Labonte, Gordon, David Stremme, Matt Kenseth, Sam Hornish Jr., David Reutimann, Bliss, Kasey Kahne, Scott Speed and Greg Biffle.\nTop 10 Finishers:\n1. Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet\n2. Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet\n3. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet\n4. Denny Hamlin, Toyota\n5. Mark Martin, Chevrolet\n6. David Ragan, Ford\n7. Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet\n8. Kurt Bush, Dodge\n9. Kyle Busch, Toyota\n10. Mike Bliss, Chevrolet\n1. Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 200 laps at 150.590 mph ave. speed; 2. Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 200; 3. Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 200; 4. Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 200; 5. Mark Martin, Chevrolet, 200; 6. David Ragan, Ford, 200; 7. Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, 200; 8. Kurt Busch, Dodge, 200; 9. Kyle Busch, Toyota, 200; 10. Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 200\n11. Carl Edwards, Ford, 200; 12. Martin Truex Jr. Toyota, 200; 13. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 200; 14. David Reutimann, Toyota, 200; 15. Scott Speed, Toyota, 200; 16. Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 200; 17. Greg Biffle, Ford, 200; 18. Travis Kvapil, Ford, 200; 19. A. J. Allmendinger, Ford, 200; 20. Robby Gordon, Toyota, 200\n21. Kasey Kahne, Ford, 200; 22. Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 200; 23. Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 200; 24. Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 200; 25. Paul Menard, Ford, 198; 26. Robert Richardson Jr., Ford, 198; 27. David Stremme, Ford, 197; 28. Matt Kenseth, Ford, 196; 29. Brian Vickers, Toyota, 195; 30. Kevin Conway, Ford, 195\n31. Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 194 (accident); 32. Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 191; 33. Elliott Sadler, Ford, 188 (accident); 34. Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 188 (accident); 35. Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 188 (accident); 36. Joey Logano, Toyota, 188 (accident); 37. Marcos Ambrose, Toyota, 188 (accident); 38. Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 100 (engine failure); 39. Michael Waltrip, Toyota, 84 (accident); 40. Max Papis, Toyota, 83 (accident)\n41. Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 83 (accident); 42. Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 47 (rear gearing); 43. Dave Blaney, Toyota, 33 (rear gearing)\nTIME OF RACE: 3h 31m 58s\nMARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.011s\nPURSE: $5,982,252; winner's share: $344,501\nPOLE STARTER: Johnson (by points; qualifying rained out)\nPROVISIONALS: None\nDID NOT QUALIFY: Terry Cook and Aric Almirola\nSTARTED AT REAR: None\nLEAD CHANGES: 88 among 29 drivers\nCAUTION PERIODS: Eight for 32 laps\nPOINTS LEADERS: 1. Johnson, 1,323 2. Harvick, -26; 3. Biffle, -86; 4. Kenseth, -99; 5. Kyle Busch, -160; 6. Martin, -169; 7. Kurt Busch, -177; 8. Earnhardt Jr., -181; 9. Hamlin, -185; 10. J. Gordon, -193; 11. Bowyer, -237; 12. Burton, -241.\nNEXT: Richmond, Va., May 1, (7:30 ET, Fox)\nSource URL: https:\/\/autoweek.com\/article\/nascar\/harvick-swipes-sprint-cup-series-win-mcmurray-talladega","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Battle of Pasir Panjang\nPrevious (Battle of Normandy)\nNext (Battle of Plassey)\nPart of the Battle of Singapore, World War II\nRoyal Malay Regiment infantry with their mortar.\n13th February \u2013 14th February 1942\nPasir Panjang, Singapore\nJapanese Victory\n1st Malay Brigade\n44th Indian Brigade 18th Division\nJ.R.G. Andre\nH.R. Rix \u2020\nAdnan bin Saidi \u2020 Renya Mutaguchi\n159 killed Unknown (Singapore claims heavy casualties)\nBattle of Singapore\nSarimbun Beach \u2013 Kranji \u2013 Bukit Timah \u2013 Pasir Panjang\nThe Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite Imperial Japanese Army forces towards Pasir Panjang at Pasir Panjang Ridge, on February 13, 1942, during World War II in the Battle of Singapore. 13,000 Japanese troops had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore, near Sarimbun, advancing south towards Pasir Panjang. They had already captured Tengah Airfield en route. The 13,000 attacking Pasir Panjang comprised a significant part of the total strength of 36,000 Japanese troops attacking Singapore as a whole.\nGreat Britain's presence in Singapore began in the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company ruled. Great Britain had an interest in controlling the Malay archipelago for its key importance of protecting trade to China. European colonial powers had their way in Southeast Asia until Japan became a Pacific Imperial power. Japan was awoken to Western military might when Admiral Commodore Perry forced the nation to sign a treaty of trade in the 1850s. That spawned an upheaval in Japan between the factions that wanted to continue Japan along traditional lines and those who advocated modernizing along western lines. In 1868, the pro-modernization forces succeeded in installing the Meiji emperor during the Meiji Restoration. From that time, Japan dedicated itself to modernization of government, military, education, and society.\n1 Preparations\n2 Battle\n2.1 Battle of Bukit Chandu\n2.2 Failed Japanese trick\n2.3 Last stand\n3 Casualties\n4 Aftermath\nJapan imitated not only the West's technology and society and determined to become the colonial power of the Pacific. Japan noticed that the western powers used their might to carve out colonial empires throughout Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and China. They became determined to create the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a Japanese empire that spread over the islands of the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Korea, and China. Immediately after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they attacked the Malay Peninsula. Japan completely conquered the Malay Peninsula by the end of January 1942, poised to launch the Battle of Singapore. The Battle of Pasir Panjang took place in the context of the greater Battle of Singapore. Japan won the Battle of Pasir Panjang, as well as the Battle of Singapore. The courage displayed by the Singapore troops, especially Adnan bin Saidi's force on Bukit Chandu, became a source of national pride for Singaporeans.\nThe 1st Malay Brigade (together with the British 2nd Loyal Regiment), commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel J.R.G. Andre, consisted of less than three sections of the Mortar Platoon and the Anti-Aircraft Platoon, with the Bren Gun Carrier Platoon under Captain R.R.C. Carter held in reserve. They received orders to defend the approach to Pasir Panjang ridge, known as \"The Gap.\" The 44th Indian Brigade positioned on their right flank.\nA Malay platoon, consisting of forty two infantry, commanded by 2nd Lieutenant Adnan bin Saidi, took part in the defenses of Bukit Chandu. He and his men would take the brunt of the Japanese assault.\nThe first battle between the Malay Regiment and Japanese soldiers occurred on February 13, at around 1400 hours. The Japanese 18th Division started to attack the South-Western coast along the Pasir Panjang ridge and astride Ayer Raja Road. The Japanese 56th Infantry Regiment, supported by a considerable force of artillery, attacked the ridge during the morning.\nB Company of the Malay Regiment numbered among the units defending the line. Under heavy fire from the Japanese troops supported by artillery and tanks, B Company moved to the rear. But before that could be completed, the Japanese army succeeded in breaking through B Company's position. In the battle, the troops fought hand-to-hand combat using bayonets against the Japanese. A few from B Company managed to save themselves while the Japanese caught others as prisoners-of-war. That penetration led to the withdrawal, after dark, of both 44th Indian and 1st Malay Brigade to the general line Mount Echo (junction of Raja and Depot Road) Buona Vista.\nBattle of Bukit Chandu\nOn February 14, the Japanese again launched a heavy attack at 8:30 a.m., supported by intense mortar and artillery fire, on the front held by the 1st Malay Brigade. The defenders held off that and a number of other attacks. The fighting included bitter hand-to-hand combat, with heavy losses on both sides. At 1600 hours, an attack supported by tanks eventually succeeded in penetrating the left, and the defenders on that flank fell back to a line from the junction of the Ayer Rajah and Depot Road through the Brick Works and along the canal to Bukit Chermin. Owing to the failure of units on both its flanks to hold their ground, the 1st Malay brigade withdrew at 2:30 p.m. At that point, C Company of the Malay Regiment received instructions to move to a new defense position, Opium Hill.\nOpium Hill or Bukit Chandu, in Malay, had been named after an opium-processing factory located at the foot of the hill. At that place, C Company of the Malay Regiment made their final stand against the Japanese attack. Opium Hill constituted a key defensive position for two important reasons. Situated on high ground, the vantage point overlooked the island to the north; and secondly, if the Japanese gained control of the ridge, it gave them direct passage to the Alexandra area. The British army had its main ammunition and supply depots, military hospital, and other key installations located in the Alexandra area.\nA big canal separated C Company's position from D Company. Oil burned in the canal, which flowed from Normanton Depot. The burning oil prevented C Company soldiers from retreating further south. Captain H.R. Rix, a British officer, commanded the company. He encouraged the men to defend Opium Hill down to the last soldier, and died together with many of his Malay Regiment soldiers in the last defense battle at Pasir Panjang.\nFailed Japanese trick\nJapanese troops pressed their attack on Opium Hill in the afternoon under the guise of a deception. They sent a group of soldiers, dressed in Punjabi uniforms, passing themselves off as Indian soldiers in the British army. C Company saw through that trick, as they knew that soldiers of the British army usually marched in a line of three whereas the Japanese disguised soldiers marched in a line of four. When they reached the Malay Regiment's defense line, C Company's squad opened fire, killing at least twenty men. Those who survived escaped downhill.\nLast stand\nTwo hours later, the Japanese launched an all-out banzai attack in great numbers. The attack overwhelmed the allies, and the defense line finally shattered. Greatly outnumbered and short of ammunition and supplies, they continued to resist the Japanese. The troops used all kinds of arms, such as grenades, small arms, and bayonets. Soldiers engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat using bayonets. Yet, they stood their ground, frustrating the Japanese. Adnan suffered serious wounds, but he refused to retreat or surrender, instead encouraging his men to fight to the end.\nAfter a bloody battle, Pasir Panjang finally fell to the Japanese. They captured Adnan bin Saidi, wounded and unable to fight. Instead of taking him prisoner, the Japanese continuously kicked, punched, and beat the lieutenant. They then tied him to a cherry tree, bayoneting him to death.\nFor the entire Malayan Campaign, but largely on February 12, 13, and 14, 1942, in Singapore, the Malay Regiment suffered a total of 159 killed. Six had been British officers, seven Malay officers, 146 other ranks and a large but unspecified number wounded. About 600 surviving Malay Regiment soldiers reassembled in the Keppel Golf Link area. Here, separated from the British officers, they later joined POWs from the Indian Battalions at the Farrer Park concentration area. The number of Japanese casualties remains unknown today, but Singapore history books claim the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.\nThe Malay Regiment . . . showed what esprit de corps and discipline can achieve. Garrisons of posts held their ground and many of them were wiped out almost to a man [1](Lieutenant General Arthur Percival).\nThe battle of Pasir Panjang had little strategic significance. The allied units posted there actually had been in reserve, but instead had to withstand the main Japanese invasion force, and received no reinforcements whatsoever.\nMany Singaporeans and Malaysians today describe Adnan bin Saidi as a hero for his actions on Bukit Chandu\u2014he encouraged his men to fight to the death without surrendering. Their school history books credit him as the soldier who caught the disguised Indian troops' marching ploy. Some people today believe that Bukit Chandu has Paranormal activity, claiming they could hear Malay soldiers repeatedly shouting, \"Fight on!\" On February 15, 1942, General Arthur Percival surrendered, ending the Battle of Singapore.\n\u2191 A. E. Percival, \"The war in Malaya\" (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949), p. 284.\nBarber, Noel. A Sinister Twilight; the Fall of Singapore, 1942. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. OCLC 364560\nPercival, A. E. The war in Malaya. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949. OCLC 4469132\nSmith, Colin. Singapore Burning: Heroism and Surrender in World War II. London: Viking, 2005. ISBN 978-0670913411\nThompson, Peter. The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of Britain's Greatest Military Disaster. London: Portrait, 2005. ISBN 978-0749950682\nAll links retrieved January 16, 2022.\nA Pasir Panjang\/Kent Ridge Heritage.\nYouTube: The Battle of Bukit Chandu (Pasir Panjang).\nBattle of Pasir Panjang history\nHistory of \"Battle of Pasir Panjang\"\nRetrieved from https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/p\/index.php?title=Battle_of_Pasir_Panjang&oldid=1062889","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Chandler HS playoff loss leaves best rivalry game in 3A\nArt Preuss November 19, 2010\nThe two big re-matches in Arizona high school football, expected to take place in season-ending state championship games, are now down to just one.\nPlayers \u2013 and their fans \u2013 have been looking forward to a Hamilton HS vs. Chandler HS finale in 5A-I and a re-match between Blue Ridge HS and Show Low HS in 3A.\nBut the suspense isn't playing out as scripted.\nThe first meeting between Blue Ridge and Show Low four weeks ago was between two unbeaten teams, a huge rivalry that included hard feelings arising from accusations of recruiting violations. It was considered by many to be perhaps the biggest game in the history of the rivalry and one of the tops in Arizona small-school football. Blue Ridge won that game before an overflow crowd, 36-18.\nThe Hamilton-Chandler game was so big it was televised nationally on ESPN2 and drew a college-like crowd at the game that was estimated at 9,000. Top-ranked and unbeaten Hamilton won that game against No. 2 Chandler, 38-20.\nBut Chandler won't be going to the championship game for another shot at the Huskies. They were upset last week in the first round of the playoffs by a Desert Ridge HS team that piled up 462 yards of offense and came from behind to squeek out a 38-35 win. Junior running back, Joey Counts, fueled the win with 213 yards rushing and QB Jordan Becerra ran for another 139 yards.\nNow Hamilton, which rolled over No. 16 seed Westwood, 62-6, last week will square off next in a Dec. 4 game against No. 8 Mesquite HS, a 49-7 winner over North Canyon HS.\nFrom the looks of things in the first round, Hamilton isn't yet feeling the effects of being without perhaps their best player in offensive tackle, Christian Westerman, the anchor for the Huskies' huge line. Westerman, a 6'5\u2033, 295 lb. five-star recruit who signed with the University of Texas, may be out for the entire playoffs after suffering small fractures in his knee during practice 10 days ago.\nBut for a team that hasn't lost in the last 36 games, the Huskies may not need Westerman to get the job done this year. They've been one of the two teams involved in the state title game seven times in the last 10 years, and this year likely won't be any different.\nBut the good news for high school football fans up in the high country of the White Mountains is that Blue Ridge and Show Low are still alive and working toward a re-match in the 3A championship game.\nHowever, both have to get past some really good teams in tonight's semifinals to get there.\nBlue Ridge, still unbeaten at 11-0, takes on Florence HS, a 12-1 team that is averaging 42 points a game \u2013 almost a mirror image to Ridge's 43.5 points per outing. Both teams rely heavily on the run, with Florence's offense averaging nearly 400 yards a game, 265 yards of that on the ground. Ridge is even more oriented to the run, with rushing accounting for 333 of its 419 yards total per game.\nA trio of senior ball-carriers account for most of the output for Blue Ridge. Chayse Russell is leading the charge, averaging 10 yards a carry; Jordan Morgan, who splits time at QB, has collected 10 touchdowns on the ground; and Alex Stebbins is producing at a clip of seven yards a carry.\nFlorence relies on its senior running back, Kyle Washington, to get the job done \u2013 in a lot of ways. Washington has accounted for 11 touchdowns on the ground and another 10 in the air. Together, it adds up to 1,429 all-purpose yards this season. He also returns punts, kickoffs, and has even thrown a few passes to keep the other team off-balance\u2026 and is a force on defense.\nSenior QB Hulsey Jace isn't the offensive weapon that Washington is, but he's throwing for 142 yards per game.\nOn the other side of the playoffs bracket, Show Low will try to contain the balanced attack of Snowflake HS, which is averaging 336 yards and 31 points a game.\nThe Lobos are 9-2, thanks to a three-pronged attack that includes senior quarterback, Trevor Reddick, who has 1,149 passing yards this season. And he's supported in the backfield by senior Ammon McKinlay and junior Tyler Johnson, who have combined for 1,654 yards rushing.\nBut Show Low will continue to ride the strong arm of its record-setting senior quarterback, Rathen Ricedorff, who is coming off an eight-touchdown performance in a 62-42 rout of Winslow HS in the quarterfinal game. Ricedorff, who is averaging 333 yards a game in the air, needs just two more scoring passes to reach 50 and claim a new single-season state record.\nHe threw for \"just\" 168 yards in the earlier meeting with Blue Ridge, and tossed a couple of second-half interceptions. He is probably anxious to get back on the field against their White Mountain rival in a championship game.\nBut first he has to take care of business tonight \u2013 and hope that Blue Ridge does the same.\nBlue RidgeFootballHigh SchoolplayoffsrivalryShow Low\nBasketball openers for ASU, UA men have mixed results\nErickson reportedly will be ASU football coach in 2011\nFour years on the job, Herm Edwards is falling way short of achieving boss's goals.\nWestphal, Drysdale headline 2020 Arizona hall inductions\nPhotos: 50th Annual Arizona Sports Hall of Fame induction dinner\nReeling from 2 straight losses, Sun Devils turn focus to learning to win again\nNewcomer Marreon Jackson looks to be catalyst of revamped ASU basketball team","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"General News \u2022 Movies \u2022 Top Trending \u2022 Tv Shows\nComing soon-The Society Season 2\nFriday, 14 February 2020, 03:16 am EST\nRiya K\nSociety, one of the most popular shows on Netflix. The American Teen Mystery theater series is about to return with the second season. For the people who haven't followed the craze, the story is about a union of teenagers who return from a canceled area trip only to find their town taken off. The story begins again as the youngsters try to survive all by themselves. Thus, they establish society.\nThe first season of the series was broadcasted in May 2019. Soon after that on 9th July, the show was renewed for the second season. Though, we cannot specify a date yet. However, we anticipate that Netflix would discharge it by May 2020. We aren't sure about the date but if you have an adequate impression, you can put it down in the comment section.\nWho Might Appear on Screen?\nSince the cast of the event is prohibited, most of them are anticipated to return except the ones dead. Thus, Rachel Keller, Seth Meriwether, and Chloe Levine aren't anticipated to return.\nIt has various star casts that are expected to appear.\nThe people expected to return are as follows:\nKathryn Newton, Jack Mulhern, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Jacques Colimon.\nAlso Read ASTEROID FLYBY : \"Will it bring doomsday on earth ?\"\nThe star casts also include various stars like Olivia DeJonge, Alex Fitzalan, Kristine Froseth, Jose Juli\u00e1n, Toby Wallace, Gideon Adlon, Spencer House, Emilio Garc\u00eda-S\u00e1nchez,\nGrace Victoria Cox.\nWhat Might Happen?\nSociety Season 2 is supposed to expand the understanding of the show. In this season we might discern the youngsters striding forward in the path of survival. Moreover, at the ending of season 1, Grizz establishes a new land to be developed and new animals to be maintained. Thus, it convinced now that the town would not die of hunger.\nThe political strategy of the town might also change. While Lexie and Harry believe the job of civic chairman together, possibly, Campbell will be the one making things happen from in the background.\nSociety season 2 will moreover analyze the secret of what jumped out at the children and where specifically they are. We are going to glimpse a number of disclosures this season.\nThe Good Doctor Season 4 Episode 4 Release Date and Preview\nIndustry Episode 3 & 2 Preview and Release Date\nThe Voice Season 19 Episode 8 and 7 Preview and Updates\nMost Awaited Netflix's Protector Season 3 Will be out on 6th March\nSpencer Confidential: Star Cast, Release Date, and a Brief Intro To Story","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Volume 59, Issue 07 (December)\nNotes from the Editors\nDecember 2007 (Volume 59, Number 7)\n(Dec 01, 2007)\nTopics: Marxism Places: Americas United States\nThis year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thorstein Veblen, the greatest critic of U.S. capitalism in the early twentieth century and one of the foremost social theorists of all times. Veblen was the subject of a special issue of Monthly Review fifty years ago last July in celebration of the centennial of his birth. He remains important today from our perspective for at least three reasons: (1) he was the first to develop a theory of monopoly capitalism, including a recognition not only of the implications of the rise of a big-business dominated economy, but also the new role assumed in this era by finance, advertising, the penetration of the sales effort into the production process, excess productive capacity, etc.; (2) Veblen provided a strong critique of the ecological destruction of U.S. capitalism (particularly the devastation of forests); and (3) Veblen's unbridled wit and sardonic language coupled with his keen analysis cut to the heart of capitalist ideology. Thus, for instance, he wrote of the ahistorical character given by orthodox economics to such categories as capital and wage labor | more\u2026\nPolitical Islam in the Service of Imperialism\nby Samir Amin\nTopics: Imperialism Political Economy\nAll the currents that claim adherence to political Islam proclaim the \"specificity of Islam.\" According to them, Islam knows nothing of the separation between politics and religion, something supposedly distinctive of Christianity. It would accomplish nothing to remind them, as I have done, that their remarks reproduce, almost word for word, what European reactionaries at the beginning of the nineteenth century (such as Bonald and de Maistre) said to condemn the rupture that the Enlightenment and the French Revolution had produced in the history of the Christian West | more\u2026\nAbu Ghraib and Insaniyat\nby Arshin Adib-Moghaddam\nTopics: Imperialism Incarceration Inequality Places: Middle East\nThe issues that I will cover in this article and the cases I would like to describe make for uncomfortable reading. But I believe that it is important to record the torture at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq and to deconstruct the culture that accommodated and legitimated it, because what happened cannot be relegated to a mere footnote in the history of the region. I feel the same about Halabja and the chemical warfare employed by Saddam Hussein with the sponsorship of the \"international community,\" which is why I covered it in my other writings.1 I do not want to be misunderstood as arguing that the cultural context I will explain here is all-encompassing, that the U.S. presence in international society is singularly destructive, and that the \"West\" as an idea is nothing but \"intoxicating.\"2 What I say is much more confined. I am arguing that Abu Ghraib could not have happened without a particular racist current in the United States, that the individuals who committed the atrocities against the detainees were not isolated, and that they were part of a larger constellation with its own signifying ideational attitudes toward Muslims and Arabs. Those are the general claims that I would like to qualify in the following paragraphs | more\u2026\nSelf-Sourcing: How Corporations Get Us to Work Without Pay!\nby Martha E. Gimenez\nThe expansion of the capitalist world economy, which accelerated after the fall of the socialist bloc, has produced everywhere drastic changes in the division of labor, occupational structure, and the quality and quantity of labor that is in demand. In the United States, public awareness about the causes of job losses (downsizing, capital flight, offshoring, and outsourcing) has vastly increased since it became widely known that these processes caused the loss not only of blue-collar but also of \"middle-class\" and \"upper-middle-class\" jobs; i.e., jobs requiring some degree of education and technical competence | more\u2026\nOn the History of Imperialism Theory\nby Research Unit for Political Economy\nTopics: Imperialism\nIn his illuminating survey, \"The Imperialist World System: Paul Baran's Political Economy of Growth After Fifty Years\" (Monthly Review, May 2007), John Bellamy Foster remarks that \"The concept of the imperialist world system in today's predominant sense of the extreme economic exploitation of periphery by center, creating a widening gap between rich and poor countries\u2026.had its genesis in the 1950s, especially with the publication fifty years ago of Paul Baran's Political Economy of Growth.\" While acknowledging that traces of such a concept could be found in Marx and Lenin, he feels that \"The classical Marxist approach to the worldwide spread of capitalist relations has often been characterized as a crude theory of linear stages of development\" whereby the less developed countries would necessarily traverse the same path as the more developed ones. Among the adherents to this view Foster includes Marxists in the Second and Third Internationals | more\u2026\nRediscovering the History of Imperialism: A Reply\nby John Bellamy Foster\nThe Research Unit for Political Economy's (RUPE's) brief historical account here of the origins of the Marxist theory of imperialism constitutes a crucial corrective to common errors regarding that history. In my article, \"The Imperialist World System: Paul Baran's Political Economy of Growth After Fifty Years\" (Monthly Review, May 2007), I began by pointing out that Baran's book was an outgrowth of classical Marxist thought\u2014the ideas of Marx, Lenin, and Luxemburg. At the same time it represented a sharp departure from the rigid orthodoxy of linear development that had come to characterize so much of socialist (as well as bourgeois) thought\u2014often presented in terms of Horace's phrase, quoted by Marx, \"the tale is told of you.\" Baran's treatment of the imperialist world system was a startling contribution at the time that his book appeared, challenging the conventional assumptions of both the right and an increasingly calcified left. | more\u2026\nThe Nabi Papers\nby Isador Nabi\nTopics: Ecology\nIsador Nabi is widely believed to have emerged from the swamps of southern Vermont some time in the 1970s. The first written record of him was a short-lived biography in American Men of Science. Then he seems to have dissolved. But it is said that he is a sort of academic Golem and that whenever greed, obscurantism, careerism, reductionism, and opportunism afflict science, that is, most of the time, he condenses again out of hypothetico-deductive dust in some obscure vault in that library where they bury unread dissertations, and he lurks in and around academia spending his rage in jest. An unsuccessful obituary appeared in Nature in 1981. Since then he has been nominated (by himself) eleven times for the Grammy and his works have been retranslated into English from 116 foreign languages that didn't want them. | more\u2026\nA Guaranteed Annual Income Will Not Work\nby Ken Collier\nTopics: Marxism\nIn \"The Imperative of an International Guaranteed Income\" (Monthly Review, April 2007) Stephen Fortunato Jr. presents a pretty good outline of guaranteed annual income (GAI) issues and how they might apply on an international scale. As a Marxist, I take the view that a GAI won't work | more\u2026\nReply to Collier\nby Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.\nKen Collier raises concerns about increased rent, transportation costs, etc., that surely must be addressed theoretically and pragmatically in any push for a guaranteed annual income. Political realities, however, do not mean that socialists should take the GAI off the table or abandon living-wage campaigns or any other struggle for social justice | more\u2026\nReclaim the Neighborhood, Change the World\nby Vijay Prashad\nTopics: Incarceration Inequality Political Economy Race\nSudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 448 pages, hardcover $27.95.\nIn 1988, the National Urban League reported, \"More blacks have lost jobs through industrial decline than through job discrimination.\" For a civil rights organization, this was a remarkable observation. Born in the era of Jim Crow racism, the Urban League championed the aspirations for upward mobility among urban African Americans. When banks refused to lend money to black entrepreneurs or when municipalities failed to service the black community, the Urban League intervened. One of the demands of the Urban League was for public goods to be shared across racial lines. While the organization was not on the frontlines of the civil rights struggle, it would have been a major beneficiary of the movement's gains. But the tragedy of the civil rights struggle was that its victory came too late, at least thirty years late. Just when the state agreed to remove the discriminatory barriers that restricted nonwhites' access to public goods, the state form changed. Privatization and an assault on the state's provision of social welfare meant that it was not capable of providing public goods to the newly enfranchised citizens. At the same time as the state retreated from its social welfare obligations, the industrial sector in the U.S. crumbled in the face of globalization. Industrial jobs, once the backbone of the segregated black communities, vanished | more\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"10,000 years ago Ancestors of Native Americans In Mexico,en route from Asia\nGenetic and environmental evidence indicates that after the ancestors of Native Americans left Asia, they spent 10,000 years on a land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska. Archaeological evidence is lacking because it drowned when sea levels rose.\nUniversity of Utah anthropologist Dennis O'Rourke and two colleagues make that argument in the Friday, Feb. 28, issue of the journal Science. They seek to reconcile existing genetic and paleoenvironmental evidence for human habitation on the Bering land bridge -- also called Beringia -- with an absence of archaeological evidence.\nO'Rourke says cumulative evidence indicates the ancestors of Native Americans lived on the Bering land bridge \"in the neighborhood of 10,000 years,\" from roughly 25,000 years ago until they began moving into the Americas about 15,000 years ago once glacial ice sheets melted and opened migration routes.\nO'Rourke co-authored the Science Perspective column -- titled \"Out of Beringia?\" -- with archaeologist John Hoffecker of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Scott Elias, a paleoecologist at the University of London. Perspective columns in Science don't feature research by the authors, but instead are meant to highlight and provide context for exciting new research in a field or across fields.\n\"Nobody disputes that the ancestors of Native American peoples came from Asia over the coast and interior of the land bridge\" during an ice age called the \"last glacial maximum,\" which lasted from 28,000 to at least 18,000 years ago, O'Rourke says, The ice sheets extended south into the Pacific Northwest, Wyoming, Wisconsin and Ohio. Large expanses of Siberia and Beringia were cold but lacked glaciers.\nThe absence of archaeological sites and the inhospitable nature of open, treeless landscape known as tundra steppe mean that \"archaeologists have not given much credence to the idea there was a population that lived on the Bering land bridge for thousands of years,\" he adds.\nO'Rourke and colleagues say that in recent years, paleoecologists -- scientists who study ancient environments -- drilled sediment cores from the Bering Sea and Alaskan bogs. Those sediments contain pollen, plant and insect fossils, suggesting the Bering land bridge wasn't just barren, grassy tundra steppe but was dotted by \"refugia\" or refuges where there were brushy shrubs and even trees such as spruce, birch, willow and alder.\n\"We're putting it together with the archaeology and genetics that speak to American origins and saying, look, there was an environment with trees and shrubs that was very different than the open, grassy steppe. It was an area where people could have had resources, lived and persisted through the last glacial maximum in Beringia,\" O'Rourke says. \"That may have been critical for the people to subsist because they would have had wood for construction and for fires. Otherwise, they would have had to use bone, which is difficult to burn.\"\nA Frozen, Isolated Dawn for the Earliest Americans\nDuring the last glacial maximum, thick glacial ice sheets extended south into what now is the northern United States, sea levels dropped some 400 feet, O'Rourke says. As the glaciers melted, sea levels began to rise, reaching current levels 6,000 years ago.\nDuring the long glacial period, Siberia and Alaska were linked by the Bering land bridge, which contrary to the name's implication, really was a huge swath of land north, between and south of Siberia and Alaska, at the present sites of the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea, respectively.\nAt its largest extent, Beringia measured as much as 1,000 miles from north to south and as much as 3,000 miles from Siberia's Verkoyansk Range east to the Mackenzie River in in Canada.\nThe theory that humans inhabited the Bering land bridge for some 10,000 years \"helps explain how a Native American genome (genetic blueprint) became separate from its Asian ancestor,\" O'Rourke says.\n\"At some point, the genetic blueprint that defines Native American populations had to become distinct from that Asian ancestry,\" he explains. \"The only way to do that was for the population to be isolated. Most of us don't believe that isolation took place in Siberia because we don't see a place where a population could be sufficiently isolated. It would always have been in contact with other Asian groups on its periphery.\"\n\"But if there were these shrub-tundra refugia in central Beringia, that provided a place where isolation could occur\" due to distance from Siberia, O'Rourke says.\nGenetic and Paleoenvironmental Evidence\nO'Rourke and colleagues point to a study of mitochondrial DNA -- genetic information passed by mothers -- sampled from Native Americans throughout the Americas. The study found that the unique genome or genetic blueprint of Native Americans arose sometime before 25,000 years ago but didn't spread through the Americas until about 15,000 years ago.\n\"This result indicated that a substantial population existed somewhere, in isolation from the rest of Asia, while its genome differentiated from the parental Asian genome,\" O'Rourke says. \"The researchers suggested Beringia as the location for this isolated population, and suggested it existed there for several thousand years before members of the population migrated southward into the rest of North and, ultimately, South America as retreating glaciers provided routes for southern migration.\"\n\"Several other genetic-genomic analyses of Native American populations have resulted in similar conclusions,\" he adds.\n\"For a long time, many of us thought the land bridge was a uniform tundra-steppe environment\" -- a broad windswept grassland devoid of shrubs and trees, O'Rourke says. But in recent years, sediment cores drilled in the Bering Sea and along the Alaskan coast -- the now-submerged lowlands of Beringia -- found pollens of trees and shrubs.\nThat \"suggests Beringia was not a uniform tundra-steppe environment, but a patchwork of environments, including substantial areas of lowland shrub tundra,\" O'Rourke says. \"These shrub-tundra areas were likely refugia for a population that would be invisible archaeologically, since the former Beringian lowlands are now submerged.\"\n\"Large herd animals like bison or mammoths likely lived on the highland steppe tundra because they graze. Many smaller animals, birds, elk and moose (which browse shrubs instead of grazing on grass) would have been in the shrub tundra,\" he adds.\nOther research indicates \"that much of Beringia -- particularly the lowlands -- appears to have had average summer temperatures nearly identical (or only slightly cooler in some regions) to those in the region today,\" O'Rourke says. \"The local environments likely were not as daunting as many have assumed for years. They probably hunkered down pretty good in the winter though. It would have been cold.\"\nThe idea that rising sea levels covered evidence of human migration to the Americas has long been cited by researchers studying how early Native Americans moved south along the Pacific coast as the glaciers receded and sea levels rose. O'Rourke says the idea hasn't been used before to explain the scarcity of archaeological sites in Alaska and Siberia, which were highlands when the land bridge was exposed.\nBut O'Rourke and his colleagues say archaeological sites must be found in Beringia if the long human layover there is to be confirmed. Although most such sites are underwater, some evidence of human habitation in shrub tundra might remain above sea level in low-lying portions of Alaska and eastern Chukotka (in Russia).\"\nStory Source:\nThe above story is based on materials provided by University of Utah. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.\nJ. F. Hoffecker, S. A. Elias, D. H. O'Rourke. Out of Beringia? Science, 2014; 343 (6174): 979 DOI: 10.1126\/science.1250768\nCite This Page:\nUniversity of Utah. \"10,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge: Ancestors of Native Americans paused en route from Asia.\" ScienceDaily. 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{"text":"Popular sports challenges making news in detroit\nDetroit is among the largest cities within the State of Michigan in the US having an estimated population of 912,062 residents. It is actually a major port on the Det river and it's due to this location of the city that this was named Detroit from the French word dtroit meaning a strait. It was first discovered in 1701 by the Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. Famous because of its emergence of the automotive centre in addition to its music legacies, Det is known as the American metonym for automobiles industry. Following its success in team sports Detroit began to be known as the City of Champions in the 1930s.\nDetroit is home to four professional sports teams in America with just the WNBAS Detroit Shock and NBAs Detroit Pistons that play in the suburban Auburn Hills. Ford Field, Comerica Park as well as the Joe Louis Arena are the major sports venues that this city has. Comerica Park is home to The Detroit Tigers who are a Major League Baseball Team. This baseball club was founded in 1894 and it has gone on to win four World Series Championships. They have also been the winners of the American League ten times. Ever since the year 2000 they were playing in the Tigers Stadium but have since then relocated to Comerica Park.\nThe basketball team from Detroit is the Detroit Pistols who use the Palace of Auburn Hills as their home base. Their sister team is called the Detroit Shock, which is a part of the Womens National Basketball Association. The Detroit Shock has created news by winning three WNBA championships during 2003, 2006 and 2008 respectively. Much like the Detroit Pistols, they too utilize the Palace of Auburn Hills as their home base.\nAmerican Football is another very popular sport in Detroit. The professional football team from this region is called the Detroit Lions that happen to be a part of the National Football League as well as the North Division of the National Football Conference and also have been the winners of the National Football Championships four times. Their current home field is the Ford Field indoor football stadium that has the capability to seat 70,000 football fans.\nDetroits professional Ice Hockey team is known as the Detroit Red Wings. It is one of the most favored games played in Detroit giving it the name of Hockeytown. The Detroit red Wings certainly are a part of the Original Six teams of the National Hockey League as well as of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League. After playing for four decades within the Olympia Stadium they shifted their home base to the Joe Louis Arena.\nSailboat racing is another very well liked sport among the people in Detroit. They many yatch clubs of the area fall under the governing purview of the Detroit Regional yatch Racing Association. They have both senior and junior sailing challenges and present special sailing programs for juniors.\nTaking spots challenge one stage further, making news is hydroplane racing. Detroit also has an active and exciting hydroplane racing scene. The city holds a yearly unlimited hydroplane boat race for the Gold Cup. Other sports which make news in Detroit are the Formula One Championships in addition to wrestling events. Detroit has additionally hosted WWE events such as Wrestle Mania23 and Wrestle Mania III drawing huge crowds to the city.\nPreviousGrowth of popular sports news stations\nNextKeep a gambling report for personal as well as tax requirements\nVarious Forms of Thoroughbred Horse Racing\nVarious channels that give news on sporting activities\nHow online sports betting helps promote the profession of sports betting\nAre You Ready for Some Horse Racing Action?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"T 0469\/13 () of 15.11.2013\nF16L 39\/00\nB64D 37\/00\nFittings with redundant seals for aircraft fuel lines, fuel tanks, and other systems\nAirbus Operations Limited\nAirbus SAS\nAirbus Operations SAS\nAirbus Operations SL\nEuropean Patent Convention Art 108\nEuropean Patent Convention R 99(2)\nEuropean Patent Convention R 101(1)\nAdmissibility of appeal - missing statement of grounds\nI. The appeal is directed against the decision of the Opposition Division posted on 21 December 2012.\nII. The joint appellants filed a notice of appeal on 21 February 2013 and paid the appeal fee on the same day.\nIII. By communication of 31 July 2013, received by the appellants, the Registry of the Board informed the appellants that it appeared from the file that the written statement of grounds of appeal had not been filed, and that it was therefore to be expected that the appeal would be rejected as inadmissible pursuant to Article 108, third sentence, EPC in conjunction with Rule 101(1) EPC. The appellants were informed that any observations had to be filed within two months of notification of the communication.\nIV. No reply was received.\nNo written statement setting out the grounds of appeal was filed within the time limit provided by Article 108, third sentence, EPC in conjunction with Rule 126(2) EPC. In addition, neither the notice of appeal nor any other document filed contains anything that could be regarded as a statement of grounds pursuant to Article 108 EPC and Rule 99(2) EPC. Therefore, the appeal has to be rejected as inadmissible (Rule 101(1) EPC).\nThe appeal is rejected as inadmissible.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Last edited by Voodoogami\n3 edition of Supporting Zambia\"s education sector under structural adjustment found in the catalog.\nSupporting Zambia\"s education sector under structural adjustment\nFinland. Ulkoasiainministerio\u041c\u20ac. Kehitysyhteistyo\u041c\u20acosasto.\nreport of the FINNIDA & Zambia project identification mission, January-February, 1990\nby Finland. Ulkoasiainministerio\u041c\u20ac. Kehitysyhteistyo\u041c\u20acosasto.\nPublished 1990 by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Finnish International Development Agency in Helsinki .\nZambia,\nZambia.\nEducation -- Zambia -- Finance.,\nEducational assistance, Finnish -- Zambia.\nStatement Trevor Coombe ... [et al.].\nContributions Coombe, Trevor., Zambia.\nLC Classifications LB2826.6.Z33 F56 1990\nPagination xiv, 74, [29] p. :\nThe Ministry of Education is responsible for education in the country. The Minister is the political leader. The Permanent Secretary is the highest-ranking civil servant and is the head of the administration. He\/she is assisted by three deputy permanent secretaries in charge of administration, staffing and technical co-operation, and by the chief inspector of schools in charge of professional. This study examines the impact of structural adjustment policy (SAP) on the welfare of Zimbabweans, particularly women and children and draws some parallels with economic policy in the US and its effect on social welfare programs and the paper argues that economic structural adjustment programs (ESAPs), introduced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund as major.\nthe private sector, and school communities. To achieve its goals, STEP-Up worked in five task areas: Integrating and strengthening systems for improved decision-making Promoting equity as a central theme in policy development and education management reform Institutionalizing the MOGE's management of HIV and AIDS workplace programs. The structure of the Nigerian economy is typical of an underdeveloped country. Between and , the primary sector, in particular the oil and gas sector, dominated GDP, accounting for over 95 per cent of export earnings and about 85 per cent of government revenue. The industrial sector accounts for 6 per cent of economic activity, while in , the manufacturing sector contributed only.\nStructural adjustment in Zambia and Zimbabwe: reconstructive or destructive? Austin M. Chakaodza. Third World Pub. House, - Business & Economics - pages. 0 Reviews. From inside the book. What people are saying Business & Economics \/ International \/ Economics History \/ Africa \/ South \/ General Structural adjustment (Economic policy. The drive to adopt the health SWAp in Zambia was dictated by the need to improve aid effectiveness after a perceived failure of vertical projects. This book evaluates the contribution of the health SWAp to aid effectiveness in the health sector in Zambia as an aid mechanism as well as a Cited by: 1.\nHenry Vaughan\nClinical recognition and treatment of diabetic vascular disease\nDundas Street United Church, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada\nRepertoires and cycles of collective action\nPlanning in Jersey\nTo improve human health\nOfficial Interpretations of Rural Under-Development\nSales tax laws of foreign countries.\nThe weary sons of Freud\nWords Left Unspoken\nConfronting gangs\nGuidelines For Antithrombotic Therapy\nI looked right.\nAmerican National Standard fundamentals governing the design and operation of local exhaust systems\nEssay on the Theory of the Earth\nKinge Richard ye third, or, Ye battel [sic] of Bosworth Field!\nSupporting Zambia\"s education sector under structural adjustment by Finland. Ulkoasiainministerio\u041c\u20ac. Kehitysyhteistyo\u041c\u20acosasto. Download PDF EPUB FB2\nEducation. Enhancing the quality of, and access to, education and training will be essential to raise the productivity of human capital, reduce poverty, and achieve higher economic growth. The education sector has experienced a deterioration in all major indicators.\nThe Project development objective is to enable Zambia Railways (ZR), through restructuring and privatization, to substantially increase its operating efficiency, reduce its cost of operations, and configure its freight services and tariffs to meet customers' requirements and expectations, and consequently, to increase its share of the local, international, and transit freight traffic.\nEducation Under Structural Adjustment per cent of the government annual expenditure being used to support the mining industry (Kelly, ). Bythe real price of copperwas at its lowest for nearly 40 years (Krumm,in Kelly, ).\nCoupled with the dwindling income from Zambia's exports was the rise in the prices of oil by: 7. per capita, and formal sector employment have all declined substantially since the introduction of structural reforms over three decades ago.\nUnemployment in Zambia remains high and the World Bank estimated in that 70 percent of Zambians lived on less than $1 per day (Haambote, 77). As it pertains to education, by the government couldFile Size: 1MB. Structural Adjustment Defined. Structural adjustment loans (SALs) provide quick-disbursing assistance to countries with external financing needs to support structural reforms in the economy as a whole.\nSectoral adjustment loans (SECALs) support reforms that are limited to a specific sector. Adjustment operations generally aim to: \u2022. Lessons from Structural Adjustment Programmes and their Effects in Africa 59 Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 50 (), No.\n1; DLG-Verlag Frankfurt\/M. industries producing manufactured exports for the world market. Furthermore, the authors also blame the adjustment policies to have failed to take into account theCited by: Structural adjustment policies were put in place, cutting spending and reducing government involvement in the nut industry and elsewhere.\nHowever, things got worse. At the same time rich countries, such as the US, were subsidizing their own nut (and other) industries, allowing them to gain in market share around the world. the Structural Adjustment Programme, led to a reversal in the sit-uation. ment embarked on the implementation of an Education Sector In-tegrated Programme (ESIP).\nThe main thrust of the reforms is cost\u2013sharing and decentral-isation of the educational delivery system. al adjustment programme (SAP) in Zambia. The social and eco. What are Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs).\n\"Structural adjustment\" is the name given to a set of \"free market\" economic policy reforms imposed on developing countries by the Bretton Woods institutions (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)) as a condition for receipt of loans. SAPs were developed in the early s as a means of gaining stronger influence over the.\nThe longer term Structural Adjustment Programme is aimed at the promotion of production and resource mobilisation through the promotion of commodity exports, public sector reform, market liberalisation and institutional reform. The programme seeks to limit the role of government in the economy, promote private sector operations and remove.\nSAP Structural Adjustment Programme SAR Staff Appraisal Report SEPI Statement on Education policy Implementation SIA Sector Institutional Assessment SRP Social Recovery Project STEP IN Integrated Skills Training for Employment Promotion TEVETA Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training AuthorityFile Size: 1MB.\nThe second section will discuss the politics of structural adjustment in Zambia. In particular the role played by two interest groups-business, organised labour in supporting or opposing economic reforms will be examined. Evolution of structural adjustment policies in Zambia, Zambia adopted a systematic structural adjustment programme.\nSikwibele's paper addresses issues of gender and poverty in Zambia currently and beyond In the paper it is argued that poverty level in Zambia seem to have increased with the implementation of Structural Adjustment Programme under the IMF and World Bank directives.\nCoordinates. Zambia (\/ \u02c8 z \u00e6 m b i \u0259, \u02c8 z \u0251\u02d0 m-\/), officially the Republic of Zambia (Tonga: Cisi ca Zambia; Nyanja: Dziko la Zambia) is a landlocked country in Southern-Central Africa (although some sources consider it part of East Africa).Its neighbours are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique to the southeast Calling code: + Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, Kaunda carried out the first sustained attempt at implementing structural adjustment policies infurther worsening the situation (Bigsten.\n\"Education Public Expenditure Review in Zambia.\" World Bank, Washington, DC. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY IGO Translations\u2014If you create a translation of this work, please add the following disclaimer along with the t t a iobun: t i r This translation was not created by The World Bank and should not be considered an.\nChiluba and structural adjustment In the first multiparty elections for 23 years were held. Kaunda's United National Independence Party was defeated by Frederick Chiluba's MMD. In the same year, the new government embarked on a structural adjustment programme (SAP) which aimed to remove controls on agricultural prices, privatiseFile Size: KB.\nThe study focuses on the role played by the Bretton Woods Institutions i.e. the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in the education sector.\nSAPs were aimed at improving the overall economic performance as well as enhancing a country's capacity to provide basic social services such as education and health. University of Nairobi.\nStructural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) as propagated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in the s in Kenya occurred against a background of the country's declining economic performance, which increased poverty levels.\nMr Kapaipi says under the support of the Chinese Government, phase I of the project was launched in and began with a budget of US$8 million which catered for eight countries namely C\u00f4te d. Zimbabwean people were exploited and marginalised in the colonial era. But the quality of life improved considerably after independence, the country achieving successes in the provision of health, education and other services for the Zimbabwean majority.\nThe economy overall however did not perform as well as expected in the first ten years of independence.In Zambia, several education Policies have been developed over time to provide a vision and strategies in the education provision.\nMajor among these policies include the Education Policy Reforms ofFocus on Learning of and the Educating Our Future of In this paper, we examine the performance of the education sector againstFile Size: 73KB.Structural adjustment programme For most of Chiluba's presidency during the s, Zambia was following a programme of economic reforms largely dictated by the IMF and World Bank.\nThis scheme, known as the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF), allows the world's poorest nations to pay lower interest rates on the money that they owe.\npashupatinathtempletrust.com - Supporting Zambias education sector under structural adjustment book \u00a9 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag Archive for Afghanistan\nAfghanistan, California, Intelligence Fusion Centers\n(U\/\/FOUO) San Diego Fusion Center Bulletin: Ambulance Used to Conceal Improvised Explosive Device in Afghanistan\nOn January 27, 2018 at approximately 12:15pm local time, a vehicle resembling an ambulance and laden with explosives detonated after it passed through a police checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan. The explosion killed more than 100 people and wounded approximately 235 others. According to the deputy spokesperson for the Afghanistan Interior Ministry, the vehicle was painted to resemble an ambulance and had successfully passed through a checkpoint after the attacker allegedly told police he was transporting a patient to a nearby hospital. While stopped at a second checkpoint farther inside the city limits, the attacker detonated the explosives concealed in the vehicle.\nAfghanistan, U.S. Central Command\nU.S. Central Command Report on Medecins Sans Frontieres Kunduz Trauma Centre Airstrike\nOn Oct. 3, 2015, members of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) supporting a partnered Afghan force, conducted a combat operation that struck Trauma Center in Kunduz operated by M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF), also known as \"Doctors without Borders.\" U.S. Army Gen. John Campbell, then the Commander of USFOR-A, directed an investigation to determine the cause of this incident. The lead investigating officer was Army Maj. Gen. William Hickman. He was assisted by Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Armfield and Army Brig. Gen Sean Jenkins. All three generals were brought in from outside Afghanistan in order to provide an objective perspective. The investigation team included over a dozen subject matter experts from several specialty fields.\nMedecins Sans Frontieres Initial Review of U.S. Attack on Kunduz Trauma Centre, Afghanistan\nThe following document is an initial MSF internal review of the events leading up to, during and in the immediate aftermath of the airstrikes on the MSF hospital in Kunduz on Saturday 3 October 2015. This review is based on\u2026\nAfghanistan, United Nations\nUNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2015\nThe report presents the key findings of the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2015. The full report on cultivation and production will be published in November and a separate report with a socioeconomic analysis will be presented early 2016. The survey is implemented annually by MCN in collaboration with the UNODC. The survey team collects and analyses information on the location and extent of opium cultivation, potential opium production and the socio-economic situation in rural areas. Since 2005, MCN and UNODC have also been involved in the verification of opium eradication conducted by provincial governors and poppy-eradication forces. The information is essential for planning, implementing and monitoring the impact of measures required for tackling a problem that has serious implications for Afghanistan and the international community.\nU.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict 2014 Annual Report\nThe intensification of conflict-related violence in Afghanistan took an extreme toll on civilians in 2014, with civilian loss of life and injury reaching unprecedented levels. UNAMA documented 10,548 civilian casualties (3,699 deaths and 6,849 injured), marking a 25 per cent increase in civilian deaths, a 21 per cent increase in injuries for an overall increase of 22 per cent in civilian casualties compared to 2013.2 In 2014, UNAMA documented the highest number of civilian deaths and injuries in a single year since it began systematically recording civilian casualties in 2009.\nThe Afghanistan Opium Survey is implemented annually by the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) of Afghanistan in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The survey team collects and analyses information on the location and extent of opium cultivation, potential opium production and the socio-economic situation in rural areas. Since 2005, MCN and UNODC have also been involved in the verification of opium eradication conducted by provincial governors and poppy-eradication forces. The results provide a detailed picture of the outcome of the current year's opium season and, together with data from previous years, enable the identification of medium- and long-term trends in the evolution of the illicit drug problem. This information is essential for planning, implementing and monitoring the impact of measures required for tackling a problem that has serious implications for Afghanistan and the international community.\nJoint Chiefs of Staff Guide Offers Blunt Assessment of Afghan National Police\n\"First time I ever saw an Afghan Police Station I thought it was something straight out of the dark ages, complete with zero electricity, mud structure, and no sewage drainage. Immediately I knew this mission would be challenging and wondered what the heck I got myself into?\" This quote from a U.S. Army Captain is just one example of the unusually blunt assessments contained in the Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance (JCISFA) guide for advising the Afghan National Police (ANP). The 2010 version of the JCISFA ANP Mentor Guide, which was obtained by Public Intelligence along with a guide for troops assisting the Afghan National Army (ANA), contains a number of revealing observations on the often poor condition of Afghan National Security Forces, in particular the ANP.\nAfghanistan, Joint Chiefs of Staff\n(U\/\/FOUO) Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance Afghan National Police Mentor Guide\nIn order to develop the ANP, the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) uses Police Mentor Teams to help develop them. A shortage of PMTs across the country, however, has led to the formation of in-lieu of advisor teams comprised of Soldiers from land owning units or attached Military Police units. The purpose of this document is to help provide those additional advisory teams with information they need to develop the skills required to effectively augment the CSTC-A program. This handbook will provide an overview of the entire police program including current goals, relationships to other organizations, the Focused District Development Program, key challenges that may be encountered and the duties of key members of the police advising teams including how to work with the team's enablers.\nUNODC Study: Impacts of Drug Use on Users and Their Families in Afghanistan\nAfghanistan is the world's largest producer and cultivator of opium poppies; it produces almost three quarters of the world's illicit opium. While a significant amount of the opium produced in Afghanistan is trafficked out of the country, in 2009 it was estimated that almost 10 per cent of Afghans aged between 15 and 64 were drug users.\nIdentity Dominance: The U.S. Military's Biometric War in Afghanistan\nFor years the U.S. military has been waging a biometric war in Afghanistan, working to unravel the insurgent networks operating throughout the country by collecting the personal identifiers of large portions of the population. A restricted U.S. Army guide on the use of biometrics in Afghanistan obtained by Public Intelligence provides an inside look at this ongoing battle to identify the Afghan people.\nAfghanistan, U.S. Army\n(U\/\/FOUO) U.S. Army Commander's Guide to Biometrics in Afghanistan\nBiometrics capabilities on the tactical battlefield enable a wide variety of defensive and offensive operations. Biometrics help ensure enemy personnel, criminals, and other undesirable elements are not allowed access to our facilities, hired to provide services, or awarded contracts. Biometrics is used to vet members of the Afghan government and military with whom our forces interact. Unfortunately, biometrics capabilities we put in the hands of Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen \u2014 and that we ask unit commanders to employ \u2014 are relatively recent additions to the list of capabilities our military employs on the battlefield today.\nArmed conflict in Afghanistan took an unrelenting toll on Afghan civilians in 2013. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) documented 8,615 civilian casualties (2,959 civilian deaths and 5,656 injured) in 2013, marking a seven percent increase in deaths, 17 percent increase in injured, and a 14 percent increase in total civilian casualties compared to 2012.\nU.S. Military PSYOP Leaflets from Iraq and Afghanistan\nThe following are psychological operations (PSYOP) leaflets dropped over Afghanistan and Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The leaflets are taken from a booklet released commercially by Giovanni Carmine and Christoph B\u00fcchel in 2006. The leaflets are written\u2026\nAfghanistan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization\nNATO Afghan Ministry of Defense and Afghan National Army General Staff Master Ministerial Development Plan\nAt the International Conference on Afghanistan held in Bonn in December 2011 and again at the Chicago Summit in May 2012, the international community made a commitment to support Afghanistan in its Transformation Decade beyond 2014. Thus, as Afghan authorities assume the lead for security in all regions, and the NATO-led combat mission changes in scope, ministerial and institutional development will likely continue as an enduring mission. This mission is currently being conducted under the authority of Commander, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, Combined Security Transition Command- Afghanistan (NTM-A\/CSTC-A) as a U.S. mission through bilateral agreements with Canada and the UK. Within the NTM-A\/CSTC-A organization, the Deputy Commander- Army (DCOM-A), in coordination with the Ministry of Defense (MoD), generates and sustains the Afghan National Army (ANA), assists in the development of its leaders, and guides the establishment of an enduring institutional capacity in order to deliver a competent and capable Afghan security force. This plan will be reviewed and revised on an annual basis (in November of each year) to ensure that the advising effort and personnel resources are properly adjusted, as the institutional capability and capacity of the MoD and GS c:continues to develop.\nThe U.S. Government's Diminishing Expectations Plan for Afghanistan\nPublic Intelligence has obtained the most recent version of the U.S. Civil-Military Strategic Framework for Afghanistan, the second revision of the document dated August 2013, detailing the U.S. government's goals and priorities for rebuilding Afghan society. Issued by the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan James Cunningham and signed by the commander of U.S. forces Joseph Dunford, the framework covers U.S. priorities related to governance, the rule of law, socioeconomic development as well as the gradual transfer of authority to the Afghan government. When compared with a previous version of the framework from March 2012, also obtained by Public Intelligence, the document solidifies the prospect of long-term U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, removing optimistic statements about turnover dates and self-sustaining funding estimates and replacing them with measured assessments reinforcing the notion that U.S. and international forces will be present in Afghanistan far into the next decade.\nDepartment of Defense, Department of State\n(U\/\/FOUO) U.S. Civil-Military Strategic Framework for Afghanistan\nThe U.S. Civil-Military Strategic Framework for Afghanistan outlines U.S. priorities through the Transformation Decade (2015-2024). It is meant to be adaptive, giving decision makers in Kabul and Washington, and policy implementers throughout Afghanistan, the flexibility needed to respond to changing conditions while advancing a set of commonly stated strategic goals and priorities.\nOpium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a sobering record high in 2013. According to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey, cultivation amounted to some 209,000 hectares, outstripping the earlier record in 2007 of 193,000 hectares, and representing a 36 per cent increase over 2012.\n(U\/\/FOUO) Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministries of Defense and Interior Organizational Charts\nOrganizational charts depicting the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministries of Defense and Interior created by NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTM-A) and provided to coalition advisers to the Afghan government.\nAfghanistan, Defense Intelligence Agency\nDefense Intelligence Agency History of Afghanistan Presentation\nA presentation from January 2013 created by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Human Capital on the history of Afghanistan.\nAfghanistan, Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps\nMarine Corps Intelligence Activity Afghanistan Country Handbook and Cultural Field Guide\nThis handbook provides basic reference information on Afghanistan, including its geography, history, government, military forces, and communications and transportation networks. This information is intended to familiarize military personnel with local customs and area knowledge to assist them during their assignment to Afghanistan.\nAfghanistan, Open Source Center\n(U\/\/FOUO) Open Source Center Master Narratives Country Report: Afghanistan\nUnderstanding master narratives can be the difference between analytic anticipation and unwanted surprise, as well as the difference between communications successes and messaging gaffes. Master narratives are the historically grounded stories that reflect a community's identity and experiences, or explain its hopes, aspirations, and concerns. These narratives help groups understand who they are and where they come from, and how to make sense of unfolding developments around them. As they do in all countries, effective communicators in Afghanistan invoke master narratives in order to move audiences in a preferred direction. Afghan influencers rely on their native familiarity with these master narratives to use them effectively. This task is considerably more challenging for US communicators and analysts because they must place themselves in the mindset of foreign audiences who believe stories that \u2014 from an American vantage point \u2014 may appear surprising, conspiratorial, or even outlandish.\nAfghanistan Night Operations Photos\n(U\/\/FOUO) U.S. Army Division Commander's Guide to Information Operations\nWarfare in the 21st Century necessitates a complete shift in the way we think and the way we fight. More than ever, the use of nonlethal effects is having a profound impact on conflicts. Much of today's battlefield is in the minds of the public, shaped by the spoken word, cyberspace, media, and other means of strategic communications, as well as by our physical actions. Consequently, melding information with physical operations may very well be decisive in counterinsurgency and other stability operations. By melding information operations with physical operations, the division commander, who is executing a war against an insurgency and simultaneously attempting to pacify a populace, can gain the respect, compliance, and support of the people who may tip the balance in his favor. The enemy has become adept at all means of communications, in particular information operations, and uses his actions to reinforce his message. As a result, he influences not only the indigenous population but also the world as a whole.\nISAF Security Force Assistance Guide\nThis guide is designed to provide NATO partners and troop contributing nations (TCNs) participating as part of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) a common understanding of Security Force Assistance (SFA) activities. It provides a summary of the ISAF SFA concept as well as guidance and information concerning SFA activities, countering the insider threat, mission critical tasks, and training requirements in support of Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).\nAfghanistan, Department of Defense\nSpecial Inspector General Strategic Plan for Tracking Anti-Corruption Progress in Afghanistan\nReducing corruption and increasing accountability are important components of the U.S. reconstruction strategy in Afghanistan. Since 2002, the United States has appropriated over $96 billion for reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan and, as part of that assistance, has designated numerous programs or activities to directly or indirectly help strengthen the ability of Afghan government institutions to combat corruption. In 2010, in line with a commitment to provide more assistance directly to the Afghan government, the United States and other donors committed, in part, to providing technical assistance to develop the Afghan government's capacity to reduce corruption. The ability of the Afghan government to deliver services to its citizens without the illicit diversion of resources is crucial to the country's development and the government's standing as a legitimate, sovereign authority. Further, as Afghanistan subsequently enters a transformation phase during which it will need to rely on progressively smaller amounts of funding from international donors, it must work to ensure that the revenue it generates is not susceptible to graft and corruption.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Henshin Host\nHenshin Connection\nThe MJ Chronicles\nTribeca Games 2015\nDefend the North 2015\nApril 9, 2015 Erick The Operator Movies, Press Release 0\nMay 1: The Avengers: Age of Ultron\nIron Man is the head of the pack this time, as he tries to initiate a peacekeeping program after SHIELD has been destroyed. However, it backfires, and it's up to the Avengers to save the world. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner andMark Ruffalo.\nMay 8: Hot Pursuit\nAn uptight cop, played by Reese Witherspoon, tries to protect the widow (Sofia Vergara) of a drug lord as they run through Texas, chased by gunmen.\nMay 8: Before I Wake\nA story about a child's dreams and nightmares that seem to manifest as he sleeps. It is directed by Mike Flanagan, who did Oculus, so we can bet it's going to be scary. With Kate Bosworth andThomas Jane.\nMay 15: Mad Max: Fury Road\nMax, played by Tom Hardy, decides to wander alone, but he gets caught up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland, escaping from a tyrannical Citadel. With Charlize Theron.\nMay 15: Pitch Perfect 2\nThe sequel follows Beca (Anna Kendrick) and her a cappella group through their senior year at Barden University. With Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow and Elizabeth Banks.\nMay 22: Tomorrowland\nA mixed group of people set out to find and unravel what happened to Tomorrowland in order to save the world. With George Clooney.\nMay 22: Poltergeist\nA new take on the classic horror film. A family relocates to a suburban home where a spirit kidnaps their daughter. With Jared Harris, Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt.\nMay 22: The Vatican Tapes\nA girl accidentally cuts her finger, and her infection causes erratic behavior that lead specialists to believe she is possessed. The Vatican is then called to exorcise the demon. With Michael Pena.\nMay 29: San Andreas 3D\nA massive earthquake hits California, and a rescue helicopter pilot sets out across the state to find his daughter. With Dwayne Johnson.\nMay 29: Aloha\nA military contractor returns to the site where he established his biggest successes and rekindles an old love while falling for an Air Force watchdog. With Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone,Rachel McAdams, Jay Baruchel, Alec Baldwin and Danny McBride.\nJune 5: Spy\nSusan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is a CIA analyst, and when her partner (Jude Law) goes missing in action and another agent takes his place, she offers to go undercover. WithJason Statham and Rose Byrne.\nJune 5: Insidious: Chapter 3\nIn the third installment of the Insidious series, the haunting of a teenage girl and her family (which predates the haunting of the Lambert family from the previous movies) is portrayed.\nJune 5: Entourage\nMovie star Vincent Chase and his entourage are back. With agent\/studio head Ari Gold in tow, they conquer the realm of Hollywood once again. With Adrien Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven and Kevin Dillon.\nJune 12: Jurassic World\nTaking place 22 years after the events depicted in Jurassic Park, a new adventure park has been opened at Isla Nublar as envisioned by John Hammond. Owen, played by Chris Pratt, conducts research on velociraptors as a new attraction backfires. With Bryce Dallas Howard and Jake Johnson.\nJune 12: Dope\nA high school nerd tries to get into Harvard while facing obstacles in her gang-infested neighborhood. With Zoe Kravitz, Forest Whitaker and Blake Anderson.\nJune 19: The Transporter: Refueled\nA driver teams with a leader of a deadly group to take down Russian human traffickers. With Ed Skrein.\nJune 19: Inside Out\nThe film is set in the head of a young girl named Riley, who lets the five emotions \u2014 Joy, Anger, Digust, Fear and Sadness \u2014 guide her through life. With Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling,Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black as the emotions.\nJune 26: Ted 2\nIn the sequel, Ted is trying to raise a child but needs to prove he is a person first. With Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson.\nJuly 1: Terminator: Genisys\nThe fourth movie in the installment includes time travel, dangerous new enemies and Arnold Schwarzenegger. With Emilia Clarke and Jason Clarke.\nJuly 1: Magic Mike XXL\nThree years after Mike quit his stripper life, the remaining Kings of Tampa want to end their careers. However, they want to go out in a good way: with one last big performance. WithChanning Tatum, Amber Heard, Jada Pinkett Smith, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello and Elizabeth Banks.\nJuly 10: Minions\nThe minions travel through time, serving such prominent historical figures as T.Rex and Napoleon. But as they kill off every single one of their leaders, Kevin, Stuart and Bob set out into the world to find a new evil boss. With Sandra Bullock and Jon Hamm providing voices.\nJuly 17: Ant-Man\nConman Scott Lang, played by Paul Rudd, has the ability to shrink in scale but get stronger. In the film, he needs to help his mentor protect the secret behind the Ant-Man suit and save the world. With Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly and Michael Pena.\nJuly 17: Trainwreck\nFrom a very young age, Amy has been taught that monogamy isn't realistic. But falling for the subject of a magazine article she's writing puts her worldview to the test. Directed by Judd Apatow, with Amy Schumer, John Cena and Bill Hader.\nJuly 24: Paper Towns\nQuentin is enlisted by Margo, the most popular girl in school, to help her in seeking revenge against her ex-boyfriend. Quentin has been in love with Margo for a very long time and therefore makes the most out of the situation. With Nat Wolff.\nJuly 24: Pan\nIn yet another remake of the classic, the film follows an orphan who travels to Neverland, where he ultimately becomes Peter Pan. With Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara, Amanda Seyfried and Cara Delevingne.\nJuly 24: Pixels\nA group of video game characters attack New York City and video game experts are hired by the government to deal with the threat. With Kevin James, Adam Sandler, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan and Jane Krakowski.\nJuly 31: Mission: Impossible 5\nA movie about Ethan Hunt and the IMF team. With Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner and Alec Baldwin.\nJuly 31: Self\/Less\nA wealthy man is dying from cancer and undergoes a surgery where his consciousness is transferred to the body of a healthy young man. But danger awaits as he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin. With Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley and Natalie Martinez.\nAugust 7: Fantastic Four\nThe comic book team gets rebooted in this blockbuster about four scientists who try to save the world with their superhuman abilities. With Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Michael B. Jordan.\nAugust 7: Masterminds\nA security guard for an armored car company stages a bank heist. With Kristen Wiig, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson.\nAugust 7: Ricki and the Flash\nA music star tries to patch things up with her family. With Meryl Streep, Sebastian Stan, Mamie Gummer and Kevin Kline.\nAugust 14: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.\nBased on the classic TV spy series, the film centers on a CIA agent who teams up with a KGB operative to thwart a terrorist threat. With Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Hugh Grant.\nAugust 14: Straight Outta Compton\nThe story of N.W.A's rise to fame in the mid-1980s. With Corey Hawkins, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell and Paul Giamatti.\nAugust 14: Underdogs\nAn animated feature about a young man who teams up with a group of foosball players. WithBella Thorne, Nicholas Hoult, Ariana Grande and Katie Holmes providing voices.\nAugust 21: Criminal\nA convict is given the abilities and memories of a dead CIA agent. With Ryan Reynolds, Alice Eve,Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman and Tommy Lee Jones.\nAugust 21: Sinister 2\nA follow-up to the 2012 horror film, this sequel centers on a young mother moving into a creepy rural home with her twin sons. With Shannyn Sossamon and James Ransone.\nAugust 28: Hitman: Agent 47\nAn assassin helps a woman find her father. With Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto and Ciaran Hinds.\nAugust 28: Regression\nA father can't remember committing the crime that he is accused of. With Ethan Hawke andEmma Watson.\nSeason 5 Episode 20: Suicide Squad Review\nSeason 5 Episode 19: Sausage Party Review\nSeason 5 Episode 18: Critic Review Discussion\nSeason 5 Episode 17: Pokemon Go Review\nSeason 5 Episode 16: My Hero Academia S1 Review\nTHE OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST 2015 IN NYC!\nNEW Ant-Man Trailer!!\nFULL-SCALE FINAL FANTASY GAME SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR MOBILE DEVICES COMING TO THE WEST\nSHORYUKEN! UDON'S STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED TO BE COLLECTED IN HARDCOVER VOLUMES STARTING THIS SUMMER\nWIZARDS OF THE COAST AND VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCE THE ART OF MAGIC: THE GATHERING: KALADESH\nGarage Hero Announce New Project!\nMcFARLANE TOYS TEAMS WITH VIDEO GAME GIANT TITANFALL\nSeason 5 Episode 15: Mighty No. 9 Review\nSeason 5 Episode 14: Independence Day \u2013 Resurgence Review\nSeason 5 Episode 13: Netflix's Voltron Review\nSeason 5 Episode 12: Crista Classic \u2013 The Last Dragon Review\nSeason 5 Episode 11: E3 2016\nSeason 5 Episode 10: Warcraft Movie Review\nSeason 5 Episode 9: The CW's Arrow Season Finale\nSeason 5 Episode 8: TMNT Out of the Shadows Movie Review\nSeason 5 Episode 7: X-Men Apocalypse Movie Review\nSeason 5 Episode 6: The Flash Season 2 Finale\nShout! Factory Announces Kakuranger Stateside Release!\nShout! 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{"text":"WMO's State of the Climate report \u2013 experts respond\nExpert Reactions | Published: 14 November 2013 28 March 2016\nThe World Meteorological Organization has released its Provisional Statement on the Status of the Global Climate 2013. The preliminary assessment of global temperatures for the first nine months of 2013 has indicated that this year will likely be among the 10 warmest years since global records began in 1850.\nDownload the WMO report here.\nIt also found that January to September 2013 ties with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period on record.\nThe report also highlights the extreme temperatures experience by Australia in 2013.\nBelow, experts from New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom provide commentary on the report. Contact the SMC to speak to any of these experts.\nDr Jim Salinger, climate scientist and former president of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology at the World Meteorological Organization comments:\n\"The globe continues to warm, whether it is the increase in surface temperature, shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, or melting of mountain glaciers.\n\"Here in New Zealand 2013 produced the warmest winter since reliable climate records began in the 1860s, with many fewer frosts than normal. The results of the end of summer snowline surveys show that the glacier ice volume of the Southern Alps has melted to approximately 38 cubic kilometres, 30 percent less than when the surveys commenced 37 years ago.\n\"Climate warming is alive and well in New Zealand.\"\nComments gathered by the AusSMC\nDr David Jones is Manager of Climate Monitoring and Prediction Services at the Bureau of Meteorology comments:\n\"Each year, the Bureau of Meteorology provides Australian climate data to the World Meteorological Organization for inclusion in the WMO Status of the Global Climate.\n\"This year Australia recorded its warmest 12-month period on record in the period ending August. This record was broken in the 12 months to September and again in the 12 months to October. Australia recorded its hottest day on record on 7 January during the heatwave that affected large areas of Australia. This trend continued with the warmest winter day on record on 31 August.\"\nDr Steve Rintoul is Research Team Leader at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and leader of the Oceans Program at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, comments:\n\"As the report points out, 2013 was a record-breaking year for Australia, with the warmest month, summer and year on record. Temperature measurements in any one year, of course, can't tell us much about climate trends. To say if the earth is warming up, we need to look at a longer time period. A more significant point is that global-average temperature in each of the last three decades has been warmer than any prior decade dating back to 1850, as reported in the recently released IPCC report. The report also provides compelling evidence that human activities are primarily responsible for the warming over the last 50 years.\"\nDr Sarah Perkins is a Research Associate in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at the University of New South Wales, comments:\n\"The robust findings in the WMO report are consistent with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology reports and updates, as well as the conclusions from the comprehensive literature review provided by the IPCC 5th assessment report. Australia has seen the hottest 12 months on record broken three times over consecutive months during 2013. Such events are concerning, as they have occurred during the absence of El Nino, which is the phase of the ENSO variability cycle that is more readily associated with warmer than average temperatures. The much warmer than average temperatures contributed to the increased bushfire risk experienced this spring, with the bushfire season occurring earlier than ever before.\nMoreover, peer reviewed scientific studies have shown that the probability of an extremely hot summer, such as 2012-2013, occurring was increased by 2.5-4 times because of human induced climate change. As greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity continue to rise, we can expect to see more records like this being broken well in to the 21st Century. This is extremely concerning for Australia, as increases in temperatures, particularly extreme events such as heat waves, have profound and adverse impacts on human health, infrastructure, agriculture and natural systems.\"\nProfessor Kevin Parton is at the Institute for Land, Water and Society at Charles Sturt University, NSW, comments:\n\"The overall message of the World Meteorological Organization statement is that recent conditions from all parts of the globe have been precisely what climate scientists predicted would occur under conditions of global warming. Apart from increasing global temperatures, the statement points to many, many examples of extreme weather from the UK to Russia, and from the Sudan to Argentina. It also highlights huge impacts of climate change on Arctic Sea Ice, the Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctic Sea Ice and the rise in global sea level. If you look only at heat waves over the last 12 months, then extreme conditions occurred in Australia, South Africa, Pakistan, Austria, Finland, China and Japan.\"\nDr Richard Corkish is Head of the School of Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, comments:\n\"The report released today by the WMO is alarming and a clear motivator for leadership to push through barriers and resistance to rapid mass adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources as the default underpinnings of our society and economy. There are no cheap paths ahead and all the options become more difficult and expensive with further delay and misdirection of resources. Renewables are increasingly competitive and grid parity with conventional electricity has been reached in many parts of the world already. Efficiency improvements commonly come at negative cost. It is past time to act!\"\nComments gathered by the UK SMC\nDr Stephan Harrison, Associate Professor in Quaternary Science at the University of Exeter, said:\n\"The recent disaster in the Philippines has shown how vulnerable communities are being impacted by extreme weather events. All the science says that such events are expected to get worse and more frequent.\n\"The latest message from the WMO on global temperatures should therefore be another wake up call to politicians from the developed and developing world. Current trajectories for adaptation and mitigation are wildly inadequate to meet the challenges of global climate change\".\nDr David Reay, Senior Lecturer in Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh, comments:\n\"Year by year, decade after decade, our planet continues to warm. The short-term spikes and troughs caused by ocean circulations make it easy to overlook the insidious spread of more and more heat through the world's land, water and ice. 2013 is on course to be yet another new entry in the top ten warmest years ever recorded but, as global temperatures keep on rising, its chances of staying there are slim indeed.\"\nProfessor Richard Allan, Professor of Climate Science at the University of Reading, comments:\n\"The planet's climate is hugely complex but thanks to increasingly realistic simulations and more comprehensive observations the human contribution to the warming of climate is becoming increasingly clear.\n\"In the last 40 years global surface temperatures have risen by 0.5 degrees C. This doesn't sound much but is about 10% of the global temperature rise since the last ice age 20,000 years ago \u2013 when ice sheets covered parts of the UK.\"\nOn the slowdown:\n\"Global surface warming has slowed over the last 15 years but heat has continued to accumulate within the oceans since 2000 \u2013 at a rate equivalent to each of the 7 billion humans on the planet using twenty 2kW kettles to continuously boil the sea.\n\"The most up-to-date research shows that natural fluctuations in the ocean have caused the heating from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to build up at deeper levels below the sea surface rather than the upper layers which influence surface temperatures.\n\"This is important since it provides evidence that the slowdown in surface warming is temporary and we can expect a return to substantial surface warming over the coming decades.\"\nOn Arctic ice:\n\"Arctic ice volume has recovered slightly from the record minimum in 2012 yet the 5000 cubic kilometres of Arctic sea ice remaining in September 2013 is less than half the 1979-2012 September average \u2013 and it is obvious that the extent and volume have been diminishing rapidly over the last 30 years.\"\nOn tropical storms:\n\"It is more likely than not that there will be an increase in intense tropical cyclone activity in the Western North Pacific and North Atlantic by the late 21st century. This is based upon detailed simulations but also on basic physics: more ocean heat and greater quantities of moisture can increase their power and rainfall intensity; while changes in winds throughout the atmosphere and sea surface patterns which influence where Typhoons and Hurricanes will occur \u2013 and how severe they will be \u2013 are more difficult to pin down.\"\nProf Sir Brian Hoskins, Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London, comments:\n\"This report highlights the continuing influence we are having on the world's climate. The levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are now about 40% higher than pre-industrial times, causing a substantial increase of the net amount of energy entering the Earth's climate system.\n\"We can clearly see the impact this is having on rising sea levels, decreasing Arctic sea ice, and in the large number of high temperature records broken around the world. The record super-typhoon in the Philippines came too late to be included in this report but is also an indicator of events that have become more likely in our changing climate. In addition, the WMO have now said that 2013 appears to be on track to be one of the 10 warmest years since 1850.\"\nProf Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics at the University of Cambridge, comments:\n\"The Philippines tragedy was made worse by the facts that sea level rise is leading to bigger flooding effects from storm surges, and that the rise in sea surface temperature worldwide is allowing a typhoon to build up higher energy levels.\n\"The report also states 'the coldest years now are hotter than the hottest years before 1998'. What they are saying is that despite interannual fluctuations (always jumped upon by climate sceptics) the trend is so strongly upwards in temperature that even 'hot' years in our memories (e.g. summer 1976 in the UK) are \u2013 when globally averaged \u2013 actually cooler than even the coolest year in our present era.\"\nProf Jonathan Gregory, Climate Researcher at the University of Reading, comments:\n\"Thanks to satellite observations over recent years, we now have much improved estimates \u2013 not only of the rate of global mean sea level rise, but what is contributing to it. The sum of these contributions agrees with what we observe in the real world, so we are very confident that we can account for this trend in sea level rise as being the result of thermal expansion (as the ocean water warms up) and ice loss on land (from glaciers and ice sheets).\"\nPM's Science Prize winners announced\nWas penguin evolution driven by a cooling Antarctic? \u2013 NZ Research","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Collection: Texas Digital Newspaper Program Title: Freie Presse f\u00fcr Texas Year: 1907 Day: 1st Clear All Filters\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7531, Ed. 1 Friday, February 1, 1907\nDescription: Daily German-language newspaper from San Antonio, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.\nCreator: Hanschke, Robert\nPartner: UNT Libraries\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7555, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7581, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7607, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7634, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7660, Ed. 1 Monday, July 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7686, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7737, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 1, 1907\nFreie Presse f\u00fcr Texas. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 7764, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1907\nFebruary 1 1 March 1 1 April 1 1 May 1 1 June 1 1 July 1 1 August 1 1 October 1 1 November 1 1","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All Texas Red Dirt All The Time\nEXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Casi Joy Shares Behind The Scene Video for \"Everything's Fine\"\nby jwills | July 26, 2022\nCasi Joy's single \"Everything's Fine\" is out now.\nWhen it comes to making the video for the track, The Voice alum says, \"This video shoot was probably the most fun we've had on set!\"\nCasi also made the video a family affair, \"I think my favorite part of the video is that my mom, dad, husband, brother, nieces, nephew, and one of my best friends are in the video! It made it so fun to have them there with me especially since I needed kids to yell at on the rink!\"\nBut making the video for \"Everything's Fine\" wasn't all fine, \"The scariest scene to shoot, however, was the vacuum biting the dust! We only had one chance to have the powder explode in my face, so everything had to be perfect on the first try.\"\nAnd it was, but Joy adds, \"I think I still have baby powder in my eyeballs, but it was so worth it!\"\nCheck out the behind the scenes fun on the video shoot for \"Everything's Fine\" here\u2026\nNow that you've seen how it was made, watch the official music video for Casi Joy's \"Everything's Fine\" here.\nPhoto Courtesy of Casi Joy\nwritten by jwills | published July 26, 2022 1:00 pm\ncategory: NCD News | related posts: Casi Joy, Everything's Fine\nRead more country music news at Nash Country Daily!\nChris Stapleton, Babyface To Sing During Super Bowl LVII Pregame\nBrooks & Dunn Announce 2023 Return To Arenas With Scotty McCreery\nEric Church Adds Dates To 'The Outsiders Revival Tour' Due To Overwhelming Demand\nTyler Hubbard Faces Terry Crews In Dance-Off In 'Dancin' In The Country' Video\nThomas Rhett Shares New Single 'Angels Don't Always Have Wings'\nKPUR's Public File\nCumulus Media Corporate\nCopyright 2020 Cumulus Media \/ Cumulus Media is an equal opportunity employer \/ AA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Skadi Forum > Social Sciences > Politics & Geopolitics > Political Theory > The Barents Cooperation: A Vision for a Better Europe.\nView Full Version : The Barents Cooperation: A Vision for a Better Europe.\nTuesday, November 9th, 2004, 10:23 PM\nMinister of Foreign Affairs Bj\u00f8rn\nTore Godal\nIn Nansen's footsteps. The\nBarents cooperation: A\nvision for a better Europe.\nLondon, 5 October 1995\nI am honoured to have this opportunity to address the Royal Geographical Society, which has been a focal point for British geographers and explorers for more than a century. Thus, it is also a most appropriate venue for a memorial lecture on the explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen.\nThe most urgent issues and challenges have always included a geographical element. This is perhaps even more true today than it was in the past, before environmental degradation, the population explosion, climate change and nature conservation made their appearance on the global agenda - indeed, until recently, there was no such thing as a global agenda. Nevertheless, geography has always played a crucial role in peace and cooperation. It is therefore not surprising that some of its practitioners have also made significant contributions to peace and international cooperation.\nFridtjof Nansen is one of those scientists who will also be remembered as a diplomat, a humanitarian, a writer and an artist. He served as our first minister to the United Kingdom from 1906 to 1908 and worked hard to achieve international recognition for the newly independent Norway after the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 1905. Fridtjof Nansen's efforts to assist the population in famine-stricken Russia, Armenia and Ukraine in the 1920s, in the wake of World War I and the civil war in the Soviet Union have earned him a place in the annals of history. Nor must we forget the great task he carried out for the League of Nations in repatriating almost half a million prisoners of war.\nTonight, however, I will focus on Nansen the explorer. His association with the High North gives an interesting historical angle to the regional cooperation that has been established in this area since the end of the Cold War. What we have chosen to call the Barents Region includes the northern parts of the Nordic countries as well as Northwestern Russia. For centuries, the Arctic has represented, for people further south, a symbol of adventure, dreams and the endeavour to utilize natural resources. The ice-cold, dark polar nights, the endless sunshine of the summer months, the vast tundra and the untouched wilderness have always attracted explorers and adventurers. In this forum, I venture to claim that the best among them were either British or Norwegian - although Mr. Barents himself was a Dutchman.\nThis year we can commemorate the 100th anniversary of what is generally regarded as one of the most daring polar expeditions ever made. From the ship \"Fram\", which had been frozen in the ice in the Barents Sea for almost two years, Nansen and his companion Johansen (by the way, from my native town of Skien in Telemark) set out in March 1895 to reach the North Pole using skis and dog sledges. They reached 86* 14' before having to turn back, and their achievement will never be forgotten.\nEighteen years later, in 1913, Nansen sailed into the Arctic Ocean and up the Siberian river Yenisey to the town of Krasnoyarsk. The Norwegian businessman who had invited Nansen to take part in the journey had a scheme to open up Siberia to the whole world through his Siberian Steamship, Manufacturing and Trading Company Ltd. In Krasnoyarsk the Norwegian businessman met a young Georgian prisoner, later known as Josef Stalin, and offered him assistance to escape and a job as a woodcutter. Stalin declined, apparently because he had fallen in love with a woman in the camp. Who could think of a better reason?\nAs a matter of curiosity, I would also like to mention that one of Fridtjof Nansen's ancestors, Hans Nansen, who was to become Lord Mayor of Copenhagen, sailed to the Kola Peninsula with his uncle in 1614. In 1619, at the age of 21, he led an expedition to the White Sea and Northern Russia. For 18 years thereafter he sailed northwards every summer to buy skins, furs and walrus tusks. He became a wealthy man. This shows both that a taste for adventure in the High North was in Fridtjof Nansen's blood, and that there is a long tradition of contact between the Nordic countries and Northwestern Russia.\nDuring the Soviet era, the Northeast Passage, or Northern Sea Route, was closed for political reasons. Today, the route is open, and a comprehensive study of all aspects of its future use is being carried out by the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo. This is another testimony to the fundamental change in the international political climate and its impact on the European scene.\nSince the death of Fridtjof Nansen 65 years ago, Europe has experienced dramatic change, terror and war, deep division and military confrontation. At the same time, we have witnessed advances in democracy, growing respect for human rights and an increase in prosperity on a scale hardly foreseeable in the early decades of the century. Ours is a time of dramatic economic and political change, and of hope for a better future for the peoples of Europe, but also of fear for what the future might bring. New economic and political ties are being forged between countries, regions and individuals on both sides of the former East-West divide. Nevertheless, there is still a danger that the gap in living standards between East and West will endure and even widen. And once again war is being fought on our continent.\nIn this situation the main challenge facing us is to create a new European architecture that will bring greater security to all of us. The end of the Cold War gave us a historic chance to unite Europe in a pattern of mutual cooperation and trust. Norway is one of the countries that has emphasized most strongly that Russia must be given an equal place in European cooperation. We have actively sought to promote a course of development that will include Russia, because we believe this to be in the interests of our own security and of stability in Europe.\nNorway's most important contribution to the integration of Russia into international cooperation structures followed an initiative taken by my predecessor Thorvald Stoltenberg in 1992. He proposed a conference on cross-border regional cooperation in the north, to include both Russian and Scandinavian territory. The Barents Region was established in January 1993 when foreign ministers and representatives of the Nordic countries, the European Union and Russia signed a declaration on expanded cooperation in the Barents Region in the small Norwegian town of Kirkenes, close to the Norwegian-Russian border.\nThe Barents region itself covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland and Northwestern Russia, including the counties of Murmansk and Archangel as well as the Republic of Karelia. Right from the beginning, the Barents Cooperation has had two main strategic goals, which are closely related. The first is to establish normal neighbourly relations across the former East-West divide in the north. This can be done through a network of cooperation which will have a stabilizing effect on the area as a whole. In this way, we will also be involving Russia more closely in European cooperation. The second goal is to promote economic and social development in the Barents Region itself.\nThe overriding objective of the Norwegian Government's initiative concerning the Barents Region was, and is still related to security policy in the broadest sense of the word. Regional cooperation in the north can contribute to confidence-building, create interdependence and thus enhance security.\nMy predecessor Johan J\u00f8rgen Holst once stated that we intend \"... to create a meeting place, a forum for dialogue and a framework that can be used as a basis for establishing new and lasting networks across national borders ... The Barents Cooperation is mainly concerned with building bridges across the gap created by three-quarters of a century of closed borders, broken ties and mutual distrust.\"\nThe Iron Curtain which separated continental Europe also split this region in two. Despite the fact that NATO's northern flank and one of the most important strategic areas of the Soviet Union met here, Norway's policy of low tension contributed to keeping this region free from open military confrontation throughout the Cold War. Nevertheless, the border between Norway and Russia was for all practical purposes closed and contact between people across the border was almost non-existent.\nWith the establishment of the Barents Region, we are now seeing an explosive increase in border crossings and flourishing contact between private persons, companies, organizations and local government representatives across the borders. This gives a new dimension to the everyday life of people in the region and contributes to the building of mutual trust.\nIn our view, it is of the utmost importance to involve local people from all walks of life in this process. And we are already seeing results. A large number of people in positions of authority at both local and central level have established contact to discuss their respective problems, objectives and priorities. We are also seeing broader public involvement, not least in cultural activities.\nIt is particularly important to involve young people and the intellectual community, since they are influential groups in the development of Russian society. The close contact between the universities of Troms\u00f8 and Archangel is a good example of this approach. This type of networking has great potential. Not only is it an asset in attaining the political goals of the Barents Cooperation, but it is also often a necessity for achieving results in specific projects. In many ways, mutual understanding and cooperation in cultural terms pave the way for other forms of cooperation.\nOur second overriding goal, to promote development in the Barents Region itself, has been one of Norway's main priorities from the very beginning. As a regional arrangement, the Barents Cooperation should primarily serve the interests of those who live in the region. The main challenge facing the region now is to rid itself of the legacy of the Cold War. We must create stability and promote progress in political, social, economic and environmental affairs in Northwestern Russia, while at the same time safeguarding local cultural traditions.\nWe should bear in mind that the history of the Barents Region is not solely one of division and isolation. Before the Russian revolution of 1917, close links had existed for centuries between Northwestern Russia and the northern parts of the Nordic countries. In particular, trade flourished as Pomors - or farmers - from around the Russian White Sea visited Northern Norway to sell flour in exchange for fish. They provided vital food supplies to the coastal population of Northern Norway at a time when the communication lines to the south were not always reliable. During the Napoleonic Wars, the British blockaded ports in Southern Norway preventing the shipment of flour from Denmark. Even if the British Navy \"ruled the waves\", it did not control Northern Norwegian waters, and could not prevent the population there from buying flour from Russia. Consequently, to show their displeasure, the British dispatched two brigs in 1809, which bombarded Hammerfest, the world's most northerly town, causing widespread damage.\nThroughout most of history, the borders between the countries of the High North have been of little importance to the peoples of the area. National capitals seemed very far away. Trade and other forms of contact meant that people were constantly travelling back and forth across the borders. We might say that a regional identity emerged, a sense of common destiny among peoples sharing the experience of trying to make a living in harsh surroundings.\nThe Barents Region is home to many different ethnic groups: in addition to Swedes, Finns, Russians and Norwegians, there are several indigenous peoples. These include the Sami, who live in all four countries, and the Nenets and the Komi of Northwestern Russia. In the Karelian Republic, there are several Finno-Ugric minorities. A total of at least nine different languages are spoken by the inhabitants of the region. Adding to the complexity, national minorities live in all four countries. Among them are Finnish-speaking populations in Norway and Sweden and people from various parts of the former Soviet Union living in Northwestern Russia.\nThe Norwegian Government considers it important to ensure that the indigenous peoples are given an independent status and role in the Barents Cooperation. The Barents Cooperation has already created a new framework and given impetus to cross-border cooperation between indigenous peoples in the north. It has become a meeting place for Nordic and Russian Sami, Komi and Nenets. The Barents Cooperation has opened up new opportunities for the Sami people. Once again it is possible for the Sami on the Kola Peninsula to rejoin the rest of the Sami community and to reestablish links with other indigenous minorities in the region.\nThe utilization of natural resources in the Barents Region is a matter of vital interest to the indigenous peoples. The President of the Norwegian Sami Assembly acknowledges that the Barents Cooperation has given indigenous peoples an opportunity to be involved in safeguarding their own interests during a process of economic development which might otherwise have left them with a sense of powerlessness. We share their interest in ensuring that political considerations are taken into account in the further development of the region.\nAnother goal of the Barents Cooperation is to establish business relations, personal contacts and encourage friendship between people from different cultures and historical backgrounds living in the same region. It is part of our vision for a better Europe for all Europeans. Stability, good relations and common trust and understanding among neighbours are elements of a vision that can only be fulfilled through the often exhausting, practical, day-to-day cooperation in fora such as the Barents Cooperation.\nIn this way we can help to build bridges between people who live close to each other, but who have nevertheless been kept apart for decades. It would clearly be in Fridtjof Nansen's spirit to view regional cooperation in such a perspective. Or, as Nansen himself said when he received the Nobel Peace Price in 1922: \"The world needs no more programmes, no more paper, no more words. Work is needed, persistent and laborious work which must start from below to build the world up again\".\nWe have created a political instrument designed to normalize relations across the former East-West divide in the north. This should be used to ensure better political control of developments in the region, particularly as regards the balance between the utilization of natural resources and environmental considerations. We would thereby provide the necessary conditions for renewed growth, thus strengthening the commercial base and also promoting economic development in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland.\nHowever, it is no easy task to normalize our relations and establish practical cooperation with Russia. Much remains to be done in Russia before conditions for private foreign investment reach a satisfactory level. There are major deficiencies in the legal system. The same applies to law enforcement and business legislation. These problems hinder Western investments in Russia and have hampered the development of the Russian economy and the improvement of living standards. The relative instability of the political situation is another problem which influences the level of foreign investments.\nIt is perhaps unrealistic at this stage to believe that substantially better conditions can be established for economic cooperation in the Barents Region than for cooperation with Russia in general. Nonetheless, the fact that local and regional authorities have responded so wholeheartedly to the cooperation is significant. This also inspires the local Russian authorities to take up specific obstacles to cooperation with the central authorities in Russia. The Barents Cooperation can thus become a workshop for the development of cooperation between the countries of Western Europe and Russia.\nThe Barents Cooperation is not the only regional initiative involving Russia and its neighbours. Others include the Baltic and the Black Sea Cooperation, which are also elements in a \"Europe of Regions\". I do not claim that the Barents Cooperation is more important than the others. However, some of the experience already gained in this forum may be of more general interest.\nOne example is the success of the two-tier organization of the Barents Region: a Barents Council of Ministers and a Regional Council. The establishment of a Regional Council consisting of political leaders of the counties within the region as well as a representative of the indigenous peoples means that much of the initiative and the responsibility for the cooperation rests with the regional representatives themselves. The Regional Council and its working groups have adopted a very practical and result-oriented approach. The needs and hopes of the region itself dominate their work. The Regional Council is a driving force behind the Barents Cooperation. This means that important decisions are made by people who are familiar with the problems of the region and aware of its potential.\nAt first glance, it may seem strange for national governments to delegate some of its foreign policy decision-making to local government level. In my view, experience has shown that it was right to give the Regional Council an independent status and not subordinate it to the Barents Council. The relationship between the Barents Council and the Regional Council is based on close cooperation between central and local authorities in each country. Provided that channels of communication between the national and the regional levels are open, this is an advantage, not a threat to the exercise of a nation's foreign policy.\nIn many countries relations between periphery and centre are strained. In the case of Russia, this issue has been the subject of much discussion. We must, of course, expect a certain conflict of interest. Nevertheless, I think that if regional cooperation is organized as it has been in the Barents Region, it may in turn help to improve relations between the capital and outlying districts in individual countries.\nFor a regional cooperation project to succeed, good will and good intentions are not enough. The institutions involved must be given the means to deal with practical tasks. This implies that resources must be channelled to the regional level as well, and that concrete cooperation projects must be implemented. To a certain extent, this has already been done in the Barents Region. The Regional Council administers a regional programme comprising a broad variety of joint projects.\nThe Regional Council considers that its resources are too limited. This is understandable, and I have myself often emphasized the need to provide increased resources to the regional level. After almost three years of existence, the Barents Cooperation has reached a level of maturity where substantial, tangible results can be expected. We have been through an initial phase of dismantling old divides, establishing contacts and finding ways of organizing cooperation. Now we have to see to it that we start up projects that will produce clear results.\nI have in mind projects that entail substantial investments in industry, infrastructure and the environment. Some suitable projects are at the design stage, some have just been launched and a few are now well underway. I am confident that in a few years' time we shall see substantial results in these areas. Funding is of course a key issue. In particular, environmental clean-up operations and safety measures for nuclear reactors and nuclear waste will require resources far beyond the capacity of Russia and its Nordic neighbours.\nI would like to stress that the development of Northwestern Russia is of great interest to the whole Barents Region, notwithstanding the presence of an element of a donor-recipient relationship due to the differences between the western and the eastern part of the region. For the northern parts of the Nordic countries, there is a large potential market in Northwestern Russia. A stable pattern of development will increase security for people living in this border area between NATO and the former Soviet Union. We intend to develop cooperation arrangements between equal partners to their mutual benefit. We envisage that regional cooperation will contribute to this end.\nThere is a European dimension to the Barents Cooperation. This is underlined by the fact that the European Commission is a full member of the Barents Council. Indeed, the Barents Cooperation provides a forum for relations between the EU and Russia. Two new members of the EU, Sweden and Finland, are active participants in their own right, along with Norway and Russia. In addition, several European countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany, as well as Japan, the USA and Canada have observer status in the Barents Council.\nThe vast natural resources of the Barents Region are also of great interest to outsiders. The region stretches from the remote Arctic islands of Franz Josef Land lying above 80 degrees North, where Nansen and Johansen survived the winter of 1895-1896, to the tundra of the Nenets Autonomous Area in the far north east, through the deep taiga of Archangel, Karelia, Finnish Lapland and Sweden's Norrbotten province, to the Atlantic coast of Northern Norway. The region covers more than 1.2 million square kilometres - about five times the area of the United Kingdom - but has a population of barely 4.5 million inhabitants. The region is rich in minerals, forests, gas and oil, and there is a wealth of marine resources in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea off its northern and western shores.\nThe prospects for economic growth and prosperity in the region as a whole are quite good. At the same time, the region covers some of the last wilderness areas in Europe, large areas of almost untouched nature in a climatic zone which is highly vulnerable to pollution and other adverse effects of industrial activity. There are examples of serious environmental degradation in the region. Old-style Soviet industry has had some appalling results, and we are now facing the daunting challenge of finding the necessary resources to deal with the situation.\nFrom the Norwegian point of view, environmental protection is a primary task to be dealt with in the Barents Region. The Kola Peninsula suffers from serious industrial pollution. Moreover, it is the site of one of the largest concentrations of military installations in the world. The extensive nuclear activities in the area constitute one of the most serious environmental threats to our part of the world. In many of the industrial parts of this area, the price of economic growth may become so high in terms of degradation of the natural and human environment that it both limits further development and necessitates restructuring.\nWe are now beginning to acquire a reasonably good overview of the magnitude and extent of the environmental problems facing us. It is essential that we deal not only with the acute, short-term problems, but also with the long-term threats. Russia itself is making efforts to solve the problems related to the management and storage of nuclear waste. But the country's economic situation and the magnitude of the task make international participation indispensable. In our view, the entire international community has a responsibility for finding solutions to the formidable environmental problems in the north. Norway attaches great importance to involving our traditional partners in cooperation on nuclear issues in the north, and progress has already been made in this respect. For instance, the USA and Norway are now implementing a joint project with Russia concerning an effluent treatment facility for low-level radioactive waste in Murmansk.\nThere is an urgent need to raise safety standards at nuclear facilities in both the civilian and the military sectors and provide for the safe handling and storage of radioactive waste from civilian and military sources. The dimensions of these tasks far exceed what Russia and the Nordic countries can deal with on their own. A nuclear accident in the region could have an impact on areas far beyond the countries closest to the Kola Peninsula. For instance, the most important fishing grounds and protein resource of Europe is to be found precisely in this area. I am therefore pleased to say that various nuclear safety projects are being supported by the European Union and the United States and several international institutions such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the UN Development Programme. Nevertheless, the governments of the region would welcome an even greater involvement by countries and institutions outside the region itself.\nMy Russian colleague will take over the chairmanship of the Barents Council at the foreign ministers' meeting in Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland next Tuesday. We look forward to the Russian chairmanship and we are confident that given Mr. Kozyrev's personal interest in Northwestern Russia and in the Barents Cooperation, the Russian chairmanship will be beneficial to this cooperation and to relations between Russia and the Nordic countries.\nWe are now facing a Russia that is clearly seeking to reassert its position as a major power. This is reflected in the latter's scepticism regarding NATO enlargement and its protests against the bombing of Bosnian-Serbian positions. Russia is in the process of defining its position and role, but a great many pieces have yet to fall into place. The need of Russian politicians to formulate and promote their national interests must be viewed in this context. Although this is a natural development in many ways, the tendency has recently been reinforced by certain nationalistic currents in Russian politics - currents that are bound to grow stronger with the approach of the country's important parliamentary elections in December.\nAs a great power on the European continent, Russia must have a central role in the security architecture now being designed. We must acknowledge that the Russians have a legitimate right to define and pursue their national interests. Although Russia does not constitute a military threat to Norway, we cannot just ignore the fact that sizeable military forces are still stationed near our borders. The Northern areas continue to be of strategic importance to Russia, with the Northern Fleet as one of the main elements of the country's nuclear arsenal.\nIt is interesting to note that Fridtjof Nansen, in spite of the terrible situation he encountered in Russia in the twenties, firmly believed that Russia would play an important role in the world in years to come. Even though he was totally opposed to the programmes of the Bolshevik government, he warned western powers not to isolate Russia or turn to military intervention. In the preface to his book Russia and Peace from 1923 he wrote: \"There can hardly be any doubt that the Russian people have a great future, and will have a great mission to fulfil in Europe and the world in the future\". He also wrote that all governments are intermediate, but that the People will always be there. These thoughts, though more than 70 years old, are still relevant. The inclusion of Russia in cooperation structures and the efforts to promote peace in international organizations are goals that we share.\nIt is in our own interests to integrate Russia into European cooperation structures and to promote its economic development. We will all benefit if the political and economic transition process in Russia is successful. Norway's main aim is to continue to pursue our good bilateral relations and active dialogue with Russia, while at the same time drawing Russia more closely into regional, European and broader international cooperation.\nIn addition to regional arrangements such as the Barents Cooperation, both the European Union and NATO are establishing broad-based cooperation with Russia based on the common view that it should become a partner in European developments. The signing of the Interim Agreement to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Russia and the EU in July was a significant step in the right direction. Cooperation between NATO and Russia is equally important. It is essential that the process of enlargement of the Alliance be characterized by openness and predictability. Enlargement of NATO and the European Union will not be targeted at any one country. The respective enlargement processes must be conducted in such a way that they contribute towards stability in Europe.\nThe peoples of the former Eastern bloc countries had great hopes for freedom and prosperity when democratic forces came to power five or six years ago. Today, there is a danger that disappointment and resignation will take over. The governments of Russia and the other countries of Central and Eastern Europe have a great responsibility to pursue policies that yield results and fulfil the hopes of their people. As Russia's neighbours we also have a vested interest in supporting this process in every possible ways.\nThe challenges and human tragedies confronting Fridtjof Nansen in Russia in the twenties were the results of World War I, the Russian revolution, civil war and xenophobia. His efforts to help fellow human beings in dire need were an example of true humanitarianism. Nansen never forgot the horrors of post-war Russia, and he constantly returned to what was to become one of the main themes of his speeches and articles later: how the international community should be organized in order to avoid such disasters in the future.\nDespite being involved in politics and diplomacy himself, Fridtjof Nansen did not have much respect for politicians or diplomats. Instead of prescribing more politics, programmes and diplomacy he felt that peace should be built by means of \"persistent and laborious work\". As a politician and head of the Norwegian diplomatic service, I have grave reservations here. Politics and diplomacy are \"persistent and laborious work\" , when practiced properly.\nThe vision of a new Europe should not be confined to words and speeches. The new Europe will also require hard work, concrete projects of cooperation and financial resources to establish patterns of cooperation that bind us together. Norway feels a particular responsibility for ensuring that the Barents Cooperation continues to make a valuable contribution to the construction of the new Europe. It is my firm conviction that such regional cooperation projects are true examples of peace-building in the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen.\nLagt inn 13 oktober 1995 av Statens forvaltningstjeneste, ODIN-redaksjonen\nhttp:\/\/odin.dep.no\/odinarkiv\/norsk\/dep\/ud\/1995\/taler\/032005-090091\/dok-bn.html\nFridtjof Nansen\nhttp:\/\/www.forums.skadi.net\/showthread.php?t=830&highlight=Nansen","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A 'Do-Nothing' Plan for Republicans\nby Michael Reagan, November 26, 2014\nRick McKee \/ Augusta Chronicle\nMaking Sense by Michael Reagan\nThe fight over immigration reform was wiped off our TV screens by the fires and tear gas clouds in Ferguson Monday night.\nCNN and the other networks will milk the grand jury's decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown for as long as there's a single ratings point to be gained.\nBut by Tuesday afternoon President Obama was already back on the road plugging the alleged merits of his executive actions on immigration and explaining why they were not constitutionally bogus.\nRepublicans in Congress are in their home districts for the Thanksgiving recess, celebrating their recent landslides in the Senate and House and eating lots of turkey.\nPresumably, their party leaders are working up a plan to retaliate against Obama's power grab, which bypassed Congress and supposedly could spare as many as five million illegal immigrants from being deported.\nI hope it's not too late. But I've got a perfect plan for the GOP's bosses to follow for the next two years \u2014 do nothing to directly challenge Obama's executive action.\nRepublicans shouldn't threaten a lawsuit or a government shutdown over what Obama did.\nAnd they shouldn't waste a week writing a mega-immigration reform bill half the members of their own party won't like.\nThey shouldn't give up on immigration reform. But for the next two years Republicans can turn the tables on the president.\nFor starters, the new 2015 McConnell-Boehner partnership should dig through the Senate wastebaskets for those House immigration bills Harry Reid never allowed to be considered.\nThe Republican Congress should pass the bills ASAP, send them to the president's desk and force Obama to make the final yes or no call with his almighty executive pen.\nThe GOP needs to make the president take the heat on immigration for the next two years.\nA lot of that political heat will come from the states. It's their taxpayers who'll have to pay the costs and foot the bills for the president's rogue immigration decision.\nTexas and Oklahoma have already said they were going to go to court to block what they charge is Obama's dictatorial bypass of Congress' lawmaking authority.\nI doubt if California's clueless government will have the good sense to join in a legal challenge, but it has paid a higher price for illegal immigration than any other state.\nThe Golden State has 1.1 million illegal immigrants who have become welcome \"guests\" of its taxpayers.\nThe County of Los Angeles alone spends more than $2 billion a year giving illegal aliens and their children welfare, food stamps, healthcare and education programs.\nL.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich says Obama's plan to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants is just another unfunded federal mandate and a tax-supported welfare program for people who've broken the law to enter the country.He's right. But Obama's executive order may not be as damaging as many people on our side of the aisle think.\nIt's only good for two years. What immigrant will risk coming out of the shadows now if the law can change under a new president?\nWhen Obama's out of office, and when he's replaced by a Republican in 2016, his outrageous executive grandstanding on immigration will become a historical footnote.\nHe knows perfectly well it won't last. It was all about padding his legacy, not doing something serious to solve our immigration problem.\nBasically, what Republicans in Congress should do for the next two years is pretend President Obama doesn't exist.\nThey shouldn't argue with the president or take him to court. He's a renter in the White House, not an owner, and he and his executive orders will be gone two years from now.\nMeanwhile, Republicans should concentrate on passing some good bills on immigration, energy and tax reform and work to get the economy moving again.\nIf they do that, they'll win in 2016. If they don't do it, they won't.\nCopyright \u00a92014 Michael Reagan. Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of \"The New Reagan Revolution\" (St. Martin's Press). He is the founder of the email service reagan.com and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Visit his websites at www.reagan.com and www.michaelereagan.com. Send comments to [email protected] Follow @reaganworld on Twitter.\nMike's column is distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. 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{"text":"Former Michigan Wrestlers Urge More Victims to 'speak Up'\nTad Deluca appeared at a news conference Thursday and identified himself as the whistleblower whose 2018 complaint about the late Dr. Robert E. Anderson led to a police investigation\nBy Mike Householder and Larry Lage \u2022 Published February 27, 2020 \u2022 Updated on February 27, 2020 at 8:33 pm\nThe whistleblower whose letter to University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel alleging sexual assault sparked an investigation into a former school doctor says he was inspired by the women who testified against convicted Michigan State physicianLarry Nassar.\nAn attorney for Tad DeLuca said Thursday that his client complained to his wrestling coach in 1975 that Dr. Robert E. Anderson molested him during medical exams. In response, then-coach Bill Johannesen humiliated DeLuca, kicked him off the team and effectively removed his financial assistance, the attorney said.\n\"I spoke up again by letter in 2018 after hearing an NPR story about the MSU gymnasts, women who I am in awe of,\" DeLuca said at a news conference in suburban Detroit. \"Once again, the University of Michigan ignored me.\n\"I'm here today to speak up again, to let the University of Michigan know that I will not be ignored.\"\nGet New England news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NECN newsletters.\nDeLuca's 2018 letter of complaint about Anderson, now deceased, led to a university police investigation that became public last week. Two other former Michigan wrestlers who allege they were abused by Anderson also spoke to reporters Thursday: Tom Evashevski and Andy Hrovat, the first athlete to publicly say Anderson molested him.\nEvashevski was in school with DeLuca at Michigan in the mid-1970s. Hrovat was a star wrestler in the late 1990s for the Wolverines and went on to compete for the U.S. at the 2008 Olympics.\n\"These were and are physically and mentally tough men,\" said attorney Parker Stinar, who represents the trio. \"But they were all victims of sexual abuse and victims of an institution that ignored warning after warning after warning about a predator preying on young individuals.\"\nWorld News 2 hours ago\nJapan Unveils Whale Sashimi, Steak, and Bacon Vending Machines as Demand Sinks\nDonald Trump 2 hours ago\nMan Who Claimed to Have Bomb Near US Capitol Pleads Guilty\nDeLuca put his complaints about Anderson in writing in 1975 in a letter to Johannesen. Subsequently, Johannesen read DeLuca's letter to his teammates in an effort to humiliate him, kicked him off the team and took away his scholarship, according to Stinar.\nJohannesen denied in interviews this week with The Associated Press that any of his student-athletes ever told him Anderson touched them inappropriately.\n\"You can't call him a coach,\" said DeLuca, a retired teacher in northern Michigan. \"'Coach' is a term of endearment.\"\nStinar, who met with the school's general counsel Thursday afternoon, predicts \"hundreds of more victims\" will emerge, and that his firm already represents more than a dozen.\nSeveral other law firms have spent the past week talking to potential accusers about legal action. Among them are attorneys Michelle Simpson Tuegel and H. James White, who represented more than 60 people who were abused by Nassar at Michigan State.\nWhite said Thursday that the number of potential Anderson victims is \"extremely troubling,\" adding that \"the University of Michigan and the community at large should brace itself.\"\nStinar, who is based in Denver, said the university must explain its years of inaction.\n\"For nearly four decades, the University of Michigan allowed Dr. Anderson to prey on vulnerable young individuals away from home for the first time,\" he said. \"I ask the University of Michigan this: Why didn't you act in 1975 or earlier to prevent the sexual abuse of possibly hundreds of other victims?\"\nHours after the news conference, the University of Michigan released a statement.\n\"The three brave men who came forward today to share their stories delivered a powerful message,\" the statement read. \"We want to encourage everyone harmed by Robert E. Anderson or who has evidence of his misconduct to come forward. At the University of Michigan, we want to hear your voices.\"\nSchool officials have acknowledged some school employees were aware of accusations against Anderson prior to DeLuca's 2018 complaint. Last week, the university's president apologized to \"anyone who was harmed\" by Anderson and offered counseling services.\nThe school launched an investigation into the doctor's behavior following abuse allegations from five people and also established a hotline for those who came into contact with Anderson.\nDeLuca hopes more people follow his lead.\n\"Everybody who was abused by this doctor, the doctor everyone knew was doing this, was abusing athletes and students, should speak up and let everyone know they will not be ignored,\" DeLuca said. \"It just, it has to stop. Period.\"\nSeparately, the Ann Arbor school district said it's investigating whether Anderson had a role with local schools. A police report suggested he performed sports physicals years ago.\n\"This is the first time we have heard this information,\" Superintendent Jeanice Swift said.\nThe Flint district said it confirmed that someone with Anderson's name was an employee at some point, but \"we do not have information about his employment history.\"\n\"We encourage anyone with information regarding this matter to contact local law enforcement,\" the district said.\nAssociated Press writer Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.\nClick here for more stories on the allegations against Anderson.\nUniversity of Michigansexual abuse\nSecret Service Stops Attempted White House Intrusion: Spicer","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kelly Oubre Jr. would provide great return for Suns, restarts wing logjam\nThe 5: Questions for Suns' new-look depth chart heading into next season\nEmpire of the Suns Blogs\nBy Kellan Olson | December 15, 2018 at 2:53 pm\nUPDATED: December 15, 2018 at 10:56 pm\nWashington Wizards forward Kelly Oubre Jr. (12) drives against Memphis Grizzlies guard MarShon Brooks (8) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo\/Brandon Dill)\nJust when they're getting out, they pull you back in.\nWith the Phoenix Suns actively looking to trade Trevor Ariza as soon as legally possible, the Suns would be relieving themselves of the wing logjam they created by trading for Mikal Bridges' draft rights and signing Ariza. That's a lot of minutes to find next to Devin Booker, T.J. Warren and former No. 4 overall pick Josh Jackson.\nThe expectation for an Ariza deal was the arrival of a point guard \u2014 more on that later \u2014 but instead, the team has essentially restarted the logjam on the wing by agreeing to acquire Kelly Oubre Jr. and Austin Rivers from the Washington Wizards.\nThree things before we dive into the exciting potential of Oubre and the long-term implications.\nPhoenix Suns agree to trade Trevor Ariza to the Washington Wizards\nReport: Suns to have Ariza away from team Saturday after trade falls apart\nSuns trade involving Trevor Ariza falls through due to misunderstanding\nOne, let's not completely gloss over the loss of Ariza. Some will argue Oubre is better than Ariza right now. That is 100 percent false. Oubre has the potential to be better than this version of Ariza, but prime Ariza is what Oubre aspires to be in his role, and that's not even what Ariza is right now.\nDespite the noticeable lack of effort, at times, Ariza's minutes will be missed.\nTwo, there's a decent possibility Oubre gets shipped out for a point guard. He has just as much value on the market as Ariza, is easier to move and teams would have the ability to retain him as a restricted free agent next summer. Because of the aforementioned logjam it creates in Phoenix and need for that floor general, a trade is logical, and The Athletic's David Aldridge reported there's league-wide interest in Oubre as an RFA (restricted free agent).\nThree, his RFA status is important. Do the Suns want to pay Oubre? In the madness of a three-team deal that fell apart, Oubre was originally headed to the Memphis Grizzlies, meaning the Suns preferred it that way as opposed to acquiring him. He figures to cost around $7-12 million a year depending on the market, and the Suns aspire for great things in free agency.\nWith that in mind, the agreed-upon deal has him sent to Phoenix for now, so let's chop it up on what he brings.\nOubre came out of Kansas as your prototypical NBA small forward athletically. With great speed and solid explosion at 6-foot-7 with a 7-foot-2 wingspan, Oubre profiled as the type of wing who could defend guards and most small forwards.\nThe key was for Oubre to find an identity offensively, but he never did that with the Jayhawks, so he wound up falling down the lottery and being selected at No. 15 by the Wizards.\nHe hasn't necessarily done that to the degree you'd desire out of a mid-first round pick from four years ago, but Oubre's tenacity on the court and some offensive skill have turned him into a solid NBA wing.\nHis activity makes him valuable.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/cc8de694-c551-c369-c5b5-db8528932f0e.nba_2943373_1280x720_3500.mp4\nOn offense, Oubre takes most of his shots at the rim, a rarity for the wing.\nHis shot chart from last year is a bit ugly, lacking a spot on the floor he really shines from shooting, but the volume at the rim is key.\nHe knows who he is. This year, Oubre has taken 41 percent of his shots at the rim. Among forwards, that's in the 77th percentile, per Cleaning the Glass.\nOubre's handle, burst and finishing ability are good. Nothing that blows you away to an extreme, but it's enough to get the job done.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wsc_league_77566f6d-2376-6857-ca7f-98415c2e55b1.nba_2910238_1920x1080_5904.mp4\nThe feature of Oubre we are going to keep coming back to is his toughness. Because of how often he attacks, he gets to the foul line a ton. Oubre draws a shooting foul on 13.2 percent of his shot attempts this season, an outstanding number for a forward and a career-best for him this year.\nOubre is listed at 205 pounds, and some players that size would shy away from contact on this possession below by attempting to slither around to the other side of the rim and use their length to finish.\nThe lefty, though, just barrels right into rim protectors after a quick crossover.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/5b40dcf7-459b-50fd-a03c-9463e5318938.nba_2917803_1920x1080_5904.mp4\nHe's efficient there too, posting free throw percentages of 82 percent last year and 80 this season.\nAn NBA wing who can capably grab-and-go is an underrated skill and Oubre's got it.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wsc_league_409636fb-457d-cbb1-6d6e-086bf63363ea.nba_2907770_1280x720_3500.mp4\nOubre has a good-looking shot, but consistency has plagued him in the early going of his career. He's shooting 32.0 percent from deep on 3.0 attempts a game over four years.\nLast year's 34.1 percent was encouraging, but he's dipped down three whole percent to 31.1.\nHe primarily takes catch-and-shoot chances and a 34.7 percent number on those from three-point range in 2017-18 is a less than encouraging number.\nOubre's got a quick release and is always ready to fire. He just needs to, well, make the shot more.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/7531736c-413c-792b-3b30-6ed2d40ea5d2.nba_2952872_1920x1080_5904.mp4\nThe good news is he's still young, has shown incremental improvement prior to this season and many players grow off that into respectable shooters. Projecting shooting, however, is always a crapshoot and we can only trust the numbers we have in front of us now.\nWith what you've seen out of him handling the ball, you assume Oubre can be a playmaker. Actually, Oubre is not much of a playmaker or, really, a passer at all.\nWhen comparing how many times he provides assists given his usage percentage, Oubre ranks in the 10th percentile or lower in all four seasons he's played for the Wizards, per Cleaning the Glass.\nTo give perspective on how poor that is, T.J. Warren has managed to get above that three different seasons and Oubre averages 0.7 assists a game in his career.\nBelieve it or not, though, that's actually fine. He knows who he is. He's a slasher and an improving shooter.\nIt's the perfect offensive role for him as a role player because he's a good defender.\nOubre has quick feet and knows how to use that for advantages moving laterally.\nWith his edge, the dude becomes a pest.\nWatch him glide around screens, beat the ball-handler to spots and then jump all over the first opportunity to pick his pocket.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/wsc_league_e3951563-1410-1093-8ade-75cab4be6119.nba_2877750_768x432_1500.mp4\nOff the ball, Oubre has active vision of the ball-handler and his agility allows him to close out passing lanes.\nHe covers for his big here and is able to recover on his man for the steal because he's paying attention, something the Suns really struggle with as off-ball defenders.\nhttp:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/be93cfba-33a0-00a6-9635-42e2368d0b30.nba_2920247_1920x1080_5904.mp4\nHis block and steal percentages the last two seasons have been great for his position and will fit right into the Suns' recent trend of racking up deflections with De'Anthony Melton and Bridges.\nOn paper, Oubre is a player who really helps teams by knowing his role and constantly making plays.\nBut the point that must be stated here is the Wizards were at their best when Oubre was off the court this season and last year as well.\nWhen Oubre was on the court last season, his net rating was minus-2.5 and the team's jumped to plus-4.4 when he was off, the best off-court net rating of any Wizard. Meaning, when Oubre was off the court, that's when the Wizards played the best.\nThis year, it's a minus-7.8 net rating when he's in and a minus-0.5 net rating when he's out.\nAs a quick counter, though, Oubre has primarily been a reserve.\nIn the 204 minutes last year Oubre played with John Wall, Bradley Beal, Otto Porter Jr. and Marcin Gortat, the Wizards had a plus-17.2 net rating. That was the lineup he played the most minutes with, and the second- and third-most were full-fives of reserves that yielded a minus-6.1 and minus-6.5 net rating.\nDo the Suns have the type of talent around Oubre to get those benefits?\nI believe so. A fully healthy Booker, the scoring of Warren and Deandre Ayton's eventual presence down low adds up to being a point guard away from Oubre being a great small forward option alongside them.\nBut it can't be overstated that's the envisioned position for Bridges to hold before it was the envisioned position for Josh Jackson to hold.\nOubre is a good NBA player and could be very good if he keeps developing like he has the past couple seasons.\nKeeping him makes sense from the perspective of a team that can count on one hand how many good NBA players they have at the moment, and you could probably slice a finger or three off and still be safe.\nHe's long, athletic, tough and defends. That's a cozy fit into what many of the players on the roster do or project to do around Booker as the centerpiece. The Suns can afford a new deal for Oubre this offseason and he shouldn't be too pricey.\nBut the undeniable fact is the Suns still need a point guard.\nThe return for Ariza is great value, but the trade can't be considered an overwhelming win without that hole being addressed.\nIt is not being addressed by Rivers, an inefficient creator off the dribble who can defend and shoot but has averaged only 2.4 assists per game over his career. Unless he can completely recapture his form from last year with the Clippers in a contract year, don't get your hopes up. Rivers being included in the three-team deal that fell apart also indicates the Suns could believe he is the point guard solution for now.\nAssuming Oubre is fine with being in Phoenix, which has to be considered given the franchise's current state, the Suns have to find the right trade if they want to move him or one of the other wings to free up the jam.\nOubre is not a 15-year veteran who doesn't want to be with the Suns anymore. He's a 23-year-old who holds value and projects as an important piece of the team's long-term core if all goes according to plan.\nThat, in and of itself, should tell you why the Suns did well for themselves, especially after Friday night's debacle.\nBut to bring back up the madness of MarShon or Dillon Brooks, the Suns agreed to that deal with Dillon in mind. Not an original two-team deal with Oubre and Rivers coming to Phoenix.\nSaturday morning's agreed-upon trade reeks of the Suns getting this done as soon as possible and moving on from a train wreck by coming out on top in overall value. A trade to make a trade if you will.\nThat is not what the 5-24 basketball team needs, and which direction the front office shifts from this point will tell a lot about how much they realize that.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Russell Westbrook Is The Goddamn MVP, Clowns!\nAlbert Burneko\nFiled to:russell westbrook\nPhoto credit: LM Otero\/AP\nSan Antonio's Kawhi Leonard had a fabulous game last night against the Houston Rockets. He scored 39 points\u201417 in the fourth quarter alone\u2014on only 18 shots. He nailed the game-deciding three-pointer with 25 seconds left, then sprinted half the length of the floor to deliver the even more game-deciding chasedown block of James Harden's layup attempt. It has a good chance to go down as the most succinct and spectacular display of two-way excellence any NBA player not named LeBron James will deliver this season:\nNext, he hit the subsequent free throws that clinched the win for the Spurs. He also guarded Harden for most of the fourth, helping hold the Rockets star to a measly four points on 1-for-5 shooting and a single assist in the period. If one player can be said to have won a basketball game by himself, that's pretty much what Leonard did last night, against one of the NBA's best teams.\nHe was great. He is great. He's not the damn MVP. Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook is the damn MVP! Of course Russell Westbrook is the MVP. Don't be stupid about this.\nYou know already that Russ currently is leading the league in scoring and averaging a triple-double, as he continues singlehandedly hauling the sorry, talent-poor Thunder to the playoffs. If you have been paying any attention, you also know\u2014and may even acknowledge, after you have performed the requisite Sloan-era sneering at simple counting stats and the value of the triple-double as an indicator of basketball excellence\u2014that Russ is having a world-historically great and dominant season, one that on its own might be sufficient to put him in the Hall of Fame, should its particulars hold up through 82 games. All of that is old and familiar by now\u2014which, at least as much as anything Leonard has done, is what explains the growing chorus of \"Actually, Kawhi is the MVP\" nonsense that crescendoed during last night's Rockets-Spurs game and spilled over into misbegotten basketblogs this morning.\nSimple contrarianism, of course, is part of it. \"Russ is the MVP\" might have enjoyed a brief moment as a counterintuitive, or at least not baldly obvious, opinion back toward the beginning of the season, but by now saying that Russell Westbrook is the MVP of the 2016-17 NBA season is like saying fresh air is the best thing to breathe. It does not signify either punchy independence or heightened sophistication. It is just merely, plainly right. If you blogged it back in January, then you do not have any more MVP blogs to publish.\nThat's not all that works against Russ's case. The NBA season is extremely long (too long, if you ask at least a few of my colleagues here at Deadspin) and at a certain point, a plain and immutable fact\u2014like, for example, that Russell Westbrook is having one of the best and most dominant single seasons a basketball player has ever had, and possibly the most extraordinary in the viewing lifetime of anyone now producing these batshit \"Actually, Kawhi is the MVP\" takes, and therefore clearly is the fucking MVP, c'mon\u2014ceases to arouse sensation; its immutability becomes the thing that argues against it.\nProfessional basketball is serial television entertainment, after all\u2014and, at least at the box-score level, Russ's otherworldly production has become a TV show that sticks to a formula. Nobody has ever done what Russell Westbrook is doing,* sure\u2014but Russell Westbrook is doing it all the time.\n*Here's a fun thing Russ is doing that nobody else has ever done. His league-leading 42.1 usage percentage, if it holds up, will be the highest single-season usage percentage in NBA history. Meanwhile, his also league-leading 55.8 assist percentage, if it holds up, will be the third-highest in history. In a pinch, usage-plus-assist-percentage would be a decent measure of a team's dependence upon a single player on offense; needless to say, nobody has ever come close to matching this combination. The only player who comes all that close is Russ himself, two seasons ago.\n(In case you decided to dismiss that as mere ball-hogging, ESPN's Real Plus-Minus [RPM] metric likes Russ [6.35] more than Leonard [6.23].)\nLet's pause here to watch Russ's highlights from a game against the Suns the other night that elicited barely a shrug from the basketball media:\nThat is a 48-point, 17-rebound, nine-assists performance. But I guess when you've seen one 48-17-9, you've seen 'em all,** huh. Hell, it wasn't even a triple-double! And Russ has five 40-point triple-doubles on the season, half as many as all non-Russell Westbrook players have produced over the last 19 years. What the heck was wrong with him in that game? Maybe he was sick.\n**Actually it was the only time in NBA history that a player has amassed 48 or more points, 17 or more rebounds, and nine or more assists in the same game.\nWhat's fun is, the numbness with which each next iteration of Russ's dominance is received actually turns out to be one of the most convincing, and most perversely convincing, arguments for Russ's MVP candidacy. He has made 31-11-10 boring. He has made it so familiar that basketbloggers have gone looking for excitement in the infinitely less spectacular exploits of some whole other guy, just for the sensory novelty of it. Kawhi Leonard is bursting in on the MVP race ... because of how obviously Russell Westbrook is the MVP.\nThis is what happened to Michael Jordan in 1997, when the league, to its eternal shame, dumped an MVP on Karl fucking Malone because it was numb to the sight of the best player in history playing basketball as well as it has ever been played. That was dumb then, and it will be no less dumb if it happens now.\nThirty years in the future, in the blasted nuclear hellscape to come, basketball fans will huddle around their radioactive slag piles and gibber about the season Russell Westbrook won the scoring title and averaged a triple-double; they will debate whether, given the level of competition and the parameters of the game as it was played in 2016-17, this was the greatest single season an individual pro basketball player ever had. They will not gibber about the year Kawhi Leonard put up 26-6-3.5 and also played good defense on the second-best team in the league, unless it is to gibber their scorn at him for unjustly receiving an undeserved MVP award over a world-destroying superhuman.\nFresh air is the best thing to breathe. Russell Westbrook is the Most Valuable Player. If the MVP award's purpose is not to honor what he is doing this season, then there is no good reason to have it.\nWhat's Eating Isaiah Thomas?\nBring On The Ben Simmons Point Guard Experiment\nKyrie Irving Created Another Beautiful Layup Masterpiece\nWriter at Deadspin.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Process Dashboard 1.14\nProcess Dashboard Version 1.14 has been released, containing many significant new features.\nSignificant changes were made to the earned value support:\nIt is now possible to customize the set of charts that appear on the earned value report. In addition, clicking on these charts now opens a page displaying a larger chart with helpful instructions on how the chart can be used and interpreted.\nThe Earned Value report now includes a \"More Charts\" hyperlink. Clicking on this link makes it possible to see all of the EV charts in the web browser. (Previously, many of these charts were only available in the \"Chart\" dialog of the Task & Schedule window.)\nNew charts have been added to display the Earned Value Trend and the Direct Time Trend.\nThe earned value report now includes a \"Kanban View\" of the tasks that have been completed recently, the tasks that are in progress, and the tasks that are planned for the near future.\nBy default, the bars on the Gantt charts depict dates from the Forecast column of the task list. Now, a configuration button makes it possible to depict Plan, Replan, or Baseline dates instead.\nIn the past, the Weekly EV report used generic phrases such as \"Tasks Completed This Week.\" This wording was confusing for views of data in the past or the future. These section headings have been altered to be clearer and more descriptive.\nNew topics have been added to the online help for each of the earned value charts. These topics explain how to interpret the data in each chart, and provide helpful analysis tips for people who are new to earned value tracking.\nA new help topic has been added that explains the difference between Plan, Replan, and Forecast dates. This help topic explains these three calculations in detail, so users can understand and appreciate the differences between the dates that are generated.\nThe WBS now has a special \"personal editing mode.\" When the WBS is opened from a personal dashboard instead of the Team Dashboard (and the team leader has not disabled edits by team members), the WBS becomes aware of the individual who opened it, and changes its behavior:\nNewly created tasks are automatically assigned to the individual who opened the WBS.\nIf the individual makes a change that affects one of their coworkers, the WBS will display a warning and offer to undo the change.\nThe individual is only allowed to edit their own row in the Team Member List.\nThe individual can disable these features if desired by toggling a checkbox in the \"Team\" menu. (So for example, these new features will not prevent a Planning Manager from making changes to their coworker's tasks.)\nNumerous changes were made to provide better support for the SEI PSP courses:\nA new Student Profile element has been added to the PSP course assignment sequence, giving students an opportunity to answer questions about their job position, experience, and so on.\nThe Analysis Report exercises now allow the use of the Size Estimating Template and PROBE.\n\"To Date\" metrics are no longer reset on the first PSP2 project in a PSP Fundamentals & Advanced course.\nDuring the PSP course, PROBE Method D for Size will require students to use their Estimated Proxy Size verbatim; they will not be allowed to edit the number.\nDuring the PSP course, the PROBE Wizard will not offer PROBE Method C1 for Size as a selectable option.\nThe final page of the PROBE Wizard has always performed a sanity check on the planned productivity. If it is unrealistic, the wizard prints a warning message and takes the user back to reevaluate their estimates. Unfortunately, that warning message was easy to overlook, resulting in confusion when the PROBE wizard looped back to the earlier pages. The buttons and messages on the sanity check page have been altered to make it more clear that a planning error may be present.\nWhen students are allowed to edit the quality plan and they produce phase times that do not sum up properly, an error message is now displayed on the Project Plan Summary.\nStudent data can now be exported to an XML file.\nWhen capturing defect data, individuals can now:\nMake a single entry to represent several related defects that were found and fixed simultaneously.\nMark a defect as \"pending\" (i.e. found, but not yet removed).\nAlter the date associated with the defect entry.\nSeveral usability enhancements have been made to the WBS Editor and the team project integration features:\nThe Team Project Setup Wizard will now provide suggested default values for the team process, the name of the EV schedule, and the location of the Team Project Network Directory.\nIf an individual enters their initials incorrectly when joining a team project, the \"Sync to WBS\" operation will detect this error and display a message, helping them to correct it.\nActual Size is now displayed in the WBS Editor for each component in the hieararchy.\nThe charts in the Rollup Plan Summary report will now use consistent colors to represent the various phases in the standard metrics collection frameworks. This makes it easier to correlate data between several charts.\nWhen a note is attached to the root node of the project in the WBS Editor, that note will now be copied down into the personal plans of each individual. This can be used to record helpful project-specific URLs for team use.\nIn the past, if a node was deleted from the WBS and a new node was created in its place with the same name, the Sync to WBS operation would perform a similar delete\/recreate operation. Now, the Sync to WBS attempts to detect this scenario and reuse the existing node instead of deleting\/recreating it. (Note: deleting\/recreating nodes in the WBS is still discouraged; but now when the mistake occurs, the consequence should be less severe.)\nIn the past, the WBS editor would display a confirmation prompt every time you request to delete a node. Now, the WBS Editor will only display this confirmation prompt when the node to be deleted has actual time associated with it \u2013 and the warning message has been altered to describe this new condition.\nIn the past, when a leaf task in the WBS was subdivided, the next \"sync to WBS\" operation would often result in a \"top-down-bottom-up\" error in the personal plan of the affected individual. This problem has been corrected.\nSignificant changes were made to the installer for the Process Dashboard:\nThe installer can now create application shortcuts for many users on Unix and Linux platforms.\nOn 64-bit Windows, sometimes the installer would not create Process Dashboard shortcuts. This problem has been corrected.\nIf a user has less than 800MB of memory (for example, because they are running in a virtual machine), the Process Dashboard shortcuts would fail to start the application. The installer has been adjusted to create shortcuts that work on systems with limited memory. (Note that the Process Dashboard does not require or use that much memory; the problem was with the shortcut icon itself, not the application.)\nSeveral changes have been made to improve compatibility with various programs and operating systems:\nThe \"Export to Excel\" hyperlinks have been tweaked to improve compatibility with a variety of web browsers and with newer versions of Microsoft Office.\nOn some versions of Unix (for example, Solaris and RedHat), the Process Dashboard would sometimes appear to hang at the splash screen. This was occurring when a dialog box was displayed (to prompt for some type of input), because the Unix window manager was improperly stacking the dialog box behind the splash screen. This problem has been corrected.\nIf the dashboard data directory was unreachable (for example, because it was on a network drive that was unavailable), or if other operating-system-specific problems prevented the dashboard from locking the data, the dashboard was incorrectly displaying a message claiming that someone on another computer had locked the data. This error message has been corrected and clarified.\nThe \"Import Defects from Code Collaborator\" feature was not working against Code Collaborator version 6. This problem has been corrected.\nThe \"Generic\" process template now allows the use of the Size Estimating Template and PROBE. (This functionality will appear for projects created using the Generic process template after upgrading to version 1.14.)\nThe \"C > Tools\" menu now includes an \"Open Dataset\" option, giving all users the ability to open data backup ZIP files.\nWhen users filter the Time Log Editor to display the current week, they can now easily select which day of the week to use as the starting point.\nIn the past, when a user made a change to a data value within the Process Dashboard, that change might take 30 seconds to appear on the Project Plan Summary form in their web browser. Now, these changes will appear in the web browser immediately.\nThe LOC counter that is built in to the Process Dashboard will now count lines appropriately even when comment indicators appear within string literals.\nWhen all the tasks in a earned value task list share a common path prefix (common for team projects), the Flat View will extract that common prefix, making the display easier to read.\nIn the defect log editor, a combo box displays the defect type standard that has been set at each level of the hierarchy. In the past, when a defect type standard had been set at the team project level, nothing was displayed in this combo box for individual, leading people to think that their standard had not taken effect. Now, this combo box will display the name of the defect type standard that was set by the team project, minimizing confusion.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\/ Home \/ Press office \/ Scientists uncover key new molecules that could help to tackle tooth loss and regeneration\nScientists uncover key new molecules that could help to tackle tooth loss and regeneration\nNew research published in the 'Journal of Dental Research' has shed light on the science behind the formation of the periodontal ligament\nA key molecule named periostin (red colour) is highly expressed by mature periodontal ligament\nMrs Amy King\nMedia and Communications Officer\nNow new research published in the Journal of Dental Research has shed light on the science behind the formation of the periodontal ligament, which helps keep the tooth stable in the jawbone. This improved understanding will also help scientists work towards regenerating the tissues that support teeth.\nThe study, led by the Universities of Plymouth and Geneva, shows how a *signalling pathway called Notch, which is known to be activated in stem cells and cancer, is important for periodontal ligament development.\n*A signalling pathway describes how a group of molecules in a cell work together to control one or more cell functions, such as cell division or cell death. After the first molecule in a pathway receives a signal, it activates another molecule. This process is repeated until the last molecule is activated and the cell function is carried out.\nAbnormal activation or inhibition of certain signalling pathways can lead to cancer and other conditions, including problems with tissue regeneration.\nA key finding in the new study, which was conducted in rodent teeth, is that Lamin A, a cell nuclear protein, is a direct target of Notch pathway.\nLamin A is best known for its mutated form progerin, which causes fatal 'early ageing' disease, Progeria syndrome \u2013 but by uncovering its involvement in periodontal ligament formation, scientists have better insight into how molecules function during tissue regeneration, and how the process could be affected during disease.\nCorresponding author Dr Bing Hu, Associate Professor of Oral and Dental Health Research in Peninsula Dental School at the University of Plymouth, said:\n\"The periodontal ligament starts to properly hold the tooth in the jawbone when a tooth breaks out and becomes functional. Understanding the mechanisms of how periodontal ligaments develop and the molecules that assist the tissue becoming mature is really important for our understanding of tissue regeneration and repair. The next steps are for us to see if and how the molecules we have identified in this study can be translated into a human-only model and, in turn, how they are affected in both healthy and diseased conditions.\"\nDr Hu is also part of the University's Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine (ITSMed).\nThis research is a part of the MD-PhD thesis of Dr Bal\u00e1zs D\u00e9nes of the University of Geneva, entitled Post-emergent tooth eruption: eruption rate, periodontal ligament maturation and cell signalling, directed by Professor Stavros Kiliaridis. Dr Denes said:\n\"We believe that our findings are an important stepping stone to better dental treatments in situations involving the periodontal ligament, such as gum disease (periodontitis), tooth restoration by dental implants or orthodontic tooth movement.\"\nThe full study, entitled Notch coordinates periodontal ligament maturation through regulating Lamin A, is now available to view in the Journal of Dental Research (doi: 10.1177\/0022034519871448).\nThis study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation; the European Union Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Actions; the European Regional Development Fund and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).\nInstitute of Translational and Stratified Medicine (ITSMed)\nBringing together scientists, clinicians and expertise from across the spectrum of scientific discovery, medical research and health technology.\nHome to the University of Plymouth's world-class biomedical, clinical and applied health research.\nFind out more about ITSMed and our research\nDental research\nThere is a growing understanding of the interactions between oral and systemic health and the importance of taking an holistic approach to health research, promotion and service provision.\nOral health is a key domain of general health.\nFind out more on our research pages\npeninsula-dental-school\nfaculty-of-medicine-and-dentistry\nitsmed","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ask Jack\nWanted: a Windows laptop that can handle 16GB of memory\nMark says his current laptop is struggling with 4GB of RAM and he wants to upgrade to a fast Intel Core i7 machine that can handle 16GB. However, he wants his relatively high-end specification at a budget price of \u00a31,000 or less\nJack Schofield\nThu 12 Jul 2012 10.00 EDT First published on Thu 12 Jul 2012 10.00 EDT\nIs it possible to get a laptop with 16GB of RAM? Photograph: Ron Chapple\/Alamy\nI'm a software developer and photographer looking for a new laptop, as my existing machine \u2013 a three-year-old Dell Studio XPS16 \u2013 is now creaking along with its maximum of 4GB RAM. My criteria are: 15.6in high-res screen (1080p or thereabouts), 750GB hard drive, Intel Core i7 and at least 8GB RAM but upgradable to 16GB, all on a budget of \u00a31,000 or less. I'm a long-time happy Dell customer and the Inspiron 15R SE comes very close, but all their laptops are limited to 8GB RAM, apart from the budget-busting Precision range. Is there a better option for me out there somewhere? I'd really appreciate any tips you can come back with.\nYou're a bit early into this market, because 4GB is still standard for mainstream laptops. Machines with 8GB or 16GB tend to be aimed at the multimedia\/entertainment market, or at gaming. The entertainment laptops often have 17.3in screens and Blu-ray drives, while the games machines have fast graphics cards and other high-end components. In both cases, the extras can push the prices over \u00a31,000, and often over \u00a32,000.\nAlso, Microsoft hasn't been pushing for more memory for Windows. It's seven years since Vista was launched, and neither Windows 7 nor Windows 8 needs more memory. In fact, they both run at least as well in 4GB as Windows XP SP3. Given Moore's Law, you'd expect memory use to increase in dramatically in a decade, but it isn't happening. PCs have become cheaper instead.\nHowever, PC manufacturers should now find it easier to support larger memories because the Intel Core iX chips have the memory controller on the processor. Although 8GB is still common, many mobile Core chips now support 16GB, according to Intel's Ark spec sheets. These include the Core i3 2350M, 2367M, and 2370M; the Core i5 2410M, 2430M, 2435M, and 2450M; and the Core i7 2670QM, 2675QM, 2710QE, 2720QM, 2760QM, 2820QM and 2860QM.\nPC manufacturers usually say that their laptops will support 4GB memory modules, so if the laptop has two memory slots, then the maximum supported memory will be 8GB. However, laptops with quad-core instead of dual-core processors sometimes have four memory slots, which will definitely allow you to expand the memory to 16GB. This is the safest option.\nTo provide some concrete examples, the Asus N53SV is available with either a dual-core processor and two memory slots or a quad-core processor (eg, Core i7-2670QM) with four memory slots, so only 8GB is supported on one version while 16GB is supported on the other. The Lenovo W510 also comes in dual\/8GB and quad\/16GB configurations, and no doubt there are many other examples. How the average consumer is supposed to tell the difference remains a mystery.\nThe fact that the PC manufacturer says it only supports 8GB of memory doesn't mean the laptop can't run it unsupported. Search the web for a particular model of laptop and you may well find that someone has tried swapping the two 4GB memory sticks for 8GB versions and reported that they work. The proviso, of course, is that the Core iX processor must support 16GB (see above), and not all of them do. Obviously, this is a much riskier approach than buying a laptop with four memory slots.\nThe safest approach of all is to buy a laptop that already had 16GB installed, but in most cases, this will probably take you over your budget.\nThe cheapest option I've found is the Asus N55SL-S2019V, which has a quad-core i7-2670QM processor, 6GB of memory, 15.6-in non-glossy 1600 x 900-pixel widescreen, Nvidia GeForce GT-635 graphics card with 2GB of memory, 750GB hard drive, Blu-ray drive, and 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium for \u00a3763.20 at asuslaptop.co.uk. This machine only has two memory slots but you can buy it upgraded to 8GB for an extra \u00a346.80, or to 16GB for \u00a3106.80. You could therefore get your 16GB system for \u00a3870 (plus any delivery charges that may apply).\nThe screen is less than full HD, but 1600 x 900 is better than the usual 1366 x 768 that is common on Windows laptops, and is what you'd get with the Dell Inspiron 15R.\nFor a 1920 x 1080 Full HD 15.6in screen, the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 is a nicer alternative with a Core i7-2760QM processor, Nvidia Quadro 1000M graphics card with 2GB of memory, 500GB hard drive and 8GB or 16GB of RAM, but it busts your budget.\nKL Computers, which offers the 16GB upgrade on the Asus N55SL, offers the same deal on some of the Samsung laptops at its companion Samsunglaptop.co.uk site, if you are willing to drop down to a Core i5 instead of a Core i7. The Samsung NP700Z5A-A01UK, for example, has a Core i5-2450M processor, 6GB of memory, 1TB hard drive, and DVD drive in a thinner, lighter case. The screen is 1600 x 900 \"non gloss\". The RAM upgrades are the same price as for the Asus N55SL, so the total price comes to \u00a3853.20.\nWhat's the difference between a Core i7-2670QM and a Core i5-2450M? The Notebook Check website lets you compare benchmarks. In this case, comparing a quad-core with a dual-core chip, the difference is substantial.\nIt's not always so clear cut. In particular, Core iX mobile processors that are designed to provide longer battery life run cooler and slower than mainstream mobile versions (which in their turn run much slower than desktop versions). For example, the old Core i3-380M (35Watts) is slightly quicker than the newer Core i7-2637M (17Watts).\nYou could also consider choosing a third generation Ivy Bridge processor rather than last year's Sandy Bridge, but you might have to wait a while for prices to come down. All the Ivy Bridge chips \u2013 and so far there are 51 examples \u2013 have a greater memory bandwidth, which enables them to support faster DDR3-1600 modules, as well as the usual DDR3-1333. All of them support 32GB of RAM instead of 8GB or 16GB.\nFor example, you could just about afford a Lenovo ThinkPad T430 model 2344 with a Core i5-3210M Ivy Bridge processor, 4GB of memory, 500GB hard drive, DVD and 64-bit Windows 7 Professional for \u00a3922.40 from Dabs.com or a similar supplier. This has lots of compromises on your spec, especially the 1366 x 768-pixel screen, but at least the processor supports 32GB.\nThe Lenovo ThinkPad W530, which has a 1600 x 900-pixel 15.6in widescreen, is even further out of range, at about \u00a31,500 for a model with a quad-core i7-3610QM.\nDell seems to have been a bit slow off the mark in offering larger memory sizes on mainstream laptops, which suggests there's not a huge demand. It's not that it can't: Dell does offer 32GB to professionals buying from its \"budget-busting Precision range\", and it offers gamers up to 16GB on the Alienware M14x and up to 32GB on the Alienware M17x and M18x. Of course, if you're happy to pay an extra \u00a3890 for a Core Extreme i7-2960XM plus an extra \u00a3500 for the 32GB memory upgrade then a hot games machine is a spectacular way to bust your budget.\nI expect Dell will start to offer bigger memories in its Inspiron and XPS ranges as Ivy Bridge processors (which, as mentioned, support 32GB) become the norm. For example, the new Inspiron 15R Special Edition, which you mention, includes quad-core Ivy Bridge Core i7 processors with 6GB or 8GB of memory. However, it remains to be seen whether Dell will offer user-selectable memory upgrades, since these might involve manual labour. I won't be surprised if we see more 16GB and 32GB laptops advertised on the basis that the retailer includes the extra chips and you install them yourself.\nI'm sorry I haven't quite been able to meet your spec for the budget, but I hope the pointers are useful. Whether you will be able to get what you want in another three or four months remains to be seen. Windows 8 will no doubt encourage the trend towards thinner machines with UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, replacing BIOS chips, but I expect Windows 7 laptops will still be popular for some time.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"KJF 2020\n{\"0\":{\"lid\":\"1531306243545\",\"ls\":\"10\",\"loff\":\"\",\"li_type\":\"nm\",\"li_title\":\"Full Name\",\"li_req\":\"y\",\"li_nm\":\"Name\"},\"1\":{\"lid\":\"1531306540094\",\"ls\":\"20\",\"loff\":\"\",\"li_type\":\"em\",\"li_title\":\"Your Email\",\"li_req\":\"y\",\"li_nm\":\"Email\"},\"2\":{\"lid\":\"1636643615635\",\"ls\":\"30\",\"loff\":\"\"}}\n15:00 Ukraine time, 8:00 AM EST\nOnline event | December 15-16, 2021\nThe Kyiv Jewish Forum is an annual event bringing together top global leaders to discuss and share their insights on the most pressing issues facing Jewish communities worldwide.\nThe purpose is to foster dialogue that will help bring about much-needed solutions to challenges such as rising antisemitism, the growth of the anti-Israel boycott movement, and the effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\nThis will be the third edition of the Kyiv Jewish Forum, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the establishment of official diplomatic relations between Israel and Ukraine.\nThe two-day Forum -- co-hosted by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, the Center for Jewish Impact, and the Combat Antisemitism Movement -- will be broadcast online on December 15th-16th, 2021 at 15:00 Ukraine time \/ 8:00 AM EST.\nThe past Kyiv Jewish Forums in 2019 and 2020 featured hundreds of prominent decisionmakers from Israel and Ukraine, as well as the United States and Europe, laying out their visions for how to protect and nurture Jewish life in all corners of the planet.\nJews and Ukrainians are united by more than a thousand-year history, and Jews \u2013 immigrants from Ukraine live in every corner of the world today. Dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Ukraine, the third Kyiv Jewish Forum will provide an opportunity to assess the past and look into the future of Jews around the world, many of whom have Ukrainian roots.\nBoris Lozhkin\nPresident of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine\nZe'ev Elkin\nMinister of Jerusalem Affairs and Housing and Construction of the State of Israel\nNachman Shai\nMinister of Diaspora Affairs of the State of Israel\nYoel Razvozov\nMinister of Tourism of the State of Israel\nRobert Singer\nChairman of the Center for Jewish Impact\nBen Cardin\nUS Senator for Maryland\n(D-MD)\nCEO of the American Jewish Committee\nDenys Shmyhal\nPrime Minister of Ukraine\nDmytro Kuleba\nMinister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine\nDenys Monastyrsky\nMinister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine\nViktor Liashko\nMinister of Health of Ukraine\nProf. Salman Zarka\nChief COVID-19 Officer of the State of Israel\nDani Dayan\nChairman of Yad Vashem Directorate\nDoug Lamborn\nUS Representative for Colorado (D-CO)\nElan S. Carr\nFormer US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism\nYevgen Korniychuk\nAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine in the State of Israel\nMichael Brodsky\nAmbassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine\nKatharina von Schnurbein\nEuropean Commission Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life\nIrwin Cotler\nCanada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism\nWilliam Daroff\nCEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations\nMarina Yudborovsky\nCEO, Genesis Philanthropy Group\nFernando Lottenberg\nCommissioner for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism of the Organization of American States\nExecutive Vice-Chairman and CEO, National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry\nAnita Friedman\nPresident, Koret Foundation\nNimrod Cohen\nCo-Founder, Tel Aviv University Ventures\nNatan Sharansky\nChairman of the Supervisory Board, Baby Yar Foundation and Holocaust Memorial Center\nInbal Arieli\nFounder and Co-CEO of Synthesis\nMisha Galperin\nPresident & CEO, National Museum of American Jewish History\nRabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich\nChief Rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine\nShuli Davidovich\nHead of Israel's MFA Bureau for World Jewish Affairs and World Religions\nRonald S. Lauder\nAs president of the World Jewish Congress since 2007, Ronald S. Lauder advocates on behalf of more than 100 Jewish communities across the globe before governments, the United Nations, and other international bodies. He has served as United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs, and as U.S. Ambassador to Austria. In 1987, in order to revitalize Jewish life across central and eastern Europe, he established The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation. Today, the foundation supports Jewish schools, camps and community centers in Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. He is chairman of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and former president and board chairman of the Jewish National Fund.\nBenjamin Gantz is an Israeli soldier and politician serving as Alternate Prime Minister of Israel and Minister of Defense since 2020. He served as the 20th Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from 2011 to 2015 and the 17th Speaker of the Knesset from 26 March 2020 to 17 May 2020.\nDuring his 38 years of IDF service, Gantz served as commander of the Shaldag Unit, commander of the Paratroopers Brigade, commander of the Lebanon Liaison Unit, commander of the Judea and Samaria Division, GOC Northern Command, commander of the Ground Forces, military attach to the United States, and Deputy Chief of Staff.\nIn December 2018 Gantz founded the Israel Resilience Party (Hosen L'Yisrael), which later joined forces with additional parties to form the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) parliamentary group.\nBlue and White under Gantz's leadership ran in the three consecutive elections for the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Knessets. In April 2020, the parliamentary group split, and Gantz's party\u2014called Blue and White\u2014established a national unity and emergency Government together with the Likud Party, after eighteen months of political paralysis that was unprecedented in Israeli history.\nMoshe Kantor\nMoshe Kantor is a prominent Jewish leader and philanthropist. He has served as President of the European Jewish Congress since 2007.\nMoshe Kantor is known worldwide for his fight against antisemitism, racism, and extremism. He has greatly contributed to preserving the memory of the Shoah and revitalizing Jewish life in Europe.\nDr Kantor is also Chairman of the Policy Council of the World Jewish Congress, President of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation, Chancellor of the Yad Vashem Council, President of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation and President of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe.\nThe European Jewish Congress is the representative umbrella organisation of more than 40 national Jewish community organisations.\nAt the age of 39, Dmytro Kuleba is Ukraine's youngest Minister of Foreign Affairs. Before taking the seat in Denys Shmygal's government on 4th March, he had served as the Deputy Prime Minister on European and Euro Atlantic Integration of Ukraine in Oleksiy Honcharuk's government. An experienced career diplomat, Dmytro Kuleba first joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs back in 2003 at the age of 21. In 2013 he left the civil service to head the UART Foundation for Cultural Diplomacy and expected there would be no turning back. However, next year brought a new chapter to Ukraine's history. In summer 2014, when Russia had just launched its aggression against Ukraine, Kuleba decided to return to Ukraine's MFA. After a few years of service at the ministry he served as Ukraine's ambassador to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2016-2019. In December 2017 Dmytro Kuleba was named Ukraine's Best Ambassador of the Year 2017 by the Institute of World Policy. In 2019 he wrote a bestseller book called \"The War for Reality: How to Survive in the World of Fakes, Truths and Communities\".\nPresident Aleksander Kwa\u015bniewski\nPresident of the Republic of Poland in years 1995 \u2013 2005.\nBorn on November 15th 1954 in Bialogard, Poland.\nActive participant in the negotiations of the famous \"Round Table\" in Poland which led to the peaceful transformation from communism to democracy.\nCo- founder of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. Co-author of the Polish Constitution, which he signed as a President on June 16th 1997.\nUnder his rule, Poland joined NATO in 1999 and become a member of the European Union on May 1st 2004.\nFounder of the Foundation Amicus Europae, Chairman of the Board of Yalta European Strategy, honorary professor at Georgetown University, member of multiple International Advisory Boards such as Atlantic Council of the United States, member of the Club de Madrid.\nTed Deutch\nCongressman Ted Deutch represents Florida's 22nd District in the House of Representatives, which includes communities in Palm Beach County and Broward County. Ted has long championed the priorities of the Jewish community, from his days in Zionist summer camp to his pro-Israel activism in college to his leadership roles in local and national Jewish organizations.\nTed is the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's influential Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism. He serves as the Chairman of the House Ethics Committee and is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. He is also a founding Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism.\nElan S. Carr serves as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. As Special Envoy, he advises the Secretary of State and is responsible for directing U.S. policies and projects aimed at countering anti-Semitism throughout the world.\nPrior to his appointment, Special Envoy Carr served as a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County, where he prosecuted violent crimes for more than a decade, including murders, rapes, hate crimes, and crimes involving some of the most notorious criminal street gangs in Southern California.\nSpecial Envoy Carr is an officer in the United States Army Reserve, and he has received multiple awards and commendations for his nearly two decades of military service. In 2003-04, he deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he led an anti-terrorism team in life-saving\nmissions throughout the country and prosecuted terrorists who attacked U.S. troops. He also assisted efforts to establish an independent Iraqi judiciary and trained Iraqi judges and lawyers on constitutional law and criminal defense.\nAs the son of Iraqi Jewish refugees who fled persecution in Iraq, Special Envoy Carr speaks Hebrew and the Iraqi dialect of Arabic. While in Iraq, he met with remnants of the Jewish community there and led Jewish services in the former presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.\nSpecial Envoy Carr was the international president of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, he served on the National Council of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), he was a voting member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and he was a board member of Operation Gratitude. In the course of his work in the Jewish community, he has been a recognized leader in the fight against anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses and around the world.\nKatharina von Schnurbein was appointed the first European Commission Coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life in December 2015. Her mandate includes liaising closely with the Jewish community on behalf of the European Commission, proposing and implementing EC policy to prevent and fight antisemitism.\nPrior, she worked for five years as advisor to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on the dialogue with churches, religions and non-confessional organisations. Katharina started working for the Commission in 2002, serving as press officer for the EU Delegation in Prague. With enlargement in 2004, she moved to Brussels as spokesperson on employment, social affairs and equal opportunities for the Czech EU Commissioner Vladimir S pidla.\nPrior to the Commission, Katharina worked for the Chairman of the European Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag in Berlin (2000-2002) as well as for an international crisis management consultancy.\nHer educational background includes undergraduate studies of Political Science and Slavonic Studies at Charles University in Prague and the University of Bonn, a Master of Slavonic Studies from Oxford University (1997) and a Master of European Studies from the Center for European Integration Studies in Bonn (1999).\nShe spent the academic year 2017\/18 as EU Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence researching measures to combat antisemitism across Europe.\nKatharina received the B'nai B'rith Europe's Human Rights Prize in April 2018.\nKatharina is married and has four children. She speaks German, English, French, Dutch, and Czech.\nNatan Sharansky was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. He was a spokesman for the human rights movement, a Prisoner of Zion and leader in the struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel. Subsequent to his request to make aliya, Mr. Sharansky was arrested on trumped up charges of treason and espionage. He was convicted in a Soviet court and served nine years in the Gulag with many stretches in a punishing cell. Following massive public campaigns by the State of Israel, World Jewry and leaders of the free world, Mr. Sharansky was released in 1986, making aliya on the very day of his release.\nIn his first few years in Israel, Mr. Sharansky established the Zionist Forum to assist Soviet olim in their absorption in Israel. In the 1990's, he established the Yisrael B'Aliyah party in order to accelerate the integration of Russian Jews. He served in four successive Israeli governments, as Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.\nIn 2018 he received the highest Israeli award - the Israel Prize for promoting Aliyah and the ingathering of the exiles.\nMr. Sharansky is the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1986 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006. He is the only living non-American citizen who is the recipient of these two highest American awards.\n2009-2018 Natan Sharansky served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel. After retirement from the Jewish Agency, he continues to serve as Chairman of the Shlihut Institute, which he founded.\nIn July 2019 Mr. Natan Sharansky became Chair of ISGAP (The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy).\nMr. Sharansky is also the author of four books:\nFear No Evil\nThe Case for Democracy\nDefending Identity\nNever Alone: Prison, Politics and My People.\nBoris Fuchsmann\nBoris Fuchsman is a German media mogul of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, investor and film producer. He is an active member of many Jewish communities around the world, including the honorary president of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine. Together with Alexander Rodnyansky, he is a co-founder and co-owner of the cinema network called \"Cinema City\" and the Hilton Hotel in Kyiv. Also he was a co-founder and former owner of the 1+1 TV channel. Co-founder and co-owner of the production studio \"Ukrainian Media Group\".\nVitaliy Klitschko\nVitalii Klitschko is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. Six-time world champion in kickboxing, 3-time boxing champion of Ukraine. Won the super heavyweight championship at the first World Military Games.WBO and WBA Intercontinental champion, 2-time European champion, WBO, WBC and Ring Magazine Heavyweight world champion.WBC Eternal World Heavyweight Champion.\nOutside the ring, Vitaly played a significant role in Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. Klitschko unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Kiev twice, and in 2010 he became the leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform UDAR political party.\nHe currently serves as Mayor of Kiev and head of the Kiev City State Administration, having held both offices since June 2014. He became actively involved in Ukrainian politics in 2005 and combined this with his professional boxing career until his retirement from the sport in 2013.\nLord Jonathan Mendelsohn\nLord Mendelsohn is President of the Commonwealth Jewish Council. He is a member of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee in the UK Parliament.\nHe was Shadow Minister for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Shadow Minister for International Trade, having previously been Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills.\nHe formerly served as a Policy and Communications Adviser to the Rt. Hon Tony Blair MP and was appointed by the Rt. Hon Gordon Brown MP as Assistant Treasurer of the Labour Party.\nJon is currently a Partner at Oakvale Capital LLP, Chairman of The Redbus Group and Senior Adviser to Value Retail Plc.\nDavid Harris has led AJC since 1990. Described by the late Israeli President Shimon Peres as the \"foreign minister of the Jewish people,\" he has been invited to speak at some of the world's most prestigious forums. He has been honored a total of 17 times by the governments of Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Spain, and Ukraine for his international efforts in defense of human rights, advancement of the transatlantic partnership, and dedication to the Jewish people.\nLiz Schrayer\nLiz Schrayer, a respected political strategist, founded Schrayer & Associates, Inc. over twenty years ago with an eye toward enhancing the political effectiveness of non-profits and businesses to impact policy in our nation's capital and around the country. Through hands-on strategic planning, crafting of advocacy campaigns and meeting facilitation, she has helped educate, engage and mobilize tens of thousands of citizen advocates to add their voice to a range of domestic and international public policy issues. In addition to running her own political consulting practice, Liz serves as the President & CEO of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, a broad based coalition of over 500 businesses and NGOs that advocates for strong U.S. global leadership through development and diplomacy which boasts a bipartisan Advisory Council that includes every living former Secretary of State.\nPrior to starting her own firm, Liz served for over a decade as the national Political Director of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and worked in state government and on Capitol Hill where she founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus. She currently serves on the Secretary of State's Committee on Public-Private Partnerships, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation's Development Advisory Council, USAID's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACFVA) and several advisory boards for the University of Michigan, including the Ford School of Public Policy. Liz is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Liz has been published in TIME, Newsweek, USA Today, and The Hill, among other outlets. She has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and resides in Maryland with her husband Jeff Schwaber, an attorney who helped launch the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless.\nDennis Ross\nAmbassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a professor at Georgetown University. Ross served as the U.S. point man on the Middle East peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ross is the author or co-author of five books, most recently Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny.\nMajor General (ret.) Amos Yadlin\nAmos Yadlin has been the Director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) since November 2011.\nGeneral Yadlin served for over 40 years in the Israel Defense Forces,9 of which as a member of the IDF General Staff. Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yadlin served as the Israel chief of Defense Intelligence, IDF attach\u00e9 to the United States and commander of the IDF Military Colleges and the National Defense College.\nMaj. Gen. (ret.) Yadlin, a former deputy commander of the Israel Air Force, has commanded two fighter squadrons and two airbases. He accumulated about 5,000 flight hours and flew more than 250 combat missions behind enemy lines. He participated in the Yom Kippur War (1973), Operation Peace for Galilee (1982) and Operation Tamuz \u2013 the destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq (1981).\nYadlin holds a B.A. in economics and business administration from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1985) and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University (1994).\nMK Yuli Yoel Edelstein\nYuli Yoel Edelstein was born in Czernowitz (former Soviet Union). He was active in Zionist circles in Moscow where he fought for the human rights of Jews to leave the Soviet Union and for their right to practice their religion as they saw fit. As a result of these efforts, he was arrested by the KGB on trumped-up charges in 1984 and sentenced to 3 years in a labor camp. Following his release in 1987, he immigrated to Israel with his family.\nAfter his immigration, Edelstein completed his education through the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows program and worked in a number of educational institutions.\nSince he was first elected to the Knesset in 1996, Edelstein has served at various times as Minister and Deputy Minister of Immigration and Absorption, and Minister of Public Diplomacy, and Diaspora Affairs. In addition, he also served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Knessets.\nIn March 2013, Edelstein was elected unanimously to serve as Speaker of the 19th Knesset, a position he held through the 22nd Knesset. Minister Edelstein Currently serves as the Minister of Health charged with management of the ministry during the difficult COVID-19 crisis.\nDuring his terms as Speaker of the Knesset, Edelstein has taken many steps to make the Knesset a leader in important fields such as sustainability, parliamentary transparency, and accessibility. Edelstein has also placed an important emphasis on expanding the international relations of the Knesset, hosting a record number of foreign dignitaries. He has also traveled to address a number of parliaments. During his tenure, the Knesset has expanded its cooperation with legislatures around the world.\nDuring the COVID-19 crisis Minister Edelstein has steered Israel on a course, maintaining the proper function of the health system and a manageable infection rate, while also maintaining the daily fabric of society with an open economy and school system. Together with The Prime Minister, Minister Edelstein appointed a director for the fight against COVID-19. Minister Edelstein has made great strides in strengthening the public health system including adding thousands of new positions as well as greatly enlarging the number of daily COVID-19 tests making Israel the global leader in testing. The emphasis on international cooperation has also served the fight against COVID-19 bringing together the common efforts of our friends and allies.\nEdelstein's personal history has continued to inform his work, and a deep commitment to human rights, strengthening democracy, and building bridges between peoples around the world have remained hallmarks of his efforts.\nAlbert Saharovich\nGeneral Director of the Knesset since 2016. Albert Sakharovich repatriated from Ukraine in 1978 at the age of four. He holds a second degree in Human resource management and Organizational Consulting.\nHe also has extensive experience with the Knesset apparatus. Prior to his appointment to a high post, Sakharovich worked as chief of staff of the chairman of the Knesset.\nZeev Elkin\nZeev Elkin was born in 1971 in Kharkov, Ukraine, and studied Mathematics at Kharkov University from 1987-1990. In 1989, he established the local Hebrew Teachers Organization, became the Deputy Head of the 100,000 member Jewish Community of Kharkov. Elkin immigrated to Israel in December of 1990.\nElkin has a BA in Mathematics from Hebrew University, a MA in the History of the Jewish People from the Hebrew University.\nElkin was first elected to the Knesset in 2006. In 2013, Elkin was appointed Deputy Minister, a position he filled until May 2014, when he assumed the position of Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.\nIn the 20th Knesset, Elkin was appointed Minister of Immigration and Absorption, Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, and member of the Security Cabinet.\nSince 31 May 2016, Elkin has been serving as Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage and as a member of the Security Cabinet.\nIn August 2016 Minister Elkin was also appointed Minister of Environmental Protection.\nIn May 2020, after new government was established, Minister Elkin was appointed Minister of Higher and Complementary Education and Minister of Water Recourses\nElkin lives in Jerusalem. He is married and has five children.\nOmer Yankelevich\nOmer Yankelevich, Minister of Diaspora affairs, a lawyer and a social activist.\nShe holds a BA and MA in law; is a certified teacher and mediator, and as a young woman studied at Gateshead Seminary in England.\nShe has served in a verity of legal and administrative positions in the public service for over a decade.\nIn recent years, she founded a social voluntary organization, where she initiated groundbreaking social projects to promote equal opportunities for minority groups.\nWorld Jewry is close to her heart. In her youth, she moved with her parents to the former Soviet Union where she taught Hebrew.\nShe has expressed, even before her appointment as Minister of Diaspora Affairs, her interest and profound commitment in the issues relating to world Jewry. She is married and has five children.\nRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader, philosopher, the author of more than thirty books, and a moral voice for our time. He is a frequent and respected contributor to radio, television and the press both in Britain and around the world, and is active online (www.RabbiSacks.org) and on social media (@RabbiSacks). Admired by non-Jews as much as Jews, by secular as well as religious thinkers, and equally at home in the university and the yeshiva, Rabbi Sacks holds eighteen honorary degrees and has been awarded numerous prizes in recognition of his work including the 2016 Templeton Prize. He served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 until 2013\nRabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich was born in New York on October 19, 1964. He received a Jewish upbringing and education, studying in Yeshivas in Chicago, Cleveland, Israel and New York. Rabbi Bleich is married and has eight children.\nIn January 1990 after graduation of the Karlin Stolin Yeshiva Rabbi Bleich was sent to Ukraine by Rebbe Karlin Stolin at the request of the local Jewish Community to help restore Jewish religious life and education in Ukraine. He has made tremendous efforts to bring about a renaissance in Jewish education and welfare. Rabbi Bleich founded many Jewish educational institutions, including Kiev Jewish Gymnasium and Boarding school #299, the Orach Chaim Heder \u2013 Israeli Internatinal School, the Ronald S. Lauder Kiev Jewish Kindergarten, the Shuva camp, Orach Chaim Yeshiva, the Midrasha Tzionit Educational Centre for Adults, and the Orach Chaim International camp for American students. In 1997, the President of Israel honoured Rabbi Bleich with the International Award of Jerusalem for his contributions to the development of Jewish education in the Diaspora.\nIn 1992, Rabbi Bleich founded the Union of Jewish Religious Organizations of Ukraine. He currently serves as the organisation's president. He was a co-founder of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine in 1999. Rabbi Bleich also was a founder of a unique project for seniors, the International Fellowship Kyiv Center for Jewish Elderly, which was opened in Kiev in 2005.\nIn 1999, Rabbi Bleich was awarded the Medal for Outstanding Service, 3rd degree, for his outstanding contribution to the development of Ukraine.\nRabbi Bleich has brought about significant advances in improving inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine and around the world. Since 1998, he is a member of the Council of Churches and Religious Organizations of Ukraine.\nRabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich is a Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, the Treasurer of the European Jewish Congress and the Chairman of the Board of the Conference of European Rabbis.\nRabbi Arie Folger\nRabbi Arie Folger is a member of the Standing Committee of the Conference of European Rabbis, a member of the editorial team of the rabbinic journal Seridim and a founding member of the Rabbinical Court of Austria, where he is particularly but not exclusively involved in conversions. He was the chairman of the international rabbinic committee that produced and presented Between Jerusalem and Rome to the Vatican. He has held prestigious rabbinical positions in the German speaking world and is an internationally recognized kashrut professional.\nDr. Michael Mirilashvili\nDr. Michael Mirilashvili was born in 1960 in Kulashi, Georgia. He acquired his medical education at St-Petersburg Medical School, Russia, and graduated in 1983 as a qualified pediatrician. Already as a young doctor Mirilashvili entered the business world and in the course of time his business activities became global.\nToday, Dr. Mirilashvili's business group includes hi-tech companies, as well as companies of development, maintenance and management of commercial and office real estate.\nDr. Mirilashvili serves as President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), and has been the President of Maccabi-Russia for 25 years, the Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress, the Vice-President of the Russian Jewish Congress, the President of the Jewish Congress of St-Petersburg and much more.\nAlexander Rodnyansky\nAlexander Rodnyansky is a Ukrainian and Russian film director, film producer, television executive and businessman. Member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Rodnyansky was born in Kiev to Jewish parents, both of whom worked at the Ukrainian film studio Kontakt. During his career, Rodnyansky produced over 30 films and more than 20 television series including Stalingrad (2013) - the highest grossing Russian film ever ($67 million).\nIn 2008 Alexander Rodnyansky was invited to be in the jury of Berlin's Film Festival. Two of the movies produced by Rodnyansky - East-West and Les Mille et une Regettes du Cuisinier Amoreux have been nominated for Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.\nAlexander Rodnyansky is the member of European Film Academy and an associate member of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York. He is also a member of Russian National Film Arts and Sciences Academy \"Golden Eagle\". Russian Film Academy \"Nika\", member of the board of Russian Television Academy.\nOleg Vyshniakov\nOleg Vyshniakov - Honorary Consul of the State of Israel in the Western region of Ukraine since November 2014, public figure, philanthropist. The Honorary Consul takes an active part in the work of the Ukraine-Israel Interparliamentary Friendship Group, consisting of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Knesset of Israel. He also organizes visits of delegations to Israel, meetings with influential Israeli politicians and businesspersons so that Ukrainians can borrow the experience of Israel in various fields. Actively participates in activities to promote Jewish culture in Ukraine.Comprehensively supports the Jewish community of Ukraine.\nJo\u00ebl Lion\nSince August 2018 Jo\u00ebl Lion is the Ambassador of the State of Israel in Ukraine.\nAmbassador Joel Lion was born in 1964 in France, raised in Luxembourg, he immigrated to Israel in 1982.\nJo\u00ebl Lion joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993.\nBetween May 2017 and August 2018, Ambassador Lion was the Chief of Diplomatic Staff of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem.\nFrom Aug. 2016 to Sept. 2017 Ambassador Lion held, the post of Special Envoy for the Return of Holocaust Era Assets at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\nBefore this, between 2014 and 2016, Lion was the Director of the Public Affairs and Branding Department of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem.\nFrom 2011 to 2014, Lion served as Consul-General of the State of Israel for Eastern Canada in Montreal and as Permanent Representative (Ambassador) to ICAO.\nPrior to his position in Montreal he served as the Spokesperson and Consul for Media Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York. He assumed this post in August 2009. Previously, he was Counselor, Head of the Public Affairs Department at Israel's Embassy in Berlin. He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania at the Israeli Embassy in Riga and was Charg\u00e9 D'Affaires for Slovakia at the Israeli Embassy in Vienna.\nAmong other appointments, he served at the MFA in Jerusalem as Deputy-Director of the Western European Department, in charge of political relations with Germany and as desk officer for Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia and Georgia at the Euro-Asia Dept.\nIn 1999, Amb. Lion became the first Israeli official to partake in the mission of election monitoring with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.\nAt the start of the second Intifada in 2001 Lion operated as Spokesman with the MFA special team in Bethlehem. In 2009 he was in charge of the MFA Press Center in Sderot during operation \"Cast Lead\".\nBefore joining the Ministry, he held a number of positions at JNF-KKL in Jerusalem, as well as at the Ministry of Religious Affairs dealing with soviet Jewry.\nLion earned his B.A. in Political Sciences from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1988, and received his M.A. in History from the University of Latvia in 1998 and is currently a PhD. Candidate at Bar Ilan University.\nHe is also an Orthodox Rabbi (Ordinated by Rabbi Dan Channen from Yeshivat Pirchei Shoshanim of Lakewood N.J. and by the Chief Rabbi of the city of Holon, Rabbi Eliyahu Yohanan Gur-Arieh.)\nHe is fluent in Hebrew, English, French, German, Luxemburgish and Yiddish as well as medium Russian.\nHe is married to Rivka, and is the father of eight children.\nElazar Stern\nMK Elazar Stern, representing the Yesh Atid- Telem Party, focuses his parliamentary activity on religion and state, and the Jewish-Democratic discourse in the Israeli Knesset. He passed the Bill to withhold Palestinian money meant to reward terrorists and fought to increase resources provided to Holocaust survivors in Israel.\nAs the Head of the Human Resources Directorate, he initiated the Nativ conversion program, initiated and executed the Edim Be Madim (Witnesses in Uniform) project, taking soldiers in uniform to see the concentration camps first hand and headed a special committee that reformulated the values of the IDF spirit (Ruach Tzahal). He lives and one of the founders of Mitzpe Hoshaya, a village he founded 40 years ago with his wife, Dorit. They have 5 children and 13 grandchildren.\nHennadii Nadolenko\nHennadii Nadolenko joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 1994 and served in different diplomatic positions in the Ministry.\nIn 1998 he was posted as second secretary of the Embassy of Ukraine to the USA.\nAfter returning from the USA Mr.Nadolenko worked in different senior positions in the MFA of Ukraine and in the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.\nIn 2007, Mr. Nadolenko was posted Head of trade and economic mission in the Embassy of Ukraine to the USA.\nIn June 29, 2010, Mr. Nadolenko was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the State of Israel.\nAmbassador Nadolenko is a graduate of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and of National agrarian university.\nMr. Nadolenko is married. He has a son and a daughter.\nSerhii Plokhii\nSerhii Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Eastern Europe and Russia, he has published extensively on the international history of Cold War. His books won numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize (Canada) for the best English-language book on the international relations, (The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, 2014), Taras Shevchenko National Prize (Ukraine) for Non-Fiction (The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, 2015), and Ballie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Pushkin House Book Prize, UK (Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, 2018).\nMark B. Levin is Executive Vice-Chairman and CEO of the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (formerly NCSJ,) organized American Jewry's premier advocacy group for Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is a leading expert on national and international political and legislative issues, and travels extensively throughout the region.\nIn 2008, Mr. Levin received the Soviet Jewry Freedom Award from the Russian Jewish Community Foundation, and the Order of Merit medal from President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko. Mr. Levin has served three times as a Public Member of the U.S. Delegation to meetings of the Organization on Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and served as a Public Advisor for the U.S. Delegation to the 2004 Berlin Conference on Anti-Semitism.\nMr. Levin is a member of the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization. Mr. Levin is also a member of the Goodwill Foundation that oversees the distribution of restitution funds from the Lithuanian Government to the Lithuanian Jewish community.\nAndrew Baker\nRabbi Andrew Baker is AJC Director of International Jewish Affairs. In 2009, he was appointed Personal Representative on Combating Anti-Semitism of the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and continues to serve in this position. He is an officer of the Jewish Claims Conference and has served on restitution and historical commissions in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia. In recognition of his work in Europe he was decorated by the Presidents of Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Romania. He is a past President of the Interfaith Conference of Washington, a former Commissioner of the District of Columbia Human Rights Commission, a past President of the Washington Board of Rabbis and a former chaplain at San Quentin Prison.\nHaim Ben Yakov\nDr. Haim Ben Yakov is a CEO of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. Served as Head of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Moscow and in the Baltic States, as Educational Consultant of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Founded and managed an Institute for Jewish Studies and Training Community Leaders in Moscow (Russia).\nDr. Ben Yakov's research interests - traditional rituals of Judaism from different historical periods, principles of formation of national state and national cultural identity, interaction of universal and particular cultural values, the structure of the Israeli society and the Jewish diaspora, the history of Zionism.\nDave Sifry\nAs Vice President of the Center for Technology and Society (CTS), Dave Sifry leads a team of innovative technologists, researchers, and policy experts developing proactive solutions and producing cutting-edge research to protect vulnerable populations. In its efforts to advocate change at all levels of society, CTS serves as a vital resource to legislators, journalists, universities, community organizations, tech platforms and anyone who has been a target of online hate and harassment.\nDave joined ADL in 2019 after a storied career as a technology entrepreneur and executive. He founded six companies including Linuxcare and Technorati, and served in executive roles at companies including Lyft and Reddit. In addition to his entrepreneurial work, Dave was selected as a Technology Pioneer at The World Economic Forum, and is an advisor and mentor for a select group of companies and startup founders. As the son of a hidden child of the Holocaust, the core values and mission exemplified by ADL were instilled in him at an early age.\nHe earned a BS in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University.\nEmi Palmor\nFormer Director General at Israel Ministry of Justice (2014\u20132019). Previously, Ms. Palmor served as the Director of the Department of Pardons in the Ministry of Justice. In that role, she was responsible for preparing the Minister of Justice's recommendations for the president of Israel, regarding pardon requests, including relief from prison sentences, fines, disqualification penalties & removal of a criminal record.\nIn addition, Ms. Palmor was a Member of the Negotiation Team for the Release of POW Gilad Shalit, and has been appointed to coordinate and carry out political gestures for prisoner release to the Palestinian Authority. In the past, Ms. Palmor served as a prosecutor in the criminal section of the Office of the State Attorney. In that position, she appeared before the Supreme Court regarding various criminal proceedings.\nAvner Shalev\nAvner Shalev has been Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate since 1993. Upon becoming Chairman, Shalev initiated a multi-year development plan aimed at equipping Yad Vashem with the necessary tools to address the challenges of Holocaust remembrance in the 21st century.\nBorn in 1939 in Jerusalem, Shalev served in the Israel Defense Forces between 1956 and 1980, reaching the rank of brigadier general. After retiring from military service, Shalev served as director general of the Culture Authority in the Ministry of Education and Culture, and chairman of the National Culture and Art Council. He was also a member of the directorate of various national museums and cultural institutions in Israel. In these positions he was responsible for formulating and directing national culture policy, and encouraging, supporting and overseeing the funding of all types of cultural and artistic activity in Israel. Shalev also introduced policies to raise the standards of Israel's leading cultural institutions, and advanced and promoted new cultural programs-such as art and culture festivals throughout the country-in order to increase national cultural awareness and involvement.\nAnother achievement in this period was to transform the Antiquities Division of the Ministry of Education into a national authority. Shalev was also instrumental in enhancing educational opportunities in regional areas by promoting the accreditation of local educational institutions and enabling their students to obtain recognized degrees.\nIlya Khrzhanovsky\nIlya Khrzhanovsky is a film director, creative producer, co-founder of Phenomen Films production company, member of the European Film Academy and Artistic Director of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv.\nIlya Khrzhanovsky is best known as a film director and has won many awards, including: Golden Cactus and Tiger Awards at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Best Director at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, and Grand Jury Prize as Best New Director at the Seattle International Film Festival. Last spring his latest project won the \"Silver Bear\" Grand Jury Prize at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival for outstanding achievements in the field of cinema, specifically for camera work.\nSimha Goldin\nProf. Simha Goldin is Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University and a senior professor in the Jewish History Department. He is a social historian whose research focuses on the Jewish community in medieval Ashkenaz, particularly examining societal constructs like community, neighborhood, conversion, and the status of women, and drawing on a broad range of methodologies and sources to provide greater understanding of the daily lives of medieval Jews and their relationships with the Christian societies among which they dwelt. He is also involved in a research project on Jewish soldiers in World War II and the reconstruction of Hannah Senesh's final journey.\nZe'ev Hanin\nProf. Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin, IEAJS Academic Chairman, is a leading Israeli expert on Russian Jewish community in Israel and the Diaspora. He got his Ph.D. in Political Science from Moscow Institute for African studies, the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1989, and in 1991 completed post-Doctoral studies in the Institute for Russian and Soviet Studies at the University of Oxford, U.K. He currently serves as Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry for Aliya and Integration and lectures Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, and Jewish sociology and history at the Ariel University, Israel. His was also a political commentator at the Israeli Channel Nine TV, The Voice of Israel Radio, Radio Liberty and the BBC Russian Service. His publications include 11 authored books, 7 edited collections and numerous articles on Israeli, East European, Jewish and African politics and society\nMeyer Habib\nSince 2013, MP Meyer Habib is a key political figure in France-Israel friendship and Middle East Affairs,strongly involved in the fight against Anti-Semitism, anti-Israeli hate, militant Islam and Islamo-leftism.\nActive in security issues, he has assumed over past years responsibility as Vice-President of several parliamentary commissions over jihadi terror.\nMeyer Habib also serves as VP of the task force against Anti-Semitism.\nBorn in Paris in 1961, Meyer Habib is a Technion alumnus and former VP of the Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF). Married and a father of four children, he holds French and Israeli citizenships. He is a personal friend of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu.\nAaron Frenkel\nAaron G. Frenkel is an international philanthropist, visionary entrepreneur with a passionate commitment to Israel and the Jewish people, and Chairman of the EuroAsian Jewish Congress.\nSince the 1980's, he has established and owned the Loyd's group of Companies, which has been involved in investments In real estate, civil aviation and aerospace, energy and high tech. The Loyd's Group was formed as part of the project on the development of the economies of Central & Eastern Europe and The F.S.U countries. Aaron G. Frenkel , through his Loyd's Group, has carried out and continues to implement a huge number of joint projects for the delivery and modernization of advanced equipment and technologies for civil aviation in these countries.\nThe leading role he has assumed in the aviation industry is inextricably linked to his efforts on behalf of the Jewish people. In the 1980's just prior to fall of the Iron Curtain and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Jewish Agency sought Frenkel's assistance in helping airlift Jews out of country. The effort prompted his involvement in the founding of Russian Airlines, which got its start flying Soviet immigrants to Israel. Today Frenkel is considered one of the most influential and successful entrepreneurs in the region that used to be the Soviet Union,\" The Jerusalem Post noted\".\nMarina Yudborovsky serves as Chief Executive Officer of Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG). Prior to becoming CEO, Marina was a longtime executive at GPG, including roles as Director of Strategy and Operations, as well as Regional Director for North American grants. Born in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union, Marina immigrated to the United States in 1989. After graduating summa cum laude from New York University, she spent a decade in the technology sector, before joining GPG in 2009. Marina is driven by the opportunity to help the next generation of Jewish young adults engage with their heritage, while finding community and connection.\nRobert Singer (born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine) is a Jewish organizational leader and former Israeli government official, serving over the past decades at the highest levels of positions in the Jewish world, including as CEO of the World Jewish Congress, CEO of World ORT and in the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel. During this time, he traveled extensively throughout the world visiting Jewish communities in over 60 countries, as well as conducting meetings with country leaders, Presidents and senior officials.\nYuri Kanner\nYuri Kanner was born in 1955 in Jewish settlement (shtetl) in Zhitomir Region (Ukraine).\nIn 1976 Graduated from Saratov Institute of Economy. Has a PhD degree in economy.\nFrom 1979 to 1993 worked in Tumen Region (Siberia) in several capacities including as a deputy head of one of the biggest collective farms (Kolkhoz) in the Region. Since 1993 lives in Moscow.\nSince 2005 is involved in Jewish communal activities as a founder and the first chairman of the Board of the Moscow Jewish Religious Community.\nSince 2009 - President of the Russian Jewish Congress (three times re-elected to this post), the largest non-religious Jewish organization in Russia (independent, non-governmental, and non-profit).\nSince 2013 - Vice President and member of the Steering Committee of the World Jewish Congress.\nIn 2013, was included in the J100, the list of \"top 100 people who have had the greatest positive impact on Jewish life\" according to the weekly media publication, The Algemeiner (USA).\nAlon Liel\nAmbassador (ret) Dr. Alon Liel\nFormer Israeli diplomat who served as:\nDirector General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and of the Ministry of Economy and Planning.\nAmbassador of Israel to South Africa (Non Resident Ambassador to Mozambique and Zimbabwe)\nConsul General of Israel to South Eastern United States (based in Atlanta, Georgia)\nForeign Ministry Spokesman.\nCharge D 'affairs (head of mission) of Israel in Turkey.\nVice Consul of Israel to the Mid-Western United States (based in Chicago. Illinois)\n2000-2020 \u2013 Lecturer in International Relation & conflict resolutions, Tel Aviv University and Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC)\nPh.D, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Doctoral thesis \"The Dependence of Imported Energy and its Impact on Turkey's Foreign Policy\"\nM.A. Hebrew University, Jerusalem (International Relations)\nB.A. Hebrew University Jerusalem (Economics & International Relations)\nTurkey in the Middle East - Oil, Islam and Politics, 1993 (Hebrew)\nBlack Justice \u2013 The South African Upheaval, 1999, (Hebrew)\nTurkey \u2013 The Military, Islam and Politics, 1999, (Expanded edition, Hebrew)\nTurkey in the Middle East- Lynne Rienner, Colorado, 2001 (English)\nDemo Islam, Turkey's New Regime, August 2003 (Hebrew).\nDemo Islam, Islamic Democracy in Turkey, 2008 (Hebrew)\nTurkish-Israeli Relations 1949-2010, 2010 (English, Hebrew, Turkish)\nEqualizer \u2013 South Africa is Building a Nation, 2011 (Hebrew).\nBorn in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 31, 1948\nEmmanuil Grinshpun\nFirst Vice President of Eurasian Jewish Congress, President of Moldovan Jewish Congress, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Jewish Community of Moldova, Honorary Council of the Rupublic of Kazakhstan to the United States of America, Entrepreneur, Jewish Philanthropist, owner of IT cluster group E21 and Smart One Group was born in Chisinau, Moldova. In 1980's emigrated to the US with his father. After receiving Law degree started developing, production, entertainment and construction businesses in several countries, enclosing in the CIS counties. Married. One child.\nYaakov Katz\nMaayan Hoffman\nHerb Keinon\nAnna Ahronheim\nAndrii Kulykov\nGeorgii Logvinskiy\nHonorary member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Vice-President of PACE (2017-2019). Chairperson of the Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of PACE (2017-2019).\nMember of Parliament of Ukraine, Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Human Rights (2014-2019). Head of the Parliamentary Contacts Group of Parliament of Ukraine with the State of Israel (2015-2019).\nHonored Lawyer of Ukraine. For professional achievements and active protection of the rights of the legal proffesion awarded the \u00abAttorney of the Year \u2013 2017, 2018, 2019\u00bb. In 2019 got the rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine.\nMattew Kupfer\nDay 1 - December 15\nThe 2021 Kyiv Jewish Forum, in its third-annual edition, coincides with the 30th anniversary of the establishment of official diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the State of Israel. Recognizing Ukraine's rich Jewish past, world leaders and prominent voices of the Jewish people will delve into the challenges and opportunities standing before Jewish communities worldwide and Israel in 2022. Furthermore, the first day of the event will explore how Ukraine's storied Jewish history has shaped its contemporary relations with Israel, and celebrate the pivotal trilateral ties shared by Ukraine, Israel, and the United States.\nThe second day of the forum will focus on the most-pressing issues now facing the Jewish people and Israel, including challenges arising from COVID-19 pandemic, the growth of antisemitism, and the need for expanded Jewish education, among other matters. It will also look to the future of Israel's global role as a \"startup nation,\" and highlight the lessons Jewish communities worldwide can learn from Israel's successful experience.\nReceive a reminder about the Forum broadcast\nThanks, you will receive a reminder about the Forum broadcast.\nThe Jewish Confederation of Ukraine is the umbrella organization uniting independent social, charitable and religious Jewish organizations in Ukraine. Its mission is to unite the Jews of Ukraine, preserve Jewish history and culture and support Israel and Jewish communities around the world and fight against anti-Semitism.\nThe Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) is a non-partisan, global grassroots movement of individuals and organizations, across all religions and faiths, united to combat antisemitism. Our unique platform creates partnerships throughout the world, strategically implementing new and creative solutions to combat the world's oldest hatred. We leverage the collective power of our broad-based coalition to unite individuals of all backgrounds in this fight.\nThe Center for Jewish Impact is a focal point and center for excellence for innovative and impactful initiatives that deliver benefit to Israel and the Jewish world, while strategically focusing on the issues of education, supporting Israel, Israel-diaspora Jewry relations, interfaith dialogue and combatting anti-Semitism.\nJewish Confederation of Ukraine\nOn December 15-16, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine will hold the third Kyiv Jewish Forum\nOn December 15-16, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, together with the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and the Center for Jewish Impact, will hold already the third Kyiv Jewish Forum.\nInterfax-Ukraine\nBoris Lozhkin announced: The third Kyiv Jewish Forum will be held on December 15-16\nThe third KJF is timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Ukraine. 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{"text":"The Silver Winds\nFree Lesson Coupon\nAUDIO \/ VIDEO CLIPS\nChristina Castellanos\nFlutist & Teacher\nChristina Castellanos, MM, is the adjunct professor of flute at Snow College, Horne School of Music. She is Principal Flutist of The Las Vegas Philharmonic, Principal Flutist of The Salt Lake Symphony, Principal Flutist of The Nevada POPS, Solo Flutist of Sinfonia Salt Lake, and Solo Flutist of Asia\/America New Music Institute. She also regularly plays flute and piccolo in The Utah Symphony, Utah Opera, The Ballet West Orchestra, Boise Philharmonic, The Orchestra at Temple Square for the Tabernacle Choir, and The TAD Wind Symphony in Japan. She had the privilege of playing Principal Flute under the direction of Itzhak Perlman and has played for many artists such as STING, Harry Connick Jr., Frank Sinatra Jr., Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Seth MacFarlane, Ben Folds, Kristen Chenoweth, The Beach Boys, Indigo Girls, Jerry Lewis, Cirque du Soleil, The King's Singers, Michel Legrand (PBS Broadcast), Luis Fonsi (2009 Latin Grammys), flutist\/composer Ian Clarke, Pink Martini, Rita Moreno, Andy Williams, Dionne Warwick, Vanessa Williams, Peter Shickele, Arturo Sandoval, Deborah Voigt, Andrea Bocelli (west coast tour), Il Divo, GENTRI, and KANSAS.\nAs a concerto soloist, she has appeared with Sinfonia Salt Lake, The Salt Lake Symphony, Sirocco Flutes of Las Vegas, The College of Southern Nevada Symphony Orchestra, three concerti with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra, two concerti with The Viewmont High Orchestra, and as The Winning Soloist of the James K. Huntzinger Concerto Competition, performing the Ibert Concerto.\nChristina has played flute and piccolo in many musical productions, including Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular show at The Venetian (2006-2012), The Sound of Music, God Lives in Glass, The Wizard of Oz, and flute\/piccolo\/alto flute\/recorder\/penny whistle in Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz. As a guest artist, Christina performed a newly commissioned work (arranged for alto flute and flute for her) Phoenix Rising by Stacy Garrop at The National Flute Association 2021 Convention. Christina's solo performance of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor in 2016 received a review by Catherine Reese Newton in The Salt Lake Tribune\u2026 \"in a particularly memorable appearance, her graceful style meshed comfortably with the Sinfonia strings. She turned in some especially stylish playing in the suite's final, and best-known, movement, which Baldwin took at a lively tempo that delighted the crowd.\" Her performance of Claude Debussy's L'apr\u00e8s midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun) in 2012 received a review by Claire Voyant, gossip columnist for Las Vegas Online\u2026 \"The Debussy featured Tina Castellanos (who drove in from Salt Lake for the concert) beautifully playing the solo flute, and filling the East Tropicana Community Lutheran Church sanctuary with her tender and lilting sound.\"\nRecent recordings include Rob Gardner's The Lamb of God Concert Film (in theatres 2021), Mahler Symphony No. 8 with The Utah Symphony and The Tabernacle Choir, a KUED special Utah: The National Parks, soundtrack by The Utah Symphony, Teach Me To Walk In The Light and Other Children's Favorites with The Orchestra at Temple Square and The Tabernacle Choir, Solo Flutist for Dan Carter's Come Unto Him, and Flute and Piccolo on video game music by Chance Thomas: Dungeons and Dragons, Might and Magic, and Lord of the Rings: Riders of Rohan. She can also be heard as flutist on GENTRI's RISE album, Solo Flutist for The Frankie Moreno Band: The Unknown Artist, on the Bermuda Record Label alongside artists such as Joshua Bell, and as Principal Flutist of UNLV's Wind Symphony for Dale Wilson's No Mo Chalumeau! Live at the 67th ABA Convention, Daron Hagen's Shining Brow and Bandanna, and Steve Bryant's Monkey.\nSince the age of 16, Christina has maintained a full-time private flute studio, of which her students have won many local and national competitions. She was the Assistant Flute Instructor at UNLV 2002-07, and on the faculty of The Nevada School of the Arts. Service to the flute community has been important to Christina as she has been President of The Las Vegas Flute Club and President of The Utah Flute Association. She was also the founding member of The Kappa Theta chapter and The Las Vegas Alumnae chapter of the service fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota. Some of the awards she received from Sigma Alpha Iota are The Sword of Honor, Province College Leadership Award (Ruby Sword of Honor), the Scholastic Award, National College Leadership Award, chapter nominee for the National Alumnae Leadership Award, and Honorable Mention for the National Graduate Performance Award. She currently serves on the orchestra committee for The Las Vegas Philharmonic.\nAs a clinician, Christina has been a guest artist at Utah State University, Snow College, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Salem Youth Symphony, The Utah Flute Association, The Blackbird Music Project in California, and has published hundreds of instructional videos online for Musician's Toolkit and Connect Through Music. She received her Bachelor's (Magna Cum Laude) and Master's (Summa Cum Laude) degrees in flute performance from UNLV. Her primary teachers were Nancy Toone (Utah) and Dr. Richard Soule (UNLV). Christina lived in Las Vegas for 10 years and now resides in Bountiful, Utah with her husband, Chris Castellanos (French Horn Soloist with The Boston Brass), their daughter Lily, and son Orion.\nDOWNLOAD BIOGRAPHY\n\u00a9 2011-2021 ChristinaCastellanosFlutist.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Silver Fox Advisors \u2013 Lunch & Learn Jan 23\nJanuary 9, 2020 by Doug Thorpe\nAttention Houston area business leaders, the Silver Fox Advisors is hosting its monthly Lunch & Learn program. This month features NASA Astronaut Col. Michael E. Fossum, USAFR.\nMichael E. Fossum is the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of the Galveston campus of Texas A&M University. He joined Texas A&M following his retirement from NASA in 2017.\nFossum was selected as an astronaut in 1998. He is a veteran of three space flights; STS-121 in 2006, STS-124 in 2008 and Expedition 28\/29 in 2011. Fossum has logged more than 194 days in space, including more than 48 hours in seven spacewalks.\nHe was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and Master of Science degrees in Systems Engineering and Physical Science from the Air Force Institute of Technology and the University of Houston \u2013 Clear Lake, respectively.\nAfter completing graduate work, he was detailed to NASA's Johnson Space Center, where he supported space shuttle flight operations, beginning with STS-3. Fossum left active duty in 1992 and retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserves in 2010. Michael Fossum retired from NASA in January 2017.\nBorn December 19, 1957, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in McAllen, Texas. Married to the former Melanie J. London. They have four children and four grandchildren. He enjoys family activities, motorcycle riding, and backpacking. Mike's main hobby is serving as Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout troop.\nNASA Exceptional Service Medal and three NASA Spaceflight Medals. Scouting awards include Distinguished Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver and Vigil Member of the Order of the Arrow. Distinguished Military Graduate from Texas A&M University and Squadron Commander in the Corps of Cadets. Awarded the U.S. Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and various other service awards. Distinguished Graduate from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Class 85A.\n\"The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.\"\nHenry Ford, Theosophist magazine, February 1930\nSilver Fox Advisors' President Bill Herman stated, \"Come join us and learn about the teamwork and preparation needed to achieve a successful mission by reliving space travel with Colonel Fossum.\"\nThe Silver Fox Advisors' Lunch and Learn events are held at the Houston Racquet Club, 10709 Memorial Dr., Houston, TX 77024. To learn more about the Silver Fox Advisors' Lunch and Learn Sessions and to register for this event, visit our Website at www.silverfox.org.\nSeating is limited, and due to the special nature of this very informative session will fill up fast, so make your reservation today.\nTables of eight are available for $315. Lunch is served at 11:20 a.m., and the Program will begin at 11:50 a.m.\nSilver Fox Advisors are proven business leaders who advise, consult, and mentor other business leaders, CEO Roundtables, and entrepreneurship programs.\nFor more information visit: www.silverfox.org\nCategories Leadership Tags executive coaching, Executive Coaching Assessment Tools, Executive Coaching Certification, Executive Coaching Certification Online, Executive Coaching Consultancy, Executive Coaching Houston Texas, Executive Coaching Houston Tx, Executive Coaching Organizations, Executive Coaching Roi, Executive Coaching Session Topics, Executive Coaching Tools, Executive Coaching Topics, Houston executive coaching, Leadership Development Ideas, Leadership Development Plan, Leadership Development Program, Leadership Development Resources, Leadership Development Strategies, Leadership Development Team, Life Coach Wanted Post navigation\n5 Ways to Truly Renew Your Mind\nHere's the View from My Seat on the Bus","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Justia Forms Business Contracts Dana Incorporated Underwriting Agreement, dated June 16, 2020, between Dana Incorporated\nUnderwriting Agreement, dated June 16, 2020, between Dana Incorporated and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representative of the several underwriters named therein\nDana Incorporated\n5.625% Senior Notes due 2028\nCitigroup Global Markets Inc.\nAs Representative of the several\nUnderwriters,\nc\/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.\n388 Greenwich Street\nDana Incorporated, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the \"Company\"), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the \"Underwriters\"), for whom you (the \"Representative\") are acting as representative, the principal amount of its securities identified in Schedule I hereto (the \"Securities\"), to be issued under an indenture (the \"Base Indenture\") dated as of January 28, 2011, between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the \"Trustee\"). Certain terms of the Securities will be established pursuant to a supplemental indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined in Section 3 hereof) (the \"Supplemental Indenture\" and, the Base Indenture, as modified by the Supplemental Indenture, the \"Indenture\") to the Base Indenture. To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule II other than you, the term Representative as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms Representative and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires.\nAs used in this underwriting agreement (this \"Agreement\"), the \"Registration Statement\" means the registration statement referred to in paragraph 1(a) hereof, including the exhibits, schedules and financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the \"SEC\") pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the \"Securities Act\"), and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act, as amended on each Effective Date (as defined below), and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended; the \"Effective Date\" means each date and time that the Registration Statement, and any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto became or becomes effective; the \"Base Prospectus\" means the base prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) hereof contained in the Registration Statement at the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto (the \"Execution Time\"); a \"Preliminary Prospectus\" means any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) hereof which is used prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus; and the \"Final Prospectus\" means the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (\"Rule 424(b)\") after the Execution Time, together with the Base Prospectus.\nAny reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by\nreference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the \"Exchange Act\") on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms \"amend,\" \"amendment\" or \"supplement\" with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference.\nAs used in this Agreement, the \"Disclosure Package\" shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus used most recently prior to the Execution Time, (iii) any issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act (an \"Issuer Free Writing Prospectus\"), identified in Schedule III hereto, (iv) the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto and (v) any other free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (a \"Free Writing Prospectus\"), that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package.\n1. Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 1.\n(a) Automatic Shelf Registration Statement. The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act and has prepared and filed with the SEC an automatic shelf registration statement, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (\"Rule 405\") (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I hereto) on Form S-3, including a related Base Prospectus, for the registration of the offering and sale of the Securities under the Securities Act. Such Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or notice objecting to its use has been issued by the SEC and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the SEC against the Company or related to the Offering of the Securities. The Company may have filed with the SEC, as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), a preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, which has previously been furnished to you. The Company will file with the SEC a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time. As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall contain all information required by the Securities Act and the rules thereunder, and, except to the extent the Representative shall agree in writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and the Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein. The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x) under the Securities Act. The initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement was not earlier than the date three years before the Execution Time.\n(b) Compliance with Securities Act Requirements. On each Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, and when each of the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b), and on the Closing Date (as defined herein), the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, and the respective rules thereunder and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and\nregulations promulgated thereunder (the \"Trust Indenture Act\"); on each Effective Date, at the Execution Time and on the Closing Date, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date the Indenture did or will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules thereunder; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.\n(c) General Disclosure Package. At the Execution Time, (i) the Disclosure Package and (ii) each electronic road show, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.\n(d) Well-Known Seasoned Issuer Status. (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163, and (iv) at the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (iv)), the Company was or is (as the case may be) a \"well-known seasoned issuer\" as defined in Rule 405. The Company agrees to pay the fees required by the SEC relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r).\n(e) Ineligible Issuer Status. (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2)) under the Securities Act and (ii) as of the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), the Company was not and is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking account of any determination by the SEC pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company be considered an Ineligible Issuer.\n(f) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto does not include any information\nthat conflicts in any material respect with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated therein by reference and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8(b) hereof.\n(g) Good Standing of the Company and Its Significant Subsidiaries. Each of the Company and its \"significant subsidiaries,\" as such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act (the \"significant subsidiaries\"), has been duly organized and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized with full power and authority to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, and is duly qualified to transact business as a foreign corporation or other organization and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property of a nature, or transacts business of a type, that would make such qualification necessary, except to the extent that the failure to so qualify or be in good standing would not have a material adverse effect on the business, condition (financial or otherwise), current or future consolidated financial position, stockholders' equity, prospects or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a \"Material Adverse Effect\").\n(h) Authorized Ownership Interests. All the outstanding shares of capital stock or similar ownership interests of each significant subsidiary have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and nonassessable, and (except for directors' qualifying shares and other minority interests disclosed to you) are owned by the Company either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries free and clear of any perfected security interest or any other security interests, claims, liens or encumbrances, except where the existence of such perfected security interests, other security interests, claims, liens or encumbrances would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.\n(i) Accurate Disclosure. The statements in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus under the headings \"Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations,\" insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein, and \"Description of the Notes,\" insofar as they purport to constitute a summary of the terms of the Securities, fairly summarize in all material respects the matters therein described.\n(j) Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.\n(k) Execution and Delivery of the Base Indenture, the Supplemental Indenture and the Securities. The Base Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered, has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, constitutes a legal, valid and binding instrument enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); the Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, when executed and delivered\nby the Company, will constitute a legal, valid and binding instrument enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and the Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).\n(l) The Supplemental Indenture and the Securities. The Supplemental Indenture and the Securities will conform in all material respects to the respective descriptions thereof contained in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.\n(m) Investment Company Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, will not be an \"investment company\" as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.\n(n) Absence of Further Requirements. No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or governmental or regulatory agency or body, or third party is required for the authorization, issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities by the Company or the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein, except (i) such as have been obtained under the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act, (ii) such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and (iii) such as may be required by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (\"FINRA\"), except where the failure to obtain any such consent, approval, authorization, filing or order would not have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby.\n(o) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts Resulting from Transaction. None of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture, the issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities, the consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated nor the fulfillment of the terms of the Indenture or this Agreement will conflict with, result in a breach or violation of, or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, (i) the charter, by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or bound or to which its or their property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of its or their properties; except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), for such conflicts, violations, liens, charges or encumbrances that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.\n(p) Financial Statements. The consolidated historical financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included, or incorporated by reference, in the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of the dates and for the periods indicated, comply as to form with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Act and have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein) and subject, in the case of interim statements, to ordinary course year-end audit adjustments. The financial statement schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States the information required to be stated therein.\n(q) Litigation. Except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or their property is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened that would (i) have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (ii) could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.\n(r) Property. Except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, each of the Company and each of its subsidiaries owns or leases all such properties as are necessary to the conduct of its operations as presently conducted, except where the failure to own or lease such properties would not have a Material Adverse Effect.\n(s) Absence of Defaults and Conflicts. Neither the Company nor any of its significant subsidiaries is in violation or default of (i) any provision of its charter, by-laws, or similar organizational documents, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or to which its property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or such significant subsidiary or any of its properties, as applicable, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) for such violations or defaults that would not have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or a Material Adverse Effect.\n(t) Independent Public Accounting Firm. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who has certified certain financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and delivered their report with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent public accounting firm with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (the \"PCAOB\").\n(u) Tax Returns. The Company has filed all tax returns that are required to be filed or has requested extensions thereof (except in any case in which the failure so to file would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus) and has paid all taxes required to be paid by it and any other assessment, fine or penalty levied against it, to the extent that any of the foregoing is due and payable, except for any such assessment, fine or penalty that is currently being contested in good faith or as would not have\na Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and for which appropriate reserves have been established in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.\n(v) Labor Disputes. There are (i) no material labor problems or disputes with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries that exist, or to the knowledge of the Company, are threatened or imminent and (ii) the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries' principal suppliers, contractors or customers, that could have a Material Adverse Effect, in each case except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.\n(w) Insurance. Except, in each case, as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and each of its subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are, in management's judgment, prudent and customary in the businesses in which they are engaged; all policies of insurance insuring the Company or any of its subsidiaries or their respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors are in full force and effect; the Company and its subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms of such policies and instruments in all material respects; and there are no claims by the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any such policy or instrument as to which any insurance company is denying liability or defending under a reservation of rights clause; neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for; and neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect, except, in each case, as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.\n(x) Subsidiary Dividends. No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary's capital stock or similar ownership interest, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary's material properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company, in each case except as described in or contemplated by the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.\n(y) Licenses. The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations (\"Licenses\") issued by all applicable authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses except where the failure to have such Licenses could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and to the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any such subsidiary has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.\n(z) Internal Controls. The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management's general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management's general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with\nrespect to any differences; and (v) the interactive data in XBRL included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus is in material compliance with the SEC's published rules, regulations and guidelines applicable thereto. The Company's internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and is effective, and the Company is not aware of any material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting.\n(aa) Disclosure Controls. The Company maintains \"disclosure controls and procedures\" (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are effective.\n(bb) Stabilization. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.\n(cc) Environmental Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries are (i) in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (\"Environmental Laws\"), (ii) have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) have not received notice of any actual or potential liability under any environmental law, in each case, except where such non-compliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals, or liability would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect and except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. Neither the Company nor any of the subsidiaries has been named as a \"potentially responsible party\" under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).\n(dd) Compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act. The Company and, to the Company's knowledge, its directors and officers, in their capacities as such, are in compliance in all material respects with applicable provisions of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the \"Sarbanes Oxley Act\"), including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.\n(ee) Anti-Bribery Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that could result in a violation or a sanction for violation by such persons of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, each as may be amended, or similar law of any other relevant jurisdiction, or the rules or regulations thereunder; and the Company and its subsidiaries have instituted, and maintain and enforce, policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance therewith. No part of the proceeds of the offering will be used, directly or, to the knowledge of the Company, indirectly, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, each as may be amended, or similar law of any other relevant jurisdiction, or the rules or regulations thereunder.\n(ff) Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and\nreporting requirements and the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental or regulatory agency (collectively, the \"Money Laundering Laws\") and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.\n(gg) OFAC. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (i) is, or is controlled or 50% or more owned by or is acting on behalf of, an individual or entity that is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the United States (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. Department of State or the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce and including, without limitation, the designation as a \"specially designated national\" or \"blocked person\"), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, a member state of the European Union (including sanctions administered or enforced by Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom) or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, \"Sanctions\" and such persons, \"Sanctioned Persons\" and each such person, a \"Sanctioned Person\"), (ii) is located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject or the target of Sanctions that broadly prohibit dealings with that country or territory (collectively, \"Sanctioned Countries\" and each, a \"Sanctioned Country\") or (iii) will, directly or, to the knowledge of the Company, indirectly, use the proceeds of this offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity in any manner that would result in a violation of any Sanctions by, or could result in the imposition of Sanctions against, any individual or entity (including any individual or entity participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).\n(hh) No Dealings. Except as is not material to the analysis under any Sanctions, to the knowledge of the Company, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has engaged in any dealings or transactions with or for the benefit of a Sanctioned Person, or with or in a Sanctioned Country, in the preceding three years, nor does the Company or any of its subsidiaries have any plans to increase its dealings or transactions with or for the benefit of Sanctioned Persons, or with or in Sanctioned Countries.\n(ii) Intellectual Property. To the Company's knowledge, the Company and its subsidiaries own, possess, license or have other rights to use, on reasonable terms, all patents, patent applications, trade and service marks, trade and service mark registrations, trade names, copyrights, licenses, inventions, trade secrets, technology, know-how and other intellectual property (collectively, the \"Intellectual Property\") reasonably necessary for the conduct of the Company's business as now conducted, except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, or where the failure to so own, possess, license or otherwise have the right to use would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the Company has not received any notice of infringement or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property rights that would have a Material Adverse Effect.\n(jj) Cybersecurity. (A) There has been no security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure, or other compromise of or relating to the Company's or its subsidiaries' information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data and databases (including the data and information of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors\nand any third party data maintained, processed or stored by the Company and its subsidiaries, and any such data processed or stored by third parties on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries), equipment or technology (collectively, \"IT Systems and Data\"), except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (B) neither the Company nor its subsidiaries have been notified of, and each of them have no knowledge of any event or condition that could reasonably be expected to result in any security breach or incident, unauthorized access or disclosure or other compromise to their IT Systems and Data that would result in a Material Adverse Effect and (C) the Company and its subsidiaries have implemented commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and technological safeguards to maintain and protect the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of their IT Systems and Data reasonably consistent with industry standards and practices, or as required by applicable regulatory standards. The Company and its subsidiaries are presently in material compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.\n(kk) Industry Information. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical data, market-related data, and other data included in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects, and all such internal data (that is, information created internally by the Company rather than obtained from third parties) that relates to the Company that does not derive directly from financial statements included in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus is accurate in all material respects.\n(ll) Documents Incorporated by Reference. Each of the documents incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, at the time it was filed with the SEC, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act; and any documents filed with the SEC subsequent to the Execution Time and prior to the completion or termination of the offering of the Securities that are deemed to be incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, will, when they are filed with the SEC, comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act.\n(mm) No Change in the Capital Stock or Long-term Debt. Since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there has been no change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders' equity or condition, results of operations, business, properties or financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that would result in a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.\nAny certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Representative or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty as of its date by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.\nThe Company acknowledges that the Underwriters and, for purposes of the opinions to be delivered to the Underwriters pursuant to Section 6 of this Agreement, counsel to the Company and counsel to the Underwriters will rely upon the accuracy and truth of the foregoing representations, warranties and agreements and the Company and its subsidiaries hereby consent to such reliance.\n2. Purchase and Sale. Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto, the principal amount of the Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter's name in Schedule II hereto.\n3. Delivery and Payment. Delivery of and payment for the Securities shall be made on the date and at the time specified in Schedule I hereto, or at such time on such later date not more than three Business Days (as defined below) after the foregoing date as the Representative shall designate, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representative and the Company or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being herein called the \"Closing Date\"). As used herein, \"Business Day\" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City. Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representative for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representative of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Company by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by the Company. Delivery of the Securities shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representative shall otherwise instruct.\n4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.\n5. Agreements. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:\n(a) Preparation of the Final Prospectus and Registration Statement. Prior to the termination of the offering of the Securities, the Company will not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus unless the Company has furnished you a copy for your review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement without the consent of the Representative, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, unless the Company is required by law to make such filing before consent can be given. The Company will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representative with the SEC pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representative of such timely filing. The Company will promptly advise the Representative (i) when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b), (ii) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (iii) of any request by the SEC or its staff for any amendment to the Registration Statement, or for any supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information relating to the offering of the Securities, (iv) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary,\nby filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its reasonable efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable.\n(b) Term Sheet. The Company will prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of final terms of the Securities and the offering thereof, in the form approved by you and attached as Schedule IV hereto, and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such rule.\n(c) Notification Regarding Disclosure Package. If, at any time prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made or the circumstances then prevailing not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the Preliminary Prospectus or file an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or otherwise amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representative so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until the Disclosure Package is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission or otherwise comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.\n(d) Filing of Amendment or Supplement. If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Securities Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final Prospectus, the Company promptly will (i) notify the Representative of any such event, (ii) prepare and file with the SEC, subject to the first and second sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 5, an amendment or supplement or new registration statement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (iii) use its reasonable efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Final Prospectus and (iv) supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.\n(e) Reports to Shareholders. As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representative an earnings statement or statements of the Company and its subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 under the Securities Act.\n(f) Signed Copies of the Registration Statement. Upon request by the Representative, the Company will furnish to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Securities Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of\neach Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representative may reasonably request. The Company will pay the expenses of printing or other production of all documents relating to the offering.\n(g) Qualification of Securities. The Company will use its reasonable efforts to arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative may designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to (i) qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified, (ii) take any action that would subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Securities, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject, or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not so subject.\n(h) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. Unless the Company has or shall have obtained the prior written consent of the Representative, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees with the Company that, unless it has or shall have obtained, as the case may be, the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a \"free writing prospectus\" (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company with the SEC or retained by the Company under Rule 433 under the Securities Act (\"Rule 433\"), other than a free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto or a free writing prospectus that contains only the preliminary terms of the Securities or their offering or information that is included in the Preliminary Final Prospectus or the final term sheet; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule III hereto and any electronic road show. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representative or the Company is hereinafter referred to as a \"Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.\" The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the SEC, legending and record keeping.\n(i) Lock-up Period. The Company will not, without the prior written consent of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any affiliate of the Company or any person in privity with the Company or any affiliate of the Company), directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the SEC in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company (other than the Securities) or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, until the Business Day set forth on Schedule I hereto.\n(j) Stabilization. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.\n(k) Expenses. The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the costs and expenses relating to the following matters: (i) the preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with the SEC of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (ii) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities; (iii) the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Securities, including any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of the Securities; (iv) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement, any blue sky memorandum and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the offering of the Securities; (v) the registration of the Securities under the Exchange Act; (vi) any registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of the several states (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such registration and qualification); (vii) any filings required to be made with FINRA (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such filings); (viii) the transportation and other expenses incurred by or on behalf of Company representatives in connection with presentations to prospective purchasers of the Securities; (ix) the fees and expenses of the Company's accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company; (x) the fees and expenses of the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Securities; and (xi) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder, which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section 5(k). It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section 5(k), and Sections 7 and 8 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees for their counsel and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they make.\n6. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:\n(a) The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(b) hereto, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, shall have been filed with the SEC within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act shall have been instituted or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the SEC.\n(b) The Company shall have requested and caused (i) Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representative and its counsel their opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto; and (ii) Douglas H. Liedberg, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary for the Company, to have furnished to the Representative and its counsel his opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.\n(c) The Representative shall have received from Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representative may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.\n(d) The Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate of the Company, signed by the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company or the treasurer of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signer of such certificate has examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, as well as each electronic road show used in connection with the offering of the Securities, and this Agreement and that:\n(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date;\n(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act have been instituted or, to the Company's knowledge, threatened; and\n(iii) since the date of the most recent financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there has been no change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders' equity, or condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, that would result in a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).\n(e) The Company shall have requested and caused PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to have furnished to the Representative, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, comfort letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to the Representative), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representative, confirming that they are independent accountants within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the respective applicable rules and regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder and that they have performed a review of the unaudited interim financial information of the Company as at and for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020 in accordance with the review standards of the PCAOB, and substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C hereto.\n(f) Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (e) of this Section 6 or (ii) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting\nthe condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representative, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).\n(g) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company's debt securities by any \"nationally recognized statistical rating organization\" (as defined for purposes of Rule 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.\n(h) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative such further information, certificates and documents as the Representative may reasonably request.\n(i) The Company shall have taken all action required to be taken by it for the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC, it being understood that the Underwriters shall obtain relevant CUSIP numbers for the Securities.\nIf any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions, letters and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representative and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representative and such cancellation shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except to the extent provided in Sections 5 and 7. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.\nThe documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered at the office of Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022, on the Closing Date.\n7. Reimbursement of Underwriters' Expenses. If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section 10 hereof or because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters severally through Citigroup Global Markets Inc. on demand for all expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel) that shall have been incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities.\n8. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as\nsuch losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or in any amendment thereof, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus, or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.\n(b) Each Underwriter severally and not jointly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representative specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have. The Company acknowledges that the statements set forth in any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus in (i) the last paragraph of the cover page regarding delivery of the Securities and, (ii) under the heading \"Underwriting,\" (a) the sentences related to concessions and reallowances, if any, and (b) the paragraph related to stabilization, syndicate covering transactions constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.\n(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure to so notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel (including local counsel) of the indemnifying party's choice at the indemnifying party's expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party's election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and\nthe indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and\/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which any indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party. No indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of judgment with respect to, any claim, action, suit or proceeding affected, without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.\n(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending the same) (collectively \"Losses\") to which the Company and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities; provided, however, that in no case shall any Underwriter (except as may be provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the cover page of the Final Prospectus. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange\nAct and each director, officer, employee, affiliate and agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).\n9. Default by an Underwriter. If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions for each of the Securities which such Underwriter failed to purchase, which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event that the aggregate principal amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such non-defaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 9, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business Days, as the Representative shall determine in order that the required changes in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company and any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.\n10. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representative, by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if at any time prior to such delivery and payment (i) trading in the Company's common stock shall have been suspended by the SEC or the New York Stock Exchange or trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such exchange, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal or New York State authorities, (iii) there shall have occurred a material disruption in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on financial markets is such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the Representative, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus.\n11. Representations and Indemnities to Survive. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities, rights of contribution and other statements of the Company or its officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Company or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates or controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. The provisions of Sections 7 and 8 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.\n12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representative, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to the Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York, 10013, Attention: General Counsel, facsimile\nnumber: +1 ###-###-####; or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to Dana Incorporated at 3939 Technology Drive, Maumee, Ohio, 43537, Attention: Legal Department, facsimile number: (419) ###-###-####.\n13. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers, directors, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.\n14. No Fiduciary Duty. The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm's-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through which any such Underwriter may be acting, on the other, (b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company and (c) the Company's engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters). The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.\n15. Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.\n16. Applicable Law. This Agreement, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement, will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York.\n17. Waiver of Jury Trial. The Company hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.\n18. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.\nAs used in this Section 18:\n\"BHC Act Affiliate\" has the meaning assigned to the term \"affiliate\" in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. \u00a7 1841(k).\n\"Covered Entity\" means any of the following:\n(i) a \"covered entity\" as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. \u00a7 252.82(b);\n(ii) a \"covered bank\" as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. \u00a7 47.3(b); or\n(iii) a \"covered FSI\" as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. \u00a7 382.2(b).\n\"Default Right\" has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. \u00a7\u00a7 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.\n\"U.S. Special Resolution Regime\" means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.\n19. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.\n20. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in one or more counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall constitute an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by telecopier, facsimile or other electronic transmission (i.e., a \"pdf\" or \"tif\") shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart thereof. The words \"execution,\" \"signed,\" \"signature,\" \"delivery,\" and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.\n21. Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.\n22. Authority of the Representative. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder must be taken by the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, and any action taken by the Representative shall be binding upon the Underwriters.\nIf the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this Agreement and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters.\n\/s\/ Timothy Kraus\nTimothy Kraus\nSenior Vice President and Treasurer\n[Signature Page \u2013 Underwriting Agreement]\n\/s\/ Matthew S. Burke\nName: Matthew S. Burke\nFor itself and the other several Underwriters, if any, named in Schedule II to this Agreement.\nUnderwriting Agreement dated June 16, 2020\nRegistration Statement No. 333-234507\nTitle, Purchase Price and Description of Securities:\nTitle: 5.625% Senior Notes due 2028\nPrincipal amount: $400,000,000\nPurchase price (including\naccrued interest or amortization,\nif any): 99.000%\nRepresentative: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.\nClosing Date, Time and Location: June 19, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. at Shearman & Sterling LLP, 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022\nDate referred to in Section 5(i) after which the Company may offer or sell debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company without the consent of the Representative(s): 60 days after Closing Date\nof 5.625% Senior\nNotes due 2028 to\nbe Purchased\nBarclays Capital Inc.\nBMO Capital Markets Corp.\nGoldman Sachs & Co. LLC\nRBC Capital Markets, LLC\nKeyBanc Capital Markets Inc.\nCitizens Capital Markets, Inc.\nSCHEDULE III\nSchedule of Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Disclosure Package\nIII-1\nSCHEDULE IV\nPricing Term Sheet dated June 16, 2020\n$400.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.625% Senior Notes due 2028\nThis free writing prospectus relates to the offering by Dana Incorporated of $400.0 million aggregate principal amount of 5.625% Senior Notes due 2028 and should be read together with the preliminary prospectus supplement, dated June 16, 2020 (the \"Preliminary Prospectus Supplement\"), filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(5) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including the documents incorporated therein by reference, and the related base prospectus, dated November 5, 2019, forming a part of Registration Statement No. 333-234507.\nIssuer: Dana Incorporated (the \"Issuer\")\nSecurity: 5.625% Senior Notes due 2028 (the \"Notes\")\nAggregate Principal Amount: $400,000,000\nMaturity: June 15, 2028\nCoupon: 5.625%\nPrice: 100.000% plus accrued interest, if any, from June 19, 2020\nYield to Maturity: 5.625%\nBenchmark Treasury: UST 0.500% due May 31, 2027\nSpread to Benchmark Treasury: +507 basis points\nInterest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15, commencing December 15, 2020 (short first coupon)\nRecord Dates: June 1 and December 1\nOptional Redemption:\nAt any time on or after June 15, 2023, we may redeem some or all of the Notes at the following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount), plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date (subject to the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date) if redeemed during the 12-month period commencing on June 15 of the years set forth below:\nRedemption Price\n2023 102.813%\n2025 and thereafter 100.000%\nPrior to June 15, 2023, we may also redeem some or all of the Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date plus a \"make-whole\" premium.\nAt any time prior to June 15, 2023, we may redeem up to 35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of additional Notes) in an amount not to exceed the amount of proceeds of one or more equity offerings, at a price equal to 105.625% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date, provided that at least 50% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated after giving effect to any issuance of additional Notes) issued remains outstanding after the redemption.\nSettlement Date: June 19, 2020 (T+3)\nCUSIP\/ISIN: 235825 AG1 \/ US235825AG15\nUnderwriting Discount: 1.000%\nProceeds to Company\n(before expenses): $396,000,000\nJoint Book-Running Managers: Citigroup Global Markets Inc.\nA securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time.\nIf any information contained in this Pricing Term Sheet is inconsistent with information contained in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement and the accompanying base prospectus, the terms of this Pricing Term Sheet shall govern. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Pricing Term Sheet shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement.\nThe Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus and a related preliminary prospectus supplement) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the \"SEC\") relating to this offering. Before you invest, you should read the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, the accompanying base prospectus and other documents the Issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c\/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Attention: Prospectus Department, by calling ###-###-#### or by emailing ***@***; Barclays Capital Inc., c\/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by calling ###-###-#### or by emailing ***@***; BMO Capital Markets Corp., 3 Times Square, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10036, Attention: High Yield Capital Markets, by calling ###-###-####; BofA Securities, Inc. NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd Floor, Charlotte NC ###-###-####,\nAttention: Prospectus Department, by emailing ***@***, by calling ###-###-####; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Eleven Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010, Attention: Prospectus Department, by calling ###-###-#### or by emailing ***@***; Goldman Sachs & Co. 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{"text":"Joshua Palmerton\nLast updated 10 Sep 2021 in Spear\u2013Johnson Family.\nBorn: 3 Mar 1785 in , , Vermont, United States\nDied: 12 Jul 1870 in Collins, Erie County, New York, United States\nbook-history-of-concord-1883: Erasmus Briggs, History of the Original Town of Concord, Being the Present Towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York; Rochester, N.Y. : Union and Advertiser Co.'s Print, 1883; book image (PDF), Internet Archive (https:\/\/archive.org: accessed 20 Apr 2018); original held by Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.\nReference Detail: Page 677 (PDF page 695)\nComment Detail: Source includes name (Joshua Palmerton).\ncensus-us-1850-ps-ny-erie-collins-299a: 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, New York, Erie County, Collins, page 299A (stamped) or 597 (penned); 1850 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com: accessed before 4 August 2018) \u27e9 \"New York \u27e9 Erie\u27e9 Collins\" image 33; citing \"Seventh Census of the United States, 1850, NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 499 (of 1009), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.\"\ncensus-us-1860-ps-ny-erie-collins-29: 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, New York, Erie County, Collins, page 29 (form) or 119 (stamped); 1860 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com: accessed before 16 August 2018) \u27e9 \"New York \u27e9 Erie \u27e9 Collins\" image 29; citing \"Eighth Census of the United States, 1860, NARA microfilm publication M653 (1438 rolls), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.\" [FHL microfilm 803751]\ncensus-us-1870-ps-oh-monroe-salem-40: 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule, Ohio, Monroe County, Salem Township, page 40 (form) or page 223B (stamp sequence, not visible on page); 1870 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com: accessed before 12 August 2018) \u27e9 \"Ohio \u27e9 Monroe \u27e9 Salem\" image 21; citing \"Ninth Census of the United States, 1870, NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 1245 (of 1761), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.\" [FHL microfilm 552744]\nShow all citations and reference details for Joshua Palmerton in a new window.\nComment Detail: Source includes date (March 3, 1785) and location (New England).\nComment Detail: Source includes date (July 12, 1870) and location (Collins, Erie County, New York).\nSpouse\/Partner: Hannah Nichols (1793\u2009\u2013\u20091870)\nMarried: 26 Jan 1812\nComment Detail: Source includes date (Jan. 26, 1812).\nChild: Joel Palmerton (1814\u2009\u2013\u20091815)\nChild: Eliza Palmerton (1816\u2009\u2013\u2009?)\nChild: Elisha Palmerton (1816\u2009\u2013\u20091849)\nChild: Lydia Palmerton (1818\u2009\u2013\u20091848)\nChild: Joshua E. Palmerton (1820\u2009\u2013\u2009?)\nChild: Phebe Palmerton (1822\u2009\u2013\u2009?)\nChild: Joseph A. Palmerton (1824\u2009\u2013\u2009?)\nChild: Eunice N. Palmerton (1827\u2009\u2013\u20091852)\nChild: Hannah Palmerton (1829\u2009\u2013\u20091848)\nChild: James W. Palmerton (1831\u2009\u2013\u20091859)\nChild: Mary Palmerton (1836\u2009\u2013\u2009?)\nMoved From Residence: 1809 at Danby, Rutland County, Vermont, United States\nMoved To Residence: 1809 at Concord, Niagara County, New York, United States\nComment Detail: Source includes year (1809) and location he moved from (Danby, Vt.).\nComment Detail: Source includes year (1809) and location (Collins). Note that in 1809, Collins was just being populated and was not a town until 1812. In 1809, the area was part of the area claimed by the town of Concord. And while it is currently in Erie County, that county didn't exist until 1821; in the given year, the location that would become Collins was in Concord, Niagara County, New York.\nOccupation: (farmer) 1810\nOccupation: (farmer) 1 Jun 1850\nReligion: (Society of Friends)\nComment Detail: Source includes year (1810) and occupation (farm).\nComment Detail: Source includes census date (1 Jun 1850) and occupation (farmer).\nComment Detail: Source includes census date (1 Jun 1850) and location (Collins in the County of Erie, State of New York).\nComment Detail: Source includes census date (1 Jun 1860) and location (Collins, Erie County, New York).\nComment Detail: Source includes census date (1 Jun 1870) and location (the town of Collins in the County of Erie, State of New York).\nComment Detail: Source notes that Joshua Palmerton was a \"prominent member of the Society of Friends.\"\nIn 1809 Joshua traveled with Stephen Lapham, Abram Lapham, and Stephen Peters, on foot and carrying all they needed in knapsacks, to inspect and select areas in which to settle. Joshua selected lands and contracted for these in 1810. [book-history-of-concord-1883]\nJoshua was a prominent member of the Society of Friends and preached widely, usually traveled on horseback, and was often sent for, from long distances, to preach funeral sermons. [book-history-of-concord-1883]\nBy 1870, Joshua and Hannah were living in the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Thomas and Mary Paxton. [census-us-1870-ps-oh-monroe-salem-40]\nJoshua's parents may have been the son of John Palmerton (b. 3 Mar 1759 in Danby, Rutland County Vermont; d. 31 Jul 1826 in Saratoga, New York) and Elizabeth Wilbor (b. 13 May 1759 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island; d. 1853 in Collins, New York). They may have married 4 Dec 1776 in Clarindon, Rutland County, Vermont. [research-joshua-palmerton-genealogical-study]\nHis mother, Elizabeth Wilbor may have been the daughter of George Wilbor (b. 23 Sep 1718 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; d. 1777) and Deborah Randall (b. 24 Sep 1721 in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts; d. ?). Deborah and George may have married c. 1747 in Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. [research-joshua-palmerton-genealogical-study]\nJoshua's siblings, all born in Danby, Rutland County, Vermont, may have been Thankful (b. c. 1779), Elizabeth (b. c. 1781), John (b. c. 1783; d. 27 Feb 1885 in New York), Deborah (b. c. 1787), Sara (b. c. 1790), Henry W. (b. 8 Feb 1794; d. 9 Sep 1870), William Mather (b. 1796), and Edward (b. c. 1800). [research-joshua-palmerton-genealogical-study]\nJoshua's sibling William and his wife Floranna (nee Delezenne) had a daughter Flora Palmerton, who married Alanson Clark. Their child Willis Gaylord Clark married Mary J. Maltby, daughter of Frederick L. Maltby. I wonder if they are related to our friend, {private} Maltby.\nIn the 1850 U.S. Census, a child of two years is shown in the household. The birth date is rather late for Hannah Palmerton to be having children (she was about 55), and it appears to be some 12 years after Mary and 23 years after Joseph. Could Charles be a grandchild? [census-us-1850-ps-ny-erie-collins-299a]\nA 16-year old girl named Margaret Coil was living with the Palmertons in 1850. Was she a relative, friend, or just a border? [census-us-1850-ps-ny-erie-collins-299a]\nIs Joshua buried in the Route 39 Quaker Cemetery, located about 1\/4 mile east of Kerr-Warner Road, in Collins? The date on his headstone may be 18 Jul 1873.\nIn 1860, Joshua's household included his son Joseph and Joseph's family. It also included a boy of 11, Philip Weber, who was born in Germany. His relationship to the Palmertons is unknown, and he may have been a border or farmhand. [census-us-1860-ps-ny-erie-collins-29]\nIn 1870, Duane Palmerton (13) is listed in the census in the household of Thomas and Mary Paxton, under the entryes for Joshua and Helen Palmerton. Thomas is a son-in-law of Joshua Palmerton. Is Duane Joshua's grandson? If so, by whom? Joshua's sone James is a likely candidate. He died after Duane was born, and was married a few years before. [census-us-1870-ps-oh-monroe-salem-40]\nresearch-joshua-palmerton-genealogical-study: \"Genealogical Study: Joshua Palmerton,\" webpage, Tripod.com\nShow all citations and reference details for Joshua Palmerton in a new tab\/window.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hi, I'm Joe Chu, and welcome to Using dsetool. In this video we'll be taking a look at one of the most important command-line tools in DSE, and what it can do with DSE Search.\nDsetool actually mirrors a lot of the same functions that we've seen earlier with CQL index management commands. Well, actually it's more accurate to say that the CQL commands duplicates dsetool, since dsetool has been around and used since the early days of DSE.\nWhile I will admit that CQL is in many ways much more convenient to use, there are still plenty of things that only dsetool can do, aside from managing your search index schema and config.\nIn fact dsetool is the only way that you can run certain operations on individual nodes, something that you wouldn't be able to do with the CQL commands, which work on all of the nodes in a datacenter. If you are restoring data on a node and need to rebuild indexes, do you want to do so on all of your nodes, or just that one? That's where dsetool comes in.\nSo here is a table with all of the dsetool commands that are related to DSE Search. There are quite a few of them, but let's take a look at them one by one to see how they work.\nThe classic way to create a search index is by using the create_core command. This method for creating your search index can still automatically generate your schema and config for you, if you set the generateResources flag to true. Otherwise you can provide your own resource files and set the path to those files with the schema and solrconfig file. Running the command will automatically upload and store those files into DSE, and create the search index with them. That's it really. You really just need to set the flag to automatically create the schema and config, or to provide your own. Dsetool will create the search index and index existing data in all of the Search nodes in the current datacenter. In special cases when you don't want to reindex right away, or if you only want to reindex on the node you're running dsetool on, you can use the reindex and the distributed flag to change the behavior.\nHere are some examples of using the create_core command. The first example is one of the simplest, which is just to create a search index on the killrvideo videos table and automatically generate the schema and config. The command will also reindex data across all search nodes in the cluster.\nThe second example can be used in a situation where you don't want to reindex the existing data. It will just create the search index for killrvideo videos using the automatically generated resource files.\nThe third example uses the distributed flag to only reindex data on the local node.\nAnd the last example uses the schema and solrconfig flags to specify which files to use for the two search index resources. Since only a file name is provided and not the absolute path, dsetool will expect those files to be in the current working directory.\nThe next command will take a look at is the reload core command, which tells DSE to reload the requested search index. Reload_core doesn't require any parameters, but usually a modified schema and \/ or config is provided, which will automatically be used following the reload. Use the schema and solrconfig flag that we've seen previously to set the path to the modified files. Reload_core still has the reindex and distributed flags, which works the same way as we've seen before. There is also a new flag, deleteAll, that can delete the previous index prior to reindexing. If set to true, this would cause search queries to possibly return no or partial results while table data is reindexed. The default behavior though, would be to continue to use the previous index after the reload, which should be based on the schema used previously. This could potentially return \"incorrect\" results depending on how the schema was changed. Of course, if the schema has not changed at all, there would be no need to reindex or to delete the previous index.\nThe first example here shows the killrvideo.videos index being reloaded using a new schema and solrconfig. The data for the table will be reindexed, but will continue to use the old indexes while it is doing so.\nThe second example reloads the search index using only a new config file. No reindexing is needed.\nFinally the last example shows a situation where a new schema is provided and will be used following the reload. The search index will also drop the previous indexes and reindex data again using the new schema.\nThe last command when it comes to modifying the search index is the unload_core command. The command will effectively delete the search index, remove the solr_query psuedo column, and disable search queries on the specified table.\nHowever, the resource files that you have saved for the search index are still kept, unless you use the flag deleteResources. Likewise the existing index segment files are saved as well by default, but can be deleted automatically with the deleteDataDir flag. If for some reason you only want to delete the index segments on the local node, you can add the distributed parameter and set it to false to do so.\nWe'll only show one quick example here to delete a search index. Here the killrvideo.videos search index is being removed with both the resource files and index segments being delete across all search nodes in the local datacenter.\nAnother useful command is the write_resource command, which will upload a file and save it into the solr_admin.solr_resources table in the database. Afterwards, the file can be referenced by name in the specified search index. These resource files can be used in different search components, such as the text analysis filters. For example, the StopFilter, which prevents certain words from being indexed, actually requires a list of the stop words to ignore. That list can be uploaded as a resource file and then used to set up the stopfilter in the schema.\nIn fact, our example at the bottom is doing exactly that. It is uploading a file determined by the file parameter located in the home directory, under resources slash stopwords.txt, and will be given the name stopwords.txt in the database, due to the name parameter. Afterwards you can then setup the stop words list for a StopFilter used in the schema for the killrvideo.videos table, but using that name stopwords.txt.\nThe search index schema and config are also resources, and you can technically upload these as well. However, the naming of these files can be confusing since the database keeps two version, one for the active schema or config being used, and one for the pending that will be applied after a reload. To avoid using the wrong name, it is better to just upload them when running the reload_core command.\nThe read resource command is our way of retrieve the contents of a resource from the database. You can specify the search index name, and name of the resource you want to read in the name parameter, and the contents will be displayed to the standard output, like the first example you see here. You can also save the contents of the resource into a file by piping the output to a file like in the second example.\nThe commands here show ways to view the search index schema and config. With get_core_config you can read the contents of the pending configuration, and with get_core_schema, you read the contents of the pending schema. The current parameter can be used to read the active resource instead, if set to true. Like the command read_resource, these two commands will display the contents to standard output, but can be piped to a file as needed.\nFinally there is a command infer_solr_schema, that will display what the automatically generated schema would look like for a table. Of course the table needs to be defined, but the command will work regardless of whether the table currently has a search index or not.\nSome useful commands when it comes to indexing existing data are the stop_core_reindex and rebuild_indexes commands.The stop_core_reindex will stop any reindexing that is currently taking place for the specified search index, on the local node. However, this will cause the indexing status to switch to FAILED, and the table data will need to be reindexed again from the beginning. You would need to run this one each node that you would want to stop reindexing on.\nThe rebuild_indexes is more a general DSE command that rebuilds all defined secondary indexes for a CQL table. Since the search index is technically a secondary index, you can use this command to initiate reindexing for a table on the local node. Note that if for some reason you have multiple secondary indexes defined for a table, all of of them will be reindexed. If that's the case, using the CQL REBUILD SEARCH INDEX command would be a better solution.\nThe examples here are fairly straightforward. The first example stops the reindexing for the killrvideo.videos search index on the local node, and the second example starts a reindex for the killrvideo.videos search index on the local node as well.\nThe examples will also show what sort of response to expect when these commands are executed. The stop_core_reindex does return a message indicating that the reindex was stopped. However the rebuild_index command only returns a prompt and does not respond with any useful messages.\nTalking about reindexing, it would also be useful to know if a search index on a node is currently reindexing, and what the progress is. This is what the core_indexing_status command is for. The output of the command will indicate that the search index is currently indexing, or that it has failed, or has been successfully completed. Normally the command will also show the progress of the reindexing as a percentage, as well as an estimated time before completion. By default the status on the local node is shown, but the all flag can be used to check the status across all search nodes.\nIn our first example, the command here is checking the status of the killrvideo.videos search index, which happens to return a response saying that reindexing is finished, which means that it has successfully completed.\nThe second command uses the progress flag to also return the percent complete and the estimated time left, if the search index happens to be currently reindexing. The response here shows that the killrvideo.videos search index is indexing, at 21% complete, and there is still about 7 minutes before the reindexing is done.\nThe final example shows the all flag being used, and the command returning a list of nodes, identified by ip address, and the reindexing status for each one.\nIndex_Checks is a pretty interesting command, as it returns statistics and diagnostic information about a search index. The may help to answer certain burning questions like whether data for a particular search index and node has been reindexed before, or how many documents are currently indexed locally for a search index. However, most of the statistics provided may not be particularly useful for anyone but an advanced user of DSE Search or Solr.\nThe example here shows the index_checks command running on the killrvideo.videos search index, with the following example output.\nHere the doc statistics show current number of documents indexed for the search index on the node, all-time max number of documents, and count of deleted documents.\nThe version starts out at 2 if there is existing data has not been indexed yet. However the version number will increase while indexing, either from reindexing or with CQL writes. This value is not synced across Search nodes so eventually you'll start see different versions on different nodes.\nFinally the last statistic that I'll describe here is the current, which, will be false while reindexing is taking place or has failed, and true when finished.\nThe list_index_files command is a handy way to see the current index segment files written to disk for a search index, without having to navigate through the file system to see. In addition the command will also display the disk usage and encryption statistics for each of the index segment files as well.\nLast but not least is the perf command, which actually has quite a lot of sub commands and options. I'm going to defer explaining this command for now, and do so instead in a later video.\nWe're finally done going over all of the great, useful dsetool commands. How much of them do you remember right now? Don't worry, go do this exercise and you'll definitely be able to remember more of dsetool.\nAnd now it's time for an exercise!\nOk, I'm done talking. Do this exercise while I catch my breath.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Section 39 of CGST Act 2017: Furnishing of Returns\nAug 30, 2018 CGST Act 2017 Kewal Garg\nProvisions under Section 39 of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Act, 2017 relating to \"Furnishing of Returns\", are as under:\nSection 39 of CGST Act 2017: Furnishing of Returns (CHAPTER IX RETURNS)\n(1) Every registered person, other than an Input Service Distributor or a non-resident taxable person or a person paying tax under the provisions of section 10 or section 51 or section 52 shall, for every calendar month or part thereof, furnish, in such form, manner and within such time as may be prescribed, a return, electronically, of inward and outward supplies of goods or services or both, input tax credit availed, tax payable, tax paid and such other particulars as may be prescribed:\nProvided that the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify certain classes of registered persons who shall furnish return for every quarter or part thereof, subject to such conditions and safeguards as may be specified therein.\n(2) A registered person paying tax under the provisions of section 10 shall, for each quarter or part thereof, furnish, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, a return, electronically, of turnover in the State or Union territory, inward supplies of goods or services or both, tax payable and tax paid within eighteen days after the end of such quarter.\n(3) Every registered person required to deduct tax at source under the provisions of section 51 shall furnish, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, a return, electronically, for the month in which such deductions have been made within ten days after the end of such month.\n(4) Every taxable person registered as an Input Service Distributor shall, for every calendar month or part thereof, furnish, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, a return, electronically, within thirteen days after the end of such month.\n(5) Every registered non-resident taxable person shall, for every calendar month or part thereof, furnish, in such form and manner as may be prescribed, a return, electronically, within twenty days after the end of a calendar month or within seven days after the last day of the period of registration specified under sub-section (1) of section 27, whichever is earlier.\n(6) The Commissioner may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, by notification, extend the time limit for furnishing the returns under this section for such class of registered persons as may be specified therein:\nProvided that any extension of time limit notified by the Commissioner of State tax or Union territory tax shall be deemed to be notified by the Commissioner.\n(7) Every registered person, who is required to furnish a return under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) or sub-section (5), shall pay to the Government the tax due as per such return not later than the last date on which he is required to furnish such return.\nProvided that the Government may, on the recommendations of the Council, notify certain classes of registered persons who shall pay to the Government the tax due or part thereof as per the return on or before the last date on which he is required to furnish such return, subject to such conditions and safeguards as may be specified therein.\n(8) Every registered person who is required to furnish a return under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall furnish a return for every tax period whether or not any supplies of goods or services or both have been made during such tax period.\n(9) Subject to the provisions of sections 37 and 38, if any registered person after furnishing a return under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) or sub-section (5) discovers any omission or incorrect particulars therein, other than as a result of scrutiny, audit, inspection or enforcement activity by the tax authorities, he shall rectify such omission or incorrect particulars in such form and manner as may be prescribed, subject to payment of interest under this Act:\nProvided that no such rectification of any omission or incorrect particulars shall be allowed after the due date for furnishing of return for the month of September or second quarter following the end of the financial year to which such details pertain, or the actual date of furnishing of relevant annual return, whichever is earlier.\n(10) A registered person shall not be allowed to furnish a return for a tax period if the return for any of the previous tax periods has not been furnished by him.\nAmendments History:\n1. The words 'in such form and manner as may be prescribed' in sub-section (1) substituted with the words 'in such form, manner and within such time as may be prescribed' vide CGST (Amendment) Act, 2018.\n2. The words \"on or before the twentieth day of the month succeeding such calendar month or part thereof\" in sub-section (1) omitted vide CGST (Amendment) Act, 2018. Thus Last date for filing of return i.e 20th of succeeding month, deleted from the Act and now timeline\/ period is to be prescribed\/ notified separately.\n3. Proviso to sub-section (1) inserted vide CGST (Amendment) Act, 2018.\n5. The words 'in the return to be furnished for the month or quarter during which such omission or incorrect particulars are noticed' in sub-section (9) substituted with the words 'in such form and manner as may be prescribed' vide CGST (Amendment) Act, 2018.\n6. The words 'to which such details pertain' inserted in Proviso to sub-section (9) vide CGST (Amendment) Act, 2018.\nGovt. has notified the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Act, 2017 on 12 April, 2017 followed with various CBIC Notifications on commencement date for various Sections\/ Provisions thereof from time to time. Govt. has further notified the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) (Amendment) Act, 2018 on 30 Aug. 2018 followed with CBIC Notification on commencement date of various Sections\/ Provisions thereof from 1 Feb. 2019 vide Notification No. 2\/2019 Central Tax dt. 29 Jan. 2019 except for amendments where the date of commencement is different from 1 Feb. 2019 and has specifically been mentioned in the CGST Amendment Act, 2018 itself.\nOther GST Related Posts:\nCentral Goods and Services Tax (CGST):\nCGST Act\/ Definitions CGST Rules\/ Forms\nCGST Notifications CGST Rate Notifications\nCGST Circulars CGST Orders\nIntegrated Goods and Services Tax (IGST):\nIGST Act\/ Definitions IGST Rules\/ Forms\nIGST Notifications IGST Rate Notifications\nIGST Circulars IGST Orders\nUnion Territory Goods and Services Tax (UTGST):\nUTGST Act\/ Definitions UTGST Rules\/ Forms\nUTGST Notifications UTGST Rate Notifications\nUTGST Circulars UTGST Orders\nList of Various State GST (SGST) Acts 2017 in India\nImtaj\nNo link available to explain these rules for prescribed period. 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{"text":"Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brian Hagedorn speaks at a news conference Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in Pewaukee. Hagedorn, a conservative, led liberal-backed Lisa Neubauer by 5,962 votes out of 1.2 million cast, based on unofficial results with all precincts reporting. Ivan Moreno\/AP Photo\nJustice Brian Hagedorn Downplays Political Ties At Public Swearing-In\nNew Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Strengthens Court's Conservative Majority\nBy Laurel White\nWednesday, August 14, 2019, 5:55pm\nWisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn was ceremonially sworn in on Wednesday, marking the beginning of his 10-year term.\nHagedorn, who was officially sworn in to the court earlier this month, was backed by conservatives during his campaign. His ascension strengthens the conservative majority on the court, bringing it to 5-2.\nBut during his public investiture ceremony at the state Capitol, Hagedorn downplayed his partisan affiliation.\n\"I'm not pro-Republican or pro-Democrat, I'm not here to advance any agenda other than faithful application of our constitution and our laws,\" he said. \"I will be a pro-law judge.\"\nDuring his campaign, Hagedorn received financial support from the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, as well as the Republican State Leadership Committee. Hagedorn also has strong ties to former Gov. Scott Walker. He served as Walker's chief legal counsel from 2011 until 2015, until the former governor appointed him to an open seat on the District 2 Court of Appeals.\nBut the new justice said political work is behind him.\n\"My days of advocating for particular issues or clients are no more,\" Hagedorn said. \"This robe does not empower me to be your philosopher king. This robe does not empower me to enforce my personal moral views, or policy preferences or political views on anyone else.\"\nState Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack was one of several speakers at the ceremony. In her remarks, Roggensack spoke to the importance of judges' impartiality.\n\"The law must be applied evenly to all who bring contest to the Supreme Court to resolve,\" she said.\nRoggensack said Hagedorn is up to that task.\n\"I do not expect that the public will always agree with his decisions \u2014 goodness knows, they certainly don't always agree with mine,\" she said. \"However, I am very confident Justice Hagedorn will be an independent and intellectually honest justice.\"\nHagedorn replaced longtime liberal-backed Justice Shirley Abrahamson on the court, who announced last year she would retire after more than 40 years on the bench.\nHagedorn faced criticism during his campaign for blog posts he wrote during law school that compared homosexuality to bestiality and called Planned Parenthood a \"wicked organization.\"\nHe was also criticized for his position as founder and board member of Augustine Academy, a private Christian school in Delafield where the code of conduct prohibits teachers, students and parents from participating in homosexual activity.\nHagedorn defended himself against those attacks by saying he would be impartial on the bench, despite his personal convictions.\nDuring the Capitol ceremony, Hagedorn's wife, Christina, reflected on those campaign attacks.\n\"We cannot let their message that you cannot be a person of faith and a faithful judge win,\" she recalled telling her husband.\nHadegorn defeated Lisa Neubauer, a fellow appellate court judge, by less than 1 percentage point to take the seat on the state's highest court.\nWisconsin's next Supreme Court race will be next April, in which conservative-backed Justice Daniel Kelly will run to keep the seat he was appointed to in 2016 by Walker.\nLiberal-backed candidates Ed Fallone, a Marquette University law professor, and Jill Karofsky, a Dane County judge, are running against him.\nHagedorn, Neubauer Set Spending Record In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race\nHagedorn Outraises Neubauer In January In State Supreme Court Race\nEric Holder's Group Spending $350K To Help Supreme Court Candidate Lisa Neubauer\nHagedorn, Neubauer Spar Over Political Ties During Supreme Court Debate\nSupreme Court Hopeful Hagedorn Stresses Impartiality Despite Conservative, Religious Leanings","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"dugoutdiscs\nVinyl Discoveries, Music Musings & Expat Observations\nDoug: Alive! A four-part flashback on a teen fling with Kiss\nAugust 15, 2016 September 2, 2016 \/ dugoutdiscs\nPart Two: The Army\nAmong the small core group of friends that I'd made after moving to Nashville as a young teen, James was the most adventurous. He always did things first. He had the first girlfriend. (Though I tacitly sat out that race for reasons which would become clear to me a few years later.) He smoked the first cigarette, drank the first beer, heard \"Stairway to Heaven\" before any of us, thanks to his older brother's record collection. But he wasn't a juvenile delinquent or a bad influence in any alarming way. With blonde wavy hair, a crooked grin and a gregarious demeanor, he was basically a good Southern boy. Just a touch more fearless than the cadre of quaking 8th-graders he hung around with.\nWhen I confessed to him my cowardly retreat from the \"Alive!\" album cover\u2013 detailed in Part One of this series\u2014 James vowed to check it out for himself. It's weird now to think that he couldn't look it up online or say \"Kiss albums\" into his phone and have it appear within a nanosecond. No, in those days you had to track stuff down via old-fashioned shoe-leather sleuthing. Or in this case, sleuthing via James' brother's van. After what probably involved some begging and a promise or two to assume household chores, James got his bro to chauffeur him to the Harding Mall, where he followed my directions to the back of the head shop\/record store and found the album. And as I'd hoped he would, prayed he would, he bought it. He went home and played it and reported its awesomeness to me the next time I saw him at school. We made plans to listen to it together on the following Saturday with two other neighborhood friends, Randy and Steve.\nThe weekend came and the four of us gathered at James' house in his rec room. We plopped ourselves in front of the stereo console, Charles Chips and Cokes at the ready, as James put side one of \"Alive!\" on the turntable and lowered the needle. Crowd noises emanated from the speakers, growing in volume until an anonymous, highly excitable announcer bellowed, \"You wanted the best and you got it! The hottest band in the land, Kiss!\" Then, piercing screams and cheers, a swaggering guitar riff, an explosion \u2013 had to be stage pyrotechnics\u2013 and we were off. For a double album, it seemed to zip by in no time. Aside from a drum solo on side three that dragged on a little too long, most of the tunes clocked in at an easily digestible three to four minutes. They bore appealingly succinct titles\u2013 \"Strutter,\" \"Black Diamond,\" \"Cold Gin\"\u2013 and were nearly identical in structure and theme. Crunchy, catchy guitar riffs supported shout-along lyrics touting sexual prowess, bacchanalian drinking habits and general bad-ass behavior.\nWe were instantly smitten. Before this momentous listening party, James, Randy, Steve and I were pretty close buds. After it, for a time, we became an inseparable band of brothers. Kiss was now the focus of our relationship. We all procured our own copies of \"Alive!\", of course, and dedicated as much of our allowances and lawn-mowing money as possible to Kiss-related paraphernalia: T-shirts, posters and patches, lunchboxes, you name it. When my family went on vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, I was thrilled to find a Kiss t-shirt that I hadn't yet seen in Nashville in one of the town's tourist-trap shops. I bought it and when we returned home, I wore it to school. Envious stares tracked me through the halls. Kids were like, \"Where did you get THAT?\" That was by far the highest my cool factor has ever been.\nWhen Kiss' next album, \"Destroyer,\" came out, we all got that too. Again, the cover was breathtaking, the music formulaic and, to our young ears, perfect. And we all enrolled in the Kiss Army, the band's official fan club. One of the few artifacts that I've hung onto from this fervent phase is my Army memorabilia folder, complete with \"induction\" certificate, where I long ago scrawled my name in crude Bic pen letters on the provided blank line.\nFor Halloween, we dressed as\u2026 who else? James got to be Gene because he had claimed that right with his trailblazing purchase of \"Alive!\" I chose Paul, my favorite band member after Gene; Randy was Peter and Steve was Ace. Our costumes and accessories, cobbled together in James' garage with his dad's woodworking tools and in our moms' sewing rooms, were DIY in the extreme. For my platform shoes, I sawed off chunks of plywood, nailed them to an old pair of desert boots, then spray-painted the boots black. My \"guitar\" was also plywood, with an inlay of white poster-board, courtesy of the local dime store. My \"black leather\" pants? Tights pulled over an old pair of cut-off jeans. And my top was a black mock turtleneck cut down the front to the navel, hemmed into a deep-V to show off my hairless, barely pubescent chest, then outlined with glue and glitter. My mom did my make-up and teased my hair. She was, and is, a way-cool mom.\nWe went to a neighborhood Halloween party that night, where we were the kings. Everyone wanted to know how we made our outfits! We also hit up some houses for candy, shocking our neighbors senseless. It's for sure my favorite Halloween of all time. Afterwards, I kept the components of the costume for a while. The platform shoes sat on the floor of my closet, neglected under successive piles of dirty clothes. The turtleneck top lingered on a hanger above, its glitter gradually flaking off until the time\u2014likely a couple years later when my family was preparing to move to Atlanta\u2014the entire costume was bequeathed to the rubbish gods. I'm not sure what happened to the guitar.\nThere is a picture somewhere of the four of us, snapped pre-Halloween party by mom in the foyer of our house, posing in all our regalia. We look magnificent. I've thought about that photo often over the decades and I've tried and tried to find it among my belongings, but so many years have passed between then and now and I've relocated so often, packing haphazardly each time, that the photo has gone missing. Hopefully it's stuck in a book somewhere and one day I'll take that book out of a storage box and I'll flip to the right page and gasp with relief. For now, I only have a photo of me alone, taken in that suburban Nashville hallway before I ventured out with my mates. No longer merely a doughy, dweeby teen, but a painted and preening rock god to rival the real Paul Stanley. If only for a night.\nStay tuned for Part Three, \"The Show,\" to be published soon!\nPart One: The Cover\nPart Three: The Show\nPart Four: The Breakup\n\u2190 19 days of songs from the '90s: Day 16\n19 days of songs from the '90s: Day 17 \u2192\nOne thought on \"Doug: Alive! A four-part flashback on a teen fling with Kiss\"\nPingback: That Time I Saw Screamin' Jay Hawkins Perform in a Folk Bar and a Lady's Hair Caught on Fire | dugoutdiscs","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC-2016)\nMonterey: IEEE, 2016.\nRadiation of the Microwave Generator on Electron-Oscillator Flows at Forced Synchronization by an External Signal\nMozgovoi Y. D., Khritkin S. In bk.: Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC-2016). Monterey: IEEE, 2016. P. 343-344.\nAn approximate model of discrete multibeam generator based on the use of equivalent oscillators is offered. Formation of the antenna radiation field in a three-dimensional approach on the example of a cylindrical ring radiator is considered. Each ring consists of a large number of dipoles oriented in a longitudinal direction. It is shown that the type of pattern depends on the ratio of the phase velocity of waves excitation dipoles to the speed of light.\nInteraction of the Ring Systems of Electron and Positron Macroplasmoids with Considering Vector Potential Field\nMacroscopic quantum interaction processes of ring systems of electron and positron macroplasmoid taking into account fields of vector potential are investigated. The non-stationary self-consistent problem of the charged particles movement taking into account interaction of wave fields, Coulomb forces and a magnetic field is solved.\nResearch target: PhysicsElectronics and Electrical Engineering\nPriority areas: engineering science\nKeywords: vacuum electronicshigh power microwavesTWTcathodesklystronsTHz deviceselectron opticsgyrotrondevice modeling\nP.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013.\nIVEC 2013 is intended to be a forum of information and discussion between the various players in the field of vacuum electronics: device users, manufacturers and operators, government\/institutions, academics, and students. Submissions from all groups are encouraged. IVEC 2013 will provide the right place for the exchange of scientific and technical information and will foster collaboration and cooperation in the vacuum electronics domain both at European and worldwide level.\nAdded: Jun 1, 2013\nDynamics of the Davydov-Scott soliton with location or velocity mismatch of its high-frequency component\nBlyakhman L. G., Gromov E., Onosova I. V. et al. Physics Letters A. 2017. Vol. 381. No. 17. P. 1490-1492.\nThe dynamics of a two-component Davydov-Scott (DS) soliton with a small mismatch of the initial location or velocity of the high-frequency (HF) component was investigated within the framework of the Zakharov-type system of two coupled equations for the HF and low-frequency (LF) fields. In this system, the HF field is described by the linear Schr\u00f6dinger equation with the potential generated by the LF component varying in time and space. The LF component in this system is described by the Korteweg-de Vries equation with a term of quadratic influence of the HF field on the LF field. The frequency of the DS soliton`s component oscillation was found analytically using the balance equation. The perturbed DS soliton was shown to be stable. The analytical results were confirmed by numerical simulations.\nMonterey: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2014.\nIVEC was originally created in 2000 by merging the U.S. Power Tubes Conferences and the European Space Agency TWTA Workshops. Now a fully international conference, IVEC is held every other year in the U.S., and in Europe and Asia alternately every fourth year. After the successful and enjoyable meeting in Paris, France in May, IVEC 2014 will return to its beautiful U.S. location in the city of Monterey.\nAdded: May 1, 2014\nOptimization of a Sheet Electron Beam Interaction With a Slow Wave\nPchelnikov Y., Yelizarov (Elizarov) A. A. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 2014. Vol. 61. No. 6. P. 1661-1665.\nThe TWT model based on placed in parallel impedance electrodes is used to analyze effectiveness of a sheet e-beam interaction with the in-phase mode of a slow wave excited in the impedance electrodes. The impedance approximation was used for presentation fields of E- and H-waves by zero and \u00b11 space harmonics, respectively. The generalized formula for the coupling coefficient, characterizing the interaction effectiveness, was used to demonstrate the its dependence on the e-beam thickness and the gaps between the impedance and screen electrodes. The obtained dependences on the e-beam tunnel geometry and the operating frequency were compared with that calculated for a cylindrical beam in a conventional helix.\nBeam\u2013Wave Interaction in the Passbands and Stopbands of Periodic Slow-Wave Systems\nSolntsev V. A. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 2015. Vol. 43. No. 7. P. 2114-2122.\nA method of analysis of beam-wave interaction in passbands and stopbands of periodic slow-wave systems (SWS), based on the use of the finite-difference equation of excitation of such systems by an electron beam, is presented. In contrast to equations of a well-known beam wave interaction theory it includes the local coupling impedance, that characterizes the interaction of electrons with the total field of two waves (forward and counter-propagating) of the slow- wave system and does not tend to infinity at cutoff frequencies. It allowed to develop a general theory of interaction of electron beams and waves in passbands and stopbands of slow-wave systems without using their equivalent circuits. A study of beam wave interaction in the folded waveguide-type SWSs has been performed. An elementary analytical calculation of electro-dynamic characteristics of such SWSs necessary to study the interaction is given. Specifies of interaction in passbands and near cutoff frequencies of periodic SWSs are considered. Amplification conditions in stopbands of such slow-wave systems are discovered. Properties of the beam-wave interaction at the cutoff frequency where the folded waveguide is an analog of multi-gap open resonators used in such electron devices, as an orotron, are examined.\nAdded: Sep 7, 2015\n\u0418\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0443\u0441\u0438\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0432 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0441\u0430\u0445 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0438 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0437\u0430\u043c\u0435\u0434\u043b\u044f\u044e\u0449\u0438\u0445 \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c \u043c\u043e\u0449\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043b\u0430\u043c\u043f \u0431\u0435\u0433\u0443\u0449\u0435\u0439 \u0432\u043e\u043b\u043d\u044b\n\u041d\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u041c. \u0412., \u0421\u043e\u043b\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432 \u0412. \u0410., \u041a\u043e\u043b\u0442\u0443\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0420. \u041f. \u0438 \u0434\u0440. T-Comm: \u0422\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043c\u0443\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0438 \u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442. 2012. \u2116 10. \u0421. 76-81.\nIn this study with using of the small-signal theory of discrete electron-wave interaction in the passbands and stopbands resonator slow-wave systems (SWS) of power traveling-wave tubes (TWT), obtain the characteristic equation for the propagation constants of the 4-electron waves produced in the interaction of the electron beam forward and backward electromagnetic waves of SWS. The analysis of solutions of this equation, which allowed to establish the specific characteristics of these waves are compared with the known properties of electron waves in a \"smooth\", such as helical SWS. On the basis of solving the boundary value problem for the SWS segments were simulated and found gain of multisection TWT with transparent section and stopsection, as well as, the distribution of fields and currents along the stopsection.\n\u041c\u043e\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u043c\u043e\u0449\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u041b\u0411\u0412 \u0441 \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0441\u0435\u043a\u0446\u0438\u0435\u0439 \u0417\u0421 \u043d\u0430 \u043e\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0435 \u0442\u0435\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0438 \u0434\u0438\u0441\u043a\u0440\u0435\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e-\u0432\u043e\u043b\u043d\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0432\u0437\u0430\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0434\u0435\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0438\u044f\n\u0428\u0430\u0431\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0414. \u0421. \u0412 \u043a\u043d.: \u0410\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043b\u0435\u043c\u044b \u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0410\u041f\u042d\u041f-2012. \u041c\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0430\u043b\u044b 10-\u0439 \u044e\u0431\u0438\u043b\u0435\u0439\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u041c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u043d\u043e-\u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0444\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0438\u0438, 19-20 \u0441\u0435\u043d\u0442\u044f\u0431\u0440\u044f 2012 \u0433.. \u0421\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0432: \u0421\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0433\u043e\u0441\u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0442, 2012. \u0421. 79-83.\nIn the study presents an approach to the modeling power TWT with stopband sections on the basis of the theory of discrete electron-wave interaction. Designed TWT without the use of equivalent circuits of SWS and with use of local coupling impedance and the characteristic equation of degree four.\nA study of the discrete electron-wave interaction for the passbands and stopbands of TWT slow-wave systems\nSolntsev V. A., Koltunov R. P., Shabanov D. S. In bk.: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC\/IVECS-2012). Monterey: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012. P. 263-264.\nThe fourth power algebraic characteristic equation is obtained for the wave number of the individual electron waves that exist in periodic slow-wave systems(SWS) with discrete electron-wave interaction. The study of properties of these waves and the solution of the corresponding boundary-value problem have been performed. It has allowed to find some properties of electron-wave interaction which are different or are identical to the SWS with discrete interactions or \"smooth\" SWS, for example helical SWS.\nPchelnikov Y., Yelizarov (Elizarov) A. A. In bk.: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC-2013). P.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013.\nThe model based on coupled impedance electrodes was used to analyze effectiveness of a sheet e-beam interaction with the in-phase mode of a slow wave. The coupling coefficient, characterizing the interaction effectiveness, was calculated using derivatives of the equivalent parameters, the specific capacitances and inductance. The calculated coefficient was compared with that of a cylindrical e-beam in a helix.\nGeneralized error-locating codes and minimization of redundancy for specified input and output error probabilities\nZhilin I., Kreshchuk A., Zyablov V. V. Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics. 2015. Vol. 60. No. 6. P. 695-706.\nGeneralized error-locating codes are discussed. An algorithm for calculation of the upper bound of the probability of erroneous decoding for known code parameters and the input error probability is given. Based on this algorithm, an algorithm for selection of the code parameters for a specified design and input and output error probabilities is constructed. The lower bound of the probability of erroneous decoding is given. Examples of the dependence of the probability of erroneous decoding on the input error probability are given and the behavior of the obtained curves is explained.\nOdd-frequency superconductivity induced in topological insulators with and without hexagonal warping\nA. S. Vasenko, Golubov A. A., Silkin V. M. et al. arxiv.org. cond-mat. Cornell University, 2017. No. 1606.00905.\n\u0420\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0441\u043e\u0442\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0440\u0438\u044f - 2010: \u0421\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043d\u0438\u043a \u0442\u0440\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0432 \u0422\u0440\u0435\u0442\u044c\u0435\u0439 \u0412\u0441\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u043d\u043e-\u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0444\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0438\u0438\n\u0415\u043a\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0431\u0443\u0440\u0433: \u041e\u041e\u041e \u00ab\u0424\u043e\u0440\u0442 \u0414\u0438\u0430\u043b\u043e\u0433-\u0418\u0441\u0435\u0442\u044c\u00bb, 2010.\nKinetical processes in the non- equilibrium nitrogen-oxygen plasma\/\/\nKostinskiy A., Matveev A., Silakov V. Preprint IOFAN. PL. Gen. Phys. Insth, 1990. No. 87.\nKinetical processes in the non- equilibrium nitrogen-oxygen plasma\nUpper bounds on violation of Bell-type inequalities by a multipartite quantum state\nElena R. Loubenets. quant-ph. arXiv. Cornell University, 2011. No. 1108.0263.\n\u0418\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f \u043e\u0442\u0435\u0447\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0438\n\u0422. 2. \u041c.: \u0417\u0410\u041e \"\u0418\u0437\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0434\u043e\u043c \"\u0421\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u044d\u043d\u0446\u0438\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0434\u0438\u044f\", 2012.\n\u0421\u0431\u043e\u0440\u043d\u0438\u043a \u0442\u0440\u0443\u0434\u043e\u0432 IV \u041c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0444\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0438 \u043c\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0451\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0448\u043a\u043e\u043b\u044b \"\u0418\u043d\u0444\u043e\u0440\u043c\u0430\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0438 \u0438 \u043d\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0438\" (\u0418\u0422\u041d\u0422 2018)\n\u0421\u0430\u043c\u0430\u0440\u0430: \u041f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043f\u0440\u0438\u044f\u0442\u0438\u0435 \"\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0430\u044f \u0442\u0435\u0445\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430\", 2018.\n\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043b\u0435\u043c\u044b \u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u043c\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0447\u0451\u0442\u043e\u0432 \u043d\u0430\u0434\u0451\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\n\u0416\u0430\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0412. \u0412., \u0416\u0430\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0432 \u0418. \u0412., \u041f\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0421. \u041d. \u041d\u0430\u0434\u0435\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c. 2007. \u2116 2. \u0421. 3-12.\nCommunications in Computer and Information Science\nDudin A. Vol. 356: Modern Probabilistic Methods for Analysis of Telecommunication Networks. Belorusian Winter Workshops in Queueing Theory, BWWQT 2013 . Heidelberg; NY; Dordrecht; L.: Springer, 2013.\nThis volume presents new results in the study and optimization of information transmission models in telecommunication networks using different approaches, mainly based on theiries of queueing systems and queueing networks .\n\u042d\u043a\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0440\u0438\u0441\u043a\u0438 \u0432 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0433\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0438 \u043c\u0435\u0436\u0441\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0442\u0435\u0440\u0440\u0438\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u044f\u0445. \u042d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0430\u0442\u043b\u0430\u0441\n\u0413\u0443\u043d\u044c\u043a\u043e \u041c., \u0417\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u041c., \u041a\u0430\u0448\u043d\u0438\u0446\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0418. \u0421. \u0438 \u0434\u0440. \u041c.: \u0418\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0443\u0442 \u0433\u0435\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0438\u0438 \u0420\u0410\u041d, 2013.\nPublic sector e-innovations. E-government and its impact on corruption\nProskuryakova L. N., Abdrakhmanova G. I., Pitlik H. Science, Technology and Innovation. WP BRP. \u0412\u044b\u0441\u0448\u0430\u044f \u0448\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430 \u044d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0438, 2013. No. 04\/STI\/2013.\nThe paper aims at assessing indicators and individual elements of e-government of selected countries in 2009-2010, and the interrelation of e-government with corruption in the public sector. The authors explore possible causal and dependency relations of the established interlink between e-government and public sector corruption. Although it is universally acknowledged that corruption is an evil, there is much debate over which determinants of corruption are important. Using econometric analysis for sizeable country samples the authors verified the closeness of interrelation between e-government indicators and ICT Development Index indicators, such as online services quality and ICT usage, on one hand, and the level of perceived public sector corruption, on the other hand. The major research papers were analyzed, along with international rankings and databases of international organizations. Based on the analysis recommendations for overcoming international e-government measurement constraints are put forward, as well as suggestions for future studies of the topic.\n\u0410\u043b\u044c\u0442\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0445\u043e\u0434\u044b \u043a \u043f\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044e \u043c\u043e\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 \u0438\u0437\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043f\u0440\u0438\u0435\u043c\u043d\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0432 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0432\u0438\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u042d\u041c\u0421\n\u041b\u0435\u043c\u0435\u0448\u043a\u043e \u041d. \u0412., \u0417\u0430\u0445\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0421. \u0421. \u0422\u0440\u0443\u0434\u044b \u041d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0443\u0442\u0430 \u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e. 2013. \u2116 1. \u0421. 40-45.\n\u0420\u0430\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430 \u043c\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0432 \u0438 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0435\u043a\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0434\u0451\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e\u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0430\u043f\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u044b\n\u041a\u043d. 2: \u0420\u0430\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0434\u0451\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0435\u043a\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0434\u0451\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e\u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0430\u043f\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u044b. \u041c.: \u041c\u0418\u042d\u041c, 2010.\nEqual Weights Coauthorship Sharing and Shapley Value are Equivalent\nKarpov A. V. Science, Technology and Innovation. WP BRP. \u0412\u044b\u0441\u0448\u0430\u044f \u0448\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430 \u044d\u043a\u043e\u043d\u043e\u043c\u0438\u043a\u0438, 2012. No. 03.\nThe publication credit allocation problem is one of the fundamental problems in bibliometrics. The solution of this problem provides the basis of further research. There are two solutions which do not require any additional information: equal weights measure and Shapley value. Until recently Shapley value is not used because of hardness of computing. The paper justifies the equal weights measure by showing equivalence with the Shapley value approach for sharing coauthors performance in specific games.\n\u0420\u0430\u0437\u0440\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0442\u043a\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0438 \u0444\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0435\u0440\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0440\u0430 \u0434\u043b\u044f \u0432\u0435\u0440\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0434\u0443\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043f\u043e\u043c\u0435\u0445 \u0432 \u044d\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0435\u0442\u044f\u0445\n\u0417\u0430\u0445\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0421. \u0421., \u041b\u0435\u043c\u0435\u0448\u043a\u043e \u041d. \u0412. \u0422\u0440\u0443\u0434\u044b \u041d\u0430\u0443\u0447\u043d\u043e-\u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0442\u0443\u0442\u0430 \u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043e. 2012. \u2116 4. \u0421. 48-54.\nDeveloping a statistical framework for the measurement of enabling technologies and their applications: draft guidelines for collecting and interpreting technology data\nGokhberg L., Fursov K., Perani G. Working Party of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators. DSTI\/EAS\/STP\/NESTI. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2012. No. DSTI\/EAS\/STP\/NESTI(2012)9\/ANN1.\nThe paper provides a number of proposed draft operational guidelines for technology measurement and includes a number of tentative technology definitions to be used for statistical purposes, principles for identification and classification of potentially growing technology areas, suggestions on the survey strategies and indicators. These are the key components of an internationally harmonized framework for collecting and interpreting technology data that would need to be further developed through a broader consultation process. A summary of definitions of technology already available in OECD manuals and the stocktaking results are provided in the Annex section.\nAdded: Jan 9, 2013","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"World|Israeli Leaders Seek to Keep Gaza Withdrawal on Track\nIsraeli Leaders Seek to Keep Gaza Withdrawal on Track\nBy Joseph Berger\nWith the Palestinian government in disarray, Israeli party leaders tried Sunday to prevent disarray within their own government so that a parliamentary majority can be formed to proceed with a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.\nPrime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been running the government for several weeks without a parliamentary majority, met with Shimon Peres, the leader of the Labor Party, to discuss how Labor, which strongly favors the withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza, might join Mr. Sharon's dominant Likud Party in a unity government.\nBut Mr. Sharon finds himself in the challenging position of a ballet master, trying to bring together many quarreling performers into an exquisitely intricate dance.\nAlthough he could secure a parliamentary majority of 61 with Likud's 40 seats, plus 19 from Labor and the 15 from the current Likud ally Shinui, those numbers may not be enough to achieve his goal. Perhaps half of the members of Mr. Sharon's own party strongly oppose the Gaza disengagement plan.\nTo win the support of some of the Likud dissidents, he is also talking to leaders of two ultra-Orthodox religious parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism. But many secular Labor and Shinui members feel uneasy about joining with groups that might press for increased subsidies for their schools and more religious control over public life.\n''He has a problem of political arithmetic,'' said Arye Naor, a public policy professor at Ben Gurion University. ''Only if he succeeds in bringing in Shinui and an Orthodox party together in one way or another, then might he have a majority in the Likud and the Knesset.''\nNevertheless, the hourlong breakfast meeting between Mr. Sharon and Mr. Peres was useful enough that talks between Labor and Likud teams got off the ground Sunday night near Tel Aviv.\nMeanwhile, Yasir Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority, had to grapple with a prime minister who has said he wants to resign, and a popular revolt in Gaza against Mr. Arafat's appointment of a cousin as chief of security.\nMr. Arafat met with the prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, for four hours on Sunday at Mr. Arafat's West Bank compound in Ramallah. Afterward, a spokesman said Mr. Arafat had again refused to accept Mr. Qurei's resignation.\nThere was a report that Mr. Qurei had told a journalist that he would reconsider his resignation if Mr. Arafat met certain demands. He did not elaborate, but when Mr. Qurei formed his government last fall Mr. Arafat rejected his original choice for interior minister, Nasr Yousef, and forced the appointment of Hakam Balawi instead. It may have been significant that Mr. Balawi left the Saturday cabinet meeting before any of the other ministers.\nBut Mr. Qurei, who has been unhappy during his tenure with Mr. Arafat's unwillingness to cede real authority over security, still plans to meet with the Palestinian cabinet on Monday to work out plans for a new government -- which would be the third in little more than a year.\nWhile the discussions over a new Palestinian power structure continued, so did protests against the leadership of Mr. Arafat and some of his recent appointees. Early Sunday, masked gunmen belonging to an offshoot of Mr. Arafat's Fatah movement stormed a building housing offices of Moussa Arafat, the cousin appointed to be security chief, in the Gaza city of Khan Yunis. They set fire to two offices and several cars and took 10 rifles. The protesters said Moussa Arafat was unacceptable and symbolized the cronyism and corruption of the Palestinian Authority.\nLater Sunday, in Rafah in southern Gaza, shooting broke out between militants of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade and people from the headquarters of the Palestinian military intelligence service, led by Moussa Arafat. At least 12 people were wounded.\nAlso Sunday, a third official in Gaza quit to protest Moussa Arafat's appointment. The navy chief, Gomma Ghali, submitted his resignation, joining Maj. Gen. Amin Al-Hindi, an intelligence chief, and Rashid Abu Shbak, the head of preventive security, both of whom resigned Friday.\nMoussa Arafat responded to the protests in a rare news conference, saying that they would pass ''like a summer cloud'' and that he was ready to go to battle with any enemy, external or internal.\nThe breakout of a deeper lawlessness in Gaza is seen by many residents and Israeli military officials as the consequence of a power struggle between Yasir Arafat and younger challengers like Muhammad Dahlan, for years the leader of the Preventive Security Force in Gaza and someone favored by Israeli, European and American officials as strong enough to run Gaza.\n''I feel insecure,'' Om Ahmad, a 29-year-old woman who lives in Gaza City, said of the conflict between Mr. Arafat and Mr. Dahlan. ''I cannot trust any of these two people who are fighting. Each is fighting for his own interest and power.''\nYasir Arafat's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Mr. Arafat was determined to end the anarchy in Gaza.\n''The lawlessness we witnessed in our streets must come to an end,'' Mr. Erekat said. ''Every effort is being exerted to restore public order.''\nMr. Peres, the Labor leader, said the political distress in both Israel and the Palestinian Authority might not be a coincidence.\n''As we make clear that the date for our leaving Gaza is becoming closer, so they have decided to get organized,'' Mr. Peres said in an interview in his Tel Aviv office after the meeting with Mr. Sharon.\nMr. Peres said he had told Mr. Sharon his three conditions for a unity government -- a firm timetable for withdrawal from Gaza, an overture to some Palestinian officials to take part in the withdrawal, and a pledge to proceed with the withdrawal in parts of the West Bank as well. He said Mr. Sharon did not reject his conditions, although he did raise some of his own.\nFor example, Mr. Peres said Mr. Sharon had told him he did not think he could pass a bill providing compensation for Gaza's 7,500 settlers until next month. Mr. Peres wanted such a law passed this month.\nBut Mr. Peres said Mr. Sharon seemed amenable to the idea of a Palestinian ''partner' in the disengagement, although he did not believe it could be Yasir Arafat.\nMr. Peres, with an appreciation of his rival's predicament, said Mr. Sharon could cobble together a parliamentary majority of 61 seats without Labor, but not a majority that would support his withdrawal plan.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HP's new 3D printer gets serious, heads to high-volume factories\nThe Jet Fusion 5200, designed for large-scale manufacturing, could create more profound changes than the more common 3D printers used to build prototypes.\nStephen Shankland\nMay 9, 2019 11:34 a.m. PT\nThis Kupol 3D-printed helmet uses an interior protective layer made of absorbent thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) that can be made with HP's Jet Fusion 5200 printer.\nYou can't print a new lung or Stradivarius violin yet, but a new HP 3D printer announced Thursday takes a big step toward making the technology more useful.\nThe Jet Fusion 5200 is designed for high-volume manufacturing. That's a market with more potential for profound change than the more common 3D printers used to build prototypes or, like HP's earlier Jet Fusion 4200, for small-scale production. HP, a giant in more conventional printing on paper and increasingly other materials, too, didn't disclose prices.\n3D printing, which creates objects by laying down tiny \"voxels\" of material layer by layer, is transforming manufacturing. It's good for turning a 3D model crafted inside a computer into physical object, even those with complicated shapes or weight-saving internal voids.\nRead: The best 3D printers in 2019 for beginners and budget creators\nSo far you can't push a button and get something as complex as a car engine or running shoe, but gradually more components of such products can be 3D printed. It's a vision grand enough that fans call it the fourth industrial revolution.\nAnother development that'll help bring that about is a partnership with BASF that'll let customers 3D print with the flexible plastic called thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) with the HP Jet Fusion 5200. One customer: wind turbine maker Vestas, which will use it for impact-absorbing clamps. HP also showed off a helmet made using the material internally.\nThe HP Jet Fusion 5200 3D printing system won't fit on your desk.\nMost 3D print jobs today use more conventional plastics, though HP in 2018 introduced its Metal Jet 3D printer for making metal products. Those need to be finished with a process called sintering before they're ready for use, though.\nThe 3D printing industry is still maturing, said Cl\u00e9ment Moreau, chief executive of 3D printing company Sculpteo, an HP partner. For example, it was outbid by a traditional manufacturing company on a recent contract to manufacture some elements of a train station. \"3D printing large metallic parts is quite expensive,\" he said.\nBut Sculpteo also is encountering a lot of clients in architectural markets where people need to do things like see whether different parts will fit together or envision different possibilities for new buildings. For example, Sculpteo has been involved in a project to restore the abbey atop France's famous Mont-St.-Michel, and Moreau expects similar work after the devastating fire at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.\n\"People will definitely need a lot of engineering mockups and visualization mockups to really see what will happen,\" Moreau said.\nOriginally published May 9, 12:15 a.m. PT.\nUpdate, 11:34 a.m.: Adds comments from HP partner Sculpteo.\nDiscuss: HP's new 3D printer gets serious, heads to high-volume factories","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Luxury 'Sky garage' apartments planned for Melbourne\nBy David Bonnici, 12 Jul 2018 Car News\nWho needs Netflix when you can chill with your own supercars in your posh apartment?\nMelbourne could soon join Dubai, New York and Singapore by having luxury apartments with sky-high parking spaces.\nProperty developer Growland wants to be the first to bring the concept to Australia with its 20-storey Neue Grand project on St Kilda Road, which will feature 19 apartments that will each take up an entire floor.\nThe well-heeled owners will be able to place their car in a German-designed automated parking lift via a turntable, which will take it up to their apartment and park it behind a glass box adjacent to their living area. Unfortunately, they won't be able to ride up the lift in their car, as there's actually a law against that.\nOnce the resident vacates their pride and joy, it will be whisked to the appropriate level at high-speed and automatically parked within the 350-square-metre apartment's garage space.\nThe residents themselves will enter their apartment using fingerprint recognition software, the convenience of which will partly make up for the massive first-world problem of having to get out of their Aventador at the ground floor.\nOwners will also have a basement parking space for their \"everyday\" car.\nHow much would you expect to pay for such an apartment? Well, if you have to ask you probably can't afford it, but expect anywhere from $6 million, with the penthouse exceeding $30 million \u2013 supercars not included.\nBefore you go rushing to make a deposit, it's worth noting that while the Neue Grand apartments have been given the nod, the sky garages are yet to be confirmed.\nBy WhichCar staff | 19 Jul 2019\nWe catch you up on some of the automotive news items you might've missed out on this week\nBy Daniel Gardner | 18 Jul 2019\nExclusive Ohmie Go EV sharing service paves the way for accessible zero-emissions motoring around Australia's capitals\nBMW 330i Touring arrives to do battle in a small but highly competitive segment\nBy Tony O'Kane | 17 Jul 2019\nToyota's quasi-luxe big van will be packed with gear and offered in two grades with either six or eight seats\nWhichCar TV season two confirmed\nBMW M2 coupe will stay rear wheel drive\nBMW 1 Series won't chase Mercedes-AMG's A45\nCombustion engines will be extinct by 2055: Continental","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Ethical Investor: Why ESG funds invest in FAANG stocks, and expert views from Jaaims' Tui Eruera\nThe Ethical Investor is Stockhead's weekly look at ESG moves on the ASX. This week's special guest is Tui Eruera, the founder of AI-based investing platform, Jaaims.\nThe US and China surprised the world this week by announcing a joint declaration on a 'Climate Cooperation Pledge' at the closing days of the COP26 summit in Glasgow.\nThe joint statement brings together two of the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters in a rare show of cooperation, at a time of great political tension.\nBoth countries have pledged to work together to rein in climate-damaging pollutions, including plans to reduce methane emissions and cooperation in renewable energy policies.\nMeanwhile, US stock markets reached new heights over the past two weeks, touching all time highs.\nThe tech-heavy Nasdaq has been hovering at record levels, and that's been partly fuelled by the increasing number of ESG funds that pour money into so-called FAANG stocks.\nFAANG comprises Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google \u2013 which combined make up a third of the Nasdaq 100 index.\nBut why are tech stocks so appealing for ESG fund managers?\nAccording to Refinitiv's Robert Jenkins, the answer is simple: \"These companies tend to not be known as carbon emitters, and therefore seem like safe bets to front up an ESG portfolio.\"\nIt does seem these giant techs have lofty sustainable goals.\nFacebook, for example, announced earlier this year its goal of reaching net-zero across its supply chain by 2030.\nAmazon has ordered over 100,000 fully-electric delivery vehicles from Rivian, with further plans to invest $100 million in reforestation projects around the world on the way to zero carbon by 2040.\nBut some asset managers are sceptical, citing immediate pressing issues that need to be addressed first.\nIssues such as Apple's lack of transparency on forced labour, or the persistent allegations against Amazon's workplace safety.\nAnd then there's Facebook, which has been constantly fighting negative perceptions since the Cambridge Analytica data scandal in 2015.\nESG interview with Tui Eruera, founder of AI-based investing platform Jaaims\nJaaims is an automated online trading application that uses artificial intelligence tech to analyse, predict and make calculated stock trades on your behalf.\nWhat do you see as the main outcome for ESG investors from the COP26 summit?\n\"The fact that ESG factors are driving investment decisions is nothing new, but what is rapidly changing is that ESG is no longer an afterthought, or a hygiene check before investing.\n\"Indeed, the reverse is true \u2013 companies that underperform in ESG won't even make it past first base with investors.\n\"COP26 will expedite this as investors seek to hold companies accountable, especially as our own Government is perceived as slow to this on our behalf.\n\"Rather than simply looking for opportunities to invest in companies that are directly solving ESG problem, investors are also looking more closely about what companies are doing to transition their business.\n\"This is paving the way for AI solutions so investors don't need to wade through greenwash and subjectively evaluate opportunities against the principles of responsible investment. For a trading platform like Jaaims, AI is essential because the markets move quickly.\"\nDo you see a market bubble forming around ESG investing at the moment?\n\"We don't see ESG investing as a bubble as there is no ESG sector per se.\n\"ESG factors are key part of the operations of every single company on the planet, and pressure on these companies to improve will not abate.\n\"Investors are not just looking at companies that solve ESG problems through technology, they are also seeing opportunities to invest in companies across all sectors \u2026 that are making strides to improve their ESG impact.\n\"Meeting ESG standards is now table stakes, and technology is allowing investors to build this into decision making at the outset.\n\"We now have the ability to fully automate trading based on ESG criteria, which meets the demands of traders who care about the impact of their investments, but need to be able to trade quickly to take advantage of the speed of the markets.\"\nCloser to home, what's your take on PM Morrison's latest EV strategy?\n\"From an investor perspective this is an exciting area. More government investment in infrastructure will accelerate take-up of EVs.\n\"For investors it's not just a matter of piling into Tesla stocks. Investors are also looking at what the large incumbent car manufacturers are doing to retain market share, as well as supporting infrastructure like charging stations and lithium batteries.\n\"The US is where investors are getting direct exposure to EV stocks, whereas in Australia exposure is more indirect through mining companies, for example, that are producing battery components.\"\nTo that end, what are some of the ASX stocks that you recommend for ESG-minded investors?\n\"Within the Jaaims app, some of the well credentialed ESG buying opportunities are Altium Ltd (ASX:ALU), Appen Ltd (ASX:APX) and Charter Hall Group (ASX:CHC).\n\"This is based on our AI algorithm that use over 250 news feeds and over 10 million pieces daily indicating that they are vigilant about their ESG requirements, and appear undervalued compared to their peers at the moment.\"\nFull article: https:\/\/stockhead.com.au\/news\/the-ethical-investor-why-esg-funds-invest-in-faang-stocks-and-expert-views-from-jaaims-tui-eruera\/","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}