{"text":"SEC Men's Basketball Off to a Strong Start\nJacob Young\nThe SEC has always been known as the strongest NCAA football conference, but it has also been steadily climbing up the men's basketball ranks. It is no longer Kentucky, sometimes Florida and then everyone else. The SEC had five teams ranked in the first AP Poll of the season, and all 14 teams were in the top 100 on KenPom after the first week of the year with 11 falling in the top 60. It would be a good idea to go with an SEC team to win the NCAA Championship with the 25\u20ac casino bonus ohne einzahlung.\nKentucky opened the season as the number one team on KenPom and have looked the part even though injuries have hit the Wildcats early. All-American Oscar Tshiebwe and potential breakout sophomore Daimion Collins haven't played yet, and senior point guard Sahvir Wheeler has only played limited minutes. Things will get real quickly for Kentucky though as they play Michigan State and Gonzaga in the upcoming week.\nTennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Auburn were the other SEC teams ranked in the preseason top 25, and all four schools are in KenPom's top 16 as well. Each school has legit Final Four aspirations, though each looks much different from the others. Tennessee's identity is their lockdown defense mixed with their experience, especially in the backcourt. Meanwhile Arkansas will be heavily relying on freshmen production along with several transfers in the rotation, as Eric Musselman usually does. The Razorbacks could start sluggish with all the new pieces, but by March they will be a force to be reckoned with. Auburn and Alabama are both coming off disappointing first weekend exits in the NCAA Tournament but look poised to make a deeper run this season. Auburn returns their stud guards while adding one of the top transfers in the nation in Johni Broome. Alabama has more moving pieces from last season, but their offensive firepower will still be very difficult to match.\nFlorida, Texas A&M, LSU, Mississippi State and Ole Miss were all unranked to begin the season, but all five teams have strong chances of being tournament teams in 2023. Florida, LSU and Mississippi State all bring in head coaches who won big at the mid-major level and are now taking over talented and promising rosters. Texas A&M nearly made a miracle run to the tournament last season and now return a lot of the same pieces from that team. Meanwhile, Ole Miss has one of the best players in the SEC in junior guard Matthew Murrell. Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia and Vanderbilt all have lower expectations, but none of them will be easy to beat this year especially when playing at home.\nThe SEC will be an extremely competitive league all season long which will have all their tournament teams more than prepared for the challenge that the NCAA Tournament will bring in March.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ecart's Activity\necart replied to a thread Rumor Mill\/ Trade Ideas Thread in Toronto Raptors\nI see him staying because shooters are a commodity in this league. easy to move his contract.\nwell he could also want a bigger role\necart replied to a thread 2022\/2023 Season Thread in Toronto Raptors\nyeah. I also think he reads the floor better. OG is bigger and stronger though.\nthank you mr Paul\nlol Malachi truthers, this your guy?\nI still see him as a big wing like a James Johnson.\nI could see both getting shipped. Trent gets extended and traded a year into his contract. Maybe even Thad lol.\nthere are a lot of possible reasons. we can only speculate. I wouldn't be surprised.\nwould you rather have bridges or og? I think a year ago the answer would have been obvious.\ncompare how CP3 plays the pick and roll vs Fred\/Siakam. They can't make the same reads\/passes. Fred's playmaking is like playing myplayer where you...\nNurse says he was a bit surprised Anunoby had been ruled out for the rest of the trip (which goes through Sunday in Memphis), but appreciates the...\n\"fine print\" was in reference to the heavily protected firsts, not the article that you read. I don't know what article you read. NY is heavily...\nny's picks are worthless. they're heavily protected. gotta read the fine print.\nHe has been screening more the last 10+ games. The issue earlier in the season was that teams were cheating and leaving Barnes open. Barnes wasn't...\nBooker still out. Tank possibly going to take another hit today.\nI think when it comes to severe injuries it always takes a season for guys to bounce back. When Paul George first came back he looked terrible. Was...\ndenver is shopping bones hmm. dudes a bucket but bad on the other end of the floor. he has a 6'9 wingspan, great lateral quickness and defensive...\nHonestly, I think a lot of the criticism with Nurse comes down to personnel. The Spurs weren't the Spurs when they had Demar and LMA. That shouldn't...\nim contextualizing their analytics. who you credit is up to you. it's just that when you say their drtg got worse, it gives off a false impression...\nregardless, I don't think it was the right move for us.\noffensive efficiency is up league wide which is why defensive rating is down. you have to look at defensive rating on a relative basis. they're...\nwhich is why he isn't in Toronto. we don't have a win now core. four unprotected firsts + two pick swaps. we aint doing that.\nthey would be less frustrating if the front office got him a more balanced roster. no amount of coaching is going to make an offence with 30%...\nNo they realize that, they just expect him to squeeze blood out of a stone.\nEven in a rebuilding phase, these bench players and young prospects are awful. People need to trust Nurse's instincts. Players he trusts tend to pan...\nI don't get any of the criticism about development. Sometimes players just aren't good. Sometimes teams go through development droughts. I don't...\nPrecious has been significantly better than OG during this 10 game stretch.\nI watched an interview with David Griffin recently and he was reflecting on the successes and failures of his previous stints and how that affects...\nnot everyone has that mindset. some people just want to watch a competitive game when they come home from work. they don't mind being the Indiana or...\nWell yeah cause it looked really bad live. But the X-rays came back negative which means it is just a sprained wrist. If you're worried about trades,...\nAbout ecart","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hollywood Producer Not Liable for Death Following Two Employee Rendezvous\nA Hollywood producer was not held vicariously liable for the negligent activities of his personal chef in supplying the entourage's executive assistant with drugs and alcohol that contributed to her demise. The court reasoned that the rendezvous between the chef and the assistant took place after hours, in a private bungalow and was not related to the chef's scope of employment.\nA Hollywood producer and his entourage, including his family, a personal chef and his executive assistant jetted off to Bora Bora for a trip. During the trip, the chef and the assistant had a late night rendezvous in which alcohol and cocaine were provided by Herold the chef and ingested by the assistant, Musgrove. The substances were provided to Musgrove by Herold. In her altered state, Musgrove decided to go for a midnight swim in the lagoon beneath her overwater bungalow after ingesting the drugs and alcohol. She tragically drowned as a result.\nMusgrove's parents filed a wrongful death claim against Silver (the producer) claiming that he was vicariously liable for the negligent and wrongful acts of his personal chef. Specifically they claimed that (1) he was directly liable because he paid all resort-related expenses of the trip, including the alcohol, and (2) that he was vicariously liable because the chef was his employee. The trial court ruled that the chef's actions in regard to Musgrove on the night of her death fell outside his scope of his employment. They granted summary judgment in favor of Silver and the parents appealed.\nWrongful Death Claim\nWrongful death occurs when an individual dies due to a wrongful act or neglect of another. Plaintiffs must prove the following to prove a wrongful death occurred:\n\"Wrongful act or neglect on the part of one or more persons that causes\nThe death of another person.\" Norgart v. Upjohn Co., (1999) 21 Cal.4th 383, 390.\nLiability for wrongful death can be assigned to the person perpetrating the negligent or wrongful conduct, or through vicarious liability in which the parties share a special relationship where one may be responsible for the acts of another. Hooker v. Department of Transportation (2002) 27 Cal.4th 198, 210. A classic example of vicarious liability is the employer-employee relationship. In California, every person has a duty to act with reasonable care under the circumstances. Regents of University of California v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 607, 618. Given that, it also true that a person generally does not have the duty to come to the aid of another absent a special relationship, which then compels the duty to act. Williams v. State of California (1983) 34 Cal.3d 18, 23. It is important to note that this general rule has several exceptions:\nDuty not to place another person in a situation in which the other person is exposed to an unreasonable risk of harm.\nIf a person does place another in peril at that point the duty shifts and the person now has an affirmative duty to assist or protect that person from the peril. The duty to protect or assist exists if there is a special relationship between the parties.\nAt issue here is the special relationship that can exist between an employer and employee. \"Whether a relationship is deemed special is a conclusion based on reasons of public policy. The existence of a special relationship does not automatically create a duty to act; instead as our Supreme Court recently affirmed, courts must also assess whether public policy concerns warrant limiting the duty that might otherwise arise by virtue of a special relationship.\" Brown v. USA Taekwondo (2021) 11 Cal.5th 204, 213.\nTo hold Silver liable for Musgrove's untimely demise, her parents need to show that either Silver placed Musgrove in peril and failed to protect her from that peril, or that Silver has a special relationship with Musgrove that required him to protect her in the situation in question. Zelig v. County of Los Angeles, (2002) 26 Cal.4th 703, 716.\nVicarious Liability\nVicarious liability can come into play based on the special relationship between an employer and an employee. Rest.3d Torts \u00a740, subd.(b). \"this relationship rests partly on the employer's ability to control their employee's conduct and partly on the public policy notion that employers who benefit from their employees' conduct should concomitantly bear the risks incident to their enterprise of a cost of doing business.\" Hinman v. Westinghouse Elec. Co. (1970) 2 Cal.3d 956, 960. In California, the employer will only be vicariously liable for the acts of the employee if the employee was acting in the scope of their employment when the act occurred. Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles (1991) 54 Cal.3d 202, 213 (Mary M.) This special relationship between an employee and employer is also referred to as respondeat superior.\nTo find Silver vicariously liable for Musgrove's death, the plaintiffs need to establish that (1) Herold engaged in negligent conduct that caused Musgrove's death, and (2) Herold was acting within the scope of his employment at the time of his negligent conduct. As noted above, a person is negligent for placing a third party in a position of peril and then failing to protect them from that peril. (Regents, supra, 4 Cal.5th at p. 619) If Herold placed Musgrove in peril and subsequently failed to protect her, Silver's vicarious liability for Musgrove's death turns on whether Herold was acting within the scope of his employment when he engaged in that tortious conduct.\nMusgrove's parents argue that Silver should be held vicariously liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior because Herold was on call to prepare meals and had no set working hours. They reason that Herold was arguably still working at the time he met Musgrove in the private bungalow and Silver was therefore, responsible for his conduct at that time of night. The court rejected this argument and noted that public policy prevents an employer from being liable for a 24 hour on-call employee unless the activity in question is clearly within the scope of their employment. Le Elder v. Rice (1994) 21 Cal.App.4th 1604, 1607; id. at p. 1609. Herold's activities on the night Musgrove died were not part of his employment duties and Silver had no knowledge or control over what occurred. Determining whether vicarious liability should be imposed based on respondeat superior can be a complicated process. The court employs a number of possible tests to analyze these situations on a case-by-case basis.\nTest #1 The Risk-Focused Test\nThe risk-focused test asks whether the an employee's alleged negligent or willful conduct is \"inherent in the work environment or may be fairly regarded as typical.\" Mary M., supra 54 Cal.3d at p.209. Under this inquiry, an employee's conduct is only considered to be within the scope of employment if that conduct is found to be induced or incited as an outgrowth of their employment. The court will look for a nexus between the employee's tort and their employment culture and environment.\nIn the current case, Silver hired Herold to work as his personal chef. During the trip to Bora Bora Herold was responsible for buying groceries and preparing meals for Silver's entourage. On the night in question, Herold met Musgrove in a private bungalow at approximately 10 p.m. They ingested alcohol and cocaine during this encounter. Plaintiffs argue that because Herold sent Musgrove an email requesting the meet-up during his normal work hours and while preparing food for the group, that subsequent events that happened later that evening were an \"outgrowth\" of that email.\nSilver argued that Herold's email had nothing to do with his work and the events that occurred later were not within a reasonably calculated risk that an employer would assume in employing a chef. Herold's acts of allegedly placing Musgrove in peril and failing to protect her were not \"inherent in his work environment\" and could not be \"fairly regarded as typical of or broadly incidental to\" his employment as a chef for Silver's family. Herold's actions within the context of his personal relationship with Musgrove had nothing to do with his employment.\nTest #2: Foreseeability-Focused Test\nThis test asks whether the employee's conduct was reasonably foreseeable to the employer. Foreseeability has a slightly narrower focus in regard to this test. \"An employee's allegedly tortious conduct is sufficiently foreseeable to be deemed within the scope of employment only if in the context of the particular enterprise the employee's conduct is not so unusual or startling that it would seem unfair to include the loss resulting from it among other costs of the employer's business.\" Lisa M. v. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital (1995) 12 Cal.4th 291, 299 (Lisa M.) In other words, was the conduct foreseeable given the duties the employee was hired to perform?\nThe Court here found that Herold's action of drinking and ingesting cocaine with Musgrove and his being aware that she may swim in her drug\/alcohol induced state was not a reasonably foreseeable result of his employment as Silver's chef. These injuries were outside injuries that could occur as a result of Herold's employment as a chef and the duties of that position. The court stated, \"Working as a chef, his conduct during his personal interaction with Musgrove is so unusual or startling that it would seem unfair to include the loss resulting from it among other costs of Silver's business of employing Herold as a chef.\"\nAlthough Plaintiffs argued that Herold's conduct was foreseeable because Silver did not implement an anti-drug\/anti-alcohol policy for his employees, this argument relies on a general foreseeability standard rather than the foreseeability standard specific to respondeat superior. In this regard the Court explained, \"The various definitions of foreseeability are not interchangeable. Tort law is more like baking than cooking; there are specific doctrines, each with its own recipe and whose ingredients cannot be casually swapped. When viewed through the proper prism, Musgrove's tragic death is not a foreseeable consequence of Herold's work as Silver's chef.\"\nTest #3: Benefit and Custom-Focused Test\nThis test asks whether the employee's conduct provided some benefit to the employer, or is a \"customary incident of the employment relationship.\" Rodgers v. Kemper Constr. Co. (1975) 50 Cal.App.3d 608, 618-619 In a nutshell, the benefit to the employer must be sufficient enough to warrant holding them responsible for their employee's conduct.\nSilver is also not vicariously liable under this test. Herold's actions of providing Musgrove with alcohol and drugs could not under any understanding of the facts be construed to benefit Silver as his employer. There is also no evidence that this was a \"customary incident\" of employment as there is no evidence that this type of incident happened previously with Herold or other employees. The fact that Herold was flown to the island to provide services as a chef and that he had access to amenities such as alcohol were not enough to prove vicarious liability. \"An employee's presence at the place of employment before, during, or after the commission of the offense and the mere fact that an employee has the opportunity to abuse the facilities necessary to the performance of duties each insufficient to create vicarious liability.\" Alma W., supra, 123 Cal.App.3d at p.140.\nTest #4: Public Policy-Focused Test\nThe public policy-focused test asks whether holding an employer vicariously liable for an employee's conduct promotes public policy. It look to three considerations:\n\u2022Will holding the employer responsible prevent recurrence of the issue?\nWill it provide greater assurance of compensation to the victim?, and\nWill it ensure that the victim's losses will be equitably borne by those who benefit from the enterprise that gave rise to the injury? Mary M., supra, 54 Cal.3d at p.209.\n\"Respondeat superior is not \"merely a justification for reaching a 'deep pocket'\"; instead, all three policy rationales are grounded in the \"'deeply rooted sentiment that a business enterprise cannot justly disclaim responsibility for accidents which may fairly be said to be characteristic of its activities.'\" (Rodgers, supra, 50 Cal.App.3d at p. 618.) Although liability may prevent similar future events and provide increased likelihood of the victims being compensated, these considerations are not enough to find Silver liable without finding that it is equitable to shift this loss to the employer in the first place. This shifting of the loss only occurs in situations where the employer benefited from the actions that cause the injury or death.\nThe common factor between all of the various tests employed by courts in California is the premise that an employer may be held liable for the acts of an employee even if the employer did not specifically authorize the conduct and even if the act ends up being intentional or criminal. However, where the employee's \"injury-producing activity\" is '\"simply too attenuated\"' from his duties for \"the enterprise,\" there is no vicarious liability as a matter of law. Id. In this case, the Court found that it was inequitable to shift the burden of loss onto Silver because Silver did not benefit from Herold's \"injury-producing activity\" of supplying Musgrove with alcohol and cocaine before she went swimming, and because this conduct does not in any way stem from Herold's employment as Silver's personal family chef. In sum, Herold's actions were simply too removed from his job duties as a chef to make it equitable to hold Silver liable for the events that arose from Herold's tortious conduct.\nCourt's Analysis & Conclusion\nAs to Plaintiffs' assertion that Silver should be liable for placing Musgrove in peril by furnishing her with alcohol and drugs, and then not protecting her from dangerous activity, the evidence did not support this claim. In fact, although Musgrove was invited to partake in alcohol at meals, Silver denies furnishing her with any type of drugs and claims he was not even aware of anyone taking drugs during the trip. Buying Musgrove alcohol while on the trip was insufficient to hold Silver liable for the events that transpired in the bungalow later that night. The Legislature has expressly provided that a \"private person cannot be held liable in tort for furnishing alcohol to another adult.\" Civ. Code \u00a71714, subd.(c). \"No social host who furnished alcoholic beverages to any person may be held legally accountable for injury to that person\u2026 resulting from the consumption of those beverages.\" Bus. & Prof. Code \u00a725602, subd.(b).\nThe Court also found that Silver was not liable to Musgrove based on the theory of the two sharing a special relationship as employer-employee. The evidence showed that Musgrove was hired and paid by Silver Pictures rather than Silver in his individual capacity. The Court went on to reason that even if it found Musgrove was an employee of Silver, the Court cannot hold Silver liable for providing her alcohol because California law states that an individual cannot be liable in tort for furnishing alcohol to another adult. Civ. Code \u00a71714, subd.(c); Bus. & Prof. Code \u00a726502, subd.(b). Even if the court found that the special employer-employee relationship should be applied in this case, Silver's duty to protect Musgrove would still only apply while she was engaged in her work duties within the scope of her employment. It is unreasonable to require that Silver be available to protect Musgrove from danger after 10 p.m. in her private bungalow where she was engaged in activities of a personal nature and not duties relating to her job. Under these facts, Silver had no duty to protect Musgrove. Therefore, the lower Court's judgment is affirmed.\nChristina Loni\nFred R. 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{"text":"Waiting for the Berberians\nSam Zelitch\non January 11, 2013 at 8:00 am\nHere's a story I hope is true. Years ago, Laurie Anderson contacted Thomas Pynchon via snail mail to ask if she could turn his comic epic Gravity's Rainbow into an opera. According to Anderson, his response was brief: \"You can do it, but you can only use a banjo.\"\nThe performance artist took this as a polite way of saying, \"No.\" But perhaps she wasn't surprised. Pynchon is typically hesitant to allow adaptations of his works, and with good reason. Even among the few visionaries left, you'd be hard-pressed to find a film director or opera composer who aligns well with his mystical, slapstick, intellectual point of view. Finding a serious artist with a sense of humor, and the ability to work it into her work, is hard enough.\nBut, even if you could find a living composer to drink the Pynchon juice, there is no way you could pull off a full production of Gravity's Rainbow opera without the contribution of the late Cathy Berberian, whose vocal technique was second only to her musical wanderlust. I first discovered her recordings on the avant-garde site Ubuweb, a treasure trove of strange and wonderful art pieces. You can listen to and download tracks from her album Nel Labrinto Dela Voce, a collection of recordings from all throughout her career, from the 60s through the 80s, including a fantastic Villa-Lobos's street scene \"Desejo\" and, my personal favorite, a take on Weill's \"Surabaya Johnny\" that's as sexy and dramatic as anything Lotte Lenya could've done. You might just obey her when you hear her demand to \"Take that pipe out of your mouth!\"\nCathy Berberian\nBerberian came from an opera-loving family from Massachusetts, and later New York City. The first epiphany in her career came during a study in Milan when she realized, after training for a decade as an opera soprano, she could find more range and vocal texture by switching to mezzo. This new voice would allow her to specialize in chamber music, giving due attention to avant-garde vocal works by artists such as John Cage and Luciano Berio (whom Berberian married in 1950).\nBerberian would also occasionally compose her own music. One of her pieces in particular, Stripsody, is still performed and recorded, but, like a cover of a Beatles song, it's always hard not to hear the original version. Stripsody is sung a cappella from a text made up of words found within various Sunday comic strips. And it's vocally demanding: any singer wishing to tackle Stripsody needs to be able to be able to instantly shift from a resounding \"Boing!\" to a convincing Charlie Brown impression.\nCathy Berberian | Stripsody\nLastly, for a taste of class, I would recommend listening to Recital I for Cathy. Try to get all the way through without stopping. Berio composed this post-modernist opera for her (with contributions by Cathy) weaving original compositions together with selections from her repertoire. It's an anxious monologue given by a person whose craziest moments lead her to fits of operatic singing. It would have been a thrilling theatrical experience, I believe, hearing her sing Monteverdi alongside accusations that the audience is, \"acting as if no one were alone, all as if you all had the leading role!\" Perhaps this is what every opera diva is thinking, but Berberian had the cojones to perform it.\nOpera today offers little opportunity for talented performers to engage with new work, and it isn't surprising we don't see more Berberians out there. Her joie de vivre would be hard to replicate. Last weekend in Chicago, Ren\u00e9e Fleming charmed audiences with an alternate, comic persona in The Second City's Guide to Opera, a revue sponsored and hosted by the Lyric Opera. Perhaps the first ever opera-themed sketch comedy show, Guide sold out quickly and a remount has already been planned for the summer, giving audiences a chance to see a great opera diva take a prat fall for laughs. It's nice to see that kind of gusto, but it doesn't compare with the prat falls that Cathy Berberian took moment to moment, even during the most serious of performances. Ren\u00e9e Fleming calls this side of her personality \"my own secret comedian.\" Cathy, God rest her soul, never kept anything secret.\nSam Zelitch is a writer and a performer out of Chicago, Ill. Follow him on Twitter: @smellitch.\ncathy berberianHeitor Villa-Loboskurt weillLuciano Beriomezzo-sopranooperaRen\u00e9e FlemingThomas Pynchon\nSam Zelitch is a writer and a performer out of Chicago, Ill.\nPanufnik: Orchestral Works Volume 5 on CPO\nThis week: concerts in New York (January 14 \u2013 January 20, 2013)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Thought the Belgian Crisis was averted with the inauguration of a new government? Think again. The trickiest question of them all yesterday forced a scheduled Parliament session today to be cancelled, to the tune of cries of foul.\nEven though the largest parties eventually managed to form a government, some nine months after last year's elections, the country remains fundamentally divided over the issue over the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency. Not much to squabble about, British readers may wonder, as constituency borders in Britain are redrawn all the time. But in a country so delicately balancing on a knife's edge between different and diverse interests, the question of how to draw the borders of a simple constituency has become a major issue as a focal point for the tensions that still hold the country in deadlock.\nIn short, the Flemings want the constituency split, and the French-speakers do not. Flemings argue that its composition gives the Francophones a disproportionate say, which the Francophones unsurprisingly refutes. The Flemings, though, have a verdict from Belgium's Constitution Court in their favour, saying that the constituency does discriminate against them and must be split. The Francophones continue to obstruct this verdict to this day, which is why it has not been implemented yet. But the same court has said that no new elections can be held until the split is carried out. Ergo: Deadlock.\nThe new government, a fragile alliance between members who fought against each other during the height of the crisis, has the unenviable task to resolve all this.\nThe issue was to be debated in the Belgian Parliament's equivalent of the House of Commons\/House of Representatives \u2013 the Chamber \u2013 on Wednesday (30th April). But that debate has been cancelled since the Speakers of the house cannot agree on how to hold it. Meanwhile, the government says it has no new agreement on the issue to put forward, according to the Belgian magazine Knack.\nOf course, the opposition is crying foul, saying that \"Parliament is virtually abolished\". \"An absolute low point\", raves the Flemish Socialist Party leader Peter Vanvelthoven, and the far-right if not right-wing extremist and separatist Flemish Vlaams Belang is equally outraged.\nThey will try again next week, after the extended weekend due to the May 1 holiday tomorrow and the extra day off that most businesses are taking during Friday. It remains to see whether the speakers have agreed enough by then to even have the issue discussed \u2013 but don't put your money on it.\nPosted in Belgian crisis, Belgium. 1 Comment \u00bb\nI almost forgot \u2013 but today is actually the most forgotten holiday in the British Isles: St. George's Day, the national day of the English.\nNot the British, that is, for the proud nation of the United Kingdom has no national day at all, only the Queen's official birthday (what nonsense), but the English. Which is only beginning to become known in later years (ugh, that was a nasty sentence, but I'm too tired to rewrite it).\nSo while the Scots wallow in haggis on Burns Night and the Irish roll in Guinness on St. Patrick's Day (quarter irish as I am, I grumpily boycotted the latter event this year simply because my schedule on that day prevented me from joining in the said rolling), the English do not even have a Bank Holiday on their national day, which pases most people by unnoticed anyway.\nI am currently reading (and much enjoying) Jeremy Paxman's The English: A Portrait of a People, where he points out the irony of the mainland of the former British Empire lacking such a national identity of its own. Mind you, we don't even have an anthem of our own either, so, for example, whenever England wins the football (soccer) World Championship (ho hum), we have to borrow the national anthem of the whole of Britain, which in turn is little else than a prayer for the salvation of the Queen and has nothing to do with the rest of the country anyway.\nBut then again, maybe the chronic lack of football success is one of the reasons why those of us who were born in that part of the country find it so difficult to muster an English identity.\nWe recently discussed this at work, where the ever-present discussion on what to name the various bparts of Britain in news texts reappeared. I tried to point out that most people in, say Devon, Cornwall or Yorkshire would be perfectly happy to be called \"British\", while writing \"Edinburgh in Britain\" would probably be enough to spark a new William Wallace uprising, even though it is technically correct.\nAnd while there is an increasing sense of Englishness in England, the truth is that most English would refer to themselves as British rather than anything else.\nOr am I wrong here? What say ye English readers of this blog? Your thoughts on this are most welcome in the Comments section.\nHappy St. George's to you while you think about what to write.\nPosted in Britain, European Culture and Ethnology. 1 Comment \u00bb\nAt last, at last, at last! The EU and the Cty of Brussels has decided to give the EU quarters east of the Brussels city centre a facelift, cleaning up the area around, among others, the Berlaymonster (the EU Commission'smain building) and Justus Lipsius (the stone sarcophagus where ministers meet).\nFor this purpose, they have announced a competition, open for anyone with bright idea on how to liven up this stone desert, choking on the exhaust from the thousands of cars on the two eight-lane highways that plough through the district.\nI wrote about this when the idea was presented in September, but here are a few new modest proposals from yours sincerely:\nGet rid of the traffic.\nContinue to pull down the old ugly shoeboxes for offices and build something nice instead.\nPaint the old facades in something else than dirt-grey.\nGet rid of some of the slum-like buildings from ages past that still litter the district.\nShut the lights off along Rue de la Loi\/Wetstraat if you are serious about cutting CO2 emissions and setting an example in that work.\nShock yourselves dramatically, and put in one or two GREEN spaces there for a change\nThis last item is probably the most important. The Belgian idea of \"wildlife\" is to plant some grass in a flower pot and put it out on the pavement (sidewalk), but so as not to inflict too much of a wilderness survival trip feeling, there must be 6-7 pubs and ample car parking immediately surrounding it. Consequently, the only green you see downtown are the pharmacies' signs, and especially this time of the year, you feel dying from chlorophyll deficit. There have been a few new open spaces created when they refurbished the old Berlaymonster, but these have been carefully paved over so as not to offer any unnecessary vegetation, and are in either case wind holes that one quickly hurries across in search for shelter.\nBut then again, everybody knows that you have to be stark raving mad to become a city planner. So please\u2026 take the chance to draw something creative.\nPosted in Belgium, Brussels, EU, EU Brussels Horror Stories, EU Council, European Commission. Leave a Comment \u00bb\nAs the European Parliament today votes on whether or not to approve the new EU Commissioner for Health, Androula Vassiliou, I shall take the risk of making myself rather unpopular with her by restating the fact that she is 64 years old.\nInnocent as that factoid may seem, it was the source of some outrage from her designated spokesperson when people started to notice that there was no information available about her age anywhere, and reporters started to ask.\n\"In Greek, in our culture, it is a bit rude to ask for a woman's age. So if you insist that much, I would suggest that you do some research on Google and you will find the CV of the commissioner and there you can find her exact age,\" the EU Commission spokesperson Nina Papadoulaki said according to EUbusiness.com, claiming that she did not know her age herself. (Ms Papadoulaki didn't know Ms Vassiliou's age, that is).\nAnyway. Mounting pressure on this ever-important issue later forced the Commission to concede that Ms Vassiliou was born on 30th November 1943, the news service reports. Even her Wikipedia article has been updated with this revealing news, I notice.\nWhile I don't have much time for ageism in our youth-fixated society, I simply marvel at the difficulties the Commission has at even releasing such a trivial bit of information. A woman's age may be considered a private matter in Cyprus, but Ms Vassiliou is appointed to represent the EU as a whole \u2013 not any country \u2013 and the question of age wich may or may not shed light on her ability and willingness to fulfill her job duties for years to come is very much relevant to those of us who have to foot the bill for her salary.\nSometimes the Commission seems set to secrecy by default. And then they wonder why public support for the EU is so low.\nPosted in EU, EU Brussels Horror Stories, EU Parliament, European Commission, General Grumpiness, Vasiliou. Leave a Comment \u00bb","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe\nBrexit and UK Politics\nClimate, Energy, and Economics\nDemocracy and Rule of Law\nEU and the World\nEurope and the Pandemic\nEuropean Politics and Reform\nTurkey's Transformation\nEU Eastern Neighborhood\nUnited States and Americas\nCapitals Series\nJudy Asks\nMunich Security Conference\nBrexit and UK PoliticsClimate, Energy, and EconomicsDemocracy and Rule of LawEU and the WorldEurope and the PandemicEuropean Politics and ReformSecurity and DefenseTurkey's TransformationWhat Are You Reading?\nSign Up for Strategic Europe\nJudy Asks: Is the D\u00e9tente Between Ukraine and Russia Real?\nA selection of experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the foreign and security policy challenges shaping Europe's role in the world.\nLiana FixProgramme Director, International Affairs at K\u00f6rber-Stiftung\nThe exchange of prisoners, including prominent figures such as Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, is indeed a promising first step for a new diplomatic process between Ukraine and Russia: three months after the election of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, it demonstrates a willingness from both sides to work together and to compromise under mutually agreed conditions.\nThe circumstances are favorable: Zelenskiy has made it his campaign promise to bring Ukrainian prisoners back home and bring peace to the Donbas. For Russia, anyone but the former president Petro Poroshenko is acceptable as a negotiation partner. The wheels of diplomacy are turning again.\nHowever, high hopes (especially in Paris) that this delicate rapprochement can lead to a quick fix in relations with Russia are risky. French President Emmanuel Macron's call for a new relationship with Russia is an opportunity to position himself as the problem-solver in European security. But the wish should not be father to the thought. Too often in the past, such hopes were disappointed, as the fundamental principles of Russian foreign policy have not changed.\nThe next summit in the Normandy format will show whether both sides are willing to make serious progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements and to move from symbolic to political results. It may not yet be the beginning of the end of the war, as claimed by Zelenskiy, but a first important diplomatic and humanitarian success.\nAnna KorbutAcademy Robert Bosch Fellow at the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House\nZelenskiy has taken steps in the context of the war: establish communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin, push for more Normandy talks, and signal willingness to make progress on the Minsk agreements.\nPutin encouraged these steps by authorizing the recent swap of prisoners, but this came at a price for Ukraine. In exchange for the return of its citizens illegally jailed in Russia, Ukraine released people who committed crimes, espionage, or acts of terrorism. More Ukrainian citizens, especially Crimean Tatars, remain jailed in Russia or Crimea.\nMore steps are being discussed or implemented regarding the ceasefire in Donbas and the withdrawal of troops. In his rhetoric, Zelenskiy is soft on Russia in an attempt to build some trust with the Kremlin. Now, Russia is voicing its next demands for Ukraine: in addition to the restoration of economic ties with the occupied territory in the east of Ukraine, and payment of pensions there, the Kremlin demands that Ukraine signs up to the Steinmeier formula for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.\nUkraine already rejected it under Poroshenko because the arrangement would help legalize facts on the ground that were established under Russia's control. Zelenskiy has not spelled out his position on this but he might be willing to accept more compromises. While this may be a window of opportunity, Ukraine and its EU counterparts should not accept scenarios that can legitimize Russia's leverage over Ukraine's domestic and foreign policy in the long run.\nJohn C. KornblumSenior counsellor at Noerr LLP\nWhat d\u00e9tente? The deal is not a cause for celebration, as the U.S. government tried to claim, but for a heavy sigh of relief.\nFor Ukrainians, it was a humanitarian arrangement. For Zelenskiy, it was also a sign that he is working to end the Russian occupation of his country. But by acceding to Russian demands to include the MH17 tragedy conspirator, Vladimir Tsemakh, in Ukrainian custody only since July, Zelenskiy drew heavy criticism at home and abroad.\nBut maybe a small window for further dialogue has been opened. Russia's sudden willingness to accept a deal as long as Tsemakh was included was the clearest admission of responsibility for the separatist violence so far. It also demonstrated Russian fear that Tsemakh might sooner or later have told the truth. In fact, the Ukrainian sailors may have been seized last year specifically as bargaining material for such exchanges.\nMaybe this and the recent FSB assassination in Berlin will help wake up both the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and those Europeans who still harbor illusions about chances for influencing Russian behavior.\nIf the Minsk process is to show any progress, Russia must negotiate with itself\u2014both as mediator and as guilty party. Encouraging that Russia-Russia dialogue is probably the best route to success.\nJohn LoughAssociate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House\nEach side is testing the other. Putin clearly wants rid of western sanctions and is looking for ways to change the relationship with Kiev. Ukraine almost certainly showed much more resilience after Crimea than he expected. Not surprisingly, he senses that with Zelenskiy, who campaigned to end the conflict in Donbas, and a new Ukrainian parliament, there may be new opportunities. Each has an interest in exploiting the other's dissatisfaction with the current situation, yet neither knows how far the other is prepared to go to achieve their goal.\nThe prisoner swap changes the atmosphere at a time when Ukraine's Western allies sense a new reformist drive in Kiev. This probably gives them hope that diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia can resume and bring a new impulse to the stalled Normandy talks. Putin can see that some EU countries are tired of the standoff over Ukraine and are searching for a reset button in relations with Russia. France is a case in point.\nAt the same time, despite his inexperience on the international stage, Zelenskiy represents a challenge for Putin. His modern political style and the popularity among Russians of his message to Ukrainians cannot be disregarded.\nMikhail MinakovSenior Advisor on Ukraine at the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute\nPartial d\u00e9tente is a possibility. However, it cannot be full and comprehensive until the issue of Crimea is resolved and the militarization of Eastern European countries is ended.\nThe long-awaited prisoners' exchange is a good step. Initiatives of the ombudspersons from Moscow and Kiev show that the two countries prepared rules-based agreements on how to communicate on humanitarian issues. The warming of EU-Russia relations may also add some impetus for the positive development in Ukraine and the wider region.\nHowever, the military conflict in Donbas is far from being frozen. After a degree of relative calm in August, the military attacks returned to the contact line in September. Recently, the number of killed and wounded increased significantly. There is also continuing military and trade tensions in the Sea of Azov. In addition, human rights violations in Crimea remain high.\nIn short, there is a long away to go before a stable peace and d\u00e9tente in Ukraine and Eastern Europe can be reached. But with a new president in Ukraine the hope is strong.\nGwendolyn SasseNonresident Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe and Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)\nIt is too early to talk about a d\u00e9tente between Russia and Ukraine.\nFor the moment, we are seeing a degree of willingness on both sides to engage in more frequent and more substantive discussions about the Donbas. No more, no less. The exchange of prisoners and the possibility of a meeting in the Normandy format in the near future should neither be over- nor underestimated.\nThe prisoner exchange included painful choices on both sides. The widespread commentary about who paid the bigger price is disrespectful to the individuals involved and misses the point of this type of exchange. Prisoner exchanges are one of many necessary confidence-building measures that can, in the best-case scenario, underpin a lasting commitment to peace.\nIf other meaningful steps will follow is highly uncertain at this point, but in the absence of other options it is worth taking seriously the exchange and renewed momentum behind the Normandy and Minsk negotiations. All sides know that the Minsk II agreement of 2015 cannot be implemented as it was written down. This is also not a specificity of this war.\nD\u00e9tente will be real when a sequence of steps and rules of interaction are agreed upon and implemented.\nAndreas UmlandSenior Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation\nWhile the latest prisoner exchange was a big relief in Ukraine and the West, it was a very elegant deal for Putin.\nThe twenty-four Ukrainian sailors taken hostage by Russia in the Black Sea last year should arguably not have been released via negotiations with Ukraine, but separately and unconditionally as a result of Western sanctions. Their exchange for Russian prisoners of war implies that Moscow has still not accepted the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea's May 2019 ruling on the incident.\nSeveral of the other Ukrainian prisoners in Russia, most notably Oleg Sentsov, had become an international image problem for Russia and albatrosses around Putin's neck. Their release was unavoidable. Above all, Putin got in exchange the (perhaps) only usable witness for Ukraine: Tsemakh, a key witness in the Kremlin's July 2014 MH17 disaster.\nWestern pressure on Kiev\u2014against seemingly favorable recent developments\u2014to go ahead with more compromises toward Moscow would amount to a risky strategy. In the worst case, it could lead to a situation similar to the one in August 2015, when then president Poroshenko succumbed to Western pressure to include an ad-hoc additional clause, related to the Minsk agreements, into an ongoing constitutional reform. This produced a brief but deadly confrontation in front of Ukraine's parliament in Kiev, in which five people were killed and dozens injured.\nShould Zelenskiy go the same way as Poroshenko in 2015\u2014that is, too far in his compromises toward Russia\u2014Putin might eventually get the real (and not only pseudo) civil war in Ukraine that he has been trying to trigger for more than five years now.\nRelated analysis from Carnegie Europe\nScholz's Tank Decision Upends Germany's Long Affair With Russia\nSign up to receive Judy Dempsey's Strategic Europe updates in your inbox!\nRecent Analysis From\nJudy Asks: Is European Strategic Autonomy Over?\nEurope Needs a New Iran Strategy\nDevelopment Assistance in Different Political Regime Contexts\nThe New German Defense Minister's Biggest Challenge Isn't Ukraine\nHedging Its Bets: Serbia Between Russia and the EU","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Ahmed Abdelhay\nAL AHLY SC\nFavorite Book\nThe talented Left-handed Egyptian opposite spiker \"Ahmed Salah Abdelhay\" is a Six-time consecutively African Champion and All-Africa Games two times gold medalist who was born in 1984 in Cairo, Salah Started his career with Al-Ahly Club in 1994. In 2001 specifically in Boys U19 World Championship 2001 Egypt, Salah shined on the international level, he turned heads with his high performance making everyone think that this young player is going to be one of the best players in the world which became true in FIVB Volleyball World Cup Japan 2011 when he was nominated \"Best spiker\". Ever since then Salah's Name always ringing a lot of bells when heard.\nSalah who is Married, Played for clubs in Turkey, Russia, and two of the best two clubs in Egypt (Al-Ahly & Army).\nPosition Opposite spiker\nSelection Olympic (10) - W.C. (61) - Other (175)\nInternational Debut Cairo, Egypt\nClub Debut Al Ahly SC\nCurrent Club AL AHLY SC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Ashurbanippal\n#92 The Twelve Minor Prophets (3)\nPart three of David's lecture series on the Trei Asar, the twelve 'minor' prophets of Israel, examines the texts and themes of:\nNachum,\nHabakkuk, and\nTzephaniah.\nHabakkuk, the Biblical prophet, watercolor circa 1896\u20131902 by James Tissot. Public domain.\nWhile these three books are short in length, David explains the importance of each, their place in the prophetic continuum, and how they sit in relation to significant moments in biblical and world history.\nThe lecture delves into the prophets' exploration of:\nthe destruction of Assyria\nthe rise of Babylonia\nthe destruction of the enemies of Israel\nthe destruction of sinners\nthe fall of Jerusalem\nthe need for teshuva and self-improvement\njustice for the nations\ndivine justice\nthe role of God in history\nthe power of the God of Israel.\nDavid provides a historical framework for each of the prophets. He reviews the details of their lives and puts the enormity of their words into context.\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/collected_talks_of_david\/p\/collectedtalkspodcasts.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/episode92treiasar3.mp3\nContinue reading \"#92 The Twelve Minor Prophets (3)\"\n#53 The Prophets: Jeremiah\nA Podcast on the Prophets of Israel in Tanach (Hebrew Bible)\nIt is impossible to understand the impact of the prophets of Israel without placing them in their historical and cultural contexts. In this podcast episode, David sets the fascinating historical background to the emergence of the second of the 'major prophets', Jeremiah (Yeremiyahu). He expands on the powerful and challenging messages that Jeremiah delivers to his contemporaries \u2013 many of which still strongly resonate today. David also examines the life and character of this remarkable but reluctant prophet, including his struggle with the demanding responsibilities placed upon him by G-d and the consequences that this enormous role in Jewish History would have for him.\nRembrandt: Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem. Pubic Domain.\nContinue reading \"#53 The Prophets: Jeremiah\"\nThe latter years of the First Temple period saw the Kingdom of Judah contending with dangers posed by the politics of the region and the fluctuating strengths and flaws of the reigning Judean kings. In this podcast episode, David examines the eighth to sixth centuries BCE. He discusses the perilous journey of the nation of Israel amid a changing geopolitical landscape; the rise and influence of the prophets of Israel; and the profound impact and historical reverberations of Nebuchadnezzar's destruction of the First Temple and the exile of the Jewish people into Babylon.\nNebuchadnezzar camp outside Jerusalem. Artist unknown but Illustration from Petrus Comestor's 'Bible Historiale', France, 1372. Public Domain. Continue reading \"#46 Two Temples (part 2)\"\n#5 Players upon Thrones: Kings and Queens of Israel part 5\nThe period of the Josianic kings, from Menasheh to Zedekiah, was the last chapter for the Judean Kingdom before the Babylonian exile. This podcast explores the personalities and actions of these kings and the overall historical setting of their reigns, including the domination and fall of the Assyrian Empire, the defeat of Egypt, and the rise and supremacy of Babylon. David looks at the lead up to the destruction of the Temple, the Babylonian exile, the return to Zion and the project to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.\nJames Tissot \u2013 The Flight of the Prisoners [Public domain]\nContinue reading \"#5 Players upon Thrones: Kings and Queens of Israel part 5\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"No Honeymoon for Hillary\nNaked Democracy\nIf Clinton wins, she'll inherit massive public anger unless she fights for progressive changes on trade and industrial policy.\nBy William Greider\nDelegates hold up signs protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 25, 2016. (AP Images \/ Bill Clark)\nHere's a question to ponder during the final crazy moments of the 2016 election. Who will own the working-class anger once Donald Trump has been dumped by the voters? If Hillary Clinton wins the election, the Democratic Party will have the chance to reclaim its ruptured relationship with working people\u2014the wounded victims who lost their livelihoods to brute-force globalization. 1\nWith Trump out of the way, Democrats could reclaim their old franchise by proposing an aggressive agenda for reforming US industrial strategy\u2014restoring the economy's balance and equity that Bill Clinton's New Democrats effectively dismantled a generation ago under the banner of \"free trade.\" Trump's fed-up rebellion was driven by many things, but especially by the gutting of US manufacturing. 2\nMichelle Obama has given us a bright slogan for reform: \"When they go low, we go high.\" Instead of Trump's cheap-shot bigotry and vile resentments, Democrats need to envision a generational shift of positive purpose. Not to withdraw from global trade\u2014of course not\u2014but to adopt substantive reforms that redefine America's own national priorities and terms of trade so that globalization can actually benefit all sectors of our society, not just the greedy One Percenters.3\nWe know this is possible in globalization because our rivals in trade manage to sustain broadly shared prosperity for their societies by designing their own self-interested industrial strategies. They do not ask themselves what will be good for the global trading system. They ask if it will be good for Germany or Japan, Sweden or China. Donald Trump's ad-lib slogan\u2014\"America First\"\u2014was widely ridiculed by establishment cheerleaders in the United States. But \"Germany first\" or \"Japan first\" (not to mention Sweden and China first) are implicit strategies of the most successful exporting nations.4\nOnly in America do the policy-makers claim to be above such crass nationalism. They want the United States to be seen as the high-minded \"indispensable nation\" leading the world to higher ground. Foreign rivals privately scoff at US pretensions, but they also know how to manipulate American hubris at the negotiating table.5\nWashington policy-makers essentially identify the US national interest in terms of American owners, not workers.\nThe US approach to trade policy involves a crucial difference. Washington policy-makers essentially identify the US national interest in terms of American owners, not workers. That is, the policy objective reflects the interests of the investors and shareholders who own the multinational enterprises and far-flung capital investments. Elsewhere in the world, a German or Japanese economist\u2014and probably most politicians\u2014would say it is the interests of the workforce that determine the national interest.6\nIn other words, the US government's industrial policy focuses first on serving capital, with an unspoken assumption that labor and society will benefit too if US multinationals succeed. Thus, US industrial strategy has willingly sacrificed the wage incomes of American workers to boost the profits of US multinationals by encouraging the offshoring of American jobs.7\nThis policy preference is embedded in trade deals, the tax code, and the permissive rules of corporate governance, in which CEOs are personally enriched for concentrating primarily on \"shareholder value.\" That narrow-minded standard has spawned a generation of fraudulent returns, but it also warps the economy.8\nThe distinctive US industrial strategy helps explains why globalization destabilized the American middle class.\nThe distinctive US industrial strategy helps explains why globalization destabilized the American middle class while rival trading nations prospered by promoting social solidarity\u2014defending workers and shielding vulnerable sectors from globalization's stormy pressures.9\nIn Germany, for example, during the financial crash of 2008, the German labor federation made a deal with major manufacturers. Instead of massive layoffs, the companies agreed to keep workers on the payroll rather than dismantle its experienced workforce. As sociologist (and longtime Nation contributor and editorial board member) Norman Birnbaum explained, \"Germans shared the political view that what made Germany strong was its educated, highly skilled working class.\" The German chancellor oversees such industrial relationships and can pressure wayward companies attempting to go against the national consensus. German employees\u2014both white-collar and blue-collar\u2014have a formal voice in kibitzing management decisions.10\nIn contrast, America's high-tech companies in Silicon Valley have routinely offloaded millions of jobs to Taiwan or China when new product lines are ready to be upscaled for mass production. The investors demand it. Shifting the production to low wages in Asia boosts their returns on capital. The federal government gives its blessing and facilitates the job shift with its permissive trade agreements.11\nReady to Fight Back? Sign Up For Take Action Now\nThe late Andrew Grove, the legendary inventor and co-founder of Intel, reported for Bloomberg back in 2010 that Apple had 25,000 jobs in the United States and 250,000 in South China. Grove, who died last March, complained repeatedly that US industrial strategy was destroying America's own manufacturing prowess. The multinationals reaped bigger profits, but China and Taiwan gained the engineering experience and infrastructure to dominate the future. With corporate tax cuts and generous subsidies, Washington was unwittingly financing the American decline. 12\nGrove proposed a \"jobs-centric economic theory\" to stop the bleeding and launch the American restoration. He suggested an extra tax could be levied on multinationals for their products made by offshore labor but sold to US consumers. The revenue would finance a general fund to assist companies that intend to scale up their new production in America instead of shipping jobs and technological skills to foreign countries.13\nCEOs and corporate directors whose companies are shrinking the US industrial base would be reminded that their personal rewards depended upon the industrial strength of the home country, which they have been systematically dismantling. \"If what I'm suggesting sounds protectionist, so be it,\" Grove wrote. \"If the result is a trade war, treat it like other wars\u2014fight to win.\"14\nIt sounded like Donald Trump might have been channeling Andy Grove.15\nAfter millions or billions of words, we still don't know what Clinton really thinks about globalization.\n* * *16\nMany House and Senate Democrats might want to push fundamental trade reforms, but they have a problem. Her name is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Their newly chosen party leader is by nature a cautious and defensive politician, and she finessed the subject of trade reform during the long presidential campaign. While Trump pounded \"stupid trade deals,\" HRC concentrated on worthy social and economic reforms. After millions or billions of words, we still don't know what she really thinks about globalization.17\nYet Clinton will inherit the public anger if she has nothing substantive to say about big change. The party's progressive ranks will probably form a loose caucus of the usual suspects to give her a push, and they won't wait patiently to do so. No time for happy talk and no honeymoon for Hillary. If Clinton assumes the anger has faded and she can ignore it, she will be preparing for a one-term presidency.18\nWhile Trump led to the GOP crackup, a Clinton II presidency might generate a parallel clash among Democrats. In olden days, the Democratic Party would have naturally stood up for the working class and organized labor. But the New Democrats of the Clinton-Obama era backed away from both. New Dems are more comfortably aligned with business and banking elites, as well as professionals with progressive social values.19\nThe first decisive test for Clinton will arrive even before she can take the office. President Obama and the business lobby are planning to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal in the lame-duck session of Congress right after the election. HRC says she is opposed, but the White House has wired the deal with the GOP. If they prevail, it will instantly ruin the legitimacy of Clinton's presidency. If she claims she is opposed, who will believe her? The arrogant corporate establishment would be rigging government in the face of public anger, abetted by the lame-duck Democratic administration. 20\nPolitical reporters in 2016 narrowly portrayed Trump's angry voters as only aging white guys who lost their factory jobs. But the victims of depressed incomes and lost prospects are a far more diverse assemblage of wounded Americans. They share the same hurt and insecurities across their differences of race, religion, ad ethnic loyalties.21\nRump-group rebel Democrats in the Senate are in the minority, but they will have the voters on their side.\nThe ranks of the discontented include millions of Democratic voters\u2014working-class African Americans and Latinos, young people struggling to get started, women seeking equity and power, old liberals and young Bernie supporters. The Democratic Party could build a stable governing majority if it could figure out how to reunite all these disparate people with the white guys who share the same economic grievances. 22\nThe rump-group rebels\u2014people like Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, and Sherrod Brown\u2014are definitely in the minority, but they will have the voters overwhelmingly on their side. And that potentially includes lots of Trump voters, too.23\nIn theses troubled times, the old politics of class solidarity can become the new politics of fundamental reform. Democrats must learn again how to listen to these neglected citizens\u2014really listen\u2014in order to create an economic agenda that speaks concretely to what people want and need. In practical terms, this means reinventing an old-fashioned political party that gains its power from organized people instead of organized money.24\nOddly enough, the next great trade debate has already started in Washington circles. In recent weeks, various establishment voices have been churning out their views in blogs and op-ed columns in leading newspapers. Their new theme is sympathy for the losers. But their real objective is to define the limits of acceptable thinking in the coming political debate. None of them accept blame for the wreckage their globalization doctrine caused Americans, much less offer apologies to the victims.26\nThe wise men of Wall Street and Washington are clearly nervous, however, about the rebellious direction of 2016 politics. In The Washington Post, financier Robert Rubin, architect of Clintonomics, offered a grab bag of business-school clich\u00e9s he titled \"Inclusive Growth.\" \"Develop innovative measures to address ongoing wage and job pressure,\" Rubin suggested. \"Restore a sense of common purpose.\" Nice words that don't say anything. My translation: \"Please don't shoot us bankers.\"27\nLeaders of the Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute\u2014two corporate fronts that pose as academic think tanks\u2014offered similar bromides and sounded more anxious. Despite the sweet talk, their corporate agenda hasn't really changed. It still includes cutting corporate taxes, subjecting regulation to rigorous cost-benefit calculations, shrinking Social Security and other federal programs that common folks value greatly.28\nBut I encountered a shocking deviation from a most unlikely source\u2014Lawrence Summers. He was Rubin's sidekick in the Clinton administration and succeeded him as Bill Clinton's Treasury secretary. Time magazine famously dubbed Rubin and Summers and Fed chairman Alan Greenspan as the \"Committee to Save the World.\" A few years later, their world famously crashed in the Great Recession.29\nNow Larry Summers sounds like a heretic. In a July column in The Washington Post, Summers abandoned the elite faith in globalization and urged instead a new doctrine he calls \"responsible nationalism.\" With both NAFTA and China's admission to the World Trade Organization, he acknowledged \"the most extravagant predicted benefits have not materialized.\"30\nThe popular rebellion of 2016, he said, indicates \"the willingness of publics to be intimidated by experts into supporting cosmopolitan outcomes appears, for the moment, to have been exhausted.\" The former Harvard president suddenly sounds vaguely populist. Summers proposed a commonsense way to think about reforming the US trading system:31\nA new approach has to begin from the idea that the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good.\u2026 It may be inevitable that impersonal forces of technology and changing global economic circumstances have profound effects. But it adds insult to injury when governments reach agreements that further cede control to international tribunals of one sort or another. This is especially the case when, for legal reasons or reasons of practicality, corporations have disproportionate influence in shaping global agreements.32\nRead his words again and you can glimpse a rough blueprint for reforming the US approach to globalization. Summers, in fact, is reversing the harsh top-down priorities he and other Clintonistas enforced when they were in power. He is now putting people first in the national interest and subordinating corporate power. 33\nSummers doesn't have answers for every disorder he cites. But he does ask some stinging questions. Why should the global system prevent sovereign nations from limiting inflows of foreign capital in their economies? Why should a country be prohibited from shielding its citizens from GMO crops? Why do corporations have the right to their own private legal system, the \"investor state,\" where they can sue a nation for damages if it enacts environmental regulations that threaten corporate profits? NAFTA created this bizarre arrangement and the TPP proposes to expand it (see my Nation article from 2003, \"Rolling Back the 20th Century\").34\nSummers has evidently switched sides. When he was in power with Clinton and Obama, he was a ruthless advocate of corporate privilege and bankers first. Summers now insists that new trade agreements must be different: \"judged not by how much is harmonized or by how many barriers to global commerce are torn down but by whether people as workers, consumers and voters are empowered.\"35\nSummers almost sounds like a Bernie Sanders revolutionary. But can we trust him? Alas, no. I once wrote a Nation blog about Summers titled \"Professor Pants on Fire.\" A friend of mine suggests he is slyly lobbying again to become Federal Reserve chair, the post Summers was denied when left-liberal progressives (myself included) stormed against his appointment and Janet Yellen got the job. He may once again be playing a double game, hopeful no one will catch up with his contradictions. Unfortunately for him, there is WikiLeaks. Earlier this year, the professor urged the Clinton campaign not to indulge in \"bank bashing.\" John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chairman, dismissed his message as \"the worst advice ever.\"36\nNevertheless, I suggest that reform activists can test his sincerity. Invite Summers to join their fight for reform and advise them on strategy. He is a brainy guy. He could become a sophisticated ally in the fight ahead. If he turns out to be a fake, take charge of his sound ideas and dump him hard.37\nMeanwhile, there is another important document people can consult to get a stronger understanding of the battlefield for reforming the trading system. It's called \"The New Rules of the Road: A Progressive Approach to Globalization.\" The co-authors are two heavyweight intellectuals\u2014Lori Wallach and Jared Bernstein\u2014and longstanding critics of corporate-led globalization. They believe the system has reached a tipping point in both small-democratic rebellion and economic distress. 38\n\"The current 'trade' agreement process,\" Wallach and Bernstein write, \"has been co-opted by corporate interests whose goal is to establish binding, enforceable global rules that protect their investments and profits. The corporate capture comes at the expense of both peoples' rights to democratically govern their own affairs and the ability of sovereign governments to effectively enforce worker, consumer and environmental safeguards.\"39\nTheir prose is clear and uncompromising. They recite the new rules that the country must embrace if it is to get back on track and rebalance society. The process is necessarily long term. It took a generation to disassemble things.40\nBut this document is an epochal rebuke to the governing elites that have owned both political parties for the last generation. The Wallach and Bernstein text is not just another trade debate; they have raised the political stakes in honest language and shocking detail. They accuse the globalists of stealing self-government from the American people. 41\nOnce this assertion is on the table in plain English, it becomes a stark challenge to citizens, not just their elected representatives. Will citizens rise to the crisis of democracy and fight back? Or will they shrug off their embarrassment and settle for the status of weaklings?42\nI am an optimist about America for the long run, because I know the American story well enough to know about the long delays and detours that frustrated the yearnings for justice or simple fairness. There are lots of cruel chapters when people did not redeem their principles. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I sense that we are again at one of those testing moments.43\nWilliam GreiderWilliam Greider is The Nation's national-affairs correspondent.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bering in Mind\nA research psychologist's curious look at human behavior\nAre Straight Women and Gay Men \"Natural Allies\"? An Evolutionary Account\nNot every gay man has a female best friend, nor does every straight woman have a gay man as her most trusted confidant. But according to a recent article in Evolutionary Psychology, every one should...\nJanuary 1, 2014 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nA Baker's Dozen Old-Fashioned Anti-Erection Gadgets for Men (with Illustrations)\nIt should come as no surprise that an archival search of the U.S. Patent Office yields an embarrassment of riches regarding various contraptions for guarding against self-abuse (masturbation) and nocturnal seminal emissions (wet dreams) in human males...\nDecember 30, 2013 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nDarwins Morning After Pill: How Couples Who Want Children Can Increase Their Chances\nIf youre desperate for a child but have been having trouble in this area, semen may be the solution to your reproductive woes. That may sound like the most obvious sentence ever written in the history of the English language, but sometimes beneath the most ancient truisms lie remarkable secrets...\nIan Stevenson's Case for the Afterlife: Are We 'Skeptics' Really Just Cynics?\nIf you're anything like me, with eyes that roll over to the back of your head whenever you hear words like \"reincarnation\" or \"parapsychology,\" if you suffer great paroxysms of despair for human intelligence whenever you catch a glimpse of that dandelion-colored cover of Heaven Is For Real or other such books, and become angry when [...]..\nNovember 2, 2013 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nThe Lustful Human Animal: Cultural Differences in Sexual Harm and Consent\nMost of us are convinced that we excel at being clearheaded, humane thinkers when it comes to sex. We appeal, and admirably so, to notions such as harm and consent.\nOctober 6, 2013 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nOf Cultures Destroyed by Western Sexual Exploitation and Violent Religious Prudery\nIn working on my latest book Perv, some of the saddest material I came across involved the stormy cross-cultural conflicts erupting between Western ideals of sex and those discovered among other \"exotic\" societies...\nSeptember 24, 2013 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nDo Octopuses Feel Pain?\nThe recent headlining report of a 70-year-old man who inserted a fork into his urethra in a misplaced effort to obtain sexual gratification\u2014and who, in the process, unleashed a collective wince heard 'round the world once the x-ray image of his sounding went viral online\u2014shines a light on the lengths some people will go to [...]..\nSeptember 6, 2013 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nI Don't Mean to be Forward, but Please Park on my Face?\nFor most of us, the prospect of getting injured in a car accident isn't particularly erotic. But of course, that's just most of us. When it comes to human sexuality, anything\u2014and I really do mean anything\u2014can become subjectively eroticized in a rogue mind...\nBite Those Nails, Baby: A \"Quick\" Tale of Fingernail Fetishism\nSuum cuique pulchrum est\u2014\"to each his own is beautiful.\" For an otherwise normal, 23-year-old male patient described by the Wisconsin psychiatrist Austin McSweeny in 1972, the most arousing sexual fantasy was the image of an obese woman nibbling at her nails...\nAugust 14, 2013 \u2014 Jesse Bering\nThe Opposite of \"Protection\": A Fetish for Used Condoms\nUsing condoms is a good thing. Using used condoms, well, not so much. In a 2009 article published in Sexually Transmitted Infections, the British medical author Vincent Tremayne explains the fetish for prophylatics...\n@ScientificAmerican\nSTAFFBehind the scenes at Scientific American\nAnecdotes from the Archive\nAnthropology in Practice\nExploring the human condition.\nInsights into intelligence, creativity, personality, and well-being\nBudding Scientist\nEverything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids\nCritical views of science in the news\nDark Star Diaries\nDog Spies\nExplore the science behind the dog in your bed\nExtinction Countdown\nNews and research about endangered species from around the world\nThe Science Behind Extreme Weather\nFrontiers for Young Minds\nScience by and for kids ages 8-15\nCommentary invited by editors of Scientific American\nClimate science in a changing world\nIllusion Chasers\nIllusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions\nLife, Unbounded\nDiscussion and news about planets, exoplanets, and astrobiology\nOpinion, arguments & analyses from guest experts and from the editors of Scientific American\nRoots of Unity\nMathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.\nRosetta Stones\nAdventures in the good science of rock-breaking.\nSA Visual\nSTAFFIllustrating science since 1845\nTalking back\nSTAFFA science blog, sans blague\nThe Artful Amoeba\nA Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth\nExploring and celebrating diversity in science.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Death Notices Duane Kallhoff\nDuane Kallhoff\nDuane E. Kallhoff\nFuneral services for Duane E. Kallhoff, age 83, of Tilden, Nebraska will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 6, 2016, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Tilden.\nReverend Michael Awe will officiate, with burial to be in Lutheran Cemetery in Tilden.\nMilitary Honors will be provided by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7603, American Legion Post 170, and American Legion Riders.\nVisitation will be Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Brockhaus-Harlan Funeral Home in Tilden.\nDuane died Sunday, January 31, 2016, at his residence.\nDuane E. Kallhoff, son of August and Nilah (Buck) Kallhoff, was born November 26, 1932, in Wheeler County, Nebraska. He was baptized at First Christian Church in Wayne, Nebraska on July 20, 1947.\nDuane graduated from Tilden High School in 1949. He farmed prior to entering the United States Army. He served his country from 1955 until 1959. Duane was a Battalion Supply Sergeant with 106 Transportation Company.\nOn April 3, 1955, he was united in marriage to Karleen Sanne at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Tilden by Reverend H.H. Sagehorn. One son, Steve, was born to them.\nDuane was involved in sales work with Kohl's Chevrolet and Case at Tilden. He then was manager and co-owner of Meadow Grove Grain Company. After selling the elevator in 1979, Duane became a sales representative for Kent Feed Company.\nHe retired in 1998. He became a communicant member of Immanuel Lutheran Church on March 29, 1955, and was a longtime member of the church choir.\nDuane enjoyed his 4-H years with St. Clair Valley Feeders. He was a past member of Toastmaster in Norfolk, Nebraska and the Lions Club in Meadow Grove, Nebraska. Duane was proud to have been a past member of the Tilden Volunteer Fire Department for many years.\nHe served eight years on the Tilden City Council. Duane was also a lifetime member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7603 and American Legion Post 170 both of Tilden, in which he served on the Color Guard.\nDuane is survived by his wife, Karleen; son Steve and wife Tammy of Tilden; grandchildren, Sarah and Scott of Tilden; great-grandson, Jace of Berthold, North Dakota; brother-in-law, Caryl Carstensen of Mesa, Arizona; nieces, Debra Schmoker, Diane Slaight, and Denise Cook; three great-nephews; three great-nieces; and many cousins.\nHe was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Donna Carstensen.\nPlease direct memorials to Tilden Volunteer Fire Department, Tilden Rescue Squad, Meadow Grove Rescue Squad, Tilden-Meadow Grove Foundation, or Orphan Grain Train in Norfolk, Nebraska.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"ACTIVITY: Select an Activity... Access Backpacking Boating Camping Camping-Privately Owned Caving Cross-country Skiing Dining Driving Educational Activities Fishing Forest Areas Four-Wheel Driving Games Group Sites Guided Trips Hiking & Walking Historic Sites Horseback Riding Hunting Identification Interpretive Sites Lakes & Reservoirs Lodging Mountain Biking Mountaineering Museums & Visitor Centers Off-Highway Vehicles Other Paddling Sports Picnicking Recreation Areas Rides Rivers & Streams Road Biking Rock Climbing Scenic Driving Skiing Sledding & Snowplay Snowboarding Snowmobiling Snowshoeing Swimming & Waterplay Talks & Programs Viewing Scenery Viewing Wildlife Water Skiing Wind Surfing\nColorado > Colorado Scenic Byways > Top of the Rockies Scenic Byway\nTop of the Rockies Scenic Byway\nCollegiate Peaks Wilderness- The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness encompasses 167,994 acres in central Colorado.\nHoly Cross Wilderness (Holy Cross District Section)- The Holy Cross Ranger District portion of the Holy Cross Wilderness lies to the southwest of Vail and Minturn. The different trails are accessed from either U.S. Highway 24, Tigiwon Road or Homestake Road.\nSearch by Name within Colorado:\nActivity Locator: (58 recreation options)\nActivities within Top of the Rockies Scenic Byway:\nBackpacking Camping Cross-country Skiing Driving Fishing Four-Wheel Driving Hiking & Walking Horseback Riding Interpretive Sites Mountain Biking Mountaineering Picnicking Recreation Areas Skiing Snowmobiling Snowshoeing\nAll Top of the Rockies Scenic Byway Outdoor Recreation Activities\nCustomized Topo Maps and Aerial Photos\nCopyright: Zander Higbie - Interactive Outdoors, Inc.\nTop of the Rockies Scenic Byway at Tennessee Pass\nDescription - This 82-mile route crosses the Continental Divide twice and traces the Arkansas River to near its headwaters. The byway provides views of one of the highest concentrations of 14,000 foot peaks in the country at this crest of North America. The area is also rich in history.\nAttractions - This scenic byway travels through the White River and Pike-San Isabel National Forests, as well as the Arkansas Headwaters National Recreation Area. From its northwest end, this scenic byway travels along Highway 24 from the town of Minturn, past historic Camp Hale, over Tennessee Pass, past Ski Cooper, and through Leadville. An alternative is following Highway 91 south from from the Interstate 70 Copper Mountain exit, over Fremont Pass to Leadville. This route will take you past Copper Mountain Resort, through the Arapaho National Forest to Fremont Pass and the mine tailings of Climax Mine. When operating, Climax was the largest molybdenum mine in the country. The southern end of the byway leads from Highway 24, up Highway 82 to Twin Lakes, a large glacial carved lake and small scenic community at the base of Mt. Elbert.\nThe town of Leadville, which lies at the junction of Highways 24 and 91, held national significance during the silver-mining boom years of 1875 through 1890. The 10th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army used the Camp Hale area as a training ground during World War II. Attractions for outdoor enthusiasts along this byway include two recreation areas centered upon reservoirs, that lie east of Leadville. Twin Lakes and Turquoise Lake Reservoirs provide access to water-centered activities including boating and fishing. The mountains surrounding these lakes offers trails, campgrounds, four-wheel drive roads and other recreation attractions.\nRecreation - The abundant public lands surrounding the Top of the Rockies Scenic Byway provide abundant recreation opportunities. Scenic driving, four-wheel driving, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, downhill skiing, and cross-country skiing are some of the popular activities enjoyed in this area.\nClimate - Snow and ice are common on roads and trails from mid-October through late April. In the summer months snow is still possible but less common. Varying conditions throughout a given day can be expected throughout the year. Remember that summer days can typically have beautiful sunny mornings and short sudden thunderstorms in the afternoon. Please prepare appropriately for your outdoor experience.\nLocation - This scenic byway is runs through central Colorado and has several different branches. The main portion of the byway stretches along Highway 24 from I-70, through Leadville, to the junction with Highway 82. The byway also includes a portion of Highway 82 west to Twin Lakes, and Highway 91 from Leadville to I-70 at Copper Mountain.\nNumber of People Encountered: 0-10 ppl\nRecommend to a Friend: Highly\nReport: The drive on Hwy. 91 going south from I-90 to Leadville is spectacular. Highly recommended. Continue on past twin lakes south of Leadville over Independence pass on the continental divide. It will take your breath away.\nGreater Leadville Area Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 861 , Leadville, CO, 80461, Phone: 719-486-3900\nColorado Scenic Byways - Driving through Colorado can be some of the most rewarding driving possible. The scenic byways deserve their name and are definitely worth the detour.\nScenic Byways Homepage - National Scenic Byways official web site with detailed info on all national and state byways.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GIA Finds Synthetic Diamond with Forged Inscription\nFraudsters forged a Gemological Institute of America (GIA) inscription on a synthetic diamond to make it appear that the stone was the true bearer of a natural-diamond grading report, the institute said.\nThe engraving on the polished diamond's girdle contained a genuine GIA report number for a mined diamond the institute had graded in 2015, the laboratory explained. However, while the \"real\" diamond with that code was a round brilliant-cut, 1.74-carat, D-color, VVS1-clarity stone, gemologists at the GIA's lab in Carlsbad, California, found the submitted diamond to be 1.76 carats, with F color and VS1 clarity.\nThe graders referred the stone for additional testing, which confirmed it as a synthetic diamond created through High Pressure-High Temperature (HPHT). The growth structure and phosphorescence \u2014 or light emission \u2014 visible via DiamondView technology betrayed this fact.\nThe discrepancies between the stone and the 2015 report gave the gemologists a good indication that the diamond they were looking at was not the same one. In addition, a test using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed it was type IIb, while the stone the original report described was type Ia.\nEven the attempt at forging the number did not get past the lab staff: Careful examination revealed the font was different from the GIA's usual one, confirming it was a fake.\nThe person who submitted the stone had probably noticed the inconsistencies with the GIA grading report and sent it to the lab for an updated report, senior research scientist Christopher Breeding and senior staff gemologist Troy Ardon wrote in the lab note.\n\"Rarely do we encounter the type of blatant fraud described here,\" the authors explained, urging traders to send suspicious-looking diamonds to a gemological laboratory for verification.\n\"It is important for the industry and public to exercise caution, because these types of misleading practices do occur,\" they warned.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"All orders placed between August 6-18 will be delivered on August 20. Thank you!\nArtworks (Exclusives)\nArtworks (Limited Editions)\nBook Adults\nBook Kids\nGoodies & Objects\nAleksandar Todorovic\nAlphachanneling\nAmir H. Fallah\nBarry McGee\nBen Sanders\nCarlos Betancourt\nChris Akordalitis\nElias Kafouros\nJavier Calleja x Mira Mikati\nJ.M.W. Turner\nMaja Djordjevic\nPeter Blake\nPottati Pottato\nHome \u203a Carlos Betancourt, One Line Passage (B\/W), Print.\nCarlos Betancourt, One Line Passage (B\/W), Print.\nThis print is derived from an actual one-line drawing consisting of a realm of the artists' oeuvre of objects and things\u2026This figures merged and collide, at times blending together in an eternal dance as if derived from the same magical source. It is an attempt by the artist to organize and democratize all kinds of objects linked to his experiences and that of his collaborator Alberto Latorre. Here the objects are worshiped and the memory embedded in them is activated. The one-line drawings were mostly developed during the long summers stays in the Greek Islands, particularly Mykonos.\nCARLOS BETANCOURT (b. 1966 San Juan, Puerto Rico) received a BA from Miami Dade Community College and continued his artistic training at Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Miami Art Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Museo de Arte Ponce in Puerto Rico, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, Palm Springs Art Museum, New Orleans Art Museum, the Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno in the Canary Islands, amongst others.\nHis work has been included in exhibitions at PAMM, (Miami Art Museum) Miami, FL; Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL; Mc Nay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Celestial Gardens, site specifc permanent installation, Refections Celebrity Cruise Ship; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico; Heather James Gallery, Palm Springs, California; Museo de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Pasiones; Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico; Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Smithsonian National Gallery, Washington DC; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, CA; Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the among others.\nHe is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and the Miami Beach Arts Council Grant. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art Forum, Miami Herald, and Art net, Huffington Post among others.\nMedium: Pigmented inkjet on fine art paper.\nDimensions: 38 x 67 cm, 15 x 26 3\/8 in\n2 SHOP #\nContact us to shop by Phone or to schedule Pick Up\nCopyright \u00a9 2023, 2 SHOP. LtD","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Where can you play trivia in York County?\nHere's a look at some of the bars and restaurants that host trivia nights in the area.\nWhere can you play trivia in York County? Here's a look at some of the bars and restaurants that host trivia nights in the area. Check out this story on flipsidepa.com: http:\/\/fside.co\/1Xgbeg2\nDylan Segelbaum, dsegelbaum@ydr.com Published 11:16 a.m. ET Feb. 9, 2016 | Updated 11:47 a.m. ET Feb. 8, 2017\nDoug Morgan of York New Salem works on his answers during trivia night at the Sherwood Inn in York New Salem on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. (Photo: Jason Plotkin,York Daily Record)\nElijah Cross has been \"obsessed\" with game shows since he was a kid. So much, in fact, that his first words were: \"Come on down, you're the next contestant on 'The Price is Right.'\"\nWhen Cross, 34, moved to York, he found himself playing trivia downtown at Holy Hound Taproom. He thought about becoming a host \u2014 but decided to come up with his own game instead.\nFLIPSIDEPA\nCheck out these beer festivals planned for 2016\n\"And then I hit upon this idea,\" Cross said. \"What if you could win a trivia game by being wrong the entire time?\"\nThe result: Zero Hour Trivia, a game in which the answer to every question is a number \u2014 and teams get some credit as long as they don't go over. Zero Hour Trivia is now offered at two places in York County, and Cross said he's looking to expand into Hanover and Lancaster.\nHere's a look at some of the places in York County that have trivia nights:\nZero Hour Trivia: (Mudhook Brewing Co.,Mexitaly Brick Oven Brewhouse)\nIn Zero Hour Trivia, Cross asks 20 questions.\nSome involve a little math. So, for example, adding the age of a musician to how many studio albums he or she has released.\n\"You can take a guess at anything, and have a chance of getting points on every question,\" said Jeff Lau, the co-owner of Mudhook Brewing Co. in York, which hosts Zero Hour Trivia on Tuesday nights. \"I think that makes it really cool.\"\nAt the end of each night, the top team at Mudhook Brewing Co. wins $25 in credit. Meanwhile, the winner at Mexitaly Brick Oven Brewhouse gets $20 that can be used at the restaurant.\nAfter eight weeks, approximately 10 teams from each location face-off in a championship game, for the chance to win $1,000. The next season starts on Feb. 28.\nNate Wolfe, the assistant manager at Mexitaly Brick Oven Brewhouse, which started hosting the game in January on Thursday nights, said he thinks trivia has been catching on \u2014 and the restaurant is starting to see repeat business. Cross, he said, plays off the crowd, and is charismatic.\n\"It's just really neat,\" Wolfe said. \"A lot of people seem to really enjoy it.\"\nShowtime Trivia: (Holy Hound Taproom, Sherwood Inn, Altland House)\nShowtime Trivia hosts trivia night every Monday at the Sherwood Inn in York New Salem. (Photo: Jason Plotkin,York Daily Record)\nWhen Brian Garrahy, the owner of Showtime Trivia, visited Holy Hound Taproom in York several years ago, he wasn't sure how the location would do.\nThe bar had an \"odd\" shape. And, at the time, it mostly served alcohol.\nBut Holy Hound Taproom, he said, has grown into one of the biggest shows that Showtime Trivia puts on. Showtime Trivia is now offered at 40 locations in five states: Pennsylvania; Maryland; Delaware; Virginia; and Texas.\nEach game is 20 questions. Ones about pop culture, Garrahy said, are the company's \"bread and butter.\" The top team each night typically wins $25 in credit.\nShowtime Trivia also has seasons, which usually last 10 weeks. At the end, playoff games are held \u2014 and the winners go on to compete for a $1,000 prize.\nGarrahy said \"everybody knows trivia,\" and that the game is very accessible. Some teams will even pick members who have a lot of knowledge in certain areas, including television, film and geography.\n\"The social aspect is huge \u2014 and the competition. Those two components right there,\" he said. \"That's what keeps people coming out.\"\nPlaces in York County or nearby that offer trivia:\nSherwood Inn (305 N. Main St., New Salem), 7 p.m. Monday.\nMudhook Brewing Co. (34 N. Cherry Lane, York), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.\nTourist Inn (671 W. Market St., Hellam Township), 6:30 p.m., Wednesday.\nHoly Hound Taproom (57 W. Market St., York), 8 p.m. Wednesday.\nArooga's Grill House & Sports Bar (1211 Haines Road, Springettsbury Township), 6 p.m. Thursday.\nAltland House (10 W. King St., Abbottstown), 6:30 p.m. Thursday\nMexitaly Brick Oven Brewhouse (2440 E. Market St., Springettsbury Township), 7:30 p.m. Thursday.\nRead or Share this story: http:\/\/fside.co\/1Xgbeg2","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Function RoomsSRUFC Club Shop\nScunthorpe Rugby Club\nRemembering Mark Jones\nBy Peter Bright\nFrom Mark's brother Nic\nWe've had so many thoughtful and supportive messages about Mark and want to thank all his family, friends and colleagues \u2013 the love and great stories really have helped us at this difficult time.\nAs you would expect for Mark, we want to ensure that his life is celebrated fully on Tuesday 22nd December, so the following details will help you all join us.\n1. Funeral\nMark (and mum) will be leaving Naylor's Chapel of Rest (Brigg) at 13.15 on Tuesday 22nd December. The cars will travel through Hibaldstow and arrive at the Kirton Lindsey junction at c.13.30.\nThe procession will turn right, opposite The Queens Head (Mark's local watering hole) and head into Scunthorpe.\nWe've been asked if friends can gather at the Queens Head junction to pay their respects \u2013 please do, Mark would love that.\nWe expect to arrive at Scunthorpe Crem at c.13.45 and the celebration service for mum and Mark will start from 2pm.\nWe have split the service into two parts to celebrate mum's life and then Marks. We are sorry many of you cannot attend due to COVID-restrictions but they have offered a live stream service if you wish to join us remotely (it will be recorded and available for 7 days)\nThe access credentials are: https:\/\/www.wesleymedia.co.uk\/webcast-view\nLogin \/ Order ID: 62189 Password: patqqpxa\n2. Flowers & Donations\nDue to COVID restrictions, we are unable to keep large deliveries of flowers with Mark, so our family have decided it would be appropriate to support a cause close to Mark's heart. He was a keen supporter of Scunthorpe Ruby Club who are a voluntary organisation. Over the last few years, Mark supported their \"Tackle It Together\" initiative that supported the mental wellbeing of young people, providing counselling and friendship to people that have experienced the most serious of life challenges.\nWe've set up a Just Giving page to accept donations and will then liaise with the Rugby Club to channel monies raised in Mark's memory for this incredibly worthy cause.\nThe Just Giving page can be found at: https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/crowdfunding\/memoryofmarkjones\n3. Memories of Mark Book\nTo support Mark's family, we are also going to create a 'Memories Book' with uplifting, amusing and especially embarrassing stories about Mark (with any photos if you have them). Chloe and Laura (two of Mark's family) are co-ordinating this and have set up an email account to send in your memories \u2013\nit's: marksmemories2020@gmail.com\n\u2013 no RIP messages please, let's celebrate all the good times.\nWe would really like as many people as possible to send stories of his Manchester days, Uni days, Work exploits, travels, rugby trips \u2013 this should create a lovely journal for Philippa, Angela, family and friends to keep. We'll collect all stories up to 31st Jan 2021 and will then let you all know when it's completed.\nPlease do raise a pint for Mark when you have a chance \u2013 he loved life, and will be missed by so many people \u2013 Luv ya Bro x","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"07\/14\/2014 10:16 am ET Updated Oct 02, 2017\nCities 3.0: How Cities Are Driving the Revitalization of Our Nation\nBy Kevin Johnson\nChris Aschenbrener\nWith the gridlock in Washington DC, many Americans are wondering how our country will ever get back on track. While their frustration with the federal government is warranted, they need to look no further than their own cities to find the answer.\nThe U.S. economy is far from fixed, but recent forecasts indicate a recovery is under way. A new report released last week by the US Conference of Mayors shows that growth in cities will propel nation to levels of economic activity not seen since the early 2000s. Next year, all metros are projected to grow, with half of them growing by more than 3 percent.\nGiven that metro areas account for 86 percent of all jobs, 90 percent of GDP, and 94 percent of growth in this nation, these increases are having a real impact on our country.\nCities are now driving the revitalization of the nation's economy.\nWe're doing this by embracing the new era of American cities, a concept I call \"Cities 3.0\". The first generation of metropolitan areas, Cities 1.0, were built around ports, rivers and transportation routes. They served as centers of trade. The second generation of cities, or Cities 2.0, came much later during the Industrial Revolution. These cities had factories and big industry, smoke stacks and automobiles, with electricity, transportation, and other modern services. They were the destination point for immigrants from around the world pursuing the American Dream. But the world is changing at warp speed and cities have to evolve to stay ahead of the curve. Which brings us to Cities 3.0, where the city is a hub of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. It's paperless, wireless and cashless. In 3.0 cities, we have more cell phones than landlines, more tablets than desktops, more smart devices than toothbrushes.\nTo keep pace with these changes 3.0 cities must embrace three critical components.\nFirst, 3.0 mayors must practice \"open source leadership.\" This means we look for the best solutions regardless of where they come from. We don't care if it originated with Democrats or Republicans, because we don't get caught up in partisan politics. We believe the private sector can help solve public problems. And we know that unlikely bedfellows can often collaborate to produce the best solutions. Being an open-source leader means we're proactive, pragmatic and problem-solving. We don't care about ideology or tradition, only about what's going to work best for our constituents.\nThe second defining feature of a 3.0 city is that it must be the \"ultimate service provider.\" In this generation, the world's largest music company has no record stores (Apple). The world's largest bookseller has no bookstores (Amazon). Two of the world's largest taxi company have no cars (Uber and Lyft). It's only a matter of time before the world's largest hotel will have no hotel rooms (AirBnB). And very soon, the world's largest university will have no campus.\nThat means we need to provide city services on new platforms, too. So instead of city crews driving around looking for potholes to fill, in a 3.0 city, citizens take pictures of potholes with their smartphone, and upload it through a city app that will tag it with its GPS location. Providers throughout the city can instantaneously be dispatched to fill the pothole on the same day. It is quicker, easier and more efficient. And active, connected citizens become part of the city's network to solve problems.\nIn addition to services, the other thing a city provides is infrastructure. In Cities 2.0 that infrastructure was things like roads, bridges, and schools. But 3.0 Cities must provide a NEW kind of infrastructure: like citywide Wi-Fi networks, broadband and fiber optics. We must have turnkey operations for start-up companies, from office space to high-speed communication lines. The bottom line is cities must provide services and infrastructure that residents and businesses need and do it quicker, faster and cheaper.\nAnd last, 3.0 cities are focused on building \"Next\" economies. We know that in order to keep up in the modern era, we have to be innovative. If cities are going to drive the revitalization of this nation, then we need to become laboratories and incubators of change. But how do we do that? We accomplish this by adopting an aggressive, pro-growth agenda that includes investments in the modernization of infrastructure (transportation and water), creating \"sustainable\" cities, addressing income inequality, focusing on creating global trade, and training a skilled workforce for the future through a high quality public education system.\nAs president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, I recently spent a week in Dallas with over 250 mayors from across the country -- men and women of all races, both Republican and Democrat, gay and straight. Despite our demographic differences, we spent four productive days focused on what we can do to ensure our cities continue to climb out of the economic slump and build strong economies for the future.\nWe heard how Mayor Whaley of Dayton, Ohio rebuilt the manufacturing base in her city by developing an advanced manufacturing center at a leading community college to train employees and provide state of the art technology, which led to a $200 million investment in transitioning a closed-down GM plant and bringing 800 manufacturing jobs back to the Dayton metro area. We learned that in Gresham, Oregon, the city will produce 100 percent of its electricity needs from onsite renewable power by this year's end. And Mayor Carolyn Goodman, from Las Vegas, shared that in her city of bright lights they've converted over 80 percent of the city's 50,000 streetlights to LEDs.\nCities 3.0 mayors are not sitting on our hands, waiting for the feds or someone else to solve our problems. We're embracing good ideas no matter where they come from, innovating to provide better services and building strong economies for the global marketplace. In doing so, we're charting a path for the resurgence of our great nation and showing Washington how things can get done.\nMayor of Sacramento\nIndustrial Revolution Infrastructure Education Income Inequality Economy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Personal Finance \u00bb Pay with a Selfie: How Safe Are the New Ways to Pay?\nPay with a Selfie: How Safe Are the New Ways to Pay?\nBy Damian Davila on 17 February 2017 0 comments\nIn 2016, more than half of all purchases in the U.S. were made online instead of at a brick-and-mortar store. From selfie-payments to Facebook Messenger bots, there is now a long list of unusual ways that you can pay the water bill or complete your grocery run for the week.\nBut how safe are these new ways to pay? Let's take a closer look at how some of these new payment methods work, and what you can do to make them even safer.\n1. Facebook Messenger Bots\nColorado-based fintech company BillHero was the first to leverage a Facebook Messenger chat bot to pay bills via chat commands. Later on in September 2016, Facebook enabled all of the 34,000 plus developers on the platform to support payments. The social media giant is working with several players in the credit card industry and fintech, including Visa and Braintree, to process all types of payment options.\nBy opening the gates, Facebook allowed U.S. customers to complete a wide range of other transactions and purchases on Facebook Messenger. In a nutshell: The chat bot lets you know about a product that you might be interested in, and provides a \"buy now\" button. When you click it, it takes you to a checkout screen with your shipping information and payment method for you to review. Boom! Just like that, you're ready to pay.\nBut Is It Safe?\nWell, Facebook Messenger payment bots are covered by the same level of security as all other Facebook products. All transactions using a Facebook chat bot are encrypted or processed through a trusted third-party payment processor, such as PayPal or Stripe, to protect your payment information, such as your card number or CVV. Also, transaction confirmations from a bot will restrict your information, such as only showing the last four digits of your credit card number.\nHow to Make It Safer\nYour first line of defense starts with your Facebook password. Facebook recommends building a password that has at least six characters and is a complex combination of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks. When a password isn't strong enough, the app will let you know. Also, make your Facebook password different from those you use for your online banking, investing, or retirement savings accounts. (See also: 3 Sneaky Ways Identity Thieves Can Access Your Data)\nA second tactic is to turn on login alerts so that you receive an automated alert when someone tries logging in to your Facebook account from an unrecognized device or browser. A third is to require a password or PIN whenever sending money or making payments in Facebook Messenger.\n2. MasterCard Selfie Payments\nSpeaking of passwords, MasterCard believes that they cause too much hassle and presents the option to pay with a selfie. The \"selfie pay\" technology was first tested in the Netherlands, the U.S., and Canada and will be rolled out gradually across the world throughout 2017.\nThrough a smartphone app, shoppers can confirm a purchase by taking a selfie and letting the facial recognition software verify their identity. According to MasterCard, 71% of users rated \"selfie pay\" highly during trials.\nTo prevent somebody from just holding up a picture of you and getting away with a $1,000 shopping spree, the app requires you to snap the picture after you blink or shake your head. Then, the app compares the selfie with stored algorithms of your face to identify you. During the trials, 73% of users believed that \"selfie pay\" will reduce fraud and 90% of them would use it in the future.\nSince \"selfie pay\" is still in the process of being rolled out, there's little that we can do as of right now. If taking selfies isn't your cup of tea, MasterCard also plans to provide a fingerprint confirmation option with the app and is currently testing voice and cardiac rhythm recognition.\n3. Amazon Dash Buttons\nConnected to your home's Wi-Fi, the Amazon Dash Button allows you to reorder many of your favorite products with a simple click. To set up each Amazon Dash Button, you'll need to download the Amazon app on your Android or Apple device, connect the Dash Button to Bluetooth, and also enter your Wi-Fi information. Some Dash Buttons don't support Bluetooth connection, and use your smartphone's Wi-Fi connection or speakers instead.\nCurrently, the button is only available for Amazon Prime members, costs $4.99, and provides you with a $4.99 credit after your first order. There are hundreds of products to choose from including Charmin, Doritos, Greenies Dog Treats, and Red Bull! Once you click the button, an indicator light will turn green when your order is successfully placed, or red if there was a problem.\nA device that connects seamlessly to your Wi-Fi, smartphone, and Amazon account \u2014 what could go wrong? While there are plenty of folks that have hacked their own button to do anything from turning on lamps remotely to ordering pizza with one click, there are currently no reports of malicious hackers tapping into another person's Amazon Dash Buttons.\nTurn on the \"order protection\" feature on your Dash Button to prevent a new order from being placed until your prior order is delivered. This way you can prevent your spouse or son from tripling an order of detergent on the same day.\nConsider turning on the email notifications of your Amazon orders so that you can cancel any orders that you don't recognize.\nAnd it should go without saying, but set a strong password for your Wi-Fi and update that password at least once a year.\n4. Chip Cards\nNo other new form of payment has generated more discontent from American consumers. From the confusion about swiping or inserting, to the awkward conversation with cashiers while waiting for your card to be processed, there is a list of reasons these metallic chips are considered an annoyance by many.\nHowever, the reality is that chip cards are far from being a new way to pay. They have been reducing fraud in over 130 nations around the world for several years. So, the U.S. is just playing catch-up. As of April 2016, Visa had issued roughly 265 million U.S. chip-enabled credit and debit cards, and MasterCard had upgraded about 70% of its U.S. debit and credit cards to the chip format.\nThe evidence clearly indicates that chip-enabled cards reduce fraud. Visa has reported that among the U.S. merchants who were suffering the most instances of card fraud at the end of 2014, those that began accepting chip debit and credit cards saw instances of card fraud fall 18.3% as of the fourth quarter of 2015. On the other hand, some of the U.S. merchants who opted not to upgrade payment terminals to process chip cards experienced an increase in instances of card fraud of 11.4% for the same period. (See also: 4 Ways Chip Credit Cards Make Life Easier)\nSimple: Opt to use your chip-enabled cards over those without a chip, and choose merchants with chip-enabled payment terminals over those who are still holding out. As with everything else, strength comes in numbers. Only when chip cards have become the norm across the nation can we all reap the enhanced security benefits of chip technology.\nTagged: Personal Finance, Technology, Amazon, apps, bots, buying, chip cards, Facebook, fraud, payment methods, safety, selfie\nThe 8 Most Eye-Opening Money Attractions in the U.S.\nHow to Make Better Financial Decisions\nHow Much Time Do Gig Apps Really Save You?\n6 Ways to Avoid Scams When Selling Your Stuff Online\n5 Financial Accomplishments Millennials Can Be Proud Of\n4 Ways to Come Clean When You've Been Financially Unfaithful\nDamian Davila\nPersonal finance writer with an MBA and a Masters in Educational Technology","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Italian Site\nInternational Site Italian Site\n- All channels - Alumni Campus Learning\nCAMPUS | 01\/07\/2021\nCaporarello Confirmed Among the Top 100 Leaders in Education\nTHE DIRECTOR OF BUILT WAS RECOGNIZED FOR THE SECOND TIME DURING THE GFEL\nLeonardo Caporarello, Rector's Delegate for e-learning and director of BUILT, the laboratory for teaching innovation at Bocconi University, was named as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Education during the Global Forum for Education and Learning, held this year (virtually) in Las Vegas. The award refers to the year 2020 and for Caporarello it is a confirmation, having already won it in 2019. With this acknowledgement, the Forum aims to recognize people with the ability to be agents of change in the sector, through scientific publications, the creation of innovative training products, the construction of a network, and dissemination within their organizations of reference.\nCaporarello, Professor of Practice in Negotiation at SDA Bocconi and lecturer in the Universtity's Department of Management and Technology, has led the SDA Bocconi Learning Lab since 2009 and has headed BUILT since 2016.\n\"One of the main reasons for this recognition,\" says Caporarello, \"was our ability to react to what happened as a true anti-fragility team. Having a solid foundation allowed us not only to resist but also to quickly reconfigure ourselves based on the changes we were experiencing. To do this, you need to possess certain characteristics like, for example, knowing how to manage emergencies without panicking. The award, however,\" he continues, \"also and above all goes to the team as a whole, to its strong cohesion and expertise.\"\nby Davide Ripamonti\nTranslated by Richard Greenslade\nAI in the boardroom\nby Maria Lilla' Montagnani e Maria Lucia Passador\nTechnologies and big data are increasingly fundamental elements of decision making processes. To avoid abuses, errors and inequalities, more competencies and soft law at the governance level, not less AI\nIt's All the Mismatch's Fault\nby Massimo Morelli\nThe greater the mismatch between military power and political power, the greater the risk of conflict and the longer its expected duration. A theory of struggle for power that is valid both if the contenders are two different states and if the conflict is internal\nIf the US and China quarrel, the planet suffers\nby Jennifer Clark\nHypercompetition between the two powers, exacerbated by the rare earth elements issue, risks being a disadvantage for the fight against climate change, emphasizes author Sophia Kalantzakos in her volume China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths\nA Nudge Will Be Good for the Vaccine Passport\nby Alessandro Romano\nTwo behavioral economics experiments show that to avoid the polarization of public opinion in favor of or against the Covid digital certificate (as happened for example with the opposition to the app for tracking) it is good to combine two information strategies. The first is to reduce the bias of the status quo, the second is to introduce the peer effect\nIn Berlin, Seeking a Different Future\nby Clara del Genio\nShe graduated from Bocconi a year ago. Now Clara Del Genio works for Zalando, the etailer headquartered in the German metropolis\nLatest Articles Campus\nSvolte: SDA Bocconi and Corriere Describe the Turning Points When Training Transforms Lives and Companies\nEleven stories featuring alumni, companies and faculty discussing how skills can be powerful engines of change. And the opportunity open to everyone to register for seven master classes that can ignite the spark of transformation\nSandro Castaldo new President of IFSAM\nThe marketing professor will head the important federation for the next two years\nThe Art of Mentoring\nThe importance of mentorships in today's business world and the secret of a positive mentor\/mentee relationship are discussed in the new Story Scanner podcast\nBrowse the magazine in digital format.\nView previous issues of Via Sarfatti 25\nTweets by @Unibocconi\nBocconi Knowledge\nBocconi TV\nRadio Bocconi\nTra i leoni\nIn accordance with Directive 2009\/136\/CE, we inform you that our website uses cookies. If you continue navigating on the site, please expressly accept the uses of these cookies.X","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Awful History Behind Why Hipsters Think It's OK to Wear Headdresses\nByDJ Lanphier\nWhen Christina Fallin, the lead singer of indie electronica band Pink Pony (and daughter of Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin), posted a photo of herself to Instagram in March wearing a Native American headdress with the caption \"Appropriate Culturation,\" the social media and Internet backlash was swift. Flaming Lips drummer Kliph Scurlock protested her stupidity. In a seemingly unrelated move, he was summarily fired by the alternative rock band.\nLast week, though, the story came to light again. In a statement, Scurlock explained that: \"I was fired for telling Christina to go fuck herself after her lame-ass 'apology' when people got upset at her stupid headdress photo.\" Wayne Coyne, a friend of Fallin's, wouldn't let it stand. Six days later, Fallin went onstage with her band at the Norman Music Festival. There were protesters in the crowd, demanding an apology. Instead, they got Fallin wearing a handmade shawl with the word 'SHEEP' stitched in the back (she has since claimed it was an attack on journalists exaggerating her actions). Her mother \u2014 and her band \u2014 apologized almost immediately.\nImage Credit: Christina Owen.\nWhatever her reason for the shawl, Fallin isn't alone in this. Recently, popular music has really been sticking it to people who care about Native American culture. A few weeks ago, Coachella was crawling with hipsters wearing Native American headdresses, renting teepees for a small fortune and Instagramming it all. We're reaching a fever pitch of outrageous cultural appropriation.\nAt Fallin's concert, someone was holding a sign that read \"Don't trend on me.\" But this isn't a recent trend \u2014 it's a problem America has encouraged for decades, and one with a deep musical past.\nImage Credit: Instagram.\nA long time ago, popular culture, the film and TV industry, the music industry and the general public decided that appropriating Native American culture such as the headdress was no big deal. It was common place. It was everywhere \u2014 in comics, on TV shows and popular movies, on playgrounds in games of Cowboys and Indians and shouts of \"Indian Giver!\"\nThe fact that Native Americans might take great issue with having their ancient cultural and spiritual heritage assimilated, misused and turned into pop culture fashion for sale has never really been discussed nor appreciated in a manner that would solicit real awareness because it's been taken for granted in our popular culture for so long.\nImage Credit: Fury Comics.\nThat cultural appropriation has a deep root in music, specifically. Country Western music picked up where Westerns left off in its stereotyping of Native Americans. This kind of representation was dominant in the '50s and '60s. Just look at older country songs like Hank Williams' humorous Indian love ballad \"Kaw-Liga.\" In fact, country music used Native- American stereotypes so heavily that in 1964 Johnny Cash felt compelled to record an album called Bitter Tears, comprised entirely of \"Indian protest songs.\"\nBut even though Cash was at the height of his popularity, Columbia Records refused to release the LP, stating that it was not commercial enough. Privately, it was understood that many local radio managers and DJs considered the content \"un-American\" and were refusing to play it before its release. A very public fight ensued, culminating in its release, but with almost no support from Columbia. The record languished. So there you have it: resisting cultural appropriation is un-American.\n\"Music lies at the heart of Indian culture. From birth to death, all occasions, sacred and secular, personal and tribal, in the life of the Plains Indian are inextricably intertwined with musical performances.\" - The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains\nBut when, in 1969, pop group The 1910 Fruitgum Company released an album titled Indian Giver featuring a cover with each member wearing a different Native American headdress, no one complained like they had about the Cash record. The title song reached No. 5 on the Billboard chart. For the decades following, Native American clothing and similar references plagued rock as a poor, commercialized symbol of 'spirituality.'\nImage Credit: Buddah Records.\nFast-forward half a century of social and political achievement, and approximately nothing has changed. In 1994, Tim McGraw released a song called \"Indian Outlaw.\" It was a pop crossover hit; the fastest rising country single since Billy Ray Cyrus's \"Achy Breaky Heart.\" And it was every bit as stereotypical as it sounds. In 2012, Gwen Stefani's No Doubt, no strangers to controversy cashed in on some Native American cultural appropriation in a video. There's all those indie music fans supporting Urban Outfitters in its pursuit of the mysterious Navajo. And of course there are these picture from Heidi Klum a couple of weeks ago:\nImage credit: Facebook\nWe need to wake up to why this matters.\nFor centuries, Native Americans have watched their culture disappear, its meaning and importance misunderstood, vilified and sold. It isn't hard to understand why Native Americans would want the significance of a headdress preserved \u2014 it's a spiritual item, used in musical rituals that help define Native American culture. If you wouldn't wear a yarmulke or a turban or a burqa as a costume, why would you wear a headdress? No one wants to raise their kids thinking they belong to a culture relevant only to people too old to be wearing kid-Halloween costumes and stoned festival goers.\nAs 70% of Native Americans now live in a metropolitan area (8% in 1940) it's important to preserve symbols since America has left little else native to Native populations. Headdresses are not a toy to be bought, sold and worn for a drunk weekend then tossed aside. It's a long-standing problem \u2014 one we've needed to address for far too long.\nBut there is hope. When rappers like Christian Parrish Takes the Gun, an Aps\u00e1alooke American Indian from the Crow Nation Reservation, can become MTV's Artist of the Week, there's hope. American Indian voices are raising in their culture's actual songs. Centuries on, it's time America listened.\nThis popular TikTok chef left his prosecutor job after old, racist tweets resurfaced\nParamore's Hayley Williams called out NOFX singer Fat Mike for being a total creep (allegedly)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Where is Oshiomhole? Concerns mount over fate of APC chairman\nby Dyepkazah Shibayan\t0 Comments\nConcerns are mounting over the fate of Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was recently grilled by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).\nTheCable had reported that Oshiomhole was detained and quizzed by the DSS after some APC governors alleged that he received bribes during the party's primary elections.\nThe APC chairman was pressured to resign during the interrogation. He travelled out of the country after he was granted administrative bail.\nTheCable understands that he is expected to return latest on Sunday. The APC chairman made the trip to the US to keep a previously scheduled appointment.\n\"The APC chairman will be back on Sunday. He went to keep an already scheduled appointment in the US. There is no truth in the reports that he has fled the country, no, it is not true,\" a source said.\n\"Oshiomhole has said that he will not resign until Buhari tells him with his own mouth.\"\nTheCable also learned that the APC governors who want Oshiomhole out of office have not backed down.\n\"The aggrieved APC governors who do not want Oshiomhole in office are not relenting,\" another source said.\n\"They see the chairman as the reason why the party had rancorous primary elections. So they are saying he must go.\"\n'OSHIOMHOLE TO FACE FURTHER GRILLING'\nMeanwhile, Oshiomhole is expected to go back to the DSS office for further interrogation when he returns to the country.\n\"We are still looking at his statements and also carrying out further investigations. This type of operation is not meant for the members of the public,\" PUNCH quoted a source as saying.\n\"Rather, we will brief the president when the report is ready. Oshiomhole is the national chairman of the President's political party. He deserves to know our report first.\"\nAbdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun) and Rochas Okorocha (Imo) are some of the APC governors that are not happy with Oshiomhole.\nThey all failed to secure the party's gubernatorial tickets for their preferred candidates.\nAdams OshiomholeAPCAPC governorsDSS","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 | polski | english\nPOLES IN KIEV\nI. KIEVAN RUS TIMES FROM ITS ORIGIN\nII. KIEV REVIVAL AFTER TATAR INVASIONS\n(Lithuanian period and the rise of the Roman Catholic bishopric of Kiev).\nIII. REPUBLIC TIMES AND THE RISE OF KIEV VOIVODESHIP IN LESSER POLAND\nIV. KIEV RUINED BY CHMIELNICKI AND ATTEMPTS OF RENEWAL\nV. KIEV IN THE COMPOSITION OF RUSSIAN EMPIRE\nVI. KIEV - THE BOLSHEVIK-COMMUNIST TIMES\nVII. MODERN TIMES\nKiev - the capital of Ukraine, her heart and pride. The City - a history which spans more than 1,500 years. The capital of Kievan Rus during which Polish Catholics were present almost from the beginning. They were and are part of the history of this city, part of its splendor and prosperity ... part of its failures and ruin. Poles died together along with Kiev - and together with her, were reborn. They never stood on the sidelines of its history, quite the opposite. They loved this city, defended it from destruction, and created it. Unfortunately, the history of the city and the whole of Ukraine often is not the truth, which the political powers depend on - and thus is prescribed under the prevailing ideology.\nKiev was one of the most important centers of Polish culture in the former eastern territories of pre-partitioned Poland. Poles there were social and intellectual elite. Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski described his trip to Kiev in the second half of the nineteenth century thus: \"In the streets ... Polish language can be heard every moment, in all the stores, shops, hotels, restaurants ...; Polish bookstores here are huge; the theater, though arrived in the middle of summer, made good business; a lot of Polish companies ...; through work and prudence, thanks to prosperity and solidarity, we will be a major element of the city.\" (http:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kij\u00f3w#Polacy_w_Kijowie).\nI KIEVAN RUS TIMES FROM ITS ORIGIN\nPoles in Kiev were present since its inception. Legend says that Kiev was founded by the Polish Grand Duke Kiev. Nestor, in his book \"Tale of Bygone Years,\" says the Poles on the Dnieper and the Vistula Rivers originate from the same Danubian Slavs (Nestor's chronicle [in] August Bielowski Monumenta Historica Poloniae Lviv 1864 , p 553). On the other hand, Safarzyk believes that the Dnieper Poles probably came from the Polish Kujaws: \"The Poles over which Kiev ruled, were newcomers from the Vistula, who settled by the Dniper. This population, coming to new dwellings, brought with them their favorite local names from their homeland: Kiev, Kijowiec, Kijewice, and so forth \" (Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries. T. 4, Warsaw : an overlay .Sulimierskiego Philip and Wladyslaw Walewski, 1880 -1914, Warsaw 1883 , p.62). In these names, according to some researchers, have survived traces of commonality of these two strains: Polish from the Vistula and Rusian from the Dnieper.\nThanks to the very convenient geographical location of Kiev, from the beginning it was an important trading center, so merchants from neighboring countries came and settled here - including Poles. Already in the early Middle Ages, in Kiev there was a Polish mercantile municipality - Lacka (ie Poland) Sloboda (Tadeusz M. Trajdos, the Catholic Church in the Rusenian and Lithuanian lands of the Crown during the reign of Vladislav II Jagiello, 1386-1434, 1982). Poles were also present at the courts of princes. Around 1008, prince of Kiev Vladimir married his son \u015awiatope\u0142k to a Polish princess, daughter of Boleslaw Chrobry. \"Boleslaw, after escorting his daughter to Kiev, appointed Rejbern, a Bishop from Kolobrzeg, and upon arriving, rooted out paganism and began sewing the seeds of faith of Christ in those parts\" (Geographical Dictionary ... page 65). Besides clergy, the princess was accompanied by a full estate staff.\nSo the Poles and the Christians of the Latin rite were an ordinary phenomenon among the Rus duke towns. Before the arrival of Bishop Rejnberna to Kiev, there visited another German missionary-apostle. He was a Saint. Bruno, merseburski bishop - he was sent by the Pope to Kiev for conversion of the gentiles. Vladimir kept him in his capital a whole month, and then he personally escorted him to the borders of the Rus land. Bruno went to the Pechenegs, where he baptized 30 of the Gentiles, and made a covenant with the Pechenegs which was very beneficial and convenient for the Duke of Kiev, then he returned to Kiev, where he devoted to the bishopric of one of his companions (Geographical Dictionary ... page 65).\nAfter the death of Vladimir, his son, \u015awi\u0119tope\u0142k, fleeing from Jaroslaw, took refuge in Poland with his father in law - Boleslaw Chrobry, who brought him back to Kiev. According to the legend of \"The Chronicles of Greater Poland\": \"when Boleslaw Chrobry rode to Kiev, through the Golden gate; in customary chivalrous fasion - slashed his sword and left a mark of his solemn gain.\" (However, this story can not be true, because the Golden Gate in Kiev did not exist yet, it was established in 1037) (Geographical Dictionary ... page 65).\nSwiatopelk's governance didn't last long, Jaroslaw conquered him by the River Alta and again took Kiev. His younger sister - Dobronieg\u0119 (at baptism received the name Maria) was married to the Polish king Kazimierz Odnowiciel. Dobroniega became the mother of Polish King Boleslaw Smia\u0142y. However, Jaroslaw Madry - in 1032, took over the Polish Red Cities and settled the Polish population within his nation.. \"Year 6540 [1032]. Yaroslav and Mstislav (Jarisleifr and Harald) gathered numerous warriors, went to the Lachs and took over the Polish Red Cities again, and ravaged the Lach's land, brought them back, and devided them. Jaroslaw settled his people by Rus, and they are here to this day\" (\"Tale of past years\", Henry Stronski, long time ago, the Poles in Ukraine).\nAs some researchers suppose - some of the population abducted by Jaroslaw settled in Kiev, and confirmation of this is the Lach Gate(medieval entrance gate to the Yaroslav castle in Kiev), the name of which can come from the early medieval mercantile district located in Padole, but also refers to the population of Lachs deposited by Jaroslaw Madry in the basin of the Dnieper and Rus (Ipatean codex, [in:] Po\u0142noje sobranije russkich letopisiej, T. 2, p 427). In medieval Polish dictionaries the adjective \"lach\" was treated in Russia as a synonym for the determination of both Lachs (Polish), and followers of the Latin church in general.\nLach Gate was one of the three gates of the castle built by Yaroslav Madry. The gate was first mentioned in Hipathian codex in 1151, the codex states that it was burned down during a fire in January 1124. In that year, the Jewish, Hungarian, and Golden gates were also destroyed (http:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lacka_Brama_w_Kijowie # cite_note-12). Halfway between the Lach and Golden gate was one-quarter of the Polish\/Lach municipalities merchants.\nFrom the twelfth century, we come to expect a constant presence of Polish merchants in Kiev. From the end of the twelfth century, there is news of the colony \"wicked Lachs\" in Kiev. These phrases from the codex are undoubtedly connected to the existence of a colony of Wroclawian merchants in Kiev, which is of course tied to commercial activities, but also with the marriage of Boleslaw Wysoki and duchess Wierzchoslawa - daughter of Prince Vsevolod Jaros\u0142awowicz. . Townspeople from Wroclaw often visited Kiev, and shortly after the Mongol invasion, Carpini met them there when he returned from Mongolia.\nIn the thirteenth century, a Polish colony of merchants in Kiev could have some importance. In the first half of the thirteenth century, at the Lach gate there will be erected a wooden church and convent, in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Initially to the care of the Benedictines from the Scottish Abbey in Vienna, and later to the Dominicans (W\u0142adys\u0142aw Abraham. Organization of the Church in Poland to mid-twelfth century. 1962). At this monastery was also housed the school founded by Saint Jacek for the Latin Catholics.\nWe read in the Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries in 1883 that \"the reign of Vladimir Rurykowicz was memorable, because then came to Kiev from Krakow St. Jacek Odrow\u0105\u017c, a Dominican with three companions: Gody\u0144, Florian and Benedict. The prince of Kiev gave a square at Blonie, where St. Jacek built a church and monastery for his congregation. Also, a pious matron and property owner wrote over her riches and wealth to that assembly. Kiev, because it was inhabited by the so-called \"Guests\", ie, foreign merchants, was comprised of many Catholics. (Geographical Dictionary ... page 65).\nSt. Jacek arrived in Kiev in 1228 and had to flee the Mongolian onslaught in 1240. Legend of saint Jacek, which is preserved in folk memory, speaks about his popularity among the inhabitants of Kiev. One legend tells of the exorcism of a women's evil spirits in one of the neighborhoods of Kiev, another tells of his miraculous rescue of the figure of Mary, who 'asked' that Jacek not leave her behind when he was fleeing from tatars. When the Dominican took the figure of the Virgin Mary, it suddenly become incredibly light. He moved the figure to Krakow, where it regained the initial weight. Another legend says that during the famine in the Tatar invasions, he had to feed the poor homemade dumplings. Therefore, he was given the nickname \"Saint Jacek with dumplings\" (pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/jacek_Odrow\u0105\u017c#Legendy_o_.C5.9Bwi.C4.99tym_Jacku).\nAfter the destruction by Batu Khan, all that remained of Kiev was rubble and ashes. The small population who had taken refuge in the surrounding woods was afraid to go back to the \"barren mountain.\" However, the devastated Kiev slowly revived, though in 1352 in Europe, the plague known as the \"black death\" devastated most of the inhabitants of Kiev.\nAfter the Tatars, Kiev became an inheritance without any benefactors. (Geographical Dictionary ... s.74). In 1363 the Grand Duke of Lithuania - Olgierd - defeated the Tatars and took Kiev. Vladimir, son of Olgierd became the ruler of Kiev. Under Vladimir, Kiev prospered and the population increased. Eastern commerce once again began to grow, and Kiev began rebuilding. In this part of the city on the so-called \"Rye Market\", at the bottom of the Castle Hill was built the Dominican monastery. \"Vladimir aided the Dominicans by privileging them the location\" (Geographical Dictionary ... p.74).\nDecades before, the Kiev Poles and Catholics began to request that a Pastor be named; and in 1320 the Lubusk and Rus bishop, Stefan II, having the privilege to appoint bishops, on December 15, 1320 ordained as bishop: Fr. Henry from the Kamien Diocese of in Pomerania; who became the first missionary bishop of Kiev (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u041a\u0438\u0457\u0432\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u0416\u0438\u0442\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u0454\u043f\u0430\u0440\u0445\u0456\u044f. \u0406\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u043d\u0430\u0440\u0438\u0441, \u0416\u0438\u0442\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0440, 2000). The next missionary bishops of Kiev were Dominicans. After Henry - Jacob (before 1371), Nicholas (before 1383) and Borzys\u0142aw.\nThe first diocesan bishop of Kiev was Andrew, in 1397. Before 1405, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the Polish king Wladyslaw Jagiello endowed the bishopric, and built the Latin Cathedral in Kiev (http:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diecezja_kijowska). Before there was a Catholic cathedral in Kiev, the bishops lived at the Dominican's (Geographical Dictionary ... pp. 75). If up till that point the title of Bishop of Kiev was nominal, it had since developed legal and economic conditions, so in Kiev functioned a fully-fledged structure of the church with the current bishop. In 1410 the Bishop of Kiev was a Dominican: Michael Trestka, who organized religious life in the diocese, and renewed pastoral activities, in 1411 on the hill called Kisiel\u00f3wka - he expanded and restored the wooden church of st. Nicholas.\nAt this time was established the residence of the bishops. In 1416, Kiev unfortunately once again was destroyed by the Tatars; and in 1430 began a civil war between \u015awidergie\u0142\u0142o, who stood by the Rus system, and prince Zygmunt, who was supported by Lithuania and the Polish army. In 1434 a rebellion broke out in Kiev against \u015awiedergiello which he brutally suppressed. Under such conditions, having a bishop in Kiev was impossible (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...).\nIn 1437, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Swidrygiello, in connection with the loss of all the lands, surrendered to the Polish Crown and came to Krakow to pay homage to the land of Volyn and Kiev, and vowed together with his team and guardians of castles (including Jurasz of Kiev, the guardian of the Kiev castle), that they will be faithful to the King and the Crown of Poland, and that after his passing, they will have no master other than the Polish King (Geographical Dictionary ... pp. 75).\nThe next Latin bishop wasn't able to settle in Kiev till 1451, and was the Bishop Klemens, who began the spiritual rebirth and probably built a new church, but there are no documents which confirm this for sure (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...).\nIII TIMES OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC AND RISE OF THE KIEV VOIVODESHIP IN LESSER POLAND\nIn 1471, King Kazimierz made Kiev a voivodeship. From then on, the Kiev Dukes were not bloodlines, but were provincial governors on behalf of the Polish king. From 1471 until 1772 Kiev region was one of the 11 voivodeships representing Lesser Poland. (Although in 1686 under the Treaty of Grzymu\u0142towski - the city officially was awarded to Russia; despite this, according to the state records, the Kiev Voivodeship existed to the end of the First Republic. Its capital was Zytomierz(because the Russians took over Kiev). Until the mid-seventeenth century the voivodeship consisted of three districts: Kiev, Owruck and Zytomierz (Geographical Dictionary ... pp. 75).\nThe first voivode of Kiev, Gasztold, together with the bishop of Kiev, founded research centers, in which the Genoese, taking refuge in Kiev after the Turk conquest of Kaffa (in 1445), took to learning Latin, Greek and other subjects (Geographical Dictionary ... s .75).\nIn 1482, Medligerej han burned down Kiev, cut out the inhabitants, by treachery won the castle, and took Voivode Jan Chodkiewicz together with his family captive. Vessels of gold looted from the burned church he sent his ally, The Grand Duke of Moscow. The next voivode of Kiev, Bohdan Andrzejowicz, sent by King Kazimierz, brought 40,000 troops to defend the city from the Tartars. By order of the king, he repaired and rebuilt the ruined castle. Son of Polish King Zygmund Jagiellonczyk - Aleksander Jagi\u0435llo\u0144czyk - in 1494 granted Magdeburg rights for Kiev, and thanks to King Zygmund Stary I \"the city received a coat of arms on the seal of the city, and in 1513 also granted many privileges to the townspeople - the churches and monasteries were also not forgotten. Pieczarski Monestary he bestowed with freedoms\" (Geographical Dictionary ... pp. 75).\nThe period from 1450 to 1586 was very painful in the history of Kiev, during this time the city was ravaged and plundered by the Tartars 86 times, and in 1522 the Moscow prince took Czernihov, and life in Kiev resembled conditions of martial law, which made it very difficult for functioning of the structures of the church. Withstanding these difficult times, the city was reborn and rebuilt. Catholics in the city were taken care of by the Dominicans or Franciscans (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...).\nIn 1569, as a result of the Union of Lublin, the Latin Bishop of Kiev had a seat in the Senate. In contrast, the city became the official venue of the annual meetings, or assemblies. King Zygmunt Augustus generously bestowed local townspeople with freedoms as evidenced by numerous privileges. Trade flourished, and many memoirs of that time mention the wealth of Kiev (Geographical Dictionary ... S.79). The connection to the Polish Crown allowed the restoration of trade ties with the countries of Western Europe: Crimean Khanate, Turkey, Iran, as merchants trading in Kiev were shielded by imunity thanks to the Polish king (Z.J Peszkowski, Kiev, Bykivnia, Lodz-Warsaw-Orchard Lake, 1999, p 16).\nIn 1592 Joseph Wereszczy\u0144ski was ordained bishop of Kiev - a Polish political writer, polemicist, moralist and preacher. In 1593, the new pastor came to Kiev. He was known for his anti-Tatar position, which is why the Crimean Khan wanted to kill him, and on the way to Kiev, arranged an ambush from which he was rescued by the Cossacks, who respected him because in their disputes with the princes he always testified for them and took their interests into account (Geographical Dictionary ... s.80). When, in 1595 the Cossacks sailed to Kiev, great fear fell because the Cossacks had often plundered the city, so the nobles and townspeople begged bishop Wereszczy\u0144ski and prince Ru\u017cy\u0144skiego to try and somehow talk them out of it. The Bishop managed to settle with the Cossacks and peace was saved (Geographical Dictionary ... s.80).\nBishop Wereszczy\u0144ski arrived to Kiev and built a new wooden church of St . John the Baptist in Padole. Through his initiatives the villages around Kijow such as \u015anitynka, Doroczynka, Ples\u00f3w, Czarnogr\u00f3dka were revived. They were s\u0142ob\u00f3dki - where the new Catholic communities were formed based on families. In 1595 he composed the development and building of Kiev, and the settlement in the Polish nobility. He moved to the bishop's residence to Fastow. He was succeeded by Bishop Krzysztof Kazimirski , who came to Kiev in 1606. The prelate also dealt with the expansion of Fastow, where was built a church and a new home for the bishop. Thanks to his efforts, the diocese set up a chapter , and already in 1619 to its composition came four canons (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e . \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e - \u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...). In 1619, the diocese had 19 parishes, in 1724 - 21, in 1772 - 31 parishes, in 1793 - 43 (Jerzy Kowalczyk , \" Late baroque churches and monasteries of Kiev diocese and deanery Brac\u0142aw \", [ in:] The Art of the Eastern Borderlands Volume 3 , IHS , Jagiellonian University , Cracow 1998 , p.20 ).\nThrough the efforts of Bishop Kazimirski in Kiev was built the brick Latin Cathedral, where he was later buried. In 1607, from all around there were brought to Kiev stones, bricks, and cement for the future of the cathedral, but its fate remains unknown. We only have witness of the Greek-Catholic hierarch Rucki, that in 1618 in Kiev the cathedral church of St. Catherine was already functioning (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...). There are also many certificates from 1636, which the authors argue that in the city there was a wonderful cathedral church.\nUp to 1608, the voivode of Kiev was the prince Konstanty Vasil Ostrogski, who rarely appeared in the city, which defended itself and often was plundered by Cossaks. In 1610, the Kiev voivode was Stanislaw \u017b\u00f3\u0142kiewski who took care of the city, and King Zygmunt III \"was helping him to contribute freedoms, and adorn rights\" (Geographical Dictionary ... p.82).\nIn 1618, at the Lavra Pieczarskiej a printing press first opens, which in addition to the Cyrillic alphabet, prints Glagolitic, Greek and Latin. Many Polish Polish books were printed there. At the beginning of the seventeenth century Kiev is filled with churches (Geographical Dictionary ... p.82).\nIn the years 1608-1610 (some sources say 1640). The Dominicans built a brick church in Kiev - St. Nicholas. It was one of the largest and most magnificent churches in the Diocese of Kiev and Luck. The temple was beside the main gate of the Florowski Monastery. As for the architecture, it was a typical late-Gothic, vaulted nave building in the shape of a cross with three altars. On the choirs were organs. Some historians believe that the judge Stefan Aksak also built a monestary for the Dominicans (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...).\nIn 1623 the Franciscan Order (Bernardine) received land from the Sulimowskich family between the town and the castle on the right bank of the Dnieper, where the monks built a monastery and temple. Certificates of them are very rare. It is known only that the monastery and the church were made of wood. The Temple received the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Stigmata of St.. Francis, and in 1635 it was consecrated. At the church existed the societies of St. Anne, St. Francis, and St. Michael (or the military). The Franciscans led active pastoral work and enjoyed great respect among the local residents. The monastery was home to about 30 monks (https:\/\/christking.info\/pl\/?g-113).\nIn 1638 the missionaries of the Society of Jesus , or Jesuits - came to Kiev. Not having their own temple, they stayed with the Franciscans. They were involved in pastoral and evangelistic activities. Soon, voivode of Kiev, Jan Tyszkiewicz, in 1645 bought the building for them and the land between the Franciscan church and the Dnieper. The Jesuits of Ostroga - Father Nicholas Czychowski and Stanislaw Szmalkiewicz also came to Kiev, and through joint effort formed the Kiev Kollegium (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e . \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e - \u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ... ). This is also confirmed through memoirs of Beauplan, a French military engineer, writer, and cartographer, who visited Kiev a few years after Pogorzel in 1638 : \" Greek- Catholic churches numbered 10, and the Catholic churches numbered 4: brick cathedral in 1620, the Dominican church, in the rye market out of stone - recently by Stefan Aksak ; Bernardines, funded in 1623 by Christopher Sulimowski, and finally between Bernardienes and the river, the Jesuits, newly introduced by Janusz Tyszkiewicz, 2 Orthodox churches : St Sophia and Saint Michael \" (\u0413\u0456\u0439\u043e\u043c \u041b\u0435 \u0412\u0430\u0441\u0435\u0440 \u0434\u0435 \u0411\u043e\u043f\u043b\u0430\u043d, \u041e\u043f\u0438\u0441 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0438, \u041b\u044c\u0432\u0456\u0432 1998).\nThe years 1648-1657 were one of the most dramatic periods in the history of Kiev, the name of which is \"Ruin\". December 27, 1648 het. Bohdan Chmielnicki came from Zamosc to Kiev. \"Next to him rode Cossack colonels, in silver and gold \" showing the populace that everything from the war was looted , and took it all out \" (...) . The mob greeted him with a shout, he went to welcome the metropolitan. The clergy and deputies also arrived from Moscow. Arrival of Chmielnicki became a slogan for the murders, atrocities, and robbery. Neczaj, proclaiming that he has permission from Chmielnicki, had cut out the nobility, which was in refuge here. The remnants of the nobility and the Jews who wanted to go to Volyn and to Poland barely got out of town, the Cossacks intercepted them on the way, and slayed them. After the murders, it was quiet for a few months, but in May, several Cossack regiments under the command of Pohilenki, again took to Kiev. Much of the nobility that survived during times of excess, were now murdered (Geographical Dictionary ... p.85 ).\nCatholic Shrines also been plundered by the Cossacks: Franciscan Church and Jesuit College were burned, the Dominican church dedicated to the residents at the inn, the cathedral was demolished, and the priests and monks murdered them by elaborate tortures. In Fastowie was destroyed the residence of the bishop. Probably, at the same time, was murdered the bishop of Kiev Stanislaw Zareba (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...).\nAt the time of the Chmielecki Uprising was a great famine in the country. In Ukraine, Volyn, and Podolia, remnants of the peasantry who did not parish from hunger or the Tartars now wandered through Kiev past the Dniper. \"In Kiev, from sunrise to sunset, says the chronicler, poverty was everywhere, on the streets too many of them died, they swelled, and caught various diseases from leaf and herb varieties which they ate for food.\" (Geographical Dictionary ... p.86).\nIn 1651, under Beresteczko, the army of the Republic defeated Chmielnicki and followed the wake of the retreating Cossacks to Ukraine, and Prince Janusz Radziwill to Kiev. From Kiev the Cossacks fled, and the Koss\u00f3w Metropolitan, Archimandrite Tryzna, all the clergy and magistrate met the prince in the field asking to spare the city from the robbery. He promised them that the captain will not introduce troops into the city. The clergy and the magistrate were forced to swear allegiance to the King and the Republic; But on August 17 suddenly a fire broke out in Podolia. It destroyed more than 2000 homes. Lithuanian Armed Forces stayed in Kiev to late autumn, then forces the crown took their place (Geographical Dictionary ... p.86).\nTo Kiev again arrive crowds of nobles, and King John Casimir grants people of Kiev general amnesty \"Year 1652, March 20 a separate privilege was introduced which granted liberty from all kinds of taxes, duties, tolls (except foreign customs), from positions, soldiers goods, etc. for four years, and that they have the insight that these townspeople \"lived through the Tartar and Cossack destruction, then through the fire - where the whole city was ruined and destituted.\" \"By virtue of amnesty were also restored all goods, which during the Cossack rebellions had been taken away\" (Geographical Dictionary ... p.86).\nMeanwhile, peace with Chmielnicki was not sustainable, there was the batowska massacre. The governor moved out of Kiev, followed by the nobles. In Pereyaslav in 1654 Chmielnicki surrendered to the Tsar of Moscow. The Boyers came from Pereyaslavia to Kiev to hear the oath of its inhabitants. The Koss\u00f3w Metropolitan refused to perform it, but eventually relented, and on January 19 swore together with the Metropolitan and the nobility. After the death of Chmielnicki (1657) the hetman was Jan Wyhowski, who in Hadziaczu entered into a settlement agreement with Poland whereby the Kiev region was conferred to him, and together with the Polish army went to Kiev, which failed to remove the Russian army, even with the help of Podolian townspeople. Wyhowski departed, and Kiev again was burned by the tsarist army; townspeople and those accommodating Wyhowski were trapped and abducted. In 1665 Tartars repeatedly burned Kiev and took the people. Finally, as a result of the treaty concluded in 1667 Kiev was ceded from the Republic of Russia for one year, and then in 1686, by the Treaty Grzymu\u0142towski, forever (Geographical Dictionary ... pp.86 -88 ). In connection with the detachment of Kiev from the Republic, the episcopal residence was moved from Kiev to Zhitomir, where in 1724 a new cathedral was built.\nIn 166o a Tsarist edict was released according to which the Poles, Armenians, and Jews were to leave Kiev, but after Kiev became the center of the province, the ban was revoked; and once again a large Catholic community gathered, which unfortunately did not have its church . The situation changed after the death of Catherine II in 1798. Her successor was her son Paul I, who was quite sympathetic to the Roman Catholics. Residents of Kiev turned to him with a request to allow to build a church in Kiev. And already in the next year, by Peczersk, in the Nowy Targ area appeared a small wooden church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which in 1800-1801 was submitted to the Dominicans, who came to Kiev. The presence of the monks revived religious life of Catholics in Kiev, it is they who became the initiators of the construction of a new, large church and its monastery (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e . \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e - \u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ... ).\nIn 1815 Emperor Alexander I, during his stay in Kiev, provided a square for the building of the Catholic Church, \" which began thanks to generous contributions\" (Geographical Dictionary ... p. 89). The temple was built in the years 1817-1842 on a cruciform plan, with a dome at the intersection of the aisles in the classical style. For the church of \"St. Aleksander\" there was planned a different dome, which would be akin to their shapes dome of St. Isaac church in St. Petersburg, which is decorated with multiple columns around the high classical drum. However, with such a dome, the temple would become the dominant architecture of the old Kiev, especially against the background of the official Peczerska, so the legend says, with the approval of the project in St. Petersburg, Emperor Nicholas I personally underlined in red pencil \"unnecessary\" part of the dome and signed \"only so high and no centimeters above.\" As for the beauty of its magnificent interior, everyone agreed. Funded by the Poniatowski brothers. Near the church there were two buildings: one - the monastery , the other - residence for clergy . Between the church and the buildings was planted a garden. In the lower part at the bottom of Kosciela street was a rowhome which secured the financial stability of the temple and the clergy (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e . \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e - \u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ... ).\nIn the 1940s of the XIX century there were already two parishes in Kiev. In the year 1833 on November 9 the High School in Krzemieniec was moved to Kiev (Geographical Dictionary ... p. 89). As a result, high school students were punished for the support of the November Uprising. The high school library with its collections and laboratories were also brought to Kiev. In 1834 on the campus of the high school, University of St. Wlodzimierz arises; because the majority of university students were Poles, in 1836 the Tsar allowed to decorate the chapel for students of Kiev. The Pastor was to be Head of the Department of Catholic theology at the University. First the chapel was located in a private building, and when a new room was built at the university, the chapel moved there. The chapel received as patron Saint Nicholas, and was dedicated in 1843. According to the descriptions it had a fairly large size - about 30 m long and about 15 meters wide. In the chapel were three altars, the main with an image of Jesus Christ and the tabernacle, the side altars of St. John the Evangelist and the Virgin Mary were decorated with paintings of their images. All three paintings were painted by the eminent Karol Briu\u0142\u0142ow. The chapel also had organs. The University Catholic chapel was located in the northwestern part of the university building, on the first floor (https:\/\/christking.info\/pl\/?g-108 ).\nAt the university, faculty and students were initially composed almost exclusively of Poles (students and lecturers who were not Poles comprised about 10 % of the academic community), and the city of Kiev itself, as far as culture, was more than half Polish. In the academic year 1838\/39 Polish students constituted 62.5 % of all students. \u0141ypki district was inhabited almost exclusively by Polish aristocracy, next to the Russian (Here were estates of magnates Potocki and Branicki), also on the main street - Kreszczatik - pulsated Polish social life. On the main avenue of the city housed many Polish owned modern shops, reputable companies, banks, hotels, craft shops. Similarly, at other nearby streets: Funduklejewskiej, Lutheran, Pushkinskaya, Prorieznoj, Wielkiej Wlodzimierskiej, Niko\u0142ajewskiej, and others. Theatrical life was composed almost entirely of travelling Polish acts. The center of one of the Polish districts of Kiev was Koscielna street, where was the church of St . Alexander. It is here that were held some of the largest demonstrations in the city on the eve of the Polish youth uprising in 1863 (http:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kij\u00f3w # Polacy_w_Kijowie). After the January Uprising, the university chapel was closed, and before that, the faculty of Catholic theology was liquidated.\nCatholic chapels were also at other universities and public institutions. Unfortunately, today we do not have their discription, but sources say that there were about 15. They were located at: the First Emperor Aleksander High School, Kiev student campus, the Institute of Noble Maidens. In addition, there are also mentioned private chapels: at Padole, in \u0141ukjanowce (at the hospital), the Wodyci Forest, at Szulawce, and on the Catholic part of the Bajkowce cemetery. There are also news about the chapel on the left edge of Kiev - Darnicy, which was then considered the town property allotment (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...).\nIn the second half of the nineteenth century, the number of Poles in Kiev continued to increase. At the end of the nineteenth century, the church of Saint Alexander could no longer accommodate all the parishioners, the number of which in the early twentieth century was more than 40 000 people. The only solution was to build yet another temple.\nIn December of 1896, the community of St. Alexander church asked about land for construction of the church, and a petition was given to the city council signed by 314 influential Catholics. The land for the construction of a new temple of St. Nicholas was located near Wasylkiw\u015bkiej Street. After that was announced a competition for the project, which was to be made \u200b\u200bin the Gothic style. Among the entries, the best was a project by Stanislaw Wo\u0142owski, who was then still a student. Because Wo\u0142owski presented only a sketch of the project, the preparation of a fully-fledged design and construction of the church was commisioned to architect Wladyslaw Horodecki - a well known Kievan architect (\u0411\u0456\u043b\u043e\u0443\u0441\u043e\u0432 \u042e. \u0420\u0438\u043c\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u043a\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0446\u044c\u043a\u0430 ...). The ceremonial groundbreaking for the temple took place on August 4, 1899. The work lasted from 1899 to 1909, and St. Nicholas Church became one of the most beautiful buildings in Kiev - and a symbol of its Polish culture.\nThe population of Poland in Kiev in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century played a major role in the social, economic, and cultural life in the city and the whole of Ukraine; and consisted of officials, businessmen, intellectuals, skilled workers, domestic servants, and youth which studied at the universities of Kiev (St. Wlodzimierz University and the Institute of Technology) (Z. \u0141ukawski Polish population ..., p 122). In the hands of the Polish population were numerous sugar factories, breweries, distilleries, as well as emerging companies serving the farming and agricultural industry (T. Zienkiewicz, Polish literary life in Kiev in the years 1905-1918, Olsztyn 1990, pp. 11-12).\nA turning point in the life of Poles in Kiev, as well as the whole of Ukraine, was the year 1905, when Tsar Nicholas II issued a tolerance manifesto. The Poles were then allowed to use their native language in the liturgy, organize Polish schools, release their own press, and organize socio-cultural societies and charities. Kiev-based Poles took advantage of this opportunity 100%.\nKiev became the city where there were issued the largest number of Polish newspapers. In addition to fulfilling functions of ideology and informationan, the Polish press performed other functions important to the borderlands public.. Most importantly it favored the integration of Poles living here - it strengthened ties with citizens of the country, and acquainted people with the history and national heroes.\nOne of the first cultural organizations that arose after 1905 was the Kiev Polish Society of Art Lovers. The aim of the Society was to spread art culture in Polish society. The Society led three sections: the dramatic arts, music, and sculpture\/painting; and also arranged theatrical presentations, concerts, and literary\/artistic evenings. The services of this Society were open to various organizations and institutions. From 1908, Polish theater in Kiev became a permanent entity (T. Zienkiewicz , Polish literary life in Kiev in the years 1905-1918 , Olsztyn 1990 , p 68).\nIn Kiev, there was also established a Polish literary circle which gathered publishers, editors, reporters, columnists, critics, writers, and poets. At the beginning of 1909, The Polish Circle of Writers and Journalists was established (T. Zienkiewicz , Polish literary life in Kiev ... , s.93 -77 ). There were also numerous Polish charities, among which was the Kiev Roman Catholic Charitable Society; which ran two hospitals, an employment agency, three orphanages, a retirement home, affordable meals, and ensured medical attention and clothing for the poor. Funds for these activities were raised by organizing opera, theater, and artistic evenings (T. Zienkiewicz , Polish literary life in Kiev ... , s.93 -77 ). Also in Kiev, was established the University College, where staff trained future teachers as well as numerous scientific societies - such as the Society for the Promotion of Polish. Science and Culture in Russia, Polish Lawyers Association, Polish Technical Association, and Scientific Society (Patek , the Poles in the East in 1917-1922 (from the October Revolution to the proclamation of the USSR) , \" Overview of PL \" Vol XXI , 1995, No 2 , pp. 9-10 ).\nIn 1917, Ukraine embraces chaos - the authorities changed one after the other - as mentioned by Fr. Theophilus Skalski \"... awful times began for Kiev and the Borderlands. Governments and authorities changed. As far as I remember, we went through eleven different authorities and governments. Each of them was quite painful for the city to endure, sometimes even several days after the bombing, something everyone commandeered; they terrorized people, murdered their opponents, confiscated gold and refuted the old currency, and introduced its worthless paper money ... \" (T. Skalski, terror and suffering, pp. 121-122). The worst, however, was only shortly to come ...\nAfter the Bolshevics took power, began the persecution of Polish social and independence activists. Often enough, all one had to do to be guilty was be Polish and \"speak one word on the street in Polish to be judged as a counter-revolutionary\" (J. Kupczak Poles in Ukraine in 1921-1939, Wroclaw, 1994, p 84-86). In 1918, among others, the brothers Marian and Joseph Lutoslawski were shot, accused of anti-state activities. The reason for the arrest was their clash with the People's Commissariat for Polish Affairs, which was created by the Bolshevik authorities in November 1917 in order to align affairs of the Polish population with the prevailing ideology.\nMore often repeated searches on the premises of Polish organizations confiscated their property and turned over to the disposal of the said Commissariat for Polish Affairs.\nRepression against the Polish population was not resolved during the Polish-Soviet War, taking new forms. In the years 1919-1921, in connection with alleged cooperation with the authorities in Poland, as well as participation in a secret Polish Military Organization, there had been mass arrests of Poles. The prisoners were sent to concentration camps mainly in the depths of Russia. Also during this time, there was limited activity of the Polish system of education. A big story, among others, was the May 1919 arrest of 27 Polish students in Kiev, of which five were sentenced to be shot. Very often yielding to the pressure of the Polish army, Bolshevik troops arrested Poles as hostages, not bypassing the children, women, or elderly people (A. Patek, the Poles in the East ... page 17).\nAfter the signing of the Treaty of Riga on March 18, 1921, the Poles who emigrated from Kiev became citizens of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.\nYears of the 1930's were especially tragic. The Polish people suffered huge losses as a result of the mass arrests, acts of genocide, deportation. At the end of 1930, out of Ukraine were displaced 75 thousand families. From March to June 1931, 23.5 thousand were exported. The year 1936 ushered in the next stage of mass deportations. In March of 1936 it was decided to expel 3317 families of Kiev to Kazakhstan between May 25 to June 10. However, the height of the repression of the Poles took place in 1937-1938. To unleash repression against Poles, the previously published issue of Polish Military Organization was fabricated by the NKVD authorities. The then People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Nikolai Yezhov, in its operating order No. 00485 of August 11, 1937, ordered to detect and destroy members of the PMO, which in practice was a warrant for the shooting of Polish nationality. The \"Polish Operation\" was carried out in a cruel manor: arrests without concrete evidence, beatings and torture, coerced confession to belonging to a PMO. At the end of 1937, the \"Polish Operation \" arrested about 19 \u200b\u200bthousand people, completed investigation on 7 thousand, of which nearly 4.9 thousand were shot.\nVictims of this operation most likely make up most of the people buried in Bykovnia before 1939. After the invasion of Poland, added to them were Polish officers of the Ukrainian Katyn List (M. Ivanov , First nation Punished. Poles in the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1939, Warsaw- Wroclaw, 1991, p. 76, H. Stroriski , Polish road to Kazakhstan . repressions against the Polish population in Ukraine in the thirties , \"Review of East \" , 1994, Vol III , No 2 ( 10)). In 1938, The last Catholic Church in Ukraine was closed - St. Aleksandra in Kiev, and in its place was organized a dormitory for workers, and the sanctuary site was turned into a toilet. In 1947 the church rooms were adapted for the needs of the Soviet cultural and educational organization. Not until 1991 was the temple returned to the faithful, unfortunately not as their property , and the rooms were rented from the state ... In contrast, the church of St. Nicholas was closed in 1933 and turned into a storage for vegetables. After the war, the church was used to store archives of the USSR. In 1979 the church was turned into a House of Organ and Chamber Music - and for this purpose it is used today, ignoring repeated requests of the faithful for the return of the temple.\nChurches for Poles in ancient and former borderlands were a very dear symbol of ties with Polish culture, and extremely important psychological and moral support in the quest to preserve their national identity. Besides, the secretary of the Polish Consulate in Kiev, Niezbrzycki, wrote in a report on Nov. 10, 1929, stating that salvaging the church was their biggest concern: \"... they (the Poles)subconsciously feel that by losing the churches they lose their only tie to Poland. The situation is all the more tragic - he continued - that they understand perfectly that a few kilometers to the west lies Poland, which does not care about their fate.\" The mood of the Polish population was described as desperate (R. Dzwonkowski, the Catholic Church in the USSR from 1917 to 1939. Outline of the history, Lublin 1997, p 247).\nIn 1939, after the Soviet army invaded the eastern territories of the Second Republic,there began mass arrests. They arrested military, state officials, and the people who occupied any position of the Polish administration, such as intelligence officers or anyone could be an enemy of the new regime. On October 31, 1939, at the Soviet Supreme session, WM Molotov announced the successful occupation of eastern Poland and took captive two hundred and fifty thousand of the Polish army. As a result, on European territory of the USSR, there were 23 camps for prisoners of the military. Kiev prisons were overcrowded with Polish prisoners, most of whom forever stayed in the boundaries of Kiev - in Bykovnia - where before had been buried their compatriots who were shot in the basement of the NKVD, often just for the fact that they were Poles and Catholics.\nAfter the German invasion of Kiev, the Bykovnia matter came to light, plans were even made to build a monument that would immortalize the memory of victims of the communist regime, but in 1943 the Soviets returned to Kiev and for nearly 50 years one was not allowed to speak of the brutal crimes of the communist regime. The crime scene was often dug up, and then forest was planted so as to cover up and forget about the hundreds of thousands who had been taken one day from their families, never to come back ...\nAt the time of the German occupation, religious life was somewhat revived. Some Orthodox churches opened. As for the Catholics, there are only verbal memories - that they gathered for Mass in a room at the Karaite Synagogue - built by Wladyslaw Horodecki in 1900.\nIn the postwar years, Catholics gathered in Kiev to pray at a private house in a suburbanallotment village. Once in a while, masses were led by priest Tadeusz Hoppe, a Salesianfrom Odessa. However, in 1957, Khrushchev announced the intensification of the battleagainst religion, and the chapel in the private house was closed by the authorities of Kiev. The faithful, however, did not stop to gather in prayer. They secretly gathered in their homes, masking prayer meetings as family holidays. From time to time, Kiev hosted priests, among whom was Fr Seraphim Koszuba, who has been called the itinerant apostle of Volyn, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Over time the most active Catholics, without thinking of the consequences, repeatedly appealed to the municipal authority to allow them to have their own chapel; but all the time the answer was negative. With constant refusal they went to complain to Moscow, which was surprisingly good for the consequences - in Kiev they were allowed to organize a chapel. Catholics from the city bought a four-room building, where they arranged the temple. May 2, 1969, in the new chapel was the first liturgy, during which the priest at the altar was symbolized with a chasuble.\nVII MODERN TIMES\nMuch improved after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Religious life began to rise from the ashes. In 1991, we were able to retain St Alexander Church - though not as property - but only through a perpetual lease. St. Nicholas church is in a worse situation - where the daily masses are celebrated in the basement, and upstairs is a hall of organ music. We haven't been able to retain this church despite long-standing efforts, and promises of presidents; especially President Leonid Kuchma's promise to John Paul II during his pilgrimage to Ukraine in 2001. A beautiful architectural monument lies ruined, while modern buildings and business centers are springing like mushrooms, as the temple crumbles from vibration of the subway, which the Soviet authorities dug underneath. It is rotting from the center. A landmark of the city, a beautiful architectural masterpiece is being let decay. Is it because it is a symbol of the Catholicism and of Polish Kiev? In such a situation, can you even dream of a beautiful parish building - once built by the Poles at the above-mentioned churches, and now belonging to the city?\nOn this day in Kiev there are 8 parishes. It is very difficult to determine the number of Catholics and Poles in their area. Resulting from the cruel repression of the past, and continuing resentment toward those who call themselves Catholics and Poles, hardly anyone officially admits to their identity. It is assumed that these \"courageous\" in Kiev number at least 60,000, while those \"hidden\" are many times more - for on the Sunday masses, there are a few thousand people present. Of course, modern times are much better for Catholics and Poles in Ukraine than during the 70 years of terror before, but up till now we have been treated \"severely\".\nIt is telling, what has been happening the last few years in one of the districts of Kiev - in Obo\u0142oni. After years of difficult and costly efforts, we were able to obtain the theoretical possibility to build the temple. Attempts to erect the Catholic Cross ended with it being cut to pieces. The nuns, who in April 2013 were praying at the site of the temple, were shot at and wounded with a pneumatic weapon - without any consequences to the perpetrators. It seems that the city, while providing Catholics in Obo\u0142oni a place to build the temple, counted on the fact that the parish will not be able to cope with the associated problems. When it turned out that the parish succeeded in reaching the very start of construction, then began the excesses - which went unprosecuted by the city authorities nor the police nor the prosecutor's office. Despite this fact, Catholics are hoping that the temple will rise. Each parish has struggles, but as long as there are priests, parishes can develop.\nIn the parish of \"Christ the King of the Univese,\" we are facing a huge challenge. We have to build a parish with a temple in the center - where we will be able to revive Catholic and Polish traditions of Kiev, and remedy many spiritual and cultural needs to the \"brave\" and \"hidden\" Poles in Ukraine. History agrees. We have the advantage that our land, even though it is small, is a private property, which will not cause unrest. The trick is to find Poles who will join in the creation of such a \"Polish Meeting House,\" where it will be possible to grow spiritually - restoring a sense of participation in the great Polish tradition of Kiev and Ukraine.\nJesus Christ King of the Universe\nSaint Vincent Pallotti\nDirections of development\nBykovnia\n| Main page | Jesus Christ King of the Universe | Saint Vincent Pallotti | News | Directions of development | Gallery | Kazakhstan | Photo gallery | Bykovnia | Poles in Kiev |\n\u00a9 2011-2019, Reign of Christ.\nDesigned by Koi Web Studio","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Malicious apps discovered in Android Market\nSC Staff December 12, 2011\nAttackers over the weekend uploaded malware-laden copies of a number of popular apps, such as Angry Birds, to Google's official Android Market, researchers warned.\nA rogue developer with the handle \"Lagostrod\" uploaded trojanized versions of at least a dozen popular games, including Cut the Rope, Need for Speed: Shift, and Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Sean Sullivan, security adviser at anti-virus firm F-Secure, said in a blog post Monday. If installed, the apps attempted to send SMS messages to costly premium-rate numbers.\nFollowing the discovery of the malicious apps posted by Lagostrod, researchers found a second rogue developer with the handle \"Miriada Production,\" who also posted several bogus games to the Android Market.\nAfter being notified of the issue, Google removed the apps and suspended the developers' accounts. However, despite Google's efforts, the apps were downloaded about 14,000 times, researchers at mobile security firm Lookout, wrote in a blog post Sunday.\nA Google spokesman declined to comment about the malware outbreak when contacted by SCMagazineUS.com on Monday.\n\"There could be several [other] such accounts in [the] Android Market, turning Google's security efforts into a game of [Whac-A-Mole],\" F-Secure researchers warned.\nThe premium-rate trojans were targeting users in 18 countries.\nThe incident is the latest in a series of cyber crime waves to hit the Android Market. Last week, nefarious horoscope and wallpaper apps were discovered on the Android Market that also sent messages to premium-rate numbers, Lookout researchers said. Those apps have also since been removed.\nAttackers have for some time been abusing premium-rate SMS services for their own gain. Often used for adult or horoscope chat lines and other services, premium-rate numbers allow third parties to amend an additional charge on an individual's cellphone bill and receive payment for \"provided\" services. Once downloaded, premium-rate SMS trojans cause a users' phone to send text messages to attacker-owned numbers, resulting in charges on a user's phone bill.\nVanja Svajcer, principle virus researcher at anti-virus firm Sophos, said Google's open app store model is easy for cyber criminals to abuse.\n\"The requirements for becoming an Android developer that can publish apps to the Android market are far too relaxed,\" Svajcer wrote in a blog post Monday. \"The cost of becoming a developer and being banned by Google is much lower than the money that can be earned by publishing malicious apps.\"\nApple: Some US State Department iPhones hacked with Pegasus spyware\nSC Staff December 8, 2021\nApple has issued a warning that unknown attackers have breached and infected some US State Department employees' iPhones with the Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli firm NSO Group.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jamieson and Gall: MLS boys key to U-20s' frontline\nby Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla, Apr 27, 2015\nBy Mike Woitalla\nTwo goals last weekend on different sides of the Atlantic indicate the U.S. frontline is looking sharp one month ahead of the 2015 U-20 World Cup.\nIn Austria, Coach Tab Ramos' team won its first game since qualifying in January with a 1-0 victory over Croatia. The Columbus Crew's 20-year-old Romain Gall, co-leading scorer with five goals at the U-20 Concacaf Championship in January, scored two minutes after coming off the bench in the 64th minute.\nBradford Jamieson stayed with his Los Angeles Galaxy while the U-20s were in Austria. The 18-year-old got his second straight MLS start and scored his first MLS goal -- a \"Goal of the Week\" candidate in a 1-1 tie with the undefeated New York Red Bulls. Jamieson, whose two goals in U-20 qualifying included the strike in a crucial 1-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago, roasted two defenders before stroking home a left-footed shot from 13 yards out.\n\"Obviously it was a great goal,\" said Galaxy coach Bruce Arena. \"He's still a young kid, he had some good moments and some that weren't so good but overall a real good performance by a good young player.\"\nJamieson, who played for Chivas USA's Development Academy team before moving across town to the Galaxy, spent last season with Galaxy II, scoring six goals and was a USL Rookie of the Year finalist.\nGall, who was born in Paris and moved to Virginia with his family at age 7, played for the academy programs at D.C. United and Real Salt Lake-Arizona. He spent two seasons in France with Lorient's reserve team before landing in Columbus via MLS's weighted lottery. Gall made three MLS appearances last season but has yet to see Crew action this season as he was sidelined with a knee injury.\nSince qualifying and prior to the win over Croatia, Ramos' team tied Qatar 2-2 tie and lost 2-1 to both Tottenham Hotspur and England's U-21s.\nPhiladelphia Union midfielder Zach Pfeffer set up Gall's goal against Croatia. Maki Tall, who plays for France's Red Star, missed a penalty kick for the USA in the first half.\n(Photo courtesy of U.S. Soccer)\nApril 25 in Salzburg, Austria\nUSA 1 Croatia 0. Goals: Gall (Pfeffer) 66.\nUSA -- Steffen; Moore, Palmer-Brown, Carter-Vickers, Requejo; Roldan (Sonora, 64), Delgado, Thompson (Flores, 64); Pfeffer (Donovan, 87), Allen (Moreno, 81), Tall (Gall, 64).\nCroatia -- Ivusic (Miskic 84), Stolnik (Grabovac 75), Muzek, Cvek (Slunjski 75), Bagadur, Ikic (Lovric 84), Klapan (Ceraj 56), Dzoni, Faletar (Mance 84), Dangubic (Alghoul 42), Rebernik.\nJamieson was one of four U-20s who played in qualifying but skipped the Croatia game to play for their MLS teams.\nNew York Red Bull defender Matt Miazga played in last Tuesday's tie with Qatar but returned from Austria to start against the Galaxy on Sunday. Since 29-year-old French defender Ronald Zubar was injured in the Red Bulls' opener, Miazga has started all five games.\n\"As each game [passes], I feel more and more confident,\" Miazga told MLSSoccer.com. \"I feel that I can talk to the guys, even though I'm young, and I can try to show my leadership qualities every game. Now when I go to the Under-20s, they are going to be my age, and I really can be a leader there. Coach [Tab Ramos] can put his trust in me to perform and close out games.\"\nFC Dallas midfielder Kellyn Acosta, who captained the USA in qualifying before suffering a knee injury the second game, went the full 90 for the first time this season in Saturday's 1-1 tie with Colorado.\nOrlando City defender Tyler Turner, a Connecticut product, made his fourth appearance and second start of the season in a 2-0 loss to Toronto on Sunday.\nThe USA will face Myanmar, host New Zealand and Ukraine in group play at the 2015 U-20 World Cup May 30-June 20. Ramos must name his 21-player roster within three weeks.\n* The Santa Clara youth soccer community's fight with with San Francisco 49ers over soccer fields the NFL team wants to turn into a VIP parking lot continues to gain momentum. \"The San Francisco 49ers got a big slap-down at the hands of the pint-sized players of the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League,\" at last week's Santa Clara city council meeting, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.\nFour young players have a go at 49ers owner Jed York to the tune of the old \"Beverly Hillbillies\" theme:\n* Phil Wright, US Club Soccer's Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2003, has been re-appointed to a two-year term. Last month, US Club Soccer members re-elected Mike Sweeney (Region II) and Tom Atencio (Region IV) and voted in newcomers Mike Cullina (Region I) and George Fotopoulos (Region III).\n\"This will be my final term as chairman, as I strongly believe new blood is always important to the long-term health of an organization,\" Wright said. \"After this term, I intend to let the next generation of committed soccer professionals take the reins.\"\nu.s. under-20 men's national team, under-20 world cup, youth, youth boys, youth girls\nMIKE WOITALLA, Executive Editor , Soccer America","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Fashion & Lifestyle \u00bb Jockey to open 10 exclusive brand stores in the UAE\nJockey to open 10 exclusive brand stores in the UAE\nInnerwear brand Jockey is planning to open 10 exclusive brand stores in the UAE as part of a major retail expansion. These will be on top of its 10 existing outlets in the UAE spanning Dubai, Ajman and Sharjah.\nCommenting on the brand's journey in the UAE, Gagan Sehgal, Chief Operating Officer, Jockey UAE said, \"Since our foray into the UAE market, Jockey has always strived to enhance consumer experience and the exclusive brand stores are a testament to that unwavering focus. The experience of the Jockey way of life at these outlets along with Jockey's trademark comfort and quality have played a decisive role in driving consumer preference for our products. We continue to expand our network of exclusive brand stores in UAE while simultaneously exploring newer formats of retailing including shop-in-shops and online platforms as we further our growth journey in the country.\"\nThe brand is also focused on expanding its online presence in the UAE by being available through e-commerce marketplaces including Amazon.ae, Namshi, noon, Sivvi and Centrepoint.\nAlong with the UAE Jockey also has retail presence in Oman and Qatar and is looking to expand in these markets too.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Amazon sales rank (ASR) provides an indication of the popularity of a product sold on any Amazon locale. It is a relative indicator of popularity that is updated hourly. Effectively, it is a \"best sellers list\" for the millions of products stocked by Amazon.[134] While the ASR has no direct effect on the sales of a product, it is used by Amazon to determine which products to include in its bestsellers lists.[134] Products that appear in these lists enjoy additional exposure on the Amazon website and this may lead to an increase in sales. In particular, products that experience large jumps (up or down) in their sales ranks may be included within Amazon's lists of \"movers and shakers\"; such a listing provides additional exposure that might lead to an increase in sales.[135] For competitive reasons, Amazon does not release actual sales figures to the public. However, Amazon has now begun to release point of sale data via the Nielsen BookScan service to verified authors.[136] While the ASR has been the source of much speculation by publishers, manufacturers, and marketers, Amazon itself does not release the details of its sales rank calculation algorithm. Some companies have analyzed Amazon sales data to generate sales estimates based on the ASR,[137] though Amazon states:\nTo help you save time while shopping, Amazon offers 1-Click ordering when you first place an order and enter your shipping and payment information. This feature lets you click \"Buy now with 1-Click\" on any product page to instantly order that item using your saved shipping and payment information. With 1-Click ordering, you won't have to go through pages of payment and shipping options separately anymore \u2014 and when you're trying to get the best Cyber Monday deals, every second counts.\nRaw Generation is a raw juice company that launched its ecommerce store through Shopify, only to experience little success in its first 6 months. But you know what they say, where there's a will there's a way, and owner, Jessica Geier, was determined to find it. Raw Generation used deal sites to take the company's monthly revenues from $8,000 to $96,000!\nAmazon beauty and health coupons can bring instant discounts and free shipping on your favorite skin care, hair care, makeup, and styling tools & accessories right to your front door! Follow this link to grab an Amazon coupon and get up to $20 off your necessities like toothpaste, facial treatments, body care, blow dryers, deodorant, razors, electric toothbrushes, lotion, makeup, and more!\nSome workers, \"pickers\", who travel the building with a trolley and a handheld scanner \"picking\" customer orders can walk up to 15 miles during their workday and if they fall behind on their targets, they can be reprimanded. The handheld scanners give real-time information to the employee on how fast or slowly they are working; the scanners also serve to allow Team Leads and Area Managers to track the specific locations of employees and how much \"idle time\" they gain when not working.[183][184] In a German television report broadcast in February 2013, journalists Diana L\u00f6bl and Peter Onneken conducted a covert investigation at the distribution center of Amazon in the town of Bad Hersfeld in the German state of Hessen. The report highlights the behavior of some of the security guards, themselves being employed by a third party company, who apparently either had a neo-Nazi background or deliberately dressed in neo-Nazi apparel and who were intimidating foreign and temporary female workers at its distribution centers. The third party security company involved was delisted by Amazon as a business contact shortly after that report.[185][186][187][188][189]\nInstall a browser extension. Tools like Honey hang out quietly while you shop, combing the web for the lowest price on whatever you're buying. \"One tool that saves Honey members time and money is Droplist,\" says Honey's Parisi. \"Droplist watches selected items, notifying shoppers when the price of an item drops below the amount initially chosen. Droplist monitors the price of the item for 30, 60, or 90 days and will automatically send an email when the price drops to the amount that was set.\"\nAmazon is known today not just as the everything store, but as the creator of Alexa, one of the most pervasive digital voice assistants on the market today. As an extension of Alexa, Amazon has become more than just a seller of other people's products. It's now a hardware maker (Fire Phone aside), having embarked on its boldest product play since the original Kindle when it decided to develop its own line of smart speakers to house its artificial intelligence software. Once again, the division responsible for this piece of hardware was Lab126, Amazon's hardware arm that gave it the tools to dominate the e-reader market nearly a decade prior.\nLike on Black Friday, for online Cyber Monday shoppers, there's no need to wake before the rooster crows. Honey's Parsi says that for their users, spending peaked at 4 p.m. PST in Los Angeles and 11 p.m. EST in New York City last year. \"On Cyber Monday, there is less pressure to get an early start because retailers are often better stocked online, where they store items in large warehouses\u2014not on shop shelves with limited space\u2014and can ship items from different locations to make up for shortfalls,\" Palmer agrees. \"Plus, many Cyber Monday sales actually start on Sunday.\"\nWhen it comes to TV sales personalities, none are more famous and revered than the late Billy Mays. Mays ran commercials for dozens of different products, but perhaps the most popular of those products was OxiClean, which is an easy to use, non-toxic, and remarkably effective cleaning detergent that can take care of dishes, polish silver, and clean virtually anything else. Billy Mays put his trademark enthusiasm behind the product, and its quality is known worldwide.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to get Permanent Residency in Canada\nIf you have been searching for How to get Permanent Residency in Canada, how to get permanent residency in canada, easiest way to immigrate to canada, fastest way to get pr in canada, how to move to canada with no money, easiest way to get pr in canada for international students, how to go to canada easily, permanent resident canada, canada permanent resident eligibility then you are not alone\nApplying for a Canadian visa on your own is a tough and time-consuming procedure, especially given the numerous papers to fill out, supporting documents to provide, and rigorous dates to meet. There are over 100 distinct Canadian immigration choices to choose from, and the key to a successful application is knowing which one best meets your specific circumstances. It doesn't have to be that way, though.\nWe've compiled a list of the three most straightforward Canadian immigration processes to get you started on the road to a new life in one of the world's most diverse and diversified countries.\nOur Top 3 ways to get permanent residency in Canada include:\n1. The Express Entry System\n2. The Provincial Nominee Program\n3. Family Sponsorship\nTop 3 Simple Ways to Immigrate to Canada\n1 Top 3 Simple Ways to Immigrate to Canada\n2 1. The Express Entry System\n3 2. The Provincial Nominee Program\n4 3. Family Sponsorship Visa\n4.1 Other Programs to Consider\n5 How Do I Become a Permanent Resident in Canada?\n6 Why Immigration Matters to Canada\nSelf-application for a Canadian visa is a difficult and time-consuming process, especially considering the numerous forms to fill out, supporting documents to supply, and strict deadlines to satisfy. There are over 100 different Canadian immigration options to select from, and knowing which one best suits your needs is the key to a successful application. But it doesn't have to be that way.\nTo get you started on the road to a new life in one of the world's most diverse and diversified countries, we've compiled a list of the three most basic Canadian immigration processes.\nFederal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP);\nFederal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP); and\nCanadian Experience Class (CEC)\nThe Comprehensive Ranking System assigns a score to all qualified visa applicants based on characteristics such as age, work experience, and educational qualifications (CRS). They are then placed in a pool of applicants and ranked against each other. In Canada, Express Entry drawings are held every two weeks, with the highest-scoring applicants being selected by the Canadian government to apply for permanent residency.\nThe Provincial Nominee Program is also linked to the Express Entry mechanism (PNP). Express Entry-linked PNPs are available in nine of Canada's 13 provinces and territories, making it faster and easier to acquire an Invitation to Apply (ITA) to live and work permanently in Canada.\nThe Provincial Nominee Program aims to entice experienced individuals to relocate to the province in order to fill a labor shortage in Canada. Specific jobs in certain provinces and territories have high shortages, which means that if your job title is mentioned on a province's In-demand Occupation list, you will be prioritized over other applicants for a Provincial Nomination (PN). Permanent residence candidates who receive a PN nearly always receive 600 bonus points to add to their CRS score.\nBut that's not the most interesting aspect. Certain PNPs have Express Entry streams, which means they can choose your profile from the draw pool if you have an Express Entry profile and have demonstrated interest in that province. Your application will not only be expedited, but you will also gain bonus points, making certain PNPs exceedingly easy to obtain permanent status through.\nBelow are the PNPs that have Express Entry streams or categories.\n1. The British Columbia PNP Express Entry Stream;\n2. The New Brunswick PNP Express Entry Labour Market System;\n3. The Saskatchewan PNP International Skilled Worker Category Express Entry System;\n4. Nova Scotia PNP Demand Express Entry Stream; and\nNova Scotia PNP Experience Express Entry Stream;\n5. Northwest Territories PNP Express Entry for Skilled Workers stream\n6. Newfoundland and Labrador PNP Express Entry for Skilled Workers stream\n7. Ontario INP Human Capital Category: Express Entry Human Capital Priorities stream; and\nOntario INP Human Capital Category: Express Entry French-Speaking Skilled Worker stream; and\nOntario INP Human Capital Category: Express Entry Skilled Trades stream;\n8. Prince Edward Island PNP Express Entry stream;\n9. Yukon PNP Express Entry stream.\n3. Family Sponsorship Visa\nPermanent Canadian residents and citizens over the age of 18 can sponsor a spouse or common-law partner, a relative, or a dependant to live and work in Canada under the Family Sponsorship Visa. This visa has four streams, including the following:\nSpousal and Family Sponsorship Visa;\nSpousal and Common-law Sponsorship Program;\nParents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program; and\nSuper Visa\nOther Programs to Consider\nThe Working Holiday Visa, also known as the International Experience Canada (IEC) visa, is a fantastic option to not only see everything Canada has to offer, but also to gain permanent residency in the country. To stay in Canada following your IEC program, you could apply for a six-month or longer employer-specific work permit. When you seek to immigrate to Canada permanently, the job experience you gain on an employer-specific work visa will contribute towards your PR points.\nTake a look at what you could look forward to when applying for a working holiday visa for Canada\nThe Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program facilitates immigration by linking foreign nationals interested in relocating to Atlantic Canada with government-approved enterprises. There are three programs via which you can apply, each with its own set of requirements:\nAtlantic International Graduate Program;\nAtlantic High-skilled Program; and\nAtlantic Intermediate-skilled Program\nHow Do I Become a Permanent Resident in Canada?\nWhich immigration program you choose has an impact on this. You will get an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent residence if you apply through programs such as the Express Entry System or a Provincial Nominee Program and are successful. You will have 90 days to accept your invitation, so make sure you have all of your supporting documents available. You will receive a Confirmation of Permanent Residency once your application has been reviewed and granted (COPR)\nWhy Immigration Matters to Canada\nEvery year, 350,000 immigrants are invited to live and work in Canada, and it's no surprise that Canada is one of the top three places people want to relocate to. Canada provides you and your loved ones with safety and security, as well as free healthcare and education, religious freedom, and lucrative work opportunities.\nImmigrants are needed in Canada to assist cover the present labor shortage. The economy is fast expanding, and the number of Canadians retiring is increasing, implying that there will soon be insufficient trained people to meet the demands of important businesses in Canada. According to Statistics Canada, between 23 and 25 percent of Canada's population will be over the average retirement age of 65 by 2036. By 2035, about 5 million Canadians will have retired, implying that fewer people would be employed to support retirees. This is why immigration is so important in Canada. By emigrating to Canada, you will not only be able to live a high-quality life while working, but you will also be able to look forward to joining a community that will look after you in your older years.\nImmigrants from Canada are also important in the business world. Immigrant company entrepreneurs, in fact, are responsible for over 25% of private sector employment creation, and moving their business venture to Canada increases investor interest.\nWith over 335,000 trained healthcare employees working in health-related jobs in Canada today, immigrants are also an important element of the health sector.\nImmigration is responsible for 65 percent of Canada's population increase, and the government hopes to welcome 1 million newcomers to the country. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be one of them?\nFiled Under: Canada Tagged With: 3 Easy Ways to get Permanent Residency in Canada, canada permanent resident eligibility, easiest way to get pr in canada for international students, easiest way to immigrate to canada, fastest way to get pr in canada, How to get Permanent Residency in Canada, how to go to canada easily, how to move to canada with no money, permanent resident canada","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Prime Gig\nDirector: Gregory Mosher\nProducer: Gina Mingacci, Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt, Cary Woods\nWritten By: William Wheeler\nStarring: Vince Vaughn, Ed Harris, Julia Ormond\nReview by: David Rolston\nThe Prime Gig fits squarely in the canon of films which explore the moral ambiguity of salesmanship. Despite its straight to video legacy, the production values, cast and plot complexity compare favorably to the majority of dramatic theatrical releases from the majors. The Prime Gig will be of interest to anyone who has enjoyed the films or plays of David Mamet, Oliver Stone's \"Wall Street\", the Alvin Sargent penned \"Other People's money\" or the Giovani Ribisi vehicle \"Boiler Room\" which was released in the same year as The Prime Gig.\nVince Vaughn plays Pendelton 'Penny' Wise, a born smooth-talker who manages to eek out a living at a number of fly by night telemarketing operations. It's not easy going, since the employers are as prone to rip off the telemarketers as the telemarketers are to rip off the customers. Wise dreams of a high stakes operation, and yet at the same time is suspicious when the opportunity falls in his lap in the form of Caitlin Carlson (Julia Ormond) bearing an invitation to work for Kelly Grant (Ed Harris). Grant is a legendary and somewhat infamous operator with a reputation for having made large amounts of money in the past, but who was also convicted of fraud and has only recently gotten out of jail.\nAlthough it seems hard to imagine, the very existence of telemarketing indicates that it must be profitable, and The Prime Gig does a serviceable job at prying the lid off this much maligned industry and the people who make it their profession. Vaughn's shop-worn gregarious streetwise persona is well suited to the character of Wise, a deeply cynical individual more than capable of telling people what they need to hear in order to make a sale. It's not hard to imagine that Vaughn, had he not been an actor, would have done well in the world of sales. Vaughn brings likability to the familiar world-weary Wise, a man who has had to struggle all his life and who's rough edges have kept him just to the periphery of the middle class. He knows deep down that the world is rotten, but in spite of himself just can't help clinging to the faint glimmer of hope that legitimacy is still within his grasp if he can just get a break.\nEd Harris is at his enigmatic best as Kelly Grant, the visionary leader of a high stakes investment operation, who seduces Wise into joining the endeavor, and then proceeds to alienate him through the systematic mistreatment of Grant's long suffering protege Carlson, a combination disciple, go between, employee and girlfriend.\nThe Prime Gig does as good a job as any film has in depicting how Sales people attempt to break down a prospect's resistance, using arm chair psychology and exploiting their subconscious desires and needs.\nIt also digs deeper, exploring a number of profound questions about ego, identity and the human need for love, approval and connectedness. The Prime Gig also manages to weave a convincing tale of intrigue and romance, and ends on a thought provoking note that will have you revisiting the plot later.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NI: Fieldfisher to expand into Northern Ireland with 125-person staff\nPictured (l-r): Michael Chissick and Alastair Hamilton\nEuropean law firm Fieldfisher has announced plans to open its first Northern Ireland office, which will provide key services including document negotiation and legal support for its international office network.\nFieldfisher has also established a strategic partnership with Donaldson Legal Consulting LLP (formerly Donaldson Legal Services), whose managing partner Alison Donaldson will also become managing partner of Fieldfisher Belfast.\nThe investment in Northern Ireland, supported with \u00a3630,000 from Invest NI, will create 125 new legal and business support jobs.\nMichael Chissick, managing partner at Fieldfisher, said: \"We began exploring Northern Ireland as a base for this new office in early 2017, attracted by the stable supply of experienced and skilled people.\n\"Our new centre here will include senior positions in legal and risk management, as well as middle level technical and business support roles. We also have a number of roles suitable for graduates.\n\"The strong partnership between academia and industry was another attraction to investing here and ensures we will be able to work with colleges and universities to develop a future pipeline of qualified graduates.\n\"We have been through an incredible period of success and have been the fastest growing large UK law firm for the last two years. Northern Ireland is the next strategic stage in our continued growth and we are very excited to be able to provide a centre of excellence to support our offices around the world.\"\nMs Donaldson added: \"Our partnership with Fieldfisher has been very successful and the services we provide have helped the firm maintain its competitive edge, particularly in the financial services sector. This is a great time to join our team and work for one of Europe's most dynamic and exciting law firms.\"\nNI: Three Northern Ireland solicitors to compete against southern colleagues in Iron Law Triathlon\nNI: First arrests in Northern Ireland on suspicion of human trafficking for domestic servitude\nNI: Third annual strategy to tackle modern slavery in Northern Ireland unveiled\nNI: Bar of Northern Ireland hosts discussion on family courts","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lauren Wood\nBest known for a pair of adult contemporary smashes -- \"Please Don't Leave,\" a duet with Michael McDonald, and the Pretty Woman soundtrack's \"Fallen\" -- Lauren Wood has parlayed a variety of talents into a career spanning two decades, even if she hasn't remained highly visible throughout that time. A native of Pittsburgh, Wood began her career in that city's Rebecca & the Sunnybrook Farmers, a psychedelic rock band. Taking the moniker Chunky, she and her cousin Novi formed Chunky, Novi & Ernie, which released its debut album in 1976 and featured Wood on vocals and keyboards. Having moved to Los Angeles, Wood recorded another album with Chunky, Novi & Ernie, as well as singing with fusion outfit the Freeway Philharmonic. In 1979, she recorded her own self-titled debut album for Warner Bros., which spawned the hit ballad \"Please Don't Leave,\" a duet with the Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald that made the Top 30 on Billboard's singles chart and the adult contemporary Top Five. After the follow-up, Cat Trick, Wood seemingly disappeared for a while. She spent much of her time writing songs for other artists and for film and television soundtracks; her material has been recorded by Gladys Knight (\"Send It to Me\"), Philip Bailey (\"Echo My Heart\"), Cher, Dusty Springfield, Animotion, Tiffany, Nicolette Larson, Sammy Hagar and Montrose, and Billy Preston, among others. In addition, Wood contributed vocals to television commercials and other artists' sessions, co-wrote and directed a parody of Ed Wood films entitled They Must Be Told, and founded a successful greeting-card company, Cat Tricks, based on photographs of her pet cats. In 1990, Wood contributed the track \"Fallen\" to the soundtrack of Pretty Woman, which went on to sell over three million copies in the United States; it became a much-requested adult contemporary radio hit and was covered by Johnny Mathis, Larry Coryell, and Nicolette Larson. The success enhanced Wood's freelancing career as a songwriter, as well as her ability to expand her Cat Tricks company and found her own record label, Bad Art. In 1998, Wood released her first solo album since 1981, which, like her debut, was titled simply Lauren Wood; it featured the original version of \"Fallen,\" as well as songs that were recorded by other artists and new compositions. Recently, Wood also performed the theme song to the television series Just Shoot Me. ~ Steve Huey\nBobby Caldwell\nDianne Reeves","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Feds to grow stronger, better marijuana for research\nOscar Pascual\non March 18, 2015 at 3:14 pm\nBy Oscar Pascual |\nWhile medical and recreational marijuana programs continue to flourish in states across the U.S., cannabis research remains stagnant in America. A recent decision from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) aims to change that.\nNIDA is the only source of cannabis approved for scientific study in the United States. But NIDA's weed is nothing like what you'd find in even a mediocre dispensary: The agency has received a long list of complaints from researchers in regards to the low-quality marijuana NIDA provides for studies.\nBut now that medical and recreational marijuana has become more prevalent, Nature reports that NIDA is currently working to expand the amount and variety of the plant available for studies.\n\"We want to be able to evaluate the claims that marijuana is therapeutically beneficial,\" Nora Volkow, director of NIDA in Rockville, Maryland, told Nature.\nThe institute already increased its budget for growing pot to research by 50 percent in 2014. All of the agency's supplies are grown at the University of Mississippi, which increased their production last year from about 40 pounds to more than 1,300 pounds.\nThe university also started growing two new strains for researchers: one with high levels of the therapeutic compound cannabidiol (CBD), and one with equal amounts of CBD and pot's main psychoactive compound, THC.\nWhile NIDA's effort to expand cannabis research is commendable, it still falls short of what's needed. The agency's strongest pot available to scientists tops out at a mere 12 percent. In comparison, most cannabis sold at medical dispensaries can often reach levels of 20 percent and higher.\nIf that weren't enough, NIDA's lengthy application process means it could take years before researchers even gain approval for studies. That, compounded with the expensive price of roughly $7 per joint for low-grade pot, makes marijuana research in America an unappealing slog.\nNIDA's current grasp on cannabis research suggests that successful breakthroughs with marijuana will most likely occur outside of the U.S., where the UK's GW Pharmaceuticals is patenting brain cancer medications with high concentrations of THC and CBD, and Israeli medical marijuana research is outpacing the U.S. at an immense rate.\nThe institute's monopoly on U.S. pot research could be coming to an end, however. A recent bipartisan bill introduced to the Senate would reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II or III drug, thereby lifting all current restrictions on its studies and allowing federal funding of research.\nPhoto credit: Medical Xpress\nMarijuana tops young Americans' concerns; Obama can't believe it.\n\"420\" Forefathers, the Waldos, Launch Web Site Laying Claim to Legend","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BEST OF THE WILL TO CHANGE: Building Cultures of Dignity: Next-Generation Belonging with Rosalind Wiseman\nRosalind Wiseman, parenting educator and author, joins the program to discuss how to foster civil dialogue and inspire communities to build strength, courage and purpose. Discover how to create physical and emotional wellbeing by working in close partnership with the experts of various communities\u2013including...\nBEST OF THE WILL TO CHANGE: Pain and Possibility: How Dr. Maysa Akbar is Charting What's Beyond Allyship\nFrom the Best of The Will To Change: Dr. Maysa Akbar, groundbreaking psychologist, author, and Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University, joins the program to share her own diversity story, including overcoming childhood trauma. Discover a new identity model of allyship, and how to engage well-intentioned, but...\nE167: Millions of Micro-Moments of Bravery with Joze Piranian, Stutterer, TEDx Speaker and Stand-Up Comedian\nThis episode, originally recorded as a DEI call, features an interview with Joze Piranian, Global TEDx Speaker and a lifelong stutterer turned transformational speaker on inclusion and resilience. Joze also shared information about stuttering, and revealed what he has learned from his own...\nE166: Disruption as a Great Teacher: With Charlene Li\nNew York Times bestselling author Charlene Li joins the program to discuss what we can learn from disruption and the connection between disruption and DEI work. Discover the characteristics of a disruptive leader and the one thing that leaders can do to help make their organizations more disruptive.\nE165: Equity Evolution: Business Meets Culture with Creative Director Rana Reeves\nRana Reeves, Executive Creative Director and Founder of communications agency RanaVerse, returns to the program to discuss the work that he is doing to connect brands with popular and contemporary culture for commerce, utilizing the lens of diversity and equity to tell stories and highlight experiences to...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"World Congress against the Death Penalty, Madrid 12-15 June 2013\nThe 5th World Congress against the Death Penalty will take place in Madrid from 12 to 15 June 2013. More than 1,500 people from over 90 countries are expected to attend the Congress. ICDP is a supporter of the 5th World Congress and will be represented by its President Mr Mayor, and Commissioners Mr Badinter and Ms Greve.\nPlease read the full statement here.\nICDP will participate in the conference on the death penalty organized by Helsinki Spain\nCommissioner Marta Santos Pais meets with CPLP Executive Secretary Zacarias Da Costa\nICDP participates in the OSCE-ODIHR's webinar \" The road to abolition of the death penalty in the OSCE region\"\nDirector of Policy Rajiv Narayan participated in the webinar \"The Overlooked. She is the Vortex of Death Penalty\"\nICDP receives the 2020 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe in Lisbon","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Enhanced citrate production through gene insertion in Aspergillus niger\nWian de Jongh, Jens Nielsen\nThe effect of inserting genes involved in the reductive branch of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle on citrate production by Aspergillus niger was evaluated. Several different genes were inserted individually and in combination, i.e. malate dehydrogenase (mdh2) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two truncated, cytosolic targeted, fumarases (Fum1s and FumRs) from S. cerevisiae and Rhizopus oryzae, respectively, and the cytosolic soluble fumarate reductase (Frds1) from S. cerevisiae. Overexpression of these genes in their native strain backgrounds has been reported to lead to alterations in the intracellular cytosolic dicarboxylate concentrations. It was found that all the transformant strains had enhanced yield and productivities of citrate compared with the wild-type strain. The transformants also had the ability to produce citrate in trace-manganese-contaminated medium, where the wild type was unable to produce. Overexpression of FumRs and Frds1 resulted in the best citrate-producing strain in the presence of trace manganese concentrations. This strain gave a maximum yield of 0.9 g citrate per g glucose and a maximum specific productivity of 0.025 g citrate per g DW per h. Overexpression of mdh2 alone resulted in an increased citrate production rate only in the initial phase of the fermentations compared with the other transformants and the wild type. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\nMetabolic Engineering\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ymben.2007.11.002\n10.1016\/j.ymben.2007.11.002\nFingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Enhanced citrate production through gene insertion in Aspergillus niger'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\nAspergillus Chemical Compounds\nAspergillus niger Medicine & Life Sciences\nInsertional Mutagenesis Medicine & Life Sciences\nCitric Acid Medicine & Life Sciences\nYeast Engineering & Materials Science\nOxidoreductases Engineering & Materials Science\nManganese Engineering & Materials Science\nJongh, W. D., & Nielsen, J. (2007). Enhanced citrate production through gene insertion in Aspergillus niger. Metabolic Engineering, 10(2), 87-96. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ymben.2007.11.002\nJongh, Wian de ; Nielsen, Jens. \/ Enhanced citrate production through gene insertion in Aspergillus niger. In: Metabolic Engineering. 2007 ; Vol. 10, No. 2. pp. 87-96.\n@article{15663fd0047e42c3975c1c5f63676c84,\ntitle = \"Enhanced citrate production through gene insertion in Aspergillus niger\",\nabstract = \"The effect of inserting genes involved in the reductive branch of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle on citrate production by Aspergillus niger was evaluated. Several different genes were inserted individually and in combination, i.e. malate dehydrogenase (mdh2) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two truncated, cytosolic targeted, fumarases (Fum1s and FumRs) from S. cerevisiae and Rhizopus oryzae, respectively, and the cytosolic soluble fumarate reductase (Frds1) from S. cerevisiae. Overexpression of these genes in their native strain backgrounds has been reported to lead to alterations in the intracellular cytosolic dicarboxylate concentrations. It was found that all the transformant strains had enhanced yield and productivities of citrate compared with the wild-type strain. The transformants also had the ability to produce citrate in trace-manganese-contaminated medium, where the wild type was unable to produce. Overexpression of FumRs and Frds1 resulted in the best citrate-producing strain in the presence of trace manganese concentrations. This strain gave a maximum yield of 0.9 g citrate per g glucose and a maximum specific productivity of 0.025 g citrate per g DW per h. Overexpression of mdh2 alone resulted in an increased citrate production rate only in the initial phase of the fermentations compared with the other transformants and the wild type. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. 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Several different genes were inserted individually and in combination, i.e. malate dehydrogenase (mdh2) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two truncated, cytosolic targeted, fumarases (Fum1s and FumRs) from S. cerevisiae and Rhizopus oryzae, respectively, and the cytosolic soluble fumarate reductase (Frds1) from S. cerevisiae. Overexpression of these genes in their native strain backgrounds has been reported to lead to alterations in the intracellular cytosolic dicarboxylate concentrations. It was found that all the transformant strains had enhanced yield and productivities of citrate compared with the wild-type strain. The transformants also had the ability to produce citrate in trace-manganese-contaminated medium, where the wild type was unable to produce. Overexpression of FumRs and Frds1 resulted in the best citrate-producing strain in the presence of trace manganese concentrations. This strain gave a maximum yield of 0.9 g citrate per g glucose and a maximum specific productivity of 0.025 g citrate per g DW per h. Overexpression of mdh2 alone resulted in an increased citrate production rate only in the initial phase of the fermentations compared with the other transformants and the wild type. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\nAB - The effect of inserting genes involved in the reductive branch of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle on citrate production by Aspergillus niger was evaluated. Several different genes were inserted individually and in combination, i.e. malate dehydrogenase (mdh2) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, two truncated, cytosolic targeted, fumarases (Fum1s and FumRs) from S. cerevisiae and Rhizopus oryzae, respectively, and the cytosolic soluble fumarate reductase (Frds1) from S. cerevisiae. Overexpression of these genes in their native strain backgrounds has been reported to lead to alterations in the intracellular cytosolic dicarboxylate concentrations. It was found that all the transformant strains had enhanced yield and productivities of citrate compared with the wild-type strain. The transformants also had the ability to produce citrate in trace-manganese-contaminated medium, where the wild type was unable to produce. Overexpression of FumRs and Frds1 resulted in the best citrate-producing strain in the presence of trace manganese concentrations. This strain gave a maximum yield of 0.9 g citrate per g glucose and a maximum specific productivity of 0.025 g citrate per g DW per h. Overexpression of mdh2 alone resulted in an increased citrate production rate only in the initial phase of the fermentations compared with the other transformants and the wild type. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. 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{"text":"Akeso Biomedical, Inc. is developing a new generation of compounds, known as Fe3C, with broad-spectrum activity to fight bacterial infections, and prevent foodborne illnesses.\nThe company's proprietary technology is being used initially to develop a feed additive designed to prevent food poisoning by Campylobacter, a bacteria that causes more cases of foodborne illness in the EU than Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria combined.\nACQUIRED | Ascendant Diagnostics is developing innovative new approaches to the improved diagnosis of serious diseases and conditions. Its first product is a non-invasive test for early stage diagnosis of breast cancer.\nApproximately 240,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the U.S. and the total economic burden of treatment is about $40 billion. However, survival rates are greatly enhanced and treatment costs are much lower when breast cancer is treated at an early stage.\nImproved diagnostic tests that are simple, reliable and non-invasive could save many lives by detecting the breast cancer earlier. Ascendant Diagnostics' breast cancer detection technology is aimed at this critical unmet need.\nBiologicsMD\u2122 is an early stage therapeutic development company focused on developing highly-targeted or 'smart' therapies for the treatment of hair loss diseases and conditions, as well as severe bone disorders.\nThe company is developing a series of recombinant fusion proteins that provide powerful stimulatory effects directly to the target receptors at the point of disease \u2013 and do so with sustained therapeutic exposure in either a single dose or very infrequent dosing regimens.\nThe company is working on formulation and delivery vehicles that can accommodate parenteral, local, and topical administration.\nBlueInGreen offers equipment that incorporates an innovative new approach for cost effective dissolved oxygen delivery.\nThe supersaturated dissolved oxygen (or SDOX\u2122) systems offer low capital and operating costs, precisely controlled delivery of dissolved oxygen at a wide range of target concentrations, ease of operation, and virtually 100% gas utilization efficiency (no off-gassing) for wastewater treatment and other environmental water applications.\nUp to 80% operating cost savings have been documented as compared to conventional oxygen delivery technology.\nCardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States and kills 2,400 Americans every day (1 every 37 seconds). It is estimated that 80,700,000 Americans (1 in 3) have some form of cardiovascular disease.\nCardioWise is developing new approaches to cardiac health monitoring and care. Its first product is a new cardiac imaging modality that:\nAllows all images to be acquired in a single one-hour appointment;\nRequires no exposure to intravenous contrast, dobutamine, dipyridamole, or ionizing radiation;\nProduces images of cardiac contractile function throughout the thickness of the left ventricle as opposed to just the surface;\nDelivers quantitative, detailed, and easily interpreted, color coded images; and\nEnables direct, quantified comparison of data from an individual acquired at different times.\nKalera Medical has developed an innovative vacuum-assisted kidney stone retrieval device that enables rapid and complete removal of stone fragments. The device allows procedures that are faster and easier compared to the current standard of care.\nPresently, stone removal is the most unpredictable, difficult part of ureteroscopy because current tools, i.e. baskets, have serious limitations.\nKidney stones affect about 10% of the population in industrialized countries and the number is growing. There is a 50% recurrence rate within five years. Kalera's instrument addresses a clear unmet medical need in a rapidly growing market segment.\nNob Hill Therapeutics, Inc. is developing the first dry powder nebulizer (DPN) for the treatment of severe respiratory diseases, including non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis and lung infections.\nNebulizers deliver more predictable, superior therapy compared to inhalers and are the preferred method of treatment for elderly and pediatric patients. However, their usage has been limited because today's nebulizers are bulky and cumbersome to operate and require a long therapy time.\nAs a result, nebulizers are typically reserved for hospitals, emergency rooms, home care, and nursing homes where predictable, consistent treatment is imperative.\nSince nebulizers remain the most reliable way to deliver therapy into deep lungs , there is a growing demand for a more portable, easy-to-use nebulizer.\nOsteoVantage is a biotechnology and medical device company that is developing osteoinductive spinal instrumentation to enhance bone formation after spinal fusion surgery\nInitial studies have demonstrated both the safety and efficacy of the spinal instrumentation. Future product lines may include osteogenic hardware for long bone repair and electroconductive mesh for facial and skull reconstruction or repair.\nBone heals similarly in all animals so at a future point this technology is applicable to both veterinary and human orthopedic surgery.\nSevo Nutraceuticals, Inc. was established in 2012 to license and market science-based nutraceuticals. Its vision is to become a market leader in highly efficacious, scientifically researched nutraceuticals that improve people's lives.\nThe Company's mission is to build a select portfolio of high value products with clear markets which are leaders in their category.\nSevo's cornerstone product, PERCEPTIV\u2122, was licensed from UMass Lowell in 2012 and was developed under the leadership of UMass Lowell Professor Thomas B. Shea, Director, Center for Cellular Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration Research.\nSFC Fluidics, LLC has unique product lines that span a diverse range of markets including point-of-care diagnostics, analytical instrumentation and drug delivery.\nA driving trend in biomedical and analytical instrumentation is toward higher performance, lower operating cost and portability. Our products are based on innovative technologies that improve speed, performance and affordability.\nThe company's mission is to expand scientific knowledge, advance health care, and improve overall quality of life through our enabling microfluidics technologies.\nSolenic Medical, Inc. is a medical device company developing an innovative non-invasive treatment for infected metallic implants in the body.\nUsing technology invented at the University of Texas Southwestern, Solenic is leveraging the unique properties of alternating magnetic fields (AMF) generated by external coils to eradicate biofilm on the surface of medical implants.\nThis non-invasive treatment addresses a major complication of various surgeries such as knee and hip replacements, as well as in trauma related implants such as plates and rods.\nThis is particularly important given an aging population and the rapid increase in the number of these procedures being performed every year.\nTesseract Structural Innovations, Inc. is developing new solutions for vehicle safety. Its flagship product, the Uniform Deceleration Unit or UDU, is a unique structure that has the ability to absorb an enormous amount of energy during a vehicle crash.\nThe patent-pending UDU is designed to fit into the wheel well of virtually any light vehicle including cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs, or crossovers.\nDuring a small overlap front crash, UDU absorbs significant amounts of the kinetic energy and reduces the crash forces experienced by the vehicle driver and passengers.\nBy absorbing energy, UDU prevents vehicle components from intruding into the driver's space during the crash. UDU is a clear improvement in vehicle safety, saving lives and preventing serious injuries from offset crashes.\nVixiar Medical is developing a portable, non-invasive device that allows remote monitoring of congestive heart failure patients.\nThe proprietary diagnostic technique, licensed from Johns Hopkins University, allows monitoring of patients that have been recently discharged from the hospital for heart failure, for home monitoring of high risk patients by physicians, by \"low capability\" clinics & nursing homes, and by emergency departments or emergency medical technicians in the field.\nZebra Analytix, Inc. was established in 2017 to develop and commercialize miniature GC systems based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) based separation columns with built-in sensors and heating elements.\nThe company's patents pending technology offers advantages in instrument size, performance, versatility, and speed of results. The technology also offers new capabilities such as multi-channel partial separations on a single MEMS chip for use as an \"electronic nose\".\nZebra Analytix' micro GC technology opens up new market opportunities not presently served by other GC providers including real-time process control applications that take advantage of the exceptional speed of results.\nTechnology Solutions For A Better World\nOur mission is to form and grow life science and emerging technology companies that shape the future by bringing innovative discoveries from research labs to commercial deployment.\nSubscribe to the VIC newsletter.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bobby Healy on his hopes to scale drone delivery in Ireland by 2021\nby Kelly Earley\nManna founder and CEO Bobby Healy. Image: Connor McKenna\/Siliconrepublic.com\nManna founder Bobby Healy discusses his plans to take drone food delivery to UCD and beyond.\nToday (25 February), drone delivery company Manna announced its plans to launch a food delivery service at University College Dublin (UCD), which will enable people on campus to order food online from Just Eat and have it delivered within minutes by drone.\nYesterday, we caught up with Manna founder and CEO Bobby Healy at the Enterprise Ireland Start-up Showcase for 2020, where he filled us in on the company's long and short-term plans, which include making drone deliveries a reality across Ireland by 2021.\nHowever, Healy is attempting to expand in a market where there may be a number of hurdles for drone-based businesses to overcome in the future.\nDrone regulation\n\"The obstacles are just like any other business,\" he told Siliconrepublic.com. \"Our biggest obstacle or operational thing to achieve is regulation, so it's a highly regulated space. It's not an obstacle, we're working very well with the IAA [Irish Aviation Authority] and we're getting there and it's proceeding very nicely.\n\"The biggest \u2013 I won't say obstacle \u2013 it's more the most interesting thing about this business, is that there are so many things to do. There's software, there's hardware. The hardware flies, it's regulated, and then you have all sorts of other governmental and general hearts-and-minds problems to solve.\"\nOn the topic of the technology behind Manna, we asked what the impact of the start-up's partnership with Cubic Telecom has been so far.\n'We'll be delivering coffee in the morning, we'll be delivering breakfast rolls \u2026 Hangovers? They'll be a thing of the past'\n\u2013 BOBBY HEALY\n\"I think it's great \u2013 it adds a bit of awareness for who we are in the telecoms industry,\" Healy said. \"Telecoms actually play an important role in the drone space in its entirety and, for us, the actual functionality that we get from them is all around redundancy and mission-critical communications.\n\"That's not something that we need to focus on when we're essentially a logistics company, so any time a third party can solve a particular technology problem for us, we'll just hire them to do it for us, and that's the case with Cubic.\n\"They happen to be the leader in the world, doing what they're doing, and I know [Cubic Telecom CEO] Barry Napier well \u2013 he's a great guy. They're a great team. Perfect addition to what we're doing.\"\nHealy said the launch in UCD, which will take place late next month, will enable the company to deliver food to a market of about 30,000 people. But, beyond that, there are plans for Manna to enter a wider market in the near future.\n\"We'll do another three or four of what we call 'launch projects' in Ireland over the course of 2020. We're hoping to fully scale it out in the Irish market in 2021,\" he added.\n\"I think people can expect to be getting drone delivery everywhere in Ireland from next year onwards. In the meantime, about 50,000 to 100,000 people in Ireland will be able to avail of it.\"\nHealy said that food delivery was the obvious starting point for the company because it has the highest volume of orders, but he said that there will be other uses for the drones, \"because the drones are there 24 hours a day and we want to put them to use\".\n\"We'll be delivering coffee in the morning, we'll be delivering breakfast rolls, we'll be delivering evening dinners, but we'll also be delivering local convenience store [goods], over-the-shelf pharmacy, everything you might need from your local economy.\n\"Hangovers? They'll be a thing of the past.\"\nWorking with Enterprise Ireland\nAs we were chatting at the Enterprise Ireland Start-up Showcase, Healy also touched on how Enterprise Ireland has helped in the development of his business.\n\"In my last three businesses I've run \u2013 CarTrawler, Eland and Manna \u2013 it's about the international presence and the international access. We've got a lady [from Enterprise Ireland] called M\u00e1ire Walsh, based in San Francisco, and she basically kicks open doors for Manna with investors.\n\"She gets me introductions to the best Silicon Valley investors you could imagine and she's an extension of my business there. The same lady, in a different hat, works for CarTrawler and represents CarTrawler in the United States, and opens up some of the biggest travel technology companies to do business with CarTrawler.\n\"I'd say this to any HPSU [high-potential start-up] business. Consider [Enterprise Ireland] as part of your team. That's the key thing. Consider them part of your team and use them that way. You ask them to do things for you and they do it.\n\"Teach them, train them, spend time with them. They'll become an extension of your business around the world and it's an incredibly strong resource for any business to have.\"\n'There's lots of start-ups \u2026 It's a bit like trying to decide which of your children is the best looking'\n\u2013NIALL MCEVOY\nNiall McEvoy, Enterprise Ireland's HPSU manager focusing on ICT, made it clear that the feeling from the agency was mutual.\n\"There's lots of start-ups here today, there's 127 start-ups,\" McEvoy told Siliconrepublic.com. \"It's a bit like trying to decide which of your children is the best looking, but the one we're most excited about here today is Manna and Bobby Healy.\"\nAside from Manna, McEvoy said that some of the other start-ups that really impressed him over the last year in the HPSU programme included quantum computing business Equal 1 Laboratories and AI company EdgeTier.\n\"That's just a small number of a long list of 127,\" he added. \"Certainly for people who want to check out the depth of companies in the 127 this year, they can do so by checking out the Enterprise Ireland Showcase website.\"\nRelated: food, Enterprise Ireland, Ireland, drones, UCD, technology, Dublin\nKelly Earley was a journalist with Silicon Republic\nZipp Mobility: Irish micromobility start-up poised for speedy growth\nThree Irish agritech start-ups win big at UCD accelerator\nDublin-founded Deposify acquired by US private equity firm\nNostra acquires Dublin-based IT provider Enclave to boost growth\nGlobal Shares scoops top prize at 2021 Technology Ireland awards\nDublin proptech Lintil raises \u20ac250,000 to fund UK debut","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Memorial Hospital board welcomes new officers, approves ambulance purchase\nLauren Blair\nNew board officer Todd Jourgensen, vice chair, Forrest Luke, chair, and Cathrine Blevins, secretary and treasurer, stepped into their new roles at The Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees monthly meeting Thursday night.\nCraig \u2014 At its regular monthly meeting Thursday, The Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees did the following:\n\u2022 Welcomed Forrest Luke as new board chair, Todd Jourgensen as new vice chair and Cathrine Blevins as new secretary and treasurer.\n\u2022 Approved an upgrade to the hospital's IT network for a cost of approximately $105,000.\nTMH Chief Information Officer Toby Schaef noted a recent failure that affected the hospital as a reason for the much-needed upgrade.\n\"There were several points of failure. There was quite a bit of the hospital that was down and out, and if that were to happen to clinical areas that could be disastrous and equate to loss of revenue,\" Schaef said. \"To be honest, it is quite scary the way the network is set up now.\"\n\u2022 Approved the purchase of a new custom-built ambulance to replace the hospital's oldest ambulance. It will be designed to match the hospital's primary ambulance so as to streamline the work of emergency medical providers. The most recent quote obtained was $154,000 to build the ambulance; 50 percent of the cost will be reimbursed through a grant.\n\u2022 Heard from TMH Facilities Director Dave Mucha that the hospital was able to save nearly $20,000 by cutting back the amount of biohazardous waste being shipped out for proper disposal. The savings was achieved by introducing new training to nursing staff on what constitutes biohazardous waste.\n\u2022 Acknowledged CEO John Rossfeld for being named one of 50 top rural CEOs by Becker's Hospital Review last month.\n\"There was only one other Colorado CEO was on that list,\" Chief of Marketing & Business Development Jennifer Riley said.\n\u2022 Heard the financial report from Chief Financial Officer Jeff Chilson. Highlights included an uptick in physical therapy treatments, growth in the obstetrics and family practice departments, and an increase in cash on hand for 2014 compared to 2013.\n\u2022 Heard from Chief Human Resource Officer Jill Spencer, who is busy recruiting candidates to fill positions including an orthopedic physician's assistant, emergency department physicians, a family practice PA and positions in internal medicine.\nSpencer announced that she closed the deal Thursday with an orthopedic PA \u2014 who will work alongside new orthopedic surgeon, Kevin Borchard, M.D., when he joins TMH in August \u2014 who verbally accepted the position during his visit to TMH Thursday.\n\"I'm really excited,\" Spencer said. \"I think he's going to be a great addition to this hospital and he's really excited about it\u2026 He wants to live in Craig.\"\n\u2022 Discussed plans for TMH to pursue accreditation from DNV GL Healthcare, which TMH administrators, department leaders and board members feel would bump their standards to the next level.\n\"We feel it holds us to a higher standard with regard to patient care,\" Riley said.\nThe change will require a period of preparation and will take place over the next year.\nContact Lauren Blair at 970-875-1794 or lblair@CraigDailyPress.com.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"10 Key Values\nStructure of the GRP\nState Committee\nWorking Committees\nBailouts and Foreclosures\nClean Elections and Open Government\nClimate Change & Renewable Energy\nEconomy, Labor & Relocalization\nEquity and Justice\nFair Taxes and Budgets\nServe together with us\nHow to form a chapter\nPrint brochures and flyers\nCandidates Fund\n2021 Annual Dues\nBecome a Monthly Sustainer\nEmail Listservs, Etiquette, and Observer Policy\n'Why I am Green-Rainbow'.\nElections and Candidates\nWGBH Continues to Spurn Green-Rainbow Candidates in Public Debates\nJuan Sanchez denied opportunity to educate voters on his goals for Secretary of the Commonwealth\nDespite public protests, WGBH is sticking with its policies that bar third party candidates from participating in Jim Braude's series of debates on Greater Boston. They continue to cite \"money raised, total number of donations and established campaign infrastructure.\" as their reason for non-inclusion.\n\"The Secretary of the Commonwealth is charged with ensuring a fair and open election process,\" said Juan Sanchez, the Green-Rainbow Party candidate for this office. \"For Galvin and Amore to participate in any debate that keeps other officially balloted candidates out of the discussion is a travesty. I call on them to boycott this process.\"\nWGBH also kept Jamie Guerin, the Green-Rainbow Party candidate for State Treasurer, out of a previous debate. By excluding Juan Sanchez from tonight's Secretary of the Commonwealth debate Jim Braude continues to stifle third party voices and portray Massachusetts politics as a simple two party race. This bias seems incompatible with the WGBH mission of being \"a public media company that has always been committed to truth, knowledge and the public good.\"\nSanchez, the first Puerto Rican to make it onto the statewide ballot, brings a fresh perspective to an office that Galvin has held since 1995. As a Green-Rainbow Party candidate, he stands for campaign finance reform, rank choice voting and political transparency. By enhancing voter education and accessibility, he hopes to ensure that underprivileged and underrepresented groups have a real voice on Beacon Hill. He is a long-time activist that has been working to eliminate homelessness, ensure economic and workforce development, guarantee LGBTQ equal rights and promote social equity.\n\"I am running for Secretary of the Commonwealth to ensure that elections are not rigged against the 99% in favor of a system that is beholden to big money,\" said Sanchez. \"I believe people should hold public media groups accountable when they deliberately suppress grassroots ideas and candidates without corporate backing. It is time for everyone to demand more from the electoral system.\"\nThe Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts seeks a world where money does not influence politics or the media that covers it. Join us in boycotting WGBH debates until they can have fair and equal representation for all balloted candidates.\nThe Green-Rainbow Party is the Massachusetts affiliate of the Green Party of the United States (MA political designation \"J\"). It was founded in 2002 through the union of the Massachusetts Green Party and the Rainbow Coalition Party.\nEmail: office@green-rainbow.org\nMail: 152 Westbrook Rd. So. Deerfield, MA 01373-9657\nClick here to unsubscribe your email address: https:\/\/greenrainbow.nationbuilder.com\/unsubscribe\nFollow @GR_Party on Twitter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Food Management Today\nFMT Website\nEmail Broadcasting Service\nWeekly Email Newsletter\nNominate Your Products\n2020 Awards Brochure\n2020 Awards Photo Review\n2020 Awards Video\n2020 Awards Winners\nBecome an Awards Partner\nPrint Advert Specifications\nEmail Broadcasting Specifications\nWebsite \/ Email Newsletter Specifications\nPage Zero e-magazine Specifications\nVegan chocolate brand secures multi-million pound investment\n(Pictured L to R) LoveRaw's Rimi Thapar, founder, Juliet Barratt, non-executive director and Manav Thapar, co-founder.\nLoveRaw, a vegan chocolate brand, has received a multi-million pound investment deal from Blue Horizon Ventures.\nBlue Horizon Ventures, already financial backers for Beyond Meat, a US based producer of plant-based meat substitutes and many others, is a venture capitalist firm with a reputation in investing in plant-based food brands.\nThe VC's investment comes just two years after Rimi Thapar, founder and managing director of LoveRaw, rejected a \u00a350,000 investment offer from Dragon's Den star, Deborah Meaden, in order to maintain a higher equity stake in the business.\nSince appearing on the show, Rimi and her business partner and husband, Manav Thapar, have manufactured the brand's 100% natural, vegan chocolate buttercup product, now produced in five flavours and sold in supermarkets and other retail chains across 10 different countries worldwide.\nRimi Thapar said: \"Having Blue Horizon on board is game-changing. Regardless of the investment, our values align with theirs. We are all on a mission to make plant-based eating the norm and to also turn LoveRaw into an international brand. We are so glad that we waited for the right investor and didn't buckle when the Dragon's Den offer came in when we so needed it!\"\n\"We are all on a mission to make plant-based eating the norm and to also turn LoveRaw into an international brand.\"\nHaving achieved a 98% year-on-year growth rate, combined with a 200% increase in monthly sales, the pair approached Blue Horizon Ventures for investment in early 2019, with the aim of creating tastier, healthier and sustainable food across the globe.\nMichael Kleindl, founder and managing partner of Blue Horizon Ventures, said: \"We are extremely pleased to welcome LoveRaw to the Blue Horizon portfolio. Together we will work to provide consumers around the world with plant-based and 'clean label' products from the indulgence category and aim to convert the current product options towards more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. We are confident that LoveRaw has the opportunity to become market leaders in their sector.\"\nSpeaking exclusively to Food Management Today regarding the investment deal, Rimi Thapar said: \"While trying to lead a more healthier lifestyle, I was in search of snacks that were better for me and tasted good but there wasn't much on the market. So I thought \"I can do this, I'll make a product that I would like to consume in the market\" and off I went.\n\"I started the business with just \u00a3600, I didn't have thousands to invest and wanted to validate the product before going into production. I went to see a key buyer without a meeting, I sneaked past two reception desks and apologetically presented the product. It worked and I received my first order.\"\nThapar continued: \"Vegan chocolate has a bad rep for not tasting that great, but we are here to make you think otherwise by making great tasting chocolate that also happens to be vegan. Our products aren't just for vegans, they are also for the conventional non-vegan.\n\"Well now the real hard work starts, we will continue as we have done and surround ourselves with the right people in order to grow the business. We will continue to innovate and launch more variations of vegan chocolate products, and in 5-10 years I would like to see the LoveRaw vegan chocolate ranges widely accessible in the UK and EU. However much LoveRaw grows, what will remain is the passion, culture and enthusiasm that we started with.\"\nSeafood Scotland appoints exporting team to ease Brexit troubles\nUK food and drink manufacturers to offer more than 400 Kickstart jobs\nDeadline looming for feedback on AHDB's strategy\nFood sector now eligible for free Covid-19 testing\nIndustry welcomes Skills for Jobs white paper\nRen\u00e9 Hansen appointed MD of Bettcher GmbH\n\u00a9 copyright Yandell Publishing, all rights reserved. Any unauthorised use, copying or reproduction of any information contained on this website will be subject to legal proceedings. Usage implies acceptance of our terms and conditions of use, click here to read them now. For details of our privacy policy and how we use data and information click here.\nThis site uses cookies to enhance your user experience.AcceptThese are not harmful and don't provide personal information. Read More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NUST Institutions Library Catalogue\nNUST INSTITUTIONS' LIBRARY CATALOGUE\nAll libraries Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB) Central Library (CL) Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) College of Aeronautical Engineering (CAE) College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (CEME) Institute of Environmental Science & Engineering (IESE) Institute of Geographical Information Systems (IGIS) Military College of Engineering (MCE) Military College of Signals (MCS) NICE (SCEE) NUST Baluchistan Campus (NBC) NUST Creative Learning School & College (NCLS&C) NUST Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (NIPCONS) Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC) Research Center For Modeling & Simulation (RCMS) School of Art Design and Architecture (SADA) School of Chemical & Materials Engineering (SCME) School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering (SMME) School of Natural Sciences (SNS) U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E)\nDetails for: e-Data : turning data into information with data warehousing\ne-Data : turning data into information with data warehousing Jill Dyche.\nSeries: Addison-Wesley information technology seriesPublisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c2000Description: xxxi, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0201657805Subject(s): Data warehousingDDC classification: 005.756\nBook Central Library (CL)\nCentral Library (CL)\nNFIC First Floor - Databases 005.756 DYC (Browse shelf) Available SEECS003086\nNUST Institutional Repository(DSpace)\n\u00a9 2021 Central Library, National University of Sciences and Technology. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"EHNAC proposes standards changes\nPaul Barr\nThe Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, Farmington, Conn., unveiled new versions of its program criteria and is requesting comment on the proposed changes for 2013.\nEHNAC, a not-for-profit organization that develops standard criteria and accredits organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data, will accept comments on the affected programs through Nov. 25, according to a news release.\nIncluded in the criteria are two new programs: Electronic Prescription of Controlled Substances Certification Program\u2013Pharmacy Vendor and Electronic Prescription of Controlled Substances Certification Program\u2013Prescribing Vendor.\nThe affected existing programs are: the e-Prescribing Accreditation Program; the Financial Services Accreditation Program for Electronic Health Networks; the Financial Services Accreditation Program for Lockbox Services, the Health Information Exchange Accreditation Program, the Healthcare Network Accreditation Plus Select SAS 70 Criteria Program, the Healthcare Network Accreditation Program for Electronic Health Networks (including payers), the HNAP Medical Biller\u2013Healthcare Network Accreditation Program for Medical Billers, the Healthcare Network Accreditation Program for Third Party Administrators, the Management Service Organization Accreditation Program and the Outsourced Services Accreditation Program.\nHumana grows private equity-backed primary care\nInsurers, employers start helping more with chronic disease\nDaily Finance Newsletter: Sign up to receive daily news and data that has a direct impact on the business and financing of healthcare.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Front seat child seat and restraint device known as \"Stay Secur Seat\"\nA device for use in vehicles for infants called a Stay Secur Seat. This device is comprised of a seat; an essentially vertical belt system to augment the existing seat belt; a means to connect the vertical belt to the seat; a means to removably connect the vertical belt to the existing seat support bar; and a means to adjust the vertical belt's length and resultant tension. A person normally has to accept the rear mount seats based on warnings associated with front seat air bags. The new Stay Secur Seat device features very few parts and is self-attaching. In operation, the new Stay Secur Seat device is easily affixed to the vehicle seat without the need of any special tools or fasteners. The device eliminates the need for the driver to continually monitor the rear seat to see the child or infant in the seat restraint.\nPerry, Henry (Indianapolis, IN, US)\nA47C1\/08\n20070035162 Conditioning system for cooling and heating surfaces, particularly automobile seats February, 2007 Bier et al.\n20030122407 Removable vehicle seat July, 2003 Boyd et al.\n20070132296 AUTOMATIC LUMBAR SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR A FOLDING SEAT SYSTEM June, 2007 Sturt et al.\n20100007184 Seat assembly for sensing an occupant January, 2010 Griffin et al.\n20080136244 Quick release armrest assembly for a bath chair June, 2008 Cheng\n20080211286 Vehicular Seat Headrest and Method September, 2008 Morilhat et al.\n20090121523 CONVERTIBLE PASSENGER SEAT ASSEMBLY May, 2009 Johnson\n20070182221 CHILD ACTIVITY CENTER August, 2007 Mcconnell et al.\n20020030394 Child seat assembled with vehicle seat March, 2002 Ito\n20040183344 Seat energy absorber September, 2004 Glance et al.\n20070284920 TABLET ARM FOR NESTING CHAIR December, 2007 Mehaffey et al.\nNELSON JR, MILTON\nRITCHISON LAW OFFICES, PC (Anderson, IN, US)\nWhat is claimed as new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent is:\n1. An attachment device for use with a child seat in a vehicle with a seat belt for securely and safely holding the child seat, comprising: (a) the child seat; (b) an essentially vertical belt system; (c) a means for connecting the vertical belt system to the child seat; (d) a means to removably connect the vertical belt to a seat support bar of the vehicle; and (e) a means to adjust the length and tension of the vertical belt whereby the device is installable to the vehicle and child seat and the security of the seat is increased.\n2. The device according to claim 1 wherein the vertical belt system which is comprised of an upper belt, a lower belt and a means to removably and securely connect the upper and lower belts.\n3. The device according to claim 2 wherein the means for connecting the upper belt to the lower belt is a standard seatbelt latch used in vehicles with a spring closure feature.\n4. The device according to claim 1 wherein the means for connecting the belt system to the child seat is by a feature integral to the child seat.\n5. The device according to claim 1 wherein the means for connecting the belt system to the child seat is by a sleeve feature that encompasses the top of the child seat.\n6. The device according to claim 1 wherein the means for connecting the belt system to the seat support bar is a latch with a spring closure feature.\n8. The device according to claim 1 wherein the means for connecting the belt system to the seat support bar is essentially a \"J\" hook at lower the end of the belt system Whereby the hook engages the seat bar and is held in place when the belt system is under tension.\n9. An attachment device for use with a child seat on a boat deck with a pair of seat belts for securely and safely holding the child seat, comprising: (a) the child seat; (b) a pair of belt systems; (c) a means for connecting the belt system to the child seat; and (d) a means to removably connect each of the belt systems to the boat deck whereby the device is installable to the boat deck and child seat and the security of the seat is increased.\nThis application claims the benefit of Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60\/792,059 filed April 14, by Henry Perry, and titled Front Seat Child Seat and Restraint Device known as \"Stay Secur Seat\".\nThis invention pertains to a child or infant seat utilized with a motor vehicle seat with at least one passenger seat which has attachment devices for improved safety with the child's seat that can be attached to the vehicle passenger seat. Particularly this child seat device is related to devices and methods to allow and permit placing a child or infant seat in the front compartment of the vehicle even when the vehicle has air bags. The secure safety seat device may be featured with the original equipment as a manner to protect children and infants or as an after market enhancement to for individuals desiring this safety improvement.\nFEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH\nSEQUENCE LISTING OR PROGRAM\nBACKGROUND-FIELD OF INVENTION AND PRIOR ART\nThe new Front Seat Child Seat and Restraint Device known as \"Stay Secur Seat\". The device described in this specification is a product that is designed to easily and quickly provide a new and unique child seat that may be used in the front seat even in the presence of airbags. The product considers the shortfalls of current car-seats for infants and overcomes the limitations, as will be evident in the descriptions below.\nA. Introduction of the Problems Addressed\nIn motor vehicles, a child's safety seat is usually attached to the passenger seat together with the child to be transported using safety belts and belt locks which are present on the passenger seat and\/or child's safety seat. These are placed in the rear seats due to the presence of air bags in the front compartments of many vehicles. The disadvantage here is that the air bag, which is located in front of the child's safety seat, may represent a considerable danger to the child in the case of its activation. In order for the child in the safety seat to be better protected and better monitored, the child's safety seat is frequently positioned on the passenger seat, especially on the front passenger seat, with the back cushion part to the front in the direction of travel and secured with a safety belt. This positioning of the child's safety seat on the passenger seat, however, is not acceptable on a vehicle for safety reasons because, in the case of a collision, the opening air bag will strike against the back rest of the child's safety seat and thus would cause serious injuries to the child. To avoid this, the Stay Secur Seat device has been configured to eliminate this risk. For all types of previous attachments, the child's safety seat could not until now be fastened to the passenger seat with a simple tensioning of the seat with an additional belt to resist the air bag and prevent injury to the child.\nB. Prior Art\nHistorically, the infant and child seats have been only connected by the seat belts. Since the advent of the air bags, these seats in the front compartment of a vehicle have been exposed to hurting the child by \"crushing them\" when the bag inflated. The historical devices just were not strong enough or installed properly to resist the pressure from the bags. State laws were enacted which essentially caused most seats to only meet codes when placed in the rear seats away from air bag exposure. The new Front Seat Child Seat and Restraint Device known as \"Stay Secur Seat\" changes that shortfall.\nEarly examples of prior child seats and equipment begin with U.S. Pat. No. 3,934,934 to Farrell, Jr. (1976) which teaches a child seat that is attached only with the standard lap belt in a vehicle. No attachment to the seat frame is discussed. Another patent U.S. Pat. No. 4,231,612 was issue to Meeker (1980). This teaches an infant car seat having a seat, back and sides. Support stands are connected to a plate member within compartments on either side of said seat which are in turn, pivotally connected to the side members of the seat. The seat also contains two recesses, one on either side of the upper face of the side of the seat, which accept the auto seat belt when the seat is facing in the rearward direction in the automobile.\nAnother improvement for a car seat was issued to Schrader as U.S. Pat. No. 4,707,024 (1987). It teaches a safety seat for the conveyance of babies and very small children in vehicles. The frame of the device permits some resistance against the back of the seat but is not integrally attached to the seat except for the lap belt. Other examples of protective seats include a \"cocoon\" like device taught by Davalos et al in the U.S. Pat. No. 4,790,593 issued in 1988. The device is front facing and is attached by only the seat belts.\nA U.S. Pat. No. 5,468,014 issued to Gimbel et al (1995) teaches a child seat for a motor vehicle which has attachment devices for a child's safety seat that can be attached to it and at least one air bag in the region of the passenger seat. The invention proposes that at least one attachment device for the child's safety seat be provided with a sensor for deactivating the air bag which reacts to the attachment of the child's safety seat. This assures that during the transportation of the child in the child's safety seat, the air bag in front of the child's safety seat is deactivated. Another safety seat concept is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,524,965 issued to Barley (1996) that teaches a rather complex system where a child safety seat has a seat body, a support structure, a first releasable coupling for connecting the support structure to a motor vehicle and a second releasable coupling for connecting the seat body to the support structure. The support structure includes an upwardly facing abutment surface positioned above the seat portion of an adult vehicle seat and in front of the backrest portion thereof, when the first coupling is engaged. The second coupling is arranged to hold the seat body in rigid abutment with the abutment surface on the support structure either so that the seat body is facing forwardly in the vehicle or so that the seat body is facing rearwardly in the vehicle. The device has some connection means beyond just the seat belt but is much more complex than the simple, yet effective new Front Seat Child Seat and Restraint Device known as \"Stay Secur Seat\".\nAnother safety seat is taught in U.S. Pat. No. 5,716,095 issued to Lopez (1998) that teaches a child safety seat accessory apparatus for use in conjunction with a conventional child car seat which allows placement of the child car seat within an inner containment cavity from a seat containment casing. This casing includes a protective shield which protects the child occupant from the impact of an air bag and other flying debris in the event of an accident. The device differs and far more complex than the new Front Seat Child Seat and Restraint Device known as \"Stay Secur Seat\". Another U.S. Pat. No. 6,354,648 issued to Allan et al (2002) demonstrates a mounting for a for child-restraint system in a vehicle. The child-restraint system is mounted in relation to a seat of a motor vehicle by a mount which includes a base portion secured to the vehicle structure and a mounting portion which extends to an accessible position upon the seat where it may be engaged by the restraint system, the mounting portion being able to be moved from its position on the seat when it is not required to be engaged by the child-restraint system. The mounting requires tools and special assembly and is more complex than the new \"Stay Secur Seat\".\nAs far as known, there are no Stay Secur Seat devices at the present time which fully meet this need with as few of components and superior operation as the present Stay Secur Seat device. It is believed that this device is made with fewer parts, of a more durable design, and with much less expense than any previous child seat restraint device.\nA Stay Secur Seat device has been developed for use by a person to secure a child or infant in the front or rear seat of a vehicle, boat or airplane including those vehicles with air bags. The preferred embodiment of this device is comprised of a child seat; an essentially vertical belt system to augment the existing seat belt; a means to connect the vertical belt to the child seat; a means to removably connect the vertical belt to the existing seat support bar; and a means to adjust the vertical belt's length and resultant tension.\nA person normally has to accept the marketed rear mount seats since there has been much concern and warnings communicated in association with front seat air bags and potential injury or death to child seat occupants placed in the front compartment. Legislation, in fact, has obligated most parents and guardians to place the children in the rear passenger seat. This places additional limitations on the vehicle driver to safely monitor the condition of the child or infant. The driver must \"turn around or use a mirror to track and review the child's condition. This turning motion often diverts that driver's attention from the safe operation of the vehicle.\nThe newly invented Stay Secur Seat device features very few parts and is self attaching. In operation, the new Stay Secur Seat device may be easily affixed to front or rear vehicle seat without the need of any tools or special fasteners.\nOBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES\nThere are several objects and advantages of the Stay Secur Seat device. There are currently no known child seat restraining devices or systems that are effective at providing the objects of this invention.\nOne advantage and object of the present invention is that affords a safe manner and device to locate the child's seat in the front seat of the vehicle. By eliminating the damage to the seat from the onset of an airbag, the child may be located into easy sight and reach of the vehicle's driver.\nAnother object for the Stay Secur Seat device is to provide a device that no longer requires the driver of a vehicle to turn and remove their eyes from the driving path for a long period of time. The child is in the front seat and requires only a quick eye glance to assess the condition of the child in the seat. Currently, a driver needs to turn around or monitor the child by a mirror and remove that driver's eyes from the vehicles path for a considerable period of time. Depending on traffic, speed and\/or weather, dangerous hazards may present themselves for the driver's reaction to immediately address these hazards.\nThere has been another object of the present invention which is to have a low manufacturing cost. This is accomplished by using existing belt materials, fastening means, and adjustment means. This invention provides new uses for a new device with a new configuration and combination to well-known materials and devices in the field of automotive safety.\nA further advantaged offered with the Stay Secur Seat versatile in use. The device may be configured for use with original equipment vehicles; as an aftermarket add to older vehicles; as a security method for boats and watercraft; and for use with air travel.\nAnother advantage is expected with the Stay Secur Seat device which is that it is durable. Use of existing, well tested materials and attachment and adjustment means permit this new invention to enter the market with unquestioned strength and durability.\nFinally, other advantages and additional features of the present Stay Secur Seat device will be more apparent from the accompanying drawings and from the full description of the device. For one skilled in the art of devices and improvements for child seat devices, it is readily understood that the features shown in the examples with this mechanism are readily adapted to other types of child seat improvements.\nDESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS\u2014FIGURES\nThe accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate an embodiment of the Stay Secur Seat device that is preferred. The drawings together with the summary description given above and a detailed description given below serve to explain the principles of the Stay Secur Seat device. It is understood, however, that the Stay Secur Seat device is not limited to only the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown.\nFIG. 1 is a sketch of the general assembly of the Stay Secur Seat device.\nFIG. 2 is a sketch of the general assembly of the Stay Secur Seat device with many of the component parts noted.\nFIG. 3A through 3C are drawings and photographs of the Stay Secur Seat device showing added components.\nFIGS. 4 including 4A through 4D are sketches of the belt for the Stay Secur Seat device showing the various features.\nFIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C are photographs of a typical Child seat adapted for a Stay Secur Seat device.\nFIGS. 6A and 6B are photographs that provide details of the Stay Secur Seat belt details.\nFIGS. 7A and B are sketches that show the original equipment embodiment and the marine\/aqua seat alternative embodiment with component details.\nFIGS. 8A through 8C are sketches that show the aftermarket sleeve system for seats that need an alternative attachment means for use.\nDESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS\u2014REFERENCE NUMERALS\nThe following list refers to the drawings:\n31 general assembly of the Stay Secur Seat\n32 infant or child seat\u2014Original Equipment or after market\n33 passenger seat (front) or rear\n34 existing seat belt\n35 floor of vehicle\n36 existing vehicle seat bar (under seat 33)\n37 means to attach belt 38 (to seat bar 36)\n37A secure retention means to keep latch 37 fastened to bar 36 (spring mechanism or the like)\n38 lower Stay Secur Seat belt\n39 upper Stay Secur Seat belt\n40 means to removably and securely fasten upper belt 39 to lower belt 38\n40A exemplary\u2014not limiting\u2014male portion of fastening means\n40B exemplary\u2014not limiting\u2014female portion of fastening means\n41 seat attachment means (to enable loop 42 to attach to seat 32)\n42 means to fasten Velcro\u2122 (36) or the like to the vinyl (37)\n43 means for adjustment to belt length and tension\n44 front passenger air bag (deployed position)\n44A Front vehicle dash\n44B Front vehicle windshield\n45 aqua\/marine child seat\n46 means to attach belt to deck\n47 fastening means (screw, bolt, or the like)\n48 sock boot that slides over seat 32\n49 means to attach belt 39 to boot 48\nDETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENT\nThe present device is a mechanism is a Stay Secur Seat device 31 has been developed for use by a person to secure a child or infant in the front or rear seat of a vehicle, boat or airplane including those vehicles with air bags. The device is comprised of a child seat 32; an essentially vertical belt system 38, 39, and 40 to augment the existing seat belt 34; a means to connect the vertical belt to the child seat 41; a means to removably connect the vertical belt to the existing seat support bar 37; and a means to adjust 43 the vertical belt's length and resultant tension. A person having ordinary skill in the field of seat belt and child restraint devices appreciates the various manners that may be used to physically permit this Stay Secur Seat device 31 to be produced and utilized.\nThe improvement over the existing art is providing a device that:\na. affords a safe manner and device to locate the child's seat in the front seat of the vehicle;\nb. provides a device that no longer requires the driver of a vehicle to turn and remove their eyes from the driving path for a long period of time;\nc. has a low manufacturing cost;\nd. is versatile in use; and\ne. is durable.\nThere is shown in FIGS. 1-8 a complete operative embodiment of the Stay Secur Seat device 31. In the drawings and illustrations, one notes well that the FIGS. 1-8 demonstrate the general configuration and use of this invention. The preferred embodiment of the device is comprised of only a few parts as shown in the drawings. These members or parts of a Stay Secur Seat device are comprised of and include, but are not limited to a child seat 32; an essentially vertical belt system 38, 39, and 40 to augment the existing seat belt 34; a means to connect the vertical belt to the child seat 41; a means to removably connect 37 the vertical belt 38,39, and 40 to the existing seat support bar 36; and a means to adjust 43 the vertical belt's length and resultant tension. Various important features of these member components are delineated in FIGS. 1-8 of the drawings and are described below in appropriate detail for one skilled in the art to appreciate their importance and functionality to the Stay Secur Seat device 31.\nThe accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate an embodiment of the Stay Secur Seat device 31 that is preferred. The drawings together with the summary description given above and a detailed description given below serve to explain the principles of the Stay Secur Seat device 31. It is understood, however, that the Stay Secur Seat device 31 is not limited to only the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown. For example, the preferred embodiment of the Stay Secur Seat device may have various embodiments as will be demonstrated.\nFIG. 1 is a sketch of the general assembly 31 of the Stay Secur Seat device. The overall placement of the device on a vehicular seat is illustrated.\nFIG. 2 is a sketch of the general assembly of the Stay Secur Seat device 31 with many of the component parts noted. Here the child seat 32 is shown placed onto the vehicle seat 33. The child seat 32 is secured to the vehicle seat 33 by the existing infant seat belt 34. Then, the child seat 32 is attached further to the vehicles structure. This further attachment is by means of the Stay Secur Seat device 31 including the upper belt 39, lower belt 38, connection means 40 for the belt sections (38 and 39), adjustment device 43 and an attachment means 37 to connect the belt system to the existing seat bar structure 36. The seat 32 rests on the vehicle's floor 33 and is adjacent to the vehicles dash 38 with an air bag 44. A loop 42 in the upper belt 39 is interposed through a means to connect 41 (slot or the like) in the structure of the seat 32.\nFIG. 3A through 3C are drawings and photographs of the Stay Secur Seat device 31 showing added components. Similarly to FIG. 2, in FIG. 3A the infant seat 32 rests on the passenger seat 33 and is attached by the existing seat belt 34. The vertical belt system (38, 39 and 40) is attached to the passenger seat bar 36 by an attachment means 37. The same belt system components (38, 39, and 40) are attached to the uppermost section of the child seat 32 by means 41 and a loop 42 in the belt system. The belt system is then adjusted for length and tension by an adjustment means 43. In FIG. 3B, a side view with the same components as in FIG. 3A are shown. In FIG. 3C a photograph shows a typical seat 33 with a structural bar 36.\nFIGS. 4 including 4A through 4D are sketches of the belt for the Stay Secur Seat device 31 showing the various features. In FIG. 4A, the uppermost belt section 39 has the adjustment means 43. This uppermost section 39 is directly and securely attached to the male connection means 40A. The female connection means 40B is directly connected to the lower belt section 38 at its upper distal end. The lower belt section 38 has the beam connection means 37 at its distal end. Additionally, there is a retention means 37A to secure and keep secure the connection between the means 37 and the seat bar or beam 36. For example, this connection means 37 may incorporate a spring feature, may be a \"J\" hook, or other fastening means.\nIn FIGS. 4B, and 4C the belt system is shown before and after connection. In FIG. 4D, the adjustment means for adjusting the length of the uppermost belt 39 and the resultant tension is demonstrated. For all these views of the safety belts 38 and 39, it is understood that the belt fabric will be of materials similar to existing seat belts in vehicles. These include for example, but not as a limitation, nylon, reinforced nylon and various other composite materials. It is well understood by those skilled in the art of safety belts that various materials, known and unknown, will fall within the scope and spirit of this Stay Secur Seat device 31\nFIGS. 5A, 5B, and 5C are photographs of a typical Child seat 32 adapted for a Stay Secur Seat device 31. In photograph 5A the child seat 32 is shown where the uppermost belt 39 is attached to the seat 32 by a means 41 and loop 42. In FIG. 5B the open structure of seat 32 shows the means 41 as a slot in the plastic structure of seat 32. In both FIGS. 5B and 5C, the additional details of the uppermost belt 39, the connection means 40, the lowermost belt 38 and the bar attachment means 37 are depicted.\nFIGS. 6A and 6B are photographs that provide details of the Stay Secur Seat belt 31. The uppermost belt 39 is shown in FIG. 6A with the male connector 40A ready to be connected to the female 40B attached to the lowermost belt section 38. In FIG. 6B, the sections are connected\u2014by male 40A and female 40B\u2014to complete the connection means 40. In each figure, the uppermost belt 39 has the adjustment means 43 shown and the lowermost belt 38 has the bar connection means 37 depicted.\nFIGS. 7A and B are sketches that show the original equipment embodiment 31 and the marine\/aqua seat alternative embodiment 45 with component details. In the FIG. 7A, the components have already been well described in the above descriptions. In FIG. 7B, the marine option includes the floatable seat 45 attached by the loop 42 and attachment means 41. Next, the uppermost belt 39 (including the loop 42) includes the adjustment means 43. The uppermost belt 39 is connected to the lowermost belt 38 by an attachment means 40. The lowermost belt 38 is connected to the deck of the watercraft (not shown) by an attachment device 46 and fasteners 47 such as screws, bolts or the like.\nFIGS. 8A through 8C are sketches that show the aftermarket sleeve system 48 for seats that need an alternative attachment means for use. Here the sleeve\/sock 48 is easily adapted to existing child seats 32 which have no attachment means 41 (such as slots) built into the seat 32. The sock\/sleeve 48 is connected to the uppermost belt 39 by some attachment means 49 (such as sewing, riveting, adhesive, heat seal or the like). In the FIGS. 8A, 8B, and 8C, the front side and back views, respectively, are shown.\nAll of the details mentioned here are exemplary and not limiting. Other specific components specific to describing a Stay Secur Seat device 31 may be added as a person having ordinary skill in the field of child and infant seat restraint devices well appreciates.\nOPERATION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT\nThe new Stay Secur Seat device 31 has been described in the above embodiment. The manner of how the device operates is described below. One may note well that the description above and the operation described here must be taken together to fully illustrate the concept of the Stay Secur Seat device 31. The preferred embodiment described above is essentially comprised of only a few parts as shown in the drawings. These components are comprised of and include, but are not limited to, a child seat 32; an essentially vertical belt system 38,39, and 40 to augment the existing seat belt 34; a means to connect the vertical belt to the child seat 41; a means to removably connect 37 the vertical belt 38,39, and 40 to the existing seat support bar 36; and a means to adjust 43 the vertical belt's length and resultant tension.\nThe manner of use is very simple and direct. The child seat 32 is placed on the vehicle seat 33. Next, the existing vehicle belt 34 is attached (through slots or other means) to the seat 32. The new Stay Secur Seat device 31 is attached by connecting the lowermost belt section 38 with the attachment means 37 and 37A to the seat structure bar 36. Next, the uppermost belt section 39 is attached to the child seat 32 by the means 41 and the loop 42. After this, the lowermost belt 38 is connected to the uppermost belt 39 by the connection means 40. Finally, the overall belt system (38, 39 and 40) is adjusted for length and tension by tightening (reducing slack and overall length) the system by the adjustment means 43.\nVarious uses may employ this new Stay Secur Seat device. Table A includes some examples of uses. These examples are not limiting to the overall Scope and Spirit of the Stay Secur Seat 31.\nTable A of Uses\nITEM DESCRIPTION OF USE\n1 Original Equipment Child Seat option\n2 After Market add-on to existing units (sleeve device)\n3 Marine\/Aquatic application for security of child on a\n4 Airline application for security of child on an\naircraft (plane, helicopter or other airborne craft)\nWith this description it is to be understood that the Stay Secur Seat device 31 is not to be limited to only the disclosed embodiments. The features of the Stay Secur Seat device 31 are intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the description.\nPrevious Patent: Baby\/Child Support\nNext Patent: Chair flexpad support arrangement","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Little Boy's Merengue Moves Are Fire\nThe kid can dance!\nEverybody has some kind of talent or something they're good at, but it can take a long time (sometimes a lifetime) to figure out what that thing is. With other people, though, they show a predisposition for doing certain things really well very early on. Maybe it's because they were exposed to the right inspiration when they were super small, who knows? The point is, some kids show amazing talents when they're still really little.\nA perfect example is the boy in this video from @ladyliz8. He's just hanging out in the living room with his sister, both of them dancing around to the music playing on the TV. But when this kid gets going? Those are some smooth moves.\nThere are adults who can't merengue like that! Some people just have \"it\" when it comes to dancing, and this kid is one of those blessed with the ability to groove. All he needs is a partner (little sister still just needs a little more practice). Of course, the fact that he's doing all of this in Spider-Man pajamas just makes the whole thing that much cuter.\nCommenters agreed that this little boy is a joy to watch:\n\"It's the merengue dancing Spider-Man for me\"\n\"put them in dance, they were both on beat\"\n\"The little tip toes thoooo TOO CUTE\"\n\"Lmaoooo get it Spider-Man\"\n\"This makes me scream!! So cute!\"\n\"it's in the blood\"\n\"He so smooth with it\"\nIt's true, this kid's moves are ridiculously smooth for somebody still wearing superhero pajamas. Chances are he'll grow up still loving both...Spider-Man and merengue!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Market Rejection of GMOs Grows \u2013 New Four Year Plan to Topple Toxic Agriculture\nOriginally published: Conscious Life News\nBy Dr. Joseph Mercola\nOur annual GMO Awareness Week is upon us, and in this interview, Ronnie Cummins, founder of the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) details the current state of the opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs).\nWe first met about six years ago, when we collaborated to create the direct ballot initiative to label GMOs in California.\nA lot has happened since then, including the passing of what's colloquially known as the Deny Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act, ironically misnamed \"The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act\" \u2014 this despite a full 90 percent of consumers supporting mandatory labeling.\nThe Trump administration has also selected or appointed notorious cheerleaders for GMOs and factory farms to his cabinet \u2014 Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA, Sonny Perdue as USDA Secretary, and Rick Perry as Energy Secretary.\nMeanwhile, his Tea Party allies in Congress have called for the abolition of the entire National Organic Program!1\nOn the upside, in 2016 we saw, for the first time in nearly 20 years, a decrease in the amount of genetically engineered (GE) crops grown around the world, in terms of acreage.\nAs noted by Cummins, \"This represents the fact that this technology is failing, in the sense of superweeds and superpests are popping up all over the world.\" In the U.S., three-quarters of farmers growing GE crops like soybeans, corn or canola are having problems with these herbicide- and pesticide-resistant pests.\nMarket Rejection of GMOs Has Grown\nEven more importantly, consumers around the world have become aware of the many problems associated with GE crops and the toxic herbicides and pesticides used on them, and do not want any of it on their plates.\nIn other words, the market has started rejecting GMOs, and that's what we've been fighting for all along. Nothing can or will change unless consumers apply pressure in the form of refusing to buy GMOs.\nIn the European Union (EU), which is the biggest agriculture market in the world, few if any GMOs are found on supermarket shelves.\nIn the U.S. \u2014 despite industry spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manipulate market preference \u2014 about 40 percent of Americans still believe GE foods and GE ingredients are dangerous. Another 20 percent are unsure whether GMOs are dangerous or not.\n\"This combination of consumer rejection and, basically, Mother Nature's resistance, has caused a drop-off,\" Cummins says. \"I think this is the beginning of the end of at least this generation, the first generation, of GMO crops.Now, industry is saying, 'Don't worry about the fact that we're using more and more toxic pesticides and herbicides \u2026 Don't worry about these pests spreading across the fields. We've got a new generation of GMO crops where we can just do gene editing.\nWe don't have to pull some DNA from a foreign species and haphazardly splice it into a corn or a soybean crop.'\nBut the bottom line is that this gene-splicing and this so-called new gene editing are unnatural processes that disrupt the genetic structure, the natural workings of living organisms. These aren't going to work either.\"\nOrganics and Grass-fed Are Increasing in Popularity\nWorldwide, we're also seeing strong growth in organics and grass fed farming and ranching. In the U.S., the organic sector grew 11.5 percent\nin 2016. Grass fed grew about 50 percent. In France, organics grew by 20 percent.\n\"This is because people understand this public health crisis has now spread worldwide, and this environmental crisis and its relationship to the climate crisis are all due to an out-of-control, industrial, chemical-intensive GMO agriculture. People are turning away,\" Cummins says.\nIn the U.S., we now also have a brand new grass fed certification by the American Grassfed Association (AGA), which is the highest certification you can get for dairy, beef and poultry, including chickens, sheep and goats.\nIn short, we're seeing a massive demand for healthier foods. A lot more people now know about the drawbacks of factory farmed beef and dairy, for example, and are aware that when herbivores are grazed naturally, without hormones, antibiotics and other drugs, you end up with a far\nhealthier product.\n\"What's been driving the growth of the grass fed beef and dairy industry are health concerns,\" Cummins says. \"But also, people have become aware over the years that the factory farm system \u2026 is not right. You don't have to be an ethical vegan to have feeling for animals.\nAnimals are sentient beings \u2026 Industry says if you want cheap food, you've got to go with factory farms. But I think more and more consumers are saying, 'I don't want cheap food if it means it's going to harm my health and the environment, and if you have to be that cruel to animals.'\nI think we're seeing the beginning of the end of the factory farm model, which actually has only existed [for] 40 years or so. Most animals used to be raised naturally \u2026\nIt's this wonderful coming together in the United States of the American Grassfed Association, merging in the dairy sector with dairy farmers who are already organic, to produce a higher quality 100 percent grass fed dairy.\nIn the beef industry, there has been a tremendous growth in the demand for 100 percent grass fed, grass finished beef. Unfortunately, most other grass fed beef in the United States is still coming from overseas, from countries like Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil \u2026\nWe still don't have the infrastructure in the United States that we had 50 years ago with processing plants in every region of the country and so on, but we're catching up.\"\nChallenges Involved in Organic Grass-fed Beef Production\nIndeed, the lack of processing plants is really slowing down the reversal of the system. While American farmers have the capacity to provide an ample supply of grass-fed cattle, the problem is there aren't enough processing plants to accommodate a massive increase.\nIn all, the U.S. has about 500,000 ranchers raising livestock, but there are only three or four major buyers. Ranchers may raise the animals on pasture and treat them well, but after a year and a half or so, they must be sold.\nThe cattle are sold at auction, and the buyers, such as JBS (a Brazilian firm that has bought out a large part of the beef industry in the U.S.), Cargill and Tyson Foods, will offer you the lowest possible price, regardless of how much you spent on the cattle's health and wellbeing.\nThis cartel-like system effectively prevents farmers from recouping what they've invested, and slows down the pace at which a farmer can possibly make positive changes that require greater expenses.\nOnce sold, the animals are transported to gigantic feedlots \u2014 basically animal factories \u2014 where they're placed in tiny pens. GMO grains and drugs are routinely used to fatten the animals up as quickly as possible. However, in doing so, the animals' health and wellbeing suffer. For example, E. coli 0157H, a virulent pathogen, can thrive in the animals' intestines under these conditions.\n\"The reason why it's illegal for journalists or concerned citizens to go in and film in these giant feedlots is because the industry \u2026 don't want you to see the filth and the cruelty involved,\" Cummins says.\nFactory Farmed Meat Is No Bargain\nNext, the animals are sent off to mega slaughterhouses, of which there are only a few dozen in the entire country. As in the feedlots, these are hellish places where photographs and video taping is often illegal. As noted by Cummins:\n\"The workers are immigrant workers typically, who don't have citizenship papers. Why is this? Because U.S. citizens will not take this kind of job. They would not work under these conditions \u2026 They have terrible health problems, terrible psychological problems. They're underpaid and overworked.\nWhat comes out on the other end is meat that might appear to be cheap \u2026 but it's not cheap in terms of what it does to your health \u2026 It clogs up your veins. You're ingesting pesticide and hormone residues. You end up supersizing yourself \u2026 Yeah, you've got your cheap burger. You've got your cheap steak. But you have damaged your health. That's going to be very costly over time.\nYou also contributed to massive supply chain damage to the environment. The GMO corn and soybeans that make up the bulk of the feed in the feedlots, they have been sprayed with a horrendous amount of chemicals. These factory farms are the No. 1 contributors to water pollution \u2026 You're part of a long chain of animal cruelty, exploitation of workers, destruction of the environment \u2026\nThis paradigm is going to end. But we need more awareness [among] consumers, and we need more ranchers to be able to directly come into contact with consumers who want to buy their products so they can cut out the cartel middlemen \u2026\"\nVia Organica Paves Way for Organic Chicken and Egg Production\nMercola.com and OCA are both founding members of an international network called Regeneration International, which is seeking to replace, among other things, the outdated factory farm system with a natural humane system, whereby herbivores are raised on perennial grasses under a system of holistic management.\nThe same problems exist in poultry and pig farming, yet innovative farmers like Cummins and many others have proven there are far better ways of raising chickens and pigs on a larger scale as well.\nCummins' farm, Via Organica, located in the high desert of Central Mexico, uses a system based on the traditional raising of poultry. In the first phase of the project, they installed a couple of thousand laying hens, which live outside all day in a 2.5-acre paddock filled with 400 olive trees and other crops. While the trees offer protection against predators from above, chicken poop acts as a natural fertilizer for the trees, making additional fertilizer use unnecessary.\nBy eating the insects, they also eliminate pests that might otherwise pose a threat to the trees and other crops. \"If you're a small farmer, it's very difficult to make a living off just your eggs. But if you've got another cash crop in the paddock where the chickens roam, you're going to be bringing in twice as much money over time,\" Cummins says.\nThe chickens roam free all day, pecking in the dirt for worms, insects and other foraged foods. At sunset, they come into the chicken house, which is where they roost and lay their eggs. The feed provided in the chicken coop, given as a supplement to their foraged diet, is grown by local farmers using traditional, non-GMO seeds and regenerative methods.\n\"We have a special plow developed in Australia that's now spreading all across the world,\" Cummins explains. \"It's called a Keyline plow. It doesn't disturb the earth the way that traditional plows do. It creates an environment in your field to where when it rains, there's a built-in filtration of the rain into the soil. It turns the soil into a sponge \u2026\nThere are no chemical fertilizers. We work with the farmers to be able to have natural compost \u2026 [I]f you look at our eggs, one thing you notice is the yolk is bright orange. They taste really good. If you do a nutritional analysis of these eggs and compare them to the factory farmed eggs in the grocery store, there's a world of difference. If animals can live outside or live in a natural environment and exercise their natural behaviors, it ends up being a superior product.\"\nWhy Vegetarianism May Not Be the Most Environmentally Conscious Choice\nQuite a few people have embraced veganism or vegetarianism as a way of bowing out of the factory farm system that abuses animals for per-pound profit. Cummins was a vegetarian for 40 years for this reason.\n\"I was a vegetarian between 1970 and 2010 \u2026 until I had some ranchers in New Mexico explain to me this whole system of holistic management and rotational grazing, 100 percent grass fed \u2026 [T]hey said, 'Hey, you're an environmentalist, right? You're an animal welfare proponent, right? \u2026 You're not any of those things. You're a hypocrite, Ronnie.'\nBecause conscious consuming of a moderate level of meat and animal products \u2014 where the animals have been raised humanely, where they've been raised naturally, where the end product, the food, is good for your health \u2014 is [also] good for the environment. Yes, that last instant of their life, when they're sacrificed for our food, that's not a good moment [for these animals]. But we're all going to have a bad moment at the end of our lives. We're going to physically die.\nWhen we're in the ground, guess what's going to happen? The little animals eventually are going to eat us. It's all part of this great chain of being. It's natural. There are vegans starting to understand, like David Bronner [CEO of Dr. Bronner's] \u2026 David's been a vegan for many years, but he's coined this term \u2014 instead of vegetarian \u2014 \"regenetarian.\"\nWhy Become a Regenetarian?\nA regenetarian is a person who never, ever eats factory farmed meat or dairy products, just like a vegan. A regenetarian will however consume grass fed beef, grass fed dairy and other grass fed animal products.\n\"We're talking about fish here, too. Most of the fish in the world are now coming from these factory farm fish operations \u2014 horrible industrial trawlers in the oceans that are ripping up everything and killing everything in sight \u2026 A conscious consumer who wants to preserve their health, but also knows that we want to preserve the health of the planet \u2014 we want regular rainfall. We want climate to be normal again \u2014 we have to become regenetarians,\" Cummins says.\n\"I never eat meat or animal products in a restaurant unless that restaurant has on the menu, and has a convincing story, that this is grass fed or genuinely pastured. As soon as enough people start doing that, this system is going to change.\"\nThe average American spends a mere 10 percent of their income on food, which is ridiculously low when you consider what the highest quality, most nutritious food would cost. You cannot expect to get the highest quality at this rock-bottom price. At that level, all you're getting is cheap corn-based meals. As Cummins says, it would be reasonable to spend twice as much on food.\nTo pay for it, you may have to consider cutting down on other wasteful spending, such as the trend of treating clothing as single-use, disposable items. Organic foods cost more, and must cost more, because doing it right and not cutting corners costs money. It's the cost-saving measures that have resulted in hormone-laced milk and pesticide-ridden produce. It's cost-saving measures that have turned beef into a metabolic wrecker. Cheap food is cheap for a reason.\nCurrent State of GMO Movement in the US\nLast August, the so-called \"DARK Act\" was passed. And while many have placed their hopes on President Trump making sweeping changes, we're not likely to see any difference under Trump when it comes to GMO labeling. As before, the U.S. Congress doesn't seem to care that 90 percent of Americans want to know whether their food has been genetically engineered or not, or contains GMO ingredients.\nTo summarize last year's events, on July 1, 2016, Vermont's state law for mandatory GMO labeling took effect, forcing major food companies to start labeling their wares. Alas, the food industry basically bought Congress, sweeping a 100-year tradition of states' rights to implement food safety rules at the state level under the carpet. That's what the DARK Act did. It revoked states' right to impose mandatory labeling of GMOs, and with that, the Vermont law was made null and void.\nIn its place, the federal law replaced clear GMO labeling with quick response (QR) codes which, when scanned with your smartphone will bring you to the company's website, where you may or may not find information about the presence of GE ingredients.\n\"The only difference under Trump, looks like that we're not even going to have these QR codes, which were ridiculous anyway,\" Cummins says. Where does this leave us as consumers? I think there's a growing recognition among conscious consumers in this country that right now, we can't count on Congress.\nWe can't count on regulatory agencies like the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or the Federal Trade Commission.\nThese people are in the pockets of the 1 percent. They do what their financial backers tell them to do. We're left with our power in the marketplace. That is, they can't pass a law that tells you what to do when you pull out your wallet. We still have free choice to choose organic or grass fed foods or non-GMO foods in the marketplace \u2026\nAt the rate we're going now, most food in the United States will be organic within three decades. It's taken us three decades to get to the 5 to 10 percent range. Most of the food will be organic and grass fed within 30 years. However, when you look at our public health crisis and our climate crisis and all these other things that the economic crisis in rural areas, we can't wait 30 years.\"\nNew Goal: Double Organic Sales in Four Years\nThe consumer revolution platform now is an ambitious one \u2014 double organic sales in the next four years. At current rates of growth, we could expect it to increase by about 50 percent. Instead, we need to quadruple sales of organic and grass fed. As noted by Cummins, by speeding up the rate at which we reach the tipping point where 15 percent of our food supply is organic or grass fed, the acceleration will multiply exponentially thereafter.\n\"That's our answer to the gridlock in Washington, to the failure of federal government,\" he says. \"Let's get active in the local and state level where we have more power, [and] intensify our impact in the marketplace where no one can tell us what to do. We're going to bring about our revolution in health and nutrition in the marketplace if they won't let us do it with public policy.\"\nIt's time to launch a #ConsumerRevolution boycott that is larger and more powerful than ever. And at the same time, we apparently have no choice but to launch a #PoliticalRevolution, especially at the local and state level, that will \"throw the bums out\" from Main Street to Washington D.C. \u2014 those politicians and the army of lobbyists and PR gunslingers who continue to represent the corporate and financial elite, the \"1 percent,\" instead of the rest of us.\nIn order to carry out this \"Resist and Regenerate\" strategy, the OCA and its closest allies have come up with an Action platform called Consumer Revolution\/Political Revolution 2017-2020, which includes the following.\n#Consumer Revolution 2017-2020\nOverarching goal: Force corporations that sell consumer products, including food, clothing, drugs and personal care products, to respond to consumer demand for truthfully labeled products that have a positive impact on human health and are produced using regenerative processes and practices that not only prevent harm to human health and the environment, but also measurably improve soils and combat global warming.\n1.Move toward making organic, 100 percent grass fed and regenerative food and farming the norm, not just the 5 percent alternative in the marketplace, by doubling sales of organic to $80 billion by 2020, and by increasing sales of U.S. grass fed meat and dairy, and organic and pastured poultry and pork by at least 400 percent by 2020.\nAchieve a 50 percent reduction in sales of GMO food and animal feed by 2020, with the aim of driving GMO animal feed off the market.\n2.Force major food brands and companies that fraudulently label their products as \"natural,\" \"organic\" or \"GMO-free\" to remove misleading labels and\/or transition their products and production methods to organic and\/or regenerative practices.\n3.Increase market share for clothing made from organic cotton, wool and other natural fibers through a high-profile \"Care What You Wear\" campaign that encourages consumers to boycott GMO cotton and synthetic fibers.\n#PoliticalRevolution 2017-2020\nOverarching goal: Reform the current political process to create a democracy that works for all people, not just wealthy corporations and the 1 percent, by uniting the food, climate, economic and social justice, natural health and peace movements in a coordinated effort to support candidates, elected public officials and policies at the local, state and federal levels, that support our common goals.\n1.Lobby candidates and elected public officials to support OCA's #ConsumerRevolution platform\n2.Lobby candidates and elected public officials to support the \"Our Revolution\" platform, with the addition of:\n\u2022On food: a focus on food policy that supports consumer health and consumer right to know, and acknowledges the role food production plays in environmental and climate policy\n\u2022On health care: a focus on \"Medicare for all\" that includes coverage for preventive, natural and alternative health care solutions, and health freedom on vaccines and all medical treatments\n\u2022On living wage: a focus on raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour so that lower-income Americans can afford organic food and natural health products and practitioners\n\u2022On climate: a focus on regenerative agriculture and soil carbon sequestration as a global warming solution, in addition to fossil fuel emissions reduction and renewable energy\n3.Organize local grassroots meet-ups and coalitions to run candidates, for local and state offices, who support our issues\n4.Oppose any candidates or policies that promote racism, sexism, homophobia, militarism and all forms of discrimination, whenever and wherever they arise\n5.Oppose any laws or illegal attempts to disenfranchise voters\n6.Support the decriminalization of drug use, including the legalization of marijuana, and oppose the war on drugs\n7.Promote candidates and policies that advance regenerative food, farming and land use, in addition to fossil fuel emissions reduction and renewable energy\nBiodynamics \u2014 The Highest Organic Standard\nBiodynamic farming, which originated with Rudolf Steiner in the early 1920s, is also starting to gain recognition, and might even change or modify the organic standard. There are actually two different types of organic certification in the U.S.\nThere's the USDA Organic label standards, which are decent but still allow producers to meet only minimum requirements, and then there are the biodynamic standards, which have always been the highest in terms of organic certification. The biodynamic organic certification is indicated with a Demeter sign.2 \"What you need to realize is this is absolutely grade A+ organic,\" Cummins says.\nMany didn't understand the implications of 100 percent grass fed until very recently. Fortunately, we're now starting to see a merger of the Biodynamic Demeter certification and the AGA's grass-fed certification. Many farmers, even those certified organic by the USDA, are now stepping it up to the next level by implementing biodynamic or regenerative methods, which in terms of cattle and other herbivores is the 100 percent grass fed way of doing things.\n\"I think biodynamic and regenerative are the wave of the future. We need to still seek out organic products, but more and more conscious consumers are realizing that if you're buying a bottle of wine, look for the organic label on it, because that means it doesn't have any added sulfides.\nIt means that the farmer was really conscientious in the way they raised those grapes. But look for the biodynamic label as well. In OCA \u2026 we're really happy to be working with the next stage of organics, which is biodynamic and grass fed.\"\nRouting Out GMOs by Expanding the Net\nOver the past two decades, the majority of the anti-GMO movement was focused on GMOs found in processed foods and a small number of whole GE foods.\nYet that's only 20 percent of the GMOs in the human food chain. Twice as much (40 percent) goes into the making of animal feed for factory farms. The only way to change that trend is by not buying factory farmed animal products, be it poultry (including eggs), pork or beef.\nAnother 40 percent of GMOs grown are used to make ethanol, \"which is this crazed idea that it's environmentally sound \u2026 to produce an additive for gasoline from GMO corn,\" Cummins says. In essence, Monsanto makes money every time you drive your car, unless you're buying premium gas, which doesn't have ethanol in it. So, the less gas you use, the less money Monsanto makes. Cutting off your contributions to Monsanto is yet another reason for buying an electric vehicle.\nMost also forget (or failed to understand in the first place) that 95 percent of non-organic cotton clothing is made from Monsanto's GE cotton. You may be boycotting Monsanto's food, but if you buy clothes without thinking about what it's made from, you're still feeding the beast. In short, we have to significantly widen the net and consider all the different ways GE crops sneak their way into our lives.\n\"My T-shirt's organic. My jeans are organic. My underwear is organic. My socks are organic. I'm trying to consciously fight against Monsanto with everything I do, not just what I eat,\" Cummins says. \"We've got to expand into the full realm of GMOs. Even more importantly, we need to stop talking about GMOs as if it's some abstract technology that poses this kind of really-hard-to-understand danger, gene splicing, disruption of the genome and all that \u2026\nThere is no GMO crop that isn't sprayed with large amounts of poisonous chemicals \u2026 Or else it's impregnated with a poison, like the Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) toxin in the plant that expresses itself in every cell of the plant. When we're talking about pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, we're talking about GMO plants. There's no way to fight against GMOs unless we fight at the same time against chemical-intensive, energy-intensive agriculture and factory farms.\"\nMany Legislative Changes Are Needed\nWe also need to continue fighting for legislative changes that help and support organic farmers. The reason France was able to grow the organic sector by 20 percent last year, compared to 11.5 percent in the U.S. was because the French government started paying farmers who quit using pesticides and use compost instead of chemical fertilizers.\nIn a nutshell, France decided to pay farmers to do the right thing, whereas the U.S. rewards farmers who agree to do the wrong thing. France also passed a law that at least 40 percent of food for schools must be organic and purchased from local farmers.\n\"I mean what kind of rules do we have regarding [this]? We have the worst school lunch programs in the entire industrialized world. Our food stamp program for poor people is basically junk food that the companies would have disposed of, but they get a tax break for giving us their factory-farmed cheese and milk, and so on.\nWe do need to change policies as well as the marketplace. But looking at the federal government, our best way to influence public policy is to get involved at the local level \u2014 city council, county board, state legislature, our school boards. We have some power there.\"\nBecome Active in Local Government and Expand Alliances\nOCA is also calling for people of different stripes to start working together more \u2014 people in the local food movement, the slow food movement, the natural health movement, the environmental movement, the animal welfare movement, even church and spiritual movements. If you're involved in any of these, consider setting up joint meetings with other groups to discuss what you're doing, how and where your concerns intersect and how you may help each other.\nTo volunteer to set up or attend a Regenerative House Party or Community Meet-up in your local area this spring with other organic consumers or natural health activists, contact OCA at campaigns@organicconsumers.org.\nBig corporations are trying to stamp out organic, grass fed, natural health, alternative therapies, environmental protections \u2014 you name it. As long as we remain divided, they can conquer. By banding together, by connecting the dots between all of our crucial issues, we will prevail.\n\"If the food movement united with these other movements, they couldn't have passed the DARK Act even at the federal level. But because it was just the 30, 40 million people who were most conscientious about what they buy, that wasn't enough to scare the hell out of the politicians to do the right thing,\" Cummins says.\n\"If we're going to get involved politically, and I do think we have to, let's get involved where it makes a difference right now, which is the local level. Let's understand that what we do in the marketplace, whether it's the Bush administration, the Obama administration, the Trump administration, these people are not determining your food choices. These people are not forcing you to consume dangerous Big Pharma drugs.\nGet educated. Take control of your health. Take control of your diet. Meet up with the people in your local community who feel the same way. We can have, down the road, the kind of democracy that people have dreamed about for hundreds of years. We've never had it but it doesn't mean that we can't get it down the road.\"\nTake Control of Your Health by Making Wiser Choices\nFor the first time in two decades, the average lifespan in the U.S. has decreased, and the U.S. is the only country in the developed world where this is happening. I for one am convinced our emphasis on factory farmed foods play a major role in this decline. Moreover, if we persist with this industrial farming model, we will eventually run out of topsoil and potable water, and that day is approaching at a rapid clip. Some estimates suggest we have less than 60 years of topsoil left if we keep going as we have been.3\nWe're causing potentially irreparable environmental damage. If we destroy this infrastructure for future generations, how can they possibly grow food? This is a serious issue and I'm glad so many of you are beginning to appreciate the enormity of the problem \u2014 and are embracing the solutions. As Cummins says, your greatest power lies in your choice of spending.\nBy avoiding food not grown in accordance with regenerative measures, non-organic cotton clothing, and ethanol-infused fuel, you help cut off the lifeblood of corporations that are destroying your children and grandchildren's chance of a healthy future. When it comes to food, choose organic produce, ideally biodynamic certified organics, and look for the AGA's grass fed certification for animal products.\nThe goal of the AGA is to promote the grass fed industry through government relations, research, concept marketing and public education. Their website also allows you to search for AGA approved producers certified according to strict standards that include being raised on a diet of 100 percent forage; raised on pasture and never confined to a feedlot; never treated with antibiotics or hormones; born and raised on American family farms.\nAlso, seriously consider making a generous donation to the OCA. Your previous support has been instrumental in catalyzing major changes in the organic and health world. And, please remember that I will match your contributions dollar for dollar.\nPreviousInside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love\nNextGroundskeeper Diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Files Lawsuit over Roundup\nLeaked email reveals dietitian's murky relationship with Monsanto\nCities Hire Food Systems Experts To Address Obesity, Food Access\n'Soil is our livelihood and we better protect it, or we're screwed.'\nMonsanto Faces Class Action Suit Over Allegedly Violating Two Federal Labor Laws","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"When was this written?\nWhen it was written, it was part of a front-page story:\nMany MPs, appointed as guardians of the people's liberties, did not bother to attend the House when this measure, gravely affecting the liberty of the subject, was debated. Until the debate was ending, there were never more than fifty or sixty members in the Chamber. At times, even when vital points were being discussed, the number fell to barely thirty.\nThe answer to when it first appeared is here.\nIt's over?\nOne hundred and fourteen days of continuous blogging on a single subject, the Battle of Britain. And now that is over. The Battle officially ended on 31 October 1940 and today is the 70th anniversary of that ending. With it should come to an end an interesting experiment in what is called \"post blogging\".\nWith some prescience, however, the headline of the Daily Mirror for 1 November 1940 warns after a relatively quiet night, \"Don't think air war is over\".\nOf course, it was far from over. Coventry was still to come, in December London was to take its worst bombing to date \u2013 with worse to come - and the tragedy of Liverpool was yet to be played out. Bristol, Hull, Glasgow and many more towns and cities were to experience their own nights of terror.\nAnd for me it is far from over. The experiment has spawned a book \u2013 still in the writing - to be published in September by Continuum. It will be called \"The Many\", reflecting the fact that the Battle of Britain currently celebrated is an artificial construct. The true Battle for Britain lasted much longer and was fought by the many, not the few.\nThe task is now to add to the existing 114 blog pages, layering in more detail, honing and refining the narrative until it is clean enough to be able to \"lift\" and shape into a book structure. But it leaves me with a conundrum. Should I continue the narrative on the blog, or leave it here? I would welcome observations.\nBATTLE OF BRITAIN THREAD\nLabels: Battle of Britain\nMPs must act!\nAnd we're not referring to the Christmas panto ... although for all the use most of our gifted representatives actually are, that is all we should expect of many of them. Howsoever, as Booker explains, this \"stolen kids\" crisis has gone on long enough ... too long. It was MPs that created the mess. MPs must sort it out. They can't blame the EU. This one is entirely home grown.\nSpectacular stupidity\nDavid Cameron, according to the Press Association, has claimed a \"spectacular success\" (in our time) in pegging the EU budget rise next year to just 2.9 percent.\nBut he hasn't - and there is every possibility that the budget will end up rising by the six percent or so endorsed by the EU parliament. To claim \"victory\" at this stage is like a football manager calling for his team at half time when he is a goal down, lacks a striker, has no goalkeeper and the referee is working for the opposition.\nFar from being a \"spectacular success\", therefore, this is an example of spectacular stupidity. Or, as MEP and Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz tells The Daily Telegraph, \"The negotiations have barely begun - it is not for Mr Cameron to announce their conclusion.\" His promise is \"nonsense\" and he is \"setting himself up for a fall\".\nNow, Schulz may be a vile individual \u2013 in fact, there is no question. He is a vile individual. But, on EU parliamentary procedure, he knows what he is talking about. Cameron doesn't, as the picture shows (below right) \u2013 where he is caught describing his level of knowledge and understanding of EU institutions and their procedures.\nAnd, if you are thinking it can't be that bad, you would be right. It's actually worse. Cameron has walked into a minefield, eyes wide shut, committing an act of quite extraordinary hubris. It amounts to almost suicidal stupidity. It really is spectacular.\nHis problem is, of course, that he has no power to deliver the goods. He is not even party to the negotiations. The European Council, which he has just attended, has no jurisdiction nor locus in the annual budget negotiations.\nAll he has managed to do is get the signatures from twelve other member states on an informal letter which simply re-affirms the Council (of Ministers) \"common position\" which was agreed last August, dropping the payments figure from \u20ac130.1bn to \u20ac126.5bn. But that is simply a negotiating position, agreed by not 13 but 27 member states. That \"position\" went before the conciliation committee on 27 October, and the parties have 21 days from that date to agree on a \"joint text\".\nThe Committee, not Cameron, has the baton. If it can agree, the final budget could be approved as early as mid-November - but not before. And it would be a very rash man who predicted the outcome.\nThe procedure, however, is arcane. In the final analysis, the initiative lies with the EU parliament. Here, its position is straightforward \u2013 and powerful. Its response to the EU Commission proposal for a 5.9 percent hike \u2013 and the 5.9 percent was a Commission, not a parliament proposal \u2013 was to increase the figure from \u20ac130.1bn to \u20ac130.6bn, bringing it to about six percent. That is its negotiating position. The difference is between the Council's \u20ac126.5bn and the parliament's \u00a3130.6bn.*\nNot only is the parliament not going to accept the Council's 2.9 percent, if by some strange \u2013 and extremely unlikely \u2013 chance the Council actually stuck to its position, the parliament has a veto. It can pull the budget and force the whole procedure to start over, causing a humungous crisis in the EU, which can be laid at the door of the member states.\nThat ain't going to happen. The Council negotiating team is going to compromise on a figure somewhere between 2.9 and 6.0 percent, most likely at the higher end.\nCameron claims the letter he has got is a \"guarantee\" the rise will not be any bigger than 2.9 percent. \"What we've done is guarantee, with the support of other member states, that this is 2.9 percent,\" he says. \"They've given their word - 2.9 percent and no further. That's the word they've all given. That's the word I've given.\"\nIt is not a guarantee. The letter has no status whatsoever. His \"word\" is an empty promise. If Cameron thinks he has actually got a guarantee (or given one) - he is delusional. Moreover, his advisors should be fired. If he is listening to them, they are turning him into a laughing stock.\nEven then, Cameron's other great \"victory\" is founded on sand. This, we learn of via The Guardian which headlines: \"David Cameron secures link between EU spending and national budgets\". From now on, the strap says, \"the people who set the EU budget will have to take into account cuts that are being made at national level.\"\nThis is simply not true. What we get out the European Council Conclusions is by no means as firm as Cameron claims. Read it for yourself. It says:\nHeads of State or Government stressed that, at the same time as fiscal discipline is reinforced in the European Union, it is essential that the European Union budget and the forthcoming Multi-annual Financial Framework reflect the consolidation efforts being made by Member States to bring deficit and debt onto a more sustainable path. Respecting the role of the different institutions and the need to meet Europe's objectives, the European Council will discuss at its next meeting how to ensure that spending at the European level can make an appropriate contribution to this work.\nThe \"money quote\" is that the European Council has agreed to discuss to how the EU can make \"an appropriate contribution\" to helping national governments reduce their debt. That is all \u2013 very far short of making a firm link, or any link at all between the EU and national budgets. At best, it is simply a commitment to discuss the issue in very general terms. Cameron is vastly over-selling what he has achieved.\nAltogether then, we have a truly weird situation. Prime ministers very often grandstand at European Councils, but their posturing usually has a basis in reality. Cameron's positions have none. Effectively, he has climbed out on the most exposed limb he can find and now seems to be offering invitations to anyone who wants to saw it off.\nI do not ever recall a British politician who has displayed such a poor grasp of the issues and put himself in such a [politically] dangerous and exposed position. With neither exaggeration nor hyperbole, one can truly say that the man is plumbing new depths.\n* As the Wall Street Journal blog points out, the EU budget is also reckoned on an accrual basis. This allocates commitments to spending to specific years, regardless of when the funds are disbursed. By the payment method, the EU budget in 2010 is \u20ac122.9 billion; by the commitments method it's \u20ac141.5 billion. The council wants a 0.2% increase in commitments and parliament 1.1%.\nChamberlain pic from Anoneumouse.\nIn The Daily Telegraph (with elaboration in The Guardian), we now read that French Rafales may be using the Royal Navy carriers. You did, of course, read it here first and then here. Amazingly, after the debacle of the \"carriers with no planes\", we are now told that, trying to bridge the \"capability gap\", ministers have said the new carriers will be redesigned to have catapults to launch aircraft. That \"will allow them to carry planes like the French Rafale\". Oh, what a surprise.\nThe beans have been spilled by French defence minister Morin, who has told a \"Euronaval conference\" that: \"I've asked our military command to consider the feasibility of stationing British aircraft on our aircraft carrier and vice versa.\" He added: \"The idea is an exchange of capacity and an interdependence. It's a new approach.\"\nIs it b******s a new approach. That has been the plan all along ... even the BBC recorded it in 2003. It was picked up by The Daily Telegraph and on 4 February 2003, AFP reported that \"Britain and France will use a joint summit to announce plans for a European naval force equipped with an aircraft carrier battle group on standby at all times ... \", all under the headline \"Europe plans joint naval force\".\nAnd, of course, all this was agreed by the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council on 17 May 2004 and endorsed by the Helsinki European Council of 17 and 18 June 2004 as the Headline Goal 2010, where there was an undertaking to supply the European Rapid Reaction Force with an aircraft carrier, its associated air wing and escort. Do they think we are that stupid?\nAnyhow, us poor little dimwits are told: \"The British have decided to equip their aircraft carriers with catapults - we can have joint exercises, but also arrange to have a Rafale squadron make use of the British platform.\" The plan would give France \"a permanent presence at sea\" even when its single aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, is in dock for maintenance and cannot sail, Morin says.\nAnd so we march on to the Euro-navy. Dave the slime presides over the work of his predecessors, Blair, Major and Heath. The Royal Navy is being sold out on the altar of European political integration. A more potent symbol of integration could hardly exist, and it's all but in the bag.\nUPDATE: Reuters is reporting that Britain and France are discussing Britain's new fleet of tanker aircraft ahead of Thursday's summit on Anglo-French defence \"cooperation\". The Telegraph report also refers to the French supplying a maritime reconnaissance capability, to replace the scrapped Nimrod MR4s.\nThus does the pace of integration quicken, aided and abetted by the incompetence of the MoD \u2013 and previous Tory governments. Who was it decided on the Nimrod MR4 instead of a new-build?\nThe real irony is that, if we ditched the EU and put the money into defence, we would not \u2013 on paper at least \u2013 have the capacity shortfalls we are now experiencing. However, that discounts the MoD's gift for wasting our hard cash, which means that extra money would not necessarily yield dividends, even if money is better wasted on MoD (and new iPods for the Navy) than on EU integration.\nNevertheless, the real agenda of the Defence Review is coming clear - cut back equipment to create or intensify capacity shortfalls, which creates a need for further EU \"co-operation\" and legitimises defence integration, carefully disguised as measures to improve operational efficiency.\nRAFALE THREAD\nBack to Eu-rope\nTwo pieces from Autonomous Mind for your delectation - here and here. I haven't had a chance to read the rest of the blogs yet, but I will, and I'll post any interesting links here, during the day - such as this one ... not forgetting Cranmer. Never forget Cranmer. You would not want to do that.\nEU-ROPE THREAD\nAlmost in the realm of \"that's enough Eu-rope, ed\", we see this snippet in the Hindustan Times, with the headline: \"India, China to try and bury differences\".\nLast year, the Indian Army mobilised 40,000 troops on the Chinese border, where the two countries are more familiar with the concept of trying to bury each other. Funnily enough, I do not recall seeing any of that in the British media \u2013 but then, you don't actually expect news from that source.\nIf we really thought about it though, the idea of India and China getting together should be terrifying. Each is a formidable force on its own. If they worked together, they would be even more formidable. Fortunately, human nature being what it is, they will continue beating the shit out of each other for the foreseeable future, despite what the Hindustan headline says.\nYou're gonna be screwed\nIn any evaluation of a European Council meeting, we always have to be conscious that we have an ignorant media which cannot get its head round the fact that we are seeing the routine meeting of an institution of the European Union. It is never, therefore, going to report the proceedings intelligently or accurately. It is not capable of so doing.\nAt least, though, The Guardian has got some things right. It tells us:\nEurope is in a mess. The European Union is in trouble. Today's summit in Brussels is unlikely to do much to help. David Cameron, like his fellow leaders, can only hope to limit the damage: and even as he does so he can hear the ghoulish sound of Tory Euroscepticism rising from the grave.\nThe problem is that only four of the first five words are really spot on ... it is not \"Europe\", but the European Union. And as for Dave's little games with the EU budget, had any one of the hacks so breathlessly reporting on the issue cared to look at the agenda, they would have seen this:\nThe President of the European Council intends to restrict the agenda to the items which will actually be examined by the European Council. The conclusions of the meeting will be brief and will focus on decisions and general policies approved by the European Council.\nThat's Van Rompuy calling the shots \u2013 and the budget is not on the agenda, because it will not be (and has not been) examined by the European Council. That is for the very good reason that it is not within its jurisdiction. Hence, all the hyper-ventilation about said budget is smoke and mirrors.\nEven the BBC has the \"decency\" to mention that small fact. But that doesn't stop the hacks drafted in to cover the event turning up the volume of hyperbole, to give their equally ignorant London editors a suitable fairy tale to print in this morning's editions. This is precisely what the Daily Mail is doing. Dave \"has won the backing ... \" it warbles, complete with a picture of a suitably grim-faced Dave, walking into Justus Lipsius - and what a revolting sight that makes.\nBy such means, there is engendered a sense of theatre and drama that simply does not exist. They are - politicians and media pack alike - taking the piss, as always.\nSimilarly, the talk of a new treaty is getting lost in the miasma of ignorance which so obscures these issues. In short, if the \"colleagues\" want a new treaty, there are various defined procedures. However, there is a now confirmed tendency for those same \"colleagues\" to make the rules up as they go along, and then legitimise them afterwards.\nAnd we've now got a statement from Rompuy about how they're going to do it. Not one in a thousand who actually read the statement will fully understand it, and even less will actually care. Get your brains round this, if you are in a masochistic mood:\nFurther to the report of the task force and in order to ensure balanced and sustainable growth, heads of state and government agree on the need for member states to establish a permanent crisis mechanism to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area as a whole and invite the president of the European Council to undertake consultations with the members of the European Council on a limited treaty change required to that effect not modifying Article 125 (of the Lisbon treaty) - the no bailout clause.\nThis is \"slime talk\", otherwise known as \"Eurospeak\". You are not supposed to understand it. You just weigh it and then slice it off by the centimetre. All it says \u2013 as it always says \u2013 is \"you're gonna be screwed\". The detail doesn't matter. Stick to the high ground and you will never go wrong.\nThe only thing of even marginal interest, therefore, is precisely how and when we get screwed. We don't know that yet - or not all the details. And the media will never tell us until it's too late. Because they know so little about the EU, and understand even less, they only find out afterwards, if then. Usually, the dogs have barked, the tents are folded and the caravan has moved on to another soap opera - there are always some buried miners, or something, somewhere, to keep the proles entertained.\nSo, for the moment, after a brief flurry of interest when the media have done their best to turn the European Union into a soap opera - with as much of a London tint as they can manage - we can all go back to sleep. We can try to convince ourselves that it is really a dream we're experiencing and not a nightmare, but sooner or later, there will have to be an awakening.\nSooner or later, the people - who knows in which country and when - will rise up and start killing these bastards. That will happen, because it always does. The politicians can take the piss for so long before people get sick of it and exercise some practical vermin control. And the media won't even see it coming - they never do.\nThe Daily Mail is on the case, and this will damage the posturing fool. David Cameron, the paper says, \"has admitted defeat today in his bid to stop British taxpayers footing a multimillion-pound hike in the EU budget - prompting a new row with the Tory right.\"\n\"Despite demands the runaway bill be reined in,\" it then says, \"No10 has acknowledged it is powerless to prevent the budget soaring by at least 2.9 percent - equivalent to an extra \u00a3429million from the UK - after failing to gain support from other EU members.\" Then we learn that the rise could even be as high as 6 percent, at a time when public services in Britain are being slashed in a bid to cut the deficit.\nSo much for Cameron's big, brave words yesterday during PMQs: \"The greatest priority for Britain should be to fight very hard to get the EU budget under control. It is completely unacceptable at a time when we are making tough budget decisions here we are seeing spending rise consistently in the European Union,\" he proclaims.\nIt used to be said of people such as The Boy that they were \"all mouth and trousers\". That fits quite neatly, except one has also to take in the lack of tactical acuity. The last thing a politician should be doing is committing himself to something on which he cannot deliver.\nBut then, I've long held the view that Cameron isn't even a good politician. If he was, he would have found a way of keeping people like me on board and would have won the last election. But he can't even do that \u2013 even his own side is having problems. The man's a loser.\nBBC \"journalists\" are going to go on strike. Given the quality of their output, it is very unlikely that the average viewer\/listener will notice any difference ... or even care. I certainly won't.\nTurds-for-brains\nPossibly, he said cautiously \u2013 because it is a close-run thing \u2013 the level of blind ignorance exhibited by that moronic excuse for a prime minister is exceeded only by the destitution of the cerebrally challenged Telegraph leader writer. This is the paper that has the headline \"David Cameron softens on EU budget\", which is hard enough to believe, as the man is so soft in the head that any softer and he would melt away.\nBut for incomparable imbecility, we have as a prize specimen, the breathless statement in the leader:\nAt this week's EU summit, our most instinctively Eurosceptic Prime Minister for 20 years faces a tricky set of challenges. The easiest to bat away will be the European Parliament's risible demand for a 5.9 per cent budget increase for the Commission next year.\nThere is so much wrong here, it is difficult to know where to start. First, it ain't a summit. And no, that isn't pedantry. It is a meeting of the European Council, an institution of the European Union. The European Council does not have any jurisdiction over the budget. That is handled by the Council of Ministers. Cameron can prattle away for all he is worth - the European Council cannot interfere in the procedure, which is laid down in the treaties.\nSecond, Cameron ain't a eurosceptic, instinctive or otherwise. He is a \"One Nation\" Tory, in the manner of Heath, which makes him dyed-in-the-wool euroslime. Third, the budget is not a European Parliament \"demand\", risible or otherwise. It is an EU Commission proposal, made in accordance with the Treaty procedures.\nFourth, Cameron cannot bat it away. It is now a matter for the conciliation committee, as I explained earlier, over which he has neither jurisdiction nor control, the decision in any event being QMV, with the final arbiter the EU parliament.\nThus, no wonder Cameron is \"softening\". He has no option, because he has no power. And the turds-for-brains in the Telegraph can't even be bothered to learn the procedures before they write their unmitigated garbage. They and even darlink Hannan can't even apply their limited intellects to understanding the difference between a \"summit\" and a European Council.\nEven The Independent has more brains \u2013 a measure of how low the Cameron\/Telegraph axis has descended.\nBut when neither of them seem to have the first idea of how our government is run, there is every reason to be very angry indeed. It is fools like this who got us into this mess in the first place, and now we are having to pay for their stupidity and their venality. They treat us like fools, but they are the fools, and worse.\nWe really need to treat these malign pustules accordingly. I am sick to the back teeth of them, their posturing, their pretences, their vanity and the ease with which they feel they can take the piss and get away with it. At a time when they have the unmitigated gall to call for austerity, these ocean-going d***heads are lumbering us with even more expense.\nThe only thing wrong here would be to say that shooting is too good for them. And that's because shooting is too good for them. Something much slower, and altogether more painful is called for.\nThen you have dear little Norm wittering on about avoiding \"Vichy-style\" surrenders. He means well does our Norm, but he really doesn't get it. Oddly enough, Petain's final surrender to Hitler came almost exactly 70 years ago, but he surrendered because he had to. Cameron will surrender because he wants to. The approval of the \"colleagues\" means much more to him than the approval of the British people.\n\"Quislings\" is probably better than \"Vichy\", says Autonomous Mind. He adds:\nCameron and his vichy Conservatives like to wrap themselves in the flag and waffle at length about patriotism. The problem is the flag is blue with gold stars that their loyalty is to Brussels rather than the people they are supposed to serve. As a result we are bound into a bloc devoid of democratic legitimacy or oversight and powerless to for as long as we remain part of it. We should feel nothing less than furious contempt for these sickening creatures who have dragged us into this situation and are working hard behind the scenes to keep us there.\n\"Furious contempt\" is a phrase I like. It doesn't get close to the black hatred I have for these slime. But it'll do for the moment.\nPeople don't like bird choppers. More than 230 separate local campaign groups against wind farms are operating across the UK, from Scotland and Kent to Norfolk, Yorkshire and Cornwall. These groups are scoring striking successes in defeating planned wind farms \u2013 even when faced with the weight of official recommendations.\nThis is Oliver Wright, the paper's \"Whitehall Editor\" \u2013 whatever that is. Note his incredulous tone: \" ... even when faced with the weight of official recommendations\". The Independent should listen to itself. \"Official recommendations ... \". Hmmmm.\nAnyhow, in the last 12 months to September, there has been a 50 percent drop in planning approvals in England, and approvals for wind farms in Scotland have also fallen. The number of new wind farms coming \"on-stream\" (becoming active) has also fallen by 30 per cent \u2013 partly as a result of the recession.\nAnd shock, horror! The figures are revealed in a report on the state of the industry \"cast doubt on the ability of the Government to reach its target of generating 20 percent of all our energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.\" This is followed by: \"Changes to planning laws due to be announced later this year are expected to make it harder still to get planning permission.\"\nYou can detect the growing hysteria in the tone when Wright says, \"Campaigners say that although wind farms maybe needed to combat global warming, the turbines \u2013 often as tall as the London Eye - are an eyesore in some of the most beautiful parts of the country\". These (terrible) Campaigners say that they are \" unacceptably noisy and can decimate local bird population. They suggest that all new wind farms should be built off-shore.\"\nAnd against that, we get \"environmentalists and industry experts\". They say this is unrealistic. The time needed to build off-shore wind farms can be up to seven years, they are more expensive and the technology is still a relatively immature. If Britain is to meet its renewable targets, they say, it is vital that onshore wind farms continue to be built at a significant rate well into the 2020s.\nSo the Wright stuff laments: \"The situation is typified by instances such as those in North Yorkshire, where local politicians recently vetoed plans to build seven turbines in the face of official advice that they should go-ahead after a concerted local campaign.\" Gosh! How bad can this get? Local politicians reject \"official advice\"! The world is coming to an end.\nPoor Mr Wright. One can feel his pain.\nStuffed warmists\nAn interesting development here with the launch of a campaign, ostensibly to overturn the Cleggeron \"green\" targets. Amongst other things, they are putting tests to the warmists, challenging them to prove ten points. Interestingly, one of those they want the warmists to prove is: \"Data recorded by ground-based stations are a reliable indicator of global surface temperature trends\".\nActually, I think we've all missed a trick here. How can atmospheric temperature ever be suitable for measuring global warming \u2013 i.e., increase in global heat? That is rather like putting a dipstick in your car tank, in order to measure the amount in the tank at your local petrol station.\nThe point, of course, is that temperature is only a proxy for heat if you are measuring a known, stable quantity. And since air only holds a fraction of the heat held by the oceans \u2013 and we have no reliable way of determining the average temperature of the global water mass, we have no way of calculating the total heat - much less the degree to which it has changed.\nThat alone rather stuffs the warmists, although such niceties will hardly bother them. This has never been about science.\n\"My point is that when governments go looking for solutions to problems, they frequently end up creating new ones. Biofuels, which cost a bomb, are sending food prices through the roof, and far from benefiting the environment seem to damage it even further, are a case in point.\"\nSo says Jeremy Warner. Or, as North Jr says, \"without a grounding philosophy, all government is whack-a-mole\".\n\"The growing toxicity of their attitude\"\nHeffer, it seems, is tapping into the same mood that we're detecting. The Westminster slime, with their comfortable salaries and pensions, secure behind their concrete barriers and machine-gun toting cops, still haven't got it. But out in the country, there is a mood. You can touch it, feel it, cut it with a knife. It is there and it is growing.\nForget the Kermits. Les Anglais en ont assez.\nNo-win, no-fee deals are to be scrapped under a radical shake-up of the courts to stop \"ambulance-chasing\" lawyers from cashing in on frivolous cases.\nJustice Secretary Ken Clarke announced yesterday that he will scrap lucrative success fees which allow lawyers to double their bill at the expense of the person or organisation that loses the case.\nBut it isn't only ambulance chasers. It was also libel chancers, like Rajendra Pachauri, who exploited the system in order to conceal his lies.\nThe gravy train is running into the buffers now ... too late \u2013 and oddly, it will prevent me having a go at Moonbat, unless I can sneak in before the barrier drops. The PCC rules today on Amazongate and I should hear within a day or so. I am not confident, but it will be interesting to see how they rule.\nSick bag time\nSad news from France, via AFP is that the Kermits' strike seems to be running out of steam. They can't even run a decent revolution these days. Interesting though, how the banners are in UKIP colours.\nThe French parliament is expected to pass Sarkozy's unpopular pensions reform bill tomorrow and finance minister Christine Lagarde hails what she says is \"a return to reason and dialogue.\" The union leaders, who have been leading the strikes and street rallies, admit they will now have to change tactics. They will \"work to modify the final form of the reform rather than defeat it on the streets.\" Yeah, right.\nAs to the sick bag, listen to Marland if your stomach is strong enough - and note the dismissive reference to Christopher Booker. Then you get this sort of thing, where drought is highlighted in the Amazon, ignoring the earlier record rainfall. This is Nazi-style propaganda. But then, censorship comes easy to these people.\nDenis Cooper, meantime, is amused by the report that Merkel wants a new EU treaty to put the eurozone bailouts on a \"legally watertight treaty basis.\"\nThe main purpose of a new treaty, he says, would be retrospectively to legitimise bailout schemes which have been set up in flagrant breach of the present treaties. Saying that they need a \"watertight\" legal basis would be rather like saying that your boat is a bit leaky and needs some caulking when in reality it has capsized and it is now resting upside down on the bottom.\nA letter to that effect has gone into The Guardian, but don't hold your breath. Meanwhile, one has to concur with the Independent's view of David Cameron, even if for wholly different reasons ... frame that cartoon in the context of the EU and you've got it in one.\nVery much in the techie area, we have Mervyn King , governor at the Bank of England, saying that \"Basel III will not prevent another [banking] crisis\".\nFor those of us who believe that Basel II caused the crisis in the first place, this is not hard to believe. But what is sad and dangerous is that we are even allowing that failed component of world government to have another go at destroying the global economy. These people are just as dangerous as the \"colleagues\" - all the more so for being virtually invisible.\nElsewhere, Moonbat deigns to tell us what \"Astroturfing\" is. I suspect he's only just found out. \"Nothing is real any more. Nothing is as it seems,\" he complains.\nFrom his description of Astroturfing, though, he could just as easily be talking about the warmist movement. But then, according to Steve Goddard, The Guardian is getting rather worried about foreign influence in the US elections, while conveniently forgetting its own input in the last lot.\nAnd as far as \"quotes of the day\" go, this one is probably unbeatable. It could describe so many people. In due course, it probably will.\nNever let it be said, by the way, that we are solely the purveyor of bad news. According to the BBC, a wind turbine manufacturer which received \u00a310m from the Scottish government to safeguard jobs has gone bust. The Danish company Skykon, which took over the Vestas wind turbine factory in Kintyre last year, has announced it is suspending payments to its creditors.\nA total of 120 people are employed at the site just outside Campbeltown. In a statement Skykon said the company was in a very \"cash-strapped situation.\" The Scottish government's financial backing was intended to safeguard 100 jobs at the factory and create 300 more. But, when the company actually names itself, Sky Kon, why is anyone surprised. But you have to love the slogan ... \"part of the solution\". Indeed.\nPart of that solution also is the Danish firm Vestas, the world's largest wind turbine manufacturer. It is to axe 3,000 jobs and shut some plants to adjust to weaker demand. The heart bleeds.\nDo not laugh too loudly though. This website argues that certain types of climate scepticism are \"crimes against humanity\". It also asks whether US companies are guilty of a new kind of vicious crime against humanity that the world has yet to classify.\nThe author is Donald A Brown, from PennState \u2013 home of Michael Mann. And there is more here as Hansen warms to the theme (pictured above). The heads of oil and coal companies who knowingly delayed action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions were committing a crime. \"These CEOs, these captains of industry,\" said Hansen during a briefing on Capitol Hill, \"in my opinion, if they don't change their tactics they're guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.\"\nReturning to Donald A Brown one notes his comment tha: \" ... the longer one waits to take action, the more difficultt it is to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of climate change (sic) at safe levels.\" A correspondent reminds me that to become an \"Associate\" Professor you need no PhD or brains as the Associate could be the Professor's mistress, secretary, student, cleaning lady or his dog.\nThat reminds our correspondent of our secret wish in the company he worked for - to use the fast growing species of lawyers for toxicology testing rather than rats and rabbits. Who could disagree with that?\nWith all that, if you are short of something to read, there is always Mary Ellen Synon on the EU and its latest interference in our \"justice\" system. If you are short of time, I would recommend Mary Ellen Synon. Failing that, there is always Mary Ellen Synon. And yes, all three links are the same as this one to Mary Ellen Synon.\nAnd some final thoughts before I get back to the Battle of Britain, where it is Day 109. The cotton crop in China is under threat after a spate of cold weather, and parts of Britain have suffered their coldest October night for 17 years. Says the article: \"Britain has experienced some of its coldest temperatures in recent years. January 2010 was the coldest for 23 years after much of the country was engulfed in snow.\" The pic is Lake Derwent Water.\nFunny how we \"suffer\" cold and \"enjoy\" warmth. So global warming is bad because ... ?\nThe rubbish weapon\nTo admit to anything other than savage delight at the incontinence of the Kermits would make me a liar \u2013 not that one has anything against the breed. But as long as we are locked into the EU, with their government able to influence and direct ours, we wish them nothing but harm. If the situation was different and we were independent nations, my attitude would be very different.\nBut what is fascinating about the turmoil \u2013 apart from the huge costs of the strikes, at \u20ac400m (\u00a3355m) each day \u2013 is the use of the rubbish weapon. Workers \u2013 or non-workers, to be more accurate - are blocking waste incinerators as a tactic to maximise pressure on the government.\nThus, almost 9,000 tons of rotting piles of rubbish are becoming a health hazard in Marseilles, which has been hit hard on land and at sea. Striking dockers at France's largest port are also intermittently blocking ships trying to unload fuel and, although that part of the protest appears to be weakening, the rubbish strike is holding.\nNon-workers at a Paris waste incineration plant, in their fifth day of a strike, were catching up with colleagues who have let rubbish pile up in Marseilles, France's second-largest city, giving the capital a more than usually intense bouquet. It now smells like its government.\nMultisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com\nThat, it seems, is what is behind the rubbish crisis in Naples - as the video explains. Local politicians and other rent-seekers, have been using the issue as a weapon with which to attack Berlusconi and embarrass him \u2013 caring little for the local environment or the needs of the much put-upon people.\nNone of these problems could arise, however, if systems were kept on a small scale and maintained locally. It is the gigantism, encouraged by the EU and its legislation, which is the root of the problem. But an even bigger problem is that people for too long have relied on others to take charge of their affairs. It is time they \u2013 all of us \u2013 took back control.\nCome the revolution, though, one of the key targets becomes pretty obvious. Prevent the refuse collection fleet from operating and civilisation as we know it very quickly grinds to a halt.\nNo puzzle!\nYou have to smile, even if it is through gritted teeth, at the confusion of The Daily Telegraph.\nThe poor darlings have turned to Michael Barone to tell them why American voters have gone so sour on Barack Obama's Democratic party. \"It's a question that must puzzle many in Britain who \u2013 Conservative as well as Labour and Lib Dem \u2013 welcomed Obama's election two years ago and saw him leading America and the world into broad, sunlit uplands,\" he says.\nWell, Mr Barone, it doesn't puzzle us, either readers or writer of this blog. And there is more to it than you seem to have worked out. We are not seeing politics here, but anti-politics. The rhetoric is changing and you need to catch up.\nWhat is interesting, though, is how little of this applies to the UK. Here, in a one party state, the electoral system does not work \u2013 not that it really ever did. The politicians have screwed down the safety valve and there is nowhere for pressure to escape. The result, of course, will be \"violent revolution Paris or Petrograd style\" that Barone says \"would not come to Britain or America.\"\nIt's coming ... it will just take a little time.\nNot even close\nGreg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC, believes the public service broadcaster has damaged its standing at home and abroad with a series of self-inflicted wounds. Thus, we are told, Dyke \"accepted some of the blame in an interview with the Observer\".\nHe says - or so we are told - that \"the BBC's fraught relations with government and the huge sums it has paid to top management and stars such as Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton had dented confidence in a media network that should be the envy of the world.\"\n\"The great strength of the BBC was how highly it was valued by the public; and government should recognise what a huge asset it is. But the problem with salaries started around 2005 and 2006 and was allowed to go on too long,\" he says.\nThe trouble is, this does not even begin to touch the depths of the malaise. There is so much wrong with the BBC \u2013 as just a glance at Biased BBC, which uses the above word cloud to illustrate the latest BBC view, would indicate - that you do not know where to start.\nWhat particularly struck a chord recently was this fine piece of writing:\nI'm getting bored with keeping track of BBC greenie\/environment\/climate alarmism nonsense - there are so many stories, so much rubbish, so many inane, insane claims, that each report I file here is looking and sounding like more of the same. Black, Harrabin (though he has been keeping a low profile of late) Kinver & co seem to be under instructions to provide a torrent of one-sided propaganda, so much so that I have no doubt that this is being coordinated. They are like the Terminator androids, capable of self-repairing and continuing with their pre-programmed, lunatic mission no matter what happens.\nAnd then writes Robin Horbury:\nNothing will stop it. It's daily, it's there, it's relentless, it's a campaign to indoctrinate us. I have come to see the BBC as a gigantic Trabant, trundling on but oblivious to the parody it has become. Yet the stuff it spews out is dangerous. Our political class and our schoolkids are totally on board (as the normally mild-mannered Harmless Sky blog testifies today). It's a religion of divisiveness, of fascism and of hate (towards the human race); every bit as loathsome and cynical as Nazism.\nOne wonders, therefore, why Dyke a thinks that the BBC \"should be the envy of the world.\" But then, that is also part of its world view. Despite that, though, the BBC has never had the reputation for itself that it has claimed (or believes it should have). It has always been low-grade, self-opinionated, ignorant and biased, with only the very occasional programme shining out like a beacon from the mountain of dross.\nBut then, if you are a propaganda outfit, your first priority is self-propaganda \u2013 seeking to convince the world that you are as good as your own estimation of yourself. To this task, the BBC devotes an extraordinary amount of effort and, by and large, it succeeds. And assailed by the sheer repetition, there is no end of muppets out there which still believes the BBC is a \"good thing\".\nDyke, though - as you would expect - is just another propagandist. No wonder his words find a comfortable home in the Observer. In getting to the roots of the inadequacies of the BBC, he is not even close.\nThose enless \"cuts\"\nWhen we were working on a headline for Booker's column, I ventured that there might be an \"n\" missing from it somewhere. Sadly though, this is a family column so the headline went unamended.\nOnly in polite society, therefore, was the most overworked word of the week the enless \"cuts\" - although the ineffable \"fair\" was never far behind, says Booker. George Osborne may have been hailed by one newspaper front page as the \"man who rolled back the state\" as he \"reverses 60 years of recklessly rising public spending\" \u2013 but of course last week's supposed curb on state expenditure was nothing of the kind.\nPicking up on page 17 of the Treasury statement, we see that, far from cutting Government spending, Osborne's own projections show that over the next four years it will continue remorselessly upwards, by larger jumps each year, from \u00a3696 billion to \u00a3739 billion.\nThus, for all the dramatic talk of 25 or even 35 percent cuts in the spending of some departments, such as the Foreign Office and the Home Office, these are more than offset by massive percentage increases in those areas of spending which top the list.\nThis much you've all read before on the blog, but it can't be repeated often enough.\nAnd the increase which has rightly drawn most flak is the colossal 47 percent jump in our spending on overseas aid, due to rise from \u00a37.8 billion to \u00a311.5 billion. This includes, for instance, a further rise in the \u00a3800 million a year we already donate to India, one of the world's fastest growing economies.\nThis will be spent, inter alia, on promoting gender equality, assisting the Indians with their space programme, and of course on climate change (such as the \u00a310 million free gift the Department For International Development is making to Pachauri's TERI).\nThis includes, however, only a part of the \u00a32.9 billion that will be spent, along with the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), as part of an EU scheme \"to help developing countries pursue low-carbon growth and adapt to climate change\". DEFRA and DIFID are also throwing dosh at this fund.\nWhat I didn't realise is that the Jungle Bunny Carbon Fund is an EU-mandated scam so this \u00a32.9 billion is another consequence of our membership of this delightful club. So, while grannies will be blocking up the hospital system, the Bunnies will be getting rich the proceeds of our taxes.\nThe money itself is a hefty part of the 27 percent rise in the DECC budget over the next four years. A good case could be made that almost all spending on overseas aid and climate change is money chucked down the drain.\nBooker's favourite politically correct DFID project was building a Ferris wheel for the female inhabitants of the Afghan town of Lashkar Gah. I asked Dannatt about it, and he hadn't heard of it! That's one of the advantages of being there, I suppose.\nAnyhow, another item \u2013 which, intriguingly, Osborne completely omitted from his statement, though it would be fourth on the list of fast-rising items of public expenditure \u2013 is the \u00a316 billion a year we already contribute to \"EU institutions\". This will be boosted by the EU Parliament's decision, last week, that the EU Budget should rise by a further 6 percent.\nBut all these increases are dwarfed by what is now by far the greatest drain on taxpayers' money \u2013 the skyrocketing interest we pay on the debt run up as the cost of Gordon Brown's years of reckless overspending. This runs to about \u00a3190 billion in four year's time, making it by far the largest single item of public expenditure.\nEven at today's low interest rates, servicing this debt would then be costing us the equivalent of \u00a360 a week for each household in the land. But, if rising inflation eventually necessitates a doubling or trebling of rates, the cost in a few years' time could be unthinkable.\nIt is not implausible, says Booker, to project that simply paying interest on our debt might cost as much as our entire current annual government spending. That will be the true price of Gordon Brown's crazed boast in 1998 that he intended to all but double Government spending within 10 years \u2013 and why he will be remembered as the most disastrous manager of the public finances in our history.\nBut behind him is the Cameron-Osborne duo who, given the chance to reduce public spending, have completely fluffed the exercise. Instead, they have managed the perfect storm, putting up taxes, putting up expenditure, cutting services and essentials like defence, and increasing wastage on unnecessary projects.\nYou have to be real political geniuses to do that ... yet this pair have managed it.\nCameron is pledging that he will block the six percent rise in the EU budget which is set to cost us an extra \u00a3900 million this year. Can he do that? Well ... the short answer is no. Only the EU parliament can do that. And the long answer? That is here in the consolidated treaties as amended by Lisbon \u2013 Article 314.\nBasically, what happens is that the Council looks at the proposed budget and agrees a \"common position\". This is Cameron's first hurdle. If he wants to block the budget, then he has to get a majority on the Council under the QMV procedures.\nSupposing by some miracle he get his majority ... not that he will ... the next move is up to the EU parliament. The Council decision is put to the parliament, which decides whether to agree with it. If not \u2013 which would be the case - it draws up amendments and forwards them to the Council.\nA conciliation committee is then formed to hammer out a joint text. This must be approved by the committee, the Council component by QMV, the parliament by a majority. But then comes the killer:\nIf the European Parliament approves the joint text whilst the Council rejects it, the European Parliament may, within fourteen days from the date of the rejection by the Council and acting by a majority of its component members and three-fifths of the votes cast, decide to confirm all or some of the amendments referred to in paragraph 4(c). Where a European Parliament amendment is not confirmed, the position agreed in the Conciliation Committee on the budget heading which is the subject of the amendment shall be retained. The budget shall be deemed to be definitively adopted on this basis.\nIn other words, if the conciliation committee comprising the parliament and the council (the latter acting under QMV) agree the budget, even if the full council then rejects it, the parliament's vote is decisive. It can still approve the budget, without the approval of the 27 member states - of which the UK is but one.\nBasically, the power has shifted to the EU parliament, through the Lisbon treaty ... the one Cameron wouldn't give us a referendum on. It is very difficult for the Council to block the budget. As for any member state, without a supporting majority on the council, and again on the conciliation committee, that cannot be done. So, without the support of the other member states, there is nothing Cameron can do.\nBut then, in the small print, Cameron is not saying he will block the budget. He is actually saying he will \"lead a rebellion\" against the budget increase. He can \"lead\", but it is unlikely that any \u2013 or enough \u2013 will follow. Therefore, this, as always from the Boy Dave, is so much hot air. The \"rebellion\" will fail, but he can say he tried, knowing all along that any attempts will fail.\nWhen you think about it though, it is more than \"hot air\". The boy child is taking the piss again. His advisers must have told him the chances of stopping the increase are nil. So he is concocting this elaborate little charade, so he can prance around looking as if he is doing something. But even the muppets on Tory Diary seem to have got that point.\nAnd then they wonder why we look at their posturing with nothing other than undisguised contempt.\nOur partners in government\nIf anything can be taken to define the \"European\" experience, it is this amazing confrontation over the rubbish of Naples. Over this one issue, we have Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowing to put a stop to an ongoing dispute over whether to build another dump in a national park near Naples, after violent clashes between police and protesters.\nAs the rubbish piles up in Italy's third-largest city, Naples, and at least 20 police offers were injured in violent clashes with protestors. Thus is Berlusconi forced to say: \"We expect that within 10 days, the situation in Terzigno can return to normal.\" And this at a news conference in Rome after an emergency meeting - about rubbish? He needs an emergency meeting about rubbish?\nWhat has triggered this is the government's plans to build a new dump in Terzigno, which is located 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Naples in Vesuvius National Park. This has for years met with fierce opposition by locals, who have repeatedly blocked access to the existing waste disposal site there. Then, on Thursday, police confronted around 2,000 demonstrators, who threw stones, marbles and firecrackers and used tree trunks to block access to the dump.\nBerlusconi also announced he would release \u20ac14 million ($20 million) to modernize the existing facility, which the protesters say is overflowing and causing health problems.\nThe bigger problem, however, is that the site is overflowing with Camorra, the Naples version of the Mafia, who have taken control of waste management in the region. And while the current report refers to the crisis being a major issue for the Italian government for several years, with Berlusconi declaring a national disaster in 2008 \u2013 which is when we picked it up, also charting EU involvement - the problem goes back over 14 years. And still the Italians can't sort it out.\nDespite this, as we noted in 2008, Italy is a member of the EU. It is charged with running the government of Europe, through the European Council and other institutions, alongside our own government. Yet you have a government which can't even sort out its own rubbish problems, and it is telling us, the British people, how to run our affairs.\nIn a way though, the experience is a more than adequate symbol of Europe \u2013 an expensive pile of festering rubbish, mired in corruption, surrounded by inept and impotent politicians, which is managing to piss of the local population so much that they are driven to rioting. We should be so proud to belong to such an exclusive club - and hope to share in the end game some time soon.\nGetting there ... slowly\nThanks to Gordon Brown's profligacy, says Charles Moore, the public is about to have to pay more tax for fewer services. But the cost of green policies, he says, does not feature much in the latest debates, because most of it comes not through taxes, but through electricity bills.\nIt is programmed to rise. This year, the total levy adds \u00a36 billion to our household and business bills. In 2015, it will be \u00a310 billion; in 2020, \u00a316 billion (which equals 4 pence on the basic rate of income tax today).\nFor the Government, Moore notes, and the generators, this is a beautiful way of doing things, because they get their money effortlessly. So it is ugly for you and me. We pay for the renewable obligation subsidies, we fund the Feed-in Tariff. We pay more and more for sources of energy which will not reward us with cost reductions for at least a generation.\nFor years, governments have gone on about the wickedness of \"fuel poverty\". Today, 4.6 million households are officially defined as living in it. The prevailing policies make it inevitable that fuel poverty will rise for as far as the eye can see. By 2020, our energy prices will be between 30 and 40 per cent higher than they would have been without them.\nAnd so on. We are getting there, slowly ... but it is so slow.\nIt is not for me to intrude on private grief, but what the hell is going on in Tower Hamlets?\nJoy in Heaven\nSales of new electric cars in the UK plummeted by nearly 90 percent in 2009 compared with their peak in 2007, according to motoring trade association figures released this week. These tidings are brought to us by The Guardian, which tells us that just 55 of the \"green\" cars \u2013 whose fans include Boris Johnson, Jonathan Ross and Jade Jagger \u2013 were registered in 2009. That compares with 397 in 2007.\nThis is on the eve of the start of the government scheme to offer a subsidy of \u00a35,000 to any idiot stupid enough to buy one of these machines - so it is possible that we will see an uptick next year. There is one born every minute, they say, and most are coloured green.\nOne of those is obviously Richard Dyer, transport campaigner at Friends of the Earth. He says: \"The number of electric car sales are certainly disappointing. It could well be down to the recession, and the fact that they are priced at a premium over normal cars. But the government grant in January should mean a change in the fortunes of electric cars.\"\nSomehow, I doubt it. Electric models which will be available include the \u00a328,900 four-seater Mitsubishi iMiEV, a right-hand drive version of the unpriced Norwegian-made Th!nk City and the \u00a328,350 Nissan Leaf, which Nissan claims is \"the first mass-market electric car\".\nBut with the prices of the Ford Focus starting at \u00a312,731.91 (and hefty discounts available), Dyer is dreaming if he thinks the Great British Public are going to fall in love with his electric crappo. Five grand doesn't even dent the difference.\nIt's the morning after\n... Trafalgar Day. So the Royal Navy celebrates by grounding a \u00a31.2 billion nuclear submarine. Here's one theory as to why it happened. My theory is that the navigator was distracted by trying to change the battery on her iPod. It's a little bit worrying, though, that we're going to buy even bigger boats for them. Perhaps it's just as well we're not buying aeroplanes as well and instead donating the money to the jungle bunny carbon fund.\n... it's the earliest snowfall in Bergen, Norway, for 37 years or, as the Norwegians like to say: Tidligste sn\u00f8fall p\u00e5 37 \u00e5r i Bergen. And those unutterable morons Clegg and Cameron are donating \u00a32.9 billion of our money to the jungle bunny carbon fund? Doh!\nWell, the Daily Mail is on the case, telling us that Boy Dave and his ghastly sidekick Clegg, \"felt the full force of public anger over huge increases in the international aid budget - as it emerged the move will cost every family in Britain almost \u00a3500 a year.\"\nCall me Dave was \"forced on to the defensive over the controversial decision to lavish billions of pounds of taxpayers' money on foreign aid at a time when services at home are facing unprecedented cuts.\" A member of the public confronted him over the issue at a public meeting in Nottingham yesterday, telling him: \"Charity should begin at home.\"\nCertainly, she ain't far wrong, but forgot to point out to this dire pair that they are seriously, decidedly and absolutely barking mad ... so far off their trolley, the damn thing is still iron ore in the ground. They have totally and completely lost it.\nThink of all the heart-searching on the carriers and the Navy cuts and these f***wits are giving \u00a32.9 billion to their jungle bunny carbon fund - the international climate finance \"to help developing countries pursue low carbon growth and adapt to the impact of climate change,\" and then increasing the already over-generous foreign aid bill by \u00a33.7 billion.\nMeanwhile (pictured) Clegg is giving dancing lessons to earn a spare bob or two \u2013 the only useful thing he will do this year. One would like to think he has assumed the position to relieve the pain from having his own brains shoved up his backside \u2013 although they are small he would hardly notice, I suppose.\nCOMMENT: CUTS THREAD\nDem cuts\nAccording to a TPA briefing, \"one reason why cuts are needed is that debt interest payments are set to rise substantially in the coming years.\"\nThe total cost of servicing debt interest, plus unfunded pensions and PFI will be even greater, as shown by the graph (produced by former Treasury and City economist Mike Denham).\nBy my reckoning, between this financial year and 2014-15, these liabilities increase by about \u00a360bn. By then, however, the Cleggerons are only increasing annual public expenditure by \u00a343bn \u2013 giving a deficit of \u00a317bn on that year.\nHowever, it seems that the cumulative shortfall over the period is about \u00a3130bn, whereas the cumulative increase in expenditure is about \u00a390bn. That leaves a \u00a340bn deficit, plus whatever departmental increases are given, such as to DFID and DECC - bringing the total deficit to about \u00a350bn - which must be cut from the other departments in order to make the books balance.\nIn terms of the departmental increases, one item we are looking at is the \u00a32.9 billion to DECC for international climate finance \"to help developing countries pursue low carbon growth and adapt to the impact of climate change.\" Under the current regime, the only way this can be afforded is to claw it from the health, defence and other departmental budgets.\nThe same applies to the \u00a33.7 BILLION increase to DFID for foreign aid \u2013 assisting the Indians to develop their space programme \u2013 which will also have to be clawed from health, defence, etc. That's \u00a36.6bn which has to be withheld from hospitals, schools, police, roads, etc., etc.\nThus, as it stands, the premise that there are no expenditure cuts survives. Year-on-year, public expenditure increases. So what we have is a re-ordering of the budget to fund debt, pensions and the increases in the DECC and DFID budgets, amongst others. In effect, services are being cut because total public spending is not being increased to fund current service levels, the increases in current liabilities and Cleggeron spending priorities.\nWhat this amounts to, therefore, is that we are going to have to pay more to get considerably less, as services get cut to make the books balance. But don't anyone pretend that overall expenditure is being cut. It isn't. Jeff Randall agrees, but you read it here first.\nSurely they can't all be wrong\n... about the cuts? If all the newspapers agree, there must be some truth in it?\nThe answer, of course, is yes - they can all be wrong, and often have been. And just because all the newspapers agree on something that is wrong does not make it right.\nA classic example is this headline on The Daily Express from 16 September 1940, which records the air fighting from the previous day \u2013 a day which was to be celebrated as \"Battle of Britain Day\".\nThe RAF is finally to claim 185 enemy aircraft shot down, so this early edition of the paper misses that and comes out with a \"mere\" 175. All the papers follow suit, faithfully recording the official claim \u2013 in its manifest variations.\nAfter the war, when there is a chance to check the records from both sides, the actual \"kill\" is downgraded to 55, as against 27 aircraft lost by the RAF. This is a real enough victory, but so ludicrously high are the claims that they simply invite distrust (which was very much the case at the time).\nThe newspapers had some excuse for getting it wrong then \u2013 it was wartime. But it does underline the fact that newspapers do not actually report news. Largely, they report what they are told by some official source, or some other source they consider to be reliable or convenient, and represent it as fact.\nThe fact that they all do it, and all get it wrong, simply suggests that \"consensus\" as a measure is one of your least reliable criteria. That was true then, and it is just as true now.\nFor the avoidance of doubt\nThere are no cuts. I say again, there are no cuts. What the Cleggerons are talking about is a reduction in the rate of increase in public expenditure as compared with the June budget. This is helpfully summarised here (see left) and the source is here.\nYou will see that the current financial year expenditure is \u00a3696.8 billion. By 2014-15, the projected expenditure was to rise to \u00a3757.5 billion. Little George is now proposing that this increase is limited \u00a3739.8 billion. This now becomes a 17.7 percent \"cut\", albeit that expenditure is still increasing.\nThus, the language of public expenditure has been redefined. A reduction in the rate of increase is deemed to be a \"cut\". In fact, by 2014-15, annual expenditure will have increased by \u00a343 billion, up 6.2 percent (not nine, as originally stated). By such sophistry, \"cuts\" are not actual reductions. They are lower than projected rates of increase.\nTo prove this, straight from the horse's mouth, page 17 of the full Treasury report (para 1.15) states:\nEven after these spending cuts, total public spending (Total Managed Expenditure) in 2014-15 will be higher in real terms than in 2008-09. At 41 per cent of GDP, this will be around the same level of public spending as in 2006-07. Spending on public services in 2014-15 will be higher than 2006-07 levels in real terms.\nRepeat after me: \"total public spending (Total Managed Expenditure) in 2014-15 will be higher in real terms than in 2008-09\". How do they get away with this? \"Even after these spending cuts, total public spending ... will be higher \". By any real world definition, these cannot be cuts.\nBut now the spin machine goes into action. To disguise the fact that, in most of the public sector (such as defence) spending is to increase (mainly to service debt and unfunded pensions), officials \u2013 elected and appointed \u2013 are now going through the elaborate charade of cutting back highly visible public services, including schools, libraries and police patrols.\nWith the connivance of the media and the unions, the public is thus gulled into believing that expenditure is being cut. By this means, they hope to divert complaints about the progressive deterioration in public services, as the unproductive \"tail\" gradually eats up a greater and greater share of the funds.\nNevertheless, as we are overwhelmed by the media gush of ill-informed laments about \"cuts\", we need to hold onto reality and keep stating: \"total public spending (Total Managed Expenditure) in 2014-15 will be higher in real terms than in 2008-09\". There are no \"cuts\". They are an illusion.\nSlime warning\nIt's always the next day that gets you, although sometimes the day after as well \u2013 and that's the downside of going up to the \"smoke\". With the \"cuts\" dominating the news, though, this day can't come to an end quick enough, as we tire of reminding ourselves that there are no cuts. Public expenditure is set to rise by nine percent over the next five years.\nThis, though, is the new language of public expenditure. Year-on-year, it rises and, when the administration trims back the expected rise to a figure less than initially demanded, this is defined as a \"cut\". And, of course, our gifted officials make sure that this is accompanied by highly visible deterioration in public services, while salaries for the privileged classes continue onwards and upwards.\nBut then, so do our EU contributions and foreign aid. The grotesquely wasteful Olympics emerge virtually unscathed, while the \"colleagues\" do their best to undermine our productive base and cripple our economy.\nI've asked it before, but it loses none of its force with repetition \u2013 and the reason we should not rise up and slaughter them is? The day comes closer to when it ceases to be a question and becomes an instruction.\nNot long in coming\nBritain was hit by freezing temperatures today as the first blizzards of the season hit the north. Overnight and during rush hour this morning much of the north of Scotland and parts of Yorkshire were hit by wintry conditions forcing drivers to slow to a crawl.\nBut, says The Daily Mail, forecasters are not predicting a prolonged early cold snap with temperatures set to climb back to the seasonal average by the weekend.\nThat is as maybe. It is only October and we have a long winter ahead. Even ooop North, in the frozen wastelands of Yorkshire where the sun never shines and they all have funny accents, to get snow at this time of year is not that common.\nAlready, though, we can say with confidence, \"global warming\" is on probations. A heavy drop of the white stuff will confine it to the dustbin.\nWell, what a surprise\nAn evening with defence\nHeath in our time\nRe-establish the connection\nThe ultimate solution?\nHistorical tides\nThe revolting revolt\nKill off the wrinklies\nIt is a ...?\nBlowing cold and hot\nSpectator debate\nBonfire or damp squib?\nPachy stays\nPolitical theatre\nWhat will the warmists do?\nAn MSM riposte to Marr\nThe price of knowledge\nLittle news\nLook in the archives Mr Johnston\nA certain lack of proportion\nIt's still there\nSavagely vindicated ... again\nDeeply, darkly depressing\nAnd the latest parody is\nDellers calls out Moonbat\nLinkies\nO2 - false alarm\nHas O2 withdrawn?\nSay No to O2\nSplattergate - O2\nSplattergate - parody wars\nContinuing a trend\nSplattergate: Franny 1- Muslim parody 3 plus one\nVintage Dellers!\nSplattergate \u2013 O2 \"I hope things gets sort out soo...\nSplattergate: Eat your heart out Franny\nSplattergate: O2 customer relations\nStacking up for cold\nSplattergate \u2013 rare pics\nSplattergate: a million up\nSplattergate: \"too urgent not to use it\"\nSplattergate: Morano on Fox\nSplattergate: Team stupid\nSplattergate - they don't like it up 'em\nSplattergate - Epic WIN!\nSplattergate: the fear machine\nSplattergate \u2013 the new Climategate?\nTerrorise the children\nSplattergate: a word from our sponsors\nThe final solution\nFred Pearce saves the world\nSplattergate - the Muslim version\nSplattergate extra\nOn paying monkeys\nEco-jihad - the movie\nThe noose tightens","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Publisher description for American surgery : an illustrated history \/ by Ira M. Rutkow ; Stanley B. Burns, photohistorian.\nBibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog\nInformation from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.\nWritten by a world-renowned historian of surgery, this volume is a masterful textual and pictorial history of the evolution of American surgery. Dr. Rutkow draws on his experience as a surgeon and a historian to provide an enlightening account of the development of surgery in the context of American social, economic, and political history. Interspersed with the narrative is an extraordinary collection of archival photographs and drawings, many of which have never before been published. The first section chronicles the history of American surgery from Native American practices and colonial times to the present. Particular attention is given to the professionalization and specialization of surgery, as well as to the influence of wars, technological advances, and other pivotal events on the profession. The second section details the history of specific surgical specialties. More than 1,000 biographical accounts of famous surgeons are deftly woven into the narrative.\nLibrary of Congress subject headings for this publication:\nSurgery -- United States -- History.\nSurgery -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Barn at Henley opens for weddings August 13\nPublished 11:45 am Wednesday, August 10, 2022\nThe Barn at Henley is complete with detailed rooms that create an atmosphere that make each guest feel special. (For the Reporter\/Jeremy Raines)\nBy SASHA JOHNS | Special to the Reporter\nCOLUMBIANA \u00ad\u2013 Two local couples have built an event venue on a scenic piece of land just off Highway 61 on the edge of Columbiana.\nLeigh Hulsey, one of the owners of The Barn at Henley as the venue has been named, said that it all started with friends that owned the adjacent property. She and her family had enjoyed time with her friends at their place, and they all eventually saw the opportunity to strike out in a business venture together by obtaining the adjacent 80 acres.\n\"We discussed it for a year,\" Hulsey said, \"and then started planning a year ago.\" The Barn at Henley is a full, 2,400 square foot, finished barn venue, complete with a bar that can serve both indoor and outdoor events.\nPerfect for weddings, it is complete with detailed rooms that make each guest feel special as soon as they arrive to prepare for their big day.\n\"We wanted brides to feel like they were in a princess room,\" Hulsey said. \"The groom's room is equally masculine for our grooms and their party. In addition to the rooms at the Barn, the nearby Henley House is also available to use for entertaining and for family accommodations.\"\nThe facility boasts 150-year-old wooden doors that came from Egypt. These antique oak doors create entry ways and photo opportunities for wedding parties as well as guests. In addition, the large windows at the end of the barn, create an opportunity for sunset weddings. The attention to detail continues throughout the grounds of the barn with manicured landscaping that is perfect for outdoor weddings.\nLeigh Hulsey and her husband Dennis, along with their friends and business partners Danny and Kathy Gingles, are all seasoned business owners. Hulsey owns a CrossFit in Alabaster and also serves on Helena's City Council. She and her business partners have a heart to serve. They are open to other kinds of events at the barn to help family and organizations create memories and fulfill lifelong dreams.\n\"Our first event at the Barn is mid-August,\" Hulsey said. \"We are wide open to begin booking from then on.\"\nFor more information about the venue or to take a tour, visit the website Myhenleywedding.com or call 205-475-3217.\nMore News Main\nYou can always find your way back home\nPelham Civic Complex and Ice Arena to host motorcycle and ice racing event\nHFD trades red for orange and blue\nFacility dog brings smiles to Meadow View Elementary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mayo Medical School: How to Get in 2023\nMed School Spotlight\u2122\nMayo Medical School: How to Get in\nMission Statement Available Programs Advanced Dual-Degree Programs Academic Curriculum Application Timeline Admissions Statistics and Eligibility Recommended Courses Tuition and Debt Funding Opportunities Selection Factors Interview Format Acceptance and Waitlist Information Contact Information FAQ\nThe Mayo medical school's focus on small class sizes, high patient-to-student ratios, flexible electives, and world-class research opportunities make it a perennial dream school for many medical students. However, with an overall medical school acceptance rate of 1.4% the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine is among the most exclusive MD programs in the country. With the right information and preparation though, you can provide a strong application and significantly increase your chances to receive one of those coveted admittances. In this blog, we'll go over the necessary information to understand and improve your chances for success.\nNote: If you want us to help you with your applications, interviews and\/or standardized tests, book a free strategy call. If you are a university, business, or student organization representative and want to partner with us, visit our partnerships page.\n\"The Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine will educate and inspire a diverse workforce of physicians and scientists through excellence in medical education, research and clinical care; to alleviate human suffering by providing compassionate and culturally sensitive care; to enhance the biomedical sciences through discovery and innovation; and to advance the national health care system through population science and leadership.\"\nAdvanced Dual Degree Programs\nIn addition to the MD and MD-PhD programs, MCASOM also offers eight advanced degree programs through its Arizona and Minnesota campuses. Once students have completed 2-3 years of the MD program and are in good standing, they become eligible to participate in these programs (which Mayo refers to as \"complementary academic enrichment experiences\"). These programs cover a great range of medical specialties, including:\nCheck out our video for more information about the Mayo med school:\nMCASOM's M.D. curriculum is centered around three main sections of work:\nSubject Blocks\nThe 1st and 2nd year of the MD program are focused on two major subject blocks of coursework and applied learning\/clinical integration activities.\nThe 1st year includes coursework on basic sciences including:\nBasic Principals and Structure (anatomy, histology, genetics, biochemistry)\nHuman Structure (anatomy and radiology)\nNormal Function (pathology, cell biology, immunology)\nPrinciples of Disease (microbiology, pharmacology, therapeutics)\nAdditionally, 1st year students participate in the Basic Doctoring course that focuses on interviewing, patient histories, and physical examinations. 1st year students also begin work in health care delivery, which remains a part of their curriculum throughout their four years in the program and earns them a certification in HCD upon graduation.\nThe 2nd year subject block focuses on what MCASOM calls the \"organ systems approach.\" This focuses on physiology, anatomy, and pathology in the following specialized courses:\nBrain and Neuroscience\nIntroductory Psychiatry\nThe Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems\nHematology and Rheumatology\nGynecology, Urology, and the Renal System\nThe Gastrointestinal System\nAdditionally, 2nd year students participate in the Advanced Doctoring course, which builds on the foundations of the 1st year's basic course. Students conduct guided evaluations in clinical experiences that include:\u00b7\nClinical Integration with subject blocks (clinical practice related to the systems coursework listed above)\nLastly, 2nd year students also begin preparation for clinical clerkships that begin in the 3rd year, with courses focusing on:\u00b7\nHospital survival skills\nCommon presentations in specialties including ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, dermatology, family medicine and many more\nMusculoskeletal physical exams\nProcedural and Communication skills\nThere is also an intensive review section toward the end of this year to prepare for the USMLE Step 1 exam.\nSelectives\nOne of MCASOM's most inventive features is the use of what are called \"selective\" (self-directed elective) blocks, which are 1- to 2-week blocks of time that, as the name suggests, allows students to engage in self-directed study or activities that help develop a sense of personal responsibility and interest in specialization(s). These blocks emphasize cultivating a sense of career direction and\/or personal exploration in various modalities including research, enhancement of clinical skills, professional skill development, and much more. Selectives also allow students to travel to and work at any of the other Mayo Clinic campuses (Arizona, Minnesota, or Florida) as well as other institutions within the Mayo Clinic Health System. Selectives can be self-proposed or -designed, or chosen from available clinical experiences under the guidance of a mentor. Selectives also encourage students to both give and receive feedback on the experience, which helps them develop a greater sense of their strengths and weaknesses as novice medical professionals.\nFor more information on this novel aspect of the Mayo MD program, check out the MCASOM Selectives page.\nCheck out the most important statistics and requirements of the Mayo medical school:\nClinical Clerkships and Electives\nThe 3rd and 4th years of the MCASOM MD program are, as with most MD programs, oriented around extensive clinical and applied work. These include required clerkships in:\nFamily medicine (6 weeks)\nInternal medicine (6 weeks)\nNeurology (3 weeks)\nObstetrics and Gynecology (6 weeks)\nPediatrics (6 weeks)\nPsychiatry (3 weeks)\nSurgery (6 weeks)\nThe 3rd year curriculum also includes a 3-week intersession that applies basic science knowledge in integrated topics like public health, radiology, professional conduct, and much more.\nLastly, there is a 12-week research quarter requirement that introduces principles and practices relating to biomedical research, which is a central aspect of the Mayo Clinic's overall project. This includes a supervised research project designed to complement your career interest and expose you to scientific research methods.\nDuring the 4th year of the MCASOM MD program, students participate in four rigorous required clerkships that include\u00b7\nInternal medicine (as a hospital subinternshp)\nResidency boot camp\nSocial medicine\nThe nature of the 4th year is intensive preparation for specialization and residency, so students must participate in electives in a wide range of specialties and subspecialties. 4th year students also participate in the 12-week Community Physician Apprenticeship Program (CPAP), which focuses on community care in both hospital and outpatient environments. The 4th year culminates in M.D. students' preparedness for both residency and further graduate medical education.\nGrading System Subject blocks in the 1st and 2nd years are graded Pass\/Fail, with clerkships and other applied activities in the 3rd and 4th years being graded Honors\/High Pass\/Pass\/Fail.\nThis is the general timeline for the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine's application process. Be sure to check the exact medical school application timelines or the AAMC MSAR portal before beginning your application. MCASOM does not offer an Early Decision Program or EDP.\nAdmissions Statistics and Eligibility\nOverall acceptance rate: 1.4%\nIn-state success rate: 1.3%\nOut-of-state success rate: 1.4%\nMCAT: 520\nMayo Medical School Overall Success Rate:\nThe Mayo Clinic's Alix School of Medicine only admits students who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada at the time of application. However, if a student meets these criteria but currently resides elsewhere, they may also be granted admission. Students with refugee or asylee status are also considered eligible for admission. Unfortunately, foreign nationals who do not meet any of the above criteria are not eligible for admission regardless of visa or permit status.\nThe Mayo medical school also does not accept transfer students, regardless of the location of their medical school or citizenship.\nThe Mayo Medical School does not have specific medical school prerequisites, but recommends that applicants have a strong background in life and social sciences including, but not limited to:\u00b7\nSuccessful lab work is also recommended in these fields, though there is no indicated number of hours.\nAdditionally, MCASOM recommends the following nonacademic technical standards be demonstrated in applicants' materials:\nIntellectual, integrative, and quantitative abilities\nBehavioral attributes like good judgement, promptness, sensitivity, adaptability, toleration of taxing workloads, the ability to function under stress, and professionalism\nLastly, while the Mayo Medical School doesn't have especially concrete course requirements, they do require either a Bachelor's or Pharm.D. degree from an accredited college in the US or Canada. There are no substitutions for this degree requirement.\nCheck out the reasons prerequisites are so important for medical school applicants:\nTuition and Debt\nMedical school tuition ranks among the most expensive in higher education, and MCASOM's M.D. program is no exception. The Mayo Medical school offers the following budgetary estimate for its MD program:\nThe Mayo medical school or MCASOM's funding opportunities are fairly extensive, in large part due to the school's considerable involvement with research industry development.\nInstitutional Aid\nAll students who apply are considered for scholarships funded by the school's benefactors, and these scholarships are awarded based on both prior academic performance and financial need. Financial need is determined by calculating parental income and asset data, which is the way most medical schools make this calculation. Additionally, scholarships with the Mayo medical school are reevaluated annually, and so are renewable depending on performance and student's circumstances. For more information on both Mayo's institutional aid programs and external funding programs available to MCASOM students, check out Mayo College's extensive Grants and Scholarships page.\nFederal Loans\nEligible US citizens and permanent residents may be awarded federal loans through the US Department of Education. These include Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans and Federal Direct PLUS Loans. To apply for federal financial aid, they must first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). For more information on US Federal Student Aid, check out the Department of Education's Student Aid page on loan types and details. Learn more about how to pay for medical school in our blog.\nThe Mayo Medical School chooses its first-round interviewees based on six factors:\nMCAT score and percentile (75th percentile or above)\nDepth and breadth of extracurricular experiences like volunteering, research, and creative endeavors\u00b7\nMCAT and GPA\nAs should be expected of a world-class medical school, admission to the Mayo medical school's MD program is extremely competitive. With an overall acceptance rate of just 1.4%, the odds are heavily against most applicants.\nAccepted applicants had a median MCAT score of 520, with the overall range for accepted applicants extending from 512 to 524.\nIt's important to remember that you can retake the MCAT if you score below these medians, and it's quite common to do so. You can retake the MCAT up to three times in a year, and seven times in a lifetime. If you do poorly the first or even second time, reevaluate your MCAT prep strategies. Before you begin your prep, learn when to start studying for the MCAT and review the best MCAT study schedule to inspire your own. Make sure to take an MCAT diagnostic test to gauge your baseline and see improvements as you study. Forgo online forums like the MCAT subreddit to create your MCAT study plan \u2013 they are not helpful and often misleading. Practice with MCAT CARS passages, physics equations, and other sample questions. Remember, you should only take the MCAT when you are feeling 100% ready.\nSuccessful applicants had a median cumulative GPA of 3.92 , making the quantitative thresholds of admission especially competitive. There is, as with most medical schools, the chance that a lower GPA can be offset by remarkably high MCAT scores (and vice versa), but you should strive to achieve this GPA threshold.\nWith these statistics in mind, work to make your other application materials impeccable in order to offset any perceived weaknesses in your numerical statistics.\nAre you wondering if you really need to take the MCAT diagnostic test?\nApplicant Essays\nYour medical school personal statement is, as always, a massively influential piece of your application package for Mayo medical school. Unlike the hard numbers of your GPA and MCAT score, your personal statement allows you to speak directly to the admissions committee and contextualize who you are and why you want to be a doctor. It's an opportunity to craft an engaging, first-person narrative capable of presenting the emotional and psychological aspects of your relationship to medicine. The personal statement is something you want to spend a lot of time drafting and editing. Give yourself at least 8 weeks to craft a compelling statement.\nAs any academic essay, your personal statement for medical school will have an intro, body paragraphs, and conclusion. Your body paragraphs should be based in 2 or 3 solid experiences that demonstrate your suitability for medicine. Remember, this is not a CV \u2013 you need to create a narrative, so limit your experiences to those you can talk about in detail. For AMCAS personal statements, you will have only 5300 characters to convince the admissions committee that you are the right fit for medicine.\nSecondary Essay\nStudents who pass through the first round of selection are asked to complete a secondary application, which is composed of two elements: a medical school secondary essay and your ranking of four campus track options, which are:\nArizona (ASU) 4-year track\nMinnesota 4-year track\nArizona\/Florida 2+2 track\nMinnesota\/Florida 2+2 track\nThe secondary essays are more specialized than personal statements and require responses of maximum 500-words to 3 prompts:\nWhy are you specifically interested in pursuing your medical education at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine even if you gain acceptances to other highly ranked medical schools?\nFor this prompt, you'd want to find a way to tailor your intrinsic feelings and motivations to address Mayo's mission and research specialties. A good response might connect early fascination and ongoing work with patient care, one of Mayo's primary foci, or how your interest in\/commitment to specific areas of research fit with ongoing research at one or more of their campuses. Don't just tell them what you think they want to hear, but do try to find a way to relate your experiences to the specificities of the school\nWe are all unique in different ways. Explain how your personal diversity manifests in your personal and professional activities.\nThis one may feel unwieldy at first, but the question ultimately reduces to this: how does diversity (in terms of differences among people and groups, etc.) inform your relationship to the world and your journey toward a career in medicine? This is a traditional diversity essay. Given Mayo's focus on public\/world health programs, a successful essay would illustrate a commitment to helping others who are fundamentally different than the essay writer without resorting to saviorism or cliches. This prompt gives the writer a big green light for digging into what makes them unique, and how this uniqueness affects their relationships with others both generally and within the context of their journey toward medicine. And remember: the Mayo M.D. curriculum is very focused on patients, so be sure to lean heavily on your experiences with diversity in whatever clinical or volunteer experiences you've had so far. Have you worked with medically under-served communities, recent immigrants, or people from disadvantaged social\/family backgrounds? A question like this is the perfect place to dig into what you've learned from these experiences.\nShare with us your thoughts about the relevance\u2014or not\u2014of diverse learning environments in which you wish to learn medicine.\nThis may seem nearly identical to the prior prompt, but the point here is to speak a bit less of yourself and inner sense of diversity, and more about providing an analysis of how these differences and complexity make for a more fulfilling learning environment. To be clear, although there is the additional clause of \"or not\" in the prompt, the admissions committee at Mayo will surely be more amenable to an argument in favor or in praise of diversity than a dismissal. A winning essay might touch on any personal experiences in diverse learning environments so far, but these need to be extrapolated into coherent and convincing narrative. That is, you need to engage with the social science part of your knowledge here, showing an understanding of the philosophical and sociological significance of diverse learning environments and medical education in general. Have you met someone who changed your perspective on education? Have you worked or attended class with people from cultural or ethnic backgrounds that differ from your own? Try to find the ways in which your interactions with people different from you have altered your understanding of education and perhaps the world in general.\nCheck out our video on medical school secondary essays for more tips on how to craft winning responses to prompts like these:\nThe Mayo medical school only accepts letters of recommendation through the AMCAS letter service, they cannot be sent directly to the school. MCASOM requires three letters of recommendation or one composite or committee letter from a premed committee. All letters must be on official letterhead and have a handwritten signature by the letter writer.\nAt least one of your letters must be from a science professor, or at least a teaching assistant in the sciences. We recommend the former, but if you absolutely must rely on the latter you should be fine. For any other letters, Mayo medical school accepts letters from mentors, employers, and supervisors in both volunteer and other medical contexts.\nSuccessful applicants to the Mayo medical school M.D. program typically have extensive relevant extracurricular involvement. In recent years, most matriculants displayed premed involvement in the following:\nFrom this, it's safe to say that to get into MCASOM's M.D. program you'll want to at least spend some time volunteering in both medical and non-medical environments, and have substantial research experience. The good news is that this kind of work usually benefits the writing of both the initial personal statement and the secondary essays. And while shadowing is only recommended by Mayo medical school, you can see that 90% of this school's matriculants gained this important premed experience.\nFor more suggestions and tips, check out our blog on extracurriculars for medical school.\nInterview Format\nThe Mayo medical school utilizes a comprehensive virtual interview day, which includes:\nWelcome sessions at one of three campuses (depending on your campus rankings in the second application)\nTwo 1-on-1 virtual interviews lasting 30 minutes each\nConnecting with current students\nSave their virtuality, the two one-on-one interviews are the most important part of your interview day. They are conducted in traditional medical school interview format. Make sure to review common medical school interview questions, and panel interview questions. It is always a good idea to go over the most popular interview questions like \"what is your greatest weakness\" and \"tell me about yourself\", as these can be incorporated into any interview format\nAcceptance and Waitlist Information\nMayo medical school makes their acceptance decisions following the completion of all applicant interviews and committee deliberations. Initial offers of acceptance are made in mid-February via phone call.\nMCASOM utilizes an alternate or waitlist as well, and notifications for being placed on this list are sent just after initial offers of acceptance go out. If chosen for acceptance from this secondary list, students should expect to receive notice between March and June. Of the approximately 300 waitlisted students, 40 or so are usually granted acceptance. If placed on the waitlist, Mayo medical school welcomes significant updates to your application through their application portal. Additionally, the medical school letter of intent is given extra scrutiny in waitlist decisions, making it an especially valuable application piece.\nThe Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine program website\nMayo Medical School MD program website\nMCASOM admissions page\n1. Do I need a specific degree to get into the Mayo medical school?\nYou'll need a BA\/BS or Pharm.D., but there's no specific major requirement for the Bachelor's. In fact, only 1% of recent matriculants had a math or science degree! Given Mayo's intense focus on research and innovation, you may want to show expertise in a field that involves these qualities, but there's clearly a lot of flexibility here. What matters most is doing incredibly well in whatever department you choose for your undergraduate work.\n2. Does Mayo accept transfer students?\nWhat about international students? Unfortunately, MCASOM does not accept transfer students, but international students (provided they're citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.) are encouraged to apply. That said, in recent years a staggeringly low number of international students have been admitted, so if you're applying from outside the U.S. be sure to make your application as strong as possible.\n3. Does the Mayo medical school M.D. program have a research component?\nYes, every M.D. student (co-)designs and conducts a 12-week research project toward the end of the 3rd year of the program.\n4. Does the Mayo medical school have specific course requirements for admission?\nNo, but significant experience in both life and social sciences is recommended. Additionally, there should be demonstrable research and lab experience during your undergraduate education.\n5. What kind of GPA and MCAT scores do successful applicants have?\nFor recent matriculants, the median GPA was 3.95 and median MCAT score was 520. To have a truly competitive application, we recommend you aim for these median scores as minimums, and retake the MCAT as needed\/able to score as high as possible if your initial scores are lower than the median.\n6. What is Mayo medical school's overall acceptance rate?\n1.4%. As should be expected of a world-class medical school, MCASOM is extremely selective.\n7. How many letters of recommendation does Mayo medical school require?\nThree individual letters or one composite\/committee letter from a premed committee. All letters must be on official letterhead and have a handwritten signature by the letter writer(s).\n8. What are Mayo medical school's tuition fees?\nAnnual tuition fees themselves total $58,900 (USD) for both in- and out-of-state students. 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{"text":"Your Secret Ballot Is In Jeopardy\nThere are few things more sacred to Americans than a secure and secret ballot.\nOn August 1, 2015, Vincent Carroll of the Denver Post wrote a column entitled: The high risk of e-voting pointing out some concerns with electronic transmission of military and overseas balloting. This overview should cause us all concern about both the security and the secrecy of ballots that are cast in this manner.\nThe Heritage Foundation also published a column with similar concerns on July 14, 2015.\nThe extent to which Internet\u2013based voting allows our deployed military members \u2014who have no access to mail ballots\u2014 to vote is a good practice. No one wants to get in the way of their right to vote. The question is: Is Internet and email balloting being used only as a rare exception, or is that method of voting expanding?\nA 2011 Colorado State law (HB 11-1219) ensures that overseas military members get their ballots in order to vote and return their ballot through the mail in a timely fashion. They have 53 days from when the ballot leaves their County Clerk and Recorder's office to when their ballot must be returned in order to be counted for that election. In most situations, this is sufficient time. Service members may also request an electronic ballot be automatically sent to them, so that they can print it out, vote, and mail it back to their county office. All of this is important and necessary.\nSenator Kevin Lundberg, was a member of the Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee during 2006 when this bill's predecessor was passed. Senator Lundberg has spoken out against the use of the electronic transmission of voted ballots in all but the most rare of circumstances. He can be heard discussing this on a May 29, 2015 podcast with radio host Ken Clark, and Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams. The relevant portion of the conversation starts around 25 minutes in.\nConsider a submariner who is underwater for months. Consider a service person deployed to a place in the world where mail isn't an option. The law makes it clear that the overseas or military voter may, \"return the ballot by electronic transmission in circumstance where another more secure method, such as returning the ballot by mail, is not available or feasible.\" Note that the law acknowledges that electronic transmission is less secure than returning the ballot by mail.\nIn the May 29th podcast above, and a separate May 14, 2015 podcast, Secretary Williams says that this option for overseas and military voters to transmit their completed ballots electronically also applies to additional overseas voters, such as missionaries and students doing a semester abroad. The relevant portion of the podcast begins at about 1 hour and 21 minutes in. Senator Lundberg expresses concern in both of these podcasts about electronic transmission of completed ballots becoming a common practice as opposed to a \"rare exception.\" According to Secretary Williams, there were over 3,000 military members who used the electronic transmission method of voting in the 2014 general election. That is over 50% of the number of military and overseas voters who voted. Not all of these 3,000 were in areas where mail services were neither available nor feasible. Some may have been right here at home.\nHow safe is electronic transmission of a completed ballot? The language in the 2011 legislation admits it is not as safe as mailing in a ballot. New headlines every day like this and this show how vulnerable data is to being hacked. Here is a quick demonstration of how ballot data, using a 3rd party vendor, might be hacked and how a vote can be changed.\nAs for the 3rd party vendor, the Colorado Secretary of State's office has contracted with Everyone Counts to be the technology link between the military or overseas voter and the County Clerk and Recorder's offices throughout the state. When a military or overseas voter marks their ballot online, it doesn't go directly to their County Clerk and Recorder. It goes first to Everyone Counts, along with the voters' verified identity. After a copy of the electronic ballot is saved, the voter emails it to the clerk. Although Everyone Counts boasts about \"secure and reliable voting options,\" according to Secretary Williams in the May 14th podcast, the voter has to acknowledge that they are \"voluntarily waiving their right to a secret ballot.\"\nIt disrupts a voter's access to a secret ballot when a commercial vendor collects the voter's choices. If Everyone Counts were to be hacked, what would happen to a voter's privacy? Would Everyone Counts be able to sell voter data?\nThe public was offered an opportunity to attend a July 7, 2015 Secretary of State hearing on the rules surrounding electronic transmission of ballots, and the opportunity to weigh in online if they were unable to attend the meeting. Most of the public comments were against electronic transmission of ballots.\nWhile listening to the podcasts above, I heard an interesting question raised. The final caller on the May 14th podcast asked Secretary Williams about the family relationship between an employee of the Secretary of State's office and an employee of the vendor, Everyone Counts. The Secretary didn't answer the question, but if true, the Colorado Secretary of State should \u2014at minimum\u2014publicly disclose that fact, and ensure that there is an arms length relationship between the two entities, so that there is no appearance of impropriety.\nIf these issues are as concerning to you as they are to me, please contact the Colorado Secretary of State's office immediately to express that concern. You can send your comments to [email protected] and [email protected].\nStop Proposing Gun Laws That Don't Work\nDo the gun controllers want to reduce deaths by murderers who use firearms, or do\u2026\nParents Know Best \u2026 When It Comes to School Choice\nWho knows how to educate your children better, you or some faceless bureaucrat at the\u2026\nBallot Language Intends to Deceive Voters\nThose who follow politics in Colorado Springs remember the controversy during the 2010 election about deceptive ballot language. 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{"text":"Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f.\nLast updated: 8 December 2014\nAloe barbadensis Mill., Aloe chinensis Steud. ex Baker, Aloe elongata Murray, Aloe flava Pers., Aloe indica Royle, Aloe lanzae Tod., Aloe maculata Forssk. [Illegitimate], Aloe rubescens DC., Aloe variegate Forssk. [Illegitimate], Aloe vulgaris Lam. [1]\nMalaysia Lidah buaya (Peninsular); bunga raja raja (Sabah) [2]\nEnglish Barbados aloe, cura\u00e7ao aloe, coastal aloe, Indian aloe, medicinal aloe, mediterranean aloe, true aloe, west indian aloe [2][3]\nChina Lu-hui [4]\nIndia Kumari, ghikanuar, ghrit kumara [4]\nIndonesia Lidah buaya [2]\nPhilippines Sabila (Tagalog); dilang-buwaya (Bikol); dilang-halo (Bisaya) [2]\nThailand Waan faimai (Northern); waan hang chorakhe, haang takhe (Central) [2][5]\nVietnam L[oo] h[ooj]i, l[uw] h[ooj]i, nha d[ar]m, cay aloe vera, cay lo hoi, cay nha dam [2][5]\nNepal Kunhur [4]\nSri Lanka Komarika [4]\nJapan Aloe, feroxaroe [4][5]\nTurkey Odagaci, sarisabir, sarysabyr [5]\nAfrica Aalwee, aalwyn [5]\nFrance Aloes, aloes vulgaire, aloe vera [3][5]\nSweden Aloe, barbados aloe [5]\nPoland Aloes, aloe vera, aloes de barbados, caraguata, erva-babosa, azehre vegetal [3]\nSpain Aciber, aloe, flor do doserto, loto do deserto, linaloe, maguey morado, penca sabila, pitera amarelo, sabila do penca, savila, toots amarelo, zabila,zabila dos tos [5]\nRussia Aloe, aloe nastojascee, aloe vera [5].\nThe origin of Aloe vera is unknown [2][6] but some authors presumed that it is originated from Arabia, Somalia, Sudan or Oman [7]. This plant has been introduced and naturalized throughout most of the tropics, subtropics and warmer regions but will not grow in rainforest regions or dry deserts [6][7]. It can be found in most of Africa, Southern Arabia, Madagascar, West Indies and Bahamas, Southern USA, Mexico, Central America, Arabia, other parts of Asia [6] and Australia [7].\nA. vera is a plant from the family of Xanthorrhoeaceae [1]. It is a perennial shrub, 30-40 cm high [2].\nThe root is in the form of taproot, 5-10 cm long with abundant secondary root at the top of the soil. The root form a dense group and the secondary shoot that rise from the root gives rise to a new plant [2]. The stem is short [8].\nThe leaves is whether erect or slightly spreading, about 16 blades per plant, 40-50 cm x 6-7 cm in dimension, narrowly triangular, the upper surface greenish-grey to pale green together with spots and the lower blade usually lighter. The leave margin firm with minute deltoid pale teeth that measure 2 mm long. [2]\nThe inflorescence spike, simple and rarely branched, 60-100 cm tall, densely flowered with yellow, orange or red in colour. The anther and stigma is exserted. [2][8]\nThe fruit is in the form of capsule, ovoid and whitish green. The seed is numerous. [8]\nNo documentation.\nAqueous extract of A. vera has been reported to containtriglucosylated naphthalene derivative (e.g. aloveroside A, aloveroside B) and phenyl pyrones (e.g. \u03c1-coumaroyl aloenin, aloenin B, 10-O-\u03b2-D-glucopyranosyl aloenin, aloenin-2\u2032-\u03c1-coumaroyl ester, aloenin aglycone). [9][10][11][12]\nMethanol extract of dried A. vera powder has been reported to contain chromones (e.g. chrysophanol, 7-hydroxy-2,5-dimethylchromone, saiko-chromone A, 5-((S)-2\u2032-oxo-4\u2032-hydroxypentyl)-2-hydroxymethylchromone, 5-((S)-2\u2032-oxo-4\u2032-hydroxypentyl)-2-(\u03b2-glucopyranosyl-oxy-methyl)-chromone, 5-(hydroxymethyl)-7-methoxy-2-methylchromone, 5-((4E)-2\u2032-oxo-pentenyl)-2-hydroxymethylchromone, 7-hydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylchromone, cinnamoyl-C-glycoside chromone, aloesin, 8-C-glucosyl-(R)-aloesol, 8-C-glucosyl-7-O-methyl-(S)-aloesol, and isoaloeresin D) and antraquinone (e.g. 10-hydroxyaloin A, 10-hydroxyaloin B, aloe-emodin, barbaloin\/aloin A, isobarbaloin\/aloin B). [9][11][12][13][14]\nA. vera was also been reported to contain anthraquinone dimers (e.g. elgnica dimer A and elgnica dimer B), glycoproteins (e.g. aloctin A), fatty acids (e.g. \u03b2-sitosterol, cholesterol, campesterol), polysaccharides (e.g. acemannan, neutral and acidic polysaccharides (consisted of glucose, galactose, mannose, glucuronic acid or uronic acid)) and prostaglandins. [10][14][15][16]\nA. vera at various developmental stages possessed minerals with different concentrations (e.g. sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus). [15]\nLeaves, gel. [17]\nA. vera has been traditionally used for burn healing but clinical evidence remains unclear. Mucilaginous tissue or A. veragel is located in the center of the A. vera leaf and have been used as cosmetics as well as medical products. A. vera gel has been used for many indications since the Roman era or even long before [17]. A. vera has been traditionally used as a topical treatment for burns, wounds, and various other skin conditions, and has also been used orally as a laxative [18].\nThe production of A. vera juice involves crushing, grinding or pressing of the entire leaf of the aloe vera plant followed by various steps of filtration and stabilization of the juice. Then, the A. vera juice incorporated in or mixed with other solutions or agents to produce the pharmaceutical, cosmetic or food product. [19]\nThe amount of A. vera that in the pharmaceutical industry is not negligible as far as the manufacturing of topical ointments, gel preparations, tablets and capsules are concerned [19]. In the cosmetic, A. vera gel find its application primarily acted as skin healer and prevents injury of epithelial tissues, cures acne and gives a youthful glow to skin and also acts as extremely powerful laxative [20]. Some toiletry industries has been made by A. vera, where it is used as a base for the preparation of creams, lotions, soaps, shampoos and facial cleaners. In the food industry, A. vera has been utilised as a resource of functional food, especially for the preparation of health food drinks and other beverages, including tea [19].\nBurn and wound healing activity\nA. vera gel administered to full-thickness burns by direct contact with a hot plate Hartley guinea pigs significantly (p<0.02) showed a complete healing after average 30 days of treatment, which was faster compared to control group (50 days). [21]\nA. vera geladministered to second-degree burns in guinea pigs hindered the wound healing process by significantly (p<0.01) thicken the granulation tissue with a significant (p<0.001) decreased in amount of hair follicles compared to 1% silver sulfadiazine cream. [22]\nA. vera mature leaves gel administered to burn-created skin to Large White juvenile pigs (25-32 kg) for a duration of 6 weeks showed evaporative cooling capacities by decreasing the subdermal temperature within the burn skin of pigs due to its analgesic properties. [23]\nLyophilized A. vera powder of mature leaves gel (30 mg) administered orally and topically twice a day to excision wound-induced to male Wistar rats (150-200 g) for a duration of 8 days increased the collagen content of the granulation tissue and its crosslinking degree evidenced by the improved aldehyde content and reduced acid solubility observed compared to untreated control. [24]\nLyophilized A. vera powder of mature leaves gel (30 mg) administered orally and topically twice a day to excision wound-induced to male Wistar rats (150-200 g) for a duration of 16 days showed a wound healing properties by positively influenced the synthesis of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) components of the wound matrix with the elevated amount of ground substance synthesized and levels of reported glycohydrolases (hyaluronic acid and dermatan sulfate) compared to untreated control. [25]\nLyophilized A. vera gel administered to second degree burn wound-induced in male Wistar rats for a duration 14 days showed a better healing area compared to untreated and normal saline treated group. The gel significantly (p<0.05) reduced the vasodilation, increased the postcapillary venular permeability as encountered in the untreated burn, increased the arteriolar diameter up to normal condition, reduced the amount of leukocyte adhesion as observed and showed that the postcapillary venular permeability was not different from the sham controls. [26]\nMannose-6-phosphate sugar of A. vera gel (300 mg\/kg) administered by subcutaneous injections daily to wound-induced adult male ICR mice (30 g) for a duration of 7 days significantly (p<0.01) decreased the wound diameter about 4.3 mm (50.7 %) compared to saline treated control group with 2.8 mm (42.1 %). [27]\nMannose-6-phosphate sugar of A. vera gel (300 mg\/kg) administered by subcutaneous injections daily to adult male ICR mice (30 g) for a duration of 7 days before the ear swelling croton oil assay to induce inflammation for 6 hours significantly (p=0.05) showed the lower average ear weight (5.5 mg) compared to saline treated control group (7.3 mg). [27]\nAqueous and chloroform extract of A. vera fresh leaves gel (100 mg\/kg) administered intraperitoneally to carrageenan-induced edema in paw of male Wistar rats (180-200 g) for a duration of 4 hours before an hour of carrageenan injection decreased the paw volumes from 160 \u00b5L to 75 and 62 \u00b5L, respectively comparable to standard indomethacin and dexamethasone. [28]\nAloctin A isolated from A. vera (5.0 mg\/kg) administered intraperitoneally to arthritic-induced female Sprague-Dawley rats (\u00b1200 g) for a duration of 15 days inhibited the swelling in the injected foot and in the secondary lesion (day 14: 57.2 %; day 21: 56.6 % and day 14: 43.4 %; day 21: 72.3 % inhibition ratio, respectively) compared to gastric gavage administration of 2.0 mg\/kg indomethacin (day 14: 38.1 %; day 21: 23.9 % and day 14: 12.1 %; day 21: -1.2 % inhibition ratio, respectively ) and 2.0 mg\/kg prednisolone (day 14: 58.3 %; day 21: 43.2 % and day 14: 82.2 %; day 21: 35.7 % inhibition ratio, respectively). [29]\nAloctin A isolated from A. vera (10.0 mg\/kg) administered intraperitoneally to carrageenan-induced edema in paw female Sprague-Dawley rats (\u00b1200 g) for a duration of 5 hours suppressed the swelling in the rat hind paw (95.3 % inhibition ratio) compared to gastric gavage administration of 2.0 mg\/kg indomethacin (59.0 % inhibition ratio) in dose-dependent manner. [29]\nC-glucosyl chromone identified as 8-[C-\u03b2-D-[2-O-(E)-cinnamoyl]glucopyranosyl]-2-[(R)-2-hydroxypropyl]-7-methoxy-5-methylchromone from ethanol extract of A. vera leaves (200 \u00b5g\/mouse ear) administered to croton oil-induced ear swelling in male BalbC mice (20-25 g) for a duration of 6 hours showed anti-inflammatory activity with no reduction in thymus weight comparable to administration of 200 \u00b5g\/mouse ear hydrocortisone but with 50 % thymus weight decrement. [30]\nA. vera administered orally to several reagents (kaolin carrageenan, albumin, dextran, gelatin, and mustard) induced-hind paw rats showed remarkable anti-inflammatory activity especially in gelatin-induced and kaolin-induced edema and showed lowest activity for dextran-induced edema, dependent on the presence of anthraquinones in the extract. [31]\nA. vera and its compound namely gibberellin (2-100 mg\/kg) administered to streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice inhibited the polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltration into the site, thus provided anti-inflammatory activity in a dose dependant manner. [32]\nAntiallergic activity\nAlprogen of glycoproteins compound isolated from A. vera fresh leaves showed antiallergic activity by significantly (p<0.001) inhibited the mediator releases (histamine and leukotriene) and Ca2+ influx caused by activation of mast cells (0.1 \u00b5g\/mL ovalbumin) by specific antigen-antibody reactions in vitro of Hartley albino female guinea pigs (200-250 g) lung. The extract reduced the amount of hispidine and leukotrienes (7.5\u00b17.50 % and 23.2\u00b16.23 pmol\/4x105 cells,respectively) compared to control (29.0\u00b11.10 % and 42.9\u00b15.40 pmol\/4x105 cells, respectively). [33]\nAntihyperglycemic activity\nA. vera of fresh leaves gel and its isolated phytosterols (lophenol, 24-methyl-lophenol, 24-ethyl-lophenol, cycloartanol, and 24-methylene-cycloartanol) (1 \u00b5g\/mL) was administered orally to type 2 diabetic BKS.Cg-m+\/+Leprdb\/J (db\/db) mice. The extracts significantly decreased (15-18 %) the hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels in mice compared to vehicle (saline)-treated mice after 35 days and reduced blood glucose levels to approximately 64%, 28%, 47%, 51%, and 55% of control levels, respectively for a duration of 28 days treatment. [34]\nA. vera dried sap (500 mg\/kg) administered orally twice daily for duration of 7 days significantly (p<0.01) lowered the glucose blood levels in alloxan-induced diabetic of Swiss albino mice (394 \u00b1 22.0 mg\/dl) compared to glibenclamide (726 \u00b1 30.9 mg\/dl) and control mice (646 \u00b1 35.9 mg\/dl). [35]\nBitter principle of A. vera leaves (5 mg\/kg) administered intraperitoneally to alloxan-induced diabetic of Swiss albino mice for duration of 24 hours highly significant lowered the glucose blood levels compared to oral administration of A. vera extract. Bitter principle of A. vera leaves and A. vera extract administered once a day and twice daily, respectively for chronic studies for a duration of 4 days showed the maximum blood glucose level reduction at the 5th day. The reduction was suggested due to stimulation synthesis and\/or release of insulin from the beta cells of the Islets of Langerhans. [36]\nA. vera leaves pulp extract (500 mg\/kg) administered orally to streptozotocin (STZ)-induced type I diabetic female Wistar rats (150-200 g) for a duration of 6 hours and STZ-induced type II diabetic Wistar pups for a duration of 5 hours showed antihyperglycaemic activity in both but effectively enhanced in type II compared to glibenclamide. Contrarily, the A. vera leaves gel extract (10 mL\/kg) administered orally to the rats had a hyperglycemic effect in the type II diabetic rats [37].\nAntitumour activity\nAloe-emodin (AE), a hydroxyanthraquinone constituent of A. vera leaves inhibited the growth of human neuroectodermal tumors in mice through the induction of apoptosis, where the selectivity against neuroectodermal tumor cells was founded on a specific energy-dependent pathway of drug incorporation. [38]\nAntiulcerative activity\nAloe-emodin of A. vera showed the growth inhibition of H. pylori collected from peptic ulcer patients in vitro by inhibited its Arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) activities. [39]\nA. vera leaves gel also reported to has antiulcer activity in rats with peptic ulcer disease. [40]\nLyophilized of whole A. vera fresh leaves extract (2, 3, and 4-year-old plants) showed different content of flavonoids for different growth stages A. veta. The 3-year-old extract (100mg\/L) exhibited the fastest DPPH radical scavenging rate of activity over the first 16 and 30 minutes (67.95\u00b10.99 % and 72.19\u00b10.98 % inhibition, respectively) compared to BHT, \u03b1-tocopherol, 4-year-old and 2-year-old growth stages of A. vera (64.60\u00b11.12 %, 64.20\u00b11.55 %, 56.85\u00b13.42 %, 51.92\u00b10.45 % and 70.52\u00b10.89 %, 65.20\u00b11.32 %, 67.64\u00b12.99 %, 62.70\u00b10.44 % inhibition, respectively). [41]\nAntimicrobial activity\nAntifungal activity\nAqueous ethanol extract of A. vera fresh leaves showed significant (P<0.001) antifungal activity based on fungicidal concentration against fungus growth of Botrytis gladiolorum (MFC 80 \u00b5L\/mL), Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. gladioli (MFC 100 \u00b5L\/mL), Heterosporium pruneti (MFC 100 \u00b5L\/mL) and Penicillium gladioli (MFC 100 \u00b5L\/mL)compared to control (70% aqueous ethanol) and standard antimycotic drug (Diflazon).[42]\nEthanol extract of A. vera dry leaves showed antifungal activity against Aspergillus niger, Cladosporium herbarum, and Fusarium moniliforme (at 5 mg\/mL) for a duration of 48 hours incubation at 28oC using disc plate method with 14 mm, 18 mm, and 33.7 mm inhibition, respectively. Compound F isolated from ethanol extract and compound I from aqueous extract of A. vera showed MIC value of 125 \u00b5L\/mL and 250 \u00b5L\/mL, respectively. [43]\nAntivirus activity\nA combination of acemannan (ACE-M) extracted from A. vera with suboptimal noncytotoxic concentrations of azidothymidine (AZT) synergistically acted to inhibit the replication of HIV-1 or with acyclovir (ACY) to inhibit herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1). [44]\nPurified extracts of A. vera leaves gel namely R1 (from immature leaves harvested in the early summer), S1 (from mature leaves harvested in the autumn), and F2 (from ethanol extract of freeze mature leaves harvested in the autumn) at concentration of 10-1 dilution showed substantial antiviral activity against human cytomegalovirus using plaque inhibition test. [45]\nLaxative activity\nBarbaloin constituent of A. vera (31.1 mg\/kg) administered intracecally for a duration of 4 hours showed a cathartic effect by increase the water content and stimulated mucus secretion caused by the existence of aloe-emodin-9-anthrone(AE-anthrone) (568 \u00b5g\/rat) from barbaloin in the rat large intestine. [46]\nClinical findings\nHerbal therapies in general and A. vera in particular, are already widely used by patients with inflammatory bowel disease [47][48]. Previous clinical trials of varying design and accessibility have claimed that Boswellia serrata and several traditional Chinese medical approaches are beneficial in active ulcerative colitis. In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, treatment for 4 weeks with oral A. vera gel produced a symptomatic clinical response more frequently than did placebo [47]. A. vera gel may decrease the production of stomach acid and also block the growth of Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that causes stomach ulcers [48]. However, statistically significant clinical studies on the efficacy of A. vera gel on human health are very limited and often inconclusive [49].\nReported clinical trials\nOne non-randomised, unblinded study assessed wound healing with polyethylene oxide wound gel or polyethylene oxide wound gel saturated with A. vera in 17 patients with acne vulgaris. Half-face treatments were carried out so that each patient received both treatments. By day 5, 90% of wounds were healed (complete re-epithelialisation) with A. vera compared with 40-50% without A. vera. Wound healing was 72 hours faster with A. vera. It is significant to reduce bacterial contamination, subsequent keloid formation, and\/or pigmentary changes. [50]\nOne randomised, unblinded trial assessed wound healing with standard wound care with or without A. vera dermal gel every 8-12 hours in 40 women after gynaecological surgery. All women had complications of wound healing after surgery. Details of the standard treatment were not provided and 50% of the women did not complete the trial. Mean healing time (to completely epithelised wound) was significantly longer with A. vera (83 days) than with standard treatment (53 days). [51]\nA single small trial of A. vera supplementation versus gauze suggests delayed healing with A. vera, the results of this trial are uninterpretable since there was a large differential loss to follow up. A plaster cast applied to an amputation stump accelerated wound healing compared with elastic compression. This clinical trial reported that there were no statistically significant differences in healing for other dressing comparisons (e.g. gauze, foam, and alginate). [52]\nBurned skin\nA systematic review was conducted to determine the efficacy of topical A. vera for the treatment of burn wounds. 4 controlled clinical trials for burn healing with a total of 371 patients were included. Two reviewers independently extracted data on study characteristics, patient characteristics, intervention, and outcome measure. In first and second degree burns, the healing process of burnt wound as well as post-skin grafting might be effective using A. vera since it increases the rate of epithelialisation when compared with conventional treatments. [17]\nWhile scientific research is slow to acknowledge the fact that A. vera gel is very soothing to burned skin and does promote healing, it has been reported to be effective in treating various types of burns depending on the severity of the burn [17][53]. In a reported clinical study, 27 patients with partial thickness burn wound were treated with A. vera gel compared with vaseline gauze. This study revealed the effectiveness of A. vera gel in treating lesion when it healed faster than the vaseline gauze area. According to these 27 cases, only some minor adverse effects, such as discomfort and pain were encountered [53].\nAloe may also provide benefit to the skin burns that result from radiation therapy. A blinded clinical trial evaluated the prophylactic use of a mild soap alone compared to the use of A. vera gel together with the mild soap. Lower cumulative doses of radiation showed no difference existed in the effect of adding aloe. In patients receiving higher cumulative radiation doses, the median time for skin changes were observed in 3 weeks for the patients treated with mild soap only, while 5 weeks for the patients treated with both mild soap and aloe gel. When the cumulative dose increases over time, there seems to be a protective effect of adding aloe to the soap regimen. [54]\nPsoriasis vulgaris\nEvidence from one human trial suggests that 0.5% extract from A. vera in a hydrophilic cream is an effective skin treatment and may improve symptoms of certain skin conditions such as psoriasis vulgaris. One randomised, double-blind trial assessed a topical 0.5% hydrophilic A. vera cream compared with placebo cream in 60 patients with mild to moderate chronic plaque-type psoriasis over four weeks. Patients were followed-up for 12 months. The effect of a commercial A. vera gel on stable plaque psoriasis was modest. The rate of cure was significantly better with A. vera (83%) than with placebo (7%) with no relapses. [55]\nRadiation-induced skin injury\nTwo randomised trials assessed the effects of A. vera in women with radiation-induced skin injury associated with treatment for breast cancer. One trial was double-blind (194 patients) and was found no significant difference in severity score between topical A. vera gel and placebo gel. [56]\nThe other trial (108 patients) assessed usual care with or without topical A. vera gel; there was no significant difference between study treatments. [56]\nReports in the 1930s of topical aloe's beneficial effects on skin after radiation exposure lead to widespread use in skin products. Currently, aloe gel is sometimes recommended for radiation-induced dermatitis, although scientific evidence suggests a lack of benefit in this area [57]. In addition data on atopic dermatitis and chronic venous insufficiency treated with A. vera gel and tea tree oil also indicated that there is no compelling evidence for their effectiveness as reviewed from the various clinical studies [58].\nPreliminary evidence suggests that A. vera gel may improve symptoms of genital herpes. Two randomised, double-blind trials compared topical A. vera cream (0.5% hydrophilic) or placebo three times daily for two weeks in 180 men with a first episode of genital herpes; one also assessed topical A. vera gel. Response rates in the two trials were almost identical. The proportions of patients cured in the two trials were 70% and 67% with Aloe vera cream, 45% with A. vera gel, and 7.5% and 7.0% with placebo. A. vera cream healing times were 4.8 and 4.9 day, 7.0 days with A. vera gel, and 14 and 12 days with placebo. Limited evidence from human studies suggests that 0.5% extract from A. vera in a hydrophilic cream may be an effective treatment of genital herpes in men (better than aloe gel or placebo). [59]\nA review of a total of 108 trials examining 36 herbs and 9 vitamin\/mineral supplements including 58 controlled clinical trials (42 randomised and 16 non-randomized trials) involving 4565 patients with diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance revealed that A. vera is one of the most promising herbs for antidiabetic. Of these 58 trials, the direction of the evidence for improved glucose control was positive in 76% (44 of 58). The plant has positive preliminary results with very few adverse effects reported as generally safe. [60]\nA. vera is also has been recognised among 45 plants and their products (active, natural principles and crude extracts) that have been used in the Indian traditional system of medicine to have shown experimental or clinical evidence of antidiabetic activity. [61]\nIn a study of 35 men and women with constipation, those who received capsules containing aloe latex, and other laxatives including psyllium (a natural substance high in fiber) experienced softer and more frequent stools compared to those who received placebo. [62]\nHypoglycemic effect\nPreliminary studies suggest that aloe latex may help lower blood sugar levels (hypoglycemic effect) in people with type 2 diabetes (adult onset diabetes) [35][60]. Although further studies are need to fully assess the safety and effectiveness of aloe in the treatment of diabetes, it seems possible that the herb may prove to be a useful addition to the diet, exercise, and medication program for type 2 diabetics [60].\nAcemannan, a component of A. vera, has been shown in laboratory tests to have immune-stimulating and anti-viral activities. Double-blind placebo-controlled pilot trial of acemannan involved 63 patients (all were males (mean age 39 years). 6 patients in the acemannan group and 5 in the placebo group developed AIDS-defining illnesses. 24 patients, 11 receiving placebo and 13 receiving acemannan discontinued study therapy prematurely, none due to serious adverse reactions. Results from early human studies are mixed, and due to weaknesses in the way these studies were designed, firm conclusions are not possible. Without further human trials, the evidence cannot be considered convincing either in favour or against this use of aloe. [63]\nMucositis (mouth sore)\nThere is preliminary evidence from a human trial that oral A. vera does not prevent mucositis (mouth sores) associated with radiation therapy. Oral A. vera also did not improve tolerance to head-and-neck radiotherapy, reduce soreness, or improve patient well-being. This clinical study had been conducted among 58 patients with head-and-neck cancer. [64]\nImmunostimulant activity\nEnhancement of macrophage activity, T-cell function, and interferon production by the body was reported with use of this agent. Acemannan has been anecdotally reported to be a potential therapeutic agent in the treatment of HIV and herpes simplex type 1, yet supportive evidence is lacking at this time. [63]\nA study of randomized patients to receive either daily topical application of the hydrogel study dressing (acemannan hydrogel wound dressing) or a moist saline gauze dressing was conducted. Results show complete healing of the study ulcer occurred in 19 of 30 subjects during the 10-week observation period. An amorphous hydrogel dressing derived from the A. vera containing acemannan is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the management of stages I through IV pressure ulcers. The effectiveness of Acemannan hydrogel dressing is almost like moist saline gauze wound dressing for the management of pressure ulcers. [65]\nA new bioadhesive patch of A. vera hydrogel, tried for aphthous stomatitis, was found effective in more than 80% of cases with 90% compliance in adhesivity, acceptability and palatability of the formulation. [66]\n84 subjects presenting with clinically significant Acne vulgaris were randomly assigned with different test preparations (aloe gel, placebo or control preparations). In combination with Ocimum oil, the effect by A. vera on the anti-acne properties induced synergistic effect which is more effective than the drug 1% Clindamycin in the treatment of Acne vulgaris. [67]\nSome research suggests aloe might lower blood sugar. If you take aloe by mouth and you have diabetes, monitor your blood sugar levels closely. [68]\nIntestinal conditions such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or obstruction\nDo not take aloe latex if you have any of these conditions. Aloe latex is a bowel irritant. Remember, products made from whole aloe leaves will contain some aloe latex. [48][68]\nDo not take aloe latex if you have haemorrhoids. It could make the condition worse. Remember, products made from whole aloe leaves will contain some aloe latex. [48][68]\nHigh doses of aloe latex for prolonged amounts of time have been attributed to kidney failure, some deaths and other serious conditions. [48][68]\nAloe might affect blood sugar levels and could interfere with blood sugar control during and after surgery. Stop taking aloe at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery. [68]\nAllergic responses\nAloe belongs to the lily family of plants, which includes garlic and onions as well as flowers such as crocus, hyacinth, lilies, and tulips. Individuals who are allergic to other members of the lily family may also be sensitive to aloe. For susceptible individuals, touching aloe plants, applying aloe gel, or taking aloe juice supplements may result in allergic responses such as upset stomach or skin rash. [48]\nSkin products used to treat radiation dermatitis vary among institutions. Nurses should be aware that some patients may be predisposed to skin problems. Newly developed products based on A. vera need to take into account. These products should undergo some research or clinical trials so that effective treatment can be instituted. [54]\nA. vera gel might cause dermatological side effects such as burning red, rashes and itching of the skin [48][49][68]. Some cases of contact dermatitis may have been caused by handling aloe plants or applying aloe gel [48]. Discontinuing topical use is suggested if rash or irritation develops [69].\nThere have been a few reports of liver problems in some people who have taken an aloe leaf extract; however, this is uncommon. It is thought to only occur in people who are extra sensitive (hypersensitive) to aloe. [68]\nAloe latex can cause some side effects such as stomach pain and cramps. Long-term use of large amounts of aloe latex might cause diarrhoea, nausea, kidney problems, and blood in the urine, low potassium, muscle weakness, weight loss, and heart disturbances. Taking aloe latex 1 gram per day for several days can be fatal [48][68]. The oral use of aloe gel is inadvisable for individuals with any esophageal, stomach, or bowel disease due to the possibility that aloe gel may be contaminated with aloe latex. Individuals who have haemorrhoids should not take aloe latex due to the possibility that its use may worsen the condition [48].\nPregnancy\/Breast Feeding\nA possible presence of oestrogenic compounds in the aqueous extracts from the aloe leaves are used to regulate the menstrual cycle and to treat dysmenorrhea or infertility in women [70]. However, it is recommended that aloe latex should not to be used by pregnant or nursing women without supervision of a healthcare professional [71]. Although topical use of aloe is unlikely to be harmful during pregnancy or breastfeeding, oral use is not recommended due to theoretical stimulation of uterine contractions which may associated with miscarriage [48]. It could also be a risk for birth defects [68]. Women who are breast-feeding should also avoid taking\/consuming aloe latex. Potentially harmful chemicals\/active ingredients from aloe latex may pass from the mother to the baby in breast milk. The baby may develop diarrhoea [48].\nAge limitation\nDo not use in children under 2 years of age unless recommended by a physician. Babies and young children may be more likely to have reactions to chemicals in aloe latex [48]. Children at the range ages of 12-18 years old may experience abdominal pain, cramps and diarrhoea [48][68]. Caution is advised in patients with diabetes or hypoglycemia or kidney disease.\nA. vera does not cause adverse dermal toxicity [72]. However, some patients may experience burning after topical application. The use of aloe on surgical wounds has been reported to slow healing and, in one case, to cause redness and burning (severe dermatitis) when A. vera was applied to the face after a skin-peeling procedure (dermabrasion). Patients undergoing dermabrasion or chemical peel procedures should be cautioned specifically against the use of A. vera topically in the first weeks after surgery. Application of aloe prior to sun exposure may lead to rash in sun-exposed areas [73].\nThe use of aloe or aloe latex by mouth for laxative effects can cause cramping or diarrhoea. Use for over seven days may cause dependency or worsening of constipation after the aloe is stopped [62]. There is a report of hepatitis (liver inflammation) with the use of oral aloe. From the study, improvement and resolution of liver damage following the rapid discontinuation of A. vera provide strong evidence that the A. vera preparation has caused the acute hepatitis [74].\nElectrolyte imbalances in the blood, including low potassium levels, may be caused by the laxative effect of aloe. This effect may be greater in people with diabetes or kidney disease. Low potassium levels can lead to abnormal heart rhythms or muscle weakness. People with heart disease, kidney disease, or electrolyte abnormalities should not take aloe by mouth. Healthcare professionals should monitor for changes in potassium and other electrolytes in individuals who take aloe by mouth for more than a few days. [75]\nInteraction & Depletion\nInteraction with drug\nMedications for diabetes (Antidiabetes drugs)\nThere is a scientific rationale for the use of A. vera as an antidiabetic agent [76]. Taking aloe gel along with diabetes medications might cause the blood sugar to go too low. People with diabetes who use aloe latex either alone or in combination with other medications must be monitored closely by health care providers to avoid potential complications from low blood sugar levels followed by the changes intake of dose diabetes medication [68]. Some medications used for diabetes include glimepiride (Amaryl), glyburide (DiaBeta, Glynase PresTab, Micronase), insulin, pioglitazone (Actos), rosiglitazone (Avandia), chlorpropamide (Diabinese), glipizide (Glucotrol), tolbutamide (Orinase), metformin, tolazamide, acarbose, acetohexamide, miglitol, repaglinide and nateglinide [36][68].\nMedications taken by mouth (Oral drugs)\nWhen taken by mouth, aloe latex which is a strong laxative will promotes the production of mucus and causes spasms in the lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract by irritating the inside layer of the large intestines and colon [48]. Laxatives can decrease how much medicine absorbed by the body. Taking aloe latex along with medications (orally) might decrease the effectiveness of your medication [68]. So that, the oral use of aloe latex is not recommended. In 2002, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required manufacturers of aloe-containing laxative products to remove those products from the market because no credible evidence showed aloe laxatives to be either safe or effective to use [48].\nSevoflurane (Ultane)\nAloe appeared to interact with the general anesthetic sevoflurane [77]. Aloe might decrease clotting of the blood. Sevoflurane is used as anesthesia during surgery. Sevoflurane also decreases clotting of the blood. Taking aloe before surgery might cause increased bleeding during the surgical procedure. Do not take aloe orally if the patients are having surgery within 2 weeks [68].\nStimulant laxatives\nWhen taken orally aloe latex is a type of laxative called a stimulant laxative. Stimulant laxatives speed up the bowels. Taking aloe latex along with other stimulant laxatives could speed up the bowels too much and cause dehydration and low minerals in the body. Some stimulant laxatives include bisacodyl (Correctol, Dulcolax), cascara, castor oil (Purge), senna (Senokot), and others. [68]\nWarfarin (Coumadin)\nWhen taken orally, aloe latex is a type of laxative called a stimulant laxative. Stimulant laxatives speed up the bowels and can cause diarrhoea in some people. Diarrhoea can increase the effects of warfarin and increase the risk of bleeding. Do not take excessive amounts of aloe latex together with warfarin. [68]\nDigoxin (Lanoxin)\nWhen taken by mouth aloe latex is a type of laxative called a stimulant laxative. Stimulant laxatives can decrease potassium levels in the body. Instead of increasing the risk of side effects of digoxin (Lanoxin) [68], combination of these two medications will lowering the potassium levels, thus resulting in muscle weakness and potentially dangerous changes in heart rhythm. Digoxin side effects may include changes in vision, drowsiness, heart rhythm changes, nausea, and vomiting [48].\nWater pills (Diuretic drugs)\n\"Water pills\" can also decrease potassium in the body. Taking aloe latex along with \"water pills\" might decrease potassium in the body too much. Some \"water pills\" that can decrease potassium include chlorothiazide (Diuril), chlorthalidone (Thalitone), furosemide (Lasix), hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ, Hydrodiuril, Microzide), and others. [68]\nBoth corticosteroid drugs and aloe latex may promote the loss of potassium from the body. It is best not to take aloe latex and corticosteroids at the same time. Corticosteroids are used for a wide range of inflammatory conditions including arthritis, asthma, cancer, eye conditions, and skin infections. Commonly prescribed corticosteroids include beclomethasone (Beconase, Beclovent, Vancenase, Vanceril), dexamethasone (Decadron), hydrocortisone, methylprednisolone (Medrol), prednisolone, prednisone (Deltasone, Orasone) and triamcinolone (Azmacort, Nasacort) [48]. Aloe gel may enhance the ability of hydrocortisone to reduce swelling [78].\nZidovudine (ZDV) or didanosine (ddI)\nAcemannan was well tolerated and showed no significant pharmacokinetic interaction with zidovudine (ZDV). Zidovudine was given to antiretroviral therapy among patients with advanced HIV disease together with acamannan (400 mg orally four times daily) [63]. Zidovudine does not cure HIV or AIDS, but combinations of drugs that treat HIV infection may slow progress of the disease development.\nInteraction with other Herbs\nIf aloe latex is taken at the same time as other herbs that also affect the heart, potentially dangerous changes in heart function may result. Some herbal products with heart effects are European Mistletoe, Ginger (in large doses, Hawthorn, Motherwort, Panax Ginseng, Pleurisy Root and Squill. Aloe latex possibly could increase the laxative effects of other herbal laxatives including Alder Buckthorn, Cascara, Castor Oil, Rhubarb, Senna and Yellow Dock. Both aloe latex and extremely large amounts of true licorice (not licorice flavoring) can promote the loss of potassium from the body, potentially causing muscle weakness and changes in heart rhythm. Low levels of potassium (due to oral aloe) could interfere with cardiac glycosides as well as affect other antiarrhythmic agents. Potassium deficiency can be exacerbated by simultaneous applications of thiazide diuretics, cortico-adrenal steroids or licorice root [79]. The amounts of licorice ordinarily consumed as candy are not thought to be large enough to present a problem. Some interactions between herbal products and medications can be more severe than others. It is recommended to tell the doctor or pharmacist what medications you are currently taking, including any over-the-counter products, vitamins, and herbals to avoid harmful interaction [48].\nPeople with known allergy to garlic, onions, tulips, or other plants of the Liliaceae family may have allergic reactions to aloe [48]. A. vera is contraindicated (in individuals with) hemorrhoids, heart conditions, and kidney disorders. Likely unsafe for use during pregnancy because aloe can induce abortions and stimulate menstruation. A. vera is contraindicated when menstruating, due to possible stimulation of endometrial activity [61]. Aloe latex should not be taken internally if the following drugs are also taken: digoxin (Lanoxin), diuretics, steroids, drugs for irregular heartbeat and drugs that cause potassium loss [80].\nSome studies reported positive results while others showed adverse effects in the patients taking A. vera gel and placebos [50][52]. Of the 30 patients randomized to A. vera gel, one complained of abdominal bloating, one of pain in her feet, one of sore throat, one of transient ankle swelling, one of acne and one of worsening eczema. Of the 14 patients taking placebo, two reported bloating, one foot pain and one acne problem. No patients developed abnormal blood tests attributable to A. vera gel or placebo, or were withdrawn from the trial because of adverse effects [47].\nA. vera leaf gel has been used for centuries as a topical wound healing agent for traumatic wounds (from mechanical, traumatic, or thermal injury, including contusions, abrasions, punctures, fractures, sunburn and burns), and chronic wounds (including pressure and diabetic ulcers) [47]. Although previous studies failed to support the use of aloe in diabetes, several recent animal studies have shown that both aloe gel and aloe latex may help to lower blood sugar levels [48]. The results from a small study investigated taking A. vera orally and its effects on ulcerative colitis showed that after 4 weeks, aloe produced clinical effects greater than placebo although more studies are needed [47]. Another case has reported that 35% of patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome showed response to the treatment of A. vera compared to placebo group of 22% showing treatment in one month duration [81].\nIn another case reports and a few small studies, application of A. vera gel was helped to lessen or prevent damage caused by frostbite for individuals and animals exposed to extremely cold temperatures. It is believed that chemicals in A. vera gel may keep small blood vessels in the fingers and toes from shrinking, thereby preventing the surrounding tissues from freezing [48].\nA 39-year-old liver transplant patient who took a laxative containing aloe for ten months has developed melanosis coli. One year after stopping the anthranoid medication, the pigments disappeared but a polypoid lesion appeared in the transverse colon [82]. A 47-year-old South African, developed acute oliguric renal failure and liver dysfunction after ingestion of an herbal remedy, found by mass spectrometric and chromatographic analysis, to contain Cape aloes [83].\nAloe is reported safe in recommended dosages. But, based on pharmacology, long term use or higher than recommended dosages may cause fluid and electrolyte imbalances [75]. As aloe is a laxative, products should not be taken long-term unless aloin and aloe-emodin free products are used. If used in wound healing and wound has not improved in five to seven days, seek further medical attention. Aloe gel is available in a number of topical products such as creams, gels, lotions, and ointments. It can also be obtained from an aloe houseplant, simply by breaking off one of the plants leaves [48].\nThe following doses have been studied in scientific research:\nOral (by mouth) as an oral supplement\nThe dose often recommended is the minimum amount to maintain a soft stool, typically 0.04-0.17 g of dried juice (corresponds to 10-30 mg hydroxyanthraquinones). As an alternative, in combination with celandin (300 mg) and psyllium (50 mg), 150 mg of the dried juice\/day of aloe has been found effective as a laxative in research [62]. For daily intake, 100-200 mg aloe or 50mg aloe latex is recommended, particularly in the evening; however, it might not be safe to take aloe latex for this use [68].\nItchy rash on the skin or mouth (Lichen planus)\nA. vera may be useful in lichen planus, a disease that involves the skin and mucous membranes characterized by unique eruptions. The cause of this disease is unknown, but has been linked to emotional stress, and has also been attributed to viral infections [84]. Research shows that using a mouthwash containing aloe 3 times daily for 12 weeks or applying a gel containing aloe twice daily for 8 weeks can reduce pain associated with itchy rashes in the mouth. Other research shows that using a mouthwash containing aloe 4 times daily for one month reduces pain and increases healing similarly to standard treatment in people with itchy rashes in the mouth [68].\n1 tablespoon of the aloe latex (5-15 mL) has been used twice daily [68]. However, safety and efficacy of this dose has not been proven.\nAcemannan (1000-1600 mg) taken orally in four equal doses. A study demonstrated that acemannan at an oral daily dose of 1600 mg does not prevent the decline in CD4 cell count (white blood cells that play important roles in the immune system) characteristic of progressive HIV disease [63]. However, effectiveness and safety have not been proven by studies.\nA. vera gel taken orally helped reduce symptoms of patients with ulcerative colitis due to its anti-inflammatory effect. [47]\nTopical (applied to the skin) \u2192 Adults (18 years and older)\nHydrophilic cream of 0.5% (by weight) of a 50% ethanol extract of aloe, combined with mineral and castor oils, applied 3 times daily aloe for five consecutive days per week for up to 4-8 weeks seems to reduce the skin plaques and decrease the severity of psoriasis. However, using an aloe gel does not seem to improve other symptoms associated with psoriasis, including skin redness [55][68].\nCold sores (herpes simplex virus [HSV-1])\nSome evidence shows that applying an aloe extract 0.5% cream 3 times daily increases healing rates in men with cold sores [68].\nGenital herpes (herpes simplex virus [HSV-2])\nHydrophilic cream of 0.5% (by weight) of a 50% ethanol extract, combined with liquid paraffin and castor oil, three times daily on lesions for five consecutive days per week, for up to two weeks has been studied. [59]\nSome creams for minor burns have just 0.5% A. vera. [68]\nDosage Range\nFigure 1: The line drawing of A. vera (L.) Burm. f. [2].\nThe plant list. Ver 1.1. Aloe vera (L.) Burm f [homepage on the Internet]. c2013 [updated 2012 March 26; cited 2014 November 18]. Available from: http:\/\/www.theplantlist.org\/tpl1.1\/record\/kew-298116.\nAguilar NO, Brink M. Aloe vera (L.) Burm f. 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Gen Dent. 1998; 47(3): 268-272.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Private schools and the Charities Commission\nYes, yes, I know, educating children without charging the State for doing so: that should be enough to ensure charitable status for a school. However, of course, our Lords and Masters don\\'t think that way, this we know.\nSo schools are now being brow beaten, through the threat of losing their charitable status (and no, they can\\'t just give it up, they would have to liquidate to do so), into offering more bursaries. However, that\\'s not the scary bit:\nA spokesman for the Charity Commission said: \\\"It is not correct to state that the Charity Commission\\'s initial public benefit assessments focused only on the provision of means-tested bursaries. We have been very clear throughout this process and in the reports published today that, although fee reductions are an obvious way of making the services of a fee-charging charity more widely accessible, this is not the only means of achieving this.\n\\\"When conducting these assessments, all the activity that the charities engage in which is related to their aims and meets the principles of public benefit was taken into consideration; this includes partnerships with local communities and state schools. We have not taken, and will not take, a 'one size fits all' approach to public benefit. Every charitable independent school is different and there is no benchmark for the minimum or maximum amount for bursaries. Equally, there is no formula for calculating the number of bursaries any one school should provide.\\\"\nThose last three sentences.\n\\\"We won\\'t tell you what you need to do to keep charitable status. We\\'ll just sit here smug in our offices and keep prodding you, without revealing the rules. We\\'re the bureaucrats and you\\'ll dance to our tune, even when we won\\'t tell you what the beat is or what key it is in.\\\"\nNothing like having the rule of law, is there? And this is nothing like having the rule of law.\npreviousRenewables are rubbish\nnextWhat an offer!\n13 thoughts on \"Private schools and the Charities Commission\"\nBishop Hill July 14, 2009 at 8:51 am\nI think private schools should throw out the children of Labour party members.\nNewmania July 14, 2009 at 8:57 am\nWell it is far from clear to me why an organisation which exists specifically to cement class advantage and monopolise opportunity should have any charitable status at all so we shall not shed to many tears for all the poor little Etonians . Have you not observed how conspicuously they are suffering as social mobility halts and they occupy the Nation like so many gaping beaked cuckoos ? Quite .\nIt is not good argument for a low tax and free society that access to high earnings is fixed in childhood as it increasingly is . One response is to bring back Grammar schools and in all but name that's where we are going and this will accelerate when the Conservatives take power. Academies wholeheartedly independent ( not under Labour's boot ) , free schools and rigorous streaming are all getting on the way but bursaries from Private schools is an excellent part of the scene handled correctly and not punitively I would like to see the return of direct grants to complement the school places as ion the old days .\nYou may be right that there is some bureaucratic muddle here but your knee jerk defence of the privileged is simply inviting the red hoard to sweep down from their mountain homes and rain devastation on the land .\nIrresponsible Worstall , take 200 lines\n\" I must not defend privilege under the guise of Libertarianism\nEtc. (200 times )\nIan B July 14, 2009 at 9:07 am\nI can't for the life of me ever comprehend why school businesses are charities. But then I can't figure out why most of the things we call charities are called charities.\nThese schools, best of luck to them, are businesses selling a service. Frankly, if they want a benefit from the government (tax freeness) they're asking for all they get. They're not doing anything charitable. They're in business for crying out loud. Why the feck don't they tell the government to piss off, and pay taxes like every other business has to?\nI daresay that somebody will say their customers are having to pay for education twice or something like that, but it's a silly argument. We're all paying through the nose for everything the government does. Single people are forced to pay for the schooling of other peoples' children. It's just what living under a statist system is like.\nReally, come on. These are businesses selling a luxury product to the luxury market. Charities? My arse.\nlusakajoe July 14, 2009 at 9:22 am\nWonderful demolition of Charity Commission arguments in The Times this morning here using example of kitchen tables :\nhttp:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article6702855.ece\nKay Tie July 14, 2009 at 10:48 am\nIf fees have to rise anyway why not bite the bullet and incorporate, charge VAT and be out from under the Government's jackboot?\nTim adds: Note the \"you have to liquidate\" part.\njohn b July 14, 2009 at 11:25 am\nIt's not a wonderful demolition, for precisely the reason Ian gives \u2013 table makers don't get tax benefits on the basis that table making is useful (despite the fact that it obviously is), whereas private schools do.\nIf table makers wanted to get tax breaks compared to chair makers, then they'd also need to jump through ridiculous hoops to justify them\u2026\nKay Tie July 14, 2009 at 12:06 pm\nI am sure it's possible to liquidate and incorporate \u2013 they should talk to the GMG's lawyers about how to do that offshore.\nFalco July 14, 2009 at 2:34 pm\nJB \u2013 If we had to pay for tables through taxes, (enough that everyone is entitled to one government standard table), but some people don't take up the government option but pay, on top of their tax contribution, to buy a table elsewhere, then a private table selling company would be satisfying a public good and have a reasonable argument for charitable status. The only thing the charity commission should be ensuring is that the company is selling tables.\nAn alternative plan would be to remove charitable status from all schools but to give a tax rebate to the equivalent cost, (NB not value), of a state education, (or a voucher if you prefer).\nNewmania: \"Well it is far from clear to me why an organisation which exists specifically to cement class advantage and monopolise opportunity should have any charitable status at all\"\nMissing the point with spectacular abandon there. These organisations exist specifically to provide education. Your objection is like complaining that a charity to help children from sink estates exists exclusively to help irritating lefty tossers spout bollocks in the media.\nMr Potarto July 14, 2009 at 2:48 pm\n\"monopolise opportunity\"\nAn amazing phrase.\nIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man would have it poked out for monopolising vision.\nIan Bennett July 14, 2009 at 3:13 pm\nKay Tie's comment in the Times piece (\"pay for all children to go to private schools and to shut down the LEA etc\") is pretty much what happened in New Zealand; in that case, however, the schools were still state-owned, but run by a board elected by parents of its pupils. 4,500 schools changed to this system on the same day.\nMonty July 14, 2009 at 9:05 pm\nIan, thanks for the link. I really wish something like that would happen over here.\nIn fact, the charitable aspect of private education is primarily paid out by the parents who pay the fees. Because they have paid twice over for the education of each child. The state benefits from their non-takeup of a school place, and reimburses nothing.\nThe state sector has ample information on how many school-age children there are in any area. And it is true that some of those children will not take up their places. Yet we still manage to have thousands of kids travelling many miles each day because there is no local school place for them at all.\nNo no bloody marks to the state sector yet again.\nMartin July 15, 2009 at 7:57 am\nMy old school now charges 9K a year.\nSome charity.\nKMcC July 15, 2009 at 8:19 pm\nI had the immense good fortune to be one of the first Assisted Places children in the UK. Changed my life. God bless you Lady Thatcher (even though I'm an atheist)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"> Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, and Hist... (3 February 1999)\nAncient, British and World Coins, Tokens, and Hist... (3 February 1999)\nIrish Coins\nThe Magnay Collection of Fractional Farthings and Victorian Pattern Pennies\nTotal Lots Found: 627\nItaly, Bruttium, Terina, 400-356 BC, Stater, head of Terina left, rev. winged Nike seated right, holding caduceus in right hand and bird in other (BMC \u2013; SNG Cop.\u2013); together with a Sixth-Stater of Terina (BMC 34; S 509) and two Celto-Iberian Drachms [4]. Fine (\u00a3100-130)\nItaly, Campania, Cumae, 480-423 BC, Didrachm, female head left, rev. mussel-shell, above barley corn ? (BMC 14). Rare, good fine (\u00a3100-130)\nItaly, Lucania, Thurium, 425-400 BC, Stater, helmeted head of Athena right, rev. bull butting right, below tunny-fish (BMC 2; S 435). About very fine (\u00a390-120)\nSicily, Syracuse, 450-439 BC, Tetradrachm, slow quadriga driven right, Nike flying above, rev. head of Arethusa right wearing sakkos (BMC 113; S 931). Fine (\u00a390-120)\nKings of Macedon, Alexander The Great (336-323 BC), Tetradrachm, Tarsos, head of Herakles right, rev. Zeus seated left, before a plough (Price 3019). Very fine (\u00a370-90)\nNorthern Greece, Macedon, Amphipolis (under Roman rule), 168 BC, Tetradrachm, head of Artemis right on shield, rev. club within wreath (S 1386); Roman Empire, Plautilla, Denarius, rev. pietas avgg, Pietas standing holding child (S 2001; RIC 367) [2]. Good fine (\u00a350-60)\nKings of Thrace, Lysimachus (323-281 BC), Tetradrachm, head of Alexander the Great, rev. Athena seated holding Nike. Stained, very fine (\u00a360-80)\nIllyria and Central Greece, Boeotia, Thebes, 426-395 BC, Hemidrachm, Boeotian shield, rev. Kantharos in incuse square; Hemidrachms (3), 379-338 BC, similar, but without incuse square (BMC 43, 50; S 2380, 2396) [4]. One pierced, fine (\u00a360-80)\nIllyria and Central Greece, Attica, Athens, 197-87 BC, New style Tetradrachm, magistrates Polycharm and Nikog, rev. owl standing right on amphora, on left, winged caduceus (BMC 136). Very fine (\u00a370-90)\nIllyria and Central Greece, Corinthia, Corinth, Stater, c. 400-350 BC, Pegasus left, rev. Athena in crested helmet, race-torch in field (BMC pl.vi, 4). Reverse good very fine (\u00a370-80)\nIllyria and Central Greece, Corinthia, Corinth, Drachm, 350-306 BC, Pegasus flying right, rev. head of Aphrodite right (BMC 231; S 2633). Very fine (\u00a340-50)\nPeloponnesos, Elis, Olympia, 271-191 BC, Drachm, eagle right attacking hare, rev. thunderbolt (BMC 136; S 2899). Good fine (\u00a360-80)\nAsia Minor, Ionia, Miletos, 300-250 BC, Didrachms (4), head of Apollo right (3) and left, rev. lion standing right, looking back at star (cf. S 4505) [4]. Fair to fine (\u00a355-65)\nAsia Minor, Islands off Caria, Rhodes, Didrachm, 333-304 BC, three-quarter facing head of Helios, rev. apistobios above rose from which is suspended an ivy-wreath (BMC 44). Very fine (\u00a380-100)\nSeleucid Kings, Antiochos VIII (121-96 BC), Tetradrachm, Ake Ptolemais, diademed head right, rev. Zeus holding star and sceptre (BMC 8; S 7143 var.). Almost very fine (\u00a370-100)\nSeleucid Kings, Antiochos III (223-187 BC), Tetradrachm, diademed head right, rev. Apollo seated left (BMC 25; S 6934); Parthia, Vologases VI (208-222), Tetradrachm, bust of King left, rev. Tyche standing right facing king on throne (Sellwood 88\/1) [2]. Fine (\u00a375-90)\nAsia Minor, Lydia, Persian Imperial coinage, 450-330 BC, Sigloi (2), Great King kneeling right, holding dagger and bow, rev. oblong punch (S 4683) [2]. Fine to very fine (\u00a350-60)\nPtolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy I (c. 323-310 BC), Tetradrachm, rev. eagle (SNG Cop 71). Very fine (\u00a360-80)\nPtolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Ptolemy II (285-246 BC), Tetradrachms of Sidon (2), rev. eagle standing on thunderbolt (S 7772). Fair to fine (\u00a345-60)\nPtolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, The Ptolemaic Dynasty, c. 285-116 BC, Bronzes (10), in various denominations from \u00c6 46 to \u00c6 20 [10]. Mixed condition; could be improved by cleaning (\u00a350-80)\nKings of Bactria and Indo-Greece, Euthydemos I (230-190 BC), Tetradrachm, diademed bust, rev. Herakles seated (cf. S 7515). Fine (\u00a370-100)\nMiscellaneous, Ancient Greece, a collection of minor bronzes (13), from Greece and its Colonies, all separately identified [13]. Generally fine to very fine (\u00a390-110)\nMiscellaneous, British Museum Electrotypes: Armenia, Tigranes, 97-56 BC, Tetradrachm and a Social War Denarius of the Marsic Confederation (S 250) [2]. Good very fine (\u00a340-60)\nMiscellaneous, Ancient Greek Silver (20), a miscellaneous group, including fractional issues of Corinth, Sicyon, Chios and Parium, Drachms of Alexander III and Seleukos III, and a plated Tetradrachm of Antigonos Gonatos (S 6783) [20]. A few plated, mostly fair to fine (\u00a350-70)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Receive our eNewsletter\nTours & Dining\nSafari from the Saddle\nConservation Caretaker\nConservation Day Camps\nGive in Honor of Someone\nWhite Oak has a long standing history of educational training geared towards early career professionals through conservation internships and career speciality programs. When White Oak welcomed new owners Mark and Kimbra Walter, we also welcomed the arrival of a new era where educational programs became a central pillar to the organization's mission. Through the Walters' initiative, White Oak began a campaign to engage a younger audience in the conservation work taking place across our 17,000-acre property. From understanding the basics of animal behavior to the challenges that climate change poses for endangered wildlife, White Oak recognized the value it can contribute to student's ecological awareness, scientific literacy, and conservation ethic to aid in the bigger picture of conservation.\nToday, thousands of K-16 students come to White Oak for an unparalleled experience where science and conservation take center stage. The Education Department at White Oak welcomes and collaborates with diverse audiences in a variety of capacities, serving as a premier hub for experiencing wildlife conservation first hand. From students in elementary school to undergraduates and early career professionals, White Oak's Education Continuum helps students progress through their academic and personal lives with an interconnected understanding of conservation's role in the 21st century. White Oak is well-positioned to educate and inspire the next generation of conservationists and stewards of the natural world. As an education guest, we will guide you through our vast, living conservatory which helps save endangered wildlife and habitats.\nK \u2013 12\nOur Impact: A Snapshot\nWhite Oak hosted its first group of kids in the summer of 2013. A few local schools quickly followed who were willing to explore student involvement during the fall and spring. Before long, summer camps had a wait-list, and field experiences with partner schools were filling up the calendar.\nIn 2017, White Oak doubled the camp capacity to meet demand, while school groups had become one the most numerous demographics that came to White Oak.\nToday, the Education Continuum sees students progressing through their academic and personal lives with an increased understanding of conservation's role in the 21st century. Through field experiences, school partnerships, summer camps, internships, and professional trainings, White Oak continues to be a resource for helping future generations become leaders.\nKeeta Moore first met White Oak in the summer of 2013. Keeta was one of a handful of kids who became the first summer campers at White Oak. Though it was a trial run for the team at White Oak, it proved vastly influential for Keeta.\nSix years later she made her way back to White Oak in pursuit of her career interests Keeta had secured a coveted internship in the wildlife department to assist with the conservation management of imperiled species. Now as a college student focusing on fish and wildlife biology, she hopes to turn her knowledge, experience, and passion for wildlife conservation into full time work.\nWhite Oak is a 17,000-acre haven for animals, people, and ideas located in Yulee, Florida.\nIt's an exciting time at White Oak! Keep up with our Newsletter!\n\u00a9 2022 White Oak. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"in Europe Law, Recent, UK Law\nMadeleine McCann Case Creates Legal Issues\nJuly 8, 2013, 2:44 am 1.6k Views\nThe ongoing search for missing British girl Madeleine McCann has created friction between British and Portugese authorities following the announcement from British police that they want to actively investigate the case of Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007.\nThe British police say they have identified 38 suspects in EUrope, but Portugese Attorney General Joana Marques Vidal says no request from the British police has been received in respected of any International letter of Request and accordingly they have no right to undertake any investigations in Portugal.\nThe Telegraph:\nScotland Yard launched a review of the case, funded by the Home Office in 2011, after the inquiry into Madeline's disappearance was shelved in 2008 and Portugese authorities refused to reopen it, saying there was no new evidence.\nPortugal's detective unit, the Policia Judiciaria, said its officers would assist the British inquiry, but added they would effectively work to rule \u2013 only carrying out their duties to the letter of the law.\nPedro do Carmo, deputy national director of the unit, told the Daily Mail: \"We are available to co-operate with the British authorities but only under terms of Portuguese law and within the time period allowed under Portuguese law.\nInspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the inquiry, said he believes there is a possibility that Madeline is still alive.\nPrime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the Scotland Yard inquiry, and said: \"It is welcome because they say that there is new evidence, new leads to follow, new things to be done.\nInspector Redwood has promised the Scotland Yard inquiry would have \"teeth\" and his promises have been backed by the Prime Minister David Cameron who welcomed the review of the Madeleine McCann file.\n\"It is welcome because they say that there is new evidence, new leads to follow, new things to be done,\" said the Prime Minister.\n\"It was a case that did shock and still shocks the nation and if an answer can be found we should try and find it.\"\nThe Scotlant Yard review of the case, which has been code-named Operation Grange, was launched two years ago after Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, appealed to PM Mr Cameron for help.\nWhile detectives would not be drawn yesterday on any potential timetable for possible arrests, it is believed action could be taken before the end of the summer.\nPrevious article Part-Time Law Jobs Pay Full Time Incomes\nNext article Taylor Wessing Recognized for Innovation at The Lawyer Awards\nMore From: Europe Law\nin Big Law, Europe Law, LawStars, Press Releases\nHughes Hubbard Strengthens Team with Addition of Leading French Litigator F\u00e9lix de Belloy\nin Big Law, Europe Law, Press Releases, Recent\nCleary Gottlieb Partners 2019 \"Lawyers of the Year\"\nin Europe Law, Labor and Employment, Press Releases\nOgletree Deakins Bolsters European Capabilities With Paris Promotion\nin Briefings, Briefs, Europe Law, featured, International Trade, Regulatory, UK Law\nUK government publishes updated procurement guidance in the event of a no-deal Brexit\nin Europe Law, Press Releases, US Law\nBaker McKenzie Retains Top Position in Euromoney's Real Estate Survey for 10th Consecutive Year\nPart-Time Law Jobs Pay Full Time Incomes\nTaylor Wessing Recognized for Innovation at The Lawyer Awards","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Not seeing eye to eye with someone? Need to find a solution without going to the courts? Dr. Stan Leasure, business law professor at Missouri State University, says alternative dispute methods might be your best bet.\n\"If you're going to build me a house, we might realize that house-building is something that involves a lot of money and it's complicated,\" Leasure said. \"You and I might agree before you ever start the house that if we do find ourselves in some sort of a dispute, we're going to go to arbitration.\"\nWhy you should consider arbitration\nHow arbitration works\nThe decision to use arbitration can be made later as long as both parties agree.\n\"The arbitrator makes the decision of who wins, who loses, makes a decision as to what the remedies are going to be. And this arbitration system is binding,\" he said.\nArbitration may be conducted by a panel including experts, he added.\n\"The arbitration is much simpler, much quicker, much cleaner, much cheaper, and it is possible for two businesses with a dispute to preserve their relationship in an arbitration setting,\" Leasure said.\nLearn more in Mind's Eye\nRead the transcript","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Next COVID-19 relief bill: Bipartisan support for 2nd stimulus check, but disagreements on unemployment aid, school funding, more\nRepublicans are expected to unveil their $1 trillion counteroffer to the House bill\nTrump faces scrutiny as pandemic worsens\nTwo months after House Democrats approved a $3 trillion COVID-19 aid package, Senate Republicans are poised to unveil their $1 trillion counteroffer this week.\nIt would be the fifth coronavirus relief bill since the spring, when Congress dispensed and President Donald Trump approved nearly $3 trillion in emergency aid.\nNow, with the pandemic worsening and the current round of aid running out, lawmakers need to pull the country back from the looming COVID-19 cliff before it's too late.\nHere's a look at those relief bill proposals -- which includes second stimulus checks, business loans and school spending -- as well as what could happen if Washington doesn't act quickly.\nMcConnell's $1T proposal\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke about the next stimulus package during a visit to Kentucky.\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to roll out the GOP bill soon, but key GOP senators are wary about its $1 trillion price tag.\nMcConnell hit \"pause\" on the passage of the last aid package in May as Republicans hoped the economy would rebound. Now, he acknowledges that additional intervention is needed.\n\"Regretfully, this is not over,\" McConnell said during a visit to a hospital in Kentucky.\nHere are some highlights from what's expected in McConnell's proposal, though Republicans are divided. As dissenting Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky put it: Supporters of the package \"should be ashamed of themselves.\"\nSecond stimulus check\nMcConnell's plan would include new round of stimulus checks earners below a certain income level, similar to the $1,200 direct payments sent in the spring. It also will likely have some version of Trump's demand for payroll tax holiday for workers, which many Republicans oppose.\nRepublicans want to reduce the $600 weekly unemployment boost that expires at the end Friday to a few hundred dollars a month. Additionally, they are eyeing a return-to-work stipend for workers to get back on the job.\nLiability shield\nIt's a five-year shield for employers that negligently expose customers and workers to the coronavirus, limiting their legal exposure, according to the draft of the plan obtained by The Associated Press. This would protect \"schools, colleges, charities, and businesses that follow public-health guidelines, and for frontline medical workers.\" Supporters say the proposal protects businesses and other employers who adhere to public-health guidelines in good faith. Opponents say it will permit wrongdoing to go unpunished.\nRepublicans want to include at least $105 billion for education, with $70 billion to help K-12 schools reopen, $30 billion for colleges and $5 billion for governors to allocate. The Trump administration wanted school money linked to reopenings, but in McConnell's package the money for K-12 would be split 50-50 between those that have in-person learning and those that don't.\nThere is likely to be tax credits to help companies shoulder the cost of safely reopening shops, offices and other businesses. To keep costs down, Republicans are considering redirecting some already approved funds from the popular Paycheck Protection Program of small business loans for a revamped business loan program.\nStates and local governments\nRepublicans say $150 billion allotted previously to state governments is sufficient to avert sweeping layoffs and they said more housing protections are not needed to stem what advocates warn will be an eviction crisis.\nRepublicans have remained largely silent on how much testing money would be made available in the new bill. McConnell said Wednesday the government is \"pursuing testing, treatment and vaccines like the country pursued the Manhattan Project in World War II.\"\nPelosi's $3T bill\nThe House of Representatives has passed the HEROES Act, a $3 trillion-plus coronavirus relief bill, but the legislation faces an uncertain future in the Senate.\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill, or the so-called HEROES Act, was approved in May and includes money for COVID-19 testing, reopening schools and assisting cash-strapped states.\nThe measure would give cash stipends to Americans, and bolster rental and mortgage and other safety net protections.\nHere are some of its highlights:\nThe Democrats' plan would also give another round of $1,200 direct payments to Americans.\nExtra $600 for unemployment\nThe House bill extends a $600 per week federal unemployment benefits supplemental payment through January 2021 instead of cutting it off at the end of July.\nThe bill gives $100 billion to states, school districts and universities to defray additional costs associated with the pandemic.\nThe plan subsidies for laid-off workers to remain on their employer-provided health insurance plans through so-called COBRA benefits and creates an open enrollment period to sign up for \"Obamacare\" policies on state and federal health insurance exchanges.\nThe bill allots $175 billion to states to help renters and homeowners pay mortgages, rent, and other housing costs and avoid default, with much of the money aimed at lower-income people.\nThe bill provides more than $900 billion to states ($500 billion), local governments ($375 billion), as well as Indian tribes and territorial governments ($40 billion) to help prevent layoffs of public workers, cuts to services or tax hikes.\nAn additional $75 billion would be allocated for testing for the coronavirus, performing contact tracing to track its spread and treating for COVID-19. This also adds another $100 billion for hospitals and other health care providers.\n\"Time is running out\"\nJust as the pandemic's ferocious cycle is starting again, the first round of aid is running out.\nDeadlines loom as the extra $600 weekly benefits provided to tens of millions of unemployed workers are set to expire July 31. So, too, does the federal ban on evictions on millions of rental units.\nWith 17 straight weeks of unemployment claims topping 1 million -- usually, it's about 200,000 -- many households are facing a cash crunch and losing employer-backed health insurance coverage.\n\"Time is running out,\" Pelosi said.\nFormer Federal Reserve leaders are urging Congress to do more to help the economy deal with the devastating pandemic, such as extending increased unemployment benefits and providing assistance to hard-hit states and local governments, something many Republicans oppose.\nAnd Bank of America executives are already predicting the economic recession to last \"deep into 2022.\"\nToday, the death toll stands at more than 139,000 in the U.S., with 3.6 million-plus confirmed cases.\npoliticscoronavirusstimulus fundsu.s. & worldcongressunemployment","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Local Player of the Week: Abilene Wylie's Maddi Olson out-duels Andrews field\nIn a field of 15 teams and over 80 golfers, Wylie's Maddi Olson reigned supreme at the Andrews Country Club over the weekend.\nLocal Player of the Week: Abilene Wylie's Maddi Olson out-duels Andrews field In a field of 15 teams and over 80 golfers, Wylie's Maddi Olson reigned supreme at the Andrews Country Club over the weekend. Check out this story on reporternews.com: https:\/\/www.reporternews.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2019\/03\/26\/local-player-of-the-week-abilene-wylies-maddi-olson-out-duels-andrews-field-for-award\/3271421002\/\nJordan Hofeditz, Abilene Reporter-News Published 4:00 p.m. CT March 26, 2019\nWylie's Maddi Olson competes during the 2018 Class 4A state tournament. This past weekend, Olson bested over 80 other golfers to win low medalist honors at the Andrews Classic and help lead the Lady Bulldogs to a second place team finish and earn Local Player of the Week. (Photo: Jordan Hofeditz\/Reporter-News)\nIn a field of 15 teams and more than 80 golfers, Wylie's Maddi Olson reigned supreme at the Andrews Country Club last weekend.\nThe junior golfer shot a 1-over-72 to start and followed with an even-par-70 on Day 2 to win the Andrews Classic by four strokes. Olson's individual win also helped the Lady Bulldogs finish as the runnerup.\nLocal Player of the Week: Abilene High softball's Washington Ks way to award\nWylie traveled to Brownwood on Tuesday for the District 4-5A preview tournament before the Lady Bulldogs compete in the district tournament, also at the Brownwood Country Club, on April 1 and 2.\nOlson was a two-time District 5-4A champion and Region I-4A champion while collecting a Class 4A state title and third-place finish. She will be challenged with the move to Class 5A, starting in district with Cooper's Sarah Aitchison, who has picked up tournament wins of her own this season.\nLocal Player of the Week: Abilene High softball's Killam slams way to award\nLocal Player of the Week: Abilene High softball's Salazar hits, pitches way to award\n1. Kaylen Washington, pitcher, senior, Abilene High \u2014 Washington made a bit of history and was dominant for the Lady Eagles in a pair of wins against Weatherford (11-0) and Euless Trinity (10-3). The senior started her week with another five-inning no-hitter and seven strikeouts to reach 300 a school record. She followed with a seven-inning victory, allowing three runs on seven hits with 15 strikeouts. Washington was also 3 of 6 at the plate with a double, home run, a run scored and three RBIs.\n2. Alyssa Washington, shortstop, junior, Abilene High \u2014 The junior was a hard out for Weatherford and Trinity as she went 4 for 5 with a double, two home runs and two walks to go with three runs scored and six RBIs as the Lady Eagles continue to dominate District 3-6A play.\n3. Caleb Munton, catcher, senior, Wylie \u2014 Munton went a perfect 5 for 5 with two doubles and three RBIs in a 10-0 win against Wichtia Falls High.\n4. Aidan Thompson, sophomore, pitcher\/outfielder, Cooper \u2014 Thompson finished a double short of the cycle against Lubbock Christian as he went 3 for 4 with a triple and a home run, three runs scored and four RBIs in the 10-3 win.\n5. Kaylee Philipp, junior, pitcher\/infielder, Wylie \u2014 Philipp's return to the lineup has been a welcome one for the Lady Bulldogs, but was not for Wichita Falls High. The junior went 3 for 5 with a double, a triple and a home run, scoring twice and driving in four runs. She also earned the win in the circle.\nLocal Player of the Week: Abilene High's Alyssa Washington excels in two sports\nLocal Player of the Week: Wylie girls soccer's Ward breaks through in big win\nOther Top Performers\nAubrianna Salazar, Jr., infielder, Abilene High (Went 5 for 7 with two doubles, a home run, two runs scored and six RBIs in two games); Colin Reed, Fr., infielder, Cooper (Went 4 for 4 with a double, a run and two RBIs against Lubbock Christian); Tyler Spears, Sr., first baseman\/pitcher, Wylie (Went 5 for 9 with three doubles, two runs and three RBIs in two games); Bailey Buck, Sr., pitcher\/infielder, Wylie (Went 3 for 4 with two doubles, a triple, two runs scored and an RBI against WFHS); Kylor Aguilar, So., pole vaulter, Wylie (Finished second at the San Angelo Relays with a height of 14-6); Ambria Brekke, Jr., hurdler, Wylie (Finished second in the 110-meter hurdles at the San Angelo Relays with a time of 14.96 seconds); Madi Latham, Sr., hurdler, Wylie (Finished second in the 300 hurdles at the San Angelo Relays with a time of 45.70 seconds); Jennika Willis, So., first baseman, Cooper (Went 3 for 4 with a triple, two runs and two RBIs against San Angelo Central); Kaleigha Kemp, Fr., pitcher, Cooper (Went 2 for 4 with a double and a run while working 22\/3 innings of two-hit shutout relief for the win against Central); Lilly New, Jr., outfielder, Wylie (Went 2 for 5 with two runs and three RBIs against WFHS); Dash Albus, So., pitcher, Wylie (Earned the win against WFHS with five innings of one-hit shutout work, striking out six and walking two); Symone Gary, Sr., catcher, Cooper (Went 3 for 4 with two runs and an RBI against Central); Kaylee Beard, Jr., catcher, Wylie (Went 3 for 4 with an RBI against WFHS); KK Roberson, So., outfielder, Abilene High (Scored four runs and drove in a run in two games); Jaxon Hansen, So., infielder, Wylie (Had three hits, including a double, scored two runs and drove in a run in two games); Ryan Johnson, Sr., pitcher, Abilene High (Allowed one unearned run on one hit with six strikeouts in five innings of a no decision against L.D. Bell); Braiden Hill, Jr., infielder, Cooper (Had two doubles and scored twice against Lubbock Christian); Valery Alvarado, Sr., outfielder, Wylie (Had two hits, including a triple, and scored three runs against WFHS); Jaiden Franklin, Sr., outfielder, Abilene High (Went 2 for 2 with two runs and an RBI against Weatherford); Molly Mason, Jr., outfielder, Wylie (Had two hits, scored two runs and drove in a run against WFHS); Jacob Hummell, Jr., catcher, Cooper (Went 3 for 3 against Lubbock Christian); Halle Arbilera, Sr., shortstop, Wylie (Had two hits, an RBI and scored against WFHS); Keiana Kemp, Jr., outfielder, Cooper (Had two hits and scored against Central); Arin Zachary, Sr., golfer, Wylie (Tied for eighth at the Andrews Classic).\nLocal Player of the Week: Cooper girls soccer's Hayden Abor hauls and gluts way to honor\nLocal Player of the Week: Cooper boys soccer's Rangel scores way to award\nTexas Football: Big things for Jayton, Hamlin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"New Generation Gallery\nOnline Price Guide\nArt Comment\n<Sotheby's: 21 November 2018\nFree entry to public galleries?>\nStrength of Dragons\nSeptember 3, 2018 \/Comments closed\nChristian Dupont reflects on the personal and political desires conveyed in two cartoons by Grace Gifford Plunkett\n1 GRACE GIFFORD PLUNKETT (1866-1953) watercolour drawing in anonymous album of female prisoner autographs, 1915-23 21.5\u00d717.5cm Provenance: Loretta Clarke Murray, 2016\nWilliam Orpen posed his promising student Grace Gifford as a model for his Young Ireland series and the biblical Ruth, but more typically, she has been memorialized as the tragic bride of Joseph Mary Plunkett, whom she married hours before his execution in Kilmainham Gaol for his role in the Easter Rising. She was, or rather became, an activist and artist in her own right, combining both propensities in her clever and widely circulated cartoons. Hilary Pyle paid her fitting tribute in the Irish Arts Review Summer 2014 edition. Recent rediscoveries and acquisitions by Boston College's Burns Library provide additional sources for appreciating Gifford's canny character and caricatures.\nDuring the 50th anniversary of the Rising, the Belfast News Letter published a photo and story of a letter that the journalist estimated was Gifford's last surviving message to her fianc\u00e9, written two days before the GPO takeover.\n'I'd simply love to be with you \u2013 but it's going to be impossible', she concluded, adding a sketch of a ravenous dragon to the bottom of her note. As simple and animated as Picasso's line drawings of doves, the doodle recalls a poem Plunkett wrote to her two weeks prior: 'The joy of Spring leaps from your eyes \/ The strength of dragons in your hair'.\nHeirs donated most of the Plunketts' correspondence to the National Library, but through an odd series of events, this letter wound up in the hands of a bystander during the Easter Week tumult and had remained in private possession since.\nThe joy of Spring leaps from your eyes\nThe strength of dragons in your hair\n2 GRACE GIFFORD PLUNKETT detail of letter to Joseph Mary Plunkett, 22 April 1916 20\u00d715.6cm Provenance: De B\u00farca Rare Books, 2017\nFollowing an appointment to the Sinn F\u00e9in executive in October 1917, Gifford increasingly applied her skills as an illustrator for newspapers and journals to creating propaganda for nationalist, labor, and suffrage causes. An Anti-Treaty protestor during the Civil War, she was arrested and imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol along with some 400 other women. On the walls of her cell, she painted an image of the Madonna and Child, later celebrated and restored in the 1960s by future RHA president Thomas Ryan.\nA recently acquired album containing autographs, verse, and drawings by approximately 120 women prisoners includes a watercolour cartoon created by Gifford in June 1923, following her transfer from Kilmainham to the North Dublin Union. A woman with a flowing mulberry gown and golden crown emblazoned 'Eire' encircling her amber tresses is seated on a bluff, looking grimly across the Irish Sea as a merchant ship with 'Free State' lettered along its gunwale sails away. A Cumann na mBan volunteer kneels to her right, mirroring her vacant gaze, while a man in dark civilian clothing looks upon them pensively and sympathetically. A caption pleads: 'Let them go mother, we are with you still.' Gifford's Young Ireland hearkened back to Thomas Davis', not Orpen's.\nThis is the sixth in a series of articles on Burns Library and its collections that attempts to provide context for appreciating the work of Irish artists and their reception in America.\nChristian Dupont is Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at Boston College, Boston USA.\nIrish Arts Review\n15 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland\nAnnual Subscription Rates\nIreland \/ N Ireland: 1 year \u20ac45\nUK\/Europe: 1 year \u20ac75, USA: \u20ac80\nIrish Arts Review \u00a9 2015 All Rights Reserved\nWeb Development by Big Dog, Dublin","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Forkbeard Fantasy at AUB this Easter\nBack to Industry News\nPublished 2nd March 2016\n10th March \u2013 20th April 2016\n(Easter open week: 30 March \u2013 9 April 2016 \u2013 exhibition closed over Easter weekend)\nMonday \u2013 Thursday: 9am to 5pm\nFriday & Saturday: 9am to 4pm\nClosed Friday 25th March \u2013 Wednesday 30th March\nThis Easter, TheGallery at AUB will be playing host to a seven-foot tall white rabbit, a teenage Brontosaurus skeleton and a 'life-size' animated unicorn as part of a free hands-on exhibition, designed to delight the whole family.\nThe weird and wonderful exhibition 'Forkbeard's Fantasy Theatre of Animation' is a collaboration between AUB and ground-breaking British theatre company, Forkbeard Fantasy, celebrating over 40 years of their pioneering multi-media work.\nThe exhibition allows visitors to get up close and personal with amazing puppets, interact with creative installations, and to enjoy the surreal humour of this exceptional group of artists.\nAssociate Professor Sean Aita, curator of the exhibition, said: \"We hope this new exhibition will attract a younger, family audience to TheGallery. It offers a real taste of the Forkbeard Fantasy studios in Devon, which are a temple to creativity and stuffed to bursting point with costumes, scenery, film equipment and mechanical automata.\"\nFounded in 1974 by brothers, Tim, Simon and Chris Britton, Forkbeard Fantasy is one of the longest surviving and innovative independent theatre companies in Britain. The company is renowned for its pioneering use of interactive film, animation, sets and props, creating performances that regularly break out of the confines of the stage.\nThe title of the exhibition acknowledges the central role that drawing and animation has had in the formation of Forkbeard Fantasy's productions. The scenarios for their plays are often storyboarded, and short animated films have been used in their live performances since the earliest days of the company.\nWe recommend that visitors to the campus use the excellent public transport links identified in a downloadable bus map here.\nYou can read more about the Forkbeard Fantasy exhibition here.\nTwitter | @inspiredAUB\nAUB Highlighted in Tech Nation Report\nAUB's significant involvement with industry is celebrated in the latest Tech Nation report for 2018. The in-depth report,...\nAUB's significant involvement with industry is celebrated in the latest Tech Nation report for 2018. The in-depth report, released on 17 May 2018, is part of a ground-breaking annual series that evaluates digital tech activity from all over the...\nAUB and Outpost VFX partner for pioneering Higher Education initiative\nFive third year BA (Hons) Visual Effects Design and Production students are currently undertaking a rare opportunity in an extended professional placement with Outpost VFX in Bournemouth, having initially worked for the company on a temporary basis...\nAUB24 X Bestival: Student Designs used at Bestival\nEarlier this year AUB ran its annual project: AUB24, with this year's client, Bestival.\nSee more Industry News","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gaza Violence Part of 'Collective Punishment' for Palestinians - Activist\n\u00a9 REUTERS\/ Ahmed Zakot\nViolence unfolding in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is part of the Israeli army's \"collective punishment\" on Palestinian inhabitants, Samer Makhlouf, a Palestine-based activist, told Sputnik.\nOver the weekend, tensions escalated between the two warring parties when Israel reportedly launched a botched raid in Gaza that ultimately killed seven Palestinians and a Hamas commander, according to the BBC. Palestinians later retaliated by launching \"dozens of rockets\" at Israeli-controlled areas, footage released by the IDF shows.\nHours later, both sides agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. \"Egypt's effort led to the cessation of fire between the resistance factions and the Zionist enemy,\" a joint statement released by Hamas-led groups reads. \"The Palestinian movements will adhere to it, provided that the enemy does the same.\"\nhttps:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/radiosputnik\/hamas-retaliates-after-failed-israeli-op\n\u200bMakhlouf spoke with Radio Sputnik's By Any Means Necessary on Tuesday to discuss the latest ceasefire agreement and the disproportionality of the violence that's been taking place in the region.\n\"Hopefully this [ceasefire] will be a deescalation for the Gaza situation, and hopefully we will not see anymore damages or losses in lives, because the past two nights were really difficult \u2014 especially difficult on the inhabitants of Gaza,\" Makhlouf told host Eugene Puryear, noting the violence that Palestinians have endured is part of a \"collective punishment.\"\nCC0 \/ bykst\nIsrael's New Death Penalty Targets Palestinians, But May Not Be Used - Ex-Gen.\n\"When you put 2.5 million Palestinians in the biggest prison on Earth, that's collective punishment,\" he said. \"Anything that happens in Gaza or around the Gazan border, Israel punishes all the Gazan inhabitants\u2026 and they fire left and right without considering any rules of engagement; they don't consider any international laws or respect for international rules\u2026 when they fire against Gaza.\"\nRegarding military tactics the Israeli army has used to target Palestinians, Makhlouf told Puryear that the disproportionality in violence between the parties is shocking when one considers the sophisticated military equipment that Israeli forces are using. \"You can't even imagine it,\" he stressed.\nThough few details have been offered regarding the US' yet-to-be unveiled Palestinian-Israeli peace deal, some reports have indicated that it may contain a clause marking Jerusalem as a joint capital to be shared between Israel and Palestine.\n\"Trump wants a deal, and he's very serious,\" a senior Israeli official told the Yedioth Ahronoth daily paper. \"To the Americans, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is relatively easy to solve.\"\nThe Times of Israel reported that the US' deal will be based off a give and take strategy, forcing participants to offer a concession that the other side agrees to, or face a penalty. However, such a deal may be put off until after 2019 Knesset elections.\n\u00a9 AP Photo \/ Adel Hana\nIsrael, Qatar Agree on Sea Passage Between Cyprus and Gaza Amid Alleged Talks With Hamas \u2013 Reports\nFor Makhlouf, though, the deal is unlikely to have a strong impact.\n\"I don't think this will have any chance to get off the ground or be successful\u2026 [Those working on the US deal] are just making more complications for this conflict and [pushing] peace further away,\" he concluded.\nTurkey, Arab League Urges Global Community to Stop Israel-Gaza Violence\nRabbi Warns Israel Should Be Ready for Biblical Doomsday War 'At Any Time'\nPalestinian Militants Fired About 300 Rockets at Israel, Israeli Army Says\nIsrael Allegedly Trains to Destroy Russian Air Defence Systems (PHOTOS)\nIsrael Seeks Closer Cooperation with Gulf States over Fears of Iran \u2013 Report\nIsrael Defense Forces (IDF), Israel, Gaza Strip","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Squash - Girls 3rd Team\n2017 - 20182018 - 20192019 - 2020\nSquash - Girls 3rd Team vs.\nBrooks School Home Details\nPhillips Andover\nMiddlesex School Away Details\nSt. Mark's\nSt. Mark's School Away Details\nGroton School Away Details\nBrooks squash is about creating life-long players; athletes passionate about the sport, determined to improve their game, and dedicated to the highest levels of sportsmanship. We have welcomed players of all levels to the program, bringing already skilled players to a higher level, while introducing novices to an exciting and challenging sport.\nThe Danforth Squash and Rowing Center is the site of 10 state-of-the-art courts, equipped with scoreboards, two permanent on-court cameras, and a taping system.\nThere is tremendous interest at Brooks in playing squash. Approximately 40 girls comprise four teams. Our players are often multi-sport athletes who learn the game here at Brooks and improve rapidly. The top 18 players, based on a ladder system, make up the 1st and 2nd teams. Each team practices daily for 60 to 90 minutes. The top two teams play a full interscholastic dual meet schedule, and the top seven players play in the US Squash High School Nationals in February, and at the end of the season, compete in the New England Championships.\nIn addition, student athletes are fortunate to have access to the exceptional on-campus athletic facilities at Brooks. Athletes at all levels have the opportunity to use the fully equipped weight room to improve strength and conditioning, and a fully-staffed training room is available to treat injuries big and small.\nMoira Goodman\nMoira Goodman, who previously worked on campus from 2003 to 2007, rejoined the math department in 2010, in addition to working student support services. Moira also chaired the math department at Dana Hall and taught math at Loomis-Chaffee and Milton Academy. She has contributed to residential and school life at each school as a dorm parent and coach for squash, field hockey, cross country and track. During the last few years, Moira served as a learning specialist at Children's Hospital in Boston and at Phillips Academy, where her work has yielded valuable knowledge about students' learning styles and ways to help students with their academic success. A graduate of Phillips Academy and of Holy Cross, Moira received her master's of arts and teaching from Wesleyan, and has studied at Columbia and University of Massachusetts at Lowell. She lives in North Andover with her husband,Tim, and their four boys, Cole, Leland, Henry and Brodie. Outside of work, Moira enjoys spending time with her family, running with her lab, Gus, and playing tennis.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"OpenCloseMain menuMenu\nWindpark Sabina-Henricapolder\nMore info on this location\nMarten Meesweg 5\nDescription only available in Dutch\nWindpark Sabina-Henricapolder is een windpark in de Sabinapolder in de gemeente Moerdijk. Het park bestaat uit drie Vestas V90 turbines met een masthoogte van 105 meter. De turbines zullen naar verwachting 18.000000 kWh produceren. Dit is goed voor het jaarlijkse elektriciteitsverbruik van ongeveer 5.200 huishoudens\nMore projects like this\nSkelmonae Windfarm Ltd\nThis family-run wind farm is based in Aberdeenshire, with four turbines that have an electricity generating potential of 3.2MW. Triodos will also be helping to fund an adjacent development of a further three turbines with an additional generating capacity of 6.9MW. Alongside the wind farm, the family have developed a range of facilities for visitors who want to get up close to onshore wind turbines and develop their understanding. A 5km trail for use by walkers, cyclists and horse-riders has also been created, including picnic benches and viewpoints with information boards, to give greater public access to the hill. The edges of the trail have been planted with species-rich grasses and wildflowers to help feed a diverse range of insects and other wildlife. Part of the thought process behind the wind farm is that the natural resources in the area should be of benefit to the local people. Therefore, the wind farm makes ongoing contributions to local villages and community organisations for the improvement of their recreational and educational facilities. The wind farm also welcomes visits from school, college and community groups and provides tours to help them learn about wind farm technology.\nBlantyre Mill Hydro\nBlantyre Mill Hydro is a small hydro-electric power station based on the River Clyde in Lanarkshire.\nCANANBIE DUMFRIESSHIRE\nMerston Renewable Energy Limited\nThis 5MW solar farm is located in Merston, West Sussex. The project is community-owned, with profits being used to deliver social and environmental benefits through a local community fund.\nTriodos Bank has supported Ecotricity since we helped finance their first turbine, at Lynch Knoll in Gloucestershire, in 1996. Over 20 years later, we're still working closely together. Ecotricity now run one of the most UK's most visible wind turbines, Green Park, which towers over junction 11 of the M4 motorway and provides enough energy for over 1,000 homes and businesses.\nWestray Development Trust\nWestray Development Trust are developing the economic, social and cultural sustainability of their community by harnessing the Orkney island's abundant renewable resources.\nThrive Renewables (Kessingland)\nKessingland Wind Farm, Suffolk comprising of two 2.05MW wind turbines was constructed in 2011. The wind farm is located close to the North Sea Coast, just 5 miles south of Ness Point. This location also benefits from the coastal wind resource. The wind farm is owned by Triodos Renewables plc.\nNash Mountain Farm\nTriodos Bank have helped finance the installation of a 50kW wind turbine on Nash Mountain Farm. The farm is located over 60 acres of land in South Pembrokeshire. As well as the farm and a caravan park Nash Mountain also has heated Dog Kennels.\nNorthern Hydropower Ltd\nNorthern Hydropower, with its sister company, Barn Energy, have developed a 500kW low-head river hydro scheme at Knottingley, near Wakefield. Opened in November 2017, the project is generating renewable electricity for a local flour mill and the local grid.\nKnottingley Yorkshire\nHerscha Wind Energy Limited\nHerscha Wind Energy Limited is a single wind turbine located at Newlands Farm near Auchenblae in Aberdeenshire.\nLAURENCEKIRK\nThrive Renewables (Wern Ddu)\nAn \u00a38 million loan enabled Triodos Renewables, which owns and invests in a range of sustainable energy projects, to construct a four turbine 9.2 MW wind farm in Denbighshire, North Wales. Wern Ddu is the fifth wind farm in the company's portfolio, its first in Wales and increases its total generation capacity by 40%.\nNorth Wales Wern Ddu\nOther Triodos websites:\nTriodos UKTriodos NetherlandsTriodos BelgiumTriodos GermanyTriodos SpainTriodos FranceTriodos Investment ManagementTriodos Corporate\nAccessibility Privacy and cookie policy Complaints Website terms of use E-commerce directive Conflict of interest statement Brexit notice Financial Services Compensation Scheme Open Banking for developers\nTriodos Bank UK Ltd. Registered Office: Deanery Road, Bristol, BS1 5AS. Registered in England and Wales No. 11379025. Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority under registration number 817008. Triodos Bank UK Ltd adheres to the Standards of Lending Practice, which is monitored and enforced by The Lending Standards Board. 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{"text":"VOTF: fair and balanced\nThose energetic souls at Voice of the Faithful, who eschew all ideological ties, seeking only what it good for the Church, have some new events on their calendar. True to form, the VOTF events will feature speakers whose views cover a broad range of Catholic belief, stretching from the far left to the very far left.\nShop: Roman Catholic \"RC\" Original Classic Pullover Hoodie | Multiple colors and sizes available!\nFor example, the New Jersey chapter will hear the Jesuit theologian, Father Roger Haight, speak on \"The Uniqueness of Jesus.\" The Vatican, you may recall, recently issued a warning about the conflict between settled Catholic doctrine and Father Haight's views on the subject of-- you guessed it, the uniqueness of Jesus.\nThe Long Island chapter of VOTF will be hosting Father Tom Reese, who was removed from his post as editor of the Jesuit weekly America at the request of the Vatican because of his persistent criticism of Church teaching, and has subsequently become a reliable source of quotes for secular reporters looking for a liberal Catholic opinion.\nBut Father Reese won't be alone. The lucky VOTF members at the Long Island conference will also hear from Sister Joan Chittister, the grande dame of the American Catholic left, regular columnist for the National Catholic Reporter, winner of the Hans Kung award, and reliable advocate for every leftist cause.\nNow just remember:\nVoice of the Faithful does not have a hidden \"liberal\" or \"conservative\" agenda for Church reform. This would be impossible, since our members hold a diverse representation of views.\nDiverse indeed.\nShop: Roman Catholic \"RC\" Brand Original White Logo Collection Classic Crew Sweatshirt | Multiple colors and sizes available!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"December 24, 2019 Vincent Sung\nUFF20'S THEME HEROES CELEBRATES THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES OF INDONESIA'S CULINARY CULTURES\nImage Credit_ Wayan Martino. Press Call. Amandari\nFrom 17\u201319 April 2020, Ubud Food Festival Presented by ABC (UFF) will celebrate the unsung heroes of Indonesia's culinary cultures, who work tirelessly to put the best food on our plates. With the theme Heroes, the nation's leading food event will champion mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers who provide food rich in history and taste to their loved ones.\nSpotlighting the archipelago's culinary culture has been at the heart of every UFF. Each year, the Festival welcomes audiences and chefs from near and far to learn about Indonesia through its cuisine. In 2020, UFF will introduce the heroes of our home who play a significant role in nourishing Indonesia's gastronomic world.\nFor its sixth year, the Festival will explore how the diversity of the world's fourth most populous nation plays a vital role in its culinary delights. Through special events and cooking demos, food tours and talks, workshops and masterclasses, music and performance, films and markets, the three-day cross-cultural culinary adventure will introduce audiences to flavors far beyond rendang, sate, gado gado, and nasi goreng.\n\"Since our inaugural event, the Festival has introduced Indonesia's complex and diverse cuisines to food lovers across the globe,\" said UFF Founder and Director Janet DeNeefe. \"For our sixth year, we want to recognize and celebrate the people behind the extraordinary flavors and evolving stories of Indonesia's culinary landscape.\n\"With the theme Heroes, we want you to meet the unsung heroes of Indonesian food, the mothers and fathers who cook their age-old family recipes at home. We want to honor their immense contribution to creating the rich flavors we all love,\" DeNeefe continued.\nAlong with the theme, UFF also unveiled the 2020 artwork created by Indonesian artist, Marishka Soekarna. An acclaimed mural artist, she is known for her playful, whimsical approach to intimate and social issues. Her artworks have been exhibited at Gudang Sarinah Jakarta, National Gallery of Indonesia, and Yeosu International Art Festival, South Korea.\nThe Festival is thankful to welcome back one of Indonesia's leading food brands, ABC, for a third year, as Presenting Partner. Dhiren Amin, Director of Marketing and R&D, Kraft-Heinz Southeast Asia, commented, \"We are extremely delighted to be UFF's Presenting Partner for a third year. ABC not only shares the Festival's passion for celebrating Indonesia's culinary scene, we also appreciate the essential role of the people closest to us in creating the diverse flavors and sensations that we enjoy.\n\"The theme Heroes is very much aligned with ABC's programs and commitment to highlighting Indonesia's captivating culinary world and the people behind it. After two successful years of partnership, we are ready to have an even bigger and better festival for our third year,\" concluded Amin.\n\"We are excited to have ABC join us again for the third year and we extend our sincere thanks to everyone at ABC for their continued support,\" commented DeNeefe. \"We are looking forward to celebrating our culinary heroes with food lovers from across the archipelago and beyond. We hope you're ready to taste flavors and textures that will leave you in a state of delighted wonderment.\"\nThe three-day program from 17-19 April 2020, spans a range of ticketed and\nfree events, from cooking demonstrations, special events, workshops and\nfood tours, to markets, film screenings, live music, and in-depth panel\ndiscussions.\nSpecial events will take place at various locations around Ubud.\nA not-for-profit initiative, Ubud Food Festival is underpinned by a mission to\nsupport Indonesia's vibrant and sustainable culinary and tourism industries.\nThe first round of speakers will be announced in mid-February.\nThe program and full line-up will be released and tickets will go on sale in late\nFebruary.\nVisit ubudfoodfestival.com for all information.\nFollow @ubudfoodfest on Instagram and use the hashtags #UFF20 and\nABCUFF20\n\"One of Southeast Asia's most popular gourmet gatherings\" \u2013 Travel + Leisure\nPrevious Coming Soon\u2026 Khum Hom, A Tale of Fragrant Thai Bites at M\u00f6venpick BDMS Wellness Resort\nNext ASIA'S 50 BEST RESTAURANTS MOVES TO JAPAN IN 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Our Man in Babylon\nThe afternoon sky over Baghdad browned ominously as the sandstorm swirled in from the surrounding desert. Suddenly, the dirt was flying everywhere, filling the mouth with grit, a choking blast of hot, stifling air that would not abate until near midnight. Some taxi drivers cursed, fearing the worst for their already damaged vehicles, while others were enthused. \"God is Great!\" rejoiced the ferret-faced, bearded driver who carried me home from a cross-town meeting.\nIndeed, the storm was a portent of weather to come as the desert heats up to 100-plus degrees. Here the spring and summer sandstorms blow like the Russian snow that snatched victory from Napoleon and the Nazis. The heat here, they say, will fry the brains of the invading army. Because the brains of the U.S. barbarians are now embodied by killer computers, their machines of war will slow and discalibrate, and the 3,000 missiles Bush brags he will drill down upon us in an unprecedented 48-hour blitzkrieg are not guaranteed to kiss their targets with any precision. Well, that's what they say.\nEverywhere I travel, the war is in the air. In Mosul, 200 miles to the north where the desert climbs into the cold mountain rain, a bloodbath seems inevitable as U.S. proxy Kurds and Turkish troops (if their Parliament ever gives them the green light and allows them to participate) will go at it with the Iraqi army, trapping the civilian population in a deadly squeeze. At least that's the case if the experience of 1991 is any teacher.\nA delegation of Human Shields who have come to Iraq to interpose their bodies between the Bush bombs and the people of this unlucky land visit the edge of town and pause before one of this ancient city's 15 crumbling gates, each embossed with the emblem of the eagle king Asyripanipani, who protected Mosul from other barbarian hordes long centuries ago, much as the Human Shields dream of doing now, although such a defense we know in our open secret hearts is a mere symbol, a kind of metaphor before the coming slaughter.\nMosul still bears the unmistakable scars of 1991. We visit sites blasted by the U.S. \"smart\" bombs a dozen years back\u2013the telephone company smashed to smithereens, a Christian church where the roof literally blew in, killing four worshipers at prayer, we are told by the young house priest. Mosul is the site of some of Christiandom's earliest crusades, a multicultural oasis where 8,000 Orthodox Christian families still reside. We bus down the valley to a fourth-century monastery hewn from the surrounding mountains\u2013the ruins of a church built in 150 AD are said to be nearby, located in spitting distance of Jesus Christ himself, as an erudite fellow Shield observes.\nThis particular monastery, whose chambers breathe a musty antiquity, was damaged in a firefight between Kurds and Iraqi troops after the U.S. assault, and such engagements are a certainty once the American death machine has done its dirtiest work here.\nThe sinister Moloch, with its head of a snake and fearsome eagle talons, will greet the invading army when it descends upon Babylon, now a dusty, sparsely attended tract an hour south of Baghdad whose reconstructed walls will surely fall when Bush's missiles zero in on the presidential guest house here in their painstaking search and destroy for Saddam Hussein\u2013erasing his ubiquitous portraiture from public buildings alone may take a thousand times the number of heat-seeking rockets in the Yanqui arsenal.\nWe stroll through the ruins, a UNESCO world heritage site, with a friendly posse of schoolkids, the only visitors this morning, trailing behind us chanting \"Down Down Bush!\" practicing their rudimentary English and slapping fives. \"How are you?\" and \"Hi, my name is Muhammad!\" are particular favorites.\nThe Shields have come to Babylon hoping to set up shop here, but the Iraqi authorities build roadblocks. The Minders want us to install at what they consider to be priority infrastructure sites\u2013refineries, power plants, water treatment facilities that are sure to be bombed\u2013but not hospitals, schools, or the ancient ruins that define this place. We send our volunteers into the facilities that the government insists we man and woman in pursuit of a quid pro quo that would hopefully grant us access to the humanitarian sites we have come here to protect. But there is no real dialogue with the authorities, and the push and pull of where the Shields now in Baghdad will be deployed seems destined for a dark end. Spanish and Turkish comrades have already threatened to return to their home countries unless they are allowed to pitch their tents in front of local hospitals, but how easily their exit will be accomplished is still anyone's guess. No, we are not yet unwelcome guests, but the writing is indeed on the wall, and the choices narrow as the war draws near.\nBut settling in at the Daura Oil Refinery and the Seventh of April Water Treatment Facility is only half the business we are about. The international volunteers are resolved to maintain a steady drumbeat of street protest, and almost daily we parade along the boulevards of Baghdad, yelling at both Bush and Blair to get off the Iraqi peoples' backs. On Sunday, February 23, we strung up a 17-meter-long banner on one of the eight bridges that connect the banks of the Tigris River (all were blown up the last time around), strumming guitars and shouting poems to the joyous honking of horns. \"Bush\u2013The Whole World Is Watching You!\" the banner reads, but whether it can be seen 10,000 miles away in Tampa, Florida, from whence the missiles will be triggered, is not assured.\nThat same morning, we marched on the United Nations headquarters here, our hands tied together by thick rope, to ask that international tribunals be convened to try us for the war crime of being human shields, as suggested by U.S. \"Defense\" Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Should we be declared innocent, we demand that Rumsfeld be tried instead for the potential million murders his grotesque weaponry could mow down in the coming days.\nThe day before, the Turkish comrades had danced through Martyrs' Square, pounding drums and tambourines in an exuberant effort to drown out the dirges of death that Bush and Blair duet. Earlier that morning, we had descended upon the International Press Center, hollering \"No More Lies!\" into the cubicles of corporate media. Those folks just love this \"war\" (more likely a massacre) because it means booming ratings and bigger budgets, billions in expanded advertising revenues, and extravagant overtime for the all-star correspondents and their crews. \"No More Lies!\" we shouted at a CNN flunky who stomped out of her cardboard-walled cave muttering \"I ask the questions around here.\"\nBut for all our fury, in the still of the soon-to-be-exploding, we know it is all a pantomime. The missiles will whistle in very soon. Many here would just as soon get it over with as quickly as possible because the waiting is killing their souls. \"We eat America for breakfast,\" says Bassam, an ex-army man who invented a way to feed sheep chicken shit (32 percent protein) in the aftermath of the last war, and now works as a driver at the swank Palestine Hotel. \"Every morning, we listen to the news. If it is good our day will be good but if it is bad we cannot eat\u2026\"\nBassam and I have agreed to celebrate our birthdays together\u2013my 65th is March 11th, when we may still be alive, but his is April 19th, by which date our fate will surely be sealed. Only an impossible miracle\u2013the apparition of the Pope in Baghdad or a transplant of George W. Bush's evil heart\u2013can save us now.\nJohn Ross, who normally sends dispatches from Mexico, traveled to Baghdad last month to be a Human Shield. He implores you to try and save his life by informing the President of the United States and your congressional representative that he is on site at the Daura Oil Refinery in Baghdad. Demand that the White House cancel plans to bomb that facility\u2013and indeed all others in the ancient land of Iraq.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The best dances at Ames High\nZoe Mamakos, Web Staff\nAmes High isn't really known for it's 7 state swimming titles or its global rank in academics but rather our legendary school dances. From dance marathon to tucheze, we really have it all. As one of the last overheated homecoming's passes, upperclassmen reflect on which dance was the most memorable in our high school careers.\nTucheze is a big contender as the best Ames High Dance. It's run by SHEPH and has a new theme each year. The dance is held in the cafeteria and costs only 5 dollars at the door. Many people love it's fun aspect of dressing up as the theme for the dance. Another plus side is the air conditioning that homecoming lacks.\nIt's lowkey lit, don't have to buy a dress or anything it's so chill \"\n\u2014 Junior Emma Grause on Tucheze\nI've gathered that many other people have similar feelings towards it. For who could go wrong with a dance that promotes a club helping to end poverty and hunger?\nHomecoming, being another favorite, has always been a classic. The beginning of the school year brings the excitement of who's going to ask who and decisions begin on what to wear. I personally love homecoming. Something about the fact that there's a whole week to celebrate a football game with a dance following after, has always made me happy. The one downside, I'd have to say, is the heat at the dance. Being September in Iowa we hardly experience enough desirable weather and homecoming tends to fall on the hottest weekend. However, it's excitement and anticipation makes up for it. Other dances that are held towards the middle and end of the year, help to have something to look forward to.\nIn the dead of winter, Ames High students yearn for something to distract them from the endless piles of homework. Dance Marathon does just that. As a dance created to support a cause, it spreads messages of love and determination. Every years profit is donated to the University of Iowa's children's hospital. Last year we raised over $18,000! A yearly club designs the shirts and has different committees to make sure the night runs smoothly. A part of Dance Marathon that is especially inspiring is when families that have experienced help from the hospital come and talk. For me, this part shows the impact that our dancing can have on someone else's life. I have participated in Dance Marathon for two years now and will continue to partake in the last few years because of it's important message.\nEach dance has its own specialties and quirks. These specific dances have been some of my favorite parts of highschool, so far. If you are someone wondering which dance to go to, I encourage you to experience it all. It's worth it.\nZoe Mamakos, Co-Editor\nThis here is Zoe. Not from Zoey 101 and not iconic Zooey Deschanel, just Zoe. A normal 17 year old, senior in high school, run-of-the mill teenager. With...\nThe WEB staff encourages you to exercise your First Amendment rights in this public forum. To comment, click on the \"logged in\" link below. Then click on the Google icon and sign in using your Google school account.\nDo not post comments that are obscene or libelous. Refrain from writing comments that use copyrighted materials or that involve personal attacks, insults or threats. And please relate all comments to the story.\nMusic Man Avery Suza\nAkshata Gandhe\nAs high school students, we spend hours procrastinating. One thing we all struggle with is time management, with all the schoolwork, extracurriculars and the pressure of having...\nRadiant Rowan Daniels\nKeyboard keys racing as a harmonious sound escapes from a choir practice room. The familiar, recognizable sound of the Am\u00e9lie theme song brightens the bleak fluorescent lighting...\nIs the Terminator Series Even Good Anymore?\nLogan Adams-Bacon\nI think it is safe to say that basically everyone alive knows the Terminator series. If you don't, please feel free to leave this article and go read something else. For those...\nCafes in Ames: Study Review\nAkshata Gandhe, Zoe Mamakos, and Seth Bequette\nLockwood Cafe Located right outside of a neighborhood on the west side of Ames, the Lockwood Cafe is filled with great amounts of light and cool unique features. For only...\nThe Scoop on ACAI\nGlass \u2013 A shattered opportunity?\nArtist Spotlight: Noname\nThe Hunger Games Book Review\nGet caught up in the Spider Verse\nRed Dead Redemption: your new life as a shut-in\nHere's the tea about Ames Boba.\nBEST PARK IN AMES?!?! FIND OUT HERE!!!\nThe student newspaper of, by, and for Ames High School.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"internet copyright laws\nThis law protects the same types of literary and creative works as other copyright law. Though British law is very clear on the illegality of copying media, the true barriers to wider piracy are technological. Internet copyright laws are covered by existing copyright laws, but some governments have also enacted laws that specifically address Internet issues, such as the Digital Millennium Act in the United States. 4 At a time when the Internet is collapsing time frames and enabling people to breathe new life into dormant works, it's \u2026 It will also be necessary if a copyright owner wishes to enforce their copyright in certain foreign countries. Since the late 1990s, copyright holders have taken legal actions against a number of peer-to-peer intermediaries, such as pir, Grokster, eMule, SoulSeek, BitTorrent and Limewire, and case law on the liability of Internet service providers (ISPs) in relation to copyright infringement has emerged primarily in relation to these cases. What is the impact of the internet and social media on copyright laws? If something looks like it ought to be copyrighted, it probably is, and you really need to ask for the author's permission before utilizing the property in any of your projects whether or not it \u2026 Internet law refers to how legal principles and legislation govern the use of the internet in all its forms. The youngest member of the European Parliament may be only 25 but she has serious work to do. While this \"copyright notice\" is not a necessary requirement in the UK, it may assist a copyright owner in the event of infringement proceedings. Unless the copyright owner has granted permission or an exception or limitation in the copyright law applies, activities like uploading, With the quick internet connection provided on the school's network, the student makes a few clicks and logs into Morpheus, a program that enables music fans \u2026 Daphne Mallory Last Modified Date: August 18, 2020 . A student comes home to his dorm at the University of Scranton after a rough day of classes. The Internet's power as a medium through which creators can distribute their work continues to grow, yet the current copyright laws are hopelessly out of date. Movies See the notorious fights over copyright on the big screen. Before the internet this rule was fairly understood, mostly because copies were made on paper, canvas or other \"hard\" surfaces. At this point, it is clear that Internet communication is particularly hard to control in terms of copyright violation. To help us improve GOV.UK, we'd like to know more about your visit today. But this requirement is no longer in force \u2014 works first published after March 1, 1989, need not include a copyright notice to gain protection under the law. Though there are various kinds of copyright laws that are in place, oftentimes varying from country to country, the following are ten copyright laws that are important to know in the United States: Creating original quality content is hard work and to see your content stolen and blatantly copied on another Web site is extremely annoying, but you CAN put a stop to it. ... Caching is a potential copyright violation unique to the Internet. Much of the Internet copyright debate has centered around the issue of copyright liability of Internet Service Providers (\"ISP\"s), Bulletin Board Service operators (\"BBS\"s), system operators and other service providers for infringing activities that take place through their facilities. Although this guide is not a complete text on law regarding copyright, we have designed it as an introduction to copyright and copyright registration. General copyright information for educators, students, web-surfers, re-mixers, mash-uppers and confused citizens. Haley Leshko CGS-1000 March 10, 2017 Mr. Newfield WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA ON COPYRIGHT LAWS? Even if a country does not provide copyright protection under international agreements, it may provide protection under its national laws. Help us improve GOV.UK. Protect your valuable creations A poem, painting, musical score, performer's performance, computer program\u2014all are valuable creations, although perhaps no one can measure their worth. The process of caching involves storing information in a designated space on a computer hard drive or server from which retrieval is fast and easy. Internet Intermediaries and Copyright Law: Eu and Us Perspectives: Kulk, Stefan: Amazon.com.mx: Libros There are a few countries that have already passed laws against Internet tort. What role does a copyright notice play? But as those who have lobbied Congress for copyright reform know, the current Congress is much more likely to impose tighter, not looser, restrictions. Internet copyright laws are not excessively complicated; many of them are pretty cut and dry. by Kathleen Conn. Table of Contents. Internet piracy laws were established to prohibit the illegal acquisition and distribution of these media files. Registration of copyrights in the GCC is not that frequent and litigation does not occur often. Piracy laws seek to combat copyright violations, which are adversely affecting media industries, including the music and movie production industries. British copyright law and internet realities. Additionally, no provision of copyright law bars another author from independently creating a work that is remarkably similar to another. The use is a fair use. Remember that just because an image has been uploaded to the Internet, does not mean it is necessarily free to use. The United States is still at the stage of free discussion about whether there should be such laws\u2026 The underlying precept of copyright law is that making an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted work is infringement. For a self-proclaimed pirate, there's not a lot of yo-ho-ho about Amelia Andersdotter. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Until March 1, 1989, a published work had to contain a valid copyright notice to receive protection under the copyright laws. Understanding how copyright laws affect the author, the work, and those seeking to use the creative work is important, for violating such statutes can incur penalties by law. For the most up-to-date information on what copyright protections these countries offer, you should consult an attorney who is an expert in foreign copyright laws. But \"switching\" to F\/OSS rather than \"fighting\" existing computer copyright laws is a more practical way forward. With respect to legislating copyright laws vis-\u00e0-vis the internet, the EU appears to have taken the lead, but this will have a global effect for sure, although its impact in the GCC is still unclear. The copyright laws in India are set to be amended with the introduction of the provisions for anti-circumvention and Rights Management Information in the Indian copyright regime although India is under no obligation to introduce these changes as it is not a signatory to WCT or WPPT. Internet and the Law. their development and access to and production of information, including on the Internet. The doctrine of fair use is the third, and most oft-cited, defense. We're definitely against violating copyright law -- we never would've used those images had we known they were stock photos -- but I think we can agree that there's a huge need for some internet-friendly copyright laws. The copyright owner has an exclusive right to sell, copy, distribute or reproduce that image; anyone else who does so without his permission is in breach of copyright laws. For the Internet to fulfill its potential, new and modernized copyright laws must reflect the \u2026 The directive also strives to ensure that the internet remains a space for freedom of expression. The copyright laws apply on the internet just as they apply to more traditional media. The directive aims to ensure that the longstanding rights and obligations of copyright law also apply to the internet. Another term for internet law is cyberlaw. Notification of Claimed Infringement Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This specific area of copyright law is a good example of how the Internet requires an innovative application of existing laws, but it also demonstrates how those innovations can reflect back into and change laws in the non-Internet sphere. Content sharing is a huge part of how the internet works. Infringement of copyright laws and internet plagiarism is rife and can get any webmaster really angry when it happens to them. We'll send you a link to a feedback form. It is specific in stating that ideas, concepts, styles, techniques, and data do not fall under copyright protection . YouTube, Facebook and Google News are some of the internet household names that will be most directly affected by this legislation. Now, don't get me wrong. Unlike other areas of the law, internet law cannot be identified as one solid, stable, and specific field of practice. The EU's new copyright laws will force all websites to check all posts to see if anything ever published might be a copyright violation. 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{"text":"~What Fashions \"Your\" Beliefs and Thinking?\nIn an attempt to improve ourselves and our calling to perform ministry May & I have embarked upon volunteering three days a week at a local church\/substance abuse center. We are also performing phase 2 of peer-counseling to enhance our adapting skills to the mission we have been called to perform in our community. Association with many groups has opened our eyes to Social Psychology and how it is used to fashion and shape peoples behavior.\nWe have ceased to think theologically about the ministry. Instead, we characterize it almost exclusively in functional or institutional terms. There are at least two reasons for this shift in emphasis. On the one hand there are the new developments in clinical psychology and counseling procedures, and on the other the requests of parishioners, the denominational programs, and the culture of the local community.\nHow is it that so many people started saying \"Awesome!\", or started wearing Uggs?\nThese are examples of how individuals' behavior is shaped by what people around them consider appropriate, correct or desirable. Researchers are investigating how human behavioral norms are established in groups and how they evolve over time, in hopes of learning how to exert more influence when it comes to promoting health, marketing products or reducing prejudice.\nPsychologists are studying how social norms, the often-unspoken rules of a group, shape not just our behavior but also our attitudes. Social norms influence even those preferences considered private, such as what music we like or what policies we support or even what beliefs we entertain as it relates to denominational choices of churchs. Interventions that take advantage of already-existing group pressures, the thinking goes, should be able to shift attitudes and change behaviors at less cost in effort and resources.\nNorms serve a basic human social function, helping us distinguish who is in the group and who is an outsider. Behaving in ways the group considers appropriate is a way of demonstrating to others, and to oneself, that one belongs to the group.\nBut surprisingly little is known about how attitudinal norms are established in groups. Why do some people in a group become trendsetters when it comes to ideas and objects?\n\"The questions are among the most challenging\" in the field, said H. Peyton Young, a professor at the University of Oxford in the U.K. and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Young studies how norms influence economic behavior. \"It's definitely a big open research area where there's a certain amount of dispute.\"\nOne question is whether there is always a leader that sets or changes the norm, or whether norm change occurs organically over time, even in the absence of a strong leader.\nWhat is Christian Counseling?\nChristian counseling focuses on intertwining the disciplines of faith and psychology to provide an approach to mental and emotional health that pulls from biblical teachings. Practitioners of this style of counseling incorporate religious scripture and teachings to guide you through challenging life issues. When facing turbulent life events, incorporating and strengthening your faith may be the missing piece in finding proper treatment.\nOrigins of Christian Counseling\nRooted deep within biblical accounts, this form of therapy places an emphasis on fundamental values and beliefs that comprise the framework of modern Christianity. Ministers, Reverends, and other religious figures must seek licensed training and accreditation to provide this service to you, much like a secular clinician. In 1968, Christian counselors officially formed the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation to provide a model for current and future counselors. These counselors are bound not only to religious code, but secular standards of ethical practice as well.\nSocial psychology is \"the study of the ways in which the imagined, implied or actual presence of others affects our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. As an African American growing up in Washington D.C. (at the time one of most diverse cities in America), My first brush with social psychology was on my neighborhood streets. \"On my block alone, there were nine different nationalities represented. \"I was used to growing up with all sorts of different kids, dealing with cultural conflicts, celebrating everyone's different holidays and special occasions\u2014that was the norm for me.\"\nWhen I was in third grade, My mom took us to a multiethnic church comprising four equally proportioned groups: African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and whites. There, I listened to songs and prayers in languages far beyond English. We also had racial slurs hurled at us in a local church's Vacation Bible School. These and other experiences piqued my interest early on about fundamental questions of social psychology, such as, \"Why don't groups get along?\" and \"Why do they perceive each other inaccurately?\"\nMuch has been written about various aspects of pastoral theology, but there is a remarkable scarcity of literature that explores the theological issues that lie behind it. The doyen of modern pastoral methods, Seward Hiltner, has said:\nMost American ministers\u2014scholars though they may be\u2014are functionalists at heart\u2026 . We think and feel or work our way into even the most recondite of theoretical matters only by first exploring them in relation to our functions of ministry.\nMuch of modern pastoral psychology is an abandonment to this American pragmatism. It is an aping of American scholarship as it demonstrates its pragmatic motivation. There seems to be a disdain for a careful study of the biblical view of the ministry.\nSuch is the minister's dilemma. He is faced on the one hand with the traditional biblical definitions (though often poorly developed and frequently caricatured) and on the other with the set of functional expectations by which his service is judged. In addition he is strongly influenced by the attractiveness of new developments in clinical psychology and counseling procedures. Therefore he faces basic ambiguities in performing his task.\nThe minister serving in today's secular culture is also confronted with an eroded image of the pastor. He is no longer the most educated man in the community or the one who elicits the mental image of a paragon of virtue. One is more likely to think about Elmer Gantry(Elmer Gantry is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 that satirically represents aspects of the religious activity of America within fundamentalist and evangelistic circles and the attitudes of the 1920s public toward it) or to recognize that a recent Gallup poll showed that only eight percent of the population recommended the role of the clergyman as the preferred profession, far behind the doctor, engineer-builder.\nToday , May and I are diligently looking for the reconciling benefits of social psychology, working with groups to raise our awareness of their social mis-perceptions and bringing conflicting groups together to find ways to collaborate. We are reading( Disunity in Christ) Christena Cleveland, a social psychologist, is helping churches and faith-based groups transcend deep-seated divisions. it explores how social psychology reveals fragmentation in the body of Christ. Filled with many personal stories, the book highlights, among other things, how differences become divisions, and how the prevailing marketing culture feeds unhealthy competition between groups.\n\"The cognitive processes that drive categorization are most powerful when they are hidden from sight we have found this to be true within various church communities we frequent. \"Once individuals become consciously aware of these processes . . . the processes begin to lose their power.\" May and I had the opportunity to witness another facet of cognitive processes helping groups to recognize those assumptions. It was practiced while working with a Young Life group in a, low-income, mostly African American neighborhood in Riverside Ca., after noticing the divisive ways that the group (8 to 10 African American girls) talked about Somali girls at their school. The facilitator began asking the girls questions that helped them see their assumptions. \"When you give people the opportunity to see how others misperceive them, \"it makes them more interested in seeing how they misperceive others.\"\nMore Than 'Unity Events'\nAs May and I launched our campaign to perform outreach we scheduled several meetings to obtain buy in from various denominations. The joint venture began well, we had gained support to utilize one pastors 501c3 to obtain the needed resources and another pastor support to allow us the use of his church to process the recipients. \"The joint venture began well but soon ended quite poorly, leaving behind a trail of distrust, negative emotions, and bruised egos.\"\nWe shifted our focus of work with the pastors to explore what happened:\nAfter hearing each pastor's side of the story, it became clear to me that . . . each pastor had very different ideals about what a leader does and does not do, and each pastor projected his ideals onto the other pastor and negatively evaluated him based on criteria that pertained to those ideals. Essentially, each pastor gave the other a failing grade on leadership because they had very different criteria for evaluating leadership.\nBy working with us, the pastors uncovered their differing concepts of leadership and how that had led to misunderstanding and failed collaboration.\nThese are the ten books we plan to read along with an intense daily devotional for 2015.\nCleveland's work awakens us to the language we use, particularly the ways in which we draw boundaries between us and them. \"We must take active steps to expand our category of us, \"so that they are now included in us. We've learned that the mere act of categorizing Christian groups into smaller, homogeneous groups leads us to devalue, misperceive, and distance ourselves from them.\"\nOnce a divide goes up between groups, they tend to exaggerate each other's differences\u2014and cause further division in the body of Christ. Churches, \"tend to rely most on our smaller, cultural identities and ignore our larger, common identity as members of the body of Christ. . . . Christianity has been turned into a marketplace in which you can make money off your brand.\" Pastors and churches are pressured to distinguish themselves from others, as we compete for the loyalty of members and seemingly scarce resources. We need a theology, deeply rooted in our essential unity in Christ that acts and speaks accordingly, seeking commonality and emphasizing shared characteristics between groups.\nInstead of deepening the chasms between groups, we need sustained conversation. I would like to go one one step further, noting that one-time cross-cultural unity events are \"not the way to go.\" Although well-intentioned, such events tend to squeeze minority groups into the majority culture. Rather, healing and witness to unity in Christ comes from the long, messy work of naming issues of power and privilege. What we need are \"long-term, ongoing partnerships that are proximal and mutually engaging.\"\nAlongside sustained conversations, we need ministries on which our groups can collaborate. I recall how many churches in Washington D.C. ran VBS programs with the exact same curriculum at different times. \"It's our empire approach to doing church,\" that fuels such redundant behavior. I also maintain that it's better for a church to pick a single church of a differing social group (race, ethnicity, or even political inclination) and to deeply partner with that church rather than to host sporadic events with many churches. My experience has shown that churches who immerse themselves in this kind of cross-cultural partnerships never regret it. \"Yes, it's hard,\" \"but it's so much richer.\"\nThe call to follow Jesus, as Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminded us, is a costly one. The way of Christ is undoubtedly difficult as we lose ourselves, but as we follow in it, we find the abundant shared riches of God's kingdom. Cleveland's work rouses us from the patterns of speech and action that we mindlessly fall into within the confines of a homogenous social group. It points us toward healing: the healing of the church, the healing of our neighborhoods, and ultimately the healing of our own fragmented souls. May we have the courage to follow her lead.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged #Terrorism, America, Bill Cosby, changed lives, Christ, Christian Counseling, clinical psychology, compromise practices, courage, Culture, disciplined thinking, disenfranchisement, education, faith, grace, Healing, humanity, injustice, Life Skills, Mental Health, Ministry, Motivation, Restoration, Second Chance Alliance, social psychology, standing power, strength, theology, Trust, whore Games.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Equity Portfolio Management\nSecurities & Margins\nBest Execution Policy\nAnchoria Leadership\nMr. Sam Chidoka\nSam Chidoka has over 16 years experience in banking, debt & equities capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, and financial advisory services. He began his investment banking career at the capital markets group of NAL Bank Plc, now Sterling Bank Plc. He was a core member of the corporate finance team at Sterling Capital Markets Limited from where he moved to UBA Global Markets, which later became UBA Capital Plc. He left UBA Capital to become a pioneer staff and head of Corporate Finance at Dunn Loren Merrifield from where he moved to Planet Capital Limited as an Associate Director, and later Director & head Corporate Finance Advisory Group. He is currently the Managing Director of Kairos Capital. Sam worked on numerous high-profile transactions, raising in excess of $1.5 billion for various institutions including Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, May & Baker Plc, Continental Reinsurance Plc, Eternal Oil & Gas Plc, Dangote Flour Plc, Niger State Government, Chams Plc, Ebonyi State Government, Chellarams Plc, Tower Aluminium Group, Dana Group of Companies Plc, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Niger State Government, Bauchi State Government, Fidelity Bank Plc, C&I Leasing Plc amongst others. He holds a BSc. Degree (2.1) in Business Management from the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus {1999) and an MBA (Finance), from the University of Lagos (2015). He has attended a number of executive courses: Lagos Business School - Chief Executive Program {2015) and IESE Business School, Barcelona Spain - Advanced Management Program {2015).\nMr. Babatunde Dada\nDirector (Non-Executive)\nBabatunde Dada is a Non-Executive Director of Anchoria Investment and Securities Limited. He is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI), UK and an ISEB certified consultant. He spent 7 years working as a Quality Assurance Consultant in various organizations in the UK, most recently the financial Times, London. In March 2014, he completed the Owner Managers Program (OMP) at the Lagos Business School. Mr. Dada is also a Fellow of the Portfolio Management Institute of Nigeria and an Associate Member of the Institute of Directors Nigeria. He is an Authorized Dealing Clerk of the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), a Registered Professional of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), and an Authorized Trader of The National Association of Securities Dealer (NASD).\nMr. Gbenga Omolokun\nGbenga Omolokun has over twelve years of business process, technology and strategy experience across various industries including Manufacturing, Financial Services, Public Sector and Pharmaceuticals. He previously worked with KPMG Advisory Services as a manager in the Technology division where he oversaw numerous projects notably of which was the ERP implementation for a large manufacturing company across 11locations and 9 Countries. Gbenga currently oversees the strategy, technology and operations division of the VFD Group Plc and its subsidiaries. He is the Managing Director of VFD Microfinance Bank. Mr. Omolokun holds a degree in Mathematics from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile- lfe, Osun State, Nigeria.\nMr. Kanayo Eni-Ikeh\nKanayo Eni-Ikeh has over 15 years of technical know-how and experience working in the financial service industry of retail, business, and commercial banking, he has held managerial roles across reputable organizations such as Process Flow Outsourcing Limited, Diamond Bank, Fidelity Bank, VFD Group and VFD Microfinance Bank, where he successfully promoted organizational products and services to institutional and retail clients. He is currently the MD\/CEO of Atiat Leasing Limited, a premium finance and leasing company focused on finance and operating leases, structured financing, fleet management, insurance brokerage, Car rentals and drivers' outsourcing. He holds a B.Sc. in Geological Sciences from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa and professionally trained expertise in strategy, management and marketing gained from Executive Programs attended in Lagos Business School and The Indian School of Business.\nMrs. Olufunmilayo Ayanbadejo\nOlufunmilayo Ayanbadejo has over 9 years of experience as an AP & ISEB Certified Consultant who has worked as a process consultant, system compliance, and test manager in various industries and sectors. She has a BSc (Hons) in Business Management and an MSc (Hons) in Information Technology & Management.\nMr. Kunle Salami\nDirector (Non- Executive)\nKunle Salami is a conscientious strategy and finance professional with over 10 years of work experience and a demonstrated record of accomplishments in Finance Business Partnering; Strategy, Process Improvement and Automation; Business Development and Growth; Product Support; Performance Management; Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Modeling; Cost Management and Control. Able to create informed strategies, manage relationships with high-net-worth individuals\/stakeholders and deploy solutions that drive an increase in business value and growth. He has a B.Sc in Economics from Bowen University.\nMrs. Nkechi Azubuike\nExecutive Director\/CEO\nNkechi Azubuike began her stockbroking career in 1997 with Unex Securities and then went on to work for Intercontinental Securities and LMB Brokers (a subsidiary of Liberty Bank). She then joined Guardian Express Bank in 2004 and was seconded as Chief Operating Officer to Guardian Express Stockbrokers, a position she held till 2005. Nkechi then worked as a Research Analyst in Afrinvest (UK), specializing in African Markets, after which she joined BGL in 2008. Nkechi gained invaluable experience managing BGL's ultra-high net worth clients at BGL's Victoria Island branch before transitioning to the position of Executive Director. She also worked as the Head of Business Development Capital Express Assets &Trusts. She went into public service where she served as the Special Adviser to the Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon. Emeka lhedioha on Business Development. She came back to the Capital Market where she took the position of Managing Director\/CEO in Anchoria Investments and Securities Limited. She is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers Nigeria and associate of the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria.\nMr. Emmanuel Oso\nDirector (Executive)\nEmmanuel Oso has over 10 years cognate experience in the capital market. Starting as an Investment Executive in 2008, he has risen through the ranks to becoming the Head of Operations, Chief Compliance Officer, and now the Executive Director of Anchoria Investment and Securities Limited. He has a B.Sc in Political Science from Lagos State University\nMr. Idowu Olusanya\nIdowu Olusanya is an experienced Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN) with 20 years experience cutting across various segments of the economy. He started his career with the Firm of Yinka Adesanya and Co (Chartered Accountants). He joined Lagos Building Investment Company (Mortgage Bankers) as an Internal Auditor then moved on to Global Fleet Oil and Gas Ltd. He also worked with Hygeia HMO Ltd and Redcare HMO. Idowu Olusanya is a graduate of Accounting from Ogun State University now Olabisi Onabanjo University in the year 2001. He is a Chartered member of the Institute of chartered Accountants of Nigeria since 2004 and is now a Fellow of the Institute. He equally holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho in the year 2016.\nMrs. Vivien Modo\nHead, Operations\nVivien Modo is a Capital Market Analyst with 10years experience in Client Relationship Management, Fund Administration, Internal Control, Retail Operations and Securities Operation. She began her career in the financial sector in 2012 as a Customer Service officer with Diamond Registrars Limited \"a subsidiary of Diamond Bank\". She has worked with some very reputable financial institutions in Nigeria, including Sankore Investments, ARM Investment Managers, ARM Securities Limited, and later became Head, of Operations, Coronation Securities Limited.\nMrs. Aishat Makanjuola\nBusiness Partner, Human Resources\nAishat Makanjuola is an astute Human Resources Management & Legal Professional of over 10 years, with a demonstrated record of success in Recruitment & Retention, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Employee Relations, Training & Development, Benefits Administration, Organization Development, Dispute Resolution, HR Policies & Procedures. Aishat Makanjuola is a law graduate of The University of Ibadan, and The Nigerian Law School Bwari Abuja. Aisha is the Human Resources Business Partner for Anchoria Investment & Securities Limited and supports the business by meeting its HR needs with a strategic alignment of purpose to the Board and Management's direction for the company's growth\nMr. Oise Ajayi\nHead, Research\nOise Ajayi began his career in 2017 as an Investment Research Analyst where he collaborated with the Nigerian Exchange Group to develop a model of style indices for the firm, in 2020 he moved to Meristem as a Portfolio Manager, at Meristem he managed EFT's valued at over 200 million. In 2021 he moved to Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM) as Lead, Equities Research where he managed teams of a diverse team of analysts across different sectors of equities.\nMr. Oyeniyi Joshua\nSales Lead\nJoshua is an astute Sales professional with over twenty years of professional experience in the financial sector. He joined Anchoria Investments and Securities Ltd from Investment One Financial Services Ltd, where he worked for 10 years, he grew through the ranks until he became the Regional Coordinator for Sales \u2013 Southwest. Joshua has a master's degree in Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.\nMs. Funmilayo Olayiwola\nRisk and Compliance Associate\nFunmilayo Olayiwola is an accomplished Compliance professional with experience that spans over 6 years with a demonstrated record of success in Office Administration, Company Secretarial, AML\/CFT and Compliance roles across multiple industries in Nigeria such as the Ministry of Justice, Oyo State, Humphrey Metrology Solutions Limited, Enyo Retail & Supply Limited, Asset & Resource Management Holding Company Limited (ARM). Funmilayo has a Diploma-in Law from the University of Jos, Plateau State and a Bachelors degree in International Law and Diplomacy from Babcock University, Remo, Ogun State. She is a Designate Compliance Professional (DCP) with the Compliance Institute of Nigeria (CIN).\nMrs. Esther Chinyere Ndife\nAuthorized Dealing Clerk\nEsther is a chartered stockbroker with about 15 years of active experience in the Capital Market, she joined Anchoria Investments and Securities Ltd from Global View Capital Limited where she served as Head Operations\/ Dealing Clerk.\nMs. Mabel Osaemedike\nHead, Marketing and Corporate Communications\nMabel began her career in advertising in 2011 with Concrete Communications Ltd as a trainee, she grew through the ranks to become a Client Service Manager before switching to Brand Management with Brian Munro Limited, where she managed brands like Skky Vodka, Jagermeister, Famous Grouse, and Wild Turkey. She later moved to First Kataylst Marketing to get a feel of experiential marketing, she joined Etu Odi Communications Ltd in 2020 where she planned and executed communication campaigns like LASHMA campaign in partnership with FirstBank, the launch and management of Firstbank's Firstmonie Wallet app among others, before joining Anchoria Investment & Securities Ltd in June 2022 as Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications. Mabel is an Associate Member of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR)\nYour Weekly Dose of Investment News\nSubscribe to get fresh takes on smart investments\n12th floor, Elephant House, 214 Broad Street, Marina, Lagos.\nEquity Management\nCustomer Compliant Policy\nAnchoria Investment and Securities Ltd \u00a9 2021 , all rights reserved.\nStock & Bonds","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"We're not reviewing Christopher Nolan's Tenet. Here's why\nBy Rick Marshall\t August 28, 2020\nThis was supposed to be a Tenet review.\nIn a world where the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't still raging across the U.S. and killing thousands of people each day, I would almost certainly be excited about sharing my thoughts on Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Tenet, the latest project from one of Hollywood's greatest modern filmmakers.\nBut alas, like so many other movie fans around the US, I've been presented with a choice: I can either see Tenet or keep myself and my loved ones safe.\nSpoiler alert: That's not a very difficult decision.\nOpen for illness\nThis month, many of the nation's largest movie theater chains have begun reopening their doors after months of state-imposed lockdowns due to the highly contagious nature of COVID-19. In some states, this is happening as the number of positive cases continues to rise, and despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explicitly classifying indoor movie theaters as a \"high-risk\" environments.\nThe major theater chains have all announced new safety measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, including increased frequency of cleaning, reduced theater capacity, and a range of mask requirements. (Some require masks to be worn at all times, in line with the CDC and health professionals' recommendations, while others leave the level of mask requirement up to local authorities to determine.)\nIn some cases, how restrictive these measures end up being is determined by state and local mandates.\nThat level of variance in safety measures, uncertainty about how well they'll be enforced, and warnings from the CDC and other health experts regarding the risks associated with indoor theaters suggest some potentially life-threatening consequences attached to seeing a movie right now. After all, just one asymptomatic carrier of COVID-19 could infect an entire theater without realizing it, turning a simple trip to the movies into a possible deadly outbreak.\n\"The virus is transmitted through droplets when we talk, laugh, and breathe,\" explains Anne Rimoin, Ph.D., M.P.H., and professor of epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, in an interview with Health. \"A movie theater is a place where you sit with a room full of strangers eating and drinking for two to three hours with suboptimal ventilation. It's exactly the type of scenario we need to be avoiding to reduce opportunity for the virus to spread.\"\nAnd yet, some movie studios seem to be suggesting \u2014 not outright, of course \u2014 that their movies are worth the risk.\nSick cinema\nThat is where we find Nolan's Tenet, one of this year's most anticipated films, which proudly proclaims in its marketing campaign that it is \"only available in theaters.\"\nNolan has a long history of being a purist when it comes to the cinema experience, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that he's involved with a problematic scenario that challenges Hollywood tradition. What is surprising, however, is the extent to which studio Warner Bros. Pictures has made seeing Tenet dependent on making yourself vulnerable to a virus that has killed nearly 179,000 Americans in just a few months.\nOf the three major releases premiering in theaters this weekend \u2014 The New Mutants, and Bill & Ted Face the Music are the others \u2014 Nolan's thriller has the most restricted run by far. The New Mutants and Bill & Ted can both be seen in drive-in theaters, a significantly safer alternative to indoor theaters due to being outdoors and allowing wide distances between audience members, while Bill & Ted is also being offered to audiences via on-demand video.\nWhere the other two films have made efforts to accommodate audiences unwilling to risk exposure to a deadly virus, however, Tenet has taken the opposite approach.\nQuestionable approach\nJust a week before the film was scheduled to premiere, Variety reported that Warner Bros. Pictures planned to remove Tenet from drive-in theaters in regions where indoor theaters hadn't opened yet.\nThe official reason for the studio's decision cited piracy concerns, but any explanation of why it would be less of a concern in regions where drive-in theaters coexist with reopened indoor venues was conspicuously absent from the report.\nInstead of piracy, the decision likely has more to do with Nolan and the studio hoping the ban on drive-in screenings of Tenet will put more pressure on local officials to reopen indoor theaters. Not only are traditional theaters better equipped to present the film at Nolan's preferred level of video and audio clarity, but they're the best chance the studio has at recouping some of the film's massive production costs.\nUltimately, forcing people into indoor theaters is the easiest path to a win for Nolan, the studio, and national chains like AMC and Regal, but for the people who end up bringing coronavirus home from the theater, the outlook isn't nearly as positive.\nThis brings us to the reason why we won't be reviewing Tenet.\nPromoting a film \u2014 or any product really \u2014 that demands you put yourself and everyone around you at risk presents a moral and professional dilemma of sorts. We're each responsible for our own decisions, of course, but with a threat like the coronavirus, the risk isn't limited to the individual.\nWhen you go to the theater, you're putting yourself, the rest of the audience, and even everyone the audience goes home to at risk. And if your household includes members in high-risk categories for coronavirus (such as infants and elderly family members), the danger is exponentially greater.\nFurther complicating matters is the fact that Warner Bros. Pictures has also declined to make the film available to critics and film press digitally \u2014 forcing even those with a professional stake in seeing the film to risk exposure to the deadly virus. And unfortunately, that leaves many outlets with a tough decision to make when it comes to Tenet, one of the most intriguing films of the year.\nThat's why I've decided not to review Tenet.\nInstead of putting my loved ones at risk, I've chosen to err on the side of safety and preventing the spread of a pandemic that has already claimed more than 828,000 lives worldwide. And until more data is available about the danger posed by indoor movie theaters, the risk remains far too high.\nI've waited a long time to see Tenet, but with so much at stake, I can wait a little longer.\nApple Watch could be used to detect coronavirus infections\nTech for Change: At CES 2021, new devices and tech aim to help beat COVID-19\nThis vending machine gives out COVID tests, not candy bars\nThe best COVID tech of CES 2021: Smart masks and sanitizers\nA blood-pressure sensor is the holy grail for wearables. Valencell has one\nBest cheap standing desk deals for January 2021\nWhat's new on Apple TV+\nThe best romance movies on Netflix right now\nUFC Fight Island: What is it, and where is it?\nHow to set up a Chromecast\nThe best shows on HBO Max right now\nHow to watch Browns vs. Steelers: Stream the NFL playoff for free today\nThe 52 best movies on Netflix right now\nThe best stand-up comedy on Amazon Prime\nDon't forget: WandaVision premieres on Disney+ on Friday","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"IC News\nHome \/ IC News \/ College Plans for Fall Opening\nICView\nMedia Contact and About\nPhoto Requests\nMessages from Campus Leadership\nIC in the Media\nAbout IC Current\nMerit Pages for Student Achievement\nCollege Plans for Fall Opening\nBy President Shirley M. Collado, May 18, 2020\nClasses for the academic year will begin on Oct. 5.\n(Photo by Andrew Frasz)\nI am so pleased to share with you today that Ithaca College has set a date of Monday, Oct. 5, to begin the 2020-21 academic year in person, on our South Hill campus.\nThis is a major decision for our IC family, one that aligns with our ongoing, deliberate, and methodical decision-making process throughout this public health crisis. We are continuing to prioritize the health and safety of our college and local communities while being nimble and responsive.\nIn coming to the decision to open the fall semester on October 5, the senior leadership team and I listened to and collaborated with a variety of stakeholders and leaders, on campus and off. We've also clearly heard the voices of our students and their families.\nAs many of you know, Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled last week the New York Forward plan, which provides thoughtful and strong metric-based guidance on our state's reopening. As New York Forward unfolds and as this public health crisis evolves and shifts, we will continue to adhere to guidance and regulations provided at the state level.\nLocally, we continue to participate in reopening meetings with Tompkins County officials, the county health department, and leaders within our local medical community. Our thinking around our October opening has also been informed by recommendations from select national and state organizations and groups including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, and Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities of New York, and the state's New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board as well as its Restart Plan for Higher Education Task Force.\nTo help our Ithaca College community work in unison as we move toward the next academic year, we've created the Return to Campus Task Force, composed of members of the senior leadership team and our campus community. This task force is charged with ensuring that the appropriate health and safety guidelines are incorporated into all aspects of our college operations as we move ahead. The provost has also charged the Academic Success and Student Engagement Coordinating Committee to ensure that these two critical components of the IC experience \u2014 academic success and student engagement \u2014 are cohesive and complementary in the 20-21 school year.\nAs time passes, I know that other institutions and schools may announce that they are planning to open the fall semester sooner than we are. But by putting a stake in the ground \u2014 right now \u2014 for an October 5 start at Ithaca College, we are intentionally delivering necessary time for all of us to plan, prepare, and thoughtfully align toward a common goal as this public health crisis continues to evolve.\nIthaca College has weathered many storms since we began as a small music conservatory in 1892, and survival in the face of significant challenge is in the DNA of this place.\nPresident Shirley M. Collado\nAn October opening gives our returning and new students the space they need to get ready for the upcoming year, to engage in a creative slate of undergraduate summer session classes and experiences and remain engaged with IC to make sure no one misses a beat in their learning.\nThis carefully thought-out timeframe provides our faculty with the opportunity to fully prepare to deliver the strongest educational experience, and for our staff to fully map out their work and put solid, responsive plans in place around our emergency health and safety management.\nThe senior leadership team and I will unpack this major announcement with faculty and staff this week, during our All-Staff Gathering later today, and our All-Faculty Gathering to be held on Wednesday. We are also planning to hold a few virtual student gatherings, to focus on our move-out plan and discuss the new academic year.\nFinally, I want to be very clear that our 2020-21 academic year will be a full academic year, which begins on Monday, Oct. 5. I know you will have specific questions about the academic calendar and the student experience, which will be answered as we continue to hone and finalize our plans to return to campus. I also know many of you will have questions about our athletics programs this fall. Please be assured that our athletics department staff, sports medicine staff, and the director of medicine for IC are working collaboratively to determine a plan and process to re-engage in intercollegiate athletics and recreational sports, and that IC will continue to follow NCAA, NATA, and Liberty League guidelines.\nIthaca College has weathered many storms since we began as a small music conservatory in 1892, and survival in the face of significant challenge is in the DNA of this place. Throughout this particular storm, our community has continued to demonstrate creativity, grit, and solidarity as we've pushed forward and continued to serve our students. It's this type of innovative, student-centered approach that makes us so distinctive as an academic institution.\nI thank all of you for being a part of the IC family, and I am proud to walk alongside you during this critical time as we build the future of Ithaca College.\nI look forward to seeing you all back on South Hill soon.\nShirley M. Collado","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Contact directory is used to help you and your operators maintain information about your customers, which we acquired during conversations through one or more mluvii channels. The directory can be found in the left menu of the operator interface and also can be encountered by operators during a session with a customer in the customer Information section.\nThe directory allows you to:\nassociate information with known and new contacts\nmanage customer contact information,\nAdd or remove customers in the Directory,\nsearch the Directory and filter according to the criteria you specify.\nOrientation in the Contact directory\nIn the Contact directory, you can find customer records that were saved when they were in a session with them or that the operators associated with the contact. You can view information about a particular customer by clicking on the appropriate line. Selected contact fields can be edited or additional data can be assigned to them by pressing + Add one more. If you want to keep your changes on the customer card, click Save. You can also delete a card entry using the Delete button.\nCustomer records are sorted in the Contact directory according to four main identifiers:\nID - each customer will be assigned a unique identification number, under which they will be listed in the calendar. The Customer ID cannot be changed.\nName - the name and surname of the user provided by the customer in the mluvii form, Hero Card, through the OAuth authentication (Gmail, Facebook) or obtained by the operator during the session. Each customer has one name the operator can override in the Directory.\nEmail - The email address that the customer provided in the mluvii form, Hero Card, through OAuth authentication (Gmail, Facebook) or received by the operator during the session. The customer's email can be edited or added to multiple contact emails.\nPhone - telephone contact provided by the customer in the form, Hero Card, in the Callback field or during a session with the operator. The customer's phone number can be edited or added.\nFurther information about customers is sorted by input channels into mluvii:\nFacebook PSID - This information displays the unique identifier of the Facebook account of a customer who has entered into a conversation in mluvii via Facebook Messenger or has logged in to Facebook via OAuth authentication. The entry can be edited or added.\nWhatsApp - If a customer has entered into a WhatsApp conversation with you, they will also see a unique WhatsApp Contact ID on their card. The entry can be edited or added.\nVKontakte - If a customer has entered into a VKontakte conversation with you, they will also see a unique VK Contact ID on their card. The entry can be edited or added.\nCustom parameter in Contact directory\nYou can also add a custom ID to the basic IDs in the Contact Directory. You can set this using your own Parameters. To set a parameter, go to Settings -> Applications -> Variables.\nClick the Add button to create a new variable, fill in its name and label, and check the Identifies Customer box. This variable then serves as a unique identifier between speech and your internal systems. You can obtain this information from the customer using the entry form, Hero Card, during a session with the customer, or the operator can enter it manually into the Contact Directory.\nModification of identification data during a session with a customer\nIn the case of a session with a customer, the operator can add a contact to the Contact directory by clicking on Contact directory and the Add Contact button and then editing the customer's credentials directly in the session.\nIf you find out during the session that this is a customer with whom you have previously dealt with a request, you can search for the entry in the Contact directory and link the contact information. Just click the Contact directory button and choose Select Existing. You will then search the list of contacts and, in case of a match, connect the contacts by pressing the Select button.\nIn the Customer Information section, you can use the Add one more button to manage your phone number, email address, or personally identifiable information about that customer. This is true even if the customer already has this information assigned.\nClick the Options button, then the operator can Disconnect a contact from the Contact directory, Delete from the Contact directory or Open the Contact directory.\nWell Arranged History of All Communication on the Level of Contact\nDuring a session in progress, the operator has access to all previous communication. On a time axis, it displays a chronological order of all existing interactions carried out across various channels (chat including an invitation from the operator, e-mail, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and IP telephony), in which they can look up specific information using full text search.\nOn the level of each interaction, it is possible to display its transcription along with related details and variables. Furthermore, all changes in contact details of a given entry (e.g. adding, editing and deleting phone numbers or e-mails) are displayed within the history.\nThe operator can display this history during a session in progress in the History tab, in the detail of an incoming e-mail as well as in the History tab and, of course, on the level of a contact in the Contact directory.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Assets for Independence (AFI) (1)\nCommunity Economic Development (CED) (1)\nProgram Funding (1)\nCSBG DCL-2021-26 OHS Vaccine Mandate Announcement FY2021\nToday, President Biden announced a six-pronged strategy to combat the variants of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan includes a requirement that Head Start staff, across the country, take necessary steps to protect our youngest population by receiving their COVID-19 vaccination.\nCSBG DCL-2020-23 Release of Remaining FY 2020 Funds\nThe purpose of this message is to provide you with an update on apportionment of Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. These awards represent the full allocation of funding for FY 2020.\nCSBG DCL-2020-21 State Lead Agencies and Eligible Entities CARES Act Roles\nRoles of State CSBG Lead Agencies and CSBG Eligible Entities in Planning and Implementing CSBG CARES Act Grants\nThe Office of Community Services (OCS) has received a number of questions from State Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Lead Agencies and from CSBG eligible entities regarding state direction in the implementation of supplemental funds distributed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, P.L. 116-36 (CARES Act).\nTo help address these questions, this letter discusses the role of states in (1) ensuring flexibility to meet urgent community needs, (2) creating procedures to amend plans and address new needs, (3) supporting locally identified services and strategies, (4) facilitating communication, performance management, and technical assistance, and (5) monitoring and accountability.\nCSBG Dear Colleague 2020-18 Findings from the 2020 ACSI Survey of CSBG Grantees\nThe purpose of this message to provide information to Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) state, territory and tribal grantees on findings from the 2020 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) survey of CSBG Grantees implemented on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, through Monday, January 27, 2020.\nCSBG Dear Colleague 2020-17 Annual Report - OMB Approval and Updated Timeline\nOn February 28, 2020, the Office of Community Services received Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) Annual Report. This OMB-approved version of the CSBG Annual Report expires on February 28, 2023.\nCSBG Dear Colleague 2020-16 ACF COVID Flexibilities IM\nTo the extent permitted by law, and in accordance with 45 CFR \u00a775.102(a), this memorandum provides short-term relief for administrative, financial management, and audit requirements under 45 CFR Part 75 Visit disclaimer page (the HHS implementation of 2 CFR Part 200 Visit disclaimer page), Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, without compromising Federal financial assistance accountability requirements.\nPartnership to Address COVID-19 Spread\nThank you for your continued engagement and partnership with us to address and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. We highly value our strong ongoing partnership, and hope to continue to be a resource to you as you implement community mitigation techniques. As you might imagine, a number of HHS divisions are releasing COVID-19-related information on funding and guidance. We thought it would be helpful to batch up information on key issues to keep you up-to-date.\nCSBG DCL Federal Register Notice: 30-Day Comment Period on the Revised Model State Plan\nOn Friday, May 22, the second notice for public comment on the revised CSBG Model State Plan was published in the Federal Register, volume 80, number 99, page 29716 (https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/articles\/2015\/05\/22\/2015-12392\/submission-for-omb-review-comment-request Visit disclaimer page).","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Once a Warrior: An Excerpt\n\/ Excerpts\n\"Our communities face no shortage of problems, ranging from social division to income inequality to an increasing onslaught of natural disasters. If, as a nation, we issued a challenge to the three million men and women who have returned from tiresome wars in the Middle East to address these things, what might we unlock\" \u2014Jake Wood\nYesterday was Veteran's Day, a day to honor those who have served in our nation's armed forces. But what happens the day after, not just the day after the celebration of a holiday, but the day after they come home? Jake Wood's new memoir tells that story\u2014his own story, that of veterans more broadly, and of the organization he formed to help them fulfill the sense of purpose they had while serving to uphold their oath to support and defend our constitution and protect our democracy.\nAs the book's jacket copy describes:\nWhen Marine sniper Jake Wood arrived in the States after two bloody tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he wasn't leaving war behind him\u2014far from it. Ten years after returning home, Jake's unit lost more men to suicide than to enemy hands overseas. He watched in horror as his best friend and fellow Marine, Clay Hunt, plunged into depression upon returning, stripped of his purpose, community, and sense of identity. Despite Jake's attempts to intervene, Clay died by suicide, alone.\nReeling, Jake remembered how only one thing had given Clay a measure of hope: joining him in Haiti on a ragtag mission to save lives immediately following the 2010 earthquake. His military training had rendered him unusually effective in high-stakes situations. What if there was a way to help stricken communities while providing a new mission to veterans?\nIn this inspiring memoir, Jake recounts how, over the past 10 years, he and his team have recruited over 130,000 volunteers to his disaster response organization Team Rubicon. Racing against the clock, these veterans battle hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, while rediscovering their life's purpose along the way.\nOnce a Warrior provides a gut-wrenching account of the true cost of our Forever Wars\u2014and more importantly, a glimpse of what might become of America's next greatest generation.\nThe excerpt below, reprinted with permission of the publisher, is the book's Preface.\n\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca\u25ca\nThere's a saying in the military: Old soldiers never die; they simply fade away.\nIt's poetic, but the lyricism belies an underlying sadness. What happens to a soldier after combat? In uniform they are admired and applauded, thanked as they walk through airports and toasted with beers at the local pub. But when our sons and daughters take off their uniforms for the last time, they often begin a long descent into obscurity. A higher calling lives on inside of them that no longer has a mission to pursue, and as they struggle to reintegrate, it's more comfortable for the public to look away than to take responsibility. When most people think about veterans, they default to stereotypes\u2014and to be honest, they aren't far off. Old men, baseball caps announcing their combat campaigns perched on top of greying scalps, shuffling through crowds and feeling invisible, yearning for someone to thank them for their service. Or worse, haggard shells leaning against a brick wall, a cardboard sign propped on the sidewalk in front of them: Desert Storm Veteran\u2014spare some change?\nBut what if we reframed what it means to be a veteran? What if instead of allowing our sons and daughters to simply fade away, we asked them to come home and build a legacy that would strengthen the foundation of our nation? Our communities face no shortage of problems, ranging from social division to income inequality to an increasing onslaught of natural disasters. If, as a nation, we issued a challenge to the three million men and women who have returned from tiresome wars in the Middle East to address these things, what might we unlock?\nThe stakes are high. My unit took some of the highest casualties of the wars during our time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet when we returned home, we lost more men to their own hand than to the enemy overseas. Since 2012, more service members have died by suicide than in combat.*\n* Carol Giacomo, \"Suicide Has Been Deadlier Than Combat for the Military,\" New York Times, November 11, 2019.\nIt's a stunning statistic and a sobering rebuke\u2014and many Americans have never heard it. This epidemic cannot be fully explained with clinical diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder. To understand, we must look more broadly to the dearth of purpose and self-worth some veterans experience upon return. Many enter communities that care little about their sacrifice and choose to treat them like liabilities, rather than the assets they are. The local minor-league baseball team will disguise a returning veteran as the mascot and surprise her family with a crowd-pleasing public reunion\u2014an overplayed scene that gets local news anchors to peddle tropes about heroism and sacrifice. Yet that same veteran will walk from local business to local business begging for a job in management, only to be told that she lacks experience. Never mind that she commanded a supply company of two hundred soldiers tasked with making daily runs to far-flung forward operating bases along highways riddled with IEDs.\nThink about that for a moment. Imagine our country recruited you out of high school and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into your training. We give you a uniform and a rifle and a rank. Perhaps most importantly, we give you a mission and a band of brothers and sisters that would do anything for you. We send you to war, where you fight for our flag, and, perhaps for the first time in your life, it feels like your existence matters. You execute a difficult job in impossible circumstances, gaining experience and confidence. You come home and we pin a medal on your chest and cheer for you at stadiums and arenas. But eventually that ends and your time in uniform is done. You take it off for the last time and the Army hands you a piece of paper and says, \"Good luck, soldier.\" But before they've even finished wishing you good luck, they've turned their attention to the next body in a uniform, because they have a war to win. You walk off base and into your next chapter, eager and maybe a little scared. One thing is certain: your mission, community, and sense of identity have faded.\nStripped of this scaffolding, you might begin to feel listless and alone and fear that you are sinking like a battleship to the bottom of a harbor. Memories of the friends killed alongside you reoccur in your dreams. Perhaps you're plagued by a sense of failure after seeing the cost in blood and treasure of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan while some of our communities at home rot in front of us. Despite having served more than most, you feel you still have a debt to pay.\nWhat's more, civilian life confounds and frustrates you. Were people always so self-involved? Instead of protecting life and liberty, you're supposed to muster enthusiasm for socializing with your coworkers with an eye toward that promotion. But this new set of norms feels like a step in the wrong direction. It's hard to form bonds with people who are more interested in greasing the wheels of their career than forming a real brotherhood. You knew your fellow soldiers would die for you; you're fairly sure these people would plant their Italian loafer on your back as they stepped over you onto the ladder's next rung.\nBut there is hope in this battle. We can reignite a sense of purpose in our veterans by providing them a new mission that rivals their wartime sense of duty. In the decade since I've left the Marine Corps, I have seen countless men and women become better versions of themselves by serving with Team Rubicon in disaster zones around the world and here at home. Through this continued service, they have found within themselves an immutable sense of purpose and a tightly knit tribe. They gain these things not by focusing on themselves, but by turning their focus outward\u2014on others. They don Team Rubicon's iconic grey uniform and help their neighbors restore order amid chaos. The mission gives them hope that their best days are before them, not rusting at the bottom of the sea, as they'd feared.\nOnce a Warrior explores both the harrowing cost of military service and the path to healing upon return. On the most basic level, it's my memoir of returning from two bloody tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, founding Team Rubicon with no money or experience, and mobilizing over one hundred thousand volunteers to help communities on their worst day. On a higher level, this is the story of America's veterans and the battles they continue to fight. Some prevail; others do not.\nI refuse to believe we are destined to fade into nothingness. Instead, our wartime experience should serve as the prologue to long, fulfilling lives, propelling us forward to become beacons of strength and leadership in our communities. Our nation finds itself in a battle for the narrative that will define an entire generation of men and women sent to fight. Will we tell them that they are pitiful, empty shells of their former selves? Worthy of our sympathy and charity, but not capable of leading us? Or will America slam its gauntlet onto the table and issue a challenge\u2014one that inspires this generation and flips the narrative, recognizing veterans as our best bet in restoring the America we love?\nExcerpted from Once a Warrior by Jake Wood.\nCopyright 2020 by Jacob Andrew Wood.\nPublished by Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random Hoiuse LLC.\nJake Wood is the cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a disaster relief organization with over 70,000 veteran volunteers. Wood had previously spent four years in the Marine Corps, serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since founding Team Rubicon in 2010, Jake has built the organization into one of the United States' most celebrated nonprofits. This is his first book. Follow Team Rubicon on Twitter and Instagram @TeamRubicon. Learn more at teamrubiconusa.org.\nOnce a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home\nJake Wood\nFight Through the Ambush: How to Thrive When Shit Hits the Fan\nBy Jake Wood","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home NIGERIA TURKEY NEWS\nMali summons French envoy after Macron discredits junta govt\nin NIGERIA TURKEY NEWS\nMali summoned France's ambassador on Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry statement said, to register its \"indignation\" at French President Emmanuel Macron's recent criticism of the country's army-dominated government.\nTensions between France and its former colony Mali \u2013 where Paris intervened militarily against extremists in 2013 \u2013 have been high since it emerged that the Sahel state is in talks with Russian mercenaries.\nThese tensions spilled over at the U.N. General Assembly late last month, when Mali's interim Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga accused France of a \"sort of abandonment in full flight\" over its decision to reduce its military deployment in the semi-arid Sahel region.\nMacron later told French media that Maiga's comments were \"unacceptable\" and suggested that Mali's government was \"not even really one\" \u2013 referring to the coup in Mali led by Col. Assimi Goita in May.\nThe war of words continued on Tuesday, when Macron called on Mali's ruling military to restore state authority in large areas of the country abandoned in the face of the extremists' insurgency.\n\"It's not the role of the French army to fill in for the 'non-work,' if I may describe it, of the Malian state,\" he told French media.\nLater that day, Mali's Foreign Ministry stated that Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop had summoned France's ambassador to inform him of the Malian government's \"indignation and disapproval\" of Macron's comments.\n\"The minister called on the French authorities to show restraint, avoiding value judgements,\" the statement said, adding that Mali wanted a \"constructive approach based on mutual respect.\"\nFrance intervened in Mali after extremists seized control of the north in 2012, and Paris has since deployed thousands of troops across the Sahel region to combat the insurgency.\nDespite its military presence, violence has spread to central Mali and to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger. In Mali, thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, while swathes of the country have little or no state presence.\nFrance decided a major scaleback of its Sahel deployment in June, following a military takeover in Mali in August 2020, which forced out the elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita.\nCol. Goita, who led the August coup, installed a civilian-led interim government. But he then deposed the leaders of that government in May, in a second coup.\nLast month, it emerged that Mali's ruling military was close to hiring 1,000 paramilitaries from Russian private-security firm Wagner, which incensed France. The French government has stated that despite its planned troop drawdown, it remains militarily committed to the fight against extremists in the Sahel.\nTags: discreditsEnvoyFrenchgovtjuntaMacronMalisummons","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hisaki and Yasha are an odd pair of friends: Hisaki is quiet, distant, and possibly keeping secrets from everyone, while Yasha is loud, violent, and in serious need of anger management. As they try to deal with each other, they soon find that creatures are after them for something they know nothing about: a demon supposedly hiding within one of them.\nCurrently, we reference a very old script and sketch out thumbnails into a regular 8 x 5 sketchbook. Much of the old script is revised or even trashed. From there the pages are scanned, cleaned up, and then word bubbles are added. Later the thumbnails are redrawn as proper sketches, then inked and toned.\nAs for the actual tools we use: Clip Studio Paint EX and an XP-Pen 15.6\u2033 tablet screen.\nKuro Shouri got started back in fall of 2003, when two crazed otaku teenagers on a school bus decided that making a manga of their own would be the coolest thing ever. After binging on unhealthy amounts of Dragon Ball Z, Yu-Yu Hakusho and other animes no one cares about, a couple of character designs were pooped out and eventually, a very rough comic came to exist.\nBouts of laziness happened, and in 2005 it was decided to just get the comic done and over with. It was posted on DeviantART originally, and has been going even since the creators' weeaboo phase ended. Which takes real strength.\nAbout The Creators\nKiki has been drawing since she could pick up a pencil, and unfortunately the animu style happened around middle school. She likes cats and Nintendo games and has no sense of humor.\nDJ describes his brain as a \"creative hell-nado\" and as such has designated himself the \"Idea Guy.\" He is a movie nerd, loves video games, and manages to write fight scenes for the comic in a matter of seconds.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Main page \/ Press Center \/ Press Releases and Events\nNOVATEK's Board of Directors Approves 2021 Sustainability Report\nMoscow, 30 June 2022. The Board of Directors of PAO NOVATEK (\"NOVATEK\" and\/or the \"Company\") approved the Sustainability Report 2021 (the \"Report\") prepared in accordance with the leading international standards and verified by an independent auditor.\nThe Report provides a detailed account of NOVATEK's role in the global energy transition as well as the progress on, and ways to achieve, the Company's climatic and environmental goals. In the reporting year, NOVATEK established the Subcommittee on Climate and Alternative Energy, strengthening oversight at the Board of Directors level. Another important step was the introduction of internal carbon pricing used in making investment decisions.\nThe Report also showcases the best practices of Yamal LNG and Arctic LNG 2 in introducing the procedures for evaluating the impact on human rights and implementing plans to promote the sustainable development of indigenous peoples, as well as in biodiversity management in accordance with the most stringent international standards.\n\"We are confident that fulfilling our strategy to further expand the resource and production base while maintaining high efficiency and pursuing a responsible approach to business conduct will promote the development of communities that we form a part of as well as contribute to national and global sustainability goals,\" noted Leonid Mikhelson, NOVATEK's Chairman of the Management Board. \"Following the principles of openness and transparency, the Company has been regularly publishing its sustainability reports since 2004. We intend to continue adhering to the highest responsible business conduct standards, maintaining the high level of transparency for all stakeholders\".\nThe Report is available on the NOVATEK website in the Sustainable Development section.\nPAO NOVATEK is the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia, and in 2017, entered the global LNG market by successfully launching the Yamal LNG project. Founded in 1994, the Company is engaged in the exploration, production, processing and marketing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. Upstream activities of the Company's subsidiaries and joint ventures are concentrated mainly in the prolific Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, which is the world's largest natural gas producing area and accounts for approximately 80% of Russia's natural gas production and approximately 15% of the world's gas production. NOVATEK is a public joint stock company established under the laws of the Russian Federation.\nTo news\nPress-secretary","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Three Little Pigs (film)\nBurt Gillett\nMary Moder\nDorothy Compton\nFrank Churchill\nAnimation by\nFred Moore\nJack King\nDick Lundy\nNorm Ferguson\nArt Babbitt[1]\nColor process\nThree Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett.[2] Based on a fable of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of 1933. The short cost $22,000 and grossed $250,000.[3] In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".\n2 Cast\n3 Reaction and legacy\n5 Home video\n6 Sequels\n7 Warner Bros. cartoons\n8.1 Motion pictures\n8.2 Theme park attractions\nPractical Pig, Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig are three brothers who build their own houses with bricks, sticks and straw respectively. All three of them play a different kind of musical instrument \u2013 Fifer Pig \"toots his flute, doesn't give a hoot and plays around all day,\" Fiddler Pig \"with a hey diddle diddle, plays on his fiddle and dances all kinds of jigs\" and Practical Pig is initially seen as working without rest. Fifer and Fiddler build their straw and stick houses with much ease and have fun all day. Practical, on the other hand, \"has no chance to sing and dance for work and play don't mix,\" focusing on building his strong brick house, but his two brothers poke fun at him. An angry Practical warns them \"You can play and laugh and fiddle. Don't think you can make me sore. I'll be safe and you'll be sorry when the Wolf comes through your door!\" Fifer and Fiddler ignore him and continue to play, singing the now famous song \"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?\".\nAs they are singing, the Big Bad Wolf really comes by, at which point Fifer and Fiddler reveal they are in fact very afraid of the wolf. Fifer and Fiddler each retreat to their respective houses; the Wolf first blows Fifer's house down (except for the roof) with little resistance. Fifer manages to escape and hides at Fiddler's house. The wolf pretends to give up and go home, but returns disguised as an innocent sheep. The pigs see through the disguise (\"Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin! You can't fool us with that old sheep skin!\"), whereupon the Wolf blows Fiddler's house down (except for the door). The two pigs manage to escape and hide at Practical's house, who willingly gives his brothers refuge; in Practical's house, it is revealed that his musical instrument is the piano. The Wolf arrives disguised as a Jewish peddler\/Fuller Brush man to trick the pigs into letting him in, but fails. The Wolf then tries to blow down the strong brick house (losing his clothing in the process), but is unable, all while a confident Practical plays melodramatic piano music. Finally, he attempts to enter the house through the chimney, but smart Practical Pig takes off the lid of a boiling pot filled with water (to which he adds turpentine) under the chimney, and the Wolf falls right into it. Shrieking in pain, the Wolf runs away frantically, while the pigs sing \"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?\" again. Practical then plays a trick by knocking on his piano, causing his brothers to think the Wolf has returned and hide under Practical's bed.\nBilly Bletcher as Big Bad Wolf\nPinto Colvig as Practical Pig\nDorothy Compton as Fifer Pig\nMary Moder as Fiddler Pig\nReaction and legacy[edit]\nThe movie was phenomenally successful with audiences of the day, so much that theaters ran the cartoon for months after its debut, to great financial response.[4] The cartoon is still considered to be the most successful animated short ever made,[5] and remained on top of animation until Disney was able to boost Mickey's popularity further by making him a top merchandise icon by the end of 1934.[6] Animator Chuck Jones observed, \"That was the first time that anybody ever brought characters to life [in an animated cartoon]. They were three characters who looked alike and acted differently\". (Other animation historians, particularly admirers of Winsor McCay, would dispute the word \"first,\" but Jones was not referring to personality as such but to characterization through posture and movement.) Fifer and Fiddler Pig are frivolous and care-free; Practical Pig is cautious and earnest. The reason for why the film's story and characters were so well developed was that Disney had already realized the success of animated films depended upon telling emotionally gripping stories that would grab the audience and not let go.[7][8] This realization led to an important innovation around the time Pigs was in development: a \"story department,\" separate from the animators, with storyboard artists who would be dedicated to working on a \"story development\" phase of the production pipeline.[9]\nThe moderate, but not blockbuster, success of the further \"Three Pigs\" cartoons was seen as a factor in Walt Disney's decision not to rest on his laurels, but instead to continue to move forward with risk-taking projects, such as the multiplane camera and the first feature-length animated movie. Disney's slogan, often repeated over the years, was \"you can't top pigs with pigs.\"[10]\nSong[edit]\nThe original song composed by Frank Churchill for the cartoon, \"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?\", was a best-selling single, mirroring the people's resolve against the \"big bad wolf\" of The Great Depression; the song actually became something of an anthem of the Great Depression.[11] When the Nazis began expanding the boundaries of Germany in the years preceding World War II, the song was used to represent the complacency of the Western world in allowing Adolf Hitler to make considerable acquisitions of territory without going to war, and was notably used in Disney animations for the Canadian war effort.\nThe song was further used as the inspiration for the title of the 1963 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\nHome video[edit]\nIn the United States, the short was first released on VHS, Betamax and Laserdisc in 1984 as part of its \"Cartoon Classics\" Home Video series. It came out on VHS in the UK in spring 1996 as part of the Disney Storybook Favourites series. It made its DVD debut on December 4, 2001, included in the Walt Disney Treasures DVD box set Silly Symphonies, with the PAL release retaining the Jewish peddler animation.[2]\nIt was later included in Walt Disney's Timeless Tales, Vol. 1, released August 16, 2005 (featuring the edited version in the US Silly Symphonies set), which also featured The Pied Piper (1933), The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934), The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) and The Prince and the Pauper (1990).\nIn those other countries to whom the original 1933 cartoon was first released with original soundtracks in both English and other foreign languages, the uncensored images \u2014 with original 1933 soundtracks in both English and other foreign languages \u2014 are still issued by Disney corporation in home release videos.\nSequels[edit]\nThis section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nDisney produced several sequels to Three Little Pigs, though none were nearly as successful as the original. The first of them was The Big Bad Wolf, also directed by Burt Gillett and first released on April 14, 1934. All four characters of the original film returned along with two new additions: Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother, originating from a different folktale which also featured a wolf as the villain. The plot was fairly simple. Practical Pig is seen building an extension to the shared residence of the three pigs. The added space is presumably needed as the residence was originally intended for a single occupant. Meanwhile, Fiddler and Fifer Pig offer to escort the Red Riding Hood to her grandmother's residence. Against the advice of Practical, the trio attempts to follow a shortcut through the forest. They encounter the dressed-in-drag Wolf and barely evade capture. He proceeds in running ahead of them to the residence of the old woman. The Wolf chases her into a closet and then awaits her granddaughter to arrive. The young girl soon does, but also enters the closet with the assistance of her grandmother. Then Fiddler and Fifer Pig alert their brother to the situation. Practical arrives and soon manages to send the Wolf running by placing hot coals and popcorn into his trousers. The short contained several gags but at the time failed to repeat the commercial success of the original. Modern audiences have found it entertaining enough but still inferior to its predecessor.\nIn 1936, a third cartoon starring the three little pigs and the Big Bad Wolf followed, with a theme more towards The Boy Who Cried Wolf. This short was entitled Three Little Wolves and it was so called because it introduced the Big Bad Wolf's three pup sons, all of whom just as eager for a taste of the pigs as their father.\nOne more cartoon short featuring the characters, The Practical Pig, was released in 1939, right at the end of the Silly Symphonies' run.\nIn 1941, much of the film was edited into The Thrifty Pig, which was distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. Here, Practical Pig builds his house out of Canadian war bonds, and the Big Bad Wolf representing Nazi Germany is unable to blow his house down.\nA new character, Lil Bad Wolf, the son of the Big Bad Wolf, was introduced in subsequent Disney comic books. He was a constant vexation to his father, the Big Bad Wolf, because the little son was not actually bad. His favorite playmates, in fact, were the Three Pigs.\nThere were subsequent sequels made for the Disney TV series Mickey Mouse Works as well.\nWarner Bros. cartoons[edit]\nThree cartoons inspired by this cartoon were produced by Warner Bros. The first was Pigs in a Polka which tells the story to the accompaniment of Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances. The second was The Three Little Bops, featuring the pigs as a jazz band, who refused to let the inept trumpet-playing wolf join until after he died and went to Hell, whereupon his playing markedly improved. Both of these cartoons were directed by ex-Disney animator Friz Freleng. The third film was The Windblown Hare, featuring Bugs Bunny, and directed by Robert McKimson. In Windblown, Bugs is conned into first buying the straw house, which the wolf blows down, and then the sticks house, which the wolf also blows down. After these incidents, Bugs decides to help the wolf and get revenge on all three pigs, who are now at the brick house.\nMotion pictures[edit]\nThe film It Happened One Night includes a scene wherein the two main characters, played by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, are forced to room with each other. Gable's character has sequestered himself away from Colbert's by setting up a curtained off area. Still Colbert has reservations and declares her misgivings to Gable about the arrangement. Gable treats the situation with humor and proceeds to sing the song, \"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf\", complete with lyrics from the Disney cartoon song, ending it with \"tra-la-la-la\u2026.\" Gable was being current with the times, as the Disney film had only come out about a year earlier.\nFiddler Pig, Fifer Pig, and Zeke the Wolf appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.\nCharacters from the film also appeared on Disney's television series House of Mouse and its spinoff direct-to-video films: the three little pigs were featured on the series, the Big Bad Wolf was one of the villains in Mickey's House of Villains (2002), and Practical Pig was featured in Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001).\nTheme park attractions[edit]\nA coffee and sandwich shop at Buena Vista Street, in Disney California Adventure, is named Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe in homage to the pigs. The shop is decorated with a motif of fifes, fiddles and pianos.\nThe pigs and the Big Bad Wolf appear at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as meetable characters\nA miniature set of the pigs' homes is featured in the Storybook Land Canal Boats attraction in Disneyland\nA poster in the queue area for the Magic Kingdom attraction Mickey's PhilharMagic features the three little pigs and the Big Bad Wolf as The Wolf Gang Trio.\nThe pigs appear in the video game Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, as scrapped versions of themselves.\nIn the life simulation video game Disney Magical World 2, one of the three random pigs is running a renovation wagon players can visit to have their in-game home remodeled. It can be made out different building materials, depending on which pig is running the wagon.\nList of Disney animated films based on fairy tales\nBlitz Wolf\n^ \"Walt Disney's \"Three Little Pigs\" (1933) -\". cartoonresearch.com.\n^ a b Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 126\u2013129. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.\n^ Balio, Tino (2009). United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-299-23004-3.\n^ \"Chronology of the Walt Disney Company (1934)\". www.islandnet.com.\n^ \"Huffing and Puffing about Three Little Pigs \u2022 Senses of Cinema\". www.sensesofcinema.com.\n^ \"The Walt Disney Family Museum - Find animation, innovation, and inspiration and immerse yourself in the remarkable life story of Walt Disney\". disney.go.com.\n^ Lee, Newton; Krystina Madej (2012). Disney Stories: Getting to Digital. London: Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 55\u201356. ISBN 9781461421016.\n^ Krasniewicz, Louise (2010). Walt Disney: A Biography. Santa Barbara: Greenwood. pp. 60\u201364. ISBN 9780313358302.\n^ Gabler, Neal (2007). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 181\u2013189. ISBN 9780679757474.\n^ Gabler, Neal (2007). Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination. New York: Vintage Books. p. 415. ISBN 9780679757474. Retrieved 14 March 2015.\n^ \"Insider - Oh My Disney\". 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{"text":"Timor Archives\nClearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc. (CHART )\nTimorese Archives\nNational Library a step closer\nPlans to establish a National Library of Timor-Leste moved a step closer with the recent appointment of a library specialist to guide its development.\nKaren Myers, an Australian librarian with significant East Timor working experience, began a 7-month contract in mid-January.\nHer appointment follows international advertising in September 2010 through the Italian oil company, Eni, which is contributing substantial funds to the National Library project.\nThe broad shape of the new institution as a national coordinating body for all libraries in Timor-Leste is outlined in a recent government statement.\nThe contract library specialist tasks include input into design of physical infrastructure, legal framework for the library, cultural and educational policy statements, training requirements, human resources planning and collection and acquisition policies.\nKaren Myers\nTimor Experience\nPrior to coming to Timor full-time in 2006, Karen worked in a public library service in Victoria and, from 2002, periodically did library work and training at the National University of Timor-Leste.\nShe worked through Australian Volunteers International in 2006-7 in advisory roles and course development work at the Dili Institute of Technology. In 2007-9 she was advisor to the Documentation Centre of the Post-CAVR Secretariat.\nNational Library and Archives\nCHART has a special interest in the emergence of the National Library for three specific archives-related reasons.\nThe new institution is called the National Library and Archives on the Secretary of State for Culture website. There was some speculation in 2009 that the new institution might incorporate the existing government archives (Arquivo Nacional) and\/or some other smaller special interest archives emerging in Timor-Leste (see our brief report here). We look forward to learning more about the expected archives functions in the new National Library.\nCHART connection?\nCHART is currently planning a significant digitisation program of Australian-held Timor archival materials. We hope to arrange public access to these files through emerging institutions in Timor-Leste. An archives function at the National Library would make the new institution a potential candidate for such an arrangement with CHART.\nToday's publications, tomorrow's archives\nOur 2003 report on archives developments in Timor-Leste noted that \"there does not yet appear to be any institution committed to collecting output from today's East Timor. Today's newspapers, books, images, leaflets, radio broadcasts and so forth are tomorrow's archival record of East Timorese civil society in its early life as an independent nation.\" (p.11). We await with great interest to see whether the emerging National Library will take on this important role.\nLeave a Comment \u00bb\t| Timorese repositories\t| Permalink\nPosted by timorarchives\nResistance Archive & Museum: New database access\nThe Arquivo & Museu da Resistencia (AMRT) in Dili continues to lead the way on access to digitised archives of the East Timorese struggle for independence.\nIn a new development, the online search facility has been re-designed to improve access to the well-established collection of digitised documents.\nThe centrepiece of the AMRT collection is internal resistance documents gathered from individuals throughout Timor-Leste since 2002.\nBrowsing document folders\nResearchers now find documents by entering simple search terms or navigating the collection's database through browsing the underlying document folder structure. Previously, only visitors to the Archive in Dili could access the document folders on a dedicated stand-alone computer.\nThe predominant Timorese resistance document collections are arranged in folders by year; each year folder contains up to 10 standard sub-folders (see graphic).\nThe other main sections of the folder structure are Photographs and a Digital Library. The photographs folder contains a vast assemblage of images of the internal resistance and international solidarity campaigning. The digital library folder contains copies of published materials \u2013 from pamphlets to whole books. Many of these items come from the collection of Antonio Barbedo de Magalh\u00e3es.\nNew document presentation\nThe onscreen presentation of documents has also changed. Instead of whole PDF documents being delivered from search results, documents are viewed page-by-page via navigation buttons. Database information about the origins and content of each document (metadata) is displayed alongside the page view. Page images can be enlarged for better readability.\nResearchers' gems\nSome very useful items caught the eye of this researcher while browsing the folders. They include:\nThe guide to Jill Jolliffe's well-known microfiche collection of Timor documents. (57 pages)\nList of acronyms (9 pages)\nList of resistance members' names and pseudonyms (52 pages)\nThe latter two were probably internal AMRT documents developed during the course of building its database.\nThe new design of the search facility is a great improvement over the earlier version. I like browsing the folder structure and the new delivery method of search results \u2013 a summary of types of documents and their quantity \u2013 is welcome. While the facility is currently restricted to Portuguese language, this is no serious barrier to using the database.\nOn my wish list for a future improvements would be an advanced search screen which allowed searching for terms in a particular field of the database. At present a word is searched simultaneously across all database fields, sometimes producing too many results to easily browse. It does not seem possible, for example, to search for all items from a particular donor's collection (Fundo).\nData accuracy & 'crowd sourcing'\nLarge databases such as this inevitably contain typographical or informational errors. Having the data online provides the opportunity for end users to spot errors or offer valuable additional information to document data. Getting data help from end-users has the trendy title of 'crowd sourcing'.\nThere are errors and holes in the AMRT database. Sadly, data corrections offered in the crowd-sourcing spirit by CHART in 2009 have yet to appear in the database. Perhaps when resources allow, the AMRT will consider establishing a formal method for end-users to submit data suggestions\/corrections.\nThat said, the AMRT digitisation program, and making the material accessible online, is marvellous. AMRT is setting a fine example to all of us interested in making archival material accessible to present and future generations of Timorese and the international community.\nLeave a Comment \u00bb\t| Access, Timorese collections, Timorese repositories\t| Permalink\nMoment of truth for Timor's truth commissions' archives\nCAVR Archives: Priceless, unique, irreplaceable\nUpcoming legislation in Timor-Leste's parliament marks a critical moment in the long-term preservation of, and public access to, Timor's truth commission archives.\nTimor's 2001-2005 Commission for Reception, Truth & Reconciliation (CAVR) and the 2005-2008 Indonesia-Timor joint Commission for Truth & Friendship (CTF) both hold archival records of long-term importance to the people of Timor-Leste, Indonesia and the broader international community.\nBoth commissions made broadly similar recommendations on the need for addressing justice and reparations issues arising from the violations of human rights they documented. Similarly, both commissions recommended the creation of formal entities to preserve and provide access to the respective commission archives and to collect, house and provide access to related materials currently held outside Timor-Leste.\nDraft legislation\nDraft legislation defining the institutional framework for implementing the recommendations of both commissions is now under active consideration by the relevant parliamentary committee. Committee A heard Timorese non-government organisations and victims groups' comments on the draft legislation in early July. The Committee is expected to submit the legislation to Parliament for debate in September.\nThe Timorese NGO La'o Hamutuk is maintaining a valuable guide to this process, including background documents, links to the draft legislation text and some critical commentary on it.\nArchival principles important\nCHART's brief submission on the draft legislation \u2013 limited to commentary and suggestions on specific archival aspects \u2013 can be found here.\nThe final form of the institutional arrangements to keep the commission archives is unclear. Regardless of the structure, some basic archival principles will need to be adopted. They include:\nCollection integrity\nAny legal action against perpetrators or reparations for victims must necessarily be based on evidence. If material collected by either commission can contribute to any such future actions, it is absolutely crucial that the evidence is protected against accidental, environmental or intentional\/malicious loss, defacement or destruction.\nFor this reason, the legislation should enshrine the need to follow recognised international archival standards and practices for managing and protecting these important materials. Additionally, an offsite copy of the archives \u2013 similar to the post-CAVR secretariat's initial projects with the British Library \u2013 should be mandated.\nCollection authenticity\nA piece of evidence is more likely to accepted if it can be authenticated as belonging to a body of evidence from a documented process or investigation. For this reason alone, it is important to keep records gathered by each commission as separate and distinct collections so there can be no confusion about the origins (gathering process, source) of the evidence.\nFor similar reasons, any related material collected later by the new institution should be maintained separately and not interfiled with either commission's archive.\nCollection Access\nPublic access to truth commission archives internationally is a complex issue. Restrictions on access to confidential victim statements from individuals may be necessary to protect the victim's privacy or protect them against pressure or harm from alleged perpetrators. Allegations against individual perpetrators, yet to be tested in some legal process, may need to be protected to prevent private revenge actions.\nThese examples need to be balanced against the need for access to the records for reparation, legal, educational, historical research and memory reasons.\nIn the absence of post-independence laws in Timor-Leste on access to government documents and national archives, the current legisation should define rules on access \u2013 probably specifying that the post-CAVR secretariat's access guidelines be adopted as an interim measure.\nAnecdotal evidence from researchers suggests already some difficulty in ease of access to CAVR archives, despite the existence of an access policy. Hopefully an ethos of public access \u2013 within prudent limits mentioned above \u2013 will be enshrined in the new institution, whatever form it might take.\n1 Comment\t| Access, Timorese collections, Timorese repositories\t| Permalink\nArchives in Timor-Leste, 2009: Summary update\nMy brief on-the-ground exploration of archival developments in Timor-Leste during August leaves me both encouraged and bewildered.\nEncouraged because the interest in archival matters I found in Dili in 2003 continues, unabated, to drive several interesting institutional developments and encouraged by the very strong interest in Timor archival materials being held in Australia.\nBewildered by the funding, building, training and personnel difficulties that all archives in Timor face, the uncertainties of government decision-making processes and what seems, in part, a rather negative competitiveness between some developing archival projects.\nMore on all that later. For now, here is a taste of what Cecily Gilbert and I managed to learn in a few short days in the very busy run-up to the 10th anniversary of the decisive independence ballot of 30 August 1999.\nThe National Archive, created to hold past and current government records, was established in the early years after independence. Since 2003 the Arquivo has been allocated a building, but does not yet appear to be a major government priority. A sizeable collection of Portuguese-era administrative records are held in reasonable storage conditions but the Arquivo does not have sufficient storage space to properly house a large volume of seemingly unexamined Indonesia-era administrative records. Transfers of independence-era government records have just begun. There does not appear to be any available listings of collection holdings and public access to the collection remains in planning stages. A detailed legislative basis for the Arquivo Nacional's existence and function, in draft form in 2003, has yet to be adopted. The Director of the archive, Pedro Fernandes, hopes the National Archive will eventually house some Timor-related archival materials held in Australia and elsewhere, but believes it will be some years before the institution will be ready to do this.\nCAVR\nMaterials collected in Timor as evidence for the monumental 'Chega' report form the centre-piece of the archives of East Timor's Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR). Since CAVR's wind-up in 2005, the Post-CAVR Secretariat has managed the archive, notably conducting a copy program funded under the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme whereby digital copies of original materials are held in London for preservation and (later) access purposes. Both paper and audio-visual materials are currently housed in reasonable archival conditions. Preservation copying of a large collection of audio-tapes of victim statements and other interviews is an important future task which will require significant resources. Access to the archives is possible with applications considered on a case by case basis but is somewhat hampered by incomplete documentation on collection content. Planning for a successor institution is well-developed but currently stalled by Parliament's continued delay in formally considering the recommendations of Chega. The proposed institution includes a human rights documentation centre based on the existing archive and acquisition of related material from abroad.\nCentro Audiovisual Max Stahl Timor Leste (CAMSTL)\nCurrently housed in part of the Independence Memorial Hall in Farol and directed by the inimitable Max Stahl. In addition to holding historical footage from the occupation years, CAMSTL maintains an active program of recording, for the historical record, video of current events and interviews on Timorese experience of occupation. Timorese employees are trained in camera work, editing and archival procedures and work with volunteers to transcribe all spoken words in footage held. CAMSTL has created a number of films for sale on DVD. Max Stahl has recently concluded an agreement with INA, the French national audiovisual institute, to house archival copies of Timor footage for long term preservation and access. Detailed public listings of the content of CAMSTL are not yet available. We did not have time to learn more about the funding structure and long-term administrative and viability planning for CAMSTL.\nNational Library\nThe 'new kid on the block' in archival terms, a National Library is under very active consideration at the highest levels. Part-funded by an international donor, a building site has been allocated (but not yet made public), books and temporary storage space have been acquired, plans for appointing an international advisor, beginning staff training and conducting an international building design competition are in progress. Planning is the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Culture, Virgilio Smith. It is still too early to know what the final form of the National Library will be but that will become clearer in the coming months. The archival aspect arises from a declared interest by ministerial advisers to acquire for the Library Australian and other Timor solidarity archival materials from abroad. There has also been some tentative discussion of the idea of co-locating some existing archival institutions at the new Library. Our guess is the sceptical reaction from existing archives to this idea will persist at least until they have a clearer picture of the emerging National Library.\nTimorese Resistance Archive and Museum\nOpened in 2005, the Timorese Resistance Archive and Museum (AMRT) is located near the current (temporary) National Parliament building and the National University. The building houses a selection of Falintil weapons, radios and other equipment along with informational posters and displays of resistance documents (copies). The archival centrepiece of the AMRT is a large collection of documents gathered from resistance figures and supporters inside East Timor from 2002 to the present. Many of the collected documents are currently held in Lisbon at the Mario Soares Foundation (FMS) which has digitised the materials. With the exception of some politically sensitive materials, the digitised copies are available internationally on the internet through the AMRT website (managed by FMS) and a dedicated standalone computer in the Museum building in Dili. Aware of some questions in Dili about the ownership and management of the AMRT, along with some disquiet about documents being kept in Lisbon, a Timorese representative board of management is under construction. Also under construction is an imminent expansion of the existing building to add secure, archival standard storage and work areas and commercial seminar, bookshop and cafe facilities to assist AMRT funding for the longer term.\nThere's more, much more, to say about these and other archival matters inside Timor-Leste today. Keep an eye on the 'Timorese Archives' section of this blog over the coming month.\nLeave a Comment \u00bb\t| Timorese collections, Timorese repositories\t| Permalink\nYou are currently browsing the archives for the Timorese repositories category.\nA Voz de Timor online\nGordon McIntosh, 1925-2019\nCentro Nasional Chega! director visits CHART\nPenny Tweedie Photographs, 1975\nCHART Funding Appeal 2018\nMichael Richardson Photographs, 1975\nTimor archives of Anthony Goldstone (1945-2016)\nAccess to CHART digital files\nCHART News\nPeriodic update on CHART work.\nCHART Project Links\nTimor Archives: Newsletters\nAbout Blog (2)\nAustralian collections (39)\nAustralian repositories (11)\nInternational collections (11)\nInternational repositories (1)\nTimorese collections (11)\nTimorese repositories (11)\nTools & tips (1)\nTimorfile on Twitter\nSeeking help to identify creators of historic Timor photos. 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{"text":"Company Social Responsibility\nTrueTouch Products\nHigh Speed Interface Products\nDisplay and Touch Integrated System Products\nAll Annual Reports\nParade Technologies, Ltd. Demonstrated DisplayPort\u2122 Solutions to Major OEMS\nPosted August 8th, 2007\nParade's DP501 Dual-Mode DisplayPort Transmitter and DP601 Dual-Mode DisplayPort Receiver Completed VESA PlugTest Successfully\nSUNNYVALE, Calif.\u2013(BUSINESS WIRE)\u2013August 08, 2007: Parade Technologies, Ltd., a leading developer of digital video display interface products, announced today the reference design of its DP501 DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter with an ATI Radeon\u2122 graphics processor has successfully completed an interoperability test with DisplayPort receiver from a third party vendor and Parade's own DP601 at the most recent Video and Electronics Standards Association (VESA) PlugTest in Milpitas, California. The solution supports advanced features such as WQXGA display mode, HDCP 1.3, and backward compatible with DVI\u2122\/HDMI\u2122.\nDisplayPort is an innovative digital display interface standard designed to be scalable and allow for true unification of display interfaces. DisplayPort supports both external connections as well as embedded interface applications.\n\"As market demand begins to build for DisplayPort technology it is important to enable the PC eco-system by driving standards based technology into the marketplace,\" said Vijay Sharma, Director of Desktop Products, AMD. \"We applaud Parade technologies as they work with the industry to drive broad adoption of this nextgeneration display interface.\"\nParade's DP601, a dual-mode DisplayPort receiver, also has completed interoperability tests with a number of DisplayPort transmitters from third party vendors including a next generation ATI Radeon\u2122 graphics processor with native DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter.\n\"DisplayPort is a breakthrough technology, and Parade is proud to be at the forefront of technology innovation,\" said Jack Zhao, President and CEO of Parade Technologies, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Parade Technologies, Ltd, and its United States marketing representative. \"Successful interoperability testing strengthens our leading position in DisplayPort technology and product offers.\"\nAdditional information about Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) can be found at www.amd.com.\nAbout Parade Technologies, Ltd and Parade Technologies, Inc.\nParade Technologies, Ltd. is a privately-held fabless semiconductor company that specializes in developing digital video display interface products. The company seeks to leverage a combination of high-speed analog, mixed-signal and digital design expertise, along with system level knowledge, to take product performance, power efficiency and customer satisfaction to new heights.\nParade Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Parade Technologies, Ltd., is located in Sunnyvale, California, the heart of Silicon Valley. As Parade Technologies, Ltd.'s marketing representative in the United States, Parade Technologies, Inc. can be reached at (408) 329-5540 or on the internet at http:\/\/www.paradetech.com\nParade Technologies, Inc.\nJimmy Chiu, 408-329-5540\njimmy.chiu@paradetech.com\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Parade Technologies, Ltd. - All Rights Reserved. Website by Computer Courage.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Mariners scout heckles Jesus Montero, Montero allegedly tries to go after him with a bat\nBy Craig CalcaterraAug 29, 2014, 7:35 AM EDT\nTyler Maun of MiLB.com reports that a crazy incident occurred in Boise during a game between the Everett AquaSox and the Boise Hawks in the Northwest League yesterday. Jesus Montero, who is with Everett as he rehabs from an oblique injury, was coaching first base and was being heckled from the stands. Not by an ordinary fan, but a cross-checker \u2014 a scout who usually oversees scouts in a given geographical area \u2014 who is actually employed by the Mariners.\nThe incident was kicked off when the scout yelled at Montero to hustle off the field after an inning, yelling \"Rapido! Rapido!\" Then the scout ordered an ice cream sandwich and had it sent to Montero in the dugout, which one assumes was a dig at his weight issues (Montero showed up for spring training 40 pounds overweight). Montero didn't take kindly to that at all, heading toward the stands with a bat in his hands, throwing the ice cream sandwich at the scout and screaming expletives at the scout. He had to restrained by an Everett coach.\nMariners GM Jack Zduriencik told the Seattle Times that he was looking into the matter. And while, as the high-profile player who was acting aggressively, Montero is going draw most of the heat and coverage here, what on God's green Earth is a scout employed by the Mariners doing acting like that at a baseball game which he is presumably working? Toward a Mariners player no less? We obviously don't have all the information here, but if his behavior was as reported by Maun, I'm not sure how that guy doesn't get fired pretty quickly.\nIn other news, the minor leagues are a great bang for your entertainment buck.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"BROTHER LOUIE\nModern Talking booked major commercial success with the single \"Brother Louie\" in 1986. It was the lead single of their third studio album Ready For Romance and also the fourth consecutive single to top the German Singles Chart.\nSleeve with gold-spot varnish on the Modern Talking logo on the front cover\n#1 single in multiple countries, including Sweden, Greece, Spain, Finland and Germany\nModern Talking's fourth single in a row to peak at #1 on Germany's Single Chart\nDouble certified silver and gold\nLimited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on red coloured vinyl\nMore MODERN TALKING\nCatalog # : MOV12057 Format : 1 12\", 180 gram Releasedate : February 03 2023\nBarcode : 8719262022645 Sleeve : Special Original Release : 1986\n1. Brother Louie (special long version)\n1. Brother Louie (instrumental)\nModern Talking booked major commercial success with the single \"Brother Louie\" in 1986. It was the lead single of their third studio album Ready For Romance and also the fourth consecutive single to top the German Singles Chart, after \"You're My Heart, You're My Soul\", \"You Can Win If You Want\" and \"Cheri, Cheri Lady\". It was certified Gold in Belgium and Silver in both Germany and France.\nThe 12\" Brother Louie features the special long version and instrumental version of the hit single. It is cut on 45RPM and is available as a limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on red coloured vinyl.\nTHE MILLENNIUM BELL\nMARC MOULIN\nPLACEBO YEARS\nYELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA\nTHEMBA\nMODERN AFRICA, PART 1 - EKHAYA\nKLAUS SCHULZE \/ PETE NAMLOOK\nTHE DARK SIDE OF THE MOOG VOL. 8 (Careful With The AKS, Peter)\nPENTAMEROUS METAMORPHOSIS\nNINETIES COLLECTED","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Columns \u00bb Dele Agekameh \u00bb Issues of the Day \u00bb You are reading \u00bb\nNigeria: In Search of Patriots, By Dele Agekameh\nPremium Times September 12, 2018 Nigeria: In Search of Patriots, By Dele Agekameh2018-09-12T10:56:27+00:00 Columns, Dele Agekameh, Issues of the Day No Comment\nWe need to believe in our own strength to fight the obstacles we are faced with, before our country can emerge from the ashes of yesterday's failures.\nIn the past week, we heard news of Boko Haram victories and the unprecedented number of casualties amongst Nigerian soldiers engaged in the fight against the religious extremists. The police hierarchy is also locked in a blame game with a very highly placed Niger Delta elder, who was a victim to what was again described by the police as an 'unauthorised' raid by some of its men. While all of these are going on, there are men currently lining up behind the flags of their political parties to indicate their interest in charting the course of the country, for good or bad.\nIn truth, the country needs a determined leader to take it through the coming years, especially as we are in a make or break phase of development in many areas. This crucial time in our history is proving tough, as should be reasonably expected in a country with so many diverse interests. There are times when one is simply proud of what we have achieved and the potential that we still hold, while at other times the daunting task of nation building seems to be a lost cause. In the end, it is the people who hold this union together, through their acts and their belief in our prospects and survival as a country. This is where the trouble lies.\nNigerians are amongst the most mobile groups of people in the world. After the Chinese and Indians, Nigerians are probably the most likely group of immigrants you will encounter in most parts of the world, even in regions with stark differences in weather, culture and language. The average Nigerian considers it a step forward to be able to pack his belongings and leave the country behind, even to an uncertain fate in a foreign country. This does not portray a picture of people who have faith in their chances at home or a belief in the prospects for a good life in this country.\nSometime after our independence, Nigerian immigrants moved freely to the United Kingdom where many families remain rooted till this day. When the British began tightening their borders, there was a concentration on American visas, and many Nigerians can now be found across the vast territory there. Again, the Americans tightened their borders through more stringent visa requirements and now the exodus is concentrated on Canada, where the signs of the restricted intake of Nigerians are already materialising. Wherever the next destination may be, life in the country is still pushing people out, even at times when there seems to be improvements. When will visas stop being more important than national identity cards or voters cards?\nWe are so quick to trade our identities for the safety of a working society that we leave gaps in our own country that contribute to the poor development of our sectors. Many Nigerians serve in the British army or in the American military, even recent migrants, when the Nigerian army is engaged on multiple fronts at home and abroad.\nEvery day, more people make the seemingly bold move to restart their lives in other countries, sometimes uprooting entire families in order to give their children a fighting chance in the vastly competitive world out there. We no longer believe in dreams made in Nigeria, but want to be part of the American dream, or share in the openness of the Canadian society. Nigerian children are learning to speak languages in continental Europe, where the natives themselves are looking to expand their horizons and teach their children more of the popular culture in Britain or America.\nWe are so quick to trade our identities for the safety of a working society that we leave gaps in our own country that contribute to the poor development of our sectors. Many Nigerians serve in the British army or in the American military, even recent migrants, when the Nigerian army is engaged on multiple fronts at home and abroad. One cannot fault their decisions, as everyone is responsible for themselves, especially when it seems that we are faced with insurmountable obstacles at home.\nPromising entrepreneurs and employers of labour flee the country to become employees in foreign countries, where they get lost in the demographics and lead ordinary but safe lives. Ideas that can make positive impacts in our society are sold to the West for the promise of a life there, only for the end products of those ideas, that were conceived in the minds of born and bred Nigerians, to be imported into the country at a premium. Our biggest employers of labour are foreigners who are mining the potentials of our unique markets and repatriating the proceeds to their home countries. Behind crude oil and maybe the products of a rejuvenated agricultural sector, our biggest export is labour, and unlike oil and agricultural produce, it is a negative to national development.\nMost of our public servants are not left out of the race for greener pastures. The ones who do not have dual citizenships have ensured that their children have not missed out on the massive advantages of the citizenship of successful countries, where dreams are born and nurtured for the advantage of those societies. In many cases, their offsprings identify more with the foreign nationalities, for obvious reasons, and never visit or return home. For the ones who return, they are met with plush appointments facilitated by the standing of their parents or the natural advantage of their foreign backgrounds and education.\nThe returnees become policy makers and leaders of industry who understand the theoretics of global business and public management, but are deficient in the practical knowledge of how things work in the country. As a result, they are deceived, exploited and used by those who know but have no moral integrity. The shock of being jolted to reality leads many to leave or join the band of exploiters, having never felt, first hand, the consequences of their elitist ideas. They join a class of Nigerians that consciously or unconsciously propagate a growing class divide, widening the wealth gap through an established system of elitism that ensures non-inclusion.\nWhat may encourage patriotism in the Nigerians that choose to live here, or simply have no choice, is not so difficult to decipher\u2026 Security\u2026is an important factor. This is closely followed by the guarantee of a respectable means of livelihood and access to affordable healthcare, education and other daily needs.\nA striking thing about the most developed countries is the sense of patriotism of the citizens there. Those that think Nigerians are patriotic merely confuse our natural defensiveness for patriotism. Over 80 per cent of Nigerians will readily trade their Nigerian passports for British or American passports and never look back. About 77 per cent of Nigerians are currently living below the poverty line and it is without question that they will be willing to make such a trade. Of those living above that line, one assumes that a quarter already have dual citizenships or are working on a migration plan.\nWhat may encourage patriotism in the Nigerians that choose to live here, or simply have no choice, is not so difficult to decipher. Everyone wants to be able to lie down at night peacefully and wake up in the morning with peace of mind. For those living in the North-East or outside fortified areas like military cantonments in other parts, this may be difficult. Security, therefore, is an important factor. This is closely followed by the guarantee of a respectable means of livelihood and access to affordable healthcare, education and other daily needs.\nThere is no shaming or praising people who leave or stay, as everybody's experience is personal. What is clear is that it does Nigeria no good when its best brains are in flight or when there is no belief in the country by its own citizens. Dora Akunyili of blessed memory tried to launch a rebranding programme that evidently has not sailed, like the vision 2020 plan that failed several years ago. We need to believe in our own strength to fight the obstacles we are faced with, before our country can emerge from the ashes of yesterday's failures.\nThe measure of a country, it is becoming clear, is not by the wealth of its richest people, but by the aggregate of citizens actively working and succeeding at making a better life for themselves. We are grateful for the work of people like Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Oba Otudeko, Tony Elumelu and others who are inspiring the next generation and creating a dream for Nigerians to follow. But there are obstacles that even they cannot help many cross, and we may have to rely on the resilience of the Nigerian spirit, channeled into nation building and growing together. 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Heather go home worn down after two days of filming, her underarms rubbed raw from the sequins on her too-tight bee costume. She mother, Susan, thinks she made a few thousand dollars in her function as the bee Girl. Quickly enough, she was ago at college in Lake Forest, just one more 9-year-old kid. And also then the video hit MTV. \u2022\u2022\u2022 \"I think Jay's going come ask me how I acquired in the video clip and if ns have any boyfriends and also what I desire to do with my life.\" the was heath in 1993, shortly after the video clip came the end \u2013 and just before her appearance on \"The Tonight show with Jay Leno.\" The life of the bee Girl walk from zero to crazy while it take it that video clip to air. Suddenly, newspapers and also television shows were calling for interviews. MTV make her among the closing plot of that 1993 video-awards show; she remembers share a dressing room with the Red hot Chili Peppers. She landed big-screen functions after that \u2013 in \"A small Princess\" in 1995 and also \"The Beautician and the Beast\" two years later. More recently, she make cameo appearances in \"Balls the Fury\" (2007) and in the television cops-spoof \"Reno 911!\" yet as she got older, she chose she didn't want to miss out on out on growing up. She began canceling auditions and also interviews so she can spend time through her friends. She i graduated from El Toro High school in Lake Forest, then obtained a level in interactions from Cal State Fullerton. Her current boyfriend didn't even know that she was, in fact, the punishment Girl till they had been dating for a few weeks. She still has those special glasses in a keepsake chest in she bedroom, in addition to those crooked punishment antennae. The punishment Girl, she says, \"is a part of me now. I am her\u2026 i love it.\" She created on she MySpace page: \"Some civilization call me 'Bummble Bee' (and) if you recognize me then you recognize why.\" and that's how she started to realize simply what the bee Girl had meant to so plenty of people. \u2022\u2022\u2022 The letter come from short people and also fat people, civilization who have been laugh at and also hurt \u2013 human being who didn't right in. They have seen Heather's name in a news story, and also found her on MySpace\u2026 was she yes, really the punishment Girl? One man wrote about how badly he was teased farming up \u2013 and also how he took comfort in the idea that even a little girl dressed like a bee could find a place to belong. It was the same for a woman that wrote around how other kids always made fun of her for being short; she, too, found inspiration in the punishment Girl. Heather it s okay a few letters prefer those every week. \"Have you ever before felt favor your love is smiling?\" she said. \"It makes me feel favor a great person.\" She does her best to answer castle all. The bee Girl, she says now, \"was someone that had actually an inside spark. She seemed an extremely introverted on the outside, but on the inside, she had kind the this within light, to walk out and be alive. \"I think she was full of hope. She had the feeling that she might go out and also find acceptance, that there are human being out there like her.\" \"It's a story the gets human being through,\" she says. \"When i go through hard times, the punishment Girl prevails.\"\nGirl in chicago found in freezer\nGirl in closet dr phil full episode\nGirl in coma after tonsil surgery\nGirl in front of burning house\nGirl in little league world series\nGirl in blurred lines video name\nGirl in at&t tv commercial\nGirl in at&t tv ads\nGirl in 20s dating guy in 40s\nGirl hit with ball at yankee game","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Why Post Meteorologist Angela Fritz is Walking the Line\nLast week, among the crowd at the sunbaked informational picket line outside the Washington Post at the noon hour, Angela Fritz marched and chanted for a new contract with better retirement security for Post workers. Fritz is a meteorologist, a member of the Capital Weather Gang and the recipient of the Washington Post's Publisher's Award for her hurricane coverage last month. She shared the honor with fellow Capital Weather Gang reporter Jason Samenow. \"It's very simple and straightforward,\" said Fritz about her membership in the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. \"The Guild is negotiating on my behalf. Everything the Guild does is to my benefit. I wouldn't feel good not joining the people who are negotiating for me.\" Fritz, who has worked at the Post for three years, says she doesn't think much about where she'll be in 10 years, much less where and how she'll retire. That's one reason why the Guild has such a sharp focus on retirement benefits, which management at the Post has been attacking in recent contracts, including ongoing contract talks. She says she's proud to work at the Post and loves how journalism provides a public service. \"I feel a responsibility to our readers and our followers, to make sure they have the best information possible. So many people put in more than their fair share of work every day, and I think it translates into excellent journalism and coverage,\" Fritz said.\n(www.dclabor.org\/home\/archives\/10-2017\/11 Story by Robert Struckman; photo by Chris Garlock)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Edition No. 226 October 13 \u2013 19, 2018\nAs advertising on the Opera House shows the political influence of Alan Jones, his rivals and confidants marvel at his singular power. By Martin McKenzie-Murray.\nThe power of Alan Jones\nDrew Hutton was young, gifted and ambitious. A teenage boarder at Brisbane Grammar in 1963, Hutton was the school's captain, and happily proficient in sport and study. His first sport was tennis but, he tells me, in '64 he got hooked on the idea of dominating athletics, too. Hurdles and short-distance running. Soon, he would break a state record.\nHis coach was Alan Jones, who had been employed by Brisbane Grammar as a teacher the year before. A gifted tennis player himself, Jones assumed coaching roles outside the classroom. \"He knew what he was talking about, especially tennis,\" Hutton tells me. \"He could tell you what to do \u2013 but also show you. In athletics, he wasn't a bad distance runner. Never did hurdles, but he could tell me how close to the hurdles I was, whether I was balanced. I don't know where he got his information from, but he knew, and he did the same with football. He was very assiduous.\"\nJones wasn't much older than his students, but traits that would influence public life decades later \u2013 and passionately inspire both admiration and disgust \u2013 were evident then. A fierce commitment to his favourites was one.\nWith tennis and study, Hutton realised he could only train at athletics before dawn. That meant rising at 4.30am and hitting the track at 5. Jones joined him. \"He would get up with me,\" Hutton says. \"And there were plenty of others he coached. Then he would teach all day. He's got an enormous energy.\"\nJones did so because he saw something in Hutton. When you speak with people who know Jones, a few adjectives recur. Loyalty is one, although the word is qualified. \"Jones knew the technical things, but he could also motivate you,\" Hutton says. \"Well, he could if he liked you. This is where I have the most problems with Alan. If he liked you, he'd do anything for you. Get up at 5am to supervise you, say. But if he didn't like you, he'd make your life hell.\"\nIn off-the-record conversations, people remarked on Jones's sense of loyalty and how forcefully it was projected: passionate, sacrificial and unqualified. Loyalty exists for Jones as a primal virtue, something to be honoured with energetic commitment. But there was another side, suggested by Hutton and repeated by others: Jones invests his loyalty mercurially, and his substantial passions might just as easily be used to belittle and intimidate.\nDrew Hutton never became a professional athlete \u2013 but he helped found a political party. In the 1970s, while Jones was variously a schoolmaster at The King's School in Parramatta, a four-time failed political candidate and, in the last year of the decade, a speechwriter for Malcolm Fraser, Hutton was lecturing in history and political science and organising political rallies. \"I was involved in the New Left and anti-Vietnam War movement, became an anarchist, and then, later, realised you had to engage the system,\" Hutton says.\nBy the time Hutton founded the Queensland Greens in 1991, and helped Bob Brown found the national Greens party in the same decade, he had long lost contact with Jones. Their politics were opposed, mostly, but the two retained a mutual respect. Many years after the 5am hurdle runs, when the \"system\" with which Hutton had resolved to engage would include his old track and tennis coach, the two would meet again.\nJones has been talking for a long time now \u2013 and we've been talking about him for just as long. Since his first broadcast in 1985, Jones has seen eight prime ministers, 11 New South Wales premiers and outrun exhausted radio titans such as John Laws. His endurance is phenomenal.\nAnd that's just radio. Jones has had a remarkably varied career, and I wonder if a comparable one could exist now: a country boy of modest grades but fierce ambition, excels in tennis, goes to Oxford, manages a regional airline, becomes a schoolmaster, coaches the Wallabies, writes for a prime minister, and then... becomes the long-reigning, mythically powerful king of talkback radio. Jones's most ardent admirers describe him as a Renaissance man; his critics, as an indefatigable grifter.\nAt 2GB, calculations about the contesting values of infamy and defamation settlements on one side, and the influence and popularity of Jones on the other, have always been resolved in favour of the talent.\nOne consistency has been Jones's ego. It seems supernaturally fortified. Last month, a judge found Jones had serially and gravely defamed a Queensland family \u2013 the Wagners \u2013 who he had accused of being responsible, through a collapsed quarry wall, of 12 deaths in the 2011 Lockyer Valley floods. The judge spoke of Jones's \"intrinsically vicious and spiteful wording \u2026 [his] wilful blindness to the truth or falsity of the defamatory accusations\". Jones was ordered to pay $3.7 million in damages, an Australian record since actress Rebel Wilson's defamation payout from Bauer Media was slashed from $4.5 million to just $600,000 by Victoria's Court of Appeal.\nOne might expect an ordinary person to be chastened \u2013 or sacked. But Jones isn't ordinary. Ordinary people don't sustain a career like his \u2013 even, or especially, when they assume ambassadorship of ordinariness. For years at 2GB, calculations about the contesting values of infamy and defamation settlements on one side, and the influence and popularity of Jones on the other, have always been resolved in favour of the talent.\nThe other consistency of Jones's career, inseparable from the first, is controversy \u2013 though that's probably too asinine a word to describe his transgressions. Impulsive, condescending and abusive, Jones will, on average, speak about 150,000 words a week. This verbosity is profitable and commends his rare energy, but it means the odds are always good that there will be some indecency of truth or manners. The Wagner order was only the largest and latest in a string of defamations, and you can add to Jones's sins plagiarism and racial vilification. But as the former NSW premier Bob Carr told me: \"Just because Alan Jones says it's true, doesn't mean it's wrong.\" This was a line he often delivered to his cabinet.\nThis week, Jones was again making news after haranguing Opera House chief executive Louise Herron on-air for objecting to having the promotion of a horse race projected on the building's iconic sails. \"People reading The Daily Telegraph this morning would be thinking, 'Who the hell do you think you are, you don't own the Opera House, we own it \u2026 you manage it,' \" Jones said. \"You don't have a right to fence it off. If you can't give the go-ahead for this to happen, to an event that's providing $100 million to the economy, delivering a tourism boom to Sydney, to send Sydney around the world \u2026 If I were Gladys Berejiklian, I'd pick up the phone and sack you today.\"\nHerron barely got a word in, and Jones was once again Sydney's favourite villain. The interview revived the spectre of misogyny \u2013 feminist critics won't forget his line, said during the Gillard years, that \"women are wrecking the joint\" \u2013 but the next day Jones doubled-down on his belligerence, only to issue a qualified apology 24 hours later.\n\"I think he'll be enjoying the attention,\" a friend of his told me. \"He loves a fight.\"\nWhen the NSW premier said she would override Herron's objection, and permit Racing NSW to go ahead with its projection, the question of Jones's power \u2013 complemented by the city's daily tabloid \u2013 was raised again.\nFor years now, the word \"perceived\" has been frequently added to the word \"power\" when pondering Jones's influence. Periodically \u2013 whenever Jones has outraged or transgressed \u2013 opinion pieces emerge like mushrooms, pointing to Jones's shrinking, ageing listenership. Rebecca Huntley, an author and social trends researcher, said this week: \"Fifteen years of research and I haven't found Alan Jones to be that much more influential with voters than ABC Radio or The SMH. He is only powerful because politicians think he is.\"\nThis idea that Jones's power is not so much illusory but self-fulfilling seems common. But surely the perception of power is power. The writer and broadcaster Mike Carlton was a colleague of Jones's at 2UE in the 1980s, and a major radio figure himself. Before Jones began his broadcasting career, Carlton had interviewed him as the executive director of the Employers' Federation of NSW. Even then, Carlton was \"astounded by the machinegun delivery \u2013 there's no sense of proportion. Everything's an outrage or tragedy. No sense of scale. It's all extremes. That's his schtick. He has to deliver a new outrage every day.\"\nAs colleagues, Jones and Carlton quickly fell out and theirs has been a long and public acrimony. \"In a sense, he is powerful,\" Carlton tells me. \"He's remorseless. He has no sense of proportion, and will go for the jugular. As he did with the Wagner family. He went and went and went for them. With no facts to back them up. But he was set on destroying them. Politicians take the line of least resistance, and toss him a bone. Under the Howard government there was allegedly some operative in his office solely working on Alan Jones issues. He has power insofar as politicians are willing to grant it to him. He's powerful because people believe he is.\"\nIn 1995, Bob Carr was elected NSW premier and Jones would later boast about having anointed him. For the decade of his premiership, Carr featured regularly on Jones's show \u2013 alternately flattering and combative. Carr told me that he approached it as an adversarial contest. Yet, in the 1999 and 2003 state elections, Jones's opposition to Carr didn't seem to matter: Carr won both decisively.\n\"His influence is not easily resolved,\" Carr tells me. \"If you're an opposition leader, you'd rather a relationship than not, and any politician seeking power in NSW will want a dialogue with him.\n\"His personality and performance speaks for itself. He's at his most effective when he assumes the role of ombudsman, and campaigns unblinkingly for those who recruit his assistance. The reverse side is that he can end up subscribing uncritically to the cause of any whistleblower. Just as Alan Jones is not always wrong, his sources aren't always right.\n\"I just wish I could recruit his unclouded intelligence on climate change \u2013 it's sad that while he can take up a position highly critical of coal, he's been recruited by climate change deniers. The same logic that had him adopt an anti-coal position, could have him look at the hard and growing evidence of climate change.\"\nIn 2010, Drew Hutton received a call from Alan Jones's producer. Hutton was by now an admired elder statesman of environmental activism, and determined to broaden the Greens' appeal beyond the inner city. Like Jones, Hutton grew up on a Queensland farm, and while coal seam gas expanded into farming districts, Hutton went from farm to farm enlisting support. Soon, Hutton would go on to help found the Lock the Gate protest group and become its first president. But before he did, his old coach's people were calling asking whether he could privately brief Jones on coal seam gas mining.\n\"I had to think about it only briefly,\" Hutton tells me. \"I knew he'd taken up the Acland issue, outside Toowoomba. I knew he was critical of it. I thought he'd be a valuable ally. His radio audience would give us access to people we wouldn't normally have access to. I wanted to take it out of the 'Greens space'. I didn't want Lock the Gate to be a traditional Greens campaign.\n\"So I briefed him on it. Alan's very intelligent. He got on top of the issues very quickly and just two to three weeks later, he spoke at the National Press Club about it, and I don't think there was one mistake in it. He has an enormous capacity to take in a lot of information and synthesise.\n\"He's been a terrific ally. He has access to a wide audience, but also to the NSW government. He knew first-hand most members of cabinet. He could exert a lot of pressure.\"\nThrough Hutton, Jones was introduced to Peter Martin, a NSW truffle farmer and founding director of the Southern Highlands Coal Action Group, a region where Jones owns property. Martin was invited to Jones's apartment on the sixth floor of a deluxe residential building overlooking Circular Quay and the Opera House.\nMartin had long refused to listen to Jones's show, or any talkback radio, \"as a matter of course\". But he was pleasantly surprised by Jones. \"We had coffee on the sofa,\" Martin says. \"And a chat about what was happening in our neck of the woods. It was a pleasant conversation. I was struck by how considered he was, and questioning. His personality was completely different to what you might perceive from the radio.\"\nMartin invited Jones to speak with the Southern Highlands community, who were then fighting mining companies' exploratory licences. It was a place where Jones was already something of a part-time resident. \"The locals, almost to a man, didn't like Alan Jones,\" Martin remembers. \"They found him aggressive, distasteful. We got emails saying: 'You guys have more class than that.' But he converted them. They thought he was a hero, despite his other views.\n\"He's a Jekyll and Hyde. In person, he's very considered. He'll listen well. But in a crowd, he can be aggro, and when someone's speaking and he doesn't agree, he'll be muttering angrily to me. He was like an atomic bomb about to explode.\n\"On a stage, he can mesmerise you. There's a great recollection of facts; he'll connect the dots. I've seen him speak for an hour without notes in front of sophisticated people, and he'll stun them with his ability. It's like a politician who just has this ability to relay facts \u2013 like Bill Clinton did. But he has qualities that are self-damaging, too.\n\"I can't reconcile it all. He doesn't feel any boundaries. Most people feel embarrassed if we say something silly. This guy's spent his whole life sticking his neck out. He's a complex character. But this is his life. If you took away the microphone, and his ability to opine on things, it would kill him. He lives for this.\"\nMike Carlton is unsurprisingly sceptical of Jones's motivation in protesting coal and coal seam gas mining. He tells me it's purely self-concerned. \"Jones's interest is that it's in his backyard,\" he says. \"Logic has never been his strong point. Logic doesn't trouble him. He's just terrified that there might be a coal seam gas operation under or near his Southern Highlands estate. He also has a residual, childish fondness for the Darling Downs where he grew up and he would not want that despoiled.\"\nHutton dismissed this, telling me it \"underestimated\" Jones. Both Hutton and Martin are pragmatists, and spoke about their antipathy to many of Jones's views \u2013 the Opera House farrago was \"disgraceful\" and both men are embarrassed by Jones's climate change scepticism. But they also spoke honestly of their calculation to favour his influence over their disagreements. \"If you've got Exocet missiles, you need to use them,\" Hutton says. \"They're not always perfect. But a community's weapons are limited. You don't have the money, or the government behind you. You need to engage the media, and, funnily enough, I think a lot of the progressive media probably didn't cover this issue properly \u2013 and I wonder if that's because Alan Jones was involved.\"\nOne environmental ally of Jones's would not speak on record for fear of upsetting the relationship \u2013 such is his perceived value to the cause. But the relationship Hutton and Martin have with Jones isn't bloodlessly transactional, either \u2013 both see personal qualities they admire.\n\"With coal seam gas, government and business were in lock step against common sense and science, and Jones helped man the barricades,\" Martin says. \"I've used him at rallies and whenever I've asked for help, he's stepped up. He's always done his homework and he's very loyal.\n\"I've never asked him about his motivations. Maybe he has a thing for the underdog. Odd, given he's a rich fat cat himself. But he does have a belief that people who get trodden on by government, that someone has to stand up for them. I don't think that's a cynical view he has that will gain him support. He's got a real heart.\n\"I saw him once in a community meeting. It's a weekend and he stayed all day, then came to the pub for a few drinks. Left in his chopper that night. He was back on the radio the next morning, talking about the meeting. Summarising it with crystal clear recall at six in the morning. The volume of material that day was huge, and he summarised it \u2013 he's got a photographic memory.\"\nAlan Jones turned 77 this year, but age, prostate cancer and brain and spinal surgery have not diminished his energy \u2013 and infamy has only fuelled it. \"Perhaps he's nearing the end of his rope,\" Mike Carlton says. \"But his fire still glows brightly.\"\nFor decades now, that energy has been expressed quixotically, abusively and impulsively. His career is unique and his legacy complicated, but for his environmental allies it will principally be blackened on the issue of climate change. \"I'm a trenchant opponent of his view on climate change,\" Martin says. \"He's 100 per cent wrong. And it will do serious damage to the climate movement. It's terrible. His legacy won't be kindly regarded. I wish he'd drop that line.\"\nMartin hasn't confronted Jones about his climate scepticism. \"Facts become irrelevant to their position,\" he says. \"They don't want to know what the reality is. Unfortunately that's the huge negative. Not the racing thing. That's a storm in a teacup. But the climate change stuff \u2013 that's very serious.\"\nThis article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Oct 13, 2018 as \"The power of Alan Jones\". 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Cindy MacDonald\nThe reality behind Morrison's tax cuts\nMike Seccombe Scott Morrison says there will be no cuts to health, education or services to pay for his tax package. The numbers tell a different story. The budget plan is to reduce government outlays from the current level of 24.9 per cent of GDP to 23.6 per cent over 10 years. While this may not sound like much, it will involve an unprecedented austerity in government spending.\nMurray\u2013Darling recovery in peril\nKaren Middleton As attempts to restore water to the river basin fail to meet their targets, scientists warn irrigator subsidies may cost 10 times initial estimates.\nThe rise of building defects\nDebra Jopson Sydney and Melbourne's real estate boom, falling standards in oversight and a reticence to report flaws have combined to create a defects crisis in the cities' residential apartments.\nQueensland mining industry reckons with spate of deaths\nDennis Atkins After the death of six workers in the past 12 months, Queensland's mining industry is desperately searching for solutions to improve the safety of its worksites.\nArtist Michael Armitage\nNeha Kale With his bold, sumptuous paintings, Michael Armitage is intent on challenging colonial assumptions about East Africa and revealing the region's complexities. \"Sex, poverty and dictators: if you are talking about this part of the world, you always come up against those stereotypes and that's been very difficult \u2026 For me, it's been important to use an exotic language but show that it is also a form of dumbing down.\"\nWhat Scott Morrison's faith means\nTanya Levin Despite claiming that his 'faith is not a political agenda', the prime minister's religious values are evident in his speeches and policies. Scott Morrison talks about his Christianity all the time. Listeners might not be faulted for absorbing his analogies and colloquialisms as metaphors. For Morrison, however, they are facts. The Pentecostal faith does not describe itself in the abstract: a miracle is literally a miracle. His language is full of references to evangelical fundamentalism and the supernatural.\nScott Morrison, prayers and Hillsong\nPaul Bongiorno Rapturous applause welcomed Scott Morrison to the annual Hillsong conference. Twenty-one thousand delegates bowed their heads as the prime minister led them in prayer for our nation \u2013 for veterans doing it tough, young people considering suicide, those facing the challenges of middle age, remote Indigenous communities, people with disability, and drought-breaking rain.\nGadfly: Gus's power play defused\nRichard Ackland Fantastic Angus has been so busy with explanations about the poisoning of endangered grasslands on a family spread that he's taken his eye off the ball. Both carbon emissions and power prices have gone in the opposite direction to that promised by Schmo Morrison's junta. Emissions are up, up, up, and so too are power prices. Fantastic. Great move. Well done, Angus.\nThe photo is red earth and a line of bodies, snaking the length of the frame. Climbers locked shoulder-to-shoulder in a desperate push to summit. They fill the surrounding campgrounds, and every motel for a hundred kilometres. Their rubbish on the roadside, their black waste dumped in the backyards of unsuspecting properties. For so long, the Anangu people have asked visitors not to climb Uluru. They never banned the practice, asking only for respect, \"that, as a guest on Anangu land, you will choose to respect our law and culture by not climbing\". Wanyu Ulurunya tatintja wiyangku wantima.\nJeffrey Epstein and his famous friends\nRichard Cooke The latest arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on charges of sex trafficking minors has again focused world attention on the multimillionaire's relationships with the rich and powerful.\nViolence compounds DRC Ebola outbreak\nJonathan Pearlman Australia's joint war games. Vanuatu deports Chinese citizens. Greek election results. Ebola rages in Democratic Republic of the Congo.\nMaterial Place and The Gas Imaginary\nPatrick Hartigan As mining interests continue to dominate Australia's landscape, two exhibitions at UNSW Galleries consider humanity's exploitation of the planet's resources.\nGiselle Au-Nhien Nguyen A refreshing and often groundbreaking portrayal of female adolescence, Olivia Wilde's Booksmart deserves to be a classic, despite its slow start at the box office.\nWriter and activist Lamisse Hamouda\nMagan Magan A chat with Lamisse Hamouda about how she freed her father from an Egyptian prison.\nDavid Moyle\nDementia and the ageing brain\nSophia Auld As we age, so does our brain. But new research shows healthy lifestyle choices can dramatically slow the process and reduce the risk of diseases such as dementia.\nLisa Alexander sets Diamonds for World Cup\nCindy MacDonald In this year's Netball World Cup, Australia aims to bounce back after losing the gold medal to England at the Commonwealth Games. It's a challenge that Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander is relishing.\nIn Earth's inner layers, what lies between the core and the crust?\nCindy MacDonald Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"birth-defect\nHow to Manage Birth Defects for a Lifetime\nhttps:\/\/la-newswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/birth-defects.jpeg 2249 1500 Jane Jane https:\/\/la-newswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Jane-96x96.jpg January 17, 2023 January 17, 2023\nAn estimated 1 in 33 babies is born with a birth defect, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While some require minimal intervention after birth, many birth defects affect the individual,\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"American Idol, Butchering The Beatles\nEthan Morris 03\/19\/2008\nIn the world of rock and roll, there are a few gold standards: Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Flock of Seagulls.\nAnd of course, The Beatles.\nI don't care who you are, how old you are, or where you live -- if you don't know who The Beatles are, there is something wrong with you. Seriously, seriously wrong.\nNot knowing who The Beatles is like not knowing who Beethoven was. I had to learn \"Yesterday,\" \"Here Comes the Sun,\" and \"Hey Jude\" in third grade music class.\nYak herders from Uzbekistan who have never owned a radio or television in their lives know who The Beatles are.\nSo naturally it's a little disappointing to me when, after announcing that this week's contestants would be performing songs by The Beatles for the second week in a row, American Idol feels the need to show us a news-like story explaining who The Beatles were.\nHey guys, can you also tell me what that big orange ball in the sky is? You know, the one that rises in the east every morning and seems to give off heat.\nWhile I'm bothered by FOX's assumption that the world has forgotten the Fab Four, I'm not exactly sure why Idol producers decided to make their songs the theme again this week. I guess they must have paid a pretty penny for the Lennon-McCartney songbook -- too much for just one week's worth of performances. But why not save these gems for later in the\ncompetition?\nIn any case, the top 11 lads and ladies belted out The Beatles as best they could, but for the most part left me wishing I was back in the third grade. How'd they do? Here's my take.\nTOP THREE:\nSyesha Mercado: Definitely an underdog victory this week. Syesha has her work cut out for her facing singers like Carly Smithson and Brooke White, but rose to the occasion tonight. Syesha sang \"Yesterday,\" a daring choice considering it is pretty much the quintessential Beatles tune. Pretty conventional, but a nice arrangement with just her voice and a backing\nguitar. Not earth shattering, but it really showed off her strong vocals. Randy called it very good. Paula said it was beautiful. Simon thought it was her best performance of the competition so far.\nDavid Cook: David sang one of my favorite Beatles songs, \"Day Tripper,\" but based on a Whitesnake cover. He played the guitar, although if you looked closely, he didn't actually play that much. Still, it sounded good, and he added a little Frampton-esque voicebox at the end, giving it a unique twist. Randy called it solid. Paula said he's ready to sell records now. Simon said it wasn't as good as he thought it was.\nDavid Archuleta: David chose to sing \"The Long and Winding Road,\" an apt choice considering his up and down performances. Considered the odds-on favorite a few weeks ago, David has faltered as of late, even forgetting the lyrics to his song last week. No memory lapses this week, but his rendition\nwasn't spectacular by any means. His vocals are strong, but I thought it was a boring song to choose. The judges disagreed with me. Randy said he brought the \"hotness\" back. Paula said his purity came out. Simon said he was amazing.\nMIDDLE OF THE PACK:\nAmanda Overmyer: The so-called \"Rock and Roll Nurse\" kicked off the night singing \"Back in the U.S.S.R.\" (Quick note: anyone who doesn't know who The Beatles were sure as heck won't know what the U.S.S.R. was.) Amanda rocked it as usual, but I didn't get much new out of it. And I'm still not\nin love with her \"I-just-chain-smoked-a-hundred-cigarettes\" voice. Randy called it pitchy at first but cool at the end. Paula mimicked Randy almost word for word. Simon called it predictable.\nKristy Lee Cook: You can call this performance a major victory compared to last week's debacle. Kristy sang \"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.\" At first I was really worried, since not only is this a Beatles song, but Eddie Vedder covered it pretty wonderfully just a few years ago. But I was more than pleasantly surprised by Kristy's rendition. The arrangement was great, starting slow, and then picked up at just the right moment. Nice vocals, but a pretty lame stage performance. Not much animation, otherwise she might have actually made the top three in my book. Randy said interesting but not emotional enough. Paula said it was the best she's ever looked. Simon said she was better this week, but called Kristy the equivalent of verbal wallpaper.\nBrooke White: The reigning champ two weeks in a row sinks a few notches with a fairly mundane performance of \"Here Comes the Sun.\" At first I thought it was the perfect song choice, but as the song went on, I kept waiting for something to happen. Brooke tried to be animated on stage, but it just came across as contrived and awkward. I doubt she's in any jeopardy of being eliminated, though, and I think she has a better than decent chance of making it to the top two or three. Randy said she was never connected to the song. Paula said she showed a different side. Simon thought the performance was terrible.\nCarly Smithson: Like David Archuleta, Carly was the early favorite among the females, but hasn't had the most consistent performances. Carly sang \"Blackbird,\" just moments after Simon heartlessly ridiculed whomever might try to sing it. For Carly it was pretty low key. She needs to pick songs that are more upbeat. She tried to pick it up half way through, but never quite took it to another level. Not a knockout performance by any means. Randy called it controlled and nice. Paula said she was fantastic. Simon thought it was a bad song choice and that it was corny.\nChikezie Eze: Chikezie is turning out to be the roller coaster of the competition: fantastic one week, lousy the next. This week he decided to play an instrument for the first time while singing \"I've Just Seen a Face.\" It started slow, then suddenly he whipped out a harmonica, played a riff, and the song turned country. Give him points for putting a completely new spin on it. I think The Beatles would have probably loved it, although I didn't. Neither did the judges. Randy said it was strange. Paula said he \"did it again.\" Simon thought it started okay but then became atrocious.\nBOTTOM THREE:\nJason Castro: Jason sang \"Michelle\" with a country flavor. On paper, I would have predicted this would be a disaster, but it actually worked. Unfortunately very little else did. The vocals were mediocre and the on-stage performance was lackluster to say the least. Randy thought it was subdued.\nPaula said he was disconnected without his guitar (although a few weeks ago she specifically asked him to start performing without his guitar). Simon said his looks were okay, but his singing wasn't.\nMichael Johns: Frankly I think Michael is overrated. I'm not sure why he's still around while singers like Asia'h Epperson have gone home. Michael sang \"A Day in the Life.\" It was a pretty conventional rendition with nothing new to the arrangement. He tried to be animated on stage, but it came across as creepy if you ask me. Randy said it was not the right song choice. Paula\nthought his earpiece might have caused him some trouble, which drew a confused look from Michael because he wasn't wearing an earpiece. Simon called it a mess.\nRamiele Malubay: Saving the worst for last. Wearing an awful looking felt fedora, Ramiele sang \"I Shoulda Known Better.\" Definitely the most karaoke performance of the night. What happened to the little girl with the big voice who amazed the crap out of us during auditions and Hollywood week? I think too much of Danny Noriega must have rubbed off on Ramiele. Randy said he\nwasn't jumping up and down. Paula said she was better than last week. Simon said it sounded amateurish and that she chose a mediocre song.\nWe'll see who goes home Wednesday night.\nEthan Morris: \"Not always right, but never in doubt.\" Go ahead and write me.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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{"text":"Alfred Selbiger\nMay 03, 1914 - 1942\nAlfred Selbiger initially studied medicine but then switched to a rabbinical seminary out of interest in working in Judaism. In 1933 he held a senior role in the youth groups of the Berlin Zionist Association and volunteered for the Jewish Community's youth programs. In 1938\/39 he was youth leader at the Havelberg hakhshara estate. On his return to Berlin he worked for Youth Aliyah. Returned to Berlin from the Zionist congress in Switzerland in the summer of 1939, he ran the department of the Palestine Office called the \"committee for Jewish special transports.\" When the Palestine Office was closed in spring 1941, Alfred Selbiger took over an office at Kantstra\u00dfe 158 as an employee of the Reich Association's personnel department. All Zionist activities were officially banned at this time. Despite this, youth workers continued to find ways to carry on their activities. The hakhsharoth were brought together and integrated into the German Reich's \"forced laborer deployment.\" Each of these groups was in constant contact with Alfred Selbiger. While deportations were becoming increasingly frequent in 1942, Selbiger worked at the collection points where the people arriving for \"evacuation\" were gathered, cared for, and given what provisions could be afforded by the Jewish Community. Alfred Selbiger was arrested as a hostage for the twenty members of the Jewish Community who evaded their deportation to Auschwitz on November 29, 1942, and short dead in Sachsenhausen concentration camp on December 3, 1942.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News@Northeastern News, Discovery, and Analysis from Around the World\nEnter your search terms then press the return\/enter key to submit your query.\nCampus, Commun\u00adity & Events\nFaces of Northeastern\nKwesi Abakah\nTo honor Martin Luther King Jr., he'll tap into a 'superpower'\n\"Singing is so important. It's one of the best forms of expression,\" says Northeastern graduate Kwesi Abakah, who will sing the civil rights anthem \"A Change Is Gonna Come,\" during Northeastern's Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. To fulfill MLK Jr.'s dream, he says, changes must continue.\nby Hillary Chabot January 14, 2022\nVoting rights take center stage on Martin Luther King Jr. Day\nNearly six decades after King lobbied for the rights of Black people to cast a vote, the issue of voting rights returns to command the nation's attention. Northeastern's MLK observance will feature a keynote address by a senior Justice Department attorney on the steps the agency is taking to protect and promote the right to vote.\nby Peter Ramjug January 13, 2022\nNews @ Northeastern\nWe are Northeastern University's primary source of news and information. Whether it happens in the classroom, in a laboratory, or on another continent, we bring you timely stories about every aspect of life, learning and discovery at Northeastern. Contact the Communications team\nCookies on Northeastern sites\nThis website uses cookies and similar technologies to understand your use of our website and give you a better experience. By continuing to use the site or closing this banner without changing your cookie settings, you agree to our use of cookies and other technologies. To find out more about our use of cookies and how to change your settings, please go to our Privacy Statement.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"30th Anniversary Series \u2014 Coclico\nINVESTING IN QUALITY\nTwenty years of thoughtful luxury. Coclico speaks to a personal identity that extends beyond style to our way of living in the world. Consciously, artfully, elegantly. Coclico believes that luxury isn't the ability to purchase endlessly, but the privilege of choosing wisely. Their materials are sourced locally in Europe, near their small, family-run factory in Spain. At their NYC headquarters, they not only work to underpin the design process behind each collection but also seek the highest standards of ethical and environmental responsibility. The result is a union of modern minimalism and traditional quality.\nGP: When was the brand founded?\nSC: 2000 in NYC, this is our 20 year anniversary! Gravitypope embraced us early on and it has been a long, happy relationship.\nCoclico - Ellery\nHow do you define quality?\nQuality, as it applies to objects, suggests to me something that's been conceived and made with the utmost care and that will maintain its beauty and usefulness for as long as it's loved.\n\"We consider thoughtful sourcing and ethical practices to be a prime responsibility.\"\nBedford Sandal\nWhat is special about the production of your brand?\nWe're shoemakers first and foremost and we focus solely on that category at Coclico. While our designs are intended for modern creatives and minimalists, we approach our product in a very traditional way which is relatively uncommon these days. Part of what makes us stand apart is the breadth of our offerings combined with small-batch Spanish production. Each design and material is agonized over and finalized with the same amount of attention for a 20 pair run that would typically go into a style with a production run of hundreds-thousands of pairs. We're about as close to bespoke as a modern shoe company can be!\nWe also take a huge amount of care to tread lightly with our sourcing. Every leather and component is sourced responsibly and within reasonable proximity to our Spanish base. We agonize over our urge to design and to add beautiful objects to this already crowded world, so we consider thoughtful sourcing and ethical practices to be a prime responsibility.\nLaeve Boot\nWho is your favourite author or musician?\nPrince! I like to shake loose and dance it out after a long week.\nI find the most personal joy in spending time with my family and close friends.\nprevious Journal next","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GORGUTS\nTechnical Death Metal from Montreal Quebec\nother sites: ifmerch | gorguts | myspace\nLabel: Season of Mist\nsince circa 1989\nGORGUTS, long-running Canadian craftsmen of technical death metal have returned! After more than a decade of silence, mastermind Luc Lemay unleashes \"Colored Sands\", a new brand of pestilent fury featuring an all star line-up including John Longstreath (ORIGIN, SKINLESS), Colin Marston (BEHOLD THE ARCTOPUS) and Kevin Hufnagel (DYSRHYTHMIA). Few extreme bands have the pedigree of GORGUTS. During their early days as part of death metal's first wave, they created a legacy of legendary releases including their debut album \"Considered Dead\" (1991) and its follow-up \"Erosion of Sanity\" (1993). The latter witnessed the Canadians becoming more experimental and technical. After a hiatus of five years, Luc Lemay returned with a new line-up, which released the acclaimed third full-length \"Obscura\" (1998). By then GORGUTS had fully transformed into one of the most progressive and influential bands in extreme music, which remained impervious to trends, while expanding and redefining the language of death metal. With a new line-up that left Lemay as the sole original member, another milestone album was released. On \"From Wisdom to Hate\" (2001) the Quebecois successfully merged the brutal and more direct approach of their earlier albums with the complex arrangements of \"Obscura\". Just as GORGUTS seemed on the verge of making the first decade of the new century their own, the band was hit by business and personal issues and went on hiatus. Their musical legacy continued to inspire and thrive as their native Quebec became a focus for technical death metal with acts such as CRYPTOPSY, NEURAXIS and BEYOND CREATION to name but a few following in their footsteps. Now the masters are back to deliver the stunning masterpiece the metal world has been awaiting so long. Brace hard or get swept away by the mind blowing storm of \"Colored Sands\"!\nPunk\/Metal\/Hardcore\/Noise\nGORGUTS, Intronaut, Brain Tentacles, Anciients\nNothing Is Heavy 3 Year Anniversary (Night 2) w\/ Gorguts & More!!!: GORGUTS, Tyr...\nGORGUTS Juno nominated death metal masters play a special full length headlinin...\nTHE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR ft: Carcass (10:45), The Black Dahlia Murder (9:30), G...\nDoors: 7:00PM Noisem: 8:00PM - 8:30PM Gorguts: 8:40PM - 9:15PM The Black Dahl...\nThe Commodore Ballroom\nArtist Past Posters\nArtist Articles\nCarcass at The Commodore Ballroom\nIt's been six long years since Carcass were last in Western Canada, and in the months since the Decibel Tour was announced, an electric atmosphere of anticipation has grown to a fever pitch for tonight's show. This is shown from the ear...\nPublished by: LiveVan\nAuthor: Rich Taylor\nBlue Pom Teapot\nStory Line\nLuke Ramsey, Ali Kahn, Sarah Jim, Kay Gallivan, James Kirkpatrick, Kristofer Ray, Ian George, Jesse Campbell, Charlie Walker, Tyler Keeton Robbins, Sam Sharp\nPK Sound Mural\nLogan Ford, kristopher ray, Ian George\nSigns of Lekwungen - Royal British Columbia Museum\nButch Dick and sons Clarence and Bradley\n\"Daisy\"\nNicole Majcher\nKwota, IBC","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"George Mason University Mason\nWhy S-CAR\nOutstanding Faculty\nMeet a Student\nLegacy of Leadership\nGraduate and Professional Certificates\nRetreat Facility\nPoint of View Programs and Services\nPoint of View Contact and Directions\nRent the Facility\nRetreat Facility Photos\nPoint of View History and Vision\nInvesting in Faculty\nPhilanthropy at Point of View\nThe School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution Expand\/Collapse Global Navigation\nMaking conversations great again\nSubscribe for Updates from S-CAR\nLatest News All\nS-CAR Activity Recap \u2013 November 2019\n30th annual Lynch Lecture explores the intersection of human rights and restorative justice\nHealing the past for the future: The S\u00e1mi in Finland -- A model for reconciliation?\nLeaders highlight Winter Graduation\nScholars from S-CAR have partnered with public libraries to navigate difference through the development of an award-winning program on media literacy and dialogue.\nS-CAR alum Samantha Borders-Shoemaker (PhD '19, second from right) and S-CAR associate dean Julie Shedd (third from right) partnered with the Fairfax County Public Library in Virginia on a dialogue program that won the 2019 Gordon M. Conable Award from the Public Library Association. (Photo courtesy of the Public Library Association)\nBy Oakley Hill\nIn January 2017, during Donald Trump's first weeks in office, a coalition of peacebuilders from George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) and librarians from Fairfax County, Virginia, met together to discuss the intensifying conflict present in everyday conversations. Attending this meeting was S-CAR associate dean Julie Shedd, then S-CAR PhD candidate Samantha Borders-Shoemaker, and librarians from the Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL), including Jennifer Dickinson.\n\"We could see the lack of civility as a problem that was not going to go away anytime soon, much as we may have hoped,\" said Dickinson. The political environment was heated, and this unique group sought out strategies to ameliorate the problem at the interpersonal level.\nAt first glance, one may wonder what peacebuilders and librarians have in common. Learning how the \"fake news\" phenomena affects people's interaction with information may lend understanding.\nAs the U.S. political conflict has deepened, an air of mistrust of information has spread through all sides of the political divide. Some groups distrust political elites and popular news media, while others distrust the President and economic elites. Warranted or not, this mistrust poses a threat to the aims of peacebuilders who work to help society navigate its differences and disagreements constructively. Conflict creates distrust, and distrust is an obstacle on the road to resolving conflict.\nWhere conflict meets distrust is precisely where the interests of librarians and peacebuilders overlap. As a public institution, libraries represent a community's commitment to knowledge, and the equal access to it. The mistrust of information is a threat to the work of librarians, whose role includes providing the public with knowledge, among other things.\n\"As a country we don't have media literacy skills,\" said Dickinson. \"We think we do but we really don't. There has been a big push in libraries and schools to address that.\"\nThrough their meetings, this coalition has developed a program to help individuals resolve their interpersonal conflicts and think critically about the information they take in. This program is offered as a free class that teaches both media literacy and dialogue skills in public libraries across Virginia's Fairfax County.\nOver the last two years, volunteers have taught these classes, each of which includes the practice of a media literacy skill, such as evaluating new sources, and a dialogue skill, such as asking good questions. Participants practice these skills through dialogue on a number of social issues, from the legalization of marijuana to infrastructure development in the Washington, D.C., area.\nBorders-Shoemaker teaches similar classes in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. While inspired by the Fairfax County curriculum, her classes omit the media literacy dimension and add lessons on power dynamics to help participants recognize when they are made to be more or less powerful in a dialogue. These lessons aim to help participants create more equitable conversations.\n\"The goal of these workshops is to help members of the public better communicate around difficult topics and successfully and wisely navigate the plethora of news,\" she said. By creating an atmosphere of trust and curiosity, these workshops aim to \"leave [participants] with more confidence about engaging topics they may otherwise avoid.\"\nAfter listening to participants speak of how political disagreements had damaged relationships with their loved ones, Borders-Shoemaker felt inspired to do something proactive and constructive. This experience led her to choose interpersonal dialogue and political tension as the topic of her dissertation research, which she successfully defended on August 30 of this year.\nWhen discussing interpersonal conflict over email, Borders-Shoemaker said that \"the three things that prevent interpersonal dialogue from being constructive are saliency of one identity over others (in this case, political identity), pursuing purity of identity over embracing multiplicity, and perceived threats to that specific identity.\" These three phenomena can make the ingroup both a safe space and the center of validity.\nHowever, they can also increase antagonism towards those outside of the ingroup. According to Borders-Shoemaker, \"when the boundaries between identities are perceived to be threatened or compromised, members of the ingroup can be moved into offensive or defensive positions wherein outside ideas are seen as threats to the integrity of the group's identity.\" Learning basic communication skills like those taught in the course can help to loosen the rigidity of identity and mitigate interpersonal conflict.\nThe group has been given three awards in recognition of their good work. From George Mason University, they received the 2018 Jack Wood Award for Town Gown Relations, and from Fairfax County Public Library, they received a Recognition of Excellence.\nThen, in June 2019, during the American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference in Washington, D.C., the program received the Gordon M. Conable Award from the Public Library Association, a subset of the ALA, the largest association of librarians in the world. The award recognizes recipients for their \"commitment to intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights.\"\nThe next steps for the program lie in questions of scalability and funding. The group is currently shifting the program from semester-long courses to four-week courses, and they are considering adding three-day training sessions for other librarians interested in teaching similar courses.\nThe link between libraries and peacebuilding\nThe work of Shedd, Borders-Shoemaker, Dickinson, and other FCPL librarians is connected not only to interpersonal conflict but macro peacebuilding efforts as well. As they scale the project up, they hope to increase the capacity of communities to prevent or resolve their own conflicts.\nMedia literacy and dialogue have long been intertwined where peacebuilding is concerned. In his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Canadian psychologist Steven Pinker argued that the \"humanitarian revolution\" spanning from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries best correlates with the spike in literacy after the invention of the printing press. This, according to Pinker, is the most likely event that led to the proletariat questioning, and eventually ending, many forms of institutionalized state violence. It isn't a leap to think that improving literacy and dialogue skills could further this process and aid American society today as we work to replace systems of conflict with systems of conflict resolution.\nFor Shedd, public libraries can serve as critical actors in linking media literacy, dialogue, and peacebuilding. \"Libraries have always been crucial institutions allowing information to flow across the citizenry, with programs that provide intentional support across the socio-economic spectrum,\" she said.\nAs the late Representative Elijah Cummings said on Twitter this past April, \"Libraries do much more than lend books.\" Libraries are the institutions that serve our society's informational needs, no matter what one's political leanings, race, or socio-economic status.\nFor example, during the McCarthy Era, when socialists in the U.S. were imprisoned for their beliefs, Dickinson noted that The Communist Manifesto remained on the shelf. \"We don't ban books,\" she said seriously.\nBecause public libraries are explicitly against the boycott of information, they are uniquely positioned to teach media literacy skills and do it well. Librarians are part of the communities they work in, are already trained in important media literacy skills, are devoted to a free market of ideas, and as Shedd noted, libraries are among the last trusted institutions.\nThere is little question in terms of need, either. \"The fact that adults don't understand and don't think critically about what they're getting in terms of news,\" Dickinson noted, \"tells us there's a need to keep doing this.\"\n\"Libraries are playing an increasingly crucial role in the Information Age where citizens' skills at identifying accurate information is taxed by the sheer volume [of it],\" said Shedd. In the Information Age, it seems that some of the most pressing needs are the abilities to identify a good source of information, think critically, and learn to interact peaceably with the source of all information: each other.\nRelated people: Juliette Shedd\nTopics: Alumni, Mason Alumni, S-CAR\nCenters and Publications\nThe New Politics of Aid\nStay Woke\nThe Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics\nIntroduction to Conflict Resolution\nState Domination & the Pyscho-Politics of Conflict\nAgnieszka Paczy\u0144ska\nTehama Lopez Bunyasi\nTerrence Lyons\nSara Cobb, Sarah Federman, and Alison Castel\nDaniel Rothbart\nMore Recent Publications\n\u00a9 2020 George Mason University. 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030\nPhone: 703-993-1000 | Student Consumer Information | Privacy Statement","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"21-Day-projects Mind Poetry\nJohn Milton the Blind Poet: An Inspirational Life Story\ncareer, Encouragement, Inspiration, motivation, Poetry, work life\nJohn Milton was a great poet in the 1600s. He is most known for his epic poem Paradise Lost but not many people know the circumstances under which he wrote his most famous works. He was born in December of 1608 in London, England. He studied independently for six years in preparation for his career in Poetry, during which time he became proficient in 6 languages; Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish and Italian.\nJohn Milton's poetry is still considered a masterpiece today.\nWhen he was 34 years old, he married his first wife, Mary, when she was only 16 years old, and she bore him four children. During this time, John Milton's eyesight steadily deteriorated until he went completely blind when he was 43 years old. The next year, Milton lost his first wife and the mother of his children. Four years later he married a second wife, Katherine, but their marriage lasted only two years as once again, death called on his home and Katherine passed away during childbirth.\nIn the final years of his life, John Milton lived in seclusion in the country after having a brush with the law which led to his arrest. He had written a series of pamphlets advocating radical political topics including the morality of divorce and freedom of the press.He was fined and later released.\nHe wrote his best works, Paradise lost and Paradise Regained at 59 years old, while completely blind. Soon after he finished a second edition of these works at 66 years old, he died.\nWanjiru Ndung'u writes fiction. She is an irretrievable night owl. Loves tea and cats. Devours stories and knits cozy scarves\nPoetry by Wanjiru: Unfazed\nAmid the quagmire, noise and rush, I get a ...\nPoetry by Wanjiru: Refining Fires\nFeed these fires in me, Fan the flames in the coal...\nYou are tired. Exhausted. Your bones are aching. Y...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"European Markets End Mixed\nBy Sarah Turner\nSept. 30, 2009 2:46 am ET\nEuropean shares ended mixed Tuesday, though the financial sector rose on an announcement from BNP Paribas.\nThe pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index advanced 0.2% to 243.61. The major regional indexes all finished lower, however, with France's CAC-40 falling 0.3% to 3814.10 while the U.K. FTSE 100 Index eased 0.1% to 5159.72. Germany's DAX weakened 0.4% to 5713.52.\nBanks gained ground after BNP Paribas launched a $6.28 billion rights issue to buy out the French government's stake, making it the country's first bank to reimburse state funding issued at the height of the financial crisis. French rival Societe Generale advanced 1.7%.\nBarclays added 1.2% in London after the lender said it will buy Citigroup's credit-card business in Portugal.\nInsurance companies were also strong, with Generali rising 3.6% in Milan while Legal & General traded 4.8% higher in London.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Buy this issue now for \u00a36.99 + \u00a31.00 p+p\nBLOG Amy McCauley\nNWR Issue 103\n'Dylan Live' in Aberystwyth\nDylan the animal, the trickster, the myth. Done, you might say, to death. But the form matters: the form counts for everything. That's what Thomas himself might've said. The presentation, the form, the texture of language itself. The experience and the performance.\nAlors, this presentation of Thomas' life, work and influence as a hybridised, frenetic interplay (and overlay) of vocals, double bass, rap, bilingual rivalry and fragmented narrative operates as much to explode our ideas about form as to challenge our idea of who Thomas was and what his contribution to literature \u2013 and music \u2013 might realistically be.\nOn then, to the theory at work behind 'Dylan Live'. It is simply this: that Thomas' trips to New York in the early nineteen-fifties \u2013 four in all \u2013 acted as a sideways linguistic catalyst for (and contribution to) what we now call hip hop. Professor\/saxophonist Daniel Williams' idea is that music and the spoken word evolved in conversation with one another at this time. In this way, they poured into a shared hybrid genealogy, with both forms reciprocally influencing one other and shaping the future of a new musical genre.\nWhen Thomas visited New York, for example, Bebop was the (already hybridized) musical form he encountered there. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Tad Dameron were pioneering a fusion that embraced improvisation and fragmentation \u2013 as exhibited by its nervy restless style \u2013 and which, crucially, reprioritised the blues as a structuring principal. It was, you could say, the music of the id, the savage, the mongrel. A rough mix which threw swing out of the window and paved the way for a more spontaneous musical experiment.\nWilliams, then, takes the figure of Dylan Thomas and maps Thomas' own 'primitive' poetry onto the primitive musical energy of Bebop. The extent to which Thomas really did contribute to the development of hip hop and rap is debatable; but the parallels Williams draws between the raucous energy of Bebop and Thomas' own poetry-as-performance are fascinating, not least because the ideas are presented as a living, breathing, collaborative machine.\nNew poetry \u2013 from Aneirin Karadog and Zaru Jonson \u2013 merges in the production with Stravinsky translated into jazz; Thomas' poetry loops and merges with hip hop by Ed Holden; Daniel Williams' thesis tumbles into Huw V Williams' bass which ricochets off Ewan Morris Jones' images. The overall effect is of history being translated into a future version of itself. Indeed, the sensation I had was not of looking back into the past, but of feeling the past look through me to the future.\nIn many ways, of course, Dylan Thomas \u2013 both romantic and modernist in attitude \u2013 was the future. His influence on poets is undoubtable; but 'Dylan Live' also draws attention to the influences on Thomas himself \u2013 from Yeats to Rimbaud to Joyce. This literary inheritance itself potentially establishes a kind of extended literary genealogy for rap and hip hop which travels right back to the roots of literary modernism. The ideas are interesting and the performances propelled forward by the rich and multi-faceted engagement with Thomas as a man, a writer and an influence on today's poets and musicians. Zaru Jonson has a natural powerful presence on stage while Aneirin Karadog buzzes with a sort of strange mordant energy. Rap, reflection, antagonism, history, jazz and images: they all jump onto the spoken text of the lecture. What I most appreciated, however, was the exploration of Thomas' life as a persona \u2013 his own self-created myth. This, of course, means acknowledging that Thomas remains something of an archetype; a slippery projection onto which we hurl our ideas and desires. But perhaps, as 'Dylan Live' demonstrates, this doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.\nAmy McCauley is a contributor to NWR, print and online.\n'Dylan Live' forms part of Literature Wales' Developing Dylan project, the official educational strand of the Dylan Thomas 100 celebrations and is funded by the Welsh Government's Department for Education and Skills. The spoken word element, by Daniel Williams, in 'Dylan Live' is developed in full in an essay, \"'The White Negro\"? Dylan Thomas and the Beats\" in the summer edition of NWR, published on 25 May. We will also publish online on that date an interview with Daniel, which will include images, video and music from the production in rehearsal and from the Aberystwyth University campus performance on 26 March reviewed above.\nprevious blog: History & Nationhood in Cynan Jones' The Dig\nnext blog: Dead Interviews","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Just clear tips for every day\nWhat are the three quotes in The Hobbit?\nWhat does Gandalf say about life?\nAre there any Bilbo Baggins quotes from 'The Hobbit'?\nWhat did The Hobbit feel when they sang to him?\nThe Hobbit Quotes\n\"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.\n\"Far over the misty mountains cold.\n\"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.\"\n\"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.\"\n\"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.\" \"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.\" \"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.\nWhat does Bilbo say in his speech?\nIn The Lord of The Rings, Bilbo says the following to his assembled guests at his eleventy first birthday party: I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. What is the meaning of this quote?\nWhat are the most important quotes from The Hobbit?\nThe Hobbit Important Quotes. 1 Courage. Let's have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, 2 Heroism. 3 Greed and Treasure.\n'The Hobbit' has a plethora of Bilbo Baggins adventure quotes that all fans of Tolkien or 'The Hobbit' will remember well and also relate at some point. If you are a member of the Middle Earth fandom looking for some Bilbo Baggins quotes from 'The Hobbit' book, check this list out.\n\"As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.\nWhat was the hobbit's home like?\nThe door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats \u2014 the hobbit was fond of visitors.\nWhat is the winning Powerball numbers for North Carolina?\nWhat is Stott Pilates exercises?\nHow do you get the chest in the foundry in Darksiders 2?\nIs the CPR railway still in use?\nWhy God is important in our life?\nDoes Missouri have a med school?\nWhat is nasopharynx and oropharynx?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Title: Senior Buyer- Baseball\nLocation: Coraopolis, PA (USA)\n01\/09\/2021 Buyer- Value Concepts Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/06\/2021 Buyer- NBA\/Hardgoods - Licensed Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/12\/2021 Senior Space Planning Analyst - Licensed Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/07\/2021 Pricing Strategist Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/13\/2021 Senior Product Manager - OmniChannel Fulfillment Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/09\/2021 Senior Supply Chain Strategy Analyst Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/17\/2021 Manager of Visual Merchandising - Golf & Fitness Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh, PA similar\n01\/07\/2021 Senior Security Engineer (Remote) Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/05\/2021 Senior Manager- FP&A Special Projects Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/12\/2021 Manager of Space Management - Predictive Analytics Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh, PA similar\n01\/20\/2021 Executive Customer Engagement Representative Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/20\/2021 UX Designer - Internal Communications Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/19\/2021 Cyber Security Intern (Summer 2021) Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/16\/2021 Product Development Associate- Team Sports & Racquet Apparel Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/06\/2021 Security Engineer (Remote) Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/05\/2021 Principal Security Analyst Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/04\/2021 Product Manager - Internal Communications Dick's Sporting Goods Coraopolis, PA similar\n01\/21\/2021 Principal Software Engineer Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh, PA similar\n01\/08\/2021 Principal Software Engineer (Remote) Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh, PA similar","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Soviet Space Program launch of a Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-4\nMon, Dec 21st, 1987, 6:18 AM EST\nSoviet Space Program was scheduled to launch a Soyuz-U2 rocket as part of the Soyuz TM-4 mission. The launch window for the Human Exploration mission was on Mon, Dec 21st, 1987, 6:18 AM EST from 1\/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The status of the launch was Success. Don't miss this exciting rocket launch!\nSoyuz TM-4\nSoyuz TM-4 was the fourth mission to Mir space station. The mission began on December 21, 1987, 11:18:03 UTC, launching Commander Vladimir Titov, Flight Engineer Musa Manarov and Research Cosmonaut Anatoli Levchenko into orbit. They docked with Mir two days later. During their stay there, crew carried out over 2000 various experiments, performed two EVAs. They were visited by Soyuz TM-5 and Soyuz TM-6 crews. Vladimir Levchenko spent only a week on the station, while other two members of the crew stayed for a long duration mission. They returned on a Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, landing safely back on Earth on December 21, 1988, 09:57:00 UTC.\nVladimir Georgiyevich Titov\nVladimir Georgiyevich Titov (Russian: \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0413\u0435\u043e\u0440\u0433\u0438\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0422\u0438\u0442\u043e\u0432; born 1 January 1947 in Sretensk, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia) is a retired Russian Air Force Colonel and former cosmonaut. He has participated in four spaceflight missions. The catastrophic explosion of a Soyuz rocket in 1983 led to him being one of only two people to use a launch escape system.\nMusa Manarov\nMusa Khiramanovich Manarov (Russian: \u041c\u0443\u0441\u0430 \u0425\u0438\u0440\u0430\u043c\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041c\u0430\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0432; born March 22, 1951 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a former cosmonaut who spent 541 days in space. From December 21, 1987 to December 21, 1988 he flew as flight engineer on Soyuz TM-4. The flight duration was 365 days 22 hours 38 minutes. From December 2, 1990 to May 26, 1991 he flew again as a flight engineer on Soyuz TM-11. The duration was 175 days 1 hour 50 minutes,[2] the longest continuous time spent in space by anyone at that time. During his 176-day stay, Manarov observed the Earth and worked in space manufacturing. He also performed 20 hours of spacewalks.\nAnatoli Levchenko\nAnatoli Semyonovich Levchenko (Russian: \u0410\u043d\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0439 \u0421\u0435\u043c\u0451\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041b\u0435\u0432\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e; May 5, 1941 \u2013 August 6, 1988) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Levchenko was planned to be the back-up commander of the first Buran space shuttle flight, and in March 1987 he began extensive training for a Soyuz spaceflight, intended to give him some experience in space. In December 1987, he occupied the third seat aboard the spacecraft Soyuz TM-4 to the space station Mir, and returned to Earth about a week later on Soyuz TM-3. His mission is sometimes called Mir LII-1, after the Gromov Flight Research Institute shorthand. In the year following his spaceflight, Levchenko died of a brain tumor, in the Nikolay Burdenko Neurosurgical Institute in Moscow.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"UK Radio List\nClassic Rock Deep Cuts\nBlues Radio UK\nPoint Blank FM\nNon Stop Play\nLutheran Talk Radio\n& Category: UK | Genres: Lutheran Talk,\nLutheran Talk Radio live broadcasting from UK. Lutheran Talk Radio broadcast various kind of latest hip hop, classic, dance, electronic etc. music . Lutheran Talk Radio is a one of the most famous online radio station on UK.\nTalk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live conversations between the host and listeners who \"call in\" (usually via telephone) to the show. Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producer(s) in order to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, attract advertisers. Generally, the shows are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements; however, in public or non-commercial radio, music is sometimes played in place of commercials to separate the program segments. Variations of talk radio include conservative talk, hot talk, liberal talk (increasingly known as Progressive talk) and sports talk.\nMusic can be divided into genres (e.g., country music) and genres can be further divided into subgenres (e.g., country blues and pop country are two of the many country subgenres), although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to personal interpretation, and occasionally controversial. For example, it can be hard to draw the line between some early 1980s hard rock and heavy metal. Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art or as an auditory art. Music may be played or sung and heard live at a rock concert or orchestra performance, heard live as part of a dramatic work (a music theater show or opera), or it may be recorded and listened to on a radio, MP3 player, CD player, Smartphone or as part of a film or TV show.\nRadio Information:\nGenres: Lutheran Talk\nWeb Site: http:\/\/www.issuesetc.org\/\nTags: Christian, live Lutheran Talk Radio, London, Lutheran Talk, Lutheran Talk Radio, online Lutheran Talk Radio, UK\nUK Radio Related Post\nRadio Plus Radom\nRadio Nadzieja\nRadio Glos\nRadio Vocea Evangheliei\nRadio Maria (Romania)\nRadio Lumina","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Erik Sollenberg\nThursday, Nov. 30, 2017\nCP+B To Close Miami Office In March 2018\nCP+B will be closing its Miami office in March of 2018. Over the course of the next several months, the focus will be on winding down and relocating operations. The Miami office is CP+B's smallest U.S. shop, and the agency's Miami accounts will move to Boulder, Los Angeles and S\u00e3o Paulo. The...\nThursday, Aug. 24, 2017\nErik Sollenberg Set To Become CP+B's Global CEO\nErik Sollenberg has been named co-global CEO of CP+B. He will work with current global CEO Lori Senecal until her retirement at the end of the year, at which time he will become global CEO of the agency. Sollenberg will oversee all of CP+B's offices around the world and help shape CP+B's...\nReFrame Rise\nWorld Producers Organization\nZoe Salditch\nVets2Set\nLRXD\nKarim Huu Do\nAICP's Equity & Inclusion Committee\nLindsey Warner\nNational Association of Theater Owners\nRick Famuyiwa","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Maricopa County DV Deaths Drop After Policy Change\nPosted on March 3, 2015 at 10:20 pm\nProsecutors implemented a program to collect more evidence in domestic-violence strangulation cases in 2012, and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery said more than 60 percent of domestic-violence cases involving strangulation have been prosecuted since the change.\nFewer than 15 percent of those types of cases resulted in charges being filed before the new protocol was implemented, Montgomery said at a news conference Wednesday morning.\nAdvocates are starting to recognize the impact of those changes and have started to address the needs that accompany that change in policy, he said, which can include a wide variety of items that range from equipment for forensic nurses to clothes and hygiene products for the victims whose belongings are collected as evidence.\nStrangulation is a particularly dangerous form of domestic violence because a woman who is strangled is seven times more likely to become a victim of homicide, Montgomery said. Yet strangulation can be difficult to prosecute because there are frequently no witnesses to corroborate the victim's account and evidence can be hard to gather.\nBoth Montgomery and anti-domestic-violence advocates said there is evidence to show that strangulation can be a precursor to more violent crimes, such as homicide.\n\"We have review teams that look for trends and markers leading up to an individual's death,\" said Jessye Johnson, chief operating officer for the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. \"Strangulation is one of those markers.\"\nThe effects of strangulation can remain dormant for several days, which is why the forensic nurses encourage follow-up visits to further photograph and document injuries. Johnson also said that, if it goes untreated, strangulation can lead to swelling that could kill an individual several days after the incident.\nMontgomery said the Maricopa County Attorney's Office worked with Scottsdale Healthcare in the Strangulation Treatment and Offender Prosecution program to institute the use of high-resolution digital cameras by forensic nurses to better detect evidence of strangulation.\nThe trained nurses from Scottsdale Lincoln Health Network forensic unit perform a head-to-toe exam, document patient history and take swabs or samples that may be used in an investigation, said Tiffany Kirby, a forensic nurse. The nurses are on call 24\/7 and fill out a six-page medical report for each victim of domestic violence, she said.\nThere are other units at various hospitals in the county, though the technology ranges for each unit, Kirby said.\nAll the evidence gathered by police and nurses can be used when the Maricopa County Attorney's Office files a felony strangulation case, including the photographs they take of the victim, Kirby said.\nThe cameras each cost $20,000 to $25,000 and are capable of showing broken capillaries in the neck, behind the lips and around the eye, which are all signs of strangulation and lack of blood flow, Montgomery said.\nOf all the cases to date reviewed since the program was launched, more than 38 percent have resulted in sentences ranging from three months in jail to prison terms of up to eight years, Montgomery said.\nThe program may also be reducing the number of domestic-violence-related fatalities in Arizona, Montgomery said. In 2012 there were 139 fatalities in all types of domestic violence cases, in 2013 there were 125 and in 2014 there were 106, Montgomery said.\nThe protocol set forth in Maricopa County is being recognized on a national level.\nThe National Family Justice Center Alliance, which runs the training institute on strangulation prevention for the U.S. Department of Justice, promotes the program as a national model when training other jurisdictions, said Scottsdale police Sgt. Dan Rincon, a faculty member with the Justice Center Alliance.\nRincon said he originally created the police protocol following strangulation cases and pitched it to the County Attorney's Office.\n\"The numbers are nothing short of phenomenal,\" Rincon said. \"We just have to keep it continuous and keep training officers to curate sustainability.\"\nThe protocol was initially a pilot project for Chandler and Glendale police departments but is countywide, Rincon said, and other agencies around the country have started to create similar programs.\n\"I'm not sure if it is related to the strangulation project, but it does appear to be an instance of cause and effect,\" Montgomery said. \"It will take a few years to see how much of an effect the project is having.\"\nBut the program comes with additional costs, including equipment, training and even new clothes for victims whose clothing is collected as evidence.\nThe Victim Next Door is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the Scottsdale Healthcare forensic nurses in the health-care network unit collect donations to better sustain them, said Scottsdale Leadership class member Alice Giedraitis.\n\"It's a direct way that people can help,\" Giedraitis said. \"The website, thevictimnextdoor.org, just launched last month and accepts all donations ranging from clothing to toothbrushes to money and it all goes to the forensic nurses unit.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"US Ambassador's Residence (Petschek Villa)\n, US Department of State\nA building with history and lore, the Petscheck Villa was constructed in the 1920s by banker-industrialist Otto Petschek. It was later commandeered by the National Socialist German Workers' Party and then occupied by the Soviet army before the U.S. government purchased the estate in 1948.\nFeaturing exquisite craftsmanship inside and out \u2014 from delicately detailed exterior masonry to interior walls of French silk \u2014 the Villa features beautiful spaces like the indoor Winter Garden and formal State Dining Room. By the new century, the U.S. Ambassador's Residence needed repairs and upgrades to meet the public and private functions of a modern American diplomatic facility.\nPhased renovation began on the exterior, using meticulous stone-by-stone analysis to repair the detailed ornamental exterior stucco, stonework, and terracing.\nOn the interior, decorative walls and finishes in the numerous salons were carefully disassembled and repaired with minimal disruption to the historic fabric. During the restoration, the team concealed new building systems behind the ornate walls, resulting in modern systems that are nearly invisible. Innovative features, such as the floor-concealed mechanisms that open and close the magnificent wrought iron entry doors, provide security and accessibility with no visible change to the original decor.\nThe restoration work has returned the Villa to its former elegance with the security, accessibility, and comforts of the 21st century.\n50,000 GSF Restoration and Renovation\nHistoric Preservation and Restoration\nCeremonial Salons, State Dining Room, Winter Garden, Administrative and Residential Spaces\nUpgrading a Historic Building\nListed on the Secretary of State's Register of Culturally Significant Properties, this historic residence needed to provide modern access and conveniences while fully respecting the historic character.\nThe modernization design is essentially invisible. Largely original engineering systems were updated or replaced and carefully re-inserted behind restored decorative walls. \/p>\nBefore renovation, an unenclosed elevator shaft had been created in the center void of a staircase. \/p>\nA new elevator now rises within a glass-enclosed shaft, retaining the quality of light in the stairway, while the original, decorative, painted metal and wire guards have been salvaged, restored, and repositioned at new landings. \/p>\nAccessible entries were not part of the original design. A new decorative stone and marble ramp now provides an accessible route from grade to the primary ceremonial entrance of the piano nobile. \/p>\nDoors of the ceremonial piano nobile entrance have concealed floor closers that open the magnificent, massive glass and decorative wrought iron entry at a touch, with no visible change to the original doorways. \/p>\nThe house is like a magnificent ocean liner that's traveled through a hundred years of democratic ups-and-downs of the waves, peaking and falling. And for that reason, it was exciting for me to dwell in a house that represented all that.\nNorman Eisen former U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic\nTransforming a Home's Dark History\nUS Department of State\nUS Embassy, Oslo\nUS Embassy, Rome","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > dance > 'I wrote a letter to Bj\u00f6rk in Icelandic and it did the trick': Helgi Tomasson on an intervention that saved a ballet\n'I wrote a letter to Bj\u00f6rk in Icelandic and it did the trick': Helgi Tomasson on an intervention that saved a ballet | reviews, news & interviews\n'I wrote a letter to Bj\u00f6rk in Icelandic and it did the trick': Helgi Tomasson on an intervention that saved a ballet\nThe artistic director of San Francisco Ballet heralds its all-new season at Sadler's Wells\nby Jenny GilbertTuesday, 28 May 2019\nSneakers preview: Dores Andre and Joseph Walsh in 'Hurry Up, We're Dreaming' by Justin PeckPhotos: Erik Tomasson\nVisits from major foreign ballet companies are always news, but a two-week London season by one of America's \"big three\" is something to get excited about. San Francisco Ballet doesn't rest on its laurels. Eight of the 12 pieces offered in the coming Sadler's Wells season were premiered by the company only last year. Helgi Tomasson, its long-serving artistic director, tells theartsdesk what it means to keep pushing the boundaries.\nJENNY GILBERT: You've been at the helm of this company for an astonishing 34 years. That gives you a long view of the art form that's almost unique.\nHELGI TOMASSON: Well yes, someone recently pointed out to me that 34 years is two dancing careers laid end to end. I've watched dancers grow up and retire, put their children through our school, and of course I had a performing career of my own with New York City Ballet before that. So what has been the biggest change you've witnessed as a director?\nThe biggest change in 34 years has been choreography, without a doubt. It's become much more complex, and it's challenging dancers much more than it did in my generation. I mean challenging physically.\nBut you danced under George Balanchine in the 1970s and 80s. That wasn't challenging?\nIt was, but basically everything we danced at New York City Ballet fell within his style. In class we did the same thing that we would dance on the stage. Balanchine would even use daily class to get ideas for steps he wanted to use in his next ballet. And Jerome Robbins [City Ballet's other principal choreographer] was in the same mould. So dancers would be training their bodies to do things they expected their bodies would be asked to do. They knew the parameters.\nThese days we still do class every day in the traditional way, because I believe very much in that. But then the choreographers come in and bend those techniques and try new things, and it can be very taxing on the body.\nSo each work you commission rips up the rule book?\nIn varying degrees, yes. Take Unbound, the festival of premieres we held this time last year in San Francisco. Twelve new works from 12 very different choreographers performed across four programmes over two weeks. It was a challenge to the dancers to master a change of style for each ballet, and there was no downtime between to recover. The pressure of adapting to different styles added hugely to the dancers' stress.\nBut that festival was a one-off, wasn't it?\nWell, it's true we don't commission 12 new ballets every year, but the sheer range of work that came through \u2013 because we didn't impose any limits on what those 12 choreographers came up with \u2013 is typical of what dancers are dealing with every season. That stress inevitably takes its toll on muscles and tendons, and managing the physical health of dancers has become an important part of running a company.\nHistorically, ballet has been averse to dealing with social issues, preferring to recycle old and archetypal stories. Is that changing too?\nI've always been interested in exploring what ballet can do. I love Swan Lake and Giselle as much as anyone, but I've committed myself to taking our audience with us into new territory. We have to move on, and my hope is always that some of the new choreography we commission will still be viewed decades from now. Among the ballets we're bringing to London is one inspired by the choreographer's grandfather and his dementia, another that looks at gender fluidity, and another that makes a comment on smartphone culture [pictured below].\nThat's by Christopher Wheeldon, a talent you've championed from the start.\nYes, this is his ninth commission for this company, and it's different from anything else he's made for us. Chris told me he wanted to try choreographing without pointe shoes. That might not sound revolutionary, but it gives a very different look and feel to Chris's work.\nThat and the hand-held devices on stage.\nWell, that's so much a part of our culture today. You see people crossing the street glued to their phones \u2013 it's amazing not more people get hit. Chris's piece makes a comment on smartphone dependency in a very witty way. It's a pertinent piece with a warning that technological connection is no substitute for social interaction.\nFootwear also makes an impact in the piece you're bringing by Justin Peck [pictured at the top of the piece]. It might seem like a detail but it has a massive effect.\nYes, a ballet in sneakers. In fact, the steps in that ballet are largely classical but the sneakers bring an entirely different look to them. That isn't a new idea. Jerome Robbins put his dancers in sneakers half a century ago in Opus Jazz, a piece I later performed in. But Robbins was a very different choreographer. Justin has his feet firmly in today's culture.\nLast year, in the wake of the Unbound festival, one critic wrote that it was \"more evolution than revolution\". Is that fair?\nWell, yes, I think it is. The collective impression made by those 12 new choreographies was not that dancemakers want to abandon the past. Most of them, for instance, took advantage of having an orchestra at their disposal. And one of them, the British choreographer Cathy Marston, exploited ballet's traditional affinity with narrative, but she did it in a very fresh way. Snowbound, based on Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, a novel studied by every American at high-school, was very moving, I thought. I'm keen to know what London audiences will make of it.\nProbably the most \"out there\" of the ballets you're bringing is Bj\u00f6rk Ballet by Arthur Pita [pictured right]. I understand you pulled a few personal strings to make it happen.\nWell, Arthur really wanted to use selections from an album by Bj\u00f6rk, but he was getting no response to his requests for permission. So I got in touch with a member of my family in Iceland and asked them to get me the number of Bj\u00f6rk's father, which they did. I thought he might be able to tell me how to reach her team more directly. But I ended up writing Bj\u00f6rk a personal letter, in Icelandic. And that seemed to do the trick, because she gave her permission immediately. And so we got our Bj\u00f6rk ballet.\nThe San Francisco Ballet season is at Sadler's Wells from 29 May until 8 June. It opens with Alexei Ratmansky's Shostakovich Trilogy\nI've committed myself to taking our audience with us into new territory\nUnbound: A Festival of New Works, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco review - ballet invests in its future\nSan Francisco Ballet, Balanchine\/ Liang\/ Wheeldon, Sadler's Wells Theatre\ntheartsdesk in Paris: San Francisco Ballet 1\nmore Dance\nBallet Flamenco Sara Baras, Sadler's Wells review - storming opening to flamenco festival Sara Baras confirms flamenco as a dynamic and innovative force\nMari review - bittersweet drama with flair Unusual mash-up of styles creates a strangely compelling film\nThe Mother, QEH review - Natalia goes psycho Osipova is mesmerising in bleak dance-drama about maternal mental health\nCinderella, English National Ballet, Royal Albert Hall review - big, bright and bankable Christopher Wheeldon's glossy arena show suggests bigger isn't better\nThe Firebird triple bill, Royal Ballet review - generous programme with Russian flavour Trio of substantial pieces offers something for everyone\nSan Francisco Ballet, Liang\/Marston\/Pita, Sadler's Wells - elemental, ethereal and kitschy, too Visiting company mixes moods and climates in varied and variable mixed bill\nShostakovich Trilogy, San Francisco Ballet, Sadler's Wells review - less than the sum of its parts Serene visiting Americans lack the bite for Russian composer\n'I wrote a letter to Bj\u00f6rk in Icelandic and it did the trick': Helgi Tomasson on an intervention that saved a ballet The artistic director of San Francisco Ballet heralds its all-new season at Sadler's Wells\nFour Quartets, Barbican Theatre review - ultimate stage poetry TS Eliot's poems staged with dance and music are a revelation\nTribe\/\/Still I Rise, Brighton Festival 2019 review - an evening of poetic movement Convincing choreography based on the poetry of Maya Angelou\nTraptown, Wim Vandekeybus\/Ultima Vez, Brighton Festival 2019 review - obscure to the point of ridiculous An uneasy and inaccessible evening of performance that searches for abstraction but gets lost in its own concept\nWithin the Golden Hour\/Medusa\/Flight Pattern, Royal Ballet review - the company shows its contemporary face Osipova is astonishing as ever, but Medusa the ballet misses its mark","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"How to get Platinum in Teamfight Tactics (TFT)\nClimb the ladder.\nStephanie Roehler\nGuides Teamfight Tactics\nImage via Riot Games\nIf you ask some Teamfight Tactics players how to reach the Platinum tier, they might give you the easy, annoying answer of \"get good\" and act like that's that. Sure, but how do you get better at playing the game? We've made our way up to Platinum, and we're happy to share the tips that helped us push to that rarified air. Hopefully, you can use these tips to climb your own way up the ranks.\nFinding your core builds\nOne of the best things you can do for yourself is look up a few meta charts and experiment with the builds on there. Even if it doesn't make sense, you will find a few that you \"vibe\" with better than others. Figuring out a handful of builds that you can comfortably replicate over and over again will give you an edge on other players. Of course, you can always use other builds, but when things get kinda stressful, it's good to have comfort builds to lean on.\nFor example, during Set 5.5, we became very comfortable with Redeemed builds with a Vel'Koz carry, Forgotten builds with Miss Fortune or Vayne carries, or Nightbringer\/Ironclad builds with a Yasuo carry. In early Set 6, we leaned on Chemtech Twinshots, Mutant Protectors, and Arcanists. These kinds of comfort builds can help you have easy, memorized prompts in your head to follow when trying to pull together builds on the fly. The perfect build often isn't just handed to you, so you have to know how to get there on your own.\nShoot for fourth\nIf your goal is to rank up, get it out of your head that you need to win every game. Trying to make the perfect, meta-build each time isn't going to help you get to Plat. Instead, it'll get you in a painful cycle of two first\/second place wins and then a follow-up of eighth place that makes it like you never won at all. Your goal should be getting in the top four, so play like it. Build things that are uncontested. Create early-game builds to throw late-game players off their game. It's not as glamourous, but you'll be playing smarter, not harder.\nGame tempo\nThere are a lot of people that will try to tell you money is the most important resource in the game, and that is very much not true. We have watched people in even Plat-ranked games with over fifty gold die with that much money because they were too stubborn about holding onto it.\nThe most important resource in the game is your own skill of tapping into its tempo. Gold, units, leveling, health, those are resources you use to manipulate your situation. But knowing when you have to change your own circumstances is one of the best game-changing skills you can hone. So yes, in general having all those resources working in a positive direction is great. But in some cases, being at zero money is definitely more worthwhile than fifty.\nAnother example: if you're mid-level 6 saving your gold, but you start seeing your competition all pop up to level 7 or worse, 8, it's worth it to sacrifice twenty gold to get to level 7. Then, you can compete with them rather than risk taking twenty damage over the next three rounds.\nAnti-meta\nTrust me, meta charts are your friends. While it's not the best idea to fight for the top build every game, knowing what's working for other people is vital. It helps you learn which items are really powerful, which units make a big impact, and how to possibly put all of them together.\nAnother one of the best things you can do is deliberately pick builds that counter the top current top builds. These builds might be \"ranked\" lower, but if everyone is making teams full of magic damage, magic resist builds are going to be a little more useful than you expect.\nOur favorite thing to do is ruin the late-game meta(when four\/five cost units are the best carries in the game). You build strong one-cost, three-star units early and demolish the competition early. This throws the people hoarding money and building skeleton crews for a loop and ruins their health pool. While it's rare to get first place with this kind of build, it very commonly gets you in the top four because it ruined the gameplay of other players.\nLearn up\nAnd, unavoidably, one of the best things you can do for yourself is to get knowledgeable about the game. Research about positioning, economizing, itemizations, rerolling, etc. It's the boring, obvious answer and it's not super fun, but you can do it in a variety of ways. You can watch high-level TFT streamers, you can play a lot of games and take notes on how your opponents build, or you can crack open Google and look things up. But more knowledge and more practice will always help.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Phoenix Forgotten Featurette\nPhoenix Forgotten...\nCheck out this featurette for Phoenix Forgotten.\nPHOENIX FORGOTTEN was produced by RIDLEY SCOTT (The Martian, Alien, Blade Runner), WES BALL (The Maze Runner franchise) and T.S. NOWLIN (Pacific Rim: Uprising, The Maze Runner franchise) who also co-wrote the film. JUSTIN BARBER co-writes and directs in his feature film debut.\nBased on the shocking, true events of March 13th, 1997, when several mysterious lights appeared over Phoenix, Arizona. This unprecedented and inexplicable phenomenon became known as \"The Phoenix Lights\", and remains the most famous and widely viewed UFO sighting in history.\nPHOENIX FORGOTTEN tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed...\nPHOENIX FORGOTTEN\nIN THEATERS: April 21, 2017\nDIRECTOR: Justin Barber\nWRITER: T.S. Nowlin and Justin Barber\nPRODUCERS: Wes Ball, T.S. Nowlin, Ridley Scott, Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon\nCAST: Florence Hartigan, Chelsea Lopez, Justin Matthews, Luke Spencer Roberts\nGENRE: Sci-Fi, Horror\nImage courtesy of Katrina Wan PR","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Top 10 Highest Paid Actors In Tamil, Highest Remuneration Actors In Kollywood 2021\nKollywood is one of the biggest film industry in south India. All the Tamil actors have huge popularity and all have a strong fan base so that their films gives a big hit at the box office. According to some reports here we discussed the top 10 highest paid actors in Tamil and their remuneration per movie.\nHighest Paid Actors In Tamil\n1 Highest Paid Actors In Tamil\n1.1 Highest Remuneration Actors In Kollywood 2021\n1.2 Top 10 Highest Paid Actors In Tamil Films\n1.3 Highest Remuneration Actors In Tamil Industry\n1.4 Top Paid Actors In Tamil Cinema\n1.5 10 Highest Remuneration Actors In Kollywood\nKollywood is one of the best film industry with many successful films. There are many actors with a great fan following. Now we here are going to discuss the top 10 best highest paid actors of Tamil. Here is the list\nKamal Hassan\nVikram Karthi\nSimbu\nAll these actors are best in the Tamil industry with their films. Now we are going to share some details about each of them in the below section.\nHighest Remuneration Actors In Kollywood 2021\nRajinikanth: Was born on 12th December in 1950 at Bangalore, in the state of Mysore, India. He struggled a lot in his life to reach this position. Before becoming an actor, he did jobs in Bangalore such as a carpenter, a coolie, and also as a bus conductor for Bangalore transport service (BTS). Like a bus conductor, he earned Rs.750 per month.\nHe completed his school from Acharya Paathshala in Basavanagudi and Vivekananda Balaka Sangha and completed college from M.G.R. film and television institute of Tamil Nadu.\nNow Rajinikanth is a more popular face and also the highest paid actor in Kollywood. In Tamil cinema, he is called as \"superstar\". His debut film is Apoorva Raagangal which was released in 1975. From 1975 to 2021 he is seen in many movies which gave a huge collection at the box office. Some hit films among them are:\nApoorva Raagangal\nMoondru Mudichu\nAvargal\nKavikkuyil\nBhuvana Oru Kelvikkuri\nPetta\nCinema Verna, and more\nThere are so many super hit films given by superstar Rajinikanth. He is seen in the film industry from the last four decades. Now he is charging Rs 45 Crore for a film as his remuneration. So he is the top highest paid actors in Tamil Industry.\nKamal Hassan: The second highest popular actor in Tamil Film Industry. He was born on 7th November 1954 in Ramanathapuram, Madras state. He has completed his schoolings from Santhome. As a child artist, he debuted his first film titled Kalathur Kannamam in 1960. From 1959 to 1965, Kamal Hassan acts in several Tamil and Malayalam movies as a child actor. After taking 7 years of the gap from his career, he came back as a choreographer.\nKamal Hassan is also a director, producer, screenwriter, playback singer, and also a lyricist. In his career, he wins a lot of awards like Padma Sri, Padma Bhushan, National film awards, and many other awards. From 2017 kamal Hassan collaborated with Vijay TV, for hosting the \"big boss Tamil\" show. Some of the biggest hits by Kamal Hassan are listed below.\nApoorva Sagodharargal\nMicheal Madana Kama Rajan\nGunaa\nThevar Magan\nIndian (blockbuster)\nHey Ram\nPammal K. Sambandam\nPanchathanthiram\nPapanasam, and many other successful films.\nHe announced to take the retirement from the film Acting. Kamal Hassan takes 25 Crore for one film as his remuneration. He is one of the oldest actors from Kollywood with great energy and simplicity. Also, search for the list of 10 highest paid actors in Tollywood.\nTop 10 Highest Paid Actors In Tamil Films\nVijay: A popular and highest paid actor in Tamil. He was born on 22 June 1974. His real name is Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar. Vijay has completed his college from Loyola College, Chennai. His first film was released in 1984 as a child artist in Vetri which was made by his father Mr. S. A. Chandrasekhar. Vijay's first debut film is Malaya Theerpu, which was released in 1992.\nVijay is also a playback singer, producer, and a philanthropist. Some of the blockbuster movies given by him are listed here.\nPoove Munakkaga\nBagavati\nPokkiri\nBairavaa\nMersal\nSarkar, and many other great movies.\nHe wins so many awards. Recently he also contributed few for Tamil film industry. So Dr. MGR University was awarded him with Doctor Honoris Causa. Vijay is the brand ambassador for so many products like coca-cola, Chennai super kings, sunfeast, and Tata DoCoMo. Vijay remuneration per film is around 20 Crore. So, he is listed to be one of the top 10 highest paid actors in Tamil.\nSuriya: Saravanan Sivakumar is the real name of Suriya. He is having a huge fan following among girls and also the highest paid actor in Kollywood. Suriya was born on 23rds July 1975 in Chennai. His father Mr. Sivakumar and his brother Karthik Sivakumar are also actors and his mother Mrs. Lakshmi Sivakumar is a singer.\nSuriya completed his study from the PSBB Millennium school, and Loyola College, Chennai. Suriya is from a filmy background, but he started his career as a merchandising manager in a garment factory. People can also search here for the Highest Grossing Films in Tollywood.\nHis debut film is Nerrukku Ner which is launched in 1997. Suriya gives 34 films to the audience, some of them are:\nPoovellam Kettuppar\nNandha\nUnnai Ninaithu\nMounam Pesiyadhe\nKaakha Kaakha\nPithamagan\nSingam 2\nSingam and more.\nSuriya also worked as a producer for a few films. He donates all the body parts after his life. Suriya's remuneration per movie is 18 Crore. He is one of the honest and simple people in the film industry who is one of the best highest paid actors of the Tamil industry.\nHighest Remuneration Actors In Tamil Industry\nAjith Kumar: The most popular actor and a racer in the south. He was born on 1st May 1971 in New Delhi, but his hometown is Secunderabad. Ajith completed his schooling from memorial senior secondary, Chennai. His hobbies are photography, reading biographies, playing cricket, and racing.\nAjith Kumar debut with En Veedu En Kanavar in 1990 and in the Bollywood the debut film was Asoka in 2001. He worked almost 40 movies in his career. Some among them are\nAasai\nKadhal Kottai\nVaali\nDheena\nMankaktha\nYennai Aridhaal\nVedalam, and many more hit films at the box office with a huge collection.\nRecently a film Viswasam has scored the biggest blockbuster in the box office. Ajith earned many awards in his acting career like Tamil Nadu state film award, Filmfare, etc. Ajith remuneration is 17 crore per film. These all made him be listed in the highest paid actors of Kollywood.\nVikram: Also a great actor having a huge fan following and highest paid actor in Kollywood. He was born in Paramakudi on 17th April 1966. From his childhood, his one and only aim are to become an actor. Vikram's real name is John Kennedy Vinod Raj. Vikram debuted with Meera in 1990 and his first movie with a blockbuster hit is Sethu in 1999. After Sethu, Vikram gives back to back hit movies like Dhil (2001) and Gemini (2002).\nVikram is also a producer and a good singer. He won the best actor award from IIT Madras. He is also a brand ambassador for Sanjeevani Trust, Vidya Sudha, and supports the Banyan Charity. Some movies which gave him popularity in Tamil Industry are\nDhill\nDhool\nSaamy\nKanthaswamy\nIru mugan, and more.\nAfter 10 years of struggle, he archived this popularity and love from their fans. Vikram's remuneration per movie is 14 Crore. Thus he is listed to be one among the top 10 highest paid actor of Tamil Industry.\nTop Paid Actors In Tamil Cinema\nKarthi: In the south industry, Karthi is a very popular actor and his name comes in the list of the highest paid actor. His real name is Karthik Sivakumar and was born on 25th May 1977 in Chennai. Karthi is the brother of Suriya. When he was in New York, he worked as a graphic designer. After returning to India, first, he worked as an assistant director with the famous director Mani Ratnam.\nKarthi's first debut film in Tamil is Aaytha Ezhuthu which was released in 2004 and in Telugu, Oopiri released in 2016. Some hit films of Karthi are:\nParuthiveeran\nPaiyaa\nKomban\nThozha\nKashmora\nTheeran Adhigaram Ondru, and many more films in both Telugu and Tamil.\nApart from being an actor, he is also a good playback singer. He has sung some songs in Tamil films like Mississippi from the movie Biriyani.\nDhanush: A very talented and highest paid actor in Kollywood. He became more famous for singing a song \"why this Kolaveri di\". His date of birth is 28 July 1983, born in Chennai. His real name is Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja. His schooling was from Sathya Matriculation high school, and pass out BCA from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. Apart from the actor, he is a filmmaker and a singer.\nDhanush debut with a Tamil movie thulluvadho ilamai in 2001 and in Bollywood debut with raanjhanaa in 2013. Some hit movies given by Dhanush are:\nKadhal kondein\nThiruda thiruda\nPudhupettai\nPolladhavan\nAadukalam\nAnegan\nMaari\nPa paandi, and more.\nDhanush is the son-in-law of popular south-actor Rajinikanth. He is the first actor in Tamil Industry, who has 4 million followers on Twitter. As an actor, Dhanush's remuneration is 6 Crore per film.\n10 Highest Remuneration Actors In Kollywood\nArya: A famous actor in the south industry. His real name is Jamshad Ceerthirakath (jammy), was born on 11th December 1980 in Trikaripur, Kerala. Arya completed his schooling from SBOA Matriculation and higher secondary school, Chennai and completed his B.Tech from crescent engineering college, Chennai. Before coming to the acting line, he worked as a software engineer.\nArya debut with a Tamil film, Arinthum Ariyamalum in 2005. In Tamil Film industry, he is known as Kollywood's playboy. Arya has own production company, Show People. Also, have the Sea Shell restaurant in Chennai. Some of the hit movies of Arya are:\nArinthum Ariyamalum\nUllam Ketkumae\nPattiyal\nNaan Kadavul\nVarudu\nAvan Ivan\nVettai\nArrambam\nYatchan, and some more.\nArya also produced so many Tamil and Malayalam movies. Arya remuneration in Tamil Industry per film is 6 Crore.\nSimbu: One of the most talented actor in the south industry. He belongs to a film family. He was born on 3rd June 1983 in Chennai. He completed his graduation from Loyola College, Chennai. His father T. Rajendar is also an actor, filmmaker, music composer, and a politician. His hobbies are singing and writing. Simbu acted in 19 films as a child artist.\nSimbu has sung so many songs like Mullaaga Kuththakkodaathu, Bail More, Jothikava, etc. Also, directed two movies like Manmadhan and Vallavan. In Kollywood, Simbu is also known as \"little superstar\". Some hit movies given by Simbu are:\nVallavan\nSilambattam\nVaanam\nIdhu Namma Aalu\nAchcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada and few more.\nSimbu is the brand ambassador of PepsiCo, 7 UP in Tamil Nadu. Simbu remuneration per movie is 5 Crore.\nThe above are the top 10 highest paid actors of Kollywood who gave big blockbusters to the film industry. 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{"text":"Defiant Pioneers\nSafety and performance\nPlug in Hybrid\nExplore our favourite selection of stories, articles, interviews and films from the world of Volvo.\nCars don't drive the world forward.\nPeople do.\nFirst we understand. Then we make.\nA film series by Volvo & Sky Atlantic\nThe quietest place\nHere at Volvo Cars, we're continually inspired by the Swedish landscape. Like Muttos - a national park in the far north of the country where the vast, sublime prehistoric forest becomes open to everybody.\nLife's invisible luxury\nThis article is part of our 'Passionate people behind Volvo' series. In this article, we meet two of the experts who work as part of Volvo Cars' Interior Air Quality Testing Team. As we are guided through their working day, the Interior Air Quality Testing Team explain Volvo Cars' approach to ensuring Volvo drivers enjoy a clean and healthy in-car environment that is free from emissions.\nThe race for perfection\nIn this article, we visit the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard in Lisbon, Portugal. Here, we meet the team of experts responsible for repairing and re-fitting the entire fleet of Volvo Ocean 65 boats that will compete in the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race. We describe each team member's individual area of expertise and show how the team works together to ensure that each boat is repaired identically, on time and to the highest possible standard. Their expertise in different areas represents the same level of competence you find at a Volvo workshop. We also meet Swedish sailor Martin Str\u00f6mberg, who won the 2011-12 edition of the race, to find out what a great service programme gives him as a sailor.\nVolvo Cars' safety: a proud heritage\nThe safety vision that nobody will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car by 2020 is the result of a dedication to saving lives that has been passed on from generation to generation of Volvo people since the company was founded in 1927.\nNext-generation drivers\nFor the last hundred years, we've had a simple view of cars \u2013 we drive them, they don't drive us. But with autonomous drive technology, this is about to change.\nCrystal clear thinking\n\"Acclaimed Swedish designer Lena Bergstr\u00f6m has collaborated with Volvo Cars' design team to create the first bespoke range of glassware for the Volvo Car Lifestyle Collection. She tells us about the inspiration behind the designs.\"\nWhen buying a car, you can never be 100% certain of how it'll feel once you're out on the road. Or can you? Thanks to Volvo Cars Validation engineers like Peter Hellgren, you can be sure that your experience is just like it was intended to be.\nA unique way of connecting people\nIn the past, keeping people connected was a lot more difficult than it is today. It took ingenuity, risk and a whole lot of manpower. We explore Sweden's oldest and most ambitious way of keeping people connected \u2013 the G\u00f6ta Canal.\nBound by sound\n1966 was quite a year for music. The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan all released groundbreaking albums that completely transformed the cultural landscape. But while Lennon and McCartney and their contemporaries were busy reinventing the way music was made, a classical music enthusiast called John Bowers was focusing his attention and expertise on reinventing the way we listened to it.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Hanover's Shoemaker named PBA East Region Player of the Year\nCody Shoemaker led the region in average and earnings and is now chasing a full-time career in the sport.\nFor The York Dispatch\nCody Shoemaker's fianc\u00e9e, Kate, encouraged him to enter more Professional Bowling Association events after he won his first PBA East Region title in Towson, Maryland, in April.\nThe 29-year-old right-hander heeded her advice and ended up earning the 2022 PBA East Region Player of the Year honor. Shoemaker led the region in points (7,425), earnings ($8,820), average (220) and games (121). He was announced as the award winner at a banquet earlier this month.\n\"It's an unbelievable feeling,\" said Shoemaker, who was named PBA East Region Rookie of the Year in 2016. \"I had an amazingly consistent year. I'm glad Kate pushed me to bowl more this year. She helped me regain the fire I had in the past.\"\nThe Hanover couple was married on May 13, 2022.\nShoemaker's first goal was to qualify for the Regional Players Invitational (RPI) in Las Vegas, which was held earlier this month. He finished in the top 15. After qualifying for the RPI, he set his sights on PBA East Region Player of the Year.\nWith his confidence level at an all-time high, Shoemaker has decided to compete full-time on the PBA national tour, which begins Jan. 29 at Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis. The four-month tour makes stops in Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Delaware.\n\"Now's the time,\" he said. \"My wife is a nurse and we don't have any children. I can travel and chase my dreams. Not having to worry about money takes a lot of pressure off of me. I can focus on just bowling.\"\nHigh school bowling:Denny rolls 300, Spring Grove tops Central York again\nBesides the support of his wife, Shoemaker credits former PBA competitor Ritchie Wolfe; Terry Miller, proprietor of Suburban Bowlerama; and John Jameson, president of Innovative Products, among others for pushing him toward his goal.\n\"Without supportive people and resources, I couldn't consider going on the PBA Tour,\" he said. \"I've received a lot of help and encouragement.\"\nAlthough Shoemaker believes he has proven he can compete at the highest level, he knows he has to continually improve. He has worked on changing his ball roll and becoming more versatile on the lanes.\n\"The best bowlers keep getting better,\" he said. \"There's always room to improve. Athletes like Tiger Woods are never satisfied.\"\nShoemaker is eager to compete on the PBA Tour. And he hopes his success in 2022 carries over into 2023.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sisters celebrate together, as one year flows into the next\nSisters of Jesus Crucified Councilor Sister Paulina and Sister Nga Nguyen decorating for Christmas. For the past 10 years sister-students of various Vietnamese congregations who have enjoyed the hospitality of the Brockton community over the winter holidays. (Barbara Valuckas)\nby The Life Panelists\nThe panelists shared glimpses of what it is like to celebrate the new year in their convents and cultures, giving us global flavors from Lithuania, Vietnam, Brazil, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the United States as they responded to this prompt:\nShare some customs that you, your congregation or your culture practice around Jan. 1 (or the beginning of a new year, however you designate it).\n[[{\"fid\":\"125276\",\"view_mode\":\"default\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"1\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false}},\"link_text\":null,\"attributes\":{\"style\":\"height: 150px; width: 150px; margin: 10px; float: left;\",\"class\":\"media-element file-default\",\"data-delta\":\"1\"}}]]Barbara Valuckas, a School Sister of Notre Dame based in Connecticut, has a communications background. She taught in schools and via educational television in the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York. Both before and after serving in province leadership as councilor and provincial leader, she has been ministering as a facilitator and consultant for parishes in the United States and with religious congregations internationally.\nIt is Christmas Eve, and the Sisters of Jesus Crucified in Brockton, Massachusetts, have gathered with their Lithuanian friends for the traditional meal and ritual. During the decades of Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were workdays, and the ritual could be observed only clandestinely, if at all. But Lithuanian American congregations in the United States preserved the ritual, some parts of which may have roots in pre-Christian Lithuania.\nSince Christmas Eve was a fast day, the celebrative meal and ritual was meatless. Participants did enjoy 12 dishes (to honor the 12 apostles) of various kinds of fish along with potatoes, beets, onions, mushrooms, cranberry pudding and poppyseed milk. Each participant was also given a large blessed wafer, which was then broken into pieces and shared with the other participants while asking forgiveness for any hurts during the past year. Having made peace with each other, everyone was then spiritually ready to participate in the midnight Mass.\nFor the past 10 years, there have been other participants in the ritual, sister-students of various Vietnamese congregations who have enjoyed the hospitality of the Brockton community while studying nearby. In their communist country, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are still workdays, although the sisters are free to observe those days in their convents. They appreciate the opportunity to learn the Christmas customs from Lithuanian culture. And they know how to reciprocate with their New Year's celebration!\nLithuanian-American Sisters of Jesus Crucified pose with some Lithuanian \"straw art\" displayed on their motherhouse walls. Front row: Sisters Joan of Arc and Helen; back row: Sisters Stephen and Helen. The sisters make up a part of the team of teachers and mentors who help their Vietnamese student- sister guests. (Barbara Valuckas)\nAs an Asian culture, the Vietnamese celebrate the Lunar New Year with up to two weeks of festivities. In Vietnam, the New Year's observance is more of a family event than a community event. It is the only time the sisters can spend an extended time with their families. But for the sister-students, the Sisters of Jesus Crucified in Brockton have become their family.\nEven sisters on scholarships for advanced studies outside of Massachusetts routinely ask to come \"home\" for the holidays. There, the sister-students become the teachers of their host community as they share their Vietnamese food and New Year's customs.\nThe Sisters of Jesus Crucified congregation is small now, with fewer than a dozen sisters living in the motherhouse or in the nearby nursing home. But several years ago, the sisters made a chapter commitment to \"live fully until the last sister dies,\" in contrast to focusing on their future completion. It was this commitment that led them to offer hospitality to the Vietnamese congregations.\nVietnamese sister-students touch the shoulders of their respective Sisters of Jesus Crucified hostesses, teachers and mentors. (Barbara Valuckas)\nEach sister serves as an English teacher and mentor for a group of Vietnamese sisters. Superior General Mary Valliere makes sure the Vietnamese sisters have warm clothes for the cold months and warm support in their struggles with the English language and U.S. culture. Her own sisters, mostly in their 80s and 90s, are delighted with their new students, whose joy and energy are helping them to live fully. This is the kind of mutual gift exchange that lasts beyond the holidays and endures into the future.\n[[{\"fid\":\"125277\",\"view_mode\":\"default\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"2\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false}},\"link_text\":null,\"attributes\":{\"style\":\"height: 150px; width: 150px; margin: 10px; float: left;\",\"class\":\"media-element file-default\",\"data-delta\":\"2\"}}]]Katy van Wyk, a Dominican Sister of St. Catharine of Siena of King William's Town, South Africa, lives in Johannesburg. After teaching, she served in leadership as team member and assistant leader, later continuing in mission effectiveness for Dominican schools. Now she conducts retreats, volunteers as a community art counselor with underprivileged children, and facilitates empowerment workshops for young women at risk of teenage pregnancy, drug or alcohol abuse, and physical\/sexual abuse.\nAs I write this piece, the morning is fresh and still, apart from the sound of soft rain. In Johannesburg, we were surprised to be blessed these last five days by the heavens just opening, gently, abundantly.\nThe beginning of a new year is a bit like that for me: Gently and seamlessly, the days flow from one to the next, each day bringing us closer to the last day and the first day of the year. When I was growing up, from 11 a.m. to midnight, the whole family gathered at the family home, singing, praying and thanking God for all our experiences \u2014 both joyous and painful \u2014 and asking God's blessings for the coming year. The last five minutes were silent, the radio or TV set turned on so we could hear the countdown. Then at 12 o'clock, we would wish one another a Happy New Year! Early on New Year's morning, we would go to visit the graves of our family members.\nSome of Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine of Siena of King William's Town, South Africa, paint their \"hopes\" for the new year. Some sisters frame these pictures and keep them on cupboard or refrigerator doors as a reminder. (Katy Van Wyk)\nMuch has changed, though family and friends still get together on New Year's Eve, celebrate and wait for the clock to strike. In some cultures, the first of January is spent at the beach, some believing it important to get into the water to \"wash off\" all the negativity from the previous year. Containers are filled with water to take home for those who could not go to the beach. This is drunk, with the same idea to cleanse.\nIn my community, some of us may gather on the last day of the year for reflection and prayer. Some time ago, we added a ritual: After first making our reflection on the year, we then express in color what we hope for the new year. On New Year's Day, all of us gather at our retirement home, celebrating Mass and then enjoying a braai (barbecue) with the sisters there.\nWhatever the changes, this is a day to celebrate with family, friends and communities. May we all be blessed by our generous God of surprises throughout this new year.\n[[{\"fid\":\"125265\",\"view_mode\":\"default\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"3\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false}},\"link_text\":null,\"attributes\":{\"style\":\"height: 150px; width: 150px; margin: 10px; float: left;\",\"class\":\"media-element file-default\",\"data-delta\":\"3\"}}]]Sheila Campbell is a Medical Missionary of Mary sister of Irish and Brazilian nationality. After an early nursing ministry in Ireland, she did nursing, health education, parish work, and pastoral health care work (specializing in HIV\/AIDS) as a missionary in Brazil. She later served in congregational administration in Ireland, and in Brazil, with families affected by urban violence and prostitution. Currently, she serves sick and elderly sisters at her congregation's home in Massachusetts.\nFor several years, I lived in Salvador, a seaside city in the northeast of Brazil in Bahia State where our congregation ministers. New Year's was a special time for us as it was a time to mix and mingle with people of other religious traditions.\nNew Year's Eve began in the usual Catholic tradition, with the vigil Mass for Mary, mother of God. But it also celebrated the World Day of Peace, so everyone came to the church dressed in white. The liturgy is enthusiastic, often with singing, dancing and waving banners promoting peace. New Year's greetings were passed around among the parishioners, the final blessing given and then \u2014\nThen a whole new celebration began!\nAn altar of Casa de Yemanj\u00e1, Rio Vermelho, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (Wikimedia Commons\/Paul R. Burley)\nPeople gathered in Salvador, Brazil, in honor of Yemanj\u00e1, the sea (Wikimedia Commons\/Vanvan Borges)\nAn offering on the beach of S\u00e3o Vicente , S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, for Yemanj\u00e1, Dec. 31, 2010 (Flickr\/TwistSim)\nSalvador is a city that has been marked by the African slave trade; almost 80% of the population is Afro-Brazilian. As newly arrived slaves, they were forcibly baptized as Catholics, and their own religious traditions ignored and persecuted. Of course, these traditions did not disappear but were practiced secretly under the guise of devotion to the saints! Thus, Oxal\u00e1 became Jesus Christ; Yemanj\u00e1, the orix\u00e1 of the waters and oceans, became Mary, Star of the Sea, and so on. Only since 1970 has Candombl\u00e9 (a blend of Yoruba, Fon and Bantu traditions) been allowed to be practiced openly. And New Year's night is a night of special celebration.\nAfter Mass, we would go down to the beach. Most of our neighbors would come out of their houses, too, and begin streaming in the same direction. Chatting and laughing, we would make our way, each one carrying something to eat or drink. Once on the beach, there would be a quieting of the atmosphere. Those of the Candombl\u00e9 faith, also dressed in white, would hold their own ceremonies of song and dance. They would bring small offerings of flowers or candles to the sea to honor Yemanj\u00e1. We would also touch the waters and bless ourselves and pray for the year to come. The civil authorities would have a fireworks display in the more affluent areas, but from our poor neighborhood, we could see them, too, and enjoy the show!\nNew Year's celebrations were a good example of interreligious dialogue held in a harmonious and simple way. No theological discourse, no studied civility! Just passing back and forth food and drink and sharing a joyful moment of celebration.\n[[{\"fid\":\"125274\",\"view_mode\":\"default\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"1\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false}},\"link_text\":null,\"attributes\":{\"style\":\"height: 150px; width: 150px; margin: 10px; float: left;\",\"class\":\"media-element file-default\",\"data-delta\":\"1\"}}]]Monica Nyachowe is a Dominican Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from Zimbabwe. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and administration of schools at various levels, including as school head of the Dominican Convent School in Harare. Her academic work included early childhood education, educational leadership, management and policy. She moved into university teaching in educational studies and currently teaches at Arrupe Jesuit University in leadership and governance.\nThe beginning of a new year for our Dominican congregation is a time for giving thanks: thanksgiving for the year ended and thanksgiving for the new year just starting. Customarily, a list is put up in the first week of Advent for sisters to volunteer to prepare a special liturgy for each week in Advent and the beginning-of-the-year celebration. We take these celebrations seriously in that we take a lot of time preparing for the celebration, and we all look forward to the reflection.\nThe New Year's celebration usually involves a looking back at what the year has been and giving thanks. As part of the celebration, we also have a time to ask for forgiveness from each other. We then give each other a sign of peace.\nAfter that, we have a short reflection on how the year has been. Some highlights \u2014 positive and negative \u2014 are shared. Some of the highlights we share are on community life, apostolates, and our involvement in the life of the local church. Of course, social and political issues are always shared because we are affected by what happens in our country.\nWe conclude the celebration and usher in the new year by commending the coming year to the Lord, asking for his guidance and protection. After a reflection in the community room, we make an hour's adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight. When the clock strikes 12, we wish each other a happy and blessed New Year and have a little drink before going to bed.\nA centerpiece prepared for a new year's celebration ritual by one of the Dominican Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Dominican Sr. Ferrera Weinzierl)\nIn some instances, we exchange gifts, presenting a gift to the sister for whom we have been praying throughout the year (or since the beginning of Advent). It is always an exciting moment to discover who has been praying for you, because it might help recall some special events of the year: For example, the sister might have been extra kind or looked out for you when you were away from the community.\nEach community does this differently and in a creative way that suits their situation. This practice in our convents is similar to the practice in our country, when families come together to celebrate the end of the year. The difference is that our families generally do not focus so much on the religious side; they focus on thanksgiving with lots of loud music and dancing, drinking beer, braai (barbecue) and cooking local and traditional dishes. This kind of celebration goes on from New Year's Eve until the following day in the evening.\n[[{\"fid\":\"125275\",\"view_mode\":\"default\",\"fields\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false},\"type\":\"media\",\"field_deltas\":{\"2\":{\"format\":\"default\",\"alignment\":\"\",\"field_cut_line[und][0][value]\":\"\",\"field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]\":false,\"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]\":false}},\"link_text\":null,\"attributes\":{\"style\":\"height: 150px; width: 150px; margin: 10px; float: left;\",\"class\":\"media-element file-default\",\"data-delta\":\"2\"}}]]Catherine Soley is a member of the Religious of the Assumption. A \"late vocation,\" she has two daughters and two grandsons. Her ministries have included teaching and directing an English-as-a-second-language program, helping with after-school mentoring, working with college students and elementary-age children of recent immigrants, and overseeing the community garden. Currently living in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, she is the primary caregiver for her mother, practices spiritual direction and serves as provincial councilor.\nLooking back, my fondest memories of New Year's celebrations are good times shared with friends.\nLife with the Assumption Sisters, an international congregation, among sisters from four continents has added various cultural expressions to more familiar traditions. Living in authentic community has enabled us to weave this diversity into beautiful liturgical expressions of our religious and very human lives.\nIn the soft glow and crackling sounds of a fire, we come as sisters to recall with gratitude what we have lived together and to ask blessings on all that will be. This contemplative reading of our year begins with listening to the names, faithfully compiled in our book of visitors, of those who have come through our door, enriching our lives. Names trigger stories, relived in the telling and seen now from one another's perspective.\nGradually, the narrative shifts, becoming more personal: the death of a parent, renewal of vows, birth of a grandchild, conflicts in relationships. The telling of our stories in the context of community allows for an encounter with self \u2014 and with others \u2014 that reveals difficult truths. Trusting community, moving into this vulnerable place, ultimately brings ever deeper joy and strengthens bonds among us.\nThe warrior strength to engage on this level is rooted in the commitment to live genuine community. The Spirit accepts the threads we offer \u2014 frayed, fragile, brittle, broken \u2014 drawn from the everyday, from lives shared over time; from these, she weaves a complex pattern. The strength and resiliency of this fabric, lifted to our God and offered to the world, surprises even us! This manner of living creates a safe space where, in moments that become sacred, deep sharing can happen. It is by then extending this space to those who come that widens the circles in which we live.\nVoices become quiet as we move into the stillness of our chapel. Candlelight illuminates the Blessed Sacrament, directing our gaze. We come to witness the passing of one year into the next, to give thanks for what has been and for all that will be. Vocal prayers are brief. We listen as the names of our sisters who have gone to God this past year are read. We name our fears and articulate our dreams for our world, for our people, and for each other. In silence, we linger, to simply be together in the presence of the One who has called us.\nRead more in Global Sisters Report's The Life series.\nThis story appears in the The Life feature series. View the full series.\nWe all are called to community\nUSCCB official: The church must admit its role in destroying Native American culture\nBasketball sisters head out on different paths, wind up on same journey 40 years later\nLCWR leaders talk about unprecedented transformation of religious life\nPassing the torch with joy\nByMargaret Cessna\nDon't focus on being 'the only one'\nByJane Marie Bradish\nQ & A with Sr. Maria Gracia, training students for India's annual cultural festival\nByThomas Scaria\n'He is the only hope we have': South Sudan's religious, refugees pray papal visit will restore peace\nByDoreen Ajiambo\nSubscribe to GSR's Free Newsletters\nGlobal Sisters Report: Latest news and columns (a few times a week)\nHorizons: Young sisters speak (sent each Friday)\nNotes from the Field (sent each Wednesday)\nGSR in the Classroom (sent occasionally)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"11595-LO\nInformatics and Information Technologies\nTeach courses and conduct research in area of specialization.\nThree to five months\nGrants must begin in either September 2021 or February 2022.\nSlovak Technical University Bratislava, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies,\nUniversity of Zilina, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies\nTechnical University Kosice, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics\nArtificial intelligence ( machine learning, deep learning, data analysis, natural language processing, computer vision, bio-inspired computing)\nInformation and cyber security (blockchain, web systems security, IoT security, user trust and privacy, behavioral biometric)\nSoftware engineering (software comprehension and quality, software reuse, automated testing. software visualization)\nComputer networks (Internet of Things, mobile networks, content delivery, QoS management|\nAll teaching will be in English, the scholar can discuss expectations with the host.\nFor research grant activity, language fluency sufficient to complete the research project. Feasibility of conducting research must be demonstrated in the project statement.\nSlovak University of Technology in Bratislava\nFor more information contact the Fulbright Commission at office@fulbright.sk\nAssistant professor or professional equivalent: $ 2,800 per month\nAssociate\/full professor or professional equivalent: $ 3,000 per month\nHousing allowance is $ 900 per month for a single grantee, $ 950 per month for grantees with one accompanying dependent and $ 1,000 per month for grantees with two or more accompanying dependents.\nAdditional maintenance allowance of $ 200 per month for one accompanying dependent and $ 300 per month for two or more dependents.\nDependents must remain in the country for 80% of the grant period to qualify for the allowances.\n$2,500 travel grant for grantee.\nDependent travel allowance of $ 500 for one dependent and $ 1,000 for two or more dependents.\n$ 500 professional allowance\nBased on the candidate's permanent residency in the U.S., an allowance of up to $ 1,500 will be provided for obtaining a Slovak national visa.\nThe Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program to the Slovak Republic offers up to four teaching and teaching\/research grants and one research grant.\nThe Slovak Republic is the official name, but this geographical center of Europe is commonly known as Slovakia. The country has a rich European history and traditions, beautiful nature, high-quality culture and wonderful people. The Slovak Republic is a market-driven economy and its development is among the most successful of all Central European countries. It is fully integrated into the European Union, European Monetary System and its stable economy attracts foreign investors. The higher education and research system is integrated into the European Education and Research Area. There are over 23 public and more than 10 private universities and colleges. The academic year is from mid-September through mid-June (spring semester usually begins in February). The semester is usually 13 weeks long, followed by an exam period.\nApplications are welcomed in all disciplines, but preference may be given to applicants who will assist with curriculum and program development at their host institutions. The scholars can teach independently, co-teach and they are invited to give guest lectures or participate in seminars. If a candidate prefers combining teaching with research, the division of time can be discussed with host institution. Assistance with supervising student theses and dissertations is welcomed. Language of instruction will be English; the applicant can discuss expectations with the host institution. Applicants should be actively involved in the academic and research life at their U.S. institutions. They can also build potentional linkages for future cooperation both on the student and faculty level. Applicants who do not have extensive academic or professional experience in the Slovak Republic will be given preference. Affiliations are possible at a variety of academic and research institutions. Opportunities also exist for collaboration with public officials and professionals at other institutions. Double affiliations may be requested. An invitation letter is desirable, but the Commission can help arrange an appropriate placement.\nApplicants are encouraged to view the Fulbright Commission's website for current information on programs and information on living in the Slovak Republic, and also Slovakia country information on the EU Portal at https:\/\/europa.eu\/european-union\/about-eu\/countries\/member-countries\/slo....\nOutreach and Recruitment Officer\nAll Disciplines (Research)\nConduct research in any area of specialization.\nAll Disciplines (Teaching or Teaching\/Research)\nTeach undergraduate and graduate courses. Assistance with theses and dissertations of the students. Assist with curriculum and program development, as requested.\nOpportunities to conduct research. If teaching\/research combination is preferred, the division of time can be discussed with...\nTeach undergraduate and graduate courses, give guest lectures, provide assistance with supervising theses and dissertations of PhD students.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3\u00b0 86\n87 ensure\n87 entrusted\n87 possible\n86 3\u00b0\n86 determined\n85 college\n85 means\n1   1,   0,    0,   0, 6   |      respect of particular laws; ~3\u00b0 all penal laws enacted by\n2   1,   0,    6,   1, 112 |      return to the latin Church; ~3\u00b0 the children of those mentioned\n3   1,   0,    6,   2, 119 |         tie with a casting vote; ~3\u00b0 that which affects all as\n4   1,   0,    9,   1, 171 |        one lacking active voice; ~3\u00b0 one who is excommunicated,\n5   1,   0,    9,   1, 175 |          has not been fulfilled; ~3\u00b0 the election has been held,\n6   1,   0,    9,   2, 194 |       communion with the Church; ~3\u00b0 a cleric who has attempted\n7   1,   0,   10,   0, 199 |          by apostolic privilege; ~3\u00b0 rights and obligations which\n8   2,   1,    3,   2, 269 |           behaviour and studies; ~3\u00b0 the cleric declares in writing\n9   2,   1,    3,   3, 276 |           daily in the offering; ~3\u00b0 priests, and deacons aspiring\n10   2,   1,    3,   4, 290 |      dismissal lawfully imposed; ~3\u00b0 by a rescript of the Apostolic\n11   2,   1,    5,   2, 312 |     throughout the whole nation; ~3\u00b0 the diocesan Bishop, each\n12   2,   2,    0,   2, 344 |           appoint other members; ~3\u00b0 at a suitable time before\n13   2,   2,    0,   5, 364 |           of their lawful power; ~3\u00b0 to foster close relations\n14   2,   2,    1,   2, 378 |          be held in good esteem; ~3\u00b0 be at least 35 years old; ~\n15   2,   2,    2,   2, 436 |         Bishop has neglected it; ~3\u00b0 to appoint a diocesan Administrator\n16   2,   2,    2,   3, 441 |      celebration of the council; ~3\u00b0 to elect from among the\n17   2,   2,    2,   3, 442 |          the provincial council; ~3\u00b0 to determine the order of\n18   2,   2,    2,   3, 443 |  coadjutor and auxiliary Bishops ~3\u00b0 other titular Bishops who\n19   2,   2,    2,   3, 443 |         centre in the territory; ~3\u00b0 the rectors of ecclesiastical\n20   2,   2,    3,   1, 463 |           and the judicial Vicar ~3\u00b0 the canons of the cathedral\n21   2,   2,    3,   2, 484 |          the month and the year; ~3\u00b0 while observing all that\n22   2,   2,    3,   3, 497 |         of the office they hold; ~3\u00b0 the diocesan Bishop may\n23   2,   2,    3,   6, 530 |  accordance with can. 883, n. 3; ~3\u00b0 the administration of Viaticum\n24   2,   2,    3,   6, 542 |           with cann. 522 and 524; 3\u00b0 obtain the pastoral care\n25   2,   2,    3,   6, 543 |        accordance with can. 534. ~3\u00b0 [2 ]in juridical affairs,\n26   2,   2,    3,   7, 555 |      their obligations carefully ~3\u00b0 to ensure that religious\n27   2,   3,    2,   1, 611 |         attached to the consent; ~3\u00b0 for clerical religious institutes\n28   2,   3,    2,   3, 643 |        while the marriage lasts; ~3\u00b0 one who is currently bound\n29   2,   3,    2,   3, 656 |           has been made validly; ~3\u00b0 that admission has been\n30   2,   3,    2,   6, 697 |           at least fifteen days; ~3\u00b0 if this latter warning is\n31   2,   3,    2,   7, 706 |        later, he acquires fully; ~3\u00b0 in both cases any goods\n32   2,   3,    3,   0, 721 |       society of apostolic life; ~3\u00b0 a spouse, while the marriage\n33   3,   0,    1,   2, 777 |      appropriate period of time; ~3\u00b0 children, after they have\n34   3,   0,    2,   0, 791 |    Pontifical Missionary Works'; ~3\u00b0 a day for the missions is\n35   3,   0,    5,   0, 833 |         the dignity of Cardinal; ~3\u00b0 in the presence of a delegate\n36   4,   1,    1,   4, 874 |         an exception to be made; ~3\u00b0 be a catholic who has been\n37   4,   1,    2,   2, 883 |        with the catholic Church; ~3\u00b0 in respect of those in danger\n38   4,   1,    6,   2, 1041|      apostasy, heresy or schism; ~3\u00b0 one who has attempted marriage,\n39   4,   1,    6,   2, 1042|      account, he has been freed; ~3\u00b0 a neophyte, unless, in the\n40   4,   1,    6,   2, 1044|         if the offence is public ~3\u00b0 one who committed any of\n41   4,   1,    6,   2, 1047|    mentioned in can. 1041, n. 4; ~3\u00b0 the impediment mentioned\n42   4,   1,    6,   2, 1050|       reception of the diaconate ~3\u00b0 for those to be promoted\n43   4,   1,    7,   1, 1063|  obligations of their new state; ~3\u00b0 by the fruitful celebration\n44   4,   1,    7,   1, 1071|           in accordance with it; ~3\u00b0 a marriage of a person for\n45   4,   1,    7,   4, 1095|     mutually given and accepted; ~3\u00b0 those who, because of causes\n46   4,   1,    7,   6, 1125| obligation of the catholic party ~3\u00b0 both parties are to be instructed\n47   4,   2,    3,   2, 1184|        their bodies be cremated; ~3\u00b0 other manifest sinners to\n48   4,   2,    5,   1, 1196|        the institute or society; ~3\u00b0 those to whom the faculty\n49   4,   2,    5,   2, 1202|          hinders a greater good; ~3\u00b0 if the purpose or the condition\n50   5,   0,    2,   0, 1283|         be certified as correct; ~3\u00b0 one copy of this inventory\n51   5,   0,    2,   0, 1284|          are valid in civil law; ~3\u00b0 observe the provisions of\n52   6,   1,    3,   0, 1323|          equivalent to ignorance ~3\u00b0 acted under physical force,\n53   6,   1,    3,   0, 1324|   disturbance of a similar kind; ~3\u00b0 one who acted in the heat\n54   6,   1,    3,   0, 1326|         order to commit a crime; ~3\u00b0 an offender who, after a\n55   6,   1,    4,   1, 1331|         receive the sacraments ; ~3\u00b0 to exercise any ecclesiastical\n56   6,   1,    4,   1, 1331|            1, n.3, are unlawful; ~3\u00b0 is forbidden to benefit\n57   6,   1,    4,   1, 1333|         the power of governance; ~3\u00b0 the exercise of all or some\n58   6,   1,    4,   1, 1333|        have by virtue of office; ~3\u00b0 the right to administer\n59   6,   1,    4,   2, 1336|          merely honorary nature; ~3\u00b0 a prohibition on the exercise\n60   6,   1,    5,   0, 1344|          by the civil authority; ~3\u00b0 may suspend the obligation\n61   6,   1,    6,   0, 1362|   extinguished after five years; ~3\u00b0 offences not punished by\n62   6,   2,    4,   0, 1391|        false oraltered document; ~3\u00b0 a person who, in a public\n63   7,   1,    1,   0, 1405|         of State; ~2\u00b0 Cardinals; ~3\u00b0 Legates of the Apostolic\n64   7,   1,    1,   0, 1405|   institute of pontifical right; ~3\u00b0 dioceses and other ecclesiastical\n65   7,   1,    2,   2, 1438|  designated in a stable fashion; ~3\u00b0 for cases dealt with before\n66   7,   1,    2,   3, 1445|      admit to a new examination; ~3\u00b0 exceptions of suspicion\n67   7,   1,    2,   3, 1445|         competence of tribunals; ~3\u00b0 to promote and approve the\n68   7,   2,    1,   1, 1504|         of the allegations made; ~3\u00b0 be signed by the plaintiff\n69   7,   2,    1,   1, 1505|          stand before the court; ~3\u00b0 the provisions of can. 1504\n70   7,   2,    1,   2, 1512|          the action was brought; ~3\u00b0 the jurisdiction of a delegated\n71   7,   2,    4,   3, 1572|      opinion, rumour or hearsay; ~3\u00b0 whether the witness is constant\n72   7,   2,    5,   1, 1594|          with cann. 1524 - 1525; ~3\u00b0 if the plaintiff should\n73   7,   2,    6,   0, 1600|          subornation is removed; ~3\u00b0 in all cases, whenever it\n74   7,   2,    7,   0, 1611|        these are to be fulfilled ~3\u00b0 set out the reasons or motives,\n75   7,   2,    8,   1, 1620|      which the case was decided; ~3\u00b0 the judge was compelled\n76   7,   2,    8,   1, 1622|        reasons for the decision; ~3\u00b0 it lacks the signatures\n77   7,   2,    8,   2, 1629|       accordance with can. 1625; ~3\u00b0 a judgement which has become\n78   7,   2,    9,   1, 1641|        the canonical time-limit; ~3\u00b0 the trial has been abated\n79   7,   2,    9,   2, 1645|          are undoubtedly proven; ~3\u00b0 the judgement was given\n80   7,   2,   10,   0, 1649|           expenses of witnesses; ~3\u00b0 the granting of free legal\n81   7,   3,    1,   1, 1673|      domicile or quasi-domicile; ~3\u00b0 the tribunal of the place\n82   7,   4,    0,   1, 1718|       bearing in mind Can. 1341; ~3\u00b0 whether a judicial process\n83   7,   4,    0,   2, 1720|          evidence and arguments; ~3\u00b0 if the offence is certainly\n84   7,   5,    0,   0, 1734|          by the Bishop himself ; ~3\u00b0 in having recourse in accordance\n85   7,   5,    0,   1, 1741|           duties satisfactorily; ~3\u00b0 the loss of the parish priest'\n86   7,   5,    0,   1, 1745|     others are to be designated; ~3\u00b0 finally, decide whether","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Your Outside General Counsel\nThe New Jersey Used Car Lemon Law\nThe Hartmann Law Firm LLC\nContact Attorney Thomas Hartmann; 908-731-6976\nThe New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act regulates the sale and warranty of used cars. The portion of the Consumer Fraud Act that deals with used cars is commonly known as the Used Car Lemon Law (\"UCLL\").\nAmong other things, the UCLL makes it a violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act to:\n\u2022 Misrepresent the mechanical condition of a used motor vehicle;\n\u2022 Fail to disclose, prior to sale, any material defect in the mechanical condition of the used car;\n\u2022 Represent that a used motor vehicle or any component is free from material defects in mechanical condition at the time of sale, unless the dealer has a reasonable basis for such a representation when it is made;\n\u2022 Misrepresent the terms of any warranty, service contract or repair insurance offered by the dealer in connection with the sale of the used motor vehicle;\n\u2022 Fail to disclose or to misrepresent the terms of existing warranties on the used vehicle;\n\u2022 Fail to disclose, prior to sale, that a used car is sold without warranty; or\n\u2022 Fail to provide a clear written explanation, prior to sale, of what it means to sell a car \"as is.\"\nThe UCLL also mandates minimum warranties for certain vehicles. If the consumer pays more than $3000 for a car that is less than seven years old with fewer than 100,000 miles, the written warranty must have at least the following durations: 24,000 miles or less, a warranty of 90 days or 3000 miles, whichever comes first; 24,000 but less than 60,000 miles, a warranty of 60 days or 2000 miles, whichever comes first; and between 60,000 and 100,000 miles, a warranty of 30 days or 1000 miles, whichever comes first. A consumer can waive these warranties, but only in writing.\nIf during the warranty period the dealer fails to correct a material defect in a used car after the dealer has a reasonable opportunity to repair it, the dealer must repurchase the used vehicle for the full purchase price less certain taxes and allowances. The law presumes that a used car dealer has had a reasonable opportunity to repair the material defect if:\n\u2022 The same material defect persists after three or more visits to the dealer within the warranty period; or\n\u2022 The used car is out of service 20 or more days during the warranty period while waiting for the dealer to repair the material defect.\nA written warranty is extended for any period during which the consumer is waiting for the dealer to complete repairs of a material defect.\nThe Consumer Fraud Act is an extremely powerful tool. Among other things, successful consumer can recover triple damages and attorney fees. Business owners, including auto dealers, and consumers should be aware of the law so that they can buy and sell products effectively and fairly.\n56 Ellison Rd\nLearn More About The Hartmann Law Firm LLC\nWhat My Clients are Saying About Me\nCommercial Litigation Newsletter\nAt the Watchung office of The Hartmann Law Firm LLC, attorney Tom Hartmann represents clients across New Jersey, including Westfield, Plainfield, Berkeley Heights, Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Edison, Piscataway, North Brunswick, East Brunswick, Sayreville, New Brunswick, Union, Elizabeth, Orange, East Orange, Morristown, Livingston, Scotch Plains, Summit, Mountainside, Springfield, Watchung, Union County, Somerset County, Middlesex County and Morris County, New Jersey.\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 by The Hartmann Law Firm LLC. All rights reserved. Disclaimer | Site Map","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"WWE locker room reacts to the upcoming return of Rob Van Dam\nAt WWE Payback, it was announced that Rob Van Dam will return at Money in the Bank on July 14 in the ECW hotbed of Philadelphia. The dynamic highflier was briefly spotted at this year's WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Madison Square Garden, but other than an appearance in the 2009 Royal Rumble Match, Van Dam has not seen action in WWE for six years.\nMore about RVD's return | Watch Van Dam's career highlights\nIn what capacity will Mr. Pay-Per-View participate in Money in the Bank? Will the former WWE Champion attempt to win another Money in the Bank Ladder Match? Will he target another CM Punk or another \"Paul Heyman Guy?\" Or will he simply continue to innovate and entertain as The Whole Dam Show does best? As soon as the news broke, WWE.com spoke with WWE Superstars backstage in Chicago to get their thoughts on what the the game-changing ECW icon's return means for WWE.\nPAUL HEYMAN: The entire WWE Universe is buzzing about the return of a true one-of-a-kind, Rob Van Dam. And no one, I assure you, no one is more exhilarated about the return of RVD than Paul Heyman himself. Because after all, Rob Van Dam is a \"Paul Heyman Guy.\"\nTHE MIZ: One of the greatest highfliers, a Legend in my mind. I remember from ECW to WWE, this guy is action-packed, he is a showstopper, he is must-see. He's not going to take The Miz's spot. I welcome all comers. I've always welcomed anyone that's come back, because the fact is, if people are going to watch them, they're going to stay to watch me. Who knows how much he has left in the tank? I'm curious to see how he does. I'm a huge fan and I look forward to getting in the ring with him.\nVICKIE GUERRERO: My responsibility is making the best opportunities for Monday Night Raw. To have RVD return back to WWE, I am honored to be part of the board that looked at his profile and welcomed him with open arms. RVD and I go back many years to when he was with Eddie. I cannot wait to see him here.\nBRAD MADDOX: Of course I'm not surprised, because I signed him. Or I should say, re-signed the legendary RVD. I specifically told him to wait for Money in the Bank, because I wanted to maximize profitability.\nTITUS O'NEIL: Anything that gets the WWE Universe excited in any way, shape or form, I'm excited about. Because that means more fans in the WWE Universe that will be spending more money to buy Prime Time Players T-shirts. So yeah, I'm excited about RVD coming back. Get your Prime Time Players T-shirt: WWEShop.com.\nDAMIEN SANDOW: I am not threatened by any man whose name is three letters.\nVisit Rob Van Dam's Superstar profile with photos, videos, career milestones and more!\nWWE.com Editorial Staff","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Biology graduate Hermione Taylor is the co-founder of Do Nation, an online platform that allows users to make personal pledges that could help make a difference in the world. We spoke to her about her journey to success, discovering her sporty side, and the advice she would give current students.\nQ: Hermione, how did you come to set up Do Nation?\nI studied Evolutionary Biology at Edinburgh, and after graduation I hopped between jobs. I did everything from weighing dung to schmoozing with government ministers; and from driving buses to organising ski touring adventures! But when I came up with the idea to create Do Nation (along with my co-founder, Martin) in 2010, I knew I had found a career I would love.\nDo Nation is all about encouraging sustainable living. Martin and I are big believers in the power of individual actions to make a big difference, and we're on a mission to help others experience this first hand.\nQ: How does the Do Nation platform work?\nWe've built an online platform where anyone can either make a pledge or run a campaign to raise pledges \u2013 pledges to do simple things like cycling to work, wasting less food, or using reusable coffee cups. People run campaigns on Do Nation for many reasons \u2013 such as raising pledges in support of marathons or as an alternative to wedding gift lists, but the most common use is organisations running campaigns to engage employees, clients and members in sustainability. They can also use powerful team competitions to see which groups can make the most pledges and save the most carbon.\nQ: The platform seems very relevant today - did it catch on quickly?\nIt's not been an easy journey, in fact I was on the verge of shutting it down a year ago. But since then, largely thanks to the massive rise in awareness of plastic pollution and climate action, we've seen growing interest from a great range of organisations \u2013 with clients like Pret a Manger, Siemens, Network Rail, and, of course, the University of Edinburgh coming on board, all using Do Nation to engage their audiences in these simple behavioural changes. This has completely changed the game for us.\nQ: What are your memories of being a student at Edinburgh?\nAs a country girl, Edinburgh's amazing outdoor spaces, ever visible above the city scape, were a huge draw to me. Arthur's Seat came to my rescue many times when my head needed clearing - whether from the effects of the Liquid Rooms or Biometrics 101.\nAt school I'd never been one of the sporty ones, but Edinburgh pulled that side out of me - some of my greatest memories are of walks around Arthur's Seat, morning detours to Pease Bay for a pre-lecture surf, or weekends playing in the snow in the Highlands with the Ski Club. And, of course, throwing shapes at Mother Funk and the Liquid Rooms!\nQ: And do you have any advice for our current students?\nWhen looking for a job, think about the impact you want to create with your career \u2013 and ask potential employers about this. What are their companies goals and policies around social impact? How could you get involved in that? Not only will this help you find a fulfilling career, but it's also the best way to put pressure on businesses to keep doing the right thing. Sustainability is something all employees should be involved in.\nDo Nation and alumni\nThe University is using Hermione's Do Nation platform to encourage alumni across the world to make a Planetary Health commitment. This is an opportunity to contribute to the efforts of our world-leading research by helping us to improve the world.\nEdinburgh Alumni Planetary Health Commitment\nThis article was published on 31 Oct, 2018","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Beer garden at Florida State's homecoming game is a 'must'\nWhen you look at Florida's homecomings games this year, it is clear that they have been nothing short of phenomenal.\nThey have won the last two games and look to be poised for another big season this year.\nBut the beer garden at their new homecoming games at Raymond James Stadium has been an overlooked gem.\nThe Gators' team is taking advantage of the fact that there is not a beer garden in the stadium, but they have added a beer patio at the bottom of the concourse.\nThe beer garden features a bar with a bar that can seat 50 people.\nThat is not enough to feed everyone in attendance, but it is a big draw for fans.\n\"I would definitely recommend it to everybody, but if it's a family or if it is for your friends, I would definitely suggest it,\" said one fan.\n\"That is just a really cool experience to be a part of.\nIt's a great place to eat.\"\nThe Florida Gators opened their new beer garden on Tuesday and have been doing it since their first homecoming victory.\nHere are five things you need to know about the beer patio.\nWhat is a beer park?\nBeer gardens are a new addition to Florida State football's home games, and it is being done on the same schedule as their traditional home games.\nThis is the first time a football stadium has offered a beer pavilion for a home game.\nWhat's the difference between beer gardens and a beer farm?\nBeer garden stands are similar to a farm, but with the addition of beer to help feed the fans.\nThe Florida State beer garden was built with beer in mind, but the fans are not allowed to bring any beer into the park.\nWhat else can you expect at this new beer park at Raymond's James Stadium?\nThe beer gardens have some new amenities to help fans relax.\nThe bar at the top of the stadium has a beer tap.\nThe fans are allowed to walk around and look at their beer gardens, but not touch it.\nThere is also a beer tent that can hold up to 50 people, but you cannot bring in beer into it.\nWhat are some of the other highlights of the new beer gardens?\nThe fans can watch their team's games on television and the beer gardens are open to all fans.\nSome of the food vendors have been brought in to help with the food offerings.\nFlorida State has also added some seating areas for fans to enjoy food and drinks.\nWhat do YOU think about Florida State Beer Garden at Raymonds James Stadium opening?\nWhen you look at Florida's homecomings games this year, it is clear that they have been nothing short of phenomenal.They\u2026\nTags: beer garden, bush garden\nA garden sprayer designed for beginners\n'We will all be there': Nurseries in Canada, UK open to the public in winter","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tayor Fagins, B.A. '17, Wins 1st Place in the American Songwriters Contest\nExcerpt from American Songwriter by Jacob Uitti \"Fagins grew up in southern California and attended the University of California at Irvine, studying drama and musical theater. He moved to New York City for its plethora of stories, diversity and myriad faces, and he now works with two different...\nRoss Jackson Named Artistic Producer for the Geffen Playhouse\nUCI Alumni Ross Jackson will assume the position of Artistic Producer for the Geffen Playhouse, a prominent non-profit theater company in Los Angeles. Jackson, a UCI Drama M.F.A. '15, found his way to Broadway three days after graduation with an internship at Wicked. He has since become a member...\nUCI Drama alumna Julianna Ojeda talks to KPFK about the \"Together LA: A Virtual Stage Festival\"\nFrom Broadway World Los Angeles KPFK's Arts In Review Welcomes L.A. Live Theater Leaders Stephanie Black, Julianna Ojeda, and Grett T. Daniels Over the course of three weekends, thirty-four (34) of ATLA theatre companies will showcase 10-minute works. by BWW News Desk Sep. 25, 2020 \"KPFK...\nAlumni, Connect\nUCI Lighting Designers Reunite\nCOVID-19 has ushered in a new way to connect and reconnect with the people in our lives. One opportunity that faculty and students at UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts have taken advantage of is the connection through Zoom online virtual meetups. The digital platform allows people from all over...\nKristine N. Haag, '06\nCostume design alumna Kristine N. Haag has been nominated for a 2020 Emmy Award. Haag is part of the costume design team nominated for \"Outstanding Contemporary Costumes\" for her work as the Assistant Costume Designer on the Netflix show Grace and Frankie for the episode \"The Tank.\" Her colleagues...\nMeet UCI Drama alumna Andrea Caban\nUCI Drama alum Taylor Fagins produces a powerful message through song\nTaylor Fagins, Department of Drama alum, B.A. '17, recently released a moving piece, \"we need more.\" The song is dedicated to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless others who have died through violence. The project was written and sung by Taylor Fagins, and arranged,...\nMeet Costume Designer Lauryn Terceira\nFeature by Voyage LA Lauryn Terceira, M.F.A. '19, Costume Design Today we'd like to introduce you to Lauryn Terceira. Lauryn, let's start with your story. We'd love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. Though my official job title reads 'Costume Designer,' the work is...\nUCI Alumni in Bay Area Musicals' THE FULL MONTY\nCTSA Alumna, Briel Pomerantz, B.A. '07, will be performing with Bay Area Musicals' first 2020 production, the 10-time Tony Award-nominated musical, The Full Monty. The musical includes a soulful score that will leave the audience awestruck as they witness the journey of a group of maverick men who...\nAn Experimental Stage: Morgan Embry\nWritten by Christine Byrd In the few short months since graduating, Morgan Embry, M.F.A. '19, has criss-crossed the country as a lighting designer for live music concerts. When she has time to spend in one place, it's usually Los Angeles, where she's busy showcasing her immersive art installations...\nAnteaters in the Arts: Maryjo Lang\nHaving admirably contributed to over 300 movie soundscapes, professional Foley mixer and UCI alumna, MaryJo Lang, B.A. Drama, '74, has amplified the creative landscape of Hollywood sound design for over 25 years. Lang was deemed \"a force of nature\" in Foley mixing by Cinema Audio Society president...\nUCI Alum in Bay Area Musicals' GYPSY\nUCI alum Cassie Grilley will play \"Agnes\" in Bay Area Musicals' GYPSY production. A 6-Time Tony Award-winning performance, the musical GYPSY is based on the memoirs of famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee. The story specifically focuses on Lee's mother, Rose, who has been deemed \"the ultimate...\nAnteaters in the Arts: Kelly Perine\n\"Hard work is the best-kept secret in Hollywood!\" That was the advice Kelly Perine (M.F.A. '98) gave to a class of 12 graduate students on a recent visit to his alma mater, the Department of Drama. Perine is no stranger to hard work. Growing up, his innate ability for acting led him to Lake Forest...\nFrom Claire Trevor To Broadway: Justin Keats' Career After Graduation\nBy Lauren Knight A few years after he graduated from UCI's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Justin Keats' phone rang in an audition waiting room in New York City. Preparing to sing at an audition in four minutes for another Broadway musical, Keats saw his agent's name on his screen and did not...\nUC Irvine alum Jon Lovitz returns home\nJon Lovitz goes back to his roots Saturday, Sept. 29, by bringing his stand-up routine to his alma mater, UC Irvine, where the Irvine Barclay Theatre is located. Although this will be his Irvine Barclay debut, the comedian\/actor\/stand-up comic will recognize the surrounding campus. Or not. \"Boy...\nGuilty or not guilty? That is the question as UCI law school deans face off in a mock trial of Hamlet\nZak Houston, MFA 2015, played Hamlet, Shakespeare's fictional Danish prince, during a mock trial presented by UCI Law at the Irvine Barclay Theatre on April 11, 2018.\nCenter Stage with UCI Alum Jacob Ben-Shmuel\nUC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts has trained and molded many rising stars and artists of today, who have taken their talents to live out their dreams. The New University was able to talk with one of these alumni, Jacob Ben-Shmuel. He is currently starring in the touring cast of \"The...\nGrace Morrison (MFA 2016) will play the role of Viola in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night\nPioneer Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, running Friday, March 30 through Saturday, April 14, 2018. Grace Morrison, MFA 2016, plays Viola in her first PTC role. Her favorite regional credits include Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Horatio in Hamlet with New Swan...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"\u00ab back to all\nInnis Maggiore is a 2022 Silver Telly Award winner for its Aultman TV spot\nInnis Maggiore's 2022 Telly Award is its second Silver and 29th overall.\nCANTON, Ohio (July 13, 2022) \u2013 Innis Maggiore, the nation's leading positioning ad agency, today announced it is a 2022 Silver Telly Award winner for a TV commercial it produced for the Aultman Health System, a healthcare provider dedicated to leading its communities to improved health.\nPlacing under the Local TV General-Hospital category, the 30-second commercial, titled \"We've Got You\" emphasizes Aultman's position as the healthcare leader most dedicated to the patient and community. The spot points out that, \"With nearly 130 years in your back yard, Aultman knows you and knows your community better than anyone. We're your neighbors, your friends, your family, and we want you to be the healthiest you can be.\"\nThe concept for the \"We've Got You\" commercial was the outcome of a collaboration of Justin Allen, creative director of web, Scott Edwards, executive creative director, Lee-Ann DeMeo, creative director, Ashley Johnson, senior project manager, Jeff McMahan, senior account supervisor, and the Aultman Marketing Team.\n\"From treating ailments to helping individuals build a healthy lifestyle, Aultman illustrates what it means to support patients not just as a service provider, but as an active member of its community,\" said McMahan. \"Aultman has been an Innis Maggiore client for more than 25 years, so it's all the more exciting to earn it alongside one of our longest-enduring partners.\"\nThis is Innis Maggiore's 29th Telly Award overall and its second Silver, with recent gold and bronze awards on behalf of Smith's Dairy.\nFounded in 1979, the Telly Awards celebrate excellence in video and television advertising across the United States. Telly award winners are chosen from more than 12,000 entries that span from all 50 states as well as five continents. The awards represent the best work from a variety of advertising agencies, television stations, production companies, and publishers. Judging is conducted through the Telly Awards Judging Council, which is comprised of more than 200 experienced members of the industry who have proven their abilities by receiving their own Telly Awards.\nInnis Maggiore Group is recognized as America's leading positioning ad agency, building strong brand positions for companies in competitive markets. The full-service integrated agency had 2021 capitalized billings of more than $25 million. Some of its key clients include: Aultman Hospital, AultCare, Babcock & Wilcox, Baird Brothers Fine Hardwoods, BellStores, Center for Health Affairs, Encino Energy, FSBO.com, GOJO Industries (Purell), KFC\/Kendall House, Kobre & Kim, MID'S True Sicilian Pasta Sauce, Midwest Industrial Supply, Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA), SmithFoods, and Young Trucks.\nJim Cyphert\nInnis Maggiore\nEmail: jim.cyphert@innismaggiore.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Category: Performance\nPhizzical Productions today release the official music video for Robby Khela's Unashamed, a part of the original soundtrack for their stage musical thriller Stardust. The release of the track coincides with the first anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India.\nStardust Cast & Creatives Announcement\nTo mark Phizzical's 15th anniversary, a stellar cast and creative team will create the world premiere of a brand-new musical thriller by Shahid Iqbal Khan and Samir Bhamra. The cast includes Robby Khela, Amanda Clapham, Christoph Dorocant, Sophie Kandola, Nataylia Roni and Aizaac Sidhu. The creative team includes Richard Evans (set design), Grant Anderson (lighting design), Dr Leena Patel (choreography), Robby Khela (lyrics) and Devesh Sodha (music production).\nFeaturing pulsating dance numbers and moving melodious ballads, STARDUST is a romantic, pop, R&B and Bollywood musical thriller from the makers of Bring on the Bollywood.\nSaturday 14 \u2013 Saturday 21 September 2019\nEKA at The Place\nEKA featuring Anaya Vasudha at The Place during Resolution Festival.\nSaturday 16 February 2019, 7.30pm\nThe Place, London","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"James Ramos wins 40th Assembly District race\nJames Ramos, candidate for the 40th Assembly district, smiles during a conversation at his election night party at the San Manuel Community Center in Highland on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. (John Valenzuela\/ Contributing Photographer)\nBy Sandra Emerson | semerson@scng.com |\nPUBLISHED: November 6, 2018 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: November 7, 2018 at 10:23 a.m.\nThe 40th Assembly District has turned blue.\nOn Tuesday, Nov. 6, voters decided to send Democrat James Ramos to Sacramento, according to final unofficial election results posted early Wednesday by the registrar's office.\nRamos led Republican Henry Nickel by 14 percentage points, gaining 44,206 votes, or 57.23 percent, with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Nickel won 33,038 votes, or 42.77 percent.\nRamos, 3rd District San Bernardino County supervisor, and Nickel, San Bernardino councilman, are vying for a seat that came open in March after Assemblyman Marc Steinorth, R-Rancho Cucamonga, announced he would not seek re-election, leaving the district vulnerable to a party flip for the first time in a decade.\nSteinorth instead ran for Rancho Cucamonga City Council. He had a narrow lead over Ryan Hutchison in the city's third district as of Wednesday morning.\nRamos took the lead with early returns and hung on to that lead into the evening.\nRegistration favors Democrats in the district, which includes all or parts of San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Loma Linda, Highland and communities in the San Gabriel Mountains.\nJames Ramos, State Assembly candidate for the 40th District, smiles during a conversation at his Election night party at the San Manuel Community Center in Highland Tuesday, November 6, 2018. (John Valenzuela\/ Contributing Photographer)\nJames Ramos, State Assembly candidate for the 40th District, checks early polling numbers, during his Election night party at the San Manuel Community Center in Highland Tuesday, November 6, 2018. (John Valenzuela\/ Contributing Photographer)\nJames Ramos, State Assembly candidate for the 40th District, checks early polling numbers on his phone, during his Election night party at the San Manuel Community Center in Highland Tuesday, November 6, 2018. (John Valenzuela\/ Contributing Photographer)\nHenry Nickel, Republican candidate in 40th Assembly District, foreground from left, along with staffers for Sean Flynn, Republican candidate in the 31st Congressional District, Luis Cervantes, Gina MacIsaac and Miranda Roop react to election results at Celebrities Sports Bar in San Bernardino on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. Both candidates trailed in early election results. Nickel runs against James Ramos, Democrat. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise\/SCNG)\nHenry Nickel, Republican candidate in 40th Assembly District, thanks supporters at Celebrities Sports Bar in San Bernardino, Calif. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. He trailed in early election results against James Ramos, Democrat. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise\/SCNG)\nAs of Sept. 7, about 41 percent of the electorate was registered Democrat, while nearly 31 percent were with the GOP.\nNickel won the June primary, but it was a three-way vote and 54 percent of the ballots cast went to Democrats, including Ramos.\nThose results put the Assembly seat on the radar of state Democrats and others, helping Ramos raise nearly $2.5 million compared with Nickel's $310,000.\nBoth candidates have experience in regional politics. Nickel was elected to represent the fifth ward on the San Bernardino City Council in 2014, two years after the city declared bankruptcy. He was re-elected to a four-year term in 2015.\nRamos, former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, was elected in 2012 to represent the third supervisorial district, which includes Colton, Grand Terrace, Redlands, Yucaipa, Highland, San Bernardino, Big Bear Lake, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms and Barstow. He was re-elected in 2016.\nIf either is elected, they will leave behind vacant seats that would need to be filled.\nNickel, who was born in San Bernardino, has nearly 20 years experience in government, finance and business.\nHe said it's important to have checks and balances in Sacramento, where Democrats hold a majority. He supports repeal of the state's controversial gas tax, an idea that's on the ballot as Prop 6. As a City Councilman, Nickel touted his work with fellow members in helping to guide the city out of bankruptcy. He also holds regular community meetings to discuss upcoming City Council agendas.\nAs a county supervisor, Ramos has highlighted his work balancing the county's $5 billion budget, addressing the county's homeless population \u2014 including homeless veterans and youth \u2014 and his support for public safety.\nRamos is the first Native American to be elected to the Board of Supervisors as well as the San Bernardino Community College Board of Trustees. He will be the first California Native American to serve on the state legislature.\nBoth candidates say they want to bring local issues to the forefront in Sacramento and work across the aisle.\nSandra Emerson | Reporter\nSandra Emerson covers San Bernardino County government and politics for the Southern California News Group.\nsemerson@scng.com\nFollow Sandra Emerson\t@ReporterSandraE","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"SED s no bid contract rejected\nSED's no-bid contract rejected\nAuthor: Sylvia Saunders\nState Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has nixed a $27 million no-bid deal that would have given publisher Rupert Murdoch's company the lucrative state contract for crunching student test data.\nNYSUT raised serious concerns during the comptroller's review process, resulting in the contract being rejected. NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi and others pointed out that the publishing billionaire is embroiled in charges of privacy violations and phone hacking in England. NYSUT first raised concerns with a press release in early June after the New York Daily News reported the contract was being awarded outside the normal bidding process and just weeks after News Corp. brought former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on board.\nIn a letter to Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and State Education Commissioner John King, NYSUT noted that many other vendors were interested in working on the initiative.\n\"We believe the normal procedures should be used to identify a vendor in an open and transparent way that will help to regain the confidence of parents and educators,\" the letter said.\nThe $27 mililion contract called for Wireless Generation to build an \"Education Data Portal\" that would enable schools and teachers to track and use student test scores. The data system is part of the state's federally funded Race to the Top (RTTT) reform plan.\nNew York's RTTT application said a pilot data program would be in place by this school year to begin collecting information in some of the state's school districts; the system was scheduled for wide release in Oct. 2012. By 2013-14, the portal was to serve 90 percent of the state.\nAn SED spokesman said the agency is reviewing its options to move forward on the data system. Wireless Generation has not said if the company will reapply.\nNYSUT remains committed to ensuring New York has a secure system that would benefit students and schools.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"$2.4M sewer grant 'perfect timing' for Delhi Township\nWill Kangas\nwkangas@lsj.com\nHOLT \u2013 Facing a permit requirement that demands a complete analysis of all 126 miles of its sewer system, a $2.4 million dollar grant has \"come to the rescue\" in Delhi Township.\n\"It literally came to us by chance,\" said Sandra Diorka, Delhi Township Director of Public Services. The grantors use a hat and pull out names every year to determine who gets it.\"\nThe grant is from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and is distributed to municipalities that have been placed on a list to receive them.\nIt's called a SAW grant, or Stormwater, Asset Management, and Wastewater grant.\nThe township is required to match the $2 million grant with $444,000, Diorka said. But that funding can be offset by the cost of work that has already been done on the sewer audit by the township.\n\"We knew we were going to have to do this because our permit to operate by the MDEQ requires it to be done by the year 2017,\" Diorka said. \"So we have already been working on it and that work can be written off towards the match amount.\"\nDiorka said a majority of the funding will go towards the audit, which includes testing and evaluating every piece of the system to produce a schedule of replacement and ease the ability to compute sewer rate increases.\n\"We will be able to pinpoint where our needs are and how much it will cost going forward,\" she said. The township already monitors its system with cameras but a comprehensive study will determine future needs.\nAlso, the design costs for replacement of service buildings throughout the township is included. The funding will go towards the design costs for fixing a handful of township needs that had already been listed on its capital improvement plan.\nNeeds include new lift stations in various areas around the township and fixing a troublesome sewer main on Eifert Road that caused a sinkhole last year.\nShe said the job should be done within three years. She said about $275,000 of the funding will go towards the cost of developing a stormwater plan for the township.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"NSP and NSAA re-sign Joint Statement of Understanding\nThe NSP and the NSAA re-signed an agreement outlining how NSP patrols will function under ski area management. This includes the legal responsibilities of each party, and an understanding of accident investigation, chairlift evacuation and training.\nAlli Noland - Terra PR\nThe National Ski Patrol (NSP) and the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) have re-signed the Joint Statement of Understanding (JSOU) between the two organizations. The JSOU outlines the positions of ski area management and local NSP patrols, and was previously signed in 2008.\n\"The JSOU is a valuable paper that outlines how NSP patrols function under ski area management,\" said NSP Executive Director Tim White. \"NSP provides the training to patrollers, but patrol operations are governed by ski area managers.\"\nIn addition to patrol management, the JSOU outlines understandings regarding accident investigation, chairlift evacuation, and training requirements. It also has basics regarding legal responsibility for patrolling and ski area operations.\n\"Safety has always been a paramount concern for ski area operators, and the level of professionalism patrollers bring to their jobs day in and day out is vital to the overall success of the industry,\" said NSAA President Michael Berry.\nNational Ski Patrol Website: http:\/\/www.nsp.org\/\nNational Ski Patrol Facebook:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NationalSkiPatrol\nNational Ski Patrol Twitter: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/NatlSkiPatrol\nNational Ski Areas Association Website: http:\/\/www.nsaa.org\/nsaa\/home\/\nOnline Press Release:http:\/\/pitch.pe\/180301\nAbout the National Ski Patrol\nThe National Ski Patrol is a federally-chartered nonprofit membership association dedicated to serving the public and the mountain recreation industry. For 73 years, the NSP has been at the forefront of safety and emergency care education programs. The association's 28,000 members represent 98 percent of the nation's patrollers. For more information, access www.nsp.org.\nNSP and U.S. Forest Service sign Memorandum of Understanding\nThe National Ski Patrol (NSP) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that documents mutual benefits and interests between the two organizations in improving public awareness of safety issues with winter recreation in backcountry ...read more\nBy Alli Noland\nNSP Releases Outdoor Emergency Care - 5th Edition\nThe National Ski Patrol's (NSP) new emergency medical care textbook, Outdoor Emergency Care Fifth Edition, has had a very successful release with their partner, Brady Publishing. Since the text came out in May 2011, over 11,000 copies have been bought by patrollers and other ...read more\nBy Alli Noland - Terra PR\nNSP statement on death of Wolf Creek Patrol Director Scott Kay\nLakewood, Colo. \u2013 On November 22, 2010, Wolf Creek Ski Patrol Director Scott Kay died in an inbounds avalanche while doing control work to make the mountain safe for the public. \"We are deeply saddened by the loss of Patroller Scott Kay,\" said NSP Executive Director Tim White. ...read more\nBy Candace Horgan\nNSP Debuts New Recruitment Video\nAs part of the visibility campaign to encourage recruitment, monetary support, and recognition for the 75th anniversary of the National Ski Patrol (NSP) in 2013, the NSP has developed a video extolling the virtues of working as a ski patroller. Professionally produced by Epic ...read more\nNSP announces revitalized Safety Team\nThe National Ski Patrol (NSP) has announced a new, revitalized Safety Team. NSP would like to welcome the new members of the NSP Safety Team, Mike Husar, Brett Henyon, Shauna Bocksch, Patrick Cruver, and Sal Mascarenas, as well as returning members Mike Petrozzi, Lonny Whitcomb, ...read more\nNSP hires Melanie Hood as Director of Marketing and Development\nThe National Ski Patrol (NSP) has hired Melanie Hood as its new director of marketing and development. Hood will begin her new duties on April 15 at the NSP's office in Lakewood, Colo. \"I am very pleased to announce that Melanie Hood will be our new marketing and events ...read more\nNew NSP board members take office\nLakewood, Colo. \u2013 On January 8, 2011, two new members accepted their election to the National Ski Patrol (NSP) board of directors. A new board chair was also elected. The new board members were elected by a vote of the NSP membership, while the new board chair was elected by ...read more\nBy NSP Communications Director Candace Horgan\nNational Ski Patrol Partners with Terra Public Relations for Communica\nThe National Ski Patrol (NSP) has retained Terra Public Relations to handle its public relations efforts. Effective July 1, Terra PR will conduct media outreach, provide strategic PR planning, promote the NSP's upcoming 75th anniversary and fundraising efforts, and showcase the ...read more\nNational Ski Patrol Stands By Fallen Patroller\nThe National Ski Patrol stands behind its own, especially in times of need. On March 24, 2012, Sally Francklyn, who patrolled at Copper Mountain for 10 years and then worked as a ski magazine writer and public relations manager, fell skiing outside Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, ...read more","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Distance between L\u00e9vis QC and Hemmingford QC\nThe distance from L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford is 303 kilometers by road including 287 kilometers on motorways. Road takes approximately 3 hours and 7 minutes and goes through Drummondville, Longueuil, Saint-Michel, Charny, Saint-Nicolas (Berni\u00e8res Ouest), Saint-Apollinaire and Laurier-Station.\nL\u00e9vis 0 km 0:00 00 min 0.0 L\nCharny 17 km 0:11 11 min 0.6 L\nSaint-Apollinaire 35 km 0:21 21 min 2.4 L\nLaurier-Station 48 km 0:29 29 min 3.4 L\nSaint-Bruno-de-Montarville 235 km 2:22 2 h 22 min 18.7 L\nHemmingford 303 km 3:07 3 h 07 min 24.0 L\nBrossard 246 km 2:29 2 h 29 min 19.5 L\nHow much does it cost to drive from L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford?\nHow long is a car ride from L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford?\nHow far is L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford by land?\nThe distance between L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford is 303 km by road including 287 km on motorways.\nPrecise satellite coordinates of highways were used for this calculation. The start and finish points are the centers of L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford respectively.\nHow far is L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford by plane?\nThe shortest distance (air line, as the crow flies) between L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford is 269 km.\nThis distance is calculated using the Haversine formula as a great-circle distance between two points on the surface of a sphere. The start and finish points are the centers of L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford respectively. Actual distance between airports may be different.\nHow many hours is L\u00e9vis from Hemmingford by plane?\nSmall plane \"Cessna 172\" needs 1 h 13 min to flight this distance at average speed of 220 km\/h.\nHow long is a helicopter ride from L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford?\nFast helicopter \"Eurocopter AS350\" or \"Hughes OH-6 Cayuse\" need 1 h 7 min to cover the distance of 269 km at a cruising speed of 240 km\/h.\nWhat city is halfway between L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford?\nThe halfway point between L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford is Drummondville. It is located about 2 km from the exact midpoint by road.\nThe distance from Drummondville to L\u00e9vis is 150 km and driving will take about 1 h 30 min. The road between Drummondville and Hemmingford has length 153 km and will take approximately 1 h 36 min.\nSainte-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne-de-Bagot is in 172 km from L\u00e9vis and 131 km from Hemmingford\nSaint-Hyacinthe is in 193 km from L\u00e9vis and 110 km from Hemmingford\nWhere is L\u00e9vis in relation to Hemmingford?\nL\u00e9vis is located 269 km north-east of Hemmingford.\nL\u00e9vis has geographic coordinates: latitude 46.79101, longitude -71.17533.\nHemmingford has geographic coordinates: latitude 45.04744, longitude -73.58632.\nWhich highway goes from L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford?\nThe route from L\u00e9vis to Hemmingford follows 20.\nThe distance between L\u00e9vis and Hemmingford is ranked 1,365th in the ranking popularity.\n\u00a9 DriveBestWay.com: distance calculator, calculator of distance between two points, fuel cost calculator, route calculator.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ World \/ Woman Released From Hospital After Rhode Island Beach Blast\nWoman Released From Hospital After Rhode Island Beach Blast\nA woman injured in an apparent explosion at a Rhode Island beach has been released from the hospital. Witnesses said the woman, who has been identified as 60 year-old Kathleen Danise, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was launched onto rocks during an apparent explosion at the Salty Brine beach in Narragansett Saturday morning.\nDanise recalls reading a book before the blast. \"We watched a gentleman get ready to go scuba diving. He was putting on his scuba diving gear, and that's the last thing I remember,\" she said in an interview Sunday.\nDanise was hospitalized with a concussion, two broken ribs and bruises, but was later released.\nOne beachgoer, Michele Martin, said the injured woman \"went five feet up in the air\" and \"landed on her face.\"\"She was in shock, couldn't talk at all,\" Martin said.\nCourtesy David Di Filippo\nPHOTO: Beachgoer David Di Filippo took this photo shortly after the mysterious explosion on Salty Brine State Beach in Rhode Island on Saturday, July 11, 2015.\nWhile several beachgoers said they smelled gas after the explosion, a spokesman for National Grid, which manages gas and electric in the area, said there are no gas lines along the beach.\nSalty Brine State Beach. On-site investigation compete & no reason to believe there are an public safety concerns related to incident.\n\u2014 Rhode Island DEM (@RhodeIslandDEM) July 12, 2015\nOfficials have not said what caused the explosion, but stressed Saturday that there was no indication of a device or malicious intent.\nDavid Di Filippo described hearing a crash and booming noise when it happened.\n\"It felt like something that was seismic or metaphysical,\" he said. \"I thought it was a small craft that struck the jetty.\"\n@BrianL423\/Twitter\nPHOTO: Police cordon off an area of Salty Brine Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island, as the bomb squad arrives to investigate a possible explosion on July 11, 2015.\nHis 12-year-old son Dante said he heard someone yell bomb and called the scene on the beach \"chaotic.\"\nBut the pair wasn't afraid to return to the beach today when the sand reopened.\n\"It's our regular spot,\" David Di Filippo said. \"It's a beautiful day.\"\n@daveyarmon\/Dave Armon\nPHOTO: Officials are now patrolling Roger Wheeler Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island after a possible explosion half a mile away at Salty Brine Beach on July 11, 2015.\nDanise called the beach her \"favorite location\" and said she had been vacationing there for 30 years. She says she's not going back anytime soon.\n\"Until we know what actually happened, no,\" she said.\nSource: ABC News \u2013 Top Stories Woman Released From Hospital After Rhode Island Beach Blast\nFiled Under: World","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Goodwill Guide \u5584\u610f\u901a\u8a33\nDoshisha SGG Joe \u540c\u5fd7\u793e SGG Joe \u306e\u4f1a\nTokyo & Kyoto \u6771\u4eac & \u4eac\u90fd\nLog -in\n\u306e\u52df\u96c6\nMessage from Chancellor\nGuide Policy\nGuided Tour Eastern Area\nGuided Tour Western Area\nGoodwill Guide Doshisha SGG Joe Tokyo & Kyoto Privacy Policy\nOperation Commencement Date: October 1, 2018\nGoodwill Guide Doshisha SGG Joe Tokyo & Kyoto ( \"DSGGJ\" hereafter) wishes to build an environment in which the personal information of inquirers and visitors to Japan is safely stored, used and handled as intened we wish to gain the trust of prospective foreign visitors to Japan, and hopes to continue to provide numerous services that inspire and fulfil the curiosity of each visitor.\nUnder this policy, and in accordance with the DSGGJ philosophy of being honest and fair, DSGGJ has prescribed the following policy regarding the handling of personal information.\n(Definition of Personal Information)\n1. \"Personal information\" in this Policy refers to information relating to an individual that includes a name, address, e-mail address or other description, etc. that could be used to identify a specific individual, or that includes an individual identification code. All obtained information relating to potential visitors to Japan that does not contain information in itself by which a specific individual could be identified, but which could be used to identify a specific individual by collating it with other information, shall be regarded as \"personal information\" within the scope that it can be handled in combination with other information.\n(Compliance with Laws)\n2. When handling personal information, DSGGJ Headquarters shall comply with the obligations set forth in the Act on the Protection of Personal Information, various other laws and regulations relating to the protection of personal information, guidelines published by the Personal Information Protection Commission and related authorities, as well as to this Policy.\n(Use within the Scope of Utilization Purpose)\n3. Except where the prior consent of the individual has been obtained, or where it is permitted by law, DSSGJ Headquarters shall handle personal information only within the scope required to achieve the previously specified purpose of use, and shall take measures to achieve this.\n(Acquisition of Personal Information)\n4. DSGGJ Headquarters shall try to obtain personal information after expressing in advance the items, purpose of use, and contact point for inquiries, etc., of the personal information to be handled, and after obtaining the consent of the individual. In the event that special care-required personal information such as race and creed is included in the personal information, except where permitted by law, DSGGJ Headquarters shall not acquire such personal information without the consent of the individual.\n(Personal Information of Customers Under the Age of 15)\n5. DSGGJ Headquarters shall try to comply with all laws and regulations applicable to the collection, storage, and use of personal information relating to inquirers under the age of 15. In the event of a child having provided personal information to DSSGJ Headquarters without the consent of their parent or guardian, DSGGJ Headquarters ask that a parent or guardian contacts us at the address specified in this Policy.\n(Security Control Action)\n6. DSGGJ Headquarters shall try to keep the content of personal information accurate, complete, and up to date within the scope of the purpose of use, shall take the necessary and appropriate secure management measures in accordance with technological standards at that point in time in order to prevent unauthorized access, leakage, tampering, loss, or damage, etc., and shall make corrections as necessary.\nDSGGJ Headquarters shall delete all personal information which may identify individual person within six months after obtaining inquiries or offering DSGGJ services for free independent tourists. This policy does not apply to those who give DSGGJ Headquarters consents to keep their information to list their names on the DSGGJ website, or who belong to institutions, companies, organization or like.\n(Third Party Provision)\n7. Except where permitted by law, DSGGJ Headquarters shall not provide personal information to a third party without obtaining the consent of the individual.\nIf personal information is provided to a third party, and a legal obligation to create records arises at the time of such third party provision, DSGGJ Headquarters shall comply with this.\n(Strengthening of Systems, Training, Etc.)\n8. To ensure the appropriate handling of personal information, DSGGJ Headquarters shall try to continually strengthen and improve internal systems, including reviewing this Policy, by appointing a manager for personal information, establishing internal regulations, training officers and members of DSGGJ, and implementing the appropriate internal audits, etc.\n*DSGGJ Headquarters shall comply with the Privacy Policy above as its policy for the protection of personal information.\n-Who we are\n-Message From Chancellor\n-Profile\n-Activities\n-Guided Tour Eastern Area\n-Guided Tour Western Area\n<GALLERY>\n-Tokyo\n-Festivals in Tokyo\n-Nara\n-Osaka\n-Kyoto\n-Activities in Kyoto\n-Kobe\n-Takarazuka\n-Himeji\nCopyright(C) DSGGJ All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Nation\/Duterte: PH needs more Ninoys\nDuterte: PH needs more Ninoys\nPraise of DUTERTE A wreath of President Duterte stands at the foot of a statue of the late Sen. Benigno \"Ninoy\" Aquino Jr. on Quezon Avenue in Quezon City on Tuesday, while the nation commemorates the 35th anniversary of the opposition leader who fought against the Marcos dictatorship. Mr. Duterte said that the country needed more citizens with the courage, patriotism and self-sacrifice of Aquino. -GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE\nPresident Duterte said Tuesday that the Philippines needed more citizens with the courage, patriotism and self-sacrifice of the late Senator Benigno & Ninoy & # 39; Aquino Jr. whose death by the bullet of a hired assassin 35 years ago has brought the birth of the freedoms that we enjoy today. \"\nA fierce critic of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and potential rival of the then ailing strong man, Aquino returned to the country of his self-exile in the United States to lead the opposition, but was murdered moments after he stepped out of the plane to him home flew on August 21, 1983.\nHis murder led to widespread and massive protests culminating in the Edsa People Power Revolution in 1986 after the short presidential elections that Marcos had called and brought his widow, Corazon Aquino, to the presidency.\nA commission of inquiry set up by Marcos found a military conspiracy behind the murder and that the alleged Aquino murderer, Rolando Galman, was simply a trap. The Sandiganbayan later sentenced 16 soldiers, including a general, for the murder of Aquino and Galman.\n\"In this age of real and lasting change we need more citizens like him, so that we can steer our country towards a better and better future for all of us,\" Duterte said in his message on Ninoy Aquino Day.\n\"His deep love for the country has inspired a revolution that changed the course of our nation's history and gave birth to the freedoms we enjoy today,\" he said.\nGuidance for leaders\nThe president called upon Filippino's \"to think about the sacrifice of (Aquino) because we honor the courage and patriotism that Ninoy showed during his struggle.\"\n\"May his dedication to his cause serve as a guide for our current leaders in the government as they promote the welfare of our people, especially the oppressed and marginalized,\" he said.\nDuterte praised Aquino against the background of his decision to bury the remains of Marcos on Libingan ng mga Bayani, which he said was legal and made a campaign promise to the dictator's family. He also said that he would resign if the son and namesake of the dictator would replace him.\nAquino's son and the predecessor of Mr. Duterte, Benigno \"Noynoy\" Aquino III, said he was sad that Filipino's still struggled for democracy 35 years after his father's murder.\nManila Memorial Park\nIn his remarks during ceremonies to commemorate the death of his father in the Manila Memorial Park, former president Philippino's urged them to wake up as they did after his father was murdered.\n\"Let's get rid of the thinking of\" Bahala after si Pedro, si Juan & # 39; or anyone, \"Aquino said.\" We must take responsibility for our future. \"\nWhen every citizen has done his part, \"we come closer and closer to where we want to be,\" he said.\nThe situation of the country when Aquino made one of his most famous sayings \u2013 \"The Filipino is worth dying\" \u2013 \"was not much different than today,\" said his nephew, opposition Sen. Bam Aquino.\nThe senator said that many Filipinos had asked him whether they should continue the fight against authoritarian rule.\n\"Many of them are disillusioned and despondent about the state of our country and the apparent lack of courage of the public and government officials.\" Where is the anger over the thousands of deaths and the daily violence in our streets? \"\" Where are the leaders of the country? \" who have sworn to speak for the poor, but are they so quiet and even complicit in the deteriorating situation of our people? \"he said.\nDeclaration by De Lima\nSenate Leila de Lima, who was imprisoned by the Duterte government for alleged drug charges, said that Mr Duterte was \"a dictator who led the country and promoted violence and murders, without violating the constitution\".\n\"And just like the previous dictator, (Mr.) Duterte only wants to pass on his power to his allies who do not hold him responsible for the law, and for those who refuse to admit the sins of their family to come back to power. \"She said in a statement.\n\"As those who have inherited democracy that Ninoy and millions of Filipinos have fought for, let us continue to make efforts, connect our arms and unite our voices to fight for truth and justice in our country,\" she added. .\nSenator Joel Villanueva said that Aquino was \"the greatest modern hero of the country\" and his death should remind the Filipinos that the freedoms they enjoyed were \"won by the lives and deaths of those who put an end to the oppressive rule of martial law. \"\nThe struggle for the right to life and the fair trial, improved life, to keep the government accountable, and for a safe and healthy environment that Aquino paid for his life, continues, said Senator Francis Pangilinan, President of the Liberal party.\n\"Now it comes down to the people, especially today's youth whose future is at stake, to bring about the change that Ninoy has paid for,\" said Pangilinan.\nRemembered in Cebu City\nThe murder of Aquino was also remembered by youth activists in Cebu City, where members of Akbayan Youth tied yellow ribbons in Fuente Osme\u00f1a Circle.\n\"I can still tie this ribbon and not stop anyone from doing it, this is democracy and we are celebrating it now,\" said Bon Luzon, Akbayan Youth.\nIn Negros Occidental, at least 150 people prayed and offered flowers to the Ninoy Aquino Monument near the old Bacolod airport to give \"honor, respect, and infinite gratitude to Ninoy Aquino who had given his life for freedom and democracy. to restore our country, \"said Joy Jarabelo, provincial coordinator for the Federation of Urban Poor. \u2013REPORTS FROM JULIE M. AURELIO, LEILA B. SALAVERRIA, MATTHEW REYSIO-CRUZ, ROSALIE O. ABATAYO AND CARLA P. GOMEZ","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home.| Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Sitemap\nWarming Up to\nFAR-INFRARED\nby D.J. Fletcher from Alternative Medicine Magazine, January 2001 Issue\nPopular in parts of Asia and Europe for more than a decade, therapies and health care products based on far-infrared technologies are making their way into North America.\nWHAT DO KNEE WRAPS, CAPS, QUILTS, MATS, HAIR DRYERS, SOCKS AND SAUNAS HAVE IN COMMON? If you say they warm you up, you're on the right track. But if you know that all these objects and more are now being designed to radiate far-infrared light--an important energy force that promotes healing--you're among a growing number of people who are onto new techniques in energy medicine.\nPerhaps one should say old techniques but new technologies. After all, the body's use of infrared rays is literally as old as our species. Traditionally we've gotten our daily dose of infrared from sunlight, which is composed of all the energy wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum (see Quick Definition). Today we're seeing new technologies employing far-infrared energy in health care products and in clinical protocols such as hyperthermic therapies for detoxification and cancer treatment (see Alternative Medicine issue 37, \"Too Hot for Cancer\").\nEnergy medicine is very old, too--at least as old as the first Qigong masters and other ancient practitioners of healing touch therapies. These healers all had in common the ability to emit energy through their hands, and so do many modern day healers, such as Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., who began teaching healing touch techniques in the U.S. in the 1970s. Contemporary researchers have now proved that these forms of energy medicine use wavelengths in the infrared range.\nIn a study at the National Yang-Ming Medical College in Taipei, Taiwan, published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine in 1991, researchers measured the energy Qigong masters emit from their palms. The researchers employed electronic detection equipment but were also able to detect infrared energy by a rise in air temperature near the masters' palms. The study showed that emitted infrared Qi, or Chi (pronounced \"chee\" and essentially meaning energy in Traditional Chinese Medicine), has positive effects on human fibroblasts, the cells that rebuild connective tissue. The study also showed that infrared Chi stimulated a significant increase in cell growth, DNA synthesis and protein synthesis in cells.\nIn this representation of the electromagnetic spectrum, we see that infrared wavelengths are just below (\"infra\") visible red light. The infrared (IR) portion is further divided into three segments of wavelengths, which are often measured in microns, or micrometers. (A micron is equal to one millionth of a meter.) The near-IR segment is 0.076 to 1.5 microns; middle-IR is 1.5 to 5.6 microns; and far-IR is 5.6 to 1,000 microns.\nQUICK DEFINITION\nThe electromagnetic spectrum is the entire range of radiant energies, measured as waves or frequencies. Electromagnetic refers to the ability to exist as both particle (matter) and wave (energy). The spectrum is usually divided into seven sections, from the longest to the shortest wavelengths: radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma-ray radiation.\nResearchers in Japan have also performed studies of this infrared energy from the human palm, which they call Kikoh. At the Niwa Institute for Immunology in Tosashimizu, Japan, researchers examined Kikoh as well as materials that emit far-infrared radiation, including common granite stone, tourmaline (a type of granite), ceramic disks and hot spring water. In findings published in 1993 in the International Journal of Biometeorology, they reported that materials emitting far-infrared (FIR) energy appear capable of potentiating functions of white blood cells. These functions include increased immune defense response in which white blood cells surround and ingest small living things (such as bacteria) and cell wastes.\nThere's at least one startling connection between the infrared Chi of healing hands and far-infrared products like the knee wrap. In a situation in which you've pulled a ligament or muscle, for instance, the knee wrap can become the healing hands. Both employ the same healing mechanism: They stimulate a degree of inflammation--a positive sign that fibroblasts are doing their job. Most people don't realize that inflammation is necessary for a period of time to heal such injuries, and they suppress this natural healing process by overusing ice and ibuprofen. Instead, the FIR wrap helps to trigger healing by radiating far-infrared energy through its special ceramic-coated fibers and gently but deeply warming the injury site.\nBut is this warming effect different from that of a hot water bottle or heating pad? Yes, the vibrational energy of far-infrared light is unlike that of the heat energy we use, for example, in cooking. Think of it as the difference between leaning over a pot of boiling water and standing outside in the sunlight. Steam from boiling water can burn the skin but it doesn't heat internal organs. Sunlight heats us in a profound way, however, because it contains penetrating far-infrared rays as well as the full range of energy in the electromagnetic spectrum.\nEverything in the universe emits and absorbs certain wave energies. If we look at a graphic representation of the electromagnetic spectrum (see illustration), we see that infrared waves are longer than those in the visible range, falling just below (\"infra\") visible red light in the spectrum. Although the wavelengths of far-infrared are too long for our eyes to perceive, we experience the energy as gentle radiant heat.\nAt the molecular level, FIR exerts strong rotational and vibrational effects that are either biologically benign or, in certain processes, biologically beneficial. This healing ability stands in contrast to the damaging effects of short wavelengths, such as X-rays and gamma rays. The molecular effects of FIR are actually measurable through IR spectroscopy, a method of analyzing the emission and absorption of infrared light that reveals changes in atoms and molecules caused by IR energy. In health care, these effects are being harnessed to promote healing.\nHumans, like other living organisms, have evolved to have a unique absorption spectrum and to respond specifically to particular electromagnetic wavelengths (EMWs). German professor Fritz Hollwich, Ph.D., conducted a study in the 1970s showing that individuals who sat under cool-white fluorescent lighting had elevated levels of the stress hormones ACTH and cortisol. There was no such stress response in individuals who sat under full-spectrum lights that simulated sunlight. (As a result of studies like this, the fluorescent lights are legally banned in German hospitals and medical facilities.) Dr. Hollwich's study is one of many that have shown that light has stimulatory and regulatory effects on biological systems.\nLeon M. Silverstone, D.D.Sc., Ph.D., B.Ch.D., L.D.S., R.C.S., is a contemporary expert on many of the effects of EMWs. Much of his research, first in England and now in the U.S., has focused on developing non-invasive devices for neuromodulation of disorders such as clinical tremor and chronic pain. Dr. Silverstone explains that solar light energy is transmitted to the brain by nerve endings in the skin. \"These energy impulses stimulate the hypothalamus,\" he says, \"And this has an important controlling effect on the production of neurochemicals. Given that neurochemicals regulate processes such as blood pressure, immune response, sleep, mood, and so on, there is little doubt that we exacerbate a wide range of health problems by spending the greater part of our lives indoors under inadequate lighting conditions.\"\nFar-infrared light penetrates beyond the skin level and is absorbed efficiently by cells below, whereas visible light is mostly bounced off the skin surface. Near-infrared is mostly absorbed at the skin level and raises the skin temperature. Far-infrared can penetrate up to 4 centimeters (about 1-1\/2 inches), exciting the vibrational energy of molecules and resonating with cellular frequencies. We can't exactly perceive the deep heating effects of FIR, though, because our body's ability to sense heat is mainly at the skin level. Nonetheless, the effects of FIR rays promote bioprocesses such as increased metabolism and blood circulation, and can raise core body temperature. NASA certainly understood some of these effects when it developed FIR materials for radiant heat during space travel. Hospitals have also taken advantage of some of these properties to keep newborn babies warm using FIR materials around incubators.\nStudies have been done--predominantly in Asia and Europe over the past few decades--to advance the understanding of FIR in bioprocesses. A fundamental finding from classical studies is that FIR appears to have \"normalization effects\" on living organisms. In a recent study at the Experimental Animal Research Laboratory at Meiji University in Japan, researchers found that mice in a group exposed to FIR had a significantly higher survival rate than that of the control group.\nFindings like these don't surprise Fred Slingo, founder of 21st Century Innovative Products and a pioneer U.S. importer of FIR products and information. Slingo has spent a lot of time talking to researchers, reading FIR studies and keeping up with the many U.S. patents for FIR products being applied for, especially by the Japanese. He says he and his colleagues are constantly investigating new FIR products.\nWRAPS FROM HEAD TO TOE--AND MORE\nWraps are just one of many types of FIR health care products popularized over the last decade in Asian countries. Of course, you might not warm up to all the health claims until you fully absorb the principles of FIR or try a self-care product yourself. But as Dr. Silverstone explains, \"The mechanism of action is in some ways simple. It is related to vasodilation, or increased blood flow and local temperature. The penetrating infrared energy brings nutrients and oxygen to the soft tissue region being treated and at the same time stimulates the removal of accumulated toxins. Also, far-infrared has an ionizing effect. The many studies of the relationship between negative ions and health have shown that these effects are beneficial.\"\nFar-infrared (FIR) wraps can be used to promote localized healing in different parts of the body. The wraps radiate far-infrared energy through their special ceramic-coated fibers, thereby gently but deeply warming the injury site.\nSome FIR products are already available in North America, while the list used in Asia is quite long. It includes waist protectors to reduce stomachache, menstrual discomfort, chronic intestinal inflammation, baby diarrhea and stomach cold caused by kidney weakness; underwear to reduce prostatitis, vaginitis, hives (urticaria), psoriasis and jock itch; socks to get rid of foot aches, offensive smell, sweaty feet and phlebitis; and caps to reduce dandruff, high blood pressure, nervous exhaustion and migraine. There are also \"thermowear\" FIR long johns and vests filled with ceramic-reflective materials that, if not yet proven therapeutic, will surely keep you warm.\nBut that's not all. FIR brassieres have been invented to help eliminate mastitis (inflammation of the breast) and to improve lymph circulation and lactation. At the Osaka City Perinatal Center in Japan, the vasodilating and warming effects of far-infrared energy on the breast were studied. The researchers reported their results in the Annals of Physiological Anthropology in 1990, concluding that \"ceramics far-infrared radiation may be an effective remedy for enhancing lactation.\"\nIn studies, the vasodilating and warming effects of far-infrared brassieres have been found to help eliminate mastitis and to improve lymph circulation and lactation.\nThere are even quick-cooking FIR ovens that replace microwave ovens and are said to kill E. coli bacteria. Some years back, there began experiments with different IR spectra used to kill harmful microorganisms. This has translated into several healthy household products--including FIR-coated plates that kill bacteria, FIR-emitting paints and wallpaper that kill molds, and FIR shower filters. \"The filters use FIR emissions combined with Paragon's filtration technology to keep chlorine from forming harmful vapors and also to prevent soap scum build-up on shower walls,\" says Fred Slingo. \"The shower filter is actually a water treatment device that removes undesirable substances and reduces the surface tension of the water, which allows a complete rinse and has a much less drying effect on the skin and hair.\"\nThen there are the \"bioenergetic\" FIR mattresses, mats and quilts, which have been said to clear up insomnia, fatigue, menopausal symptoms, high blood pressure, thrombus and arteriosclerotic occlusions and more. In a study by Japanese researchers S. Inoue and M. Kabaya, published in 1989 in the International Journal of Biometeorology, questionnaires were sent to 542 users of bedclothes with embedded FIR radiator disks (the ceramic disks that emit FIR in the 4 to 16 micron range). The majority of respondents said they saw an improvement in their health. The researchers concluded that \"these effects on living organisms appear to be non-specifically triggered by an exposure to far-infrared rays, which eventually induce an increase in temperature of the body tissues or, more basically, an elevated motility of body fluids due to decrease in size of water clusters.\"\nThe upper torso FIR wrap covers the upper back, shoulders and rotator cuffs, and promotes auxiliary lymph circulation.\nThe ceramic powders, coatings and disks used in FIR products and textiles are made of natural minerals, such as silicates, that transmit far-infrared wavelengths. The powders can be fused into various polypropylene fabrics, and the textiles are engineered so that the FIR effects are not reduced by washing. There are also devices utilizing ceramic-coated quartz lamps and heating wires that emit FIR wavelengths.\nFar-infrared shower filters combine the benefits of water filtration technology with FIR emissions, which have many added benefits--including the prevention of mold and soap scum build-up on shower walls.\nPerhaps the most popular handheld FIR device in the U.S. is the hair dryer called the Solray 21 FIR Emitter. This device no doubt became even more popular after its features impressed Barbara Walters last March on her TV show, \"The View.\" The Solray 21 is being used for chronic pain and skin conditions as well as healthy scalp circulation. It also prevents hair damage from direct heating, which causes split ends and the \"frizzies.\" Dr. Silverstone says, \"The FIR hair dryer dries hair fibers from the inside out. The deep penetration of FIR energy has a positive effect on the scalp, producing an increase in blood circulation. The hair ultimately benefits from this vasodilation due to more efficient removal of toxins and increased production of trace elements, minerals and oxygen.\"\nThe \"FIR\" hair dryer promotes a healthy scalp and prevents hair damage from direct heating. It's also being used in localized treatment of other body areas for conditions such as the chronic pain of arthritis and difficult skin conditions.\nThe FIR hair dryer is increasingly being used in localized treatment of other body areas. John Porter, M.D., a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and a partner in Phoenix Rehabilitation of Phoenix, Arizona, says he has begun exploring possible applications for the Solray 21 and other FIR devices. \"I've used several kinds of energetic modalities successfully in the past,\" he says. \"I'm interested in far-infrared because it's important to consider new solutions to the multi-dimensional challenges we face in helping patients heal. The FIR hair dryer appears to be a promising tool with minimal side effects.\"\nDr. Porter has recommended the Solray 21 to several people for adjunct therapy at home. One is his brother, whose psoriasis, a difficult skin condition, has evolved into painful psoriatic arthritis. \"Because my brother has apparently been helped by the effects of this device,\" he says, \"I'm even more intrigued by the therapeutic possibilities of FIR. But I caution people against careless use, which would involve overuse to the point, for example, of inflaming a joint, or use by persons with serious neurovascular conditions. The safe approach is to check with your doctor before beginning FIR therapy. Then document your progress--say, over a course of 90 days.\"\nAnother device for localized treatment is a lamp on a stand. It's called the TDP Far-Infrared Therapeutic Lamp, and it can provide focused deep heating in therapeutic treatments such as those to increase blood circulation and metabolism. Clinical studies have shown some of the following benefits\ndecreased inflammation and edema from soft tissue injuries\nrelief of pain including arthritis pain\npromotion of circulation and healing\nhealing of skin disorders\nbalancing of the nervous system.\nFor many, the biggest news in FIR technology is its application in the evolving science of detoxification, and the device being used is the far-infrared sauna. At home and in clinics, these saunas are said to yield many benefits--including relief from different kinds of pain; stimulation of immune response; improvement in skin tone and conditions such as burns, eczema and acne; and the accelerated burning of calories. But the detox application is health news that can benefit everyone.\n\"Traditional wisdom has suggested that saunas work largely by promoting detoxification through the sweat,\" says John C. Cline, M.D., B.Sc., C.C.F.P., A.B.C.T., Medical Director of the Cline Medical Centre and Oceanside Functional Medicine Research Institute, located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. \"Saunas also stimulate cells to release toxins which can then be eliminated by the liver and bowel. Several published studies have now shown that this hyperthermic therapy can bring about the rapid removal of a wide range of toxic substances from the human body.\"\nThe FIR energy emitted in these saunas may induce two or three times the sweat volume of conventional saunas, yet they operate at a much cooler air temperature range: about 110\u00b0 to 130\u00b0F, compared with 180\u00b0 to 235\u00b0F in a conventional sauna. Many individuals who cannot tolerate a conventional sauna, steam room or sweat lodge will find FIR saunas pleasant. The lower heat range is also safer for those with cardiovascular risk factors or fragile health because lower temperatures don't dramatically elevate heart rate and blood pressure.\nDr. Cline points out that methods to induce sweating have been used for centuries to bring about improved health and relief from disease. \"Over 2,000 years ago,\" he says, \"the famous Greek physician, Parmenides, stated 'give me a chance to create fever, and I will cure any disease.' This traditional wisdom has certainly stood the test of time. Using methods ranging from hot mineral baths and sweat lodges to saunas and steam baths, individuals have enjoyed the revitalizing effects of induced hyperthermia--the artificial elevation of body temperature.\nScientists are taking a serious look at hyperthermic therapy as a means to detoxify environmentally ill individuals.\n\"Sweat therapy has also been used for many years by miners in Europe to prevent and treat occupational heavy metal poisoning, and studies have now demonstrated that hyperthermic therapy can bring about significant detoxification from heavy metals including mercury. But only in recent years has science begun to seriously examine this age-old healing technique. Now, organizations such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have taken a serious look at hyperthermic therapy as a means to detoxify individuals who are ill from exposure to environmental poisons.\"\nRandy Gomm of an infrared institute based in Vancouver, became a distributor of FIR saunas after his life was turned around by detoxification. As a firefighter, his health had begun to deteriorate until he was no longer able to work. He was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and eventually it was realized that the root of his problem was toxic overload from occupational exposure. During the eight years he was ill, he says, he had a lot of time to research alternative modalities to regain his health. \"I discovered that leading researchers in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome stated that their patients had high toxic loads,\" says Randy. \"When their loads were reduced, their symptoms often improved dramatically. It worked for me. Detoxing really helped put me back on my feet.\"\nEnvironmental medical specialist Doris J. Rapp, M.D., of Scottsdale, Arizona, a well-known pediatrician, allergist, homeopath and past president of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, states unequivocally, \"Everybody in this country needs to be detoxified because we've all become 'toxic dumpsites.'\" Dr. Rapp began using a far-infrared sauna personally after seeing a similar procedure being employed in a German clinic. She was impressed with the clinic's work in detoxifying young children and infants. Dr. Rapp affirms that her FIR sauna causes her to perspire profusely, and she adds, \"I'm hoping to see more patient outcome studies on FIR sauna use--studies that will further evaluate the efficacy of this treatment and impartially evaluate the various saunas.\"\nHyperthermic detoxification using these saunas is not only uniquely helpful in removing fat-stored toxins from the body but also as an adjunct to mercury removal. Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., of Seattle, who has been called \"the holistic doctors' doctor and teacher,\" is one of the pioneers in combining the use of FIR saunas with the chelating agent DMPS in a heavy metal detox protocol.\nDr. Cline explains, \"Given that hyperthermic sauna therapy removes metal contaminants from the body by a different mechanism than chelation therapy mechanism than chelation therapy we have found that it may be used to further the benefits derived from chelation therapy. And we have also found that it may be an alternative for those who are unable to undergo chelation.\nFor more information please read the complete article on Far Infrared Technology.\nHow We Handle Shipping of Far Infrared Products\nWe only ship the infrared products to USA & Canada only, excluding Alaska, Hawaii & Puerto Rico. For other destinations including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico etc. additional shipping charges will apply. 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{"text":"In Conversation With Dinorah Cant\u00fa-Pedraza\nMary Leong October 28, 2016\nEach month, PlaceSpeak presents a Q&A with experts in urbanism, public engagement, and civic technology.\nThis month, we spoke with Dinorah Cant\u00fa-Pedraza, who coordinates the GovLab Academy \u2013 an online institute aimed at helping government and social innovators take innovative projects from idea to implementation. A lawyer by training, Dinorah founded and directed the Human Rights Center of the Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey prior to moving to New York in 2012. Under her direction, the Academy has worked with over five hundred innovators from more than 30 countries online and off over the last two years.\n1. Governments are increasingly using digital technologies to source ideas and feedback from citizens. What is the most common mistake they make and what is the solution?\nThe most common mistake is that people don't work enough on defining the problem that they want the crowd to solve. We've realized that the most important aspect of launching any kind of project, not only through crowdsourcing exercises, but also through the hundreds of projects we've helped through the GovLab Academy, is taking some time to actually define the problem that you want to solve. I can share some of the tips that we use with our community to help them define their problem better.\nFirst, we ask them if they are disguising a solution as a problem. We get really excited thinking about solutions that we find interesting, and we're thinking about how to replicate them. As the quote says, \"If you only have a hammer, you'll see everything as a nail.\" That's very problematic, because you don't know if that's the most recommended way to address a specific problem.\nThe other one is having a problem definition that's specific. Sometimes people define their problem as something that is too broad for them to do anything about it, so I think that you have to do well defining the problem in a way that you can actually solve it. It doesn't matter if it's just one specific aspect, but that's how you can actually achieve change, one aspect by one. That's also one of the biggest opportunities with crowdsourcing. You can take advantage of the expertise and talents of the crowd to solve a very specific problem; and the people will be excited to participate because they can actually make a difference and have an impact.\nIt's also important to think, \"Is this a problem, or a symptom of a problem?\" So for example, people say that they want to fight climate change. What's causing climate change? When you start breaking it down, you can focus on one of the causes and break it down further.\nFinally, I think that something that can help everyone is making some of the assumptions explicit. For example, understanding who's harmed by a problem, and if that's not you, then do some user interviews and understand what's really affecting them. Who are the key stakeholders who are involved in the issue \u2013 what are some of the social and cultural factors that shape it? What are the unknowns that need to be answered to understand the problem fully? And ask yourself: Why has this problem not been solved yet? The answer to this question might actually reveal the true problem that you need to solve.\n2. Your colleague, Beth Noveck, talks about the \"rise of the citizen expert\". In your experience, how can governments better tap into the expertise of citizens?\nThis is a topic where we've been working and experimenting with different models. We have the challenges model and open innovation model, where we go to a community, work with city officials, help them define a problem, and then launch a challenge to the community to gather their ideas. In some cases, gathering teams of citizens that join the government in developing that idea.\nThe biggest difference from traditional citizen participation is that you are not only asking people to participate in a reactive mode (e.g. you make a law and ask them what they think), you are creating methodologies that allow for proactive citizen participation (for them to not only say what they think, but also what they know and how can they use it their talents to generate solutions). So it's moving beyond participating in the decision-making process, to also participating in the creation process.\nBut that's just one of the many ways in which you can involve citizens' talents and expertise. The other one is with data: opening data in a way that people can use it, reuse it, distribute it, etc. If you check out OD Impact, we just released a study on the impact of open data. One case study that we're working on is in Colombia. In its simplest terms, Acl\u00edmate Colombia uses diverse open data sources to \"identify the most productive rice varieties and planting times for specific sites and seasonal forecasts.\" In short, government opened the data, a civil society organization does the analysis on that data and partnered with farmers and communities, to bring to them information on how to make data-based decisions on when to cultivate a specific type of rice. This has only been going on for a year, but they estimate savings of $3.6m in losses climate-related economic losses.\nThis is great because it's open government data empowering the citizens, so it's about creating the right channels and methodology, and giving citizens and public officials the right tools so they can take action and have a space where everyone can come together to solve the public problems.\n3. What role can civil society organizations play in involving citizens in the decision-making process?\nCivil society organizations play a key role in creating the right exercises that can take advantage of the different types of expertise e.g. credentials, experiential, geographic, lived expertise, etc. I really like this case in Mexico where the previous president, Felipe Calder\u00f3n, launched a challenge about \"the most absurd government process\" which received more than 20,000 applications at the federal, state, and municipal level. The woman that won the challenge shared her experience dealing with the institute that provides health services in Mexico. She had a kid who needed medication twice a month, and would continue to need it through the rest of his life. But for her to receive the medication from the institute, she would need an authorization that had to go through eight hands, and took about 15 days. Just having to do that over and over again was simply ridiculous.\nBut those kinds of facts are hard to find and understand when you hire a consulting firm that just review all the processes, because the people who have the most expertise are the ones who live through and go through that experience, and civil society organizations can really help figuring out how to better take advantage of that expertise, also by being more open and creating spaces for a more diverse people to come together.\n4. You also have a background in law and human rights. How has civic technology impacted the ability to enact change in these fields?\nI'm a lawyer, and I specialize in human rights. There were a lot of causes that I was fighting for in Mexico through strategic litigation, and I wanted to further specialize in social, economic and cultural rights, so I came to New York University to do a Masters in Public Policy. During that Masters, when I met Beth as a professor, the class was called Government 3.0. For me, it was life-changing because every new concept that I was learning in that class was something that could have helped me so much in my previous work. I've now started to specialize in technology and public policy, because it really opens a new way to solve public problems.\nNot only do we need all hands on deck to solve the complexity of the problems we're facing, through civic technology and data we can actually create or start experimenting with those spaces that can bring everyone together. For me, that's the biggest change in terms of what I used to do and what I do now. When I was in strategic litigation, the impact could be big, but you had to go case by case by case. Through these tools \u2013 by opening to the crowd, creating places where everyone can do something \u2013 we can actually lessen the effects of the challenges we are facing right now and get smarter about how we face them.\n5. Through the GovLab Academy, you've worked with hundreds of innovators from over 30 countries. What are some of the most memorable ideas\/concepts?\nI personally like the projects that have a direct impact on vulnerable populations. If you go to GovLab Academy, we feature some of the projects that have gone through our program, but I really like Safecity India. It's about crowdsourcing gender violence in every expression, from microaggressions to sexual assault. It gives voice to people who don't have voice as reports are on these topics are usually low and through Safecity India, victims are protected through anonymity. The data is later used to build capacity and raise awareness in the police and women's communities \u2013 they create workshops with the police departments and identify hotspots, and for example, the cops react by having more presence and it has a lot of impact in different ways. The projects that make the invisible, visible, are the most important ones to me.\nThat also connects with recognizing that right now, when we talk about data, we think that data is unbiased. But it's biased by us and how we define it, and many important things are not translated into data because no one is paying attention or giving it the time. I think the civic tech world needs to make a big push for inclusion and figure out how to involve everyone in the community, and not just the classically privileged group that already has access. How do we make it radically inclusive and reach the people that are not even asked for their opinion? How do we create exercises where we reach them, where we learn about what they have to share so that we can improve policies and the way we address specific public problems or the problems they care the most about?\n6. Is there anything else that you'd like to add?\nRight now, we are really excited about open innovation. We are doing a pilot on open innovation for solving public problems in Latin America, and we are starting with Monterrey, in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garc\u00eda. It's been a great experience working with every aspect of the municipality to build capacity.\nWe are helping the municipality become an innovation lab. Everyone involved is getting into the mindset of user-centered design, active prototyping, problem definition, and getting introduced to how to use data and technology to solve problems they face in their day-to-day work and get better results. So just by being able to work with them to define the problem, to launch the challenges, we've been able to build more capacity than if we just gave them a class or workshop. It's learning by doing, and they've been finding every moment of the development so useful that they're becoming invigorated with this idea of why being open is important. However, the key word is pilot and experimentation. We need to keep trying new models, documenting what works and what doesn't and continue to figure out how to update democracy, make governments smarter on how they solve public problems and create an inclusive and vibrant community that gives a space for the change-maker in all of us.\ngovlab\nnyu govlab\n3 Myths about Accessibility and Online Citizen Engagement\nIn Conversation With Graham Smith","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PowerPost\nPost Politics Blog\nThe Post's View\nToles Cartoons\nTelnaes Animations\nAll Opinions Are Local\nFive Myths\nPostEverything\nPostPartisan\nRight Turn\nThe Missing Debate\nAllMetSports\nD.C. Sports Bog\nActs of Faith\nPost Nation\nWonkblog\nOn Small Business\nCapital Business\nOn I.T.\nInspired Life\nKidsPost\nOn Parenting\nThe Intersect\nSolo-ish\nComic Riffs\nGoing Out Guide\nEl Tiempo Latino\n1996-2017 The Washington Post\nRescuer Theresa Strader says she's seen a change at the breeder auctions, with more rescuers attending and some paying high prices for dogs\u2014a practice she questions.\nDog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn\nBy Kim Kavin Photos by Salwan Georges Videos by Zoeann Murphy Updated April 18, 2018\nWarning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience.\nAn effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a nationwide shadow market that today sees some rescuers, fueled by Internet fundraising, paying breeders $5,000 or more for a single dog.\nThe result is a river of rescue donations flowing from avowed dog saviors to the breeders, two groups that have long disparaged each other. The rescuers call many breeders heartless operators of inhumane \"puppy mills\" and work to ban the sale of their dogs in brick-and-mortar pet stores. The breeders call \"retail rescuers\" hypocritical dilettantes who hide behind nonprofit status while doing business as unregulated, online pet stores.\nBut for years, they have come together at dog auctions where no cameras are allowed, with rescuers enriching breeders and some breeders saying more puppies are being bred for sale to the rescuers.\nBidders affiliated with 86 rescue and advocacy groups and shelters throughout the United States and Canada have spent $2.68 million buying 5,761 dogs and puppies from breeders since 2009 at the nation's two government-regulated dog auctions, both in Missouri, according to invoices, checks and other documents The Washington Post obtained from an industry insider. At the auctions, rescuers have purchased dogs from some of the same breeders who face activist protests, including some on the Humane Society of the United States' \"Horrible Hundred\" list or the \"No Pet Store Puppies\" database of breeders to avoid, maintained by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.\nAfter the investigation: USDA says individuals and groups may need license if buying dogs for rescue at auction\nMost rescuers then offered the dogs for adoption as \"rescued\" or \"saved.\"\nMost of the breeders who sell dogs at auction are commercial, which means they have at least four breeding females, sell to intermediaries and are federally regulated. Years ago, when more commercial breeders existed, rescuers attended auctions to buy surplus dogs that seemed to be everywhere, longtime auction participants say. But the success of the rescue movement in reducing shelter populations, some rescuers say, has been driving rescuers to the auction market. As the number of commercial kennels has decreased, so has the number of shelter animals killed in the United States: A February 2017 estimate put the total for dogs alone at 780,000, a steep drop from estimates for all shelter animals that were as high as 20 million in the 1970s.\nThe smaller populations of shelter dogs make it harder for some rescue groups, especially those dedicated to specialty breeds, to find what adopters want. One golden retriever rescue group turned to the auctions after seeing 40 percent fewer dogs coming in as of 2016. At the auctions, such rescuers describe buying purebreds and popular crossbreeds like goldendoodles and maltipoos as \"puppy mill rescue.\"\nGolden retriever puppies, center, at Sugarfork Kennels in Goodman, Mo., on March 7.\n\"We have breeders that breed for the auction,\" says Will Yoder, a commercial breeder of Cavalier King Charles spaniels in Bloomfield, Iowa. \"It's a huge, huge underground market. It's happening at an alarming rate.\"\nMany people are unaware of the practice. About 50 of the 86 groups that The Post linked to auction bidders made no mention of auctions on their Web pages, 20 described what they were doing as \"puppy mill rescue\" or \"auction rescue,\" and 10 mentioned words such as \"bought\" or \"purchased\" at auction but did not say online how much they paid per dog.\nLeading nonprofit animal-welfare groups, including the ASPCA, HSUS and the American Kennel Club purebred advocacy group, say rescuers are misguided in buying dogs at auction because the money they pay only encourages more breeding on a commercial scale.\nAbigail Anderson, who owns Sugarfork, checks on huskies.\n\"Although they may be doing good things for individual dogs purchased at auctions, it perpetuates the problem and tends to create a seller's market,\" says Brandi Hunter, the AKC's spokeswoman.\nRescuers at the auctions say their purchases save individual dogs and weaken the commercial breeding chain by removing, spaying and neutering dogs that would otherwise be bred again and again. They say donors ranging from average dog lovers to show-dog breeders understand, and financially support, their efforts.\n\"It's a very controversial thing, for rescuers to buy dogs at auction,\" says Jeanette DeMars, founder of Corgi Connection of Kansas, who discloses to donors that she buys auction dogs. \"Some are of the opinion that you're putting money in the breeders' pockets. Others say you're saving the dogs from a life of breeding. My opinion is that if people are willing to donate and it doesn't take money out of my regular rescue, I will do it.\"\n\"There are very good, responsible rescues that just love the dogs \u2026 and I think there are malicious, lying, cheating rescues that are in it for the money.\"\nBob Hughes, owner of Southwest Auction Service, the biggest commercial dog auction in the country\nJoAnn Dimon, director of Big East Akita Rescue in New Jersey, says that buying breeding-age dogs not only cuts into overbreeding but also makes it harder for commercial breeders to profit in the long run.\n\"That breeder is going to make thousands of dollars off that [female dog] if he breeds her every cycle,\" Dimon said. \"I just bought her for $150. I just took money out of his pocket. I got the dog, and I stopped the cycle.\"\nThe majority of the $2.68 million The Post documented was spent since 2013 at Southwest Auction Service, the biggest commercial dog auction in the country, with some additional spending at its smaller, only remaining competitor, Heartland Sales. Southwest originated in Wheaton, Mo., in 1988, and Heartland was founded in Cabool, Mo., in 2003, as a marketplace for breeders. As the last remaining government-licensed auctions, they let buyers and sellers see hundreds of dogs at a time and are a legal part of the country's puppy supply chain. They are regulated by the U.S. and Missouri Departments of Agriculture and open to the public.\nRescuers buy dogs FROM BREEDERS AT AUCTIONS\nDocuments obtained by an industry source reveal a shadow market:\nCommercial breeders produce specialty\npuppy breeds.\nThe breeders sell their puppies at auctions, often to rescue groups.\nThe dog rescuers put the puppies up for adoption as rescue dogs.\nThe customer may not know the dog was bought at an auction.\nCommercial breeders produce specialty puppy breeds.\n\"I'm not going to lie about this: Rescue generates about one-third, maybe even 40 percent of our income,\" says Bob Hughes, Southwest's owner. \"It's been big for 10 years.\"\nHughes said his auction is open to everyone but people with cameras because \"our customers don't want to be on animal-activist websites being called 'puppy mills.'\u200a\"\nHank Grosenbacher, owner of Heartland, says rescuers usually account for 15 to 25 percent of his business. He says he gets fewer rescuers than Southwest because he often bans from his auction rescuers who publicly call breeders \"puppy mills.\"\n\"At our auction, I think 75 percent of the people who sell dogs, and the rescues who come to our sale, will do things the right way,\" he said. \"The particular rescuers who come to our sale, they're a blessing. For the most part, they buy dogs that breeders don't want, and they're not paying a lot of money.\"\nJolene Roper takes two German shepherds for a walk at National Mill Dog Rescue in Peyton, Colo., on March 9.\nHughes says he sees those types of rescuers at Southwest, too, but also those who use auction purchases to rake in huge online donations.\n\"I honestly think there are very good, responsible rescues that just love the dogs and want to get them out of the breeding industry,\" Hughes says. \"And I think there are malicious, lying, cheating rescues that are in it for the money and the glory and the funding.\"\nIn early February, Grosenbacher's auction brought in $132,000, while Hughes notched his biggest sales revenue ever, taking in more than $600,000. One rescuer, Jessica Land, who helps operate Dog Ranch Rescue and Lone Star Dog Ranch in Texas, paid $8,750 for a pregnant French bulldog at Southwest, an invoice shows. Land declined to comment for this article.\n\"The French bulldog that Lone Star paid $8,750 to buy in February was pregnant with five fetuses,\" Hughes said. \"An ultrasound showed it. Now, if there's five fetuses worth $2,000 a puppy, that's $10,000 in puppies and the mama's a young female, so a breeder would say, 'I got all my money back in one litter and own the dog for free and she'll produce for another five years.'\u200a\"\nAfter this article was published, Lone Star posted on Facebook that it adopted out the five puppies for $1,850 apiece, and the adult dog for $1,350, a total income of $10,600. The group wrote that after paying medical expenses it would lose $2,421 on the deal\u2014including possible refunds of as much as $750 should all the adopters, in the future, choose to spay or neuter the puppies.\n\"For rescues like ourselves who take care of all the vetting the dog needs no matter the cost\u2026THERE IS NO PROFIT,\" the group wrote in its post. \"You see we actually take care of every medical need that these dogs have that have never been addressed.\"\nTwo female huskies at Sugarfork.\n'I'd never sold a dog for $10,000'\nThe Southwest auction may be the country's largest, but finding it requires knowing that it's there. It is held behind a gate and down a dirt driveway, in a barn on private property. It is in a part of Missouri so rural that the 2010 Census showed the nearest town \u2014 Wheaton \u2014 had only 696 residents.\nProspective buyers park in a dirt lot, then go inside to register for bidding cards. They sit in bleachers that surround a table down in front, where dogs and puppies are brought out from a room in the back. Sometimes, the auctioneer puts one dog up for bid, and other times, a whole litter of puppies will be on the table. Some of them play while the people all around put a price on them, and children in the bleachers \u2014 whose parents are bidding \u2014 eat snacks and watch.\nAt any given auction, as many as several hundred dogs and puppies might be sold, with bidding starting in the morning and running until dinnertime, even past sundown. At most auctions, various breeders typically offer anywhere from a handful to two dozen dogs, so the mix available for bid can run the alphabet from Akitas and Australian shepherds to wire fox and Yorkshire terriers.\nHighest prices PAID per breed by rescuers at dog auctions\nInvoices from Southwest Auction in Missouri, received from an industry source, show people affiliated with dog rescue organizations paying high prices to buy some of the most popular U.S. purebreds in a practice they refer to as \"puppy mill rescue.\"\nCharles Spaniel *\n* Will Yoder, a commercial breeder, bought two Cavaliers at Southwest Auction for $7,550, but sold them an hour later in a post-auction deal when a rescuer offered $10,000 per dog.\nThe auction at Southwest on Nov. 22, 2014, was different \u2014 and showed that a breed-specific rescuer, flush with donated cash, will pay five figures for a single dog.\nAn Alabama breeder of Cavalier King Charles spaniels was going out of business, so the sale would have more than 130 Cavaliers. There was serious money in play that day from Cavalier rescuers. One rescuer's GoFundMe.com campaign had netted $188,815, and another's YouCaring.com fundraiser brought in $157,955. \"Don't Let These Sweet Cavaliers go to a Disreputable Home,\" a rescuer wrote on the YouCaring.com site, warning donors of the \"many other less than reputable breeders at this auction.\"\nFor the first few hours that day in Missouri, rescuers won every bid. Then Will Yoder, the Cavalier breeder from Iowa, broke through. He says he does not support or usually attend auctions, so he can still remember the moment that he won two Cavaliers, for $3,600 and $3,950.\n\"There was just dead silence,\" Yoder says. \"This was, like, the first dog that went to a breeder that day. The pressure was on. The first dog just went to a horrible puppy mill. That's what they're thinking.\"\nAs he waited to pay at the checkout counter, Yoder says, a rescuer approached and blurted, \"So, how much profit?\"\n\"It was like, they hate me, and they assume I hate them, and she just walked up and looked at me,\" he says. \"I knew what she meant: What do you want for your dogs? I looked at her and said, 'I'm sorry, but they're not for sale.' \"\nYoder left with his two Cavaliers, but online pleas had already gone out to raise more money to buy his dogs in a post-auction deal. A forum run by Cavaliers Co UK, in Britain, listed the email address of Alabama-based rescuer Angie Ingram and said she was a person collecting PayPal donations.\nComments on the forum emphasized the urgency: \"Money is still being donated, hopefully an agreed fee for the dogs can be met with the money that is still coming in!!\"\nCavaliers Co UK and Ingram did not respond to requests for comment.\n\"I didn't think they would actually pay it. But it's not their money, so money wasn't an issue. I'd never sold a dog for $10,000, so I just thought, 'Let's see.'\"\nWill Yoder, a commercial breeder, bought two Cavaliers at Southwest Auction. He sold them in a post-auction deal.\nYoder says he was oblivious to the crush of fundraising. He was heading home to Iowa, sitting in the passenger seat with his Cavaliers in the back, when he reconsidered.\n\"I told the driver, 'They really wanted those dogs,' \" Yoder says. \"We were just talking, and I said, 'Money is obviously not an issue for them.' \"\nYoder called the auction owner by cellphone and said he'd take $10,000 per Cavalier if the rescuer still wanted them.\n\"I was just curious,\" Yoder says. \"I didn't think they would actually pay it. But it's not their money, so money wasn't an issue. I'd never sold a dog for $10,000, so I just thought, 'Let's see.' \"\nWithin minutes, the auction owner and Yoder say, the deal was done: Documents show that Ingram paid $24,200 to buy the two Cavaliers for which Yoder had paid $8,305, with all the totals including the auction's fees; the check was one of four that Ingram wrote that day, totaling $218,325 for 54 dogs, according to documents submitted by lawyers for Ingram and others in an Alabama libel lawsuit filed in the wake of the auction.\nSouthwest Auction's owner says the dog sale held in early February was his biggest ever, generating more than $600,000. Dogs up for bid that day included a pregnant French Bulldog that, according to this invoice, a rescuer paid $8,750 to buy. See more documents involved in reporting this story.\nIngram and six others sued several other rescuers alleging that they libeled the plaintiffs by publishing statements on a Facebook page called Beware Cavalier Rescue of Alabama, accusing them of using donated money to buy dogs for themselves and duping donors about rescuing Cavaliers.\n\"The Beware page and the information posted by others lacked any factual support and the unconscionable allegations contained therein were and are false, defamatory and libelous,\" the plaintiffs complaint states.\nDocuments show that bidders now affiliated with the nonprofit Cavalier Rescue of Alabama, where Ingram is listed as animal welfare program director, have paid $406,872 buying 172 dogs and puppies at auction since 2014 \u2014 an average price of $2,365 per dog. Last year, more than half the dogs the nonprofit group says it saved were bought at auction, according to a link the group posted on Facebook showing that it has placed dogs in homes in 14 states.\nFollowing this article's publication, the group posted on Facebook that it pays an average price of $1,600 per dog at auction.\n\"We have NEVER profited off an auction dog,\" the group stated in its post. \"We are in the hole with EVERY single dog that we rescue from auction. We know this going into it and it is never about the money, it is only about saving lives.\"\nAs for the two Cavaliers bought for $24,200, Ingram adopted one, and another rescuer adopted the other, both animals becoming personal pets, court documents show. Ingram and the other adopter each paid a $300 fee.\nLisa Thompson, co-founder of Cavalier Rescue of Alabama, said that on the advice of legal counsel, no one from her group would respond to The Post's questions.\nYoder was thrilled to talk. He said he could not believe so much money was raised so quickly, or that he ended up with so much of it, given to him by people who say they despise commercial breeders.\n\"I was just like,\" he pauses, chuckling, \"this is crazy.\"\nOne of Sugarfork's female huskies. French bulldogs after mating at Sugarfork.\nAn elusive marketplace\nRescue groups generally are organized as nonprofit charities and raise money through fundraisers, adoption fees, grants and bequests. Shelters and rescue groups connected to the auction bidders have annual revenue that runs from $12,000 to $1.5 million, and they charge adoption fees that range from $50 to $1,850 per dog. The individuals who run these organizations receive salaries as high as $78,000, but many receive no compensation, according to tax forms.\nThe rescue movement used to include only shelters, but today it has an expansive network of home-based nonprofits, too. The noticeable increase in the number of such rescuers at the Missouri auctions began around 2005, about the same time that the nation's rescue movement began to evolve. That is also about the time that self-described \"puppy mill rescue\" began to move into the mainstream.\nSocial media is boosting the \"puppy mill rescue\" movement today, with some rescuers seeking donations specifically to buy auction dogs. Amanda Giese, founder of Panda Paws Rescue in Washougal, Wash., posted several Facebook videos after spending $18,140 buying 32 dogs at the Southwest auction on Feb. 18, 2017, an invoice shows. Giese tells viewers, sometimes through tears, that she bought the dogs to save them from lives of sickness and torment in facilities with 400, 500 or 600 dogs that live in \"rabbit hutches.\" She is shown with Siberian husky puppies that she purchased, asking as she unloads them from the back of a van, \"Do you want to touch green grass for the first time?\"\nTwo of the Husky puppies that Giese bought, documents show, came from Sugarfork Kennels in Goodman, Mo., which has sold puppies to pet stores and directly to consumers since 1999, and which invites buyers to visit the kennel. At least one of Sugarfork's grassy, sun-drenched enclosures, where big dogs such as Huskies run and play, is the size of a ballfield.\nGiese, reached by telephone, said she could not respond to The Post's questions.\nRescuers who have been buying auction dogs for many years say it is unfair to characterize all commercial breeders as \"puppy mills.\" They say they consider some of the breeders at the auctions to be their friends who, for various reasons, have dogs or puppies they cannot sell in other ways, leaving them for rescuers to acquire.\n\"I think that as long as there are people raising dogs, there's always going to be the adult dog that got too old,\" said Jane Rosenthal of Storm Lake, Iowa, a former breeder and longtime auction buyer for numerous rescue groups. \"There's going to be the puppy with an overbite or its eye got hurt \u2014 the unsellable puppies. To me, that's really what I always did for the most part, was pick up the crumbs at the bottom, those that nobody wanted.\"\nRosenthal is a buyer who shows the nationwide reach that even a single rescue bidder can have from inside the auctions, making it all but impossible for consumers or regulators to determine a dog's provenance. She has spent at least $150,972 buying 434 dogs at Southwest since 2014, an average price per dog of $347; and $103,304 buying 619 dogs at Heartland since 2009, at an average price of $166, documents show. She has bought corgis, Akitas, Cavaliers and many more breeds for rescue groups from California to Minnesota to New Jersey, records and interviews show.\n\"She has this great big van and gets dogs for all the rescues,\" says Faith Humpal, president of Paws to Love K9 Rescue in South Dakota, who has attended auctions for about 15 years. \"A lot of the rescues say, 'We don't buy dogs' or 'We don't do this,' but, yeah, they do.' \"\nRosenthal said she is a volunteer bidder who does not consider her actions to be the same as buying dogs. She said she bids at the auctions for other rescuers who reimburse her. She said she cringes at the high prices some rescuers pay before showing off their auction-bought dogs online with descriptions such as \"puppy mill rescue,\" using the dogs \"as poster children\" to generate more donations from the public.\n\"You didn't save that dog,\" she said. \"You paid $3,000 for it. You bought it, and you're going to sell it. I don't want any part of that.\"\nHelen Slate grooms a 4-year-old poodle at National Mill. Sonja Row cradles an 11-year-old male Maltese that has been at National Mill for just a few days. The National Mill rescue facility.\nTheresa Strader agrees. She is founder of National Mill Dog Rescue in Colorado, a leading \"anti-puppy mill\" nonprofit organization with a website that states, \"We do not pay the mills to rescue their dogs.\" Invoices show that Strader paid breeders nearly $44,703 for 193 dogs at 11 auctions from 2014 to 2016; prices ranged from $1 (for a Chihuahua) to $1,325 (for a golden retriever), for an average price of $231 per dog.\n\"At least half of that money was groups that asked me to get dogs for them,\" Strader said. Rescuers told The Post it is a common practice for rescuers to buy dogs for others. Strader used to get \"penny dogs\" with her personal money at Southwest before about 2013, she said, and today is disgusted by the large amounts she sees some rescuers spending.\n\"It became all the rage for rescuers to show up,\" Strader said. \"They're creating an industry inside the industry. It's really, really wrong.\"\nStrader is among those who say buying dogs for high prices at auction is not a form of rescue at all: \"People who call this puppy mill rescue? That's not honest. It's just not.\"\n\"The rescuers come in here with more money than the breeders.\"\nHank Grosenbacher, owner of Heartland Sales\nThe owners of Southwest Auction Service and Heartland Sales say the auction business is well-regulated and humane. Read more of what dog auctioneers said here.\nMost breeders used to reserve all of their puppies and younger dogs for pet-store brokers and consumers. Now, at least some are taking them to auctions to sell to rescuers, Grosenbacher and some rescuers say.\n\"Originally, rescues attended auctions to get the old and the sick dogs, and we paid very little for them,\" says Penny Reames, a Kansas rescuer who has attended the auctions for a decade, transferring the dogs to Northern New England Westie Rescue in New Hampshire, which adopts them out for as much as $1,000 apiece. \"We don't see those dogs so much anymore. Now it is primarily puppies who did not get bought by the brokers for one reason or another.\"\nAt Heartland, owner Grosenbacher said, rescuers bid against each other for designer crossbred puppies such as morkies and puggles, and breeders consider the rescuers to be a reliable market for those pups because adopters clamor for them, making them a \"cash cow\" in the rescue community.\nKennel technician Tara York spends time with a golden retriever and her litter at Sugarfork.\n\"That's the one thing that rescues will get in competition over,\" he says. \"They'll stand right there and look each other in the eye and outbid each other. By and large, it's the rescuers knocking each other out.\"\nNumerous rescuers told The Post that before every auction, in a secret Facebook group and in person, rescuers meet to decide who will bid on which dogs, so they do not bid against one another. But Dimon, the Akita rescuer, says the longtimers do not always recognize the newcomers \u2014 who, upon seeing auctions for the first time, are so eager to \"save\" every dog that they will pay just about anything. Numerous longtime rescue bidders say breeders are lying in wait for those novices, to bid them up and take every dollar of donated money they have.\nMelissa McClellan of New York City-based Posh Pets Rescue, said she attended her first auction at Southwest in January and paid $1,700 for a male Maltese. The seller had listed the 11-year-old dog as \"well proven, still using,\" and McLellan kept raising the bid because she thought she was competing with a breeder for the dog.\nWhat McLellan did not know was that her bidding blew right past that of at least one longtime rescuer, Laverne Clark of Powersite, Mo., who was there for the same dog.\n\"I could've gotten that dog for $100,\" Clark says. \"They paid $1,700.\"\nA husky checks on her puppies at Sugarfork.\nBans on puppies for retail sale\nAs of January, the Humane Society of the United States said, 250 municipalities had enacted retail pet-sale bans, which are often called \"puppy mill bans\" in the news media. The laws require pet stores to obtain puppies only from shelters and nonprofit organizations. Activists and lawmakers tell the public that the laws help homeless dogs and choke off income to the kinds of breeders who sell dogs and puppies at auctions.\nLos Angeles enacted a ban in 2012, and California followed in October by enacting the first statewide version in the United States. Activists say it is a model for the rest of the nation to follow. Similar statewide bans have since been introduced in nine states.\nBut despite the efforts, commercially bred dogs have continued going to consumers in places with the municipal bans, including Los Angeles, by way of nonprofit groups and the auctions. The Post identified four California-based rescue groups tied to auction purchases, and two more that operate in the state.\nThe story must be told.\nYour subscription supports journalism that matters.\nAn invoice shows that on April 8, 2017, Kristin Cramer \u2014 founder of the nonprofit For Pete Sake Foundation in Sherman Oaks, Calif. \u2014 placed a successful phone bid with Southwest for nearly $17,200 to buy a dozen English and French bulldogs. Within a week, a fundraising drive featuring Cramer's dogs appeared on the Facebook page of Los Angeles-based Road Dogs & Rescue, telling donors: \"The goal was to pay as little as possible so as not to line their pockets, but to save some lives and have these dogs put real faces to the horrible industry.\"\nThe fundraising announcement did not reveal the per-dog price, which an invoice shows ranged from $675 to $2,500.\nOne auction seller who got some of that rescue cash was Gary Phillips of Adair, Okla., a district president with Northeast Oklahoma Pet Professionals. He is on the ASPCA's \"No Pet Store Puppies\" warning website.\nPhillips said Cramer paid him more than he could have made selling the same dog through a pet store. Documents show that she paid $1,750 for his 19-month-old English bulldog, which was too old for pet-store consumers and had allergies that diminished her breeding prospects.\nCramer said her single venture into buying at auction would be her last. The founder of Road Dogs & Rescue, while happy with the outcome for the dogs, called the experience \"a painful lesson,\" adding, \"It's too easy for rescues to be ruled by wanting to save a life at any cost.\"\nPhillips said that he was surprised and pleased with the price the rescuer paid, and that at least one colleague had taken note \u2014 not of the laws being enacted to try to shut down commercial breeders, but instead of where their new cash flow was emerging.\nSydney Noah, a breeder at Sugarfork, holds days-old Shih Tzu puppies. Notes with expressions of love and protest adorn a wall at National Mill. Sugarfork owner Abigail Anderson inside one of the kennel buildings.\n\"A breeder friend of mine said she's thinking about saving her puppies until they get about a year old and take them to the auction,\" Phillips said. \"The rescue people will pay more than the pet-store brokers.\"\nNationwide advocacy groups that support the pet-store bans include Bailing Out Benji, an Iowa-based nonprofit that promotes pet-store protests. Its website home page urges readers to watch a 2015 documentary that \"educates about the puppy mill industry and the money that keeps it thriving.\"\nTerra Henggeler is the Nebraska team leader and a volunteer for Bailing Out Benji, according to recent news reports. A 2017 story quoted her at a pet-store protest in Omaha telling the media that she and other rescuers had to \"fight for those dogs\" inside because the shop bought puppies from \"less than desirable breeders.\"\nLess than a month before and again after that protest, documents show, Henggeler bought dogs at Southwest, paying as much as $1,500 per dog; they were among 24 dogs that she has spent $24,255 to purchase at auction since 2016, some as young as 5 months old.\nHenggeler and Bailing Out Benji did not respond to requests for comment.\nBailing Out Benji issued a statement following this article's publication that its connection to auctions is \"nonexistent\" and that its volunteer \"went on behalf of other rescues in the Midwest to purchase retired breeding dogs at auction.\" The group also said in an email to The Post that buying dogs at auction \"goes against how we operate at Bailing Out Benji.\" Henggeler is also a member of the Board of Directors for Pug Partners of Nebraska, which did not respond to The Post's requests for comment.\nBob Hughes, Southwest's owner, says that what goes on at the auctions shows that nobody has the moral high ground in America's puppy wars.\n\"In their minds, the rescuers think they're better,\" he says. \"The industry is all alike. We're all supplying puppies and dogs to the general public in some form or fashion.\"\nA poodle seeking a view leaps inside its enclosure at Sugarfork.\nKim Kavin is a member of The Washington Post Freelance Network. She is also the author of \"The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores and Rescuers\" (Pegasus Books, 2016), a book of investigative journalism.\nThis article has been updated with responses from Bailing Out Benji, Lone Star Dog Ranch and Cavalier Rescue of Alabama.\nThis investigation is based on hundreds of documents provided by an industry insider and additional open-records documents from numerous states, and more than 60 in-person, phone and email interviews with rescuers, breeders, animal advocates and auctioneers. It is the first time that anyone has ever documented\u2014in dollars and cents\u2014the multimillion-dollar river of cash that is flowing from rescue nonprofits, shelters and dog-advocacy groups through auctions into the pockets of dog breeders.\nKim Kavin is a member of The Washington Post Talent Network. She is also the author of \"The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores and Rescuers\" (Pegasus Books, 2016), a book of investigative journalism.\nOriginally published April 11, 2018. This article has been updated with responses from Bailing Out Benji, Lone Star Dog Ranch and Cavalier Rescue of Alabama.\nData for graphic on highest prices per breed comes from Southwest Auction invoices and court documents.\nGraphics by Gabriel Florit. Photo editing by Robert Miller. Design and development by Courtney Kan. Icons from iStock.\nUSDA says individuals and groups may need license if buying dogs for rescue at auction\nRegulators issued new guidance and rescuers debated the practice of buying dogs from breeders after a Washington Post investigation.\n'It's a war': Dog breeders rally behind an 81-year-old convicted of animal cruelty\nThe case of Joan Huber, a luminary on the dog show circuit, is a window into the deepening cultural battle between breeders and animal-protection groups, whose \"adopt, don't shop\" message is winning growing support from politicians, authorities and the public.\nMore people are adopting old dogs \u2014 really old dogs\nOne organization says it envisions \"a world where no old dog dies alone and afraid.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"YVR get sassy on power-pop lead single \"Heartless\"\nBy Pip Williams \/ 26 April 2019, 17:15 BST\nYVR \u2013 comprised of couple Courtney Jen\u00e1e and Stephen Stahl \u2013 cut their teeth working with K-pop supergroups such as Exo and Girls Generation. Today marks their first EP release as a duo, headed up with dazzling lead single \"Heartless\".\nChannelling the high-octane vibes YVR's background in K-pop would lead you to expect, \"Heartless\" is a gleaming, diamond-sharp pop gem with an emotional core. Jen\u00e1e's voice soars with every repeat of the song's \"Baby I ain't heartless \/ I just learned to use my heart less\" refrain. There's a surprising tension to the track, given that Jen\u00e1e and Stahl are in fact married, but it's a mark of their craftsmanship that every facet of \"Heartless\" is as believable as it is delectable.\n\"Heartless\" is an obvious selection for both lead track and opener on the pair's Night Days EP, also out today. The record features all of YVR's singles so far, including 2017's feisty, bass-led \"Unique\" alongside last year's \"Messy\" and \"Always You\".\n\"There are endless distractions during the day which is why our creative minds peak at night,\" Jena\u00e9 explains. \"Night Days is a collection of six songs that focuses on personal relationships and life experience. We poured ourselves into every lyric, melody and sound.\"\n\"Heartless\" is out now via Wondr Music, on the Night Days EP.\nHow Emily Dickinson influenced the lyrics to PINS' \"Molly\"\nPolaroids with Tei Shi","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Press Release -- June 7th, 2011\nSource: KDDI America\nTags: Ethernet, Exchange\nKDDI America to exhibit at the TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXCHANGE at CIPRIANI on Wall Street June 29th\nJune 7th, 2011- KDDI America Inc., the U.S. division of KDDI CORPORATION, a Global Fortune 500 company and worldwide leader in international telecommunications services announced today that, KDDI America will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the inaugural Telecommunications Exchange, an industry event designed to navigate network decision makers through the many interconnection connectivity options available in and around the New York Tri-State area.\nThe event will take place on June 29th and be host to over 150 registrants and 60 exhibitors. KDDI America will be a co-exhibitor with TELEHOUSE America, a leader in international data centers. The Telecommunications exchange brings together C-level, senior executives and media contacts to facilitate one to one connections and to foster real business opportunities taking place at Cipriani's in Manhattan. Additionally there will be a CEO round table discussion during the agenda which will begin at 11AM and close at 6PM.\nJoin KDDI America for this event and register online at: http:\/\/www.thetelecomexchange.com\/\nAbout KDDI America, Inc.\nKDDI America is the U.S. division of the KDDI Group of companies, a Fortune Global 500 company and leading provider of international telecommunications and collocation facilities around the world. KDDI America provides high-quality network solutions to clients with telecommunication needs throughout EMEA, and the Americas. KDDI Group is a pioneer and innovator in the Ethernet world, being the first telecom provider to provide switched Ethernet services between Asia and the United States. KDDI is also a leading provider in international data centers and value-added services through its group company, Global TELEHOUSE, in the United States, Europe and Asia\nSandra de Novellis\nKDDI America\ns.denovellis@kddia.com\nPrevious: What service providers should know about World IPV6 Day\nNext: Fibertech Networks to Demonstrate IPv6 Readiness\nKDDI America To Exhibit At The CHANNEL PARTNERS CONFERENCE & EXPO in Las Vegas, March 13-15\nLightower to Exhibit at the 2011 High Performance Computing for Wall Street Show, April 4th\nKDDI America Announces Upgrade of Europe-Asia Cable\nKDDI America Expands Its Metro Network in the West Coast Area\nKDDI America Expands New York Metro Network to TELEHOUSE NEW YORK Chelsea","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Orrick | The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020\nOn January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (the \"AML Act\"), which contains the most significant reforms to U.S. AML laws since the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001.[1]\nBelow are some key provisions of the AML Act, and here is a more detailed description of the statute's major provisions.\nBeneficial Ownership Registry. Creates a new, long-awaited central registry for beneficial ownership information of shell companies and other smaller, less regulated entities, which will be available to financial institutions, law enforcement, and regulators (effective within approximately one year).\nImposes criminal and civil penalties in connection with willful beneficial ownership reporting failures, the provision of false or fraudulent beneficial ownership information, and the unauthorized disclosure and improper use of such information.\nWhistleblower Program. Creates a more comprehensive whistleblower incentive program for AML violations with increased awards and protections (effective immediately\u2014additional rulemaking authorized, but without a required time frame).\nSubpoena Power over Foreign Banks. Expands statutory authority of the Department of Justice to subpoena documents from foreign financial institutions that maintain correspondent accounts in the United States (effective immediately).\nNew Crimes. Makes it a crime to conceal the ownership or control of assets exchanged in monetary transactions involving senior foreign political figures, or financial institutions or jurisdictions of primary money laundering concern, and adds increased penalties for repeated violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (\"BSA\") (effective immediately).\nNew Collateral Punishments. Prohibits persons convicted of egregious violations of the BSA from sitting on the board of directors of any U.S. financial institution for 10 years. Provides for the claw-back of bonuses paid by financial institutions to certain employees who are subsequently convicted of BSA violations.\nIncorporation of National Priorities into AML Exams. Requires the Treasury Department (\"Treasury\") to establish National AML\/Countering the Financing of Terrorism Priorities within six months. During regulatory exams, regulators must consider the incorporation of those priorities into a financial institution's compliance program (regulations effective six months after establishment of priorities).\nVirtual Currencies and Antiquities. Codifies existing regulatory guidance that the BSA covers virtual currencies (effective immediately) and expands the scope of the BSA to include antiquities dealers, advisors, and consultants (effective within approximately one year).\nStreamlining Suspicious Activity Reporting. Requires Treasury and the Justice Department, among other government and industry stakeholders, to consider how to streamline AML reporting, including Suspicious Activity Reports and Currency Transaction Reports, and to propose regulations to Congress (within one year).\nOrrick's Guide to the AML Act of 2020\nJeanine McGuinness, Partner, Washington, D.C.\nMatthew Moses, Partner, New York, NY\nDaniel Nathan, Partner Washington, D.C. & New York\nAmy Walsh, Partner, New York, NY\nBenjamin Dobkin, Career Associate, Wheeling, WV\nTiffany Rowe, Senior Associate, Washington, D.C.\nCompliments of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe \u2013 a member of the EACCNY.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Graded Single Cards\nGolf Singles\nRacing Singles\nUFC\/MMA Singles\nAlexander Ovechkin\nKen Griffey Jr.\n2020 Topps Now Bundesliga Youssoufa Moukoko #45 CSG 10 (Pristine)\nSuggested Price $79.95\nAt the age of 16 years old and one day, Youssoufa Moukoko made his debut on November 21, 2020 becoming the youngest Bundesliga player of all time. He takes the longstanding record of Nuri Sahin by 330 days, who was also a BVB Wonderkid when he made his bow. With a reputation for incredible goalscoring ability, fans around the world eagerly await more game-time for Moukoko.\nIt is very difficult to obtain a CSG 10 grade. It is comparable to the rarity of the BGS 10 Pristine. Don't let this opportunity pass to get one Moukoko's rookie cards in a very rare grade!\nPlease note, we are recieving several CSG authenticated cards daily, so you may not receive the same card shown in the picture.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Updated on: Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 05:42 AM IST\n100 mineral blocks to come under hammer by March\nNew Delhi: Having secured Rs 1.81 lakh crore in its kitty from e-auction of 50 mineral blocks, the government is looking to put on block another 100 mines in the next six months, according to the Ministry of Mines. The government so far has auctioned 50 mines, including 23 limestone, 17 iron ore, 4 gold, 2 each of manganese and graphite blocks and one bauxite and diamond block each.\nThere are 102 blocks in pipeline to be auctioned by March 2019 in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana and Assam, as per a report by the Ministry of Mines on progress of block auction. These include 42 limestone, 19 bauxite, 11 manganese ore, 8 copper, 6 iron ore, 6 graphite, 3 zinc, 2 emerald, 2 gold, 1 iron ore & manganese, 1 dolomite\/limestone and 1 copper ore.\nAs per the report, Jharkhand will auction the highest 20 blocks followed by 16 by Rajasthan and 13 each by Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Of these 102, the government plans to auction two limestone blocks in October. Of the two blocks, one is in Andhra Pradesh and the other is in Gujarat. The Chintalayapalle-Abdullapuram-Korumanipalli (CAK) limestone block in Andhra Pradesh with reserves of 104.68 million tonnes (MT) will be auctioned on October 12.\nThe Bhatvadiya block in Gujarat with reserves of 477.2 MT will go under the hammer on October 17. The Centre had earlier said it was considering granting all approvals, including environmental clearance, to mineral blocks before putting them up for sale, a move that may give a push to the auctions. The idea is to fast-track auctioning and iron out issues related to green clearances and land rights are addressed upfront. It has given in-principle approval to provide single clearance for environment and forest to the new lease holders of the 288 mining leases expiring in two years. From the 50 mineral blocks auctioned so far since 2015, the government will earn a revenue of Rs 1.81 lakh crore over the lease period.\nPublished on: Monday, October 08, 2018, 02:07 AM IST\ne-auction mineral blocks\nmine block on auction\nMinistry of Mines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News RHI Magnesita to merge operations in India\nRHI Magnesita to merge operations in India\nIndia: RHI Magnesita plans to merge its three local subsidiaries, RHI India and RHI Clasil with Orient Refractories. On completion of the proposed merger RHI Magnesita will own about 70% in Orient Refractories which will be renamed RHI Magnesita India. The transaction is expected to be complete by mid-2019.\n\"The proposed merger of our Indian subsidiaries marks an important milestone towards expanding RHI Magnesita's market leadership in the refractory market in India. One strong, integrated organisation and management will increase long term value for all stakeholders and efficiently combine resources and capabilities. This merger will significantly enhance the profile of RHI Magnesita in India and creates a stronger foundation to tap the immense growth potential we see in the Indian market,\" said Stefan Borgas, chief executive officer (CEO) of RHI Magnesita.\nOrient Refractories is currently 70% owned by RHI Magnesita. It is a manufacturer and supplier of special refractory products, systems and services for the steel industry. RHI India, a wholly-owned RHI Magnesita subsidiary, is the local sales company of RHI Magnesita group offering a range of refractories and related services sourced from various RHI Magnesita group entities to Indian customers. RHI Clasil is 53.7% owned by RHI Magnesita. It is a manufacturer and supplier of mainly alumina-based refractories for steel and cement.\nThis merger is part of RHI Magnesita's strategic pillar 'markets' that focuses on building a global presence with strong local organisations and solid market positions. India's growth prospects in the refractory market derive primarily from the steel sector, which is RHI Magnesita's largest customer industry.\nOnce the merger is complete the new company will operate two production plants and employ over 700 workers. The proposal is subject to shareholder and regulator approval.\nLast modified on 01 August 2018\nRHI Magnesita\nRHI India\nRHI Clasil\nOrient Refractories\nNew Executive Vice President and General Counsel for RHI Magnesita\nFake UltraTech website revealed\nImerys seeks to reduce raw materials costs with Hysil acquisition\nLafargeHolcim Bangladesh to become a 'building materials solutions provider'\nMangalam Cement installs 5.15MW WHR plant at Morak cement plant","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What is the difference between DirectX 11 and 12?\nI wanted to know this because older graphics hardware that only supported DirectX 11 now supports DirectX 12 too. This was not the case between DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 (i.e. DirectX 10 hardware could not support DirectX 11 games).\nWhat is the difference between DirectX 11 and 12? How is it possible that older hardware can now use DirectX 12?\nAs a gamer it doesn't mean too much. The most obvious difference that DirectX 12 requires Windows 10, while DirectX 11 requires Windows 7 or later. DirectX 12 also requires that your video card driver supports it as well. This means you need to have a relatively recent AMD, NVIDIA or Intel video card with updated drivers.\nIn terms of its effect on games DirectX 12 doesn't really change what can be displayed, it just allows for more efficient rendering. Its main improvement is that it lets more than one CPU core to submit commands to the graphic card at the same time. With DirectX 11 or earlier games were effectively limited to accessing the video card from only one CPU core of a multicore CPU at a time.\nHowever the advantages of DirectX 12 aren't easy for developers to exploit in practice. At this point, I don't expect that many games will be able make effective use of it. For the most part, only AAA games would have both the resources and the need to usefully exploit DirectX 12.\nSince DirectX 12 doesn't really add new rendering functionality, it just changes the how games access the video card, it's possible to support it with older hardware simply by updating the drivers.\n(To be a bit more technical, Direct3D 12 requires that the driver be updated to use WDDM 2.0 and that the hardware supports at least feature level 11_0. The newer feature levels 12_0 and 12_1, mostly affect how games can access graphics resources. The limited additional hardware requirements meant that some older \"DirectX 11\" hardware was able to support the newer 12_0 level.)\nSource : Link , Question Author : Mr. VampFox , Answer Author : Community\nCategories directx-11\nWhat are conditions to get NPC invasion at Dark Souls 3?\nHow long do wild seeds take to grow?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Association Copies: Truly One-of-a-Kind (1)\nBeat Scene Press (7)\nBlack Mountain College: Authors & Friends (19)\nEBSN: Colleagues & Friends (1)\nLetterpress & Hand-Printed (2)\nLiterary History, Criticism & Commentary (21)\nMagazines & Literary Journals (12)\nMemoir & Autobiography (2)\nMusic & Music History (1)\nSan Francisco Renaissance (11)\nSmall Press & Mimeograph Revolution (3)\nThe Beat Generation (14)\nAny Price (35)\t Under $100 (30)\t $100-499 (4)\t $500-4,999 (1)\nauthor: Charles Olson\nVarious (Eshleman, Clayton; Doolittle, Hilda \"H.D.\"; Freud, Sigmund; Melville, Herman; Olson, Charles; Penn Warren, Robert; Stein, Gertrude et al.)\nJefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1989. First Printing. Softcover. The particularly eclectic spring 1989 number of the vintage literary journal. Featuring essays on the Michigan poet Clayton Eshleman by Paul Christensen, the feminist icon Hilda \"H.D.\" Doolittle, Gertrude Stein & more. Also in this issue are reviews of works on Freud (who treated H.D. as a patient), Herman Melville, Beat-related poet Charles Olson & Robert Penn Warren. Quite an..... More\nVarious (Ashbery, John; Bishop, Elizabeth; Bly, Robert; Creeley, Robert; Dylan, Bob; Jeffers, Robinson; Olson, Charles; Whitman, Walt; Williams, William Carlos et al.)\nJefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990. First Printing. Softcover. Another very eclectic number of the scholarly journal, with a wide variety of subjects: Essays on John Ashbery's work by Margueritte S. Murphy, Elizabeth Bishop's by Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Robert Bly's by Victoria Frenkel Harris & William Carlos Williams' by William Doreski; notes on Bob Dylan's poetry-lyrics by James W. Earl; reviews of works on Beat-related poets Robert Creeley &..... More\nVarious (Berman, Wallace; Burroughs, William S.; Doyle, Kirby; Fante, Dan; Fruscella, Tony; Kerouac, Jack; Olson, Charles; Spicer, Jack et al.)\nBeat Scene No. 81 (Winter 2016)\nCoventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 81 starts with Editor Kevin Ring's intriguing article on little-known Beat poet Kirby Doyle. Although Doyle is lesser-known to the masses, such credible giants of American poetry as Diane di Prima and Lawrence Ferlinghetti have heralded Doyle as among the best poets of his generation. Following Ring's article is a contribution by poet, publisher, and former wife..... More\nVarious (Burroughs, William S.; Hoffenberg, Mason; Kerouac, Jack; McClure, Joanna; Olson, Charles; Stern, Gerd; Snyder, Gary; et al.)\nBeat Scene No. 82 (Summer 2016)\nCoventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. The Summer 2016 issue of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a short article on the activities and influence of Joanna McClure, poet & former wife of Michael McClure. Also an interview of Gary Snyder, a biographical anecdote of William S. Burroughs by Jim White, where he relates a visit to Burroughs' famous bunker on 222 Bowery Street in New York..... More\nVarious (Burroughs, William S.; DeLattre, Pierre; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Gysin, Brion; Kerouac, Jack; Nutall, Jeff; Patchen, Kenneth; Olson, Charles)\nBeat Scene No. 83 (Late Summer 2016)\nCoventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 83 of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a great essay with a then-81 year old Lawrence Ferlinghetti about the infamous HOWL trial and the original San Francisco scene surrounding the publication of Ginsberg's most widely-known work. Ferlinghetti, as ever, is quick to dispel rumors and misconceptions about the event and that time, fly-swatting the mythology away from the..... More\nVarious (Antin, David; Burroughs, William S.; Kerouac, Jack; Kyger, Joanne; McClure, Michael; Olson. Charles; Raworth, Tom; Rexroth, Kenneth; Rothenberg, Jerome; Snyder, Gary; White, Kenneth)\nCoventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2017. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Issue No. 86 is another expectably outstanding issue in the celebrated & long-running series from Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press. The issue begins with an interview of Roy Pennington, brother of Jim Pennington of Aloe's Books (publisher of the William S. Burroughs classic \"White Subway\" and more), that discusses Roy's publication of \"Mayfair Academy Series More or Less,\"..... More\nVarious (Ring, Kevin, Editor; Bukowski, Charles; Clark, Tom; Creeley, Robert; Crowe, Thomas Rain; Duncan, Robert; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Kerouac, Jack; Olson, Charles et al.)\nCoventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the essential magazine with its finger on the Beat, published, edited & with contributions by Kevin Ring in the UK, features an excerpt from our very own inaugural book publication, Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books. Reprinted here is the part of our interview with Crowe in which he reminisces..... More\nCharters, Samuel (Creeley, Robert; Duncan, Robert; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Ginsberg, Allen; Olson, Charles; Snyder, Gary; Welch, Lew et al.)\nSome Poems\/ Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry Since 1945\nBerkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. \"I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have an..... More\nSome Poems\/Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry Since 1945\nBerkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1971. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. \"I don't want anyone who's interested in contemporary poetry to be put off by any sense of formality in these studies of a group of poems and poets out of the last twenty years of the American poetic experience...What I've tried to do in these studies is to get down some of my own responses to writing that seems to have..... More\nVarious (Apollinaire, Guillaume; Beach, Mary; Beck, Julian; Corso, Gregory; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Ginsberg, Allen; McClure, Michael; Nuttall, Jeff; Olson, Charles; Pelieu, Claude; Plymell, Charles et al.)\nCity Lights Journal, Number Three\nSan Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. The third number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic Beat imprint, City Lights Books. Features an article by Richard Shattuck about Surrealist poet & playwright Guillaume Apollinaire (Apollinaire's great Whitman Happening\") with a photograph of Apollinaire; Mary Beach's translation from French into English of a fragment from her husband Claude Pelieu's prose-poetry work..... More\nVarious (Strand, Mark; (Editor); Ansen, Alan; Ashberry, John; Berryman, John; Bishop, Elizabeth; Bly, Robert; Clark, Tom; Corso, Gregory; Creeley, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen; Hall, Donald; Ignatow, David; Koch, Kenneth; Levertov, Denise; Levine, Philip; Lowell, Robert; Merrill, James; O'Hara, Frank; Olson, Charles; Plath, Sylvia; Roethke, Theodore; Sexton, Anne; Snyder, Gary; Wakoski, Diane et al.)\nThe Contemporary American Poets: American Poetry Since 1940\nNew York, NY & Cleveland, OH: The New American Library, Inc.\/ The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Printing. Hardcover. \"The Contemporary American Poets is a collection of representative work by the best poets writing in the U.S.A. It stays clear of bias, favoring no one group of poets over any other, reflecting, instead, the rich variety that characterizes contemporary American poetry...(providing) the reader with the clearest and most comprehensive view..... More\nDorfman, Elsa (Corso, Gregory; Creeley, Robert; Duncan, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen, Kyger, Joanne; Olson, Charles; Orlovsky, Peter; Sanders, Ed; Snyder, Gary; Waldman, Anne et al.)\nElsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal\nBoston, MA: David R. Godine, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. The classic work of photo-journalism by Elsa Dorfman. After working for Grove Press in NYC during the early 1960s height of its literary ferment, Dorfman moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts but kept in touch with the literary luminaries she had befriended. They visited her & she photographed them, eventually resulting in this volume beloved by enthusiasts of the Beat Generation & Beyond..... More\nVarious (Ashberry, John; Beckett, Samuel; Corso, Gregory; Creeley, Robert; Dorn, Edward; Ginsberg, Allen; Kerouac, Jack; Lowell, Robert; McClure, Michael, Merrill, James; O'Hara, Frank; Olson, Charles; Snyder, Gary; Whalen, Philip et al.)\nEvergreen Review, Vol. 2, Nos. 5-8, Summer 1958 - Spring 1959\nNew York, NY: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Four vintage issues of the legendary literary journal co-edited & published by Barney Rosset & his Grove Press, bound into one hardcover volume (presumably for libraries & institutions). Consisting of the complete contents of all four contiguous issues of Summer 1958, Autumn 1958, Winter 1959 & Spring 1959; except for front & back covers of original issues, which are not..... More\nVarious (McClure, Michael; McNaughton, Duncan; Olson, Charles; Sanders, Edward; Wieners, John et al.)\nFathar 2, December 1970\nBuffalo, NY: Duncan McNaughton, 1970. First Printing. Stapled Sheets. This vintage literary journal, compiled & published by renowned poet Duncan McNaughton, features contributions by Michael McClure (the two-part poem \"Tatagatha Valentines\"); McNaughton himself (the short poem \"Page for the Buddha of Right Motive\"); Charles Olson (a short untitled poem dedicated to Bob Hogg dated October 23, 1967); Edward Sanders (the poem \"The Barge of Charles Olson Down River by the..... More\nO'Hara, Frank; Various (Ashbery, John; Berkson, Bill (Editor); Berrigan, Ted; Brainard, Joe; Cage, John; Creeley, Robert; de Kooning, Elaine; Dubuffet, Jean; Duncan, Robert; Elmslie, Kenward; Freilicher, Jane; Ginsberg, Allen; Guest, Barbara; Guston, Philip; Koch, Kenneth; LeSeur, Joe (Editor); Malanga, Gerard; Olson, Charles; Padgett, Ron; Schuyler, James; Southern, Terry; Wieners, John et al.\nHomage to Frank O'Hara\nBolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1978. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. \"Frank O'Hara in others--that is what this book is about. As editors, we have collected the messages, long and short, from many of the people who knew Frank or who otherwise feel some close connection with him through either hearsay or his work or both, and whom we approached, asking them to contribute in the forms of their choice: \"How..... More\nOlson, Charles\nY & X\nWashington DC: The Black Sun Press \/ Caresse Crosby, 1950 (1948). Second Edition (In This Case Also Referred to as the \"Trade\" Edition\"). Stapled Wrappers. When Charles Olson arrived at an already historic Black Mountain College, he had only this book of poems and his study of Melville, \"Call Me Ishmael\" (1947) published under his name. To think of all that Olson published post-Black Mountain, and his rising fame in..... More\nOlson, Charles (Boer, Charles; Butterick, George F.; Mikolowski, Ken; Mikolowski Ann)\nThe Maximus Poems (Two Editions) with: Maximus Poems IV, V, VI with: The Maximus Poems Volume Three with: A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson with: Ephemera\nNew York, NY; London, England; Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: Jargon\/ Corinth Books; Cape Goliard Press; Grossman Publishers\/ The Viking Press; University of California Press, 1960-1980. Second Printings; First Softcover Editions. Four Softcovers; One Hardcover. The Maximus Poems are the Magnum Opus of Charles Olson (1910-1970), the great Black Mountain-&-Beyond poet who was, literally & in literature, a towering figure. His deep, wide-sweeping poems, & ideas about poetry, continue to..... More\nOlson, Charles (Dorn, Ed)\nA Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn\nSan Francisco, CA: Four Seasons Foundation \/ City Lights Books, 1964. Third Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Now here's some quintessential Olson--stylistic, admonishing, alluring yet borderline incomprehensible. This writer would argue that one has to consider Olson's letters--along with his famed, sprawling talk-a-thons--within the context of his amphetamine use. While I am aware that this is something footnoted and known about Olson--that his amphetamine use sometimes shaped his lectures and talks--I don't..... More\nSan Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Edition Thus. Softcover. \"CHARLES OLSON, true poet of Gloucester, Mass., first published this barnacled study of Herman Melville almost twenty years ago, and it has since become recognized as a classic of American literary criticism, a fine whalebone key to the great American saga of the White Whale (and to the hunt for that America which still goes on).\" Undeniably the voice..... More\nSelected Writings (Ed. & w\/Introduction by Robert Creeley)\nNew York, NY: New Directions, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. Complete with one-of-a-kind \"Olsonite\" sticker, this copy of Charles Olson's \"Selected Writings\" with introduction by Robert Creeley is from the collection of Ken & Ann Mikolowski, co-founders of Detroit's visionary Alternative Press, publishers of many \"Beat'\/ New York\/\"Black Mountain School\"-affiliated authors. We don't know how the \"Olsonite\" sticker got there--whether it was an Alternative Press production or a gift from Creeley..... More\nArchaeologist of Morning\nLondon, England: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. A primary source book for innumerable mid-century masters & beyond, Charles Olson's monumental \"Archaeologist of Morning\" can be seen as Olson's 'Collected Poems' outside of his famed \"Maximus\" series, as it contains all the poems Olson himself actually approved for publication in his lifetime not intended for the Maximus series. As such, it contains \"Y & X,\" \"In Cold Hell, In..... More\nO'Ryan 1-10\nDetroit, MI: The Alternative Press, 1970. First Edition Thus. Stapled Sheets. Charles Olson (1910-1970), a literal & literary Giant in the canon of twentieth-century American poetry, first published some of these poems in a small edition during 1958; then expanded to ten poems in a larger edition during 1965 (see Butterick & Glover, A12 a-b, pgs. 11-12). In the deep, allusive Olsonian manner, the poems combine expansive mythology with contemporary..... More\nThe Special View of History\nBerkeley, CA: Oyez Press, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. The towering (literally & figuratively) American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) defines The Special View of History as \"An attempt to state a view of reality which yields a stance nexal to the practice of verse, narrative and theater now. A course of study which proceeds on the level of history and of a concept of man with the dynamic first proposed in..... More\nThe Fiery Hunt and Other Plays\nBolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1977. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. \"This volume continues the effort to bring together the writings which Charles Olson left behind at his death in 1970. Presented here are the eleven known plays and verse dramas which he wrote during his career as poet. None was ever performed, a few were even abandoned before completion, but they all are notable for their willingness to explore the..... More","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Potential Drug Target Identified for Zika and Similar Flaviviruses\nShutting down a single gene may disrupt the viruses from spreading in the body\nA team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a single gene pathway that is vital for Zika and other flaviviruses to spread infection between cells. Further, the researchers showed that shutting down a single gene in this pathway\u2014in both human and insect cells\u2014does not negatively affect the cells themselves and renders flaviviruses unable to leave the infected cell, curbing the spread of infection.\nThe study, published June 17 in Nature, points to a potential drug target for Zika and other flaviviruses such as dengue and West Nile that have major impacts on public health.\n\"We wanted to find out if we could identify genes present in the host cells that are absolutely required by the virus for infection,\" said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine. \"Out of about 19,000 genes that we looked at, we only found nine key genes that the virus relies on for infection or to spread. All of them are associated with an important part of the cell that processes viral particles, which is essential to spreading the infection.\"\nTo identify genes that flaviviruses rely on, Diamond and his colleagues utilized a gene editing technology called CRISPR that is capable of selectively shutting down individual genes. Viruses must hijack host cells to replicate and spread, making them dependent upon the genetic material of the organisms they infect. If a cell lacks a gene that the virus requires for infection, the virus will be stopped in its tracks, and the cell will survive. Such evidence indicates that the missing gene is vital to viral spread and should be studied further.\nOf the nine key genes Diamond and his colleagues identified, one called SPCS1, when disabled, not only reduces viral infection but appears to have no adverse effects on the cells the scientists studied. The researchers performed the first experiments on West Nile virus and then showed that the same results held true for other Flaviviridae family members, including Zika, dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and hepatitis C viruses.\nWhile the absence of this gene shut down the spread of flaviviruses, the researchers found that eliminating the gene had no detrimental effect on other types of viruses, including alphaviruses, bunyaviruses, and rhabdoviruses.\n\"Flaviviruses appear to be uniquely dependent on this particular gene to release the viral particle,\" Diamond said. \"In these viruses, this gene sets off a domino effect that is required to assemble and release the viral particle. Without it, the chain reaction doesn't happen and the virus can't spread. So we are interested in this gene as a potential drug target because it disrupts the virus and does not disrupt the host.\"\nSource: Washington University School of Medicine; June 17, 2016.\nZika Virus Structure Revealed April 1, 2016\nExperimental Zika Vaccine Begins Human Testing June 21, 2016\nTexas Hospitals Develop Rapid Test for Zika Virus February 24, 2016\nCDC Summit Focuses on Coordinated Zika Response April 4, 2016\nPotent Antibody Neutralizes Zika Infection in Early Research November 28, 2016","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sanders Supporters Get Their Day In Court Against Wasserman Schultz\nby Shawn M. Griffiths, published Apr 24, 2017\nThe class action lawsuit Wilding, et. al. v. DNC Services, d\/b\/a Democratic National Committee and Deborah \"Debbie\" Wasserman Schultz will be heard Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The lawsuit was originally filed on June 28, 2016.\nThe lawsuit, filed by a group of Bernie Sanders supporters, alleges that leaders in the Democratic Party propped up Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary over Sanders, violating the DNC's own rules on neutrality. The lawsuit was filed nearly a month before WikiLeaks dumped over 20,000 DNC emails, some of which indeed showed explicit bias in favor of Clinton and efforts to marginalize Sanders' campaign.\nAll the court-filed documents can be found here.\nThese emails included plans to target Sanders' religious beliefs, pitching a story that his campaign was in disarray, media collusion, and prepping statements about the end of his campaign in April. Then DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz even reportedly sent an email calling Sanders' campaign director an \"ass\" for declaring that his candidate would continue to fight on to the convention.\nBut that isn't all, and you can read more here. Wasserman Schultz resigned her position in wake of the email scandal.\nNow, Sanders supporters will have a chance to make their case against the DNC and Wasserman Schultz before a federal judge. District Court Judge William J. Zloch scheduled oral argument earlier this month on the defendant's motion to dismiss. Defendants will make the case that plaintiffs lack standing.\nRead the full lawsuit:\nPhoto Credit: Gino Santa Maria \/ shutterstock.com\nShawn M. Griffiths\nShawn is the Election Reform Editor for IVN.us. He studied history and philosophy at the University of North Texas, and joined the IVN team in 2012. He has several years of experience covering the broad scope of political and election reform efforts across the country, and has an extensive knowledge of the movement at large. A native Texan, he now lives in San Diego, California.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"AUCTION AUDIO\nUp until the mid-1980s the New Bedford seafood auction took place in the Wharfinger Building on Pier 3. Several individuals reminisce about what it was like in the old days.\nThe Old Auction Program 1:\n\"The foundation of the industry\" (4:09)\nhttps:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/184.168.47.225\/173.b0b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/01.mp3\n\"You can't say it was fair.\" (3:13)\n\"A million pounds in 22 minutes\" (3:38)\nhttps:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/184.168.47.225\/173.b0b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/The-Old-Auction-Program-3-WEB-2.mp3\nIn the mid-twentieth century, after the textile industry decline, New Bedford turned once again to the sea, and its commercial fishing fleet expanded. Several changes helped this to happen. Fishing boats switched from sails to motors. Improved diesel engines allowed for a safe journey to the abundant Georges Bank fishing grounds about 175 miles northeast of Cape Cod.\nAnother important change occurred around 1940, when New Bedford's fishing vessels no longer had to go to New York to sell their catch, but could return to port to sell it, where trucks now transported the catch. Also at this time, refrigeration and the building of a freezer plant increased the ability to process fish at the port.\nFisherman Daniel F. Mullins recalls:\n\"We would go to Georges Bank\u2026and steam back to New York;\u2026because you couldn't sell the fish here, see. Well Bill Eldridge\u2026started using a truck\u2026. We had talked before about how some day the boats would be able to land fish in New Bedford, but we never thought trucks were the answer.\"\nWorking Waterfront Exhibit, New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Courtesy Spinner Publications, Inc.\nVideo provided courtesy of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park\nThese mid-twentieth century changes allowed a competitive local market to develop, and led to a development that would become a major part in the process of getting fish from the boat to the plate. At first, boat captains went to the different fish houses looking for the best price. Then about 1941, the first fish auction was started. This centralized the process of selling the catch, using set rules and time limits. In September 1947, the city added on to the Wharfinger Building, to house the daily auction. On busy days, as many as three auctioneers stood at the auction's chalkboard, marking the bidders' prices and using special auction lingo (such as \"YT\" for yellowtail flounder and single initials for different bidders). The catch stayed on the boats until it was sold. Some boat captains, known as \"highliners\", had a reputation for bringing back a quality catch, and so their loads would bring the highest bids.\nThe bidding lasted just so long. Lumper Jim Dwyer recalls:\n\"We would have as much as a million pounds in that auction and it was done in 22 minutes, the selling. It started at 8 o'clock in the morning and the end of the auction was 8:22. And as much as a million pounds, not for a week there, per day.\"\nPhotos provided courtesy of Gordon Massingham\nBefore it closed, captains had a chance to refuse bids they felt were too low, holding on to their catch in the hopes of a better price the next day. The auction was fast-paced and packed with people (though only certain people were allowed in the hall during bidding), and at times there was a police officer on duty to keep everything under control.\nJohn F. Linehan, General Manager of New Bedford Seafood Producers Association from 1951-1959, recalls:\nPeople who come in here from the outside think, \"My God, this is chaos.\" Well it wasn't. It was organized chaos, but everyone knew what he was doing.\nPhoto provided courtesy of Spinner Publications\nPhoto provided by James Dwyer\nOnce the auction closed, the catch that was sold was offloaded at the individual fish houses that bought it.\nFormer auctioneer Paul Swain remembers:\n\"When the auction was over, you'd have say ten boats and you only have so many places to go unload; everybody had different signals then, one means go way down, the other one means go this way, and it was like a race to see them going down there! Because if you don't get the first door, you don't start unloading until noon time. A lot of the times it was near collisions as they went south.\"\nIn 1985, the auction ended in the course of a bitter strike between fishermen and boat owners. Private sales took over, despite different efforts to revive the auction by the city, boat owners, and the lumpers who unload the boat's catch.\nFor period of time, the auction was held under the overpass.\nThen in 1994, brothers Raymond and Richard Canastra of Fairhaven established the Whaling City Seafood Display Auction (now called BASE or Buyers and Sellers Exchange. In a display auction, vessels offload the catch into coolers, allowing buyers to see the catch. The auction went electronic in 1997, replacing chalkboards with faxes and computer. Today BASE is the largest east coast seafood auction.\nTODAY'S AUCTION\nBASE photo by Phillip Mello\nBruce Fontes, grading fish at the auction. Photo by Phillip Mello\nPaul Salvader, a buyer's rep, inspecting fish at the auction. Photo by Phillip Mello\nRichie and Ray at auction. Photo by Markham Starr","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Maywood predator wanted in series of sexual assaults, break-ins strikes again\nA home on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, in the city of Maywood, targeted by a predator who has broken into several houses in the area.\nMAYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- Authorities are warning families in the Maywood community of a home intruder on the loose who has been sexually assaulting and targeting young women.\nLos Angeles County sheriff's officials said an attacker broke into a home in the 3600 block of 58th Place at 4 a.m. on Saturday, went into a female victim's bedroom and covered her mouth. When the victim's mother heard the noise and checked on her daughter, the suspect ran away.\nSheriff's officials believe the suspect may be connected to a string of similar crimes in Maywood back in October.\nA 13-year-old girl sleeping in her own bed was attacked by a break-in suspect, who sheriff's officials believe is linked to three similar incidents in Maywood.\nIn two of the cases, the intruder sexually assaulted his victims.\nThe suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his 20s, between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a thin build and wearing dark clothing.\nSheriff's detectives were asking for the public's help in obtaining any information regarding the incidents and in locating the suspect.\nAnyone with information was encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County East Los Angeles Station Detective Bureau at (323) 264-4151. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call \"Crime Stoppers\" by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477).\nmaywoodlos angeles countysafetylos angeles county sheriff's departmentattackbreak in","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sonic Foundry to Release Results of its First Quarter Ended December 31, 2013 on Thursday, February 6, 2014\nCompany will hold its investor webcast at 4:30 p.m. ET\nMADISON, Wis. \u2014 January 23, 2014 \u2014 Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO) the trusted leader for video content management and webcasting solutions, today announced it will release results for its first fiscal 2014 quarter on Thursday, February 6 after the close of the market.\nThis will be the first earnings call since Sonic Foundry completed the strategic acquisitions of MediaMission and Mediasite K.K. The company will update 2014 guidance to account for the impact of those acquisitions during its corporate webcast for analysts and investors at 3:30 p.m. CT \/ 4:30 p.m. ET.\nIt will use its patented webcasting system, Mediasite, to stream the presentation for live and on-demand viewing. To access the presentation, go to sonicfoundry.com\/earnings on or after February 6, 2014. An archive of the conference call will be available for 90 days.\nrAVe InfoComm14 On-Demand\nMonitor on Psychology\nprevious post: Sonic Foundry Completes Mediasite K.K. Acquisition\nnext post: Mediasite Community European Forum Brings Enterprise Video Professionals to Amsterdam","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Reacting to New Zealand's abandonment of the Zero Covid approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, Aont\u00fa Leader and Meath West TD Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn said:\n\"Whatever chance New Zealand had of implementing Zero Covid this policy was, from the second wave on, obviously impossible in Ireland. That fact that the vast majority of the opposition parties in the D\u00e1il supported such a policy gave the Irish government a blank check in their implementation of the most severe and costly restrictions in Europe\"\nAn Teachta T\u00f3ib\u00edn: \"From mid-2020, it was obvious Zero Covid was neither attainable or sustainable. Yet several parties in the D\u00e1il (Soc Dems\/Labour\/PBP\/SF) as a result of buying into Zero Covid, offered no challenge and no critique to the outlier policy that was pursued by the government. Real opposition is a critical part of a functional democracy. When opposition does not do its job it can cost the state significantly in terms policy swings. No other country in Europe imposed restrictions for as long or as severe as Ireland did. This has had massive consequences on Irish society. Patients went without diagnosis and treatment for far too long. Ireland, Saudi Arabia and North Korea were the only countries in the world to outright prohibit religious services\".\nDeputy T\u00f3ib\u00edn continued \"In the first quarter of this year 10,000 homes were not built, this in a country with a housing crisis. Ireland spend \u20ac41 billion on Covid restriction-related costs. We saw a 21% increase in expenditure last year. The EU average was 10% and countries such as France saw an expenditure increase of as low as 5%. The government made these decisions. But much of this was facilitated by our so-called opposition disappearing. Aont\u00fa was the only voice of challenge in this whole period\".\n\"Covid is a real illness and the management of it was extremely difficult. The government and the opposition could not have gotten it all right. However the fact that Ireland was such an extreme outlier has not been properly analysed as of yet. It should be a significant part of the terms of references of any public investigations into the crisis in Ireland. Indeed many other countries have already started the process of investigation. We won't hold our breath in Ireland for either the government or the opposition in calling an investigation into their actions\", concluded T\u00f3ib\u00edn.\n\"RTE Must Apologise To Irish-Polish Community Over Last Night's Choice of Words\" - T\u00f3ib\u00edn","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Spotify urged to stop promoting more artists accused of sexual misconduct\n\"We wrongly perpetuate silence by showing survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence that there will be no consequences for abuse\".\nBy Nick Reilly\nA women's advocacy group is calling on Spotify to extend its policy of ending the promotion of artists accused of serious offences.\nLast week, the streaming service announced that it was removing the music of R.Kelly and XXXTentacion from its promotional playlists, after multiple accusations of sexual misconduct and domestic abuse were levelled at both stars.\nNow, women's advocacy group UltraViolet is calling on the streaming giant to go even further and remove more artists accused of similar offences.\nIn an open letter, UltraViolet's executive director Shaunna Thomas called out artists including Chris Brown, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nelly, Eminem, Don Henley of The Eagles, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Ted Nugent, describing them as artists \"who continue to profit from your promotion.\"\n\"Every time a famous individual continues to be glorified despite allegations of abuse, we wrongly perpetuate silence by showing survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence that there will be no consequences for abuse,\" she wrote.\n\"That has a cultural effect far beyond one individual artist.\"\nAlthough Spotify is yet to respond to the open letter from the group, they faced backlash from 50 Cent last week after the decision was taken against Kelly.\n\"Spotify is wrong for what there doing to artists like R. Kelly and XXXTentacion,' the 42-year-old rapper wrote on Twitter.\nLast year, R&B singer Kelly was accused of running an \"abusive and controlling cult\" of young women. This March, R&B performer Kelly was accused of grooming a 14 year-old girl to be his sex \"pet\".\nThen, in April, Dallas police confirmed they were investigating claims that Kelly gave a woman a STD and plied her with drugs and alcohol when she was 19. He has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Paris 2024 wait on city council vote to unlock new central venue for badminton\nBy Mike Rowbottom in Paris\nParis 2024 organisers - due to welcome the International Olympic Committee's progress-checking Coordination Commission for the first time tomorrow - are keeping their fingers crossed over an imminent city council vote that will be vital to their venue planning.\nThe Council of Paris will meet on July 2 to decide on a proposal by the Grand Palais to create a temporary exhibition area near the Eiffel Tower, that could be used during the Games.\nAt Thursday's (June 14) signing of the Games protocol, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet confirmed a number of proposed changes to the original bid, including moving the badminton to the Champs de Mars, which the Grand Palais wants to develop as a stand-in site while it undergoes extensive renovation.\nParis 2024 have been under scrutiny since April 1, when a Government report by budgetary inspectors warned of a potential Games overspend, highlighting the proposed temporary venues for volleyball and badminton at Le Bourget, in the north-east of the city, as being \"abnormally expensive\".\nThe Grand Palais - the giant exhibition hall and museum venue built on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 - will undergo renovation work from early 2021 to spring 2023.\nOnce work is completed, the venue - through which riders passed on the final stage of the Tour de France last year - is due to host the taekwondo and fencing during the Games.\nIn the meantime, however, it plans to set up a temporary venue - Grand Palais \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re - for hosting regular events such as the La Biennale Paris and the Chanel fashion shows.\nAll the signatories of Thursday's Paris 2024 protocol are hoping the Council of Paris approves plans that would allow the Games to spread its events to the Champs de Mars \u00a9Getty Images\nEarly last week it was announced that the Grand Palais had made the Champs de Mars site its first choice, and that an offer had been made to Paris 2024 to extend its use for the first nine months of 2024.\nThe proposal is being fiercely opposed by local residents.\nBut Paris 2024 insiders are confident that, given the support for Anne Hidalgo, the Paris Mayor and President of the Games Delivery Body SOLIDEO, in the Council, this option is likely to be confirmed.\nEtienne Thobois, the Paris 2024 director general, told insidethegames: \"The idea is to move the badminton, although we need to discuss this.\n\"We had the opportunity of a new temporary venue in the centre of Paris.\n\"The Grand Palais are planning to create a new space for use at the Champs de Mars, and they asked us 'would you be interested in having an opportunity to use this?'\n\"We have taken them up on the idea.\n\"It's about being flexible and taking opportunities as they come.\"\nFor the full Big Read on Paris 2024 click here.\nJune 2018: Paris 2024 confirm new plans for aquatics centre and sign protocol guaranteeing Government budget\nJune 2018: Badminton venue at Paris 2024 set to be moved due to costs concerns\nMay 2018: Paris 2024 reveal plans to celebrate Olympic Day\nMay 2018: Paris 2024 claim commitment to \"most socially responsible Olympic Games\" is more than a soundbite\nMay 2018: Estanguet promises Paris 2024 will boost local economy in speech at \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Franco Di Santo Out And Not Just From The Derby\nSubmitted by content on Sat, 12\/22\/2018 - 09:27\nFranco Di Santo had missed out on the TSG Hoffenheim because of his performance. Revierderby is going to miss Franco Di because of an injury. The striker from FC Schalke is likely to be fit to play against Bayer Leverkusen on 19th December is the last game played at home this year.\nFranco Di Santo had been absent for the starting of the Schalke Team Training Week to prepare for the Revierderby. Domenico Tedesco, the coach has said that the striker is surely going to miss the match Borussia Dortmund because of an injury.\n\"Franco had been suffering from patellar tender issues recently\".It inflamed repeatedly. They did an MRI and found out that there is some kind of irritation as said by Tedesco who has missed the attackers for 1-1 for sporting reasons on TSG Hoffenheim. Tedesco stated that it isn't dramatic but with the recommendation from Patrick Ingelfinger, the team doctor, \"they are taking a\" bit longer to cure it.\nThe main plan for Di Santo is that he is going to get separate training by the end of the second week. He is to receive special training because of his injury. Thereafter, he will get back into the game completely. This implies that apart from missing Lokomotiv Moscow in the group finals of Champions League but also the FC Augsburg game. It is absolutely unfortunate that he is going to miss out on both the games as it is too early into his treatment for the injury. It is conceivable that this 29-year-old player is going to play in the English week that is supposed to take place on 19th of December. This is the last home game of the present year with Bayer Leverkusen.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"PREP ROUNDUP: Smith reaches pair of milestones as Denmark tops Central\nPTSD Series\nBest of Forsyth 2019 Image Galleries\nTake a look at the 2020 Best of Forsyth Winners\nFundraiser aids Miller family\nWoman delayed battle with cancer to give birth\nThe fundraiser for the Miller family is set for 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Tam's Backstage in Cumming. Tickets are $20 and include dinner. For more information, e-mail eventsrsvpadmvca@gmail.com. For those who can't attend but want to help, a fund has been created at Cumming New Life Church. Checks made out to the church, with Andrew Miller's name in the memo line, can be mailed to the church, 1645 Dahlonega Highway, Cumming, GA 30040.\nThe outpouring of support from friends, family and the community has made it easier for Andrew Miller to cope with the recent death of his wife.\n\"It's been an enjoyable way, between phone calls and cards and the well wishing from people, to remember Susan and the life that she lived and remember that it meant something to people,\" said Andrew Miller, past chairman of the Forsyth County Republican Party.\n\"Her life had an impact on people in the community in a positive way and that's always enjoyable to hear.\"\nThe support won't stop with cards and phone calls, as close friends and community members have organized a fundraiser for the Miller family, which includes four young children.\nDiagnosed with cancer just weeks after learning she was pregnant with their fourth child, Susan Miller opted to delay treatment until the baby could survive on its own.\nAndrew Duncan Miller, the couple's only son, is still at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Born several months premature on March 17, the child is healthy but needs more time to develop.\nSusan Miller died May 3 at age 37.\nClay Hopkins, Miller's friend and fellow church member, helped organize the fundraiser with Brian Tam, manager of Tam's Backstage restaurant, site of the event.\n\"I'm just very glad to be able to step in and be a part of this [fundraiser],\" Hopkins said. \"I want him to be able to use this [money] for whatever he needs.\n\"If he needs help with the mortgage, if he needs help with the baby still being in the hospital ... it's really for whatever purpose Andrew needs it to be used for.\"\nHopkins said he was approached with the idea by Tam.\n\"He said he would like to do something for the family,\" Hopkins said.\nTam, a county commissioner, said Susan Miller \"losing her battle to cancer is tragic.\"\n\"Andrew is a fine man raising four children and we want to do what we can do to help him,\" he said.\nFriends have said Susan Miller's decision to risk her own health to save her son reflects her strong values.\nShe served with her husband as co-chair of Forsyth County's chapter of Georgia Right to Life, an organization focused on providing legal protection for life from conception to natural death. She also served as secretary of the Forsyth County Republican Party, as an active member of her church, and as founder and director of the Vickery Christian Academy.\nAndrew Miller said her legacy lives on.\n\"There are a lot of things she was involved with that I wasn't involved with, so it's been good to hear those stories,\" he said. \"It's bittersweet, but it's always good to hear stories about Susan.\"\nEthan Underwood, current chairman of the local GOP, said he is glad to do his part to help the family deal with medical and household expenses.\n\"We want to make sure Andrew has plenty of money to cover these medical bills that are coming in and also to help take care of expenses that single families have,\" he said.\nAndrew Miller said the event is an \"example of the outpouring of support and love that's come about through Susan's death.\"\n\"We've been extremely humbled by the support that's come through the church, friends, family and the community,\" he said. \"It's made this experience much easier to go through with all the support and care.\"\nE-mail Jennifer Sami at jennifersami@forsythnews.com.\nDawson County Fire and Emergency Services find injured hiker, deceased girlfriend\nWoman opens new business selling homemade caramel corn\nHere's how you can help convince Trader Joe's to come to Forsyth County\nThis Forsyth County company is creating parts for the \"most lethal\" fighter jet in history","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU), Admission 2020-21\nBy University Nic August 12, 2020 Kerala, State Universities 0 Comments\nKerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University Prospectus 2020-21: Download Now\nKerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) Admission Schedule 2020:\nEligibility Criteria (KVASU) B.Sc, B.V.Sc and B.Tech Admission 2020 :\nCandidate Relaxation Note :\nKerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University Courses\nThe University is presently enhancing the available infrastructural facilities:\nUniversity Objectives\nUniversity Faculty\nKerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University Affiliated Colleges List:\nName of the College and Address\nMore University Kerala\nUniversity Department\nAbout Campus:\nUniversity Name Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University\nType of University State University\nUniversity Contact Number 04936 209 270\nOfficial Website Click\nUG Courses B.Tech\/BVSc & AH\/BSc\nPG Courses MS\/MV.Sc\nAddress Lakkidi Post, Pookode, Kerala 673576\nLocation Pookode, Kerala\nAffiliated With UGC\nFounded 12 June 2010\nAdmission 2020-21 Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University Admission\nFee Structure Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University Fees Structure\n18 August 2020: The University gives Admission in Different Courses. Students Can Apply Online In Any Program. For More info Click Here.\n16 August 2020: The University Announced Tender Of Availing HT Connection to feed mill, CVAS, Mannuthy. For More Info Click Here.\n14 August 2020: The University Informed That Break the chain diaries distributed to Auto Rickshaw drivers in Mannuthy. For More Info Click Here.\nKerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University is a State University that is Located PookodeKerala this University Provide These Courses Like BSc. Poultry Production and Business Management, Certificate Course in Wildlife Management, Course. it was Established on 12 June 2010 and Affiliated With The University Grants Commission. Student Can Check More Courses These Are Given Below.\nKerala, which forms a 1.18 percent physical area of the country, has many peculiarities. When the area of cultivable land gets reduced, there is amplified potential for livestock goods in the state. Growth in population density, high land weight, varying climatic conditions, growth in the cost of production and reduced obtainability of land for fodder agriculture are some of the major subjects moving this sector. the university has research stations at Thumbermuzhi, Thiruvazhamkunnu, and Mannuthy. Since this is a newly established university, improvement of infrastructure facilities is of paramount importance. The University To offer multidisciplinary courses in the area of Veterinary and Animal Sciences including Wild Life Science and improving the employment opportunities in the sector and out of the country. KVASU scholarships, fellowships, and assistantships are provided to meritorious students. A merit scholarship is awarded to top 10 percent of the meritorious undergraduate students of each batch of the degree program in all colleges under KVASU.\nStudents can check prospectus details and admission procedure can be viewed at the official website. Mode of the application is the online or offline method. Students must be read the instruction of the several programs before filling the online application form. The appearing students are also welcome to apply admission form.\nAdmission Schedule Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University Schedule for application, entrance, and result for UG, PG and Ph.D. courses :\nMVSc\/M. Tech\nM.S.\/M.Sc\nB.Sc PP&BM\nPG Diploma\/ Diploma\nStart of application form submission June 25, 2020\nEnd of application form submission July 25, 2020\nLast date of submission of hard copy of the application form July 31, 2020\nEntrance Test Memo August 01, 2020 to August 10, 2020\nEntrance exam August 30, 2020 August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020 August 13, 2020 August 13, 2020\nEntrance test result August 30, 2020 August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020 August 17, 2020 August 17, 2020\nInterview August 31, 2020 August 17 and 18, 2020 August 16, 2020 \u2013 \u2013\nRank list publication September 03, 2020 August 20, 2020 August 20, 2020 August 21, 2020 August 21, 2020\nCounseling at headquarter September 06, 2020 September 10, 2020 September 06, 2020 September 04, 2020 September 05, 2020\nRegistration September 11, 2020 September 11, 2020 September 11, 2020 September 10, 2020 September 10, 2020\nCommencement of classes September 12, 2020 September 12, 2020 September 12, 2020 September 11, 2020 September 11, 2020\nWaiting List Counseling October 14, 2020 October 14, 2020 September 14, 2020 September t13, 2020 September 13, 2020\nKerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) Eligibility Criteria (B.Sc).To apply for all of the UG level programs one needs to have an aggregate of minimum 50% marks in 10+2 level from an authorized institution. For selection in B.Tech., the candidate needs to have cleared KEAM exam or AIEEA-UG exam. For BVSc. & AH, the candidates have to go through an entrance test NEET-UG, which is regulated by Commissioner of Entrance Examinations of Kerala (CEE) and Veterinary Council of India (VCI). The selection in B.Sc. will be dependent on the marks obtained by the candidate in Entrance Test, Interview and counseling.\nB.Tech. Dairy Technology Passed 10+2 with 50% in PCM along with 50% marks in Mathematics subject specifically KEAM 2020\/AIEEA-UG 2020\nFood Technology KEAM 2020\nBVSc.& AH Veterinary Science Passed 10+2 with 50% aggregate marks in English, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology NEET \u2013 UG 2020\nB.Sc. Poultry Production and Business Management 50% marks in Plus two or VHSE of any stream Entrance Test, Interview and Counseling\n10% relaxation Under BVSc & AH, candidates belonging to SC\/ST categories and 5% relaxation shall be applicable to the candidates belonging to socially and educationally backward communities.\nAdmission to the B. Tech. (Dairy Technology) the course is regulated by Commissioner of Entrance Examinations of Kerala (CEE) through conducting Kerala Engineering Entrance Exam (KEAM 2020) and ICAR through conducting the AIEEA-UG 2020 entrance examination.\nFor B.Sc. (Poultry Production and Business Management), the SC\/ST candidates have to pass in the qualifying examination.\n5% of relaxation candidates belonging to socially and educationally backward communities.\nCourses Duration\nUnder Graduate Programmes\nB Tech 4 Year\nBVSc & AH 5 Year\nBSc. Poultry Production and Business Management 3 Year\nMVSc 3 Year\nMS 2 Year\nPhD 3 to 5 year\nDiploma Programmes 1 Year\nDiploma in Poultry Production 1 Year\nDiploma in Laboratory Techniques 1 Year\nDairy Diploma Programme 1 Year\nAdvanced Diploma in Dairy Science and Technology 4 Year\nCertificate Training Programmes\nCertificate in Capacity Building for Livestock Technology Enterprises 3 Month\nCertificate Course in Wildlife Management 3 Week\nCourse Fees (Annual)\nB.V.Sc.& A.H 16,550\/-\nMVSc 24,400\/-\nPhD 28,400\/-\nTo cater to the wants of the emerging University to the international level;\nTo function as steamy referral and training center in the area of tropical Animal manufacture and Veterinary medicine;\nTo offer multidisciplinary courses in the area of Veterinary and Animal Sciences with Wild Life Science and educating the employment occasions in the sector and out of the country;\nTo reinforce the bond between the experts and the farmers by quick technology transfer which will activate the overall rural growth of the region and give a boost to the country's target for attaining the period development goals within a short span of time.\nAn ICT center which caters to basic ICT amenities of the students.\nAn ICT based center which satisfies the livestock technology transfer constraints of the farming society.\nTo establish a single-window system for facilitating knowledge uptake pathways.\nTo tap the effective potential of web-based knowledge sharing.\nTo establish an ICT complex for students, research scholars, farmers, and faculty.\nTo establish E hubs for effective knowledge delivery of the institutional stakeholders.\nA center for ICT based delegation and deliberations.\nEstablishing of advanced video and audio production units.\nDr. B. Ashok (Vice-Chancellor)\nDr.p.gangadevi (Professor)\nDr. R. Geetha (Assistant Professor)\nDr. K.k. Jayavardhanan (Associate Professor & Head)\nDr.vinu David.p (Assistant Professor)\nDr.a.k.beena (Assistant Professor)\nDr. P. Sudheer Babu (Associate Professor)\nDr. Harikrishnan S (Assistant Professor)\nCollege of Dairy Science and Technology\nCollege of Veterinary and Animal Sciences\nThunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University\nShree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit\nNational University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS)\nDepartment Animal Breeding, Genetics & Biostatistics\nDepartment Livestock Production & Management\nDepartment Livestock Products Technology\nDepartment Veterinary Microbiology\nDepartment Animal Reproduction, Gynaecology & Obstetrics\nDepartment Veterinary Physiology\nDepartment Animal Nutrition\nDepartment of Veterinary Public Health\nDepartment of Veterinary Anatomy & Histology\nDepartment Veterinary Biochemistry\nDepartment of Clinical Veterinary Medicine\nDepartment Veterinary Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine\nDepartment Veterinary Parasitology\nDepartment Veterinary Pathology\nDepartment Veterinary Pharmacology & Toxicology\nDepartment of Veterinary Surgery & Radiology\nThe university provides extension services and research in the field of Veterinary & Animal Sciences.It also offers all needed facilities to its students.\nAddress: Lakkidi Post, Pookode, Kerala 673576\nEmail: vc@kvasu.ac.in\nTags:Kerala, Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University\nM.Phil Admission in Dr. BR Ambedkar University, Fee, 2020-21\nBPT Admission in Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Fee, Last Date, 2020-21\nM.Ed Admission in Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Courses, Fees, 2020","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Temporary Injunction to Stop Foreclosure of Real Property In Texas\nIn Guardian Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Williams, 731 S.W.2d 107, 109 (Tex. App.--Houston [1st Dist.] 1987, no writ), the trial court granted a temporary injunction enjoining Guardian Savings from foreclosing on real property. On appeal, Guardian Savings argued that foreclosure would mitigate its damages. 731 S.W.2d at 109. However, there was no evidence Guardian Savings had a potential buyer for the property or that the property's value was diminishing. Therefore, the appellate court concluded the injunction was necessary to maintain the status quo. Id. In In re City of Dallas, Fort Worth filed suit against the City of Dallas and others, requesting a declaratory judgment that Dallas was \"prohibited\" from expanding commercial flight operations into and out of Love Field. City of Dallas, 977 S.W.2d at 801, 804. Fort Worth's petition and prayer for relief did not ask the trial court to order Dallas to do or not do anything. City of Dallas, 977 S.W.2d at 804-05. The appellate court held that Fort Worth's lawsuit was not injunctive in nature. City of Dallas, 977 S.W.2d at 805. The appellate court noted that the fact that a declaratory judgment adverse to Dallas's position would have the effect of restricting air passenger service out of Love Field did not transform Fort Worth's declaratory judgment action into a suit for a permanent injunction. City of Dallas, 977 S.W.2d at 805-06.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The places in Slovakia that will entangle your mind\nPeter Dlhopolec\nGetting enchanted by a witch is just one of many trick-art attractions at the Tricklandia gallery in Star\u00fd Smokovec in the High Tatras region. (Source: TASR)\nThe upside-down house and lands of visual tricks in the High Tatras have become popular sights.\nSeveral towns in Slovakia have become home to sites that play with people's senses, providing them with somewhat otherworldly opportunities.\nSpectacular Slovakia travel guide writers visited most of these venues where real and virtual reality overlap.\nMaybe not virtual reality but definitely a world that has turned upside down, which people can experience near Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161, central Slovakia.\nFear and tipsiness\nWhile tourists in Poland have been excited about an upside-down house in the town of Szymbark, northern Poland for a decade now, its Slovak counterpart has been playing with visitors' minds since 2016. It stands by the road in between Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161 and Liptovsk\u00fd Trnovec, central Slovakia.\nThe upside-down house near Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161, central Slovakia. (Source: TASR)\nThe steel-frame house, which is anchored on a concrete base and tilts by 12 degrees, catches the visitor's eye not only due to its construction but for the many different items attached to the outside walls of this Liptov attraction.\nTourists may see here a smaller replica of the Statue of Liberty, a helicopter, and a communist-era police vehicle, once used by the secret police. An aircraft and another helicopter, which people can enter to experience what it is like to be a pilot, can be found at the site as well.\nSeveral rooms make up this two-storey house; a toilet and a kitchen are located right above people's heads. Also, there are characters from different fairy-tales, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.\nvideo \/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/idkSonO58qs\nIt has been quite an experience to the many that have already visited the spot. Yet, they compared it to a state of tipsiness.\n\"I was feeling dizzy,\" said Petra B\u00faciov\u00e1. She most enjoyed the constant feeling that everything would soon collapse.\nThe idea of building such a house, and one of the most visited venues in the region at the same time, is a critical reaction to how the state functions.\nTrick Art Galleries in Slovakia\nHouse of Illusions (Dom il\u00fazi\u00ed), Bojnice\nILUSIA, Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161\nKvantarium, Hrebienok\nLaboART\u00f3rium, Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves\nLuminous House (Sveteln\u00fd d\u00f3m), \u017ddiar\nMirror Maze (Zrkadlov\u00e9 bludisko), Bojnice\nMultium, Bratislava\nPoliankovo, Tatransk\u00e1 Lomnica\nTricklandia, Star\u00fd Smokovec\nUpside-down House (Dom hore nohami), Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161\nVRBA bar, Bratislava\n\"This attraction was created, because not only in our city, but also in our country many things work upside down, the other way around, and unaccountably,\" said Cyril Foga\u0161, the house's founder.\nBecome a hamster\nThe opportunity to shrink to the size of a chameleon, hamster, and ant is offered by the LaborART\u00f3rium, a gallery in Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves, eastern Slovakia.\nTo experience this, although some may even wish to be transformed into one of the above-mentioned animals, people have to make a reservation.\nThe creators of the project, Peter Piroch and \u013dubo\u0161 Potok, are Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves locals who wanted to return home from abroad.\n\"We consider this art to allow people feel something they cannot experience anywhere else,\" Piroch said.\nThose who want to meet a hamster in an aquarium will be shrunk 17 times. They then can try a running wheel and hide inside Swiss cheese to name a few hamster activities. Yet before visitors start enjoying this experience, they have to enter the room with a shrinking machine.\nAfterwards, the first animal stop is a vivarium with a chameleon. People are shrunk 15 times to be the size of this lizard. In another room, where people are shrunk up to 330 times, visitors can get on the ant before they enter the aquarium with a hamster.\nPeople praise the idea of this project on and outside Facebook. Besides the experience, visitors can even take photos to keep their memories of becoming, say, the hamster-sized people in the LaboART\u00f3rium for a moment.\nA similar attraction can be found in the Luminous Dome in \u017ddiar, located in the Belianske Tatry mountains, where the secret life of animals is uncovered in a green igloo. Visitors can, for instance, see an oversized grasshopper, ant, butterfly, and spider.\nLaborartorium in Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves (7 photos)\nIn the land of visual tricks\nRecent university graduate Michaela Podolinsk\u00e1 discovered the trick-art world thanks to an online advert and immediately took exchange university students with her to experience it. The unusual Tricklandia gallery, full of visual tricks and optical illusions, is set in the picturesque village of Star\u00fd Smokovec, surrounded by mountains.\nChildren and grown-ups can spend at least one hour here, discovering 24 visual-art stops: trick-art paintings based on augmented reality, a mirror maze, and anti-gravity rooms.\n\"I liked the anti-gravity rooms,\" Podolinsk\u00e1 stressed. Many of the Tricklandia attractions are based on Slovak legends and fairy-tales, as well as on Slovak towns and castles.\nTricklandia in Star\u00fd Smokovec (12 photos)\nJust like in the case of LaborART\u00f3rium, people have to make a reservation to visit Tricklandia. Only then can they enjoy an upside-down chamber and the feeling of being captured in a witch's ball.\nThe tour around this gallery, filled with funny moments, begins in a rotating cylinder and anti-gravity room. Later, visitors can proceed to the beautiful paintings that are brought to life by visitors if they download a mobile application.\nIn addition, visitors can find a titled description by each stop, which tells them how to pose to make the best and memorable pictures.\n\"Great fun and a great team of young people, who are willing to help you capture these moments with a camera,\" Katar\u00edna Chrom\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 assessed the Tricklandia.\nvideo \/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XIHG8VIGG8\nThe Magical Woods, which is the name of a mirror maze in the gallery, is another attraction out of which there is no easy way out. Visitors can also become interested in the dark room with an infinite number of stars, a submarine, a magical library, and an opportunity to milk a domestic animal.\nA similar site, which plays with people's minds, is the ILUSIA gallery in Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161, where visitors can make a phone call from the bottom of a pool and read newspapers on the top of a skyscraper.\nAnother mirror maze and the House of Illusions are located in Bojnice, western Slovakia. It is a place that offers a virtual reality experience. Kvantarium, which is a gallery of lightning effects, is set just below Hrebienok Peak in the High Tatras region. Moreover, Bratislava's Multium conceals the Universum room. It is a place in which visitors are taken away from the Earth and set in the realm of the endless universe.\nMeeting the Earth\nAnother unusual gallery is set in the village of Tatransk\u00e1 Polianka in the High Tatras region. The people who established Tricklandia also decided to open up the Poliankovo gallery.\nPoliankovo in Tatransk\u00e1 Polianka (10 photos)\nThe unique Poliankovo, opened in March 2019, brings the art and digital technology together: 3D projections and holograms. Today, there are 10 projections, which take visitors on a journey around the globe. Additionally, the gallery founders have promised to come up with some more.\nVisitors become adventurers due to the permanent exhibition by documentary filmmaker Pavol Barab\u00e1\u0161, named Dialogue with the Planet. They can raft down the Omo River in southern Ethiopia and discover the inaccessible Domica Cave; all that as a result of modern technologies and props.\n\"We opened up something new in Tatransk\u00e1 Polianka; visitors will have the chance to find out, due to technology, what it feels like to be standing in the highest waterfall on Earth and walk across the North Pole,\" Mari\u00e1n Bizub, one of the creators behind the Poliankovo idea, said.\nvideo \/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-o3HdJhbTmw\nThe gallery has become a popular stop for school trips, as well.\n\"The pupils were all excited,\" teacher Bo\u017eena Janovov\u00e1-Krempask\u00e1 wrote on Facebook about the May visit to Poliankovo. She emphasised \"meaningful quotes forcing people to reconsider a connection with nature\", Barab\u00e1\u0161 films, and animated artworks by \u013dubom\u00edr Korenka.\nJump off a skyscraper\nSimilar to Bruce Willis, who tries to save the planet from an approaching asteroid in Armageddon, visitors to the VRBA bar in Bratislava can experience a very similar thing.\nThe bar is the first spot in Slovakia that offers an escape room based on virtual reality. Visitors driven by adrenaline can find out if they are able to bring the rescue mission of the Eden space station to a successful end and return to Earth.\nThe venue, which boasts 40 virtual-reality games and eight gaming devices, enjoys only positive reviews on Facebook. The TripAdvisor travel platform recommends it, too.\nvideo \/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iPCfEnemISE\nGlobetrotters can virtually visit the bottom of a moat, as well as Mount Everest, and observe the night sky in Manhattan during the bar visit. Others can try to prepare meals at the restaurant and fix a car.\nThe bar also provides space, strategic, music, sports and artistic games. Moreover, the bravest visitors can climb into a roller-coaster and jump off an 80-storey skyscraper.\nMore articles from: Travel","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Illness perception and fatigue after myocardial infarction\nAls\u00e9n, Pia\nUniversity West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Division of Nursing.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8291-7223\nG\u00f6teborg: Institute of Health and Care Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg , 2009. , p. 54\nanxiety, depression, fatigue, health-related quality of life, illness perception, myocardial infarction\nNURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science\n1. Living with incomprehensible fatigue after recent myocardial infarction\nOpen this publication in new window or tab >>Living with incomprehensible fatigue after recent myocardial infarction\nUniversity West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Division of Nursing.\nBrink, Eva\nUniversity West, Department of Nursing, Health and Culture, Division of Advanced Nursing.\n2008 (English)In: Journal of Advanced Nursing, ISSN 0309-2402, E-ISSN 1365-2648, Vol. 64, no 5, p. 459-468Article in journal (Refereed) Published\nfatigue, grounded theory, incomprehensible fatigue, interviews, myocardial infarction, nursing\nurn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1495 (URN)10.1111\/j.1365-2648.2008.04776.x (DOI)\n2. Illness perceptions after myocardial infarction: relations to fatigue, emotional distress, and health-related quality of life\nOpen this publication in new window or tab >>Illness perceptions after myocardial infarction: relations to fatigue, emotional distress, and health-related quality of life\nBr\u00e4ndstr\u00f6m, Yvonne\nUddevalla Hospital, NU Hospital Group, Department of Medicine.\nKarlsson, Bj\u00f6rn W.\nAstraZeneca R and D, M\u00f6lndal.\nPersson, Lar-Olof\nG\u00f6teborg University, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Health Care Sciences.\n2010 (English)In: Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, ISSN 0889-4655, E-ISSN 1550-5049, Vol. 25, no 2, p. E1-E10Article in journal (Refereed) Published\nBackground and RESEARCH Objective: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is impaired in patients after a myocardial infarction (MI), and fatigue and depression are common health complaints among these patients. Patients' own beliefs about their illness (illness perceptions) influence health behavior and health outcomes. The aim of the present study was to examine illness perception and its association with self-reported HRQoL, fatigue, and emotional distress among patients with MI. Subjects and Methods: The sample consisted of 204 patients who had had MI and who completed the questionnaires during the first week in the hospital and 4 months after the MI. The questionnaires used were the Illness Perception Questionnaire, Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). Results: Patient's illness perception changed over time from a more acute to a more chronic perception of illness, and beliefs in personal and treatment control of MI had decreased. Furthermore, these negative beliefs were associated with worse experiences of fatigue and lowered HRQoL. Conclusions: Patients' illness perceptions influence health outcomes after an MI. Supporting MI patients in increasing their perception of personal control could be a primary nursing strategy in rehabilitation programs aimed at facilitating health behavior, decreasing experiences of fatigue, and increasing HRQoL. Copyright \u00a9 2010 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.\nDepression, Fatigue, Health-related quality of life, Illness perception, Myocardial infarction\nurn:nbn:se:hv:diva-2238 (URN)10.1097\/JCN.0b013e3181c6dcfd (DOI)\n3. Fatigue after myocardial infarction: Relationships with indices of emotional distress, and sociodemographic and clinical variables\nOpen this publication in new window or tab >>Fatigue after myocardial infarction: Relationships with indices of emotional distress, and sociodemographic and clinical variables\nKarlsson, Bj\u00f6rn\nAstraZeneca R&D, M\u00f6lndal.\nPersson, Lars-Olof\nUniversity of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Health and Care Sciences.\n2010 (English)In: International Journal of Nursing Practice, ISSN 1322-7114, E-ISSN 1440-172X, Vol. 16, no 4, p. 326-334Article in journal (Refereed) Published\nFatigue and depressive symptoms are relatively common among patients recovering from myocardial infarction (MI). The symptoms of depression and fatigue overlap. The present study aimed at identifying patient fatigue and at examining the incidence of fatigue, particularly without coexisting depression, after MI. The sample comprised 204 consecutive patients who had completed the questionnaires Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory\u201320 after MI (1 week and 4 months). The results showed that fatigue had decreased after 4 months compared with the time of MI onset. Compared with the general population, patients reported significantly higher levels of fatigue. Furthermore, fatigue was associated with depression, but 33% of the sample reported fatigue without coexisting depression after 4 months. In order to prevent or treat patients' symptoms of fatigue after MI, the concepts of fatigue and depression should be assessed separately so as to exclude overlapping effects.\ndepression, fatigue, myocardial infarction, symptom\nurn:nbn:se:hv:diva-2237 (URN)10.1111\/j.1440-172X.2010.01848.x (DOI)20649663 (PubMedID)\n4. Patients' illness perception four months after a myocardial infarction.\nOpen this publication in new window or tab >>Patients' illness perception four months after a myocardial infarction.\nSahlgrenska Academy at G\u00f6teborg University, Institute of Health and Care Sciences.\n2008 (English)In: Journal of Clinical Nursing, ISSN 0962-1067, E-ISSN 1365-2702, Vol. 17, no 5A, p. 25-33Article in journal (Refereed) Published\nAIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore patients' illness perception of myocardial infarction four months after a myocardial infarction. BACKGROUND: An important task for research on recovery from myocardial infarction is to understand the factors that influence an individual's adherence to secondary preventive strategies. Perceptual, cognitive and motivational factors have been found to influence adherence to a secondary preventive regimen. METHOD: Twenty-five patients were interviewed four months after a myocardial infarction. In accordance with grounded theory methodology, data collection and analysis were carried out simultaneously. RESULTS: The findings can be understood in light of two core categories: 'trust in oneself ' vs. 'trust in others'; belief in one's own efforts to control the illness; and 'illness reasoning', lines of thought about illness identity. In searching for relationships, six categories describing variation in illness perceptions of a myocardial infarction emerged: (i) 'sign of a chronic condition - feasible to influence'; (ii) 'sign of a chronic condition - uncontrollable'; (iii) 'acute event that can recur - feasible to influence'; (iv) 'acute event that can recur - uncontrollable'; (v) 'unthinkable acute event'; and (vi) 'non-recurring acute event'. CONCLUSION: The more reflective patients perceived the heart attack as a sign of a chronic condition; they also devoted time for reasoning about the possible causes of their illness. This is in contrast to patients who were less reflective and viewed their myocardial infarction as an acute event, which they avoided thinking about. The findings contribute to our understanding of variation in illness perceptions. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The examination of how individuals perceive myocardial infarction may help health-care professionals individualize secondary preventive strategies, thereby improving adherence to health-care regimens. Nurse-patient discussions could begin with identification of the patient's variations of reflectiveness concerning his\/her illness.\nillness perception, grounded theory, myocardial infarction, nursing, secondary prevention\nurn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1736 (URN)10.1111\/j.1365-2702.2007.02136.x (DOI)18298753 (PubMedID)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bob Irwin Distanced From Steve's Family As He Reportedly Wanted Australian Zoo \"To Remain Conservation First, Tourist Attraction Second\"\nThe Irwin family have been rocked by persistent rumors of a bitter falling out between Terri, Bindi and Robert and other relatives, as they are no longer speaking, since the Crocodile Hunter's death.\nSteve's older sister Joy Muscillo said that Steve's wife Terri and their children, Robert and Bindi alienated themselves after his death.\n\u0414\u043e\u043f\u0438\u0441, \u043f\u043e\u0448\u0438\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 Bindi Irwin (@bindisueirwin) 26 \u0421\u0435\u0440 2019 \u0440. \u043e 3:41 PDT\nBitter fallout of Irwin family\nThe family took charge of the Australian Zoo. Steve's wife Terry and father Bob Irwin took care of the conservation activities. His sister Joy and her husband Frank oversaw the food court business. Yet, something seemed to go wrong at that time, as Joy intimated that in 2008 Terri \"walked her husband out\" of the zoo. The offended woman decided to leave herself with her adult children and her father Bob quit too.\nThe sister of Steve Irwin confessed:\n\"I keep away from all that. It's just very sad\u2026family stuff.\"\nMrs Muscillo, who now runs a restaurant with her husband, leads a quiet life a world away from the glitz and glamour of her sister-in-law, niece and nephew.\nSteve's wife and children say that it was Bob Irwin who decided to \"distance himself from everything\" that his son loved the most.\n\u0414\u043e\u043f\u0438\u0441, \u043f\u043e\u0448\u0438\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 Bindi Irwin (@bindisueirwin) 5 \u0412\u0435\u0440 2019 \u0440. \u043e 1:11 PDT\nUnfortunately, the fraud went even further when Bindi, 21, announced her engagement to boyfriend Chandler Powell in July. Bob said he didn't get an invite to her upcoming nuptials.\n\"No, I haven't had an invite to the wedding and, to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't expect to be invited to the wedding.\"\nThe real reason for the family split\nYet, the main reason for their misunderstanding seems to be found! Bob, who had given Steve and Terri 50 per cent of the park when they married, \"wanted it to remain conservation first, tourist attraction second\". But after Steve's death his wife has changed her priorities.\n\u0414\u043e\u043f\u0438\u0441, \u043f\u043e\u0448\u0438\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 Bindi Irwin (@bindisueirwin) 26 \u0412\u0435\u0440 2019 \u0440. \u043e 5:08 PDT\nMoreover, back to those days Terri did everything to exploit her husband's fame. She published the memoir, Steve And Me: My Life With The Crocodile Hunter, the woman pushed her daughter to have her own fitness DVD and her own action doll.\nWell, now everything seems to be quite clear - the man who gave his life to animals conservation simply wanted his son's family to continue making the world a better place. Still, we do hope the family will eventually put their offenses aside and reunite for the sake of the memory of Steve!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"THE SECOND MRS. HOCKADAY by Susan Rivers is one of the best historical fiction books that I have ever read. Coming in January \u2013 MARK YOUR CALENDARS or PPRE-ORDER NOW.\nOctober 30, 2016 October 30, 2016 \/ Amie's Book Reviews\t\/ Leave a comment\nShop Indie Bookstores\nTitle: THE SECOND MRS. HOCKADAY\nAuthor: SUSAN RIVERS\nType of Book: HARDCOVER\nPublisher: ALGONQUIN BOOKS\nI love that this book is unique in that the story is told entirely through letters, diary entries and court documents. It lends an intimacy and believability to the story that would otherwise be impossible to achieve.\nThis is an actual photo of a civil war letter.\nThe story is set in South Carolina during and after the American Civil War.\nPhoto obtained from http:\/\/www.civilwar.org\nThrough letters we learn of how unique a period of history those years were. Marriages were made within days of meeting and men went off to war leaving their young, inexperienced brides at home to tend to properties and farms of which they knew next to nothing as was the case of Major Hockaday and his young bride; Placidia.\nBut, those trials were nothing when compared to something that the men who went off to war had barely considered; the vulnerability their wives and children to theives, army deserters and rogues of all kinds.\nThe choice of crafting an entire novel mostly through letters lends itself to revealing the authentic voices of the charcters in the book. In fact, I found myself so immersed in the story that I felt I had been transported back in time to this dark period in America's history.\nThis compelling narrative details a time when slavery was slowly (ever so slowly) disappearing as it became apparent that the South were destined to lose the war and to a time when men felt that it was their patriotic duty to fight for their beliefs. It also follows the gradual change in the belief system of the main character \u2013 Placidia and how, over time through the education of life unsheltered by her father's influence and money, her beliefs begin to change.\nThe story also does a credible job of describing the lives of slaves during that time. Readers cannot help but be drawn in to their plight even while understanding the need of their white owners to have them available as labourers in order for their farms to survive.\nPhoto obtained from Pinterest \"Lest We Forget Slavery Museum\"\nTHE SECOND MRS HOCKADAY is at heart the story of a couple and their desire to create a life together despite the multitude of hardships they each endure. It is a story of resilience and hope despite the fact that their futures often seemed to be in doubt. In fact, I found the book haunting in it's intensity and I was literally unable to put it down.\nThis book is exceptionally well researched and was inspired by a true story. Author Susan Rivers deserves every literary accolade that is sure to be coming her way.\nI feel both humbled and blessed that the publisher (Algonquin Books) through Netgalley chose me to be an advance reader of this story and I will not be surprised when this book hits the Bestseller lists upon it's official release. I also believe that this book will receive an abundance of literary awards upon publication.\nI rate this book as 5 out of 5 stars and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who loves not only terrific historical fiction, but a truly great read. \ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\ud83c\udf1f\nClick on the INDIE BOOKSTORE LOGO BELOW TO PRE-ORDER:\nPhoto by Tasha Thomas\nSUSAN RIVERS says \"Language is my life.\"\nSusan began as a playwright, receiving the Julie Harris Playwriting Award and the New York Drama League Award, working as an NEA Writer-in-Residence in San Francisco, and being named as a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award for British and American Women Playwrights. She is a veteran of the Playwrights Festival at Sundance Institute for the Arts and the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and has crossed the country working on productions and workshops of her plays.\nFiction became Susan's focus after starting her family and moving to the Carolinas in 1995. She holds an MFA in Fiction-writing from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina and was awarded a Regional Artist Grant from the Arts and Sciences Council there. Since 2009, she and her husband have made their home in a small town in South Carolina, where stray animals and stories are thick on the ground. (None are turned away.)\nSusan teaches English at a university in the upstate region of South Carolina and values her daily interactions with bright young men and women.\nClick the SHOP INDIE GRAPHIC BELOW TO BUY THIS BOOK.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Laindon Centre is a mixed-use, regeneration masterplan in Laindon, Essex, which will create new residential neighbourhoods and re-establish a vibrant retail-led high street. The masterplan reconnects established neighbourhoods by re-imagining Laindon High Road as an active civic space lined with flexible retail spaces, commercial units and cafes.\nSwan Housing Association\nLaindon, UK\n28,800 m\u00b2 residential\/commercial\nNU Living\nStructural: Heyne Tillett Steel Energy Design: Hoare Lee\nC.F. M\u00f8ller Architects in collaboration with Pollard Thomas Edwards\nGo to media library\nAR MIPIM Future Projects Award, Commendation - Regeneration and Masterplanning category. 2018\nAJ Architecture Awards - Finalist. 2017\nHousing Design Awards \"Best Regeneration\" Winner. 2017\nNational Housing Award - best scheme in planning. 2017\nShortlisted for the Royal Town Planning Institute's (RTPI) Award for Planning Excellence. 2017\nUnderused spaces and dilapidated sites will be transformed into new residential neighbourhoods, arranged around landscaped gardens and pedestrian-friendly streets that weave through a network of public spaces. Along the High Road, a variety of apartments will occupy the upper levels of the urban frontage and retail units spill out below to street level, activating the new streetscape. A new office building will be located at the southern corner of the High Road to accommodate Swan Housing Association's headquarters and provide a landmark building at a prominent position in the scheme.\nA wide variety of residential typologies will be provided. Across the masterplan sites, a mixture of apartments, terraced, semi- and detached housing are cohesively planned to establish diverse new neighbourhoods arranged to overlook richly landscaped green spaces. The new communities will be further supported by enhanced local facilities in the form of a modern new NHS health centre building.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Marek \u0160najdr remanded in custody\nThe regional court in Ostrava on Sunday ruled that former Civic Democrat MP Marek \u0160najdr be remanded in custody. \u0160najdr is one of three former Civic Democrat MPs charged with having accepted a bribe in return for vacating their seats in Parliament. He was one of eight people charged in connection with the extensive anti-graft operation. Seven of the accused have been refused bail. Only the head of the country's military intelligence, General Milan Kovanda was released. General Kovanda told the court he believed he was acting in the interests of the Czech Republic when he took orders from the prime minister's chief-of-staff to spy on three people.\nAnalyst: Government likely to survive Hlubu\u010dek scandal \"because there is no alternative\"\nGovernment slow on upholding anti-corruption policy, say watchdogs\nMinister for regional development hit by corruption scandal\nCzechs improve perceived corruption performance but ambitions should be higher","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/World\/Riots in the Capitol: Did Trump's words incite violence during the rally?\nRiots in the Capitol: Did Trump's words incite violence during the rally?\nDonald Trump has been charged with inciting a crowd to attack the US capital. What did the president say before the violence?\nThousands gathered on a \"Save America\" \u200b\u200btrek to contest the election result and they listened as Trump spoke to them near the White House.\nIn a 70-minute speech, he urged them to march to Congress where politicians gathered to confirm the victory of Democrat Joe Biden. The attack began moments after receiving the applause.\nThese words now played a central role in his second indictment, which took place after a day of debate in Congress.\nWhat did he say then? Here are five key quotes, followed by a legal analysis by Professor Garrett Epps of the University of Baltimore.\nLive voice updates\n\"We won this election, and we won it nationwide.\"\nIt's three minutes into his speech and repeats a false statement that, according to the Democrats, is the starting point for the incitement charge \u2013 not only because he said it on this day, but also weeks ago.\nThis quote appears in the articles of indictment \u2013 the indictment \u2013 drawn up by Democrats and supported by the lower house of Congress on Wednesday.\nIn the months leading up to the joint sitting, President Trump has repeatedly issued false statements claiming that the presidential election results were the result of widespread fraud and that they should not be accepted by the American people or certified by state or federal officials. Shortly before the joint session began, President Trump addressed a crowd at the Ellipse in Washington, DC. There he repeated false claims that \"we won this election, and we won it nationwide.\"\nIt's now going to the Republican \u2013 controlled Senate for a hearing.\n\"We will stop the theft\"\nHere, Trump echoes the hashtag of the movement for the election victory of Mr. Biden to fight, which started a day after the result was declared. It soon gained traction on social media, leading to rallies across the US. The biggest yet was the one that Trump was addressing at the moment.\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede. It's not happening '\nIt is according to Trump in the clearest terms yet that he will never accept the victory of Joe Biden. And this time, he urges his fans to join him.\nHe added: \"You do not concede if theft is involved. Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\nmedia caption\"We will never give up, we will never give in,\" Trump told supporters\nAt one point, the president says the Biden presidency should be challenged.\n\"You will have an illegitimate president. That's what you'll have, and we can not let that happen.\"\n\"If you do not fight like hell, you will not have a land anymore.\"\nThis is the longest quote from mr. Trump's speech appearing on the indictment. It could also be the one who will find it most difficult to defend his lawyers if the accusation is heard in the Senate.\nHe also deliberately made statements that in this context encouraged lawless action at the Capitol \u2013 and had predictable consequences, such as: \"if you do not fight like hell, you will no longer have a country.\"\n\"Let your voice be heard peacefully and patriotically\"\nThis is the part of Trump's speech that gripped his defenders to show that he never incited the crowd.\nHe said: \"I know that everyone here will soon go up to the Capitol building to make your voices heard peacefully and patriotically.\"\nThe language is very different from other divisions that borrow more from battles or war.\n'We're going to the Capitol'\nThe president uses 'us', but he did not join them because his supporters took the short distance from the protest to Congress.\nHe said: \"We are going to walk down to the Capitol and we are encouraging our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we will probably not rejoice so much for some of them.\"\nAnalysis by Professor Epps\nWhat is incitement under the law?\nIncitement is not a crime under the First Amendment unless it meets certain criteria. In the first place, it must be intended to cause violence (and the intention leads you out of the circumstances). It should probably cause violence as well. When I go downtown and I say to two drunkards standing in front of a bank \"let's rob this bank now\", I did not really encourage anyone, because it is not very likely that they will rob the bank. It should probably cause threatening action \u2013 and it's very important.\nWhen I say let's come here tomorrow and pull things up, I do not encourage, because in the words of the Supreme Court \u2013 where there is time for better advice, the solution to speech is more speech. It must therefore be targeted at and likely to cause imminent violent action.\nIf it was a court of law, would Trump cross the border?\nIt is rare that someone can be convicted of incitement. If you apply it to the president's speech during Wednesday's protest, it's a very painful matter. It's pretty damn good at hand, because he's telling people to march to the Capitol and I'll go up with you. There will be no time for better advice because you are just going to leave the Ellipse and walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. He says we must fight and show strength, but he also said that we are going to ask very peacefully and patriotically, and he covers himself. Ultimately, I think this is a jury question.\nI'm not sure he's legally entitled to dismiss charges. There is discussion that government leaders have more room, but I do not know how it would play out. He clearly knew that there were people in that crowd who were willing to be violent, and he certainly did nothing to discourage it. He not only did nothing to discourage it, but also strongly indicated that it should happen.\nVIDEO \u2013 Alexei Navalny reveals 'Putin' Castle's since his arrest\nThe Saudi \"zakat\" rewards 529 people for this reason\nThe Czech deputy fights in parliament and attacks the chairman without a veil\nCoronavirus: first EU country approves Sputnik V vaccine\nMcConnell, Schumer talks about power-sharing as a difference of opinion over filibuster thigh muscle talks\nCorona Virus: Joe Biden signs ten executive orders to confront epidemic","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Kings hired Joerger before the start of the 2016-17 season, and he was instrumental in putting together Randolph's two-year, $24 million deal.\nCarter is the NBA's oldest active player. Carter and Dallas Mavericks big man Dirk Nowitzki are the only players from the 1998 draft class still playing in the league.\nMore:Grizzlies to retire Zach Randolph's jersey\nCarter played a significant role for the Grizzlies last season. He averaged eight points and 3.1 rebounds in 24.6 minutes, and ended up starting after Chandler Parsons suffered a season-ending knee injury.\nCarter has been working as an analyst on NBA TV during the Orlando summer league. He often expressed his desire to continue playing. Carter said he wanted to join a team that would give him a role on the court. He also is known for mentoring young players.\nThe inexperienced Kings figure to provide Carter with both opportunities.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Topics > Lenovo > Laptop Reviews > Lenovo IdeaPad U260 Review\nLenovo IdeaPad U260 Battery Life, Heat and Noise\nFebruary 10, 2011 by Jerry Jackson Reads (61,803)\nSoftware & Support\nUpgrade Capabilities\nPrice\/Value Rating\nScreen & Keyboard\nThe U260 has a single-fan cooling system with a heat exhaust at the rear of the chassis. At idle, the notebook feels warmer than most of the 11-inch and 13-inch notebooks we've tested in the last year. The fan noise is also louder than most notebooks at idle. The fan switches between off and on at idle and runs at full blast whenever the system is even slightly stressed. The exterior temperatures proved to be more of a concern than the fan noise during our synthetic benchmark tests. Few modern ultraportbales generate exterior temperatures above 100 degrees Fahreheit after 15 minutes of benchmark tests in our lab but the IdeaPad U260 reached a temperature of 110 degrees \u2026 more than enough to be uncomfortable on your lap.\nThe U260 has a custom-formed 4-cell Li-Polymer battery. This is essentially the same battery tech used in the Apple MacBook Air but the battery in the IdeaPad U260 doesn't fare as well in terms of overall battery life. With the Windows 7 Balanced power profile active, 70% screen brightness, wireless active, and refreshing a web page every 60 seconds, the U260 lasted 3 hours and 27 minutes. This is a rather unimpressive amount of time considering the fact that we're starting to see more and more 11-inch and 13-inch notebooks that can last more than six or seven hours.\nBattery life test results (higher scores mean better battery life):\nI have to confess feeling a bit conflicted while writing this review. One one hand I honestly believe this is the most attractive consumer laptop that Lenovo has ever produced. More to the point, the IdeaPad U260 is one of the nicest feeling notebook PCs I've had the pleasure of using.\nOn the other hand, the U260 is plagued by design compomises, weak performance and a price tag that makes most average consumers ask, \"Why not buy a MacBook instead?\" The combination of the average Intel Core i5 processor with a slow hard drive and weak Intel integrated graphics translates into less than impressive performance across the board. The lack of high-speed ports, an expansion slot, or a media card reader means consumers can't take advantage of the newest, fastest external storage options and have to buy accessories like USB card readers to use this notebook with their digital cameras.\nAt the end of the day the Lenovo IdeaPad U260 is a gorgeous laptop that grabs your attention at first glance and then makes you lose interest after you take a closer look. For the current street price of $999-$1,199 it's hard to recommend this over a similarly priced MacBook Air or MacBook.\nGreat keyboard and palm rests\nMatte screen\nLimited performance\nLimited ports\nNEXT: Image Gallery\nLenovo IdeaPad U260 Image Gallery","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Sta. Lucia Land files 3-billion shares offering July 13, 2021\nLISTED property developer Sta. Lucia Land, Inc. (SLI) filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday for a follow-on offering, the company disclosed on Monday.\n\"Up to 3,000,000,000 new shares are being issued by the company from its authorized and unissued capital stock by way of a primary offer,\" Sta. Lucia Land said in its registration statement.\nThe follow-on offer consists of 2.5 billion common shares to be priced at P2.38 to P3.29 apiece at most, with an over-allotment option of 500 million common shares.\nShould the over-allotment option be exercised, the company's total outstanding shares may increase up to 11,196,450,000. The offer shares will make up 26.79% of Sta. Lucia Land's outstanding capital stock.\nIf offer shares are priced at P3.29 apiece, the company can net up to P9.87 billion.\nSta. Lucia Land said it aims to use net proceeds from the offer to partially fund capital expenditures for new and ongoing projects, \"strategic\" landbanking activities, to refinance short-term debts, and other corporate purposes.\nThe company plans to allocate some of the proceeds for its projects in Central Visayas, Western Visayas, Calabarzon, Davao Region, Soccsksargen, Mimaropa, Cordillera Administrative Region, and in the National Capital Region.\nIt also named Calabarzon, Western Visayas, Central Luzon, and the Davao Region as target areas for its landbanking activities.\n\"The company's strategy for development is to focus on provincial areas that are largely ignored and underserved by its bigger competitors whose project have, until recently, been concentrated in Metro Manila which is already congested and near saturation,\" Sta. Lucia Land said.\nThe company said it is currently present in 11 regions in the Philippines.\nSta. Lucia Land assigned China Bank Capital Corp. as the sole issue manager, lead underwriter, and sole bookrunner for the transaction.\nOn Monday, its shares at the stock exchange went up by 2.35% or seven centavos to close at P3.05 each. \u2014 Keren Concepcion G. Valmonte\nSource: https:\/\/www.bworldonline.com\/sta-lucia-land-files-3-billion-shares-offering\/?fbclid=IwAR26MF2WwIer8dzCkmIE5bMGloI-JZOI399gtnZzZYw8Go3bfV-7h4Ce6hA","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home > Rescue\nWatch Happy Siberian Tiger Roll Around in Snow: 'You Big Doofus'\nHead keeper at the Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary, Tiffany Lopez, said that this behavior is typical of the \"gentle giant.\"\nBy Robyn White On 1\/17\/22 at 4:33 AM EST\nCop Sprints Across Frozen Lake to Save Dog in Heart-Stopping Video\nOfficer had recently received a bravery award for pulling a woman from a burning building.\nBy Lee Bullen, Zenger News On 1\/16\/22 at 9:00 AM EST\nCops Use Drone to Find Man in Freezing Ditch Who Wandered From Hospital\nThe police drone found the senior before he died from hypothermia.\nBy Lee Bullen, Zenger News On 1\/15\/22 at 10:00 AM EST\nWatch Rescue Bear Cubs Play with Snowman after Being Used as Selfie Objects\nThe bears have settled well into their new home after being forced to pose for selfies with tourists in the past.\nElderly Couple Fell Down, Clung to Side of 40-Foot Embankment Until Rescued\n\"It would've been more difficult for them had it been chillier,\" said an official of the couple who declined medical treatment.\nBy Catherine Ferris On 1\/12\/22 at 11:55 AM EST\nFirst Responders Rescue Hunter Who Was Gored by Buck, Left in Ditch\n\"This rescue was a great example of multiple departments and entities working together to save a person's life,\" law enforcement officials said.\nBy Catherine Ferris On 1\/11\/22 at 6:10 PM EST\nDog Missing for 4 Months Found Trapped in Snow on California Mountain\nThe dog, Russ, had gotten separated from his owner during the Caldor Fire in August and hadn't been seen since.\nBy Gerrard Kaonga On 1\/10\/22 at 6:53 AM EST\nLoyal Dog Keeps Injured Owner Warm for 13 Hours While Waiting for Help\nAn Alaskan Malamute named North stayed with its owner and kept him warm as they waited for rescue teams to save them after they fell 500 feet on a mountain.\nBy Katie Wermus On 1\/5\/22 at 1:13 PM EST\nMissing Teens Rescued After Coast Guard Sees Message Written in the Snow\nOfficials said helicopter crews found the teens relatively quickly because of the message and because the teens stayed close to their vehicle.\nBy Catherine Ferris On 1\/3\/22 at 11:45 AM EST\nResponders Battle Sub-Zero Temperatures to Save Two Dogs From Frigid River\nThe fire chief told Newsweek that responders wore specialized suits to allow them to dive into the icy waters.\nBy Catherine Ferris On 12\/29\/21 at 5:30 PM EST\nWoman Who Clutched Tree Root Over 300-Foot Cliff Rescued by Firefighters\nThe woman was medically evaluated, and it was determined that she did not suffer any injuries as a result of the incident.\nWoman Sunbathes on a Rock While Hiking, Helicopter Is Called to Rescue Her\n\"Those rocks were so warm and I just thought maybe I should lay here and shut my eyes,\" she said.\nBy Rebecca Flood On 12\/24\/21 at 7:36 AM EST\nOff-Duty Doctor and Others Rescued Young Children From Fiery Car Crash\nThe four children, all ages four and under, were wrapped in blankets to keep them warm as rescuers worked to treat their injuries.\nBy Samantha Berlin On 12\/23\/21 at 5:21 PM EST\nVenomous Snake Caught at School\nThe red-bellied reptile was about to shed its skin when it was found at a school on Australia's Sunshine Coast.\nBy Hannah Osborne On 12\/21\/21 at 5:46 AM EST\nHundreds Trapped on Roof, Balcony After Fire Breaks Out in Skyscraper\nA fire broke out in the Hong Kong World Trade Center. People said the fire alarms didn't go off as several floors' alarms weren't working due to construction.\nBy Katie Wermus On 12\/15\/21 at 11:12 AM EST\nElderly Dog Abandoned at Airport as Owner Jets to Miami Finds New Home\nBama's previous owner dropped his leash and walked away upon discovering she didn't have the right paperwork to take the dog with her, police said.\nBy Kate Fowler On 12\/9\/21 at 9:26 AM EST\nCrews Rescue Unresponsive Woman From Car Suspended Above Niagara Falls\nA rescuer, equipped with an ax, a yellow helmet, goggles and a snorkel, swayed to and fro in the wind as they tried to reach the submerged car.\nBy Daniel Villarreal On 12\/8\/21 at 6:25 PM EST\nHuge, Well-fed Black Mamba Caught Basking by Human Settlement\nThe black mamba was rescued by snake catcher Nick Evans near Durban, South Africa, after locals started throwing rocks at it.\nBy Hannah Osborne On 12\/8\/21 at 10:14 AM EST\nMissing Dog to Be Reunited With Owner After Saving Family From House Fire\nLocal firefighters credit Butter\u2014whose real name is \"Cooper\"\u2014with saving the family from what could have been a deadly situation.\nBy Anabelle Doliner On 12\/7\/21 at 2:26 PM EST\nYoung Girl Who Was Sold to 'Old Man' for $2,200 in Afghanistan Rescued\nParwana Malik was sold by her father in October after he couldn't afford food for the rest of the family.\nBy Samantha Berlin On 12\/3\/21 at 2:01 PM EST\nFirefighters Rescued Dangling Workers From Broken Scaffold in Florida\nAfter the scaffold broke, two construction workers found themselves stuck between the fifth and sixth floors before firefighters rescued them.\nCheetah Cubs Rescued After Drought Forced Their Mother to Abandon Them\nThe cubs have been taken to an animal orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, and are being cared for by a team of vets.\nBy Hannah Osborne On 12\/2\/21 at 6:46 AM EST\nVideo Captures Moment Man and Woman Run Into House Fire to Save Family\nNathan Wright and April Spell were recording a TikTok when they noticed a burning house on the street. The heroic pair rescued a paralyzed man and his wife.\nBy Kate Fowler On 12\/1\/21 at 12:37 PM EST\nMan Saves 10 People From Burning Apartment Building\nArnez Merriweather reportedly put his ability to stay calm in this kind of emergency down to a mix of jogging and meditation.\nBy Jack Beresford On 11\/30\/21 at 6:04 AM EST\nBaby Bear Rescued After Wandering Neighborhood With Head Stuck in Container\nAfter the female cub was rescued, there was a divide online over who was actually responsible for the rescue.\nHundreds Rescued in British Columbia After Trapped Overnight by Mudslide\nApproximately 300 people were rescued via helicopter after being advised to shelter in place overnight from a mudslide trapping people in their vehicles.\nBy Katie Wermus On 11\/16\/21 at 12:50 PM EST\nTwo Men Stranded in Crocodile-Infested River for Two Days After Boat Sinks\nPolice said: \"The men are very lucky to have survived this ordeal.\"\nDoctor Allegedly Lied About Needing Rescue After Troubled Denali Climb\nJason Lance, a Utah doctor, is facing three misdemeanor charges after allegedly lying about fellow climbers being in the early stages of hypothermia.\nBy Lora Korpar On 11\/12\/21 at 1:46 PM EST\nFirefighters Rescue Kids Trapped in 16-Inch Storm Water Pipe\nNumerous fire department crews in Virginia assisted in helping to rescue the two children.\nBy Anders Anglesey On 11\/11\/21 at 10:44 AM EST\nAdorable Puppy Rescued After Almost Drowning in Shipwreck Off Alaska\nThe eight-month-old pup had been thrown into freezing water when her owner's fishing vessel capsized near Sitkalidak Island.\nBy Hannah Osborne On 11\/4\/21 at 5:59 AM EDT","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Research Sponsored By:\nThe inaugural Home News Now 125 Furniture and Bedding Retailers \u2013 2022 (1-25)\nby Home News Now April 1, 2022 April 17, 2022\nWelcome to Home News Now's inaugural ranking of the Top 125 Furniture and Bedding Retailers. The Top 125 is ranked by estimated 2021 furniture and bedding sales in the U.S. and includes both brick-and-mortar stores and e-tailers. Accessories, rugs and other revenue sources are not included. In the case of a tie, retailers are ranked by the percentage growth of furniture\/bedding sales between 2020 and 2021. All sales figures are estimates and were compiled from a variety of sources including retailer input, publicly-held company SEC filings and news releases, store websites and industry news reports. Rent-to-own retailers were excluded from the ranking.\nHNN's 125 combined for $79.2 billion in estimated furniture and bedding sales, up about 18% from an estimated $67 billion in 2020. The numbers were adjusted to eliminate double counting of sales that appear more than once on this list. (Think Ashley HomeStore network and the numerous HomeStore independents dealers in the ranking.) The list includes estimated results from more than 23,500 brick and mortar stores, and 12 online only retailers. This is the first of five installments. See Nos. 26-50 here.\nWebsite US Furniture & Bedding Sales\n2021 US Furniture & Bedding Sales\n2020 Percent change from 2020 to 2021 Year Founded\/\nNumber of employees Number of stores\n1 Wayfair\nBoston, Mass.\nwww.wayfair.com $6,350.0 $6,700.0 -5.2% 1995\/\n4,900 Online only\nThe online retailer offers more than 33 million products from 23,000+ suppliers. Brand banners include Wayfair, Perigold, AllModern, Birch Lane and Joss & Main.\n2 Ashley Homestore\nArcadia, Wis.\nwww.ashleyfurniture.com $6,345.8 $5,060.2 20.0% 1945\/\n19,000 813\/\nThe nation's largest network of company-owned and licensed stores. Large licensed dealers also appear independently in this ranking. The HomeStore network leverages manufacturer Ashley Furniture Inds.' products and services.\n3 Amazon\nSeattle, Wash.\nwww.amazon.com $4,980.0 $4,200.0 18.6% 1994\/\n1.6 million Online only\nIncludes sales from the e-commerce giant's private-label furniture brands, Rivet and Stone & Beam. Rivet's look is more mid-century modern, while Stone & Beam's is more farmhouse chic.\n4 Mattress Firm\nwww.mattressfirm.com $4,000.0 $2,900.0 38% 1986\/\nNA 2,353\/\nThe nation's largest specialty mattress store, with more than 2,300 stores in 49 states. Mattress Firm is part of South Africa-based Steinhoff International, which plans to spin it off as a separate public company on the New York Stock Exchange.\n5 Walmart\nBentonville, Ark.\nwww.walmart.com $3,775.0 $3,490.0 8.2% 1962\/\n1.6 million 5,000\/\nSells furniture and bedding through its retail supercenters, discount stores, Neighborhood Market stores and online.\n6 Rooms To Go\nSeffner, Fla.\nwww.roomstogo.com $3,484.5 $2,821.5 23.5% 1990\/\n2,500 155\/\nIncludes Rooms To Go, Rooms To Go Kids & Teens and Rooms To Go Patio stores. House and other brands include Cindy Crawford, Sofia Vergara, Eric Church and Julianne Hough.\n7 Ikea\nConshohocken, Pa.\nwww.ikea.com $3,137.5 $2,510 25.0% 1953\/\n17,224 52\/\nIn 2021 Ikea opened Ikea Queens in San Francisco \u2014 a small format store. The retailer also revamped its website and introduced the Ikea shoppable app, both contributing to a 30% increase in online sales.\n8 Williams-Sonoma\nSan Francisco, Calif.\nwww.williams-sonoma.com $3,000.0 $2,445.0 22.7% 1956\/\nProducts are sold through retail and e-commerce banners that include Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen and West Elm.\n9 Costco\nIssaquah, Wash.\nwww.costco.com $2,750.0 $2,300.0 19.6% 1983\/\n192,000 564\/\nOperates membership warehouses and e-commerce websites based on the concept of offering members low prices on a limited selection of nationally-branded and private-label products.\n10 Berkshire Hathaway\nOmaha, Neb.\nwww.berkshirehathaway.com $2,350.0 $1,925.0 22.0% 1839\/\nNA 33\/\nThe home furnishings retail banners include Homemakers Furniture, Jordan's Furniture, Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), RC Willey and Star Furniture.\n11 RH\nCorte Madera, Calif.\nwww.rh.com $2,277.4 $1,930.0 18.0% 1979\/\nThe luxury home furnishings retailer offers merchandise across numerous categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bath, outdoor and garden. Includes child and teen furnishings.\nMinneapolis, Minn.\nwww.target.com $2,220.0 $1,965.0 13.0% 1902\/\n450,000 1,926\/\nTarget sells home furnishings through its network of retail stores, website and the Target app.\n13 Raymour & Flanigan\nSyracuse, N.Y.\nwww.raymourflanigan.com $2,177.0 $1,367.0 59.3% 1947\/\nThe retailer has 103 showrooms across the Northeast, 27 outlet stores, 5 clearance centers and a rapidly growing e-commerce business.\n14 Sleep Number\nwww.sleepnumber.com $1,996.5 $1,650.0 21.0% 1987\/\nManufactures and sells \"360\" branded smart beds providing adjustable, personalized comfort. Products are available online and across its network of stores in all states.\n15 Bob's Discount Furniture\nManchester, Conn.\nwww.mybobs.com $1,901.9 $1,611.8 18.0% 1991\/\nNA 150\/\nThe privately held retailer opened 15 locations in 2021, bringing its store total to 150. Stores feature a cafe with complimentary coffee, candy, cookies and ice cream.\n16 La-Z-Boy\nMonroe, Mich.\nwww.la-z-boy.com $1,734.2 $1,704.0 2.0% 1927\/\nManufactures, markets, imports, exports, distributes and retails upholstery furniture products under the La-Z-Boy, England, Kincaid, and Joybird trade names. In addition, the company imports, distributes and retails accessories and case goods (wood) furniture products under the Kincaid, American Drew, Hammary and Joybird trade names.\n17 Big Lots\nwww.biglots.com $1,723.9 $1,611.7 7.0% 1967\/\n36,000 1,431\/\nTwenty-three percent of Big Lots' total revenues come from furniture and in 2022 the retailer has plans to open more than 50 new stores.\n18 Sam's Club\nwww.samsclub.com $1,500.0 $1,290.0 16.3% 1983\/\nThe membership warehouse club is a division of Walmart.\n19 American Signature\nwww.americansignaturefurniture.com $1,200.0 $1,000.0 20.0% 1948\/\nParent company of both Value City Furniture and American Signature Furniture, as well as the Designer Looks brand featured at both retailers.\n20 Dufresne Spencer Group\nMemphis, Tenn.\nNA $1,128.0 $787.0 43.3% 2002\/\nLargest operator of Ashley HomeStores with 112 stores at the end of 2021.\n21 American Furniture Warehouse\nEngelwood, Colo.\nwww.afw.com $1,000.0 $818.8 22.1% 1975\/\n3,500 14\/\nFamily-owned furniture retailer, with stores in Colorado, greater Phoenix, Ariz., and the Houston Market. Opened its third Houston-area warehouse showroom in Conroe in March and has plans for six more locations in all three states opening this year through next year.\n22 Haverty's\nwww.havertys.com $876.2 $650.9 34.6% 1885\/\nThe company, which topped $1 billion in total revenues last year, sells a broad line of furniture in the middle to upper-middle price ranges through 121 showrooms in 16 Midwestern and Southern states and online. Havertys is accelerating growth plans starting this year with plans to open four stores this year and five each in 2023 and 2024.\n23 Lowe's Home Improvement\nMooresville, N.C.\nwww.lowes.com $850.0 $770.0 10.4% 1952\/\nHome improvement retailer that carries case goods, upholstery, occasional, bedding and outdoor furniture lines.\n24 Home Depot\nwww.homedepot.com $800.0 $735.0 8.8% 1978\/\nHome improvement retailer that carries a number of furniture lines in stores that average approximately 104,000 square feet of enclosed space.\n25 Arhaus\nBoston Heights, Ohio\nwww.arhaus.com $796.9 $507.4 57% 1986\/\nHome furnishings retailer specializing in contemporary and modern upholstery, case goods and outdoor furniture.\nMexico product takes center stage at April High Point Market\nWayfair promotes Fitzpatrick to VP, furniture and decor\nView all posts by Home News Now \u2192\nImporters, manufacturers keep a close eye on mandated China power outages\nSteinreich Communications hires Monica Edwards as SVP, head of Lifestyle Brands segment\nFatal accident at Purple plant leads to temporary partial shutdown\nOne thought on \"The inaugural Home News Now 125 Furniture and Bedding Retailers \u2013 2022 (1-25)\"\nRobert B Halsten says:\nWhere do I find the balance of your top 125 furniture \/ home furnishings retailers?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Morgridge Faculty receive $3.9M NIH grant to support intervention studies for individuals with intellectual disability\nSelena Perez Dr. Karen Riley, DU, Grant, Intellectual Disabilities, nih, University of Denver\nDr. David Hessl, project PI at the University of California at Davis, and site PI's Dr. Karen Riley, Dean and Professor at the Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, Dr. Elisabeth Berry-Kravis at Rush University, Drs. Richard Gershon and Aaron Kaat at Northwestern University, and Dr. Craig Erickson from Cincinnati Children's Hospital were awarded the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health grant of $3,921,088. Dr. Jeanine Coleman Associate Clinical Professor in the Teaching and Learning Sciences department at the Morgridge College of Education, is co-principal investigator. Drs. Korrie Allen, Douglas Clements and Julie Sarama will also be engaged in the project at the DU site. The grant will span five years, October 2020 \u2013 September 2025.\nA multi-university team has been evaluating the utility and sensitivity of the National Institutes of Health Toolbox \u2013 Cognitive Battery (NIHTB-CB). Standardized cognitive and educational assessments of individuals with intellectual disability (ID) provide crucial information for parents, researchers, and educators. Understanding the unique developmental strengths and challenges of an individual with ID is imperative to determining appropriate educational placements, developing intervention plans, and measuring growth. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of research regarding administrative procedures that yield valid standardized assessment results with this population, which this project serves to rectify.\nIn addition to evaluating the NIHTB-CB as an appropriate assessment for ID in general, the results demonstrate the sensitivity of the battery to known syndrome-specific cognitive phenotypes. A critical remaining question is the degree to which the battery is sensitive to change, especially to effects of intervention as such the team is currently collecting longitudinal data on all participants so that they can create typical trajectories and so that change can accurately be measured. Studies of the performance of the battery in older adults with ID are needed, especially focusing on those experiencing cognitive decline or dementia. Overall, the present validation study represents an important step toward providing an objective, scalable, and standardized method for successfully measuring cognition and tracking cognitive changes in ID. This award is the second for this team of researchers and extends the initial study.\nDr. Riley said \"The importance of this type of research cannot be overstated. We need to have effective tools to measure the groundbreaking interventions that are currently being developed and implemented. The individuals with ID deserve our best work in this area, as it could literally be life changing for them and their families.\"\nPictured above: Dr. Karen Riley (top left), Dr. Jeanine Coleman (top right), Dr. Doug Clements (bottom left), Dr. Julie Sarama (bottom right).\nDr. Norma Hafenstein receives grant to support underrepresented gifted students in rural Colorado\nSelena Perez Dr. Norma Hafenstein, DU, Gifted Education, Grant, I-REECCH, rural, University of Denver\nDr. Norma Hafenstein, Daniel L. Ritchie Endowed Chair for Gifted Education and Full Clinical Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the Morgridge College of Education, University of Denver, was awarded the United States Department of Education's Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education 2020 Grant Program grant of $2,845,155. Dr. Kristina Hesbol, Assistant Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program at the Morgridge College of Education, is co-principal investigator. Dr. Robert Reichardt, Senior Associate at APA Consulting, serves as project evaluator. The grant will span over five years, October 2020 \u2013 September 2025, to implement I-REECCH: Impacting Rural Education through Expanding Culturally responsive curriculum, Computer science training, and Higher order thinking skills.\nThe goal of I-REECCH is to significantly increase identification of and services to underrepresented gifted and talented student populations in rural Colorado. This includes students eligible for free and reduced lunch, English language learners and students who identify as Hispanic or Native American. Classroom practices will be improved through increasing rural faculty ability and implementation of culturally responsive pedagogy, computational thinking, higher order thinking skill development, and talent and giftedness recognition. All students in I-REECCH elementary schools will participate in a computer science\/computational thinking module by the end of fifth grade.\nDr. Hafenstein stated, \"Consider the Spanish speaking little boy who has taught himself to read in English\u2026clearly a demonstration of ability! How do we recognize his giftedness and talent? How do we serve his strengths so that he may reach his potential? As educators, our purpose is to improve the lives of children and families. We recognize the disproportionality of gifted and talented student identification and service. This Javits award supports collaboration with rural partners for cooperative tangible action in identification of and service to rural Colorado gifted and talented students learning English, who are Hispanic or Native American, or who are under-resourced. We look forward to partnering with rural educators in implementing this important work.\"\nI-REECCH will partner with Fort Morgan School District, Santa Fe Trails Board of Cooperative Educational Services and schools in rural southwest Colorado. Advisory Board members include Dr. Rebecca McKinney, Director of Gifted Education at the Colorado Department of Education; Dr. Terrence Blackman, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics at the Medgar Evers College in the City University of New York; Dr. Joy Esquierdo, Associate Professor, Department of Bilingual and Literacy Studies and Director of the Center for Bilingual Studies at The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, and Dr. Muhammad Khalifa, Professor of Educational Administration and Executive Director of Urban Education Initiatives at The Ohio State University. Dr. Kimberly Schmidt and Dr. Brette Garner, both professors at the Morgridge College of Education, will serve as faculty consultants and content advisors.\nDrs. Dumas and Organisciak identify key psychological characteristics setting apart actors from non-actors\nSelena Perez actors, characteristics, creative thinking, DU, non-actors, personality, University of Denver\nWhat in the mind of a professional stage or screen actor sets them apart from a typical, non-acting person? A new study published by professors Dr. Denis Dumas and Dr. Peter Organisciak in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver \u2014 in collaboration with Michael Doherty, a professional actor affiliated with Actor's Equity Association \u2014 set out to answer that question.\nIn this study, more than 20 psychological tests focused on creative thinking, personality, and motivations were administered to three different groups of participants: professional actors, undergraduate student acting majors, and adults who were not actors. The participants' responses to these measures were entered into a machine learning model, the goal of which was to identify the actors just on their psychological characteristics. As it turned out, the model was able to identify actors with a 92% accuracy solely on their psychological data, a stronger finding than the researchers ever expected.\nKey psychological characteristics identified the actors from the non-actors in this study. In particular, both professional and student actors were identified based on their higher levels of openness to new experiences, extraverted assertiveness, and their elaborative capacity to expand on a creative idea. At a finer grain level, the professional actors were further distinguished from the undergraduate students based on their higher levels of original thinking, neurotic volatility, and their more regular engagement in literary activities such as writing and reading scripts.\n\"In the future, the findings from this study may be useful for individuals who are considering a career in acting to determine whether or not their psychological characteristics match with the demands of the profession,\" Dumas says. \"Within university education, this study may help acting coaches and directors to tailor their instruction and feedback to the specific attributes their students may yet need to develop.\"\nThis study also shows how much can be accomplished when research is produced through interdisciplinary collaborations where a member of the community being studied (a professional actor in this case) is deeply involved in the research.\nPictured above: A scene from \"Something Wicked: Shakespeare's Macbeth\" a production of DU's Newman Center for the Performing Arts, which ran from Oct. 31 through Nov. 10 last year.\nRead the full study here\nChalkbeat Colorado and Morgridge partner to host discussion about Colorado education amidst COVID-19\nSelena Perez Chalkbeat, Colorado Education Policy, Colorado legislation, COVID-19, Education\nEarlier this year, Chalkbeat Colorado brought its annual Legislative Preview to the Morgridge College of Education where panelists discussed Colorado education policies and topics expected to arise in the January legislative session.\nOn Thursday, Oct. 15, Chalkbeat journalists circled back with legislators and educators to revisit these topics in an online event co-hosted by the Morgridge College of Education.\nReturning panel members included:\nErica Meltzer, moderator and Chalkbeat Colorado bureau chief\nState Rep. James Coleman, D-Denver\nState Sen. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument\nAnd new panel members included:\nMark Sass, State Director for Teach Plus Colorado and a high school social studies teacher in the Adams 12 Five Star School District\nTaylor Davis, CEA fellow and music teacher in the North Park School District in Jackson County\nOver 140 attendees joined as panelists discussed education challenges around remote learning and education access that have surfaced with the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges discussed included equitable access to education and resources, what school leaders and policymakers should prioritize, school evaluation and accountability systems, standardized testing, and more.\nWatch the full livestream of the event below or on our Facebook.\nIN:SIGHT Brokenhearted Abundance\nPaul Michalec collective pain, heartache, normal, opportunity, Paul Michalec, pivot\nOct. 2, 2020 \u2014 Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer in her poem \"Holding What Must Be Held\" writes: \"Down by the river we sit and talk. \/ When I think I can't ache any more, \/ the world serves more heartache.\" I can think of few better words to describe my sense of broken-heartedness in this era of COVID-19, the Black Lives Matters marches for racial and social justice, and the climate crisis. I know in my life there are daily talks about the trials we face individually and collectively. Network TV and radio brings to light all that is lost when another person dies from the coronavirus. I have my stories of pain and loss. I hear similar stories from colleagues and friends. We \"sit and talk\". We willingly carry the burden of each other's sorrow, providing a brief moment of respite. That is what it means to be in community. When we rise from the riverbank, we find that all around us the world is hurting. Its people are suffering. The rate of animal and plant extinction is rising. Social institutions are struggling to hold the fraying fabric of society in one piece. Schools and teachers who are historically a place of social cohesion are saddled with the difficult task of serving the learning and social emotional interests of students while also facing a deadly viral pandemic. The call to care for students seems to run headlong into the requirements of social distancing in a virtual classroom. In Zoom, teacher and students are reduced to small boxes, walled off and separate. Most teachers I know are tired, frustrated and just want to share a classroom space with their students. The language of burnout no longer seems adequate to describe this moment. And still the \"world serves more heartache\". We just want to be together; to see each other.\nIt seems that the question is not when will the heartache end, but rather are there ways to both hold our collective pain while also turning toward new opportunities? The pain is real. The loss of so many lives is real. The longing of teachers to teach in the living-presence of their students is real. To say that change is in the air seems like an understatement. Sacred cows that once were nearly unassailable are now falling to the wayside. Take for example online education. Not that long ago the resistance to teaching in virtual classrooms was high. And now it is more common than face to face learning. Think of all the opportunities that are now open that were once closed to teachers and students. There are yet to be explored avenues for advancing equity, justice and diversity in schools. For me there is a newness and freshness that only a pandemic, a situation no one wanted and that no one can escape, brings to education. It feels like in the midst of broken-heartedness is a kernel of abundance waiting to grow and flourish. We are all in this together, some a little better off and some a lot worse off, but still we are all bound together in ways we have not felt before.\nWhat I fear and seek to resist is the temptation to move quickly from this moment of collective disruption, a pandemic of uncertainty, to a return to the social and educational status quo. I've developed a strong response to two words that I hear in the halls of education lately: pivot and normal. Change it seems can run two ways. One path brings us back to the way things once were. A pivot toward the normalness of power and privilege, the maintenance of the status quo. Given the level of uncertainty and the sense of loss experienced by so many, this seems like a reasonable turn to make. If things just get back to normal, if we can just open schools, then we can get back to the job of teaching and learning. But this path also seems dangerous in that in the comfort of normal comes the familiar experiences of injustice, inequity and disempowerment for many. The other path of change leads away from tradition. It favors innovation, imagination, ambiguity and the unknown possibilities of the teacher's heart. The environmental and social pandemics of our time have created a rift in normal, an opening to newer ways of being together in educational spaces. Heartache is sure to find us no matter which direction we choose. But I choose the kind that leads toward community and empowerment, not individualism and loss of agency. I would like to offer five questions that I think can help educators in making decisions that advance the mission of equity and excellence while resisting the pull back to normal: 1. Who is empowered and flourishing?, 2. Who's voice is honored?, 3. How is everyone humanized?, 4. Are we listening?, and 5. What are we will to give up?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Conan Nolan\nChief Political Reporter and Anchor of 'News Conference'\nConan Nolan is a political reporter for NBC4 and anchor of 'News Conference,' the longest running political\/public affairs program in Southern California television. His reports can be seen on the NBC4 News at 11 a.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. Joining the station 30 years ago, Nolan's most recent news stories can be seen here. Follow him on Facebook here.\nAs NBC4's political reporter, Nolan covers state and local politics and is well-known for his interviews with top political leaders on 'News Conference,' which airs Sundays at 9 a.m. Nolan covers news stories that have had a profound impact on the region, the state and the nation \u2013 from political debates, earthquakes ,fires to some of Los Angeles more famous freeway pursuits. Nolan has also reported on behalf of NBC News from Kuwait and Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and from Pakistan and the Afghan border during the invasion of Afghanistan. He also reported from Rome on the death of Pope John Paul the Second and from Lebanon on Arab reaction to the anniversary of September 11th. He received an Emmy Award for his reports on child refugees in the Pakistani frontier and a Golden Mike Award for a report on the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu and the consequences of global warming.\nPrior to joining NBC4, Nolan was a general assignment reporter at KSBW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Salinas, California. In 1981, he worked as a news reporter and weekend sports anchor for KSBY-TV in San Luis Obispo. Prior to that, he served as the assistant news director for KVEC-AM radio and political reporter for KCBX-FM radio also in San Luis Obispo.\nNolan has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of California Davis. He grew up on a ranch in Los Osos Valley along California's central coast and attended schools in San Luis Obispo, plus two years of study at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. He is married, has a son and lives in Glendale.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Dana Milbank's Beltway Bubble\nAugust 24, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt\nEarlier today, when I clicked on the Charles Krauthammer link atop Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post blog, instead of getting that sage conservative pundit's original insight into the events of the day, I got Dana Milbank's stale repetition of conventional wisdom. (Maybe the Post editors set it up that way because otherwise no conservatives would read Milbank.)\nContending that when \"Todd Akin sneezes, Paul Ryan catches a cold\", Milbank offers\nThe Republicans' soon-to-be nominee for vice president is supposed to be delivering a message about jobs and the economy, but he's finding he cannot escape his longtime House colleague, now a national pariah for his exotic views on rape.\nWell, perhaps for Beltway denizens like yourself, Dana \u2014 and for Democratic partisans, but most Americans will evaluate Mr. Ryan not by words he has deemed \"outrageous\", but by the way he carries himself next week at the Republican convention and in the coming months on the campaign trail.\nThe only reason anyone is connecting Ryan to Akin is because left-leaning pundits and Democratic partisans are dwelling on the issue. I mean, come on, Dana, who's asking these questions? Who's making this a story?\nIt ain't undecided voters in Ohio, Florida and Virginia; it's self-satisfied pundits in Washington, D.C.\nOh, and by the notion, about the notion circulating among such pundits about Ryan trying to \"restrict the definition of rape,\" well, that's based on false New York Times report. The Times reporters failed \"to to provide very basic context about the bill Ryan cosponsored\":\nWriting that Ryan cosponsored a bill that \"aimed to restrict the definition of rape\" leaves readers with the impression that Ryan cosponsored a bill primarily aimed at changing the definition of rape. Did the bill try to reduce the punishment for rapists? Did it exclude \"date-rape\" from the definition of rape? The Times leaves readers wondering.\nIn fact, the bill had nothing to do with altering the criminal code. It dealt only with the issue of prohibiting the use of federal tax dollars to pay for abortions. From 1981 to 1993, the Hyde amendment only allowed federal funding of abortions for Medicaid recipients when the mother's life was endangered.\nRead the whole thing.\nFiled Under: 2012 Congressional Elections, 2012 Presidential Election, Arrogance of the Liberal Elites, Media Bias, Misrepresenting the Right, Post 9-11 America\nAugust 24, 2012 at 8:31 pm - August 24, 2012\nYeah, well, Dana Milbank doesn't really care about rape, or abortion, or honesty, or anything except helping The One stay in power.\nDitching fuctards like Akin is one of the reasons we're better than the Democrats.\nAkin believes in rape faeries, he's out. Bill Clinton committed rape and he's their keynote speaker\u2026 because we're better than they are.\nWe ditched Mark Foley for sending creeper txts. The Democrats re-elected boy-rapist Gerry Studds 9 times.\nWe're better.\nWe sent Duke Cunningham to the cold stony. Charlie Rangel remains in power.\nTed Kennedy iced a woman and was re-elected six times.\nWe're better than that. Let's keep it that way.\nCinesnatch says\nAugust 24, 2012 at 10:09 pm - August 24, 2012\nStudds is remembered chiefly for his role in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with a minor \u2013 in Studds's case, a 1973 relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page. The relationship was consensual, but violated age of consent laws and presented ethical concerns relating to working relationships with subordinates \u2026\nAs the House read their censure of him, Studds turned his back and ignored them. Later, at a press conference with the former page standing beside him, the two stated that what had happened between them was nobody's business but their own \u2026\nStudds was re-elected five more terms after the censure. He fought for many issues, including environmental and maritime issues, gay marriage, AIDS funding, and civil rights, particularly for homosexuals \u2026\nCrane was defeated for re-election in 1984 and returned to dentistry \u2026\nStudds died on October 14, 2006 in Boston, at age 69, several days after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Due to the federal ban on same-sex marriage, [his partner] was not eligible, upon Studds' death, to receive the pension provided to surviving spouses of former members of Congress.\nHad Cunningham declined to resign, his role in Congress would have been very limited, as House rules do not allow members convicted of felonies to vote or participate in committee work pending an investigation by the Ethics Committee. It is very likely that he would have been expelled from the House, as happened with Democrat James Traficant three years earlier.\nIn 1997, [Juanita] Broaddrick had filed a sworn affidavit with Paula Jones' lawyers, denying that Clinton had ever assaulted her: \"During the 1992 Presidential campaign there were unfounded rumors and stories circulated that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies\u2026 These allegations are untrue \u2026.\"In November 1998, Broaddrick contradicted her sworn statement in an interview with Dateline NBC\" \u2026\nThe affidavit denying the allegations remains her only sworn testimony.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Foreigners View of Irish\nThe project will challenge existing Irish stereotypes by comparing non-national and international views of Irish.\nRacism - anti-Irish cartoons\nAnti-Irish cartoons\n\"Bog Trotters\" is a long-standing English term for Irish people,especially Irish peasants. They are shown here as near imbeciles,frolicking over the countryside.\n\"The Irish Ogre\" about to devour the peasants is none other than Daniel O'Connell, \"the Liberator\". He earned that name by leading a peaceful struggle for Catholic emancipation. Why he is depicted with copious bags of rent money is unclear.\n\"The workingman's burden\" shows a gleeful Irish peasant carrying his Famine relief money while riding on the back of an exhausted English laborer. The cartoon could just as easily have depicted Irish peasants carrying absentee English landlords on their backs.\n\"The Pig and the Peer\". This cartoon shows a life-size pig with an Irish accent pleading with the English Prime Minister. During the Famine thousands of Irish peasants were evicted to make way for animals that could \"pay rent\".\n\"Two Forces\" shows \"classical\" Britain using the sword of law to protect Ireland (Hibernia) from Irish \"anarchists\" and their demand for land reform.\n\"The Irish Frankenstein\" capitalized on Mary Shelley's popular novel to depict the Irish as savage, inhuman monsters.\nThis untitled cartoon shows the Irish as obese, wasteful, violent, drug abusing monkeys. John Bull (Britain) shows Uncle Sam that he will take care of the troublemaker.\n\"Equal Burdens\". Here the stereotype of the belligerent Irishman meets the stereotype of the happy slave. Irish were called \"white Negroes\". \"No Irish Need Apply\" signs were common.\n\"Uncle Sam's Lodging House\" shows the Irish as the only new emigrant raising hell and disrupting good order.\n\"Scientific Racism\" from an American magazine, Harper's Weekly , shows that the Irish are similar to Negroes, and should be extinct!\nCartoons for magazines such as Harper's Weekly featured cartoons by Thomas Nast and depicted Irish immigrants as ape-like barbarians prone to lawlessness, laziness and drunkenness. \"St. Patrick's Day, 1867...Rum, Blood, The Day We Celebrate\" shows a riot with policemen and ape-like Irishmen.\nThis cartoon was labeled \"A Question of Labor\" and was published in Harper's Weekly in 1888.\nThese cartoons from an 1881 issue of Puck depict common held negative views of most Irish-Americans.\nThe Conscription Act of 1863 made all white men between the ages of twenty and forty-five years eligible for the draft by the Union Army. Blacks were not drafted or forced to fight and white men with money could legally hire a substitute. Lower-class whites (many of whom were Irish) resented the draft. This print shows the 1863 riot in New York City by a mob of lower-class whites (including many Irish).\nThis cartoon printed in 1889, stereotypes the Irish as unmixable in America's melting pot.\nPosted by skwinte at 6:34 AM\nBrian Foley June 16, 2011 at 12:57 AM\nAnother and better link on Racist Imagery against the Irish:\nDrawing Conclusions: A Cartoon History of Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998\nBrendanKORourke August 9, 2011 at 11:37 AM\nThe link that Brian Foley mentions is good but I really like the citizenship cartoon highlighted here as it shows how long the 'they won't mix', applied these days to Muslims,has been arounf\nAmerican News October 3, 2014 at 12:48 AM\nIrish people used to be joked about in the US as being like \"Dogs and monkeys\"...that's why they used to say in America that \"Irish and Dogs need not apply\"\nPatryc October 13, 2015 at 6:14 PM\nThe original pictures were taken down!? Something to note the English parliament argued if Irish peoples were even human and many in England claimed that the Irish cut off the \"tails\" of their young at birth to hide their animal likeness.\nrayray March 19, 2016 at 11:24 AM\nYou need, we need, bigger and better scans! The illustrations are excellent examples, but they aren't legible.\nExcellent. Well done. Is there a next effort to show the British approach to India?\nskwinte\nStudent. Lithuania\/Ireland.\nBook\/Movie - \"Angela's Ashes\" by Frank McCourt\nFilm - Waking Ned Devine\nFilm - The Luck of the Irish\nFilm - THE COMMITMENTS\nFilm - The Quiet Man\nFilm - RYAN'S DAUGHTER\nFilm - The Wind That Shakes the Barley\nPhotography - Flickr\nPhotogrphy - John Hinde\nPhotography - Anna Rackard","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"News & Views We need Lynne Stewart back on the front lines\nWe need Lynne Stewart back on the front lines\nby Ralph Poynter\nThe following is the speech that Ralph Poynter, the husband of Lynne Stewart, presented half of during his restricted speaking time at the National Lawyers Guild convention last month in Pasadena, California. As his speaking time was running out, well before the culmination of his remarks, he called upon convention delegates to stand as a commitment of support for Lynne's struggle for justice and freedom. Guild members responded with a prolonged and thunderous standing ovation.\nBrothers and sisters, comrades, supporters and friends:\nI hope you're not saying that Lynne Stewart is just old news. Those of you who know her personally and remember her at these conventions know she will always be a vital force among us. Those of you who were still in high school when she was arrested back in 2002 owe it to yourselves to find out about her, her career and her case, which is still crucial to all that the (National Lawyers) Guild stands for.\nLet me just say that I am Lynne's husband and a lot prejudiced in her favor. I have lived with her, fought with her and beside her, and loved her for almost 50 years. I want her to be out of federal prison, where she has languished for the last three years. Did I say languish? Lynne can't languish! She is always the activist, always political, always compassionate. They can't jail her spirit. But WE need her out here with us on the front lines!\nThe federal government locked her up because they wanted to control her defense of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and she believed that, ethically and morally, she had obligations to her client, that her adversary should not, could not, dictate or curtail what strategy a lawyer must adopt. Maybe you would not have been audacious in the same way Lynne was in issuing a press release, but she was representing a man who had been subjected to vicious solitary confinement for many years, who was ill and appeared to be fading.\nIt was mandatory to do this to save him. Now Mubarak has been toppled and the new president has been calling publicly for the repatriation to Egypt of that client \u2013 Sheik Omar. Lynne was right \u2013 and the lie has been put to the government's strident and false claims that her actions somehow contributed to \"terrorism.\" And we are still fighting her case \u2013 now in a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court and due in December.\nThe last things I want to speak on at this convention of lawyers are the legal arguments that are available in Lynne's Supreme Court petition and the chances that any of them may have before the Supremes.\nMany of you are familiar with the trial and have followed her initial appeal and then her re-sentencing and that appeal. I do want to say that Lynne's case should be important to all criminal defense lawyers \u2013 and particularly to guild lawyers \u2013 because what the government has done to her can happen again. And it can particularly happen to guild lawyers who regularly take on cases of people whom the government despises and who, they believe, cannot be permitted to win.\nIn essence, using regulations promulgated by the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons, Lynne's adversaries attempted to thwart her campaign to keep her client's plight alive in Egypt and the world. Her press release \u2013 not secret, but to Reuters \u2013 mirrored the many that her co-counsel Ramsey Clark had issued in the face of the same restrictive prison regulations.\nBut they came after HER. She is nothing more, or less, than a smart woman with great politics from a working class background; but her amazing loyalty and her committed relationship with her clients were a threat.\nLynne's case should be important to all criminal defense lawyers \u2013 and particularly to guild lawyers \u2013 because what the government has done to her can happen again. And it can particularly happen to guild lawyers who regularly take on cases of people whom the government despises and who, they believe, cannot be permitted to win.\nLynne's case is important for all of you to support because someday you may be confronted in your professional life with a choice between conforming to conduct that pleases the \"system\" and \"authority,\" and doing that which you know to be right and just. Lynne chose her client and her obligation to him, and if you want to increase the safety zone for lawyers, centered as she was, you will support her! To be reminded of just who Lynne is, she asked me to read a portion of the speech she gave to the Guild in Minneapolis at its Convention there in 2007. It is her credo:\n\"I believe we have formidable enemies not unlike those in tales of ancient days. There is a consummate evil that unleashes its dogs of war on the helpless. Our enemy is motivated only by insatiable greed, with no thought of other consequences. In this enemy there is no love of the land or the creatures who live there, no compassion for the people, no thought of future generations.\n\"This enemy will destroy the air we breathe and the water we drink as long as the dollars keep filling up their money boxes.\n\"We have been charged here, once again, with, and for our quests \u2026 to shake the very foundations of the continents. We go out to stop police brutality; to rescue the imprisoned; to change the rules for those who never have been able to get to the starting line, much less run the race, because of color, physical condition, gender and mental impairment.\n\"We go forth to preserve the air and land and water and sky and all the beasts that crawl and fly. We go forth to safeguard the right to speak and write, to join, to learn, to rest safe at home, to be secure, fed, healthy, sheltered, loved and loving, to be at peace with one's identity.\nOur quests are formidable. We have in Washington poisonous government that spreads its venom to the body politic in all corners of the globe. We have wars \u2013 a big war in Afghanistan, smaller wars in Palestine, Central Africa, Columbia, Kashmir \u2026. Now we have these Democratic and Republican candidates and then an election with corporate media ready to hype the results and drown out our righteous protests.\"\nI want to urge you to defend and champion Lynne Stewart, one of our own! Defend and champion all political prisoners! Set her free! Set 'em all free!\nI need now to raise with you the plight of political prisoners in the United States, not just because Lynne is one \u2013 numbering more and more Muslims, Earth Firsters, veterans of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, defenders of minority communities, resisters, peace activists \u2026 brave men and women, held in the harshest conditions, some for over 40 years. This is more than a worthy focus for guild lawyers whose opposition to illicit power should be consistent and militant.\nCheck these folks out at Jericho and Project Salaam websites. And join their struggles. Many have no legal representation or contact. Even if you correspond or visit or join a defense team or take on one of their cases, your reward will be great \u2013 the satisfaction of doing the right thing for people who remain the best among us.\nIn closing, I want to urge you to defend and champion Lynne Stewart, one of our own! Defend and champion all political prisoners! Set her free! Set 'em all free!\nRalph Poynter, Lynne's husband, can be reached at ralph.poynter@yahoo.com. Send our sister some love and light: Lynne Stewart, 53504-054, FMC Carswell, Unit 2N, P.O. Box 29137, Fort Worth TX 76127. Learn more about her at Justice for Lynne Stewart.\nBureau of Prisons\nconvention delegates\nfederal prison\nimprisoned defense attorney\nJustice for Lynne Stewart\nNational Lawyers Guild convention\nPasadena California\npetition for certiorari\nProject Salaam\nRalph Poynter\nSheik Omar\nSheik Omar Abdel Rahman\nstruggle for justice and freedom\n2020 hindsight on dirty deeds done dirt cheap at Hunters Point\n2020 hindsight brings corrupted radiation testing into focus at the EPA \u2013 Part 4\nFederal court in Louisiana ignores COVID terror inside FCI Oakdale\nSHU-shifting update: Relief finally granted to California prisoners experiencing ongoing isolation\nHow the 1968 uprisings gave us the Civil Rights Act of 1968\nPart One: The mission is not complete: How Andre Patterson and Felita Sample blew the whistle on Treasure Island fraud\nCriminalizing 'Panther Love' and the New Wave COINTELPRO tactics in Texas prisons\nAfricans organize to end the widespread practice of Female Genital Mutilation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Huizar arrest fallout: Carmel Partners places exec on leave\nThe development firm is referred to in FBI complaint against LA councilman, alleging it provided him with \"direct and indirect financial benefits\"\nJul.July 02, 2020 09:33 AM\nView of Carmel Partners' 520 Mateo\nCarmel Partners has placed an executive on leave following the government's allegations the development firm bribed Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar in exchange for getting projects approved.\nCarmel Partners was clearly cited to \u2014 but not named \u2014 in the FBI's 116-page complaint detailing racketeering charges against Huizar, who was arrested last week.\nSan Francisco-based Carmel did not identify the executive by name, according to the Los Angeles Times. The company also denied any knowing-involvement in the alleged scheme. But it said The firm said in a statement it planned to take \"appropriate disciplinary actions needed,\" against the executive, according to the report.\nFederal authorities charged Huizar on June 23 with taking bribes from developers to the tune of $1.5 million in exchange for favorable actions on their projects at the City Council. At the time, he was head of the powerful Planning and Land Use Management committee.\nAccording to the Times, Carmel said the FBI's complaint had \"numerous false and\/or misleading conclusions, suppositions, innuendos, and opinions.\"\nThe firm is a player in L.A. real estate, and is developing an Arts District project, 520 Mateo, that was also referred to in the FBI complaint. For that project, the government claims Huizar reduced the number of affordable units required after Carmel and its lobbyist provided \"direct and indirect financial benefits\" to him.\nThe company also donated tens of thousands of dollars to political action committees tied to Huizar, according to the FBI. Federal authorities even allege that a Carmel executive provided Huizar with dirt on a pair of former aides who sued him for harassment.\nOther prominent developers have been named in search warrants and other FBI documents related to the Huizar probe, including Shenzhen Hazens and Shenzhen New World Group. [LAT] \u2014 Dennis Lynch\nArts DistrictCarmel Partnersjose huizarLA Development\nNo jail time for ex-LA councilmember would be \"two-tier\" justice system: prosecutors\nPrologis buys LA Greyhound station for $91M\nCarmel Partners agrees to $1M fine in connection with Huizar scandal\nLendlease, Aware Super plan $600M complex in West Adams\nLA's biggest real estate stories of 2020\nThe secrets still to come in the FBI's Jose Huizar investigation\nLA's top 5 multifamily investment sales of 2020 fell 50%\nHuizar and LA developer deny charges in pay-to-play scheme","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"QR code for the URL of the English Wikipedia Mobile main page, \" QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) first designed for the automotive industry in Japan. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. A QR code uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte \/ binary, and kanji) to efficiently store data; extensions may also be used.[1] The QR Code system became popular outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. Applications include product tracking, item identification, time tracking, document management, and general marketing.[2] History[edit] The QR code system was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave. Standards[edit] There are several standards that cover the encoding of data as QR codes:[5] Uses[edit] Mobile operating systems[edit] URLs[edit]\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QR_code\nRelated: Tech Tips \/ Learn \u2022 Learn\nVideo Tutorials Change Language Home Products AnyDVD AnyDVD HD Reiki Traditions[edit] Today many branches of Reiki exist, though there exist two major traditions, respectively called Traditional Japanese Reiki and Western Reiki. Traditional Japanese Reiki[edit] The term Traditional Japanese Reiki is normally used to describe the specific system that formed from Usui's original teachings[41] and the teachings that did not leave Japan. BCH code In coding theory, the BCH codes form a class of cyclic error-correcting codes that are constructed using finite fields. BCH codes were invented in 1959 by French mathematician Alexis Hocquenghem, and independently in 1960 by Raj Bose and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri.[1] The acronym BCH comprises the initials of these inventors' names. One of the key features of BCH codes is that during code design, there is a precise control over the number of symbol errors correctable by the code. In particular, it is possible to design binary BCH codes that can correct multiple bit errors.\nSPARQCode SPARQCode for the URL of the sparqcode.com main page A SPARQCode is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) encoding standard that is based on the physical QR Code definition created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave. Overview[edit] The QR Code standard as defined by Denso-Wave in ISO\/IEC 18004 covers the physical encoding method of a binary data stream.[1] However, the Denso-Wave standard lacks an encoding standard for interpreting the data stream on the application layer for decoding URLs, phone numbers, and all other data types. NTT Docomo has established de facto standards for encoding some data types such as URLs, and contact information in Japan, but not all applications in other countries adhere to this convention as listed by the open-source project \"zxing\" for QR Code data types.[2] Encoding standards[edit]\nForty Ways To Free Up Disk Space By Bill Shadish Published in TechRepublic's Windows Support Professional (TechRepublic.com) You've probably heard the Paul Simon song \"Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover,\" which describes a number of tricks for breaking free from an undesired relationship. This article places a spin on the concepts used in that song. No, I can't guarantee that simply by reading this article you'll meet that special person. Become a Programmer, Motherfucker If you don't know how to code, then you can learn even if you think you can't. Thousands of people have learned programming from these fine books: Learn Python The Hard Way Learn Ruby The Hard Way Learn Code The Hard Way I'm also working on a whole series of programming education books at learncodethehardway.org.\nAn afternoon nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity If you see a student dozing in the library or a co-worker catching 40 winks in her cubicle, don't roll your eyes. New research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour's nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power. Indeed, the findings suggest that a biphasic sleep schedule not only refreshes the mind, but can make you smarter. Students who napped (green column) did markedly better in memorizing tests than their no-nap counterparts. (Courtesy of Matthew Walker) Conversely, the more hours we spend awake, the more sluggish our minds become, according to the findings.\nHow To Manage Your Startup Programs Easily, An Easy Way To Increase System Performance The best way to start your computer faster and improve the overall system performance is to reduce the number of programs that load when Windows start. Reducing the number of startup programs can help you in loading the Windows faster, saving RAM, and faster loading performance. Many people will be familiar with the way that requires installing and running Windows Defender, going to Tools > Software Explorer and from category selecting Startup Programs. This method works for many people but is not very effective. Many people do not have Windows Defender and many don't want to install it either. Well you don't even need too.\nThe Ultimate Self-Education Reading List A Bibliography for Lifelong Learning Enthusiasts If you want to know more about self-education, your best bet is to start reading. Over the years, I've kept a list the best self-education books and blogs. Now I'm sharing them in the hopes that you'll find something new and maybe add a suggestion or two of your own. Use these resources to evaluate your education, find the tools and resources you need, and learn effectively on your own.\nNeuroscience of free will Neuroscience of free will is the part of neurophilosophy that studies the interconnections between free will and neuroscience. As it has become possible to study the living brain, researchers have begun to watch decision making processes at work. Findings could carry implications for our sense of agency and for moral responsibility and the role of consciousness in general.[1][2][3] Relevant findings include the pioneering study by Benjamin Libet and its subsequent redesigns; these studies were able to detect activity related to a decision to move, and the activity appears to begin briefly before people become conscious of it.[4] Other studies try to predict activity before overt action occurs.[5] Taken together, these various findings show that at least some actions - like moving a finger - are initiated unconsciously at first, and enter consciousness afterward.[6] A monk meditates.\nHow to create QRcode page6 - Format information How to create QRcode page6 top page previous page next page CAUTION: This document contains strange or wrong English because I'm poor at English. You should confirm standards as needed. top page > QRcode > How to create QRcode > page6: Format information. QR-Code Reader & Software - Mobile Barcodes If you are looking to download a QR-Code reader (software) so that you can scan and read mobile barcodes (QR-Codes), you have come to the right place. We have compiled a list of the best QR-Code reading software available to download on the internet. If the QR-Code reader is not on our list, it's not worth worrying about.\nNew Twitter 101 Tutorial Our new Twitter 101 tutorial is now available for those who are interested in getting to know what Twitter is all about. We have developed this course with an emphasis on understanding exactly what Twitter is and how you might benefit from it. Many are curious about Twitter, but don't seem to have any idea of how it will enhance their lives. In this course, you will learn all the various ways people use Twitter, so you can decide if it's worth your time. We have launched the first three lessons, but additional lessons on Who to Follow, How to Tweet and Twitter for Mobile Devices will become available throughout the month of April.\nRelated: QR Code \u2022 Services \u2022 QR Codes \u2022 QR Code \u2022 QR-code \u2022 stevenrh17\nRelated: Tech Tips \/ Learn - Learn","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Are Pomelos?\nRecipe Page Search\nIngredient Information\nWinter Produce\nSoutheast Asian Culture\nBuying, Using, and Recipes\nBy Darlene Schmidt\nNacivet \/ Photographer's Choice RF \/ Getty Images\nPurchasing Tips\nNutrition and Benefits\nPomelos are grown commercially in Thailand (where it's known as \"sum-oh\") and throughout Southeast Asia, China, Mexico, and regions of southern California and Florida. Native to Asia, it's one of the original non-hybrid citrus fruits used to cultivate most commercially available varieties. The grapefruit, for example, is a cross of pomelo and sweet orange. The pomelo's size \u2014 they can get as big as a basketball and weigh up to two pounds \u2014 earned it the moniker \"King of Citrus Fruits.\" Its scientific name, citrus maxima, translates to \"greatest citrus.\"\nThe pomelo may also be called pamplemousse, pummelo, or shaddock after the sea captain credited with bringing it to the West Indies. It's the largest and among the sweetest of the citrus fruits, with a thick rind and few seeds. Pomelos vary in color, from dark green to pale yellow. Some come to a peak on top where the stem joins the tree, giving them a vaguely pear shape, while others are completely round. The inner fruit ranges in color from white to orange to pink, and can be eaten fresh or used as a finishing element in both sweet and savory dishes. Pomelos generally cost considerably more than oranges and grapefruits, though aficionados say the expense is well worth it.\nHow to Use Pomelos\nTo open a pomelo, break through the rind, which can be up to two inches thick. With a sharp knife, slice off the stem end, then score it in quarters around the outside by slicing down through the skin. Peel the skin back like you would a banana (it may take some force) and completely remove the fruit. You can discard the rind or keep it to candy, pickle, or turn into marmalade. Peel off all the white skin from the whole pomelo, then break the fruit into sections, removing every bit of the bitter white pith and membranes. You can also cut it in half horizontally as you would a grapefruit and remove the sections with a serrated spoon. The fruit may range in color depending on the variety\/hybrid you have purchased.\nEat the pomelo fresh or use it in a sweet or savory dish. In Thailand, fresh pomelo is often eaten with a sprinkle of salt and dash of chili powder, or incorporated into refreshing, acidic salad. Like grapefruit, pomelos pair well with seafood, and the juice adds zest to a marinade or vinaigrette.\nquangpraha \/ Getty Images\nShirlyn Loo \/ Getty Images\nasab974 \/ Getty Images\nbm4221 \/ Getty Images\nfannrei \/ Getty Images\nWhat Does Pomelo Taste Like?\nPomelos are the least acidic and sour of the citrus fruits, but they also tend to be less juicy than grapefruits, oranges, and tangerines. They taste sweet and tart, but not bitter, and have a distinctive floral aroma.\nYou can use pomelo in place of a grapefruit or orange in many recipes, but do note that too much heat can make them bitter, so add them at the end of the cooking time or use them in recipes for cold preparations.\nVietnamese Pomelo and Shrimp Salad\nThai Grapefruit Salad\nCandied Citrus Peels\nWhere to Buy Pomelos\nFresh pomelos can be purchased at most Asian markets and sometimes in regular supermarkets and grocery store chains, from November through March, depending on where you live. You may also find them online for sale direct from growers, but most require two-day shipping due to the perishable nature of the fruit, adding to the already high cost. Rarely, you may come across packaged dried pomelo wedges or jars of pomelo marmalade.\nA recently harvested, unpeeled pomelo remains fresh for about two weeks in the refrigerator. Once the skin is removed, the flesh dries out quickly, eat it right away or preserve it.\nLike other citrus fruit, pomelos are high in vitamin C. A 1-cup serving of sections provides nearly twice the recommended daily intake. Pomelos also contain iron, dietary fiber, and protein, and are low in calories, with 72 per cup. They also supply 12 percent daily value of potassium, a mineral important for maintaining healthy blood pressure.\nLearn Delicious Ways to Preserve Citrus With Curds, Candies and More\nHow to Prepare Pomelo Fruit\nWhat is Lardo?\nA Complete Guide to Citrus Fruits\nWhat Are Kumquats?\nWhat Is Lychee Fruit?\nHow to Section Citrus Fruits\nWhat Are Meyer Lemons?\nGrapefruit Marmalade With No Added Pectin\nWhat Is Jackfruit?\nWhat Are Clementines?\nTypes of Winter Oranges and Tangerines\nWhat Is a Blood Orange?\nWhat Is Dried Tangerine Peel?\nWhat Is Papaya?\nGet daily tips and expert advice to help you take your cooking skills to the next level.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"September 10, 2018, 21:16 Society\nI am delighted with the willpower of the Artsakh people. Caroline Cox\nA solemn event dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Stepanakert Caroline Cox Rehabilitation Center took place today in the Culture and Youth Palace.\nSTEPANAKERT, SEPTEMBER 10, ARTSAKHPRESS: As ''Artsakhpress'' reports,Vardan Tadevosyan, Director of the Rehabilitation Center after Caroline Cox, in his opening speech said: ''The opening of Stepanakert's rehabilitation center aimed at helping people with disabilities. Michael Numan, a British physiotherapist, studied the issue and found solution on the spot. As a therapist and lecturer, I was invited to Stepanakert from Yerevan in March 1999. I came and stayed here. I overcame a number of difficulties. As a result, today we have a well-established center. At the suggestion of the Artsakh Republic authorities and with the support of Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, Caroline Cox, the international organization\" Christian Solidarity Worldwide\" was the first to contribute to the establishment of the center.\nOver the years, the center had other supporters as well. Today the center provides rehabilitation services for children and adult people, bobath therapy, physical therapy, ergotherapy, hydrotherapy, speech therapy, Art therapy( pottery, macram\u00e9, painting, tennis, computer classes), home visit, day care centre, occupation therapy and integration into society,''he noted, adding that that the center needs new building conditions and professional new equipment to help people with disabilities living in remote areas.\nThe director of the center thanked Caroline Cox and all those who support and carry out humanitarian mission in the center.\nBaroness Caroline Cox, member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland said it is a great honor to be in Artsakh again and bring her humble contribution to the people of Artsakh.\n\"I was in Artsakh during war. I saw how Artsakh was being bombarded every day. I have been in Artsakh many times, bringing medical supplies, medicines. Stepanakert Rehabilitation Center is one of the world's most developed medical institutions. Many doctors from many countries apply for training here. The heroic Artsakh people managed to resist the enemy, to win, and today it is already building its statehood. I am delighted with the power of the Artsakh people's willpower, endurance and faith in the future,''she said.\nA documentary film titled \"Home\" about the center was shown. It was followed by a concert.\nThe event was attended by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Artsakh Arayik Baghryan, guests from abroad, employees of the center and visitors.\nOctober 8, 2018, 20:38\nFestive event dedicated to the Teacher's Day held in Stepanakert\nArtsakh Foreign Minister receives Baroness Caroline Cox\nSeptember 2, 2018, 23:30\nCelebrations dedicated to the 27th anniversary of Artsakh Independence end with firework display\nFestive concert followed by fireworks in Stepanakert (photos)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Indian nun expelled after rape protest sees appeal rejected\nAn Indian Catholic nun, dismissed from her congregation in southern Kerala after protesting against a bishop accused of rape, has had her appeal against the expulsion rejected by the Vatican.\nSister Lucy Kalapura was dismissed Aug. 5 for failing to show the \"needed remorse\" for what congregation officials called a lifestyle that violated congregation norms and infringed on the vow of poverty.\nSister Kalapura, a member of the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, challenged the decision, saying officials only moved after she publicly urged action against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun multiple times between 2014 and 2016.\nBut the Vatican has now rejected the appeal filed to its Congregation for Oriental Churches.\nThe 54-year-old nun, informed of the decision in a letter, said she has been denied justice, alleging church officials did not contact her to get her side of the story.\n\"I am not going to leave the convent. The lifestyle I lead is as per the rules and regulations,\" she told the BBC.\n\"I am allowed a second appeal, but I don't see any point in doing that since they have made up their mind. I will now go to court on behalf of all the people who are being suppressed and facing illegal behavior from authorities of the congregation.\"\nSister Kalapura joined protests organized by nuns from another order and dozens of their supporters in 2018 seeking action against the bishop, in a rare show of dissent against the Church.\nOther nuns have accused the Church in Kerala as well as Vatican officials of turning a blind eye to the allegations against the bishop.\nThe bishop was charged in April this year with wrongful confinement, rape of a woman incapable of giving consent, causing grievous bodily harm during rape, unnatural offense and criminal intimidation. He denies any wrongdoing.\nChurch sources have maintained that Sister Kalapura's dismissal was not a case of vindictive action. She was dismissed for defiantly breaking the congregation's rules, including spending her salary on buying a car and other personal items. She teaches in a government-aided school.\nShe also spent $1,000 to publish a book against the advice of her superiors and ignored warnings against appearing in media and giving interviews explaining her support for the protesting nuns.\nShe received a canonical warning letter in January over her actions, but had previously received other warnings, urging her to change her ways in order to stay living in the congregation.\nChristians \u2014 mostly Catholic \u2014 are the third largest religious group in India, after Hindus and Muslims.\nThe Catholic Church has been rocked by scandals of sexual abuse by clergy across the world in recent years. Pope Francis publicly addressed the issue of sexual abuse of nuns by clerics for the first time in February, saying reports of wrongdoing are taken seriously.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home DVD Catalog DVD Store Our Show Video Segments\nENTIRE DVD CATALOG\nDVD EPISODES & SEASONS\nDVD \"BEST OF\" BOX SETS\nDVD SPECIALS\nWELCOME TO THE WINGS OVER CANADA DVD STORE\nPlease scroll down the page to make your selection.\nOverseas orders may incur additional shipping costs.\nWINGS OVER CANADA\nVALENTINE'S SPECIAL\nBuy the perfect gift for your Valentine with any two seasons of Wings Over Canada for a special discount of $20.00!\nClick here to place your order.\nHurry! This offer expires on Friday February 14, 2020!\nORDER YOUR\nTWO SEASONS\nplus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes)\nENTIRE WINGS OVER CANADA DVD LIBRARY\nOrder all 186 episodes in 11 seasonal box sets, all as a single package for only $299.99 (individual seasons cost $49.00 each).\nOrder the entire Wings Over Canada library for just $299.99, or buy individual seasons for $49.00 each\nplus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes).\nINDIVIDUAL EPISODES\nEpisodes may be ordered individually as well as by season.\nClick here to browse through our episode descriptions.\nOrder 1 for $13.95, 3 for $27.95 or 5 for $38.95, plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes).\nClick here to make your selection.\nBEST OF BC, PART 1\nNine of our favourite episodes filmed in beautiful British Columbia. Our most popular box set portrays the pristine beauty and incomparable lifestyles of rural and wilderness BC.\nClick here for a list of the shows you will receive with this package.\n3 DVDs for $39.99 plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes)\nOur first collection was so popular we released a second part to this series which includes 6 more BC-focused episodes.\nOur most recent collection in the Best of BC series, featuring 6 new episodes, takes an adventurous look at real people living, working and playing on the roads least traveled in spectacular British Columbia.\nBEST OF VANCOUVER ISLAND\nThis 8-episode set showcases the untamed coastal beauty of Canada's west coast. Packed with stunning aerial footage shot with the latest HDV technology, this set presents the best of the best of Wings Over Canada on Vancouver Island, BC. Your collection won't be complete without this series!\nTHE BEST OF KITSAULT\nExplore Wings Over Canada's discovery of a lost mining town in a northern BC inlet, recently purchased by a multi-millionaire investor.\n1 DVD for $23.95 plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes)\nBEST OF THE YUKON\nExperience Canada's True North with this 6-episode collection that takes you on planes, trains and motorcycles to discover the adventure and charm of the Yukon.\nBEST OF THE NWT\nStarkly beautiful, powerful and immense, our northern world is still wild and pristine. This 4-episode collection includes fishing adventures on Great Slave Lake, a visit to historical Fort Smith and a stop in the territory's capital of Yellowknife.\nBEST OF SASKATCHEWAN\nSaskatchewan has a quiet stillness that invades your soul. The landscape is larger than life and the people very down-to-earth. We have chosen 9 episodes that look at the lives of the people who have chosen the laid-back pace of this unique province in the centre of our country.\nBEST OF ONTARIO\nDiscover Ontario with this unique 4-episode collection that explores the lakes, heritage and lifestyles of Canada's second largest province.\nBEST OF QUEBEC\nPerhaps the most unique province in our country, Quebec offers a mix of picturesque cities and villages set against a backdrop of majestic lakes and outdoors. In this 8-episode collection we taste the true adventure of Quebec by taking part in extreme ice fishing, Arctic survival training and a visit to the \"Lost Lake\" region of Kipawa.\nBEST OF THE MARITIMES\nThe scenic beauty and outgoing friendliness of the people in Canada's maritime provinces are to be savoured! In this 4-episode box set, Wings Over Canada explores the unique towns and islands of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.\nGOLDSEEKERS\nA one-hour collection featuring the stories of Atlin, an old mining town on BC's northern frontier, and the legend of Slumach's gold. Get immersed in the fever that sparked the gold rush of more than a century ago.\nGHOST TOWNS, PART 1\nOur ghost towns are a unique window into Canada's heritage. One of Wings Over Canada's most popular episodes was the half-our broadcast of \"The Ghost Town of Ocean Falls\", aired in our second season.\nThe second part of our Ghost Towns series features 3 newer episodes portraying more mysterious towns linking us to our past.\nBUSH FLYING, PART 1\nThis series combines 4 of our viewers' favourite episodes about flying over Wilderness Canada in a bush plane. We compare 8 of the most popular float planes in Canada and even take a look at the history of bush flying in Alaska. There is also an episode on the popular home-built float plane market. Wrapping up the entire set is a wilderness survival show on a mock aircraft engine failure on a remote west coast island. The Bush Flying series is an excellent gift for the pilot in your life!\nThis second part of our original Bush Flying series sees 4 more episodes compiled on DVD. In this collection, we travel to the Yukon, to Yellowknife and on a single-engine mission to the North Pole!\nCANADIAN AVIATORS\nIn 8 episodes of the Wings Over Canada series, we explore the history and future of aviation in Canada from the birth of flight to ultralight aviation, organizations like COPA and popular manufacturers such as the Maritime-based AeroTec Engines.\nTHE AIR CANADA STORY\nFor a six month period, the Wings Over Canada crew was given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to Air Canada. The result would be a first-ever one-hour TV documentary on the history and future of Canada's oldest and largest airline.\nAre you an AC employee?\nYes $14.99 No $18.95\n1 DVD for $18.95,\n$14.99 for employees of Air Canada (AC)\nOTHER ONE-HOUR SPECIALS\nChoose from \"John Lovelace's Canada\", \"The Last Flight of Steve Fossett\", \"The Atlantic Challenge\" and more one-hour specials from the Wings Over Canada series.\nClick here for descriptions of the shows you will be choosing from.\nJohn Lovelace's Canada Steve Fossett Jumbo Jet Atlantic Challenge International Air Rally\nOCEAN FALLS BOX SET\nWatch the two-part show that launched the series as the Wings Over Canada crew explores Canada's most famous ghost town in two distinct episodes.\nDISCOVERING GREAT TOWNS\nSEASON ONE BOX SET\nThe entire first season of Discovering Great Towns has been digitally mastered and is now available on DVD. This box set is a must have travellers' guide to rural destinations throughout North America.\nBuy the entire season for $39.95 plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes).\nINDIVIDUAL EPISODES (SEASON ONE)\nFor those who prefer, each episode can also be ordered separately. Available here are the ten that made up our original Season 1.\nFor Season 2, please scroll down to the next item.\nChoose an Episode\n1-01 - A Look at Season 1 1-02 - Kuujjuaq, Nunavik 1-03 - Moloka'i, Hawaii 1-04 - Whitehorse, Yukon 1-05 - Mont Tremblant, Quebec 1-06 - Sunshine Coast, BC 1-07 - Kailua Kona, Hawaii 1-08 - Baddeck, Nova Scotia 1-09 - Prince Edward Island 1-10 - Yellowknife, NWT\nOrder for $10.95 each plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes).\nYou can also order episodes from Season 2, which sees the series completely revamped with a new host. Join Chelsey Reist as she takes you on an amazing personal journey along the roads less travelled to some of your favourite destinations in Western Canada.\nClick here for a list of the shows you will be choosing from.\n201 - The Road Ahead $10.95 202 - Life in Banff $10.95 203 - Peak to Peak $10.95 204 - Gateway to the Past $10.95 205 - Adventure at Every Corner $10.95 206 - Finding Haida Gwaii $10.95 Entire Season 2 $39.95 CAD\n201 - The Road Ahead $10.95 202 - Life in Banff $10.95 203 - Peak to Peak $10.95 204 - Gateway to the Past $10.95 205 - Adventure at Every Corner $10.95 206 - Finding Haida Gwaii $10.95 Entire Season 2 $39.95\nCAD $10.95 each\nOrder each episode individually for $10.95, or buy all 6 for $39.95, plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes).\nNORTHERN PORTRAITS\nNorthern Portraits: The Women of Wilderness Canada is a one hour collection of biographical vignettes on the lifestyles and spirits of Canadian women. It's a look at life lived against a backdrop of beautiful and often rugged wilderness settings.\nCANADIAN BIOGRAPHY MOMENTS\nOver a seven-year period, our television crews have traveled throughout Canada to capture the profiles of the men and women who represent the spirit of the country. Released as a five one-hour set of 60 vignettes, this is the largest set of contemporary profiles of Canadians available today.\nSet #1: The New Pioneers\nSet #2: The Women of Canada\nSet #3: The Artists of Canada\nSet #4: The Builders\nSet #5: The Aviators\nEntire Collection $39.95 Set #1 - The New Pioneers $14.95 Set #2 - The Women of Canada $14.95 Set #3 - The Artists of Canada $14.95 Set #4 - The Builders $14.95 Set #5 - The Aviators $14.95\nBuy the entire collection for $39.95 or order individual sets for $14.95 each plus shipping & handling (+ applicable taxes).\nSOUTH ASIAN BIOGRAPHY MOMENTS\nBest Entertainment also assembled this collection of biographies on members of Canada's South Asian community. In this series we profile artists, performers, religious leaders, business entrepreneurs and many other South Asian immigrants that are making a difference here in the West. Like the original Canadian Biography Moments, this too was released as a five one-hour set.\nSet #1: The Musicians\nSet #2: The Artists\nSet #3: The Leaders\nSet #4: The Role Models\nSet #5: The Innovators\nEntire Collection $39.95 Set #1 - The Musicians $14.95 Set #2 - The Artists $14.95 Set #3 - The Leaders $14.95 Set #4 - The Role Models $14.95 Set #5 - The Innovators $14.95\nAll orders may take up to 2 weeks to process.\nCopyright \u00a9 2009\u22122020 Wings Over Canada A series by Best Entertainment Corp., distributed by Best Theratronics Ltd. #7\u22128765 Ash St. Vancouver, BC V6P 6T3\nE\u2212mail: Toll Free: 866\u221290\u2212WINGS (x 232) Phone: 604\u2212681\u22123327 (x 232) Fax: 604\u2212681\u22123357","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Great War Lives Lost\nArthur Conan Doyle connection\nFamilies that will lose 5 sons in the Great War\nMembers of J R R Tolkien's Tea Club and Barrovian Society (total membership 8)\nMembers of Parliament lost\nOlympic Gold Medalist killed\nThe football team that enlisted en-mass\nWe died 100 years ago in the War to end all War\nSaturday 4 November 1916 \u2013 We Lost 350\nby greatwarliveslost\nOwen Glendower Howell-Price\nChaplain and Naval Instructor William Hall (HMS Venerable) dies of illness at age 49. He is the inventor of a Nautical Slide Rule and a member of Royal Astronomical Society.\nToday's losses include:\nThe inventor of a Nautical Slide Rule\nA member of the Royal Astronomical Society\nA Battalion Commander\nA Naval Chaplin\nA Military Chaplain\nMultiple families that will lose two and three sons in the Great War\nToday's highlighted casualties include:\nLieutenant Colonel Owen Glendower Howell-Price DSO MC (commanding 3rd Australian Infantry) is the first of three brothers, all winners of the Military Cross to be killed within one year. He dies at age 26. They are sons of the late Reverend John Howell-Price.\nChaplain John Campbell-MacGregor (Cameron Highlanders) dies on active service in Dieppe at age 46. He has been the Minister of St Oran's Parish Church Edinburgh.\nPrivate H Gostling (East Yorkshire Regiment) dies of wounds at age 23. His brother will be killed in March 1918.\nDriver Albert Edward Roberts (Royal Field Artillery) is killed in Baghdad. His brother was killed last July.\nFiled Under: Artillery, Australian Infantry, Mesopotamia, Royal Navy\nPost subjects\nPost subjects Select Category Africa (205) Albert Medal (71) ANZAC (35) Artillery (590) Australian Flying Corps (18) Australian Infantry (307) Australian Light Horse (28) Canadian Army (341) Dardanelles (51) Easter Rising (10) Gallipoli (288) Imperial Camel Corps (8) Indian Army (222) Italy (29) Merchant Navy (161) Mesopotamia (205) Military Cross (232) New Zealand Army (175) Palestine (94) Rhodes Scholar (24) Royal Air Force (211) Royal Flying Corps (403) Royal Marines (47) Royal Naval Air Service (146) Royal Naval Division (66) Royal Naval Reserve (84) Royal Navy (481) Russia (6) Salonika (77) South African Army (62) Tank Corps (21) Uncategorized (313) Victoria Cross (227) Ypres (46)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"St. Paul's Primary School\nSt Paul's Primary School, Bourne Road, Portsmouth, PO6 4JD | Tel: 023 9237 5488\nSt Paul's Catholic\nPrimary School and Nursery\n\"Do Everything With Love\" (Corinthians 16:14)\nSwimming and Water Safety Requirements\nGovernor Minutes\nFGB Attendance 2019-2020\nOur Term Dates\nSleep Routines\nSt Paul's Award\nArt 2020-2021\nPupil Librarians\nFun links for 3 to 7 year olds\nFun links for 7 to 11 year olds\nHistory and Geography\nArt & Design Technology\nWhole School Approach\nOnline Behaviours\nParent Help Sheets\nParent Advice Blog\nWelcome to St. Paul's Catholic Primary School and Nursery\nNEW **** Remote Learning Policy\nNEW *** Remote Learning Expectations Information for Parents\nSt Paul's Catholic Nursery - Spaces Available - Contact 02392326069\nIt is my pleasure to introduce you to St Paul's Catholic Primary School and Nursery.\nThe Staff, Governors, children and I would like to warmly welcome you and your child and hope that our website gives you an introduction to our school and nursery, as well as providing you with the information that you need as your child begins their primary school journey.\nOur school's Mission is to 'Do Everything with Love,' so, we aim to provide an inclusive community where everyone is valued for their own individual talents and personality. We work hard to offer our children a strong spiritual and moral base, a rich, exciting and challenging curriculum and a stimulating learning environment, enabling them to reach their full potential.\nStrong links between home, school, our parish and the wider community are of great importance to us and we strive to maintain and strengthen these in many ways as possible\nWe are closely linked with our Parish Church, St Paul's and Fr. Innaiah is a frequent and welcome visitor to our school.\nWe hope that you enjoy your visit to our website, and that you find any information you are looking for. Please feel free to contact the school with any queries you may have.\nMrs Killick\n\"Do Everything with Love\" (Corinthians 16:14)\nThis means that we will...\nShow our love for Jesus in everything we say and do.\nRespect everyone by recognising that God made us all different but equally valued.\nStrive for excellence and find ways to share, develop and celebrate our talents.\nPromote a safe, happy and enjoyable environment\nActively support our school, parish and the wider community.\nView our Events Calendar \u00bb\n\u00a9 2021 St. Paul's Primary School.\nWebsite Policy | Contact The School | Photography by Hampshire Printing Services\nWebsite by Rocket Computer Services Ltd","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Walmart Museum\nOpen Now 8:00am - 9:00pm Free Admission\nWalton's 5&10\nThe Spark Caf\u00e9\nBentonville, AR 72712\n105NorthMain\n1945: Sam Walton Buys His First Store\nBy Nicholas Graves\nNewport Ben Franklin Bill of Sale\nAfter Sam Walton left the Army at the end of the Second World War, he considered purchasing a Federated department store franchise in St. Louis with Tom Bates, a former college roommate. Sam's wife, Helen, was opposed to living in a large city like St. Louis, and preferred to live in a smaller place like her hometown, Claremore, Oklahoma.\nAs Sam wanted to keep his bride happy, he went to Butler Brothers, the Chicago-based retailer that owned Federated Department Stores, as well as a chain of franchised variety stores, Ben Franklin. After requesting a franchise in a small town, Butler Brothers told him that the Ben Franklin franchise in Newport, Arkansas, was available.\nSam purchased that store\u2014the name, the fixtures, the merchandise\u2014from St. Louis native George Scharlott and his wife Katherine. Mr. Scharlott was disappointed with the sales at the store, and wanted to leave the small town and head back to St. Louis. Upon purchasing the store, Sam also signed a five-year lease on the building, which was owned by a local department store owner, P. K. Holmes, Sr.\nSam diligently served his Newport customers and grew annual sales at his store from $72,000 to $250,000 over the course of his five years in the town. It became the top-performing Ben Franklin franchise in the region in both sales and profit, despite being in a small town.\nAt the end of the five years, though, P. K. Holmes decided not to renew the lease. He did offer to purchase the Ben Franklin franchise (including merchandise and fixtures) at a fair price for his son Douglas to begin his retail career. Sam Walton and his family left Newport and settled in northwest Arkansas. He opened another Ben Franklin franchise, Walton's 5 &10, on the square in Bentonville on March 9, 1950.\nThe Holmes family graciously donated this Bill of Sale from that Newport Ben Franklin store to The Walmart Museum. We are proud to now display the document that marks the beginning of Sam Walton's career in retail entrepreneurship.\nNicholas Graves Archivist for The Walmart Museum\nFor him, the best exhibit in the museum is Every Day Low Prices because every day low prices are great for business and customers, and part of what makes Walmart Walmart.\nFOLLOW THE MUSEUM\nWmtMuseum@Walmart.com\nNORMA DE PRIVACIDAD\n\u00a9 2018 Walmart Inc.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"A new investment from us out of Berlin as we back Til Klein and Lara H\u00e4mmerle, co-founders of Vantik \u2013 the world's first fully digital private pension for millennials \u2013 as part of their 850.000 EUR pre-seed round. We're delighted to invest in the round alongside Atlantic Labs and high-profile angel investors including the likes of Maximilian Tayenthal, co-founder of German FinTech company, N26.\nVantik is the first startup to create a private pension customized especially to the needs of young people, young professionals, and freelancers. With this concept, Vantik wants to fundamentally change the private pension market in Europe. Vantik concentrates on digital technology and a newly developed model of a peer-based security buffer.\nVantik is the brainchild of co-founders Til Klein, ex-BCG partner, and Lara H\u00e4mmerle. On the launch Lara, aged 26, comments, \"From my generation's view all existing private pensions are simply out of touch. We want to offer a private pension that's finally understandable and will adjust flexibly to your current life situation.\"\nTil Klein, adds, \"The high-profile investors we've attracted to this round shows the interest in the private pension market and its enormous potential. With Atlantic Labs, Seedcamp and Tayenthal behind us we are opened up to a wealth of experience and an amazing network to help us as we launch first in the German market before then taking Vantik worldwide.\"\nOn the investment, Seedcamp Partner, Sia Houchangnia comments, \"We've been looking for innovations around the way Europeans save for retirement for a while and with Til and Lara, we believe we found the perfect team to go after this huge untapped opportunity. By offering a flexible and reliable digital, private pension, Vantik perfectly fits the needs of millennials and the way the future of work is shaping up.\"\nIn contrary to traditional private pension products, Vantik is completely digital and adjustable to the needs of the user. Customers can change their savings rate at any time and are able to access their money whenever they want to. Also, they can close their private pension plan and administer it digitally.\nVantik uses the opportunity of the capital market to offer a significantly better return while sustaining lower costs than any life insurance. And thanks to the peer-based security buffer all customer contributions are secured at retirement. This buffer creates a hedge against the risk of potential loses at a much lower cost than any insurance or individual solution.\nFor more information visit www.vantik.com\nAnother exciting addition to our portfolio, as we welcome Veratrak to the Seedcamp nation. Veratrak offers blockchain-based enterprise software to drive efficiencies in the pharmaceutical supply chain. With a strong team comprised of University of Oxford alumni bringing a wealth of technology and industry expertise, we're thrilled to lead their pre-seed round of \u00a3175k and support the team on their mission to increase security, efficiency and auditability across the supply chain.\nVeratrak has collaborated with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 pharmaceutical companies to better understand the pain points that exist in their supply chains. Veratrak's document and workflow management platform allows pharmaceutical supply chain companies to share information with greater ease and increased security when compared to current solutions offered in the industry. The Veratrak platform can be used on any device, and is interoperable with companies existing systems. Veratrak leverages blockchain technology to create an ironclad audit history of documentation changes, mitigating the risk associated with documentation tampering. Founders Jason Lacombe and Matthew Wilson met while studying at the University of Oxford. Before attending Oxford to do a PhD in the Medical Sciences Division, Jason worked as a health economist examining the cost of medicines and the distribution of those medicines using microsimulation modelling. Jason was determined to find a way to make medicine more affordable, safe and transparent for everyone, and was surprised to see so many bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the supply chain. Matthew brings expertise in product management and technology from a background in digital consultancy. When Jason and Matthew reconnected after Oxford, Matthew was building one of the first Electronic Medical Records blockchain projects globally, and jumped at the idea of starting Veratrak with Jason.\nMatthew Wilson, co-founder of Veratrak says, \"Efficient pharmaceutical supply chains are essential for delivering high quality, cost effective and increasingly personalised medicines. Traditionally, the pharma supply chain lagged behind other industries' supply chains in-part due to a lack of need to innovate in areas outside of R&D. For many years Pharma has relied on high margin patented medicines and has out of date technology solutions. However, with the rise of generics, patent cliff, and increasingly stringent regulations such as the European Union Falsified Medicines Directive, companies are now looking to unlock additional value through innovating and digitising their supply chain processes. The vast majority of documentation is currently shared over email, fax or through the post. Our cutting-edge solution gives supply chain companies a new way to work together with their customers, suppliers and partners to deliver medicine to patients in a safe, efficient and secure manner. We're delighted to be backed by Seedcamp and to work together with them to transform the way that pharma supply chain companies collaborate.\"\nOn the investment, Seedcamp Partner, Tom Wilson, comments, \"Veratrak's product has the potential to revolutionise the way critical documentation is stored and collaborated on across the pharmaceutical supply chain. Large parts of this hugely valuable supply chain are still using paper based processes. As such, we see a real opportunity for Veratrak's approach of creating a shared workspace that utilises blockchain technology to ensure the security of documentation handovers.\"\nVisit https:\/\/veratrak.com to learn more about Veratrak and to get in touch for a demo.\nWe love backing visionary founders targeting large, global markets and changing the way people live, interact and buy and we're very happy to have discovered Lisa Gautier and her socially conscious digital platform \u2013 The Pasta Haters \u2013 connecting vintage shops with vintage fashion lovers and to welcome them as the most fashionable new addition to the Seedcamp portfolio.\nWe are thrilled to lead the $250k pre-seed round into the Stockholm-based brand alongside Wave Ventures, STING and The Nordic Web Ventures and see huge global potential for the business targeting the second-hand fashion market that is expected to soon overtake 'fast-fashion' according to a report from US-based ThredUP.\nSince launch in 2017, TPH has attracted more than 10k customers to the site in hunt of unique pieces unavailable anywhere else. TPH has been gaining traction not just among fashion-loving customers but among stores too with coverage from leading vintage stores and with much-loved retailers in France, the US and Japan all available via the site.\nTPH is the brainchild of Lisa Gautier. With over 10 years experience in product development, user experience and art direction, Lisa has worked at some of the fastest growing startups in Europe including Outfittery (Curated shopping for men) and FYNDIQ (Bargain superstore) and has consulted for Spotify. On creating TPH she comments, \"I've always been driven by the idea of creating a global impact, across borders but also in people's minds. At TPH.co we're reshaping the way you consume fashion, keeping your closet unique and environmentally friendly. The fact that we attracted investors from 4 different countries perfectly reflects and supports the international ambition and opportunity for TPH.\"\nOn the investment, Seedcamp Managing Partner, Carlos Eduardo Espinal, comments, \"We were hugely impressed from the moment we met Lisa by the global market potential for TPH, the promising early traction the business has experienced to date, and the social impact of the business. We look for founders who are genuinely passionate about their industry, and the founder-market fit between Lisa and her customer's needs is spot on. We're excited to work together as Lisa builds out her vision and offering that serves a growing market for vintage and conscious fashion lovers.\"\nTPH.co is currently expanding the team and welcoming experts in operations & marketing. The funding will predominantly be used to establish TPH.co as the premier destination for vintage shopping online.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"25 Feb New Pathways to Success\nPosted at 14:15h in Foundation, Newsletters by Admin\nLast year, the YOC announced the launch of a new, home-based program, Family Preservation. Aimed at combining the YOC's quality youth and family treatment services with case management and community resources in an in-home setting, Family Preservation was launched in the summer of 2020.\nLaunching a new, home-based, program in the midst of a global pandemic was nothing if not challenging. However, after a mere 7 months of operation, the success demonstrated by this new program is truly remarkable. With an average caseload of six highly acute families, the Family Preservation team has already had a lasting impact on countless families in the service area.\nFrom single-parent families struggling with substance abuse and medical issues to affluent families dealing with alcoholism, depression and suicidal actions, the highly-skilled Family Preservation team has worked with parents and children to build solid foundations for a successful future home life. By providing frequent contact with the family (concrete assistance in the form of rent, utilities, gas cards, and food) and the latest in treatment techniques, the team is able to not only monitor and impact the safety of the children in the home, but also effect lasting change for the families they're helping.\nOne of the most positive aspects of this program has been the ability to serve children and families before the children are removed from the home, thereby preventing further trauma. This program has truly provided new pathways for the YOC\nto achieve success with kids and families.\n\"When you're able to really help a family that we wouldn't have ordinarily served at the YOC that feels really good\" said John McClanahan, the YOC's Family Preservation Case Manager.\nJohn shared the story of one such family. \"We received a referral for a fairly affluent family suffering with alcoholism and mental health issues,\" he said. \"Because the parents struggled to see themselves as individuals capable of needing the assistance of social services, they struggled to engage in our services, even asking, 'Shouldn't you people be helping the needy?' However, due to the YOC Family Preservation model which allows weekly contact with assigned families, our team began developing a therapeutic relationship built on trust. This allowed the couple's view of our services to evolve. Today, both parents are highly engaged in their case plan, and have acknowledged their need to participate in services to invest in the long-term stability of their family. Because of the YOC's Family Preservation services, this family is transitioning out of crisis and into a safe and bright future.\"\nFor more information about the Family Preservation program, please contact our admissions department at admissions@yocinc.org. To learn more about financially supporting Family Preservation and other programs, please go to yocinc.org\/donate.\nThis story is adapted from the Winter\/Spring 2021 YOC Foundations newsletter.\nNew Pathways to Success\nSkills for a bright future\nNew Program shows PROMISE\nSuccess Story: A Change in Heart\nStories of Success: Jack's Turnaround","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The COVID-19 pandemic has killed three persons and infected 24 health workers in Ebonyi. The new deaths bring to five the casualty figure in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezurike, who made the announcement yesterday in Abakaliki, said of the latest bereavements, one of them was a retired permanent secretary from the central senatorial district of the state.\nHe regretted that the confirmed cases had increased to 503, while 357 of the patients had been discharged. The commissioner added that 3,369 samples had been tested.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Johnson says greed led to successful vaccination in the United Kingdom \u2013 Prensa Latina\nTony Joseph 2 years ago 2 min read\nAccording to the tabloid The Sun, the conservative ruler made the comment a day before during a meeting with a group of the leading legislators of his party, and then tried to withdraw it, but apparently the damage had already been done, prompting reactions. Seeing it. Which provoked her unfortunate words.\nGlobal Justice Now director Nick Dden said the prime minister could say that it was a slip, but his comments showed how they reflected the level of understanding of the crisis.\nThe activist recalled that the success of the vaccination campaign in the United Kingdom, where more than half of the country's adult population has already received the first dose of Kovid-19 vaccines, ranks first for large investment of public money. And the extraordinary work of scientists of state universities and workers of the National Health Service (NHS). Opposition Labor Party MLA Richard Bergen also criticized Johnson's statements, recalling that billions of pounds had been invested from public funds in the development of the vaccine.\nSocial media is also ablaze with comments against the British Prime Minister, whose government has come under fire for dealing with the Kovid-19 epidemic.\nHow dare Boris Johnson that capitalism and greed are responsible for the vaccination program. The NHS and its staff are the ones who made it possible due to the antagonism of greed and selfishness of the Tories, a Twitter user noted.\nOne of the Internet users, identified as Barry Spruce, for his part, said that it was precisely greed and capitalism that 'got us into this mess', and that it would be the public sector, science and the community. He will get us out of it.\nSee also Kevin Durant takes Team USA to Tokyo (PRESS)\nThe Prime Minister's comment is a shame, especially on the day when we remember all those who died during the epidemic, he remarked.\nThe United Kingdom, which has accumulated more than 126 thousand deaths due to Kovid-19 and infected more than four million 200 thousand, celebrated the anniversary of the first imprisonment with a minute of silence and a National Thinking Day.\nThe British government, which purchased more than 400 million doses of vaccines for a population of 66 million residents, hopes that by next July all adults over the age of 18 will have the opportunity to be immunized against the disease.\nMem \/ nm\n\"Wannabe troublemaker. Pop culture fanatic. Zombie nerd. Lifelong bacon advocate. Alcohol enthusiast. Tv junkie.\"\nPrevious: Efra\u00edn flvarez accepts that the United States has searched for him \u2013 El Diario de Cohaila\nNext: The best Singer sewing machines","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DeSmog\nClearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science\nDesmog 2015 Main Menu\nAbout Desmog\nGet DeSmog News and Alerts\nFollow @desmogblog\nDivestment League Table: Only Seven UK Universities Committed to Investing in Renewables\nCorrected 17\/07\/2019: The headline and content of this article were changed to reflect corrections to errors in the original data.\nWith students across the world...\nChevron and Exxon Say They Can Turn Around the Failed Finances of Fracking Industry\nExclusive: Air Permit OK'd After New Evidence of Carcinogens at Enbridge's Planned Gas Facility in Massachusetts Left out\nComment: Judge in Peter Ridd Case Says Trial Was Not About Climate Science or Freedom of Speech\nMovement to Build National Support for Green New Deal Starts in Boston, 'City of Revolutions'\nCritics Say Louisiana 'Highjacked' Climate Resettlement Plan for Isle de Jean Charles Tribe\nERM Group\nState Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency to Permit Project\nSteve Horn | December 1, 2014\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Monday, December 1, 2014 - 16:10\nEnvironmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.\nExhibit A: ERM once bribed a Chinese official to ram through major pieces of an industrial development project. ERM was tasked to push through the project in Hangzhou Bay, located near Shanghai.\nAccepting the bribe landed Yan Shunjun, former deputy head of the Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, an 11-year prison sentence.\nYan \"allegedly took bribes of 864,000 yuan (126,501 U.S. dollars), 20,000 U.S. dollars and 4,000 euros from seven contractors,\" explained Xiuhuanet. \"Yan was also accused of illegally setting up a channel to speed up environmental impact assessment processes, which are essential for companies wanting to build factories.\"\nBP, one of the companies standing to gain if Keystone XL North receives a presidential permit from the Obama administration as a major Alberta tar sands producer, was also mired in the Chinese ERM Group scandal.\n\"Two firms on ERM's bluechip client list, BP and Sinopec, are big investors in a petrochemical complex on the site, but the Chinese authorities apparently saw no conflict of interest in awarding the environmental evaluation to ERM,\" explained London's Sunday Times.\nIn a sense, history has repeated itself.\nRead more about State Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency to Permit Project\nSteve Horn's blog\nState Department's Keystone XL Contractor ERM Approved Project Now Melting Glaciers\nSteve Horn | November 16, 2014\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Sunday, November 16, 2014 - 16:00\nA controversial government contractor once again finds itself in hot water, or in this case, melting glacier water.\nTransCanada chose Environmental Resources Management Group (ERM) as one of its contractors to conduct the environmental impact statement for Keystone XL on behalf of the U.S. State Department. ERM Group also happens to have green-lighted a gold mining project in central Asia that is now melting glaciers.\nERM Group has a penchant for rubber-stamping projects that have had tragic environmental and public health legacies. For example, ERM formerly worked on behalf of the tobacco industry to pitch the safety of its deadly product.\nA January 2014 study about Keystone XL's climate change impacts published in the journal Nature Climate Change paints a drastically different picture than ERM Group's Keystone XL tar sands study.\nThe Kumtor Gold Mine, owned by Centerra Gold\/Cameco Corporation, was provided a stamp of approval from ERM Group in October 2012. Similar to the TransCanada arrangement with the State Department on Keystone XL, Centerra served as the funder of the report evaluating its own project.\n\"The mine sits at an altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, in the Tien Shan mountain range and among some of Kyrgyzstan's - and the region's - most important glaciers,\" explained an October 28 story published in Asia Times.\n\"Centerra Gold has consistently dismissed as untrue that operations at Kumtor have had negative implications for the glaciers, which are reportedly melting with observable speed due to years of dumping rock tailings onto the ice sheet. The Canadian company has backed its position with expert evaluations from consultancies such as Environmental Resources Management.\"\nRead more about State Department's Keystone XL Contractor ERM Approved Project Now Melting Glaciers\nState Dept's Keystone XL Contractor, ERM Group, Also OK'd Controversial Pebble Mine in Alaska\nSteve Horn | January 22, 2014\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 11:53\nA DeSmogBlog investigation has revealed Environmental Resources Management Inc. (ERM Group) \u2014 the contractor performing the U.S. State Department's environmental review for the northern half of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline \u2014 gave the greenlight to Alaska's controversial Pebble Mine proposal in June 2013.\nThe proposed Pebble Mine, located in Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska, contains mineable gold and copper. It's also a major hub for fishing and the seafood industry, leading the Center for American Progress to call the battle over Pebble Mine a \"resource war.\"\n\"Bristol Bay\u2026is home to the world's largest commercial sockeye salmon fishery,\" explains a November 2013 EarthWorks blog post. \"The devastation caused by a massive open pit mine would linger in perpetuity affecting not just Bristol Bay, but the commercial fishing industry everywhere in the Pacific Northwest.\"\nRead more about State Dept's Keystone XL Contractor, ERM Group, Also OK'd Controversial Pebble Mine in Alaska\nThis Graphic Says It All About Keystone XL Web of Deceit\nSteve Horn | September 20, 2013\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Friday, September 20, 2013 - 11:18\nFriends of the Earth-U.S. (FOE) and 350.org have jointly unveiled an easily sharable graphic depicting the web of deceit surrounding the environmental review for the northern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline.\nThe graphic's notorious star: Environmental Resources Management, Inc., better known as ERM Group. ERM Group was chosen by the State Department - more specifically by Transcanada for the State Department - to perform the review.\n\"[T]he process has a built-in conflict of interest, because the contractors who do EIS studies for the government are paid for by the applicant,\" a July investigative piece in Bloomberg explains.\nThe graphic serves as a summation of lots of the work done here on DeSmogBlog over the last six months. In so doing, it digs into conflicts of interest, lobbyist influence peddling and outright corruption occurring at the U.S. State Department pertaining to Keystone XL.\nCheck out the graphic below:\nRead more about This Graphic Says It All About Keystone XL Web of Deceit\nKeystone XL Decision Delayed Again? Inspector General Pushes Report on ERM Scandals to January\nBrendan DeMelle | August 23, 2013\nBy Brendan DeMelle \u2022 Friday, August 23, 2013 - 14:22\nDid the Obama administration's decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline just get delayed again? Quite possibly, since the State Department Inspector General announced today that it has delayed until January the release of its review of the scandals surrounding Environmental Resources Management, Inc., the contractor chosen by TransCanada to perform State's Keystone XL environmental review.\nAlthough the State Department was evasive about whether the IG's announcement signals a delay in the administration's decision, it would seem odd for President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to decide on the fate of the KXL export pipeline without waiting for the results of this critical report.\nBloomberg News and The Hill broke the news about the delay, and all signs point to the fact that State's \"inquiry\" has morphed into a thorough conflicts-of-interest investigation into ERM's financial ties to TransCanada and other scandals.\nEver since the March 2013 release of the State Department's environmental impact statement, critics have pointed to ERM Group's historical ties to Big Tobacco, its green-lighting of controversial projects in Peru and the Caspian Sea, and its declaration that a tar sands refinery in Delaware made the air \"cleaner,\" among many other industry-friendly rulings.\nWorst of all, perhaps - and potentially in violation of federal law - ERM Group lied on its State Department contract, claiming it had no business ties to TransCanada and the tar sands industry. The facts showed otherwise.\nThis latest development certainly raises the prospect of a further delay, if not another sign that the Keystone XL will be rejected by President Obama.\nRead more about Keystone XL Decision Delayed Again? Inspector General Pushes Report on ERM Scandals to January\nBrendan DeMelle's blog\nMark Fiore Unveils \"Keystone Clones\" Cartoon on Keystone XL Corruption Ring\nSteve Horn | August 15, 2013\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 14:50\nMark Fiore - the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist satirist - has a new video out that in two-minutes pokes fun at the perverse conflicts of interest that've prevailed throughout debate over the prospective Keystone XL northern half.\nIt's these conflicts of interest that DeSmogBlog has focused on in the past several months since the March 2013 release of the sham U.S. State Department Keystone XL environmental review. Some of the conflicts of interest covered in Fiore's 2-minute video titled \"Keystone Clones\" now up on Moyers and Company's website include:\n-Anita Dunn\/Robert Bauer Scandal: Described as a \"Power Couple\" by Newsweek, Anita Dunn is President Barack Obama's former communications director and was a top-level communications advisor for Obama's 2008 run for president and Secretary of State John Kerry's 2004 run for president. Through her PR firm SKDKnickerbocker, she does communications work for TransCanada, owner of the Keystone XL pipeline.\nHer husband Robert \"Bob\" Bauer is Obama's personal attorney, former White House Counsel under Obama, and served as the election law attorney for Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008 and 2012. Infamous in election law reform circles for his attempts to bend election law in such a way as to flood the electoral system with more money, Bauer's law firm Perkins Coie also has an attorney-client relationship with TransCanada.\n-ERM Group Scandals: Obama's State Department chose a Big Oil-connected contractor named Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group) to do the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern half. ERM - which historically also did contract work for Big Tobacco - has rubber-stamped ecologically hazardous projects in the Caspian Sea-area, Peru, Delaware and now the Keystone XL.\nGiven this shady track record, it's unsurprising it also said the pipeline's northern half - if built - would have negligible climate change impacts.\nRead more about Mark Fiore Unveils \"Keystone Clones\" Cartoon on Keystone XL Corruption Ring\nKeystone XL Influence Peddling Web Extends into PA Governor's Race Via Katie McGinty\nPennsylvania Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate and former head of the PA Department of Environmental Protection, Kathleen \"Katie\" McGinty, has hired powerful PR firm SKDKnickerbocker for her campaign's communications efforts.\nSKDKnickerbocker - once known as Squier Knapp Dunn - is co-owned by President Barack Obama's former Communications Director Anita Dunn and a member of Obama's national media team for his 2008 run for President, Bill Knapp. Both Dunn and Knapp previously did PR for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's 2004 run for President, as well.\nOne of SKDKnickerbocker's key clients is TransCanada, owner of the Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline.\nAnother key SKDKnickerbocker client: Association of American Railroads, that industry's version of the American Petroleum Institute. Rail is an increasingly viable alternative to pipelines for bringing tar sands - and fracked oil - to market.\nBoth McGinty and Dunn also have key marital connections with skin in the game for the looming decision over the prospective northern half of Keystone XL: Karl Hausker and Robert \"Bob\" Bauer, respectively.\nRead more about Keystone XL Influence Peddling Web Extends into PA Governor's Race Via Katie McGinty\nFracking's Myriad Ties to Flawed State Dept Keystone XL Environmental Review\nRead time: 10 mins\nSteve Horn | August 6, 2013\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 06:00\nMost don't think of hydraulic fracturing (\"fracking\") when pondering the future of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline - but they should.\nThere are numerous ties between key members of the fracking industry and groups pushing for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. And these threads all lead back, one way or another, to Environmental Resources Management, Inc. (ERM Group).\nERM Group did the official U.S. State Department's environmental review for Keystone XL pipeline. The review, published in March 2013, determined the pipeline will have negligible climate change impacts (the review dealt with the northern segment of the pipeline as the southern half, now known as the \"Gulf Coast Pipeline,\" received an expedited Executive Order permit by President Barack Obama in March 2012).\nERM is also a paying member of the American Petroleum Institute (API), which has spent over $22 million lobbying on Keystone XL since June 2008.\nIn its bid to provide the environmental review for the Keystone XL pipeline, ERM overtly lied on its conflict-of-interest form, saying it has no current business ties to TransCanada. ERM has an ongoing consulting relationship with the company responsible for the Alaska South Central LNG Project, also known as Alaska Gas Pipeline Project. The company, South Central LNG, is co-owned by TransCanada.\nOn top of lying about its current business ties, ERM stated on the conflict-of-interest form it had no \"direct or indirect relationship (financial, organizational, contractual or otherwise) with any business entity that could be affected in any way by the proposed work.\" In so doing, ERM may have broken federal law - 18 USC \u00a7 1001 - by making a false claim on a federal contract.\nThe State Department's Office of Inspector General has officially launched an inquiry into how and why State overlooked ERM's omission, allowing ERM to potentially commit a crime.\nIn addition to potentially fraudulent claims about its connection to TransCanada, ERM also has significant ties to major gas industry groups and major players supporting the fracking boom in the US.\nRead more about Fracking's Myriad Ties to Flawed State Dept Keystone XL Environmental Review\nControversial State Department Keystone XL Climate Study the Basis of David Petraeus' CUNY Seminar\nSteve Horn | July 25, 2013\nBy Steve Horn \u2022 Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 05:00\nFormer CIA-head David Petraeus' City University of New York (CUNY) Macaulay Honors College seminar readings include several prominent Big Oil-funded \"frackademia\" studies, a recent DeSmogBlog investigation revealed.\nFurther digging into records obtained via New York's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) also reveals \"a survey of the global economy to set the stage for the course\" - as stated in an email from Petraeus to an unknown source due to redaction - utilizes the U.S. State Department's Keystone XL environmental review written by Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group) to argue that Transcanada's tar sands export pipeline deserves approval.\n\"[Redacted], atttached is a document that my Harvard researchers and I put together for the seminar I'll lead at Macaulay Honors College of CUNY,\" wrote Petraeus in the email. \"It is intended to be a survey of the global economy to set the stage for the course\u2026[It] will have considerable value, I think, for the undergrads in the course.\"\nThe \"Global Economy\" survey was penned on behalf of Petraeus by Vivek Chilukuri, one of Petraeus' researchers at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Public Policy, where Petraeus sits as a Non-Resident Fellow. Chilukuri serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Harvard Journal of Middle Eastern Politics & Policy, and worked for Obama for America before the 2008 election.\nIt was at the Harvard Kennedy School where all of Petraeus' troubles began. His biographer, Paula Broadwell, whom he had an affair with, met Petraeus while a Harvard graduate student, a scandal that ultimately drove him out of the CIA.\nHis CIA departure landed Petraeus his current gigs on Wall Street at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and as an adjunct professor at CUNY Honors College and University of Southern California - and coming full circle - back at Harvard, where the spool began to unravel.\nRead more about Controversial State Department Keystone XL Climate Study the Basis of David Petraeus' CUNY Seminar\n\"Fossil-fuel companies have spent millions funding anti-global-warming think tanks, purposely creating a climate of doubt around the science. DeSmogBlog is the antidote to that obfuscation.\" ~ BRYAN WALSH, TIME MAGAZINE\nFeedback? Send us an e-mail\nSites We Read\nBuy Climate Cover-Up Now!\nDisinformation Database","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bible Research > Canon > Lists > Eusebius\nEusebius on the Canon\nEusebius of Caesarea was an early historian of the Church. In his Ecclesiastical History (written about A.D. 324) he discusses questions of canonicity in several places. His view of the Old Testament canon is described thus by Westcott:\nEusebius has left no express judgment on the contents of the Old Testament. In three places he quotes from Josephus, Melito and Origen, lists of the books (slightly differing) according to the Hebrew Canon. These he calls in the first place 'the Canonical Scriptures of the Old Testament, undisputed among the Hebrews;' and again,'the acknowledged Scriptures of the Old Testament;' and, lastly, 'the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament.' In his Chronicle he distinctly separates the Books of Maccabees from the 'Divine Scriptures;' and elsewhere mentions Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom as 'controverted' books. On the other hand, like the older Fathers, he quotes in the same manner as the contents of the Hebrew Canon passages from Baruch and Wisdom. On the whole, it may be concluded that he regarded the Apocrypha of the Old Testament in the same light as the books in the New Testament, which were 'controverted and yet familiarly used by many.' The books of the Hebrew Canon alone were in his technical language 'acknowledged.' (Brooke Foss Westcott, The Bible in the Church: A Popular Account of the Collection and Reception of the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Churches [London: MacMillan and Co., 1896], p. 153.)\nOn the canon of the New Testament he expresses his opinion with much greater fulness than any preceding writer. I reproduce below three chapters from book 3 of his Ecclesiastical History, in the translation of M.C. McGiffert: The Church History of Eusebius, Translated with Prolegomena and Notes by the Rev. Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Ph.d., in the series A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series, vol. 1 (1890). I also reproduce McGiffert's extensive notes to these chapters, to which I have made some additions in square brackets. For chapter 25, next to McGiffert's translation I have put the Greek text according to Burton, from Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History According to the Text of Burton, with an Introduction by William Bright 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881), minus the accents, and in paragraphs conforming to McGiffert's version. \u2014M.D.M.\nEcclesiastical History, Book 3, Chapter 3.\u2014The Epistles of the Apostles.\n1. One epistle of Peter, that called the first, is acknowledged as genuine. 1 And this the ancient elders 2 used freely in their own writings as an undisputed work. 3 But we have learned that his extant second Epistle does not belong to the canon; 4 yet, as it has appeared profitable to many, it has been used with the other Scriptures. 5\n2. The so-called Acts of Peter, 6 however, and the Gospel 7 which bears his name, and the Preaching 8 and the Apocalypse, 9 as they are called, we know have not been universally accepted, 10 because no ecclesiastical writer, ancient or modern, has made use of testimonies drawn from them. 11\n3. But in the course of my history I shall be careful to show, in addition to the official succession, what ecclesiastical writers have from time to time made use of any of the disputed works, 12 and what they have said in regard to the canonical and accepted writings, 13 as well as in regard to those which are not of this class.\n4. Such are the writings that bear the name of Peter, only one of which I know to be genuine 14 and acknowledged by the ancient elders. 15\n5. Paul's fourteen epistles are well known and undisputed. 16 It is not indeed right to overlook the fact that some have rejected the Epistle to the Hebrews, 17 saying that it is disputed 18 by the church of Rome, on the ground that it was not written by Paul. But what has been said concerning this epistle by those who lived before our time I shall quote in the proper place. 19 In regard to the so-called Acts of Paul, 20 I have not found them among the undisputed writings. 21\n6. But as the same apostle, in the salutations at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, 22 has made mention among others of Hermas, to whom the book called The Shepherd 23 is ascribed, it should be observed that this too has been disputed by some, and on their account cannot be placed among the acknowledged books; while by others it is considered quite indispensable, especially to those who need instruction in the elements of the faith. Hence, as we know, it has been publicly read in churches, and I have found that some of the most ancient writers used it.\n7. This will serve to show the divine writings that are undisputed as well as those that are not universally acknowledged.\nEcclesiastical History, Book 3, Chapter 24.\u2014The Order of the Gospels.\n1. This extract from Clement I have inserted here for the sake of the history and for the benefit of my readers. Let us now point out the undisputed writings of this apostle.\n2. And in the first place his Gospel, which is known to all the churches under heaven, must be acknowledged as genuine. 1 That it has with good reason been put by the ancients in the fourth place, after the other three Gospels, may be made evident in the following way.\n3. Those great and truly divine men, I mean the apostles of Christ, were purified in their life, and were adorned with every virtue of the soul, but were uncultivated in speech. They were confident indeed in their trust in the divine and wonder-working power which was granted unto them by the Saviour, but they did not know how, nor did they attempt to proclaim the doctrines of their teacher in studied and artistic language, but employing only the demonstration of the divine Spirit, which worked with them, and the wonder-working power of Christ, which was displayed through them, they published the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven throughout the whole world, paying little attention to the composition of written works.\n4. And this they did because they were assisted in their ministry by one greater than man. Paul, for instance, who surpassed them all in vigor of expression and in richness of thought, committed to writing no more than the briefest epistles, 2 although he had innumerable mysterious matters to communicate, for he had attained even unto the sights of the third heaven, had been carried to the very paradise of God, and had been deemed worthy to hear unspeakable utterances there. 3\n5. And the rest of the followers of our Saviour, the twelve apostles, the seventy disciples, and countless others besides, were not ignorant of these things. Nevertheless, of all the disciples 4 of the Lord, only Matthew and John have left us written memorials, and they, tradition says, were led to write only under the pressure of necessity.\n6. For Matthew, who had at first preached to the Hebrews, when he was about to go to other peoples, committed his Gospel to writing in his native tongue, 5 and thus compensated those whom he was obliged to leave for the loss of his presence.\n7. And when Mark and Luke had already published their Gospels, 6 they say that John, who had employed all his time in proclaiming the Gospel orally, finally proceeded to write for the following reason. The three Gospels already mentioned having come into the hands of all and into his own too, they say that he accepted them and bore witness to their truthfulness; but that there was lacking in them an account of the deeds done by Christ at the beginning of his ministry. 7\n8. And this indeed is true. For it is evident that the three evangelists recorded only the deeds done by the Saviour for one year after the imprisonment of John the Baptist, 8 and indicated this in the beginning of their account.\n9. For Matthew, after the forty days' fast and the temptation which followed it, indicates the chronology of his work when he says: \"Now when he heard that John was delivered up he withdrew from Judea into Galilee.\" 9\n10. Mark likewise says: \"Now after that John was delivered up Jesus came into Galilee.\" 10 And Luke, before commencing his account of the deeds of Jesus, similarly marks the time, when he says that Herod, \"adding to all the evil deeds which he had done, shut up John in prison.\" 11\n11. They say, therefore, that the apostle John, being asked to do it for this reason, gave in his Gospel an account of the period which had been omitted by the earlier evangelists, and of the deeds done by the Saviour during that period; that is, of those which were done before the imprisonment of the Baptist. And this is indicated by him, they say, in the following words: \"This beginning of miracles did Jesus\"; 12 and again when he refers to the Baptist, in the midst of the deeds of Jesus, as still baptizing in \u00c6non near Salim; 13 where he states the matter clearly in the words: \"For John was not yet cast into prison.\" 14\n12. John accordingly, in his Gospel, records the deeds of Christ which were performed before the Baptist was cast into prison, but the other three evangelists mention the events which happened after that time.\n13. One who understands this can no longer think that the Gospels are at variance with one another, inasmuch as the Gospel according to John contains the first acts of Christ, while the others give an account of the latter part of his life. And the genealogy of our Saviour according to the flesh John quite naturally omitted, because it had been already given by Matthew and Luke, and began with the doctrine of his divinity, which had, as it were, been reserved for him, as their superior, by the divine Spirit. 15\n14. These things may suffice, which we have said concerning the Gospel of John. The cause which led to the composition of the Gospel of Mark has been already stated by us. 16\n15. But as for Luke, in the beginning of his Gospel, he states himself the reasons which led him to write it. He states that since many others had more rashly undertaken to compose a narrative of the events of which he had acquired perfect knowledge, he himself, feeling the necessity of freeing us from their uncertain opinions, delivered in his own Gospel an accurate account of those events in regard to which he had learned the full truth, being aided by his intimacy and his stay with Paul and by his acquaintance with the rest of the apostles. 17\n16. So much for our own account of these things. But in a more fitting place we shall attempt to show by quotations from the ancients, what others have said concerning them.\n17. But of the writings of John, not only his Gospel, but also the former of his epistles, has been accepted without dispute both now and in ancient times. 18 But the other two are disputed. 19\n18. In regard to the Apocalypse, the opinions of most men are still divided. 20 But at the proper time this question likewise shall be decided from the testimony of the ancients. 21\nEcclesiastical History, Book 3, Chapter 25.\u2014The Divine Scriptures that are accepted and those that are not. 1\nGreek text\n(according to Burton)\nMcGiffert's translation\n1. \u0395\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03b4 \u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03b8\u03b1 \u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03ba\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9\u03c9\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b7\u03bb\u03c9\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03ba\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c2. \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b7 \u03c4\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03b1\u03b3\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03c5\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b9\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03c5\u03bd, \u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03be\u03b5\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b7. 1. Since we are dealing with this subject it is proper to sum up the writings of the New Testament which have been already mentioned. First then must be put the holy quaternion of the Gospels; 2 following them the Acts of the Apostles. 3\n2. \u039c\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b1\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2, \u03b1\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b5\u03be\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b7\u03bd \u0399\u03c9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bf\u03bc\u03bf\u03b9\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03a0\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd. \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd, \u03b5\u03b9\u03b3\u03b5 \u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03b7, \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03c5\u03c8\u03b9\u03bd \u0399\u03c9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5, \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9 \u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b1 \u03b4\u03bf\u03be\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03ba\u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1. \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd \u03bf\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2. 2. After this must be reckoned the epistles of Paul; 4 next in order the extant former epistle of John, 5 and likewise the epistle of Peter, 6 must be maintained. 6a After them is to be placed, if it really seem proper, the Apocalypse of John, 7 concerning which we shall give the different opinions at the proper time. 8 These then belong among the accepted writings. 9\n3. \u03a4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b4 \u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd, \u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03c1\u03b9\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd \u03b4 \u03bf\u03c5\u03bd \u03bf\u03bc\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2, \u03b7 \u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b7 \u0399\u03b1\u03ba\u03c9\u03b2\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u0399\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1, \u03b7 \u03c4\u03b5 \u03a0\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b4\u03b5\u03c5\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03b7, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b6\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b7 \u03b4\u03b5\u03c5\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03b7 \u0399\u03c9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5, \u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b5\u03c5\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c4\u03c5\u03b3\u03c7\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9, \u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5 \u03bf\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b5\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9. 3. Among the disputed writings, 10 which are nevertheless recognized 11 by many, are extant the so-called epistle of James 12 and that of Jude, 13 also the second epistle of Peter, 14 and those that are called the second and third of John, 15 whether they belong to the evangelist or to another person of the same name.\n4. \u0395\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03bd\u03bf\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c7\u03b8\u03c9 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03a0\u03b1\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5 \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03be\u03b5\u03c9\u03bd \u03b7 \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b7, \u03bf \u03c4\u03b5 \u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03c5\u03c8\u03b9\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5. \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2, \u03b7 \u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b7 \u0392\u03b1\u03c1\u03bd\u03b1\u03b2\u03b1 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03b7, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03b9 \u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b4\u03b1\u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u00b7 \u03b5\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b5, \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c6\u03b7\u03bd, \u03b7 \u0399\u03c9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03c5\u03c8\u03b9\u03c2, \u03b5\u03b9 \u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9\u03b7, \u03b7\u03bd \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2, \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c6\u03b7\u03bd, \u03b1\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd, \u03b5\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03b5\u03b3\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03bf\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2. 4. Among the rejected writings 16 must be reckoned also the Acts of Paul, 17 and the so-called Shepherd, 18 and the Apocalypse of Peter, 19 and in addition to these the extant epistle of Barnabas, 20 and the so-called Teachings of the Apostles; 21 and besides, as I said, the Apocalypse of John, if it seem proper, which some, as I said, reject, 22 but which others class with the accepted books. 23\n5. \u0397\u03b4\u03b7 \u03b4 \u03b5\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8 \u03b5\u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c5\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03be\u03b1\u03bd, \u03c9 \u03bc\u03b1\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 \u03b5\u03b2\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9\u03c9\u03bd \u03bf\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03b5\u03be\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9 \u03c7\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9. \u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd \u03b5\u03b9\u03b7. 5. And among these some have placed also the Gospel according to the Hebrews, 24 with which those of the Hebrews that have accepted Christ are especially delighted. And all these may be reckoned among the disputed books. 25\n6. \u0391\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03bf\u03bc\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd \u03c0\u03b5\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03b8\u03b1, \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03bd \u03b5\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03bd\u03c9\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1\u03c2, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2, \u03bf\u03c5\u03ba \u03b5\u03bd\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03bc\u03b5\u03bd, \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2, \u03bf\u03bc\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd \u03b3\u03b9\u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2, \u03b9\u03bd \u03b5\u03b9\u03b4\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b5\u03c7\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2, \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2, \u03b7\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9 \u03c9\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b5\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u0398\u03c9\u03bc\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u039c\u03b1\u03c4\u03b8\u03b9\u03b1, \u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03c5\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b5\u03c7\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2, \u03c9\u03c2 \u0391\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b5\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u0399\u03c9\u03b1\u03bd\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2, \u03c9\u03bd \u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b5\u03bd \u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1\u03bc\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b5\u03bd \u03c3\u03c5\u03b3\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b4\u03bf\u03c7\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b5\u03ba\u03ba\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd \u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c1 \u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03bc\u03bd\u03b7\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd \u03b1\u03b3\u03b1\u03b3\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd \u03b7\u03be\u03b9\u03c9\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd. 6. But we have nevertheless felt compelled to give a catalogue of these also, distinguishing those works which according to ecclesiastical tradition are true and genuine and commonly accepted, 26 from those others which, although not canonical but disputed, 27 are yet at the same time known to most ecclesiastical writers\u2014we have felt compelled to give this catalogue in order that we might be able to know both these works and those that are cited by the heretics under the name of the apostles, including, for instance, such books as the Gospels of Peter, 28 of Thomas, 29 of Matthias, 30 or of any others besides them, and the Acts of Andrew 31 and John 32 and the other apostles, which no one belonging to the succession of ecclesiastical writers has deemed worthy of mention in his writings.\n7. \u03a0\u03bf\u03c1\u03c1\u03c9 \u03b4\u03b5 \u03c0\u03bf\u03c5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bf \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf \u03b7\u03b8\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf \u03b1\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u00b7 \u03b7 \u03c4\u03b5 \u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b7 \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd \u03b5\u03bd \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2, \u03c0\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03bf\u03c3\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03b1\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03bf\u03c1\u03b8\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03be\u03b9\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03b4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1, \u03bf\u03c4\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b7 \u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03c4\u03c5\u03b3\u03c7\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9, \u03c3\u03b1\u03c6\u03c9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd\u00b7 \u03bf\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd \u03bf\u03c5\u03b4 \u03b5\u03bd \u03bd\u03bf\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03ba\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd, \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb \u03c9\u03c2 \u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c0\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b7 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u03c5\u03c3\u03c3\u03b5\u03b2\u03b7 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd. 7. And further, the character of the style is at variance with apostolic usage, and both the thoughts and the purpose of the things that are related in them are so completely out of accord with true orthodoxy that they clearly show themselves to be the fictions of heretics. 33 Wherefore they are not to be placed even among the rejected 34 writings, but are all of them to be cast aside as absurd and impious.\nMcGiffert's Notes to Bk. 3 Chap. 3\n1. The testimony of tradition is unanimous for the authenticity of the first Epistle of Peter. It was known to Clement of Rome, Polycarp, Papias, Hermas, &c. (the Muratorian Fragment, however, omits it), and was cited under the name of Peter by Iren\u00e6us, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria, from whose time its canonicity and Petrine authorship were established, so that Eusebius rightly puts it among the homologoumena. Semler, in 1784, was the first to deny its direct Petrine authorship, and Cludius, in 1808, pronounced it absolutely ungenuine. The T\u00fcbingen School followed, and at the present time the genuineness is denied by all the negative critics, chiefly on account of the strong Pauline character of the epistle (cf. Holtzmann, Einleitung, p. 487 sqq., also Weiss, Einleitung, p. 428 sqq., who confines the resemblances to the Epistles to the Romans and to the Ephesians, and denies the general Pauline character of the epistle). The great majority of scholars, however, maintain the Petrine authorship. A new opinion, expressed by Harnack, upon the assumption of the distinctively Pauline character of the epistle, is that it was written during the apostolic age by some follower of Paul, and that the name of Peter was afterward attached to it, so that it represents no fraud on the part of the writer, but an effort of a later age to find an author for the anonymous epistle. In support of this is urged the fact that though the epistle is so frequently quoted in the second century, it is never connected with Peter's name until the time of Iren\u00e6us. (Cf. Harnack's Lehre der Zw\u00f6lf Apostel, p. 106, note, and his Dogmengeschichte, I. p. 278, note 2.) This theory has found few supporters.\n2. \u03bf\u1f31 \u03c0\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03b2\u03cd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03b9. On the use of the term \"elders\" among the Fathers, see below, chap. 39, note 6.\n3. \u1f61\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03bc\u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03ba\u03c4\u1ff3\n4. \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f10\u03bd\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03b8\u03b7\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u03b5\u1f36\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03bb\u03ae\u03c6\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd. The authorship of the second Epistle of Peter has always been widely disputed. The external testimony for it is very weak, as no knowledge of it can be proved to have existed before the third century. Numerous explanations have been offered by apologists to account for this curious fact; but it still remains almost inexplicable, if the epistle be accepted as the work of the apostle. The first clear references to it are made by Firmilian, Bishop of C\u00e6sarea in Cappadocia (third century), in his Epistle to Cyprian, \u00a76 (Ep. 74, in the collection of Cyprian's Epistles, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Am. ed., V. p. 391), and by Origen (quoted by Eusebius, VI. 25, below), who mentions the second Epistle as disputed. Clement of Alexandria, however, seems at least to have known and used it (according to Euseb. VI. 14). The epistle was not admitted into the Canon until the Council of Hippo, in 393, when all doubts and discussion ceased until the Reformation. It is at present disputed by all negative critics, and even by many otherwise conservative scholars. Those who defend its genuineness date it shortly before the death of Peter, while the majority of those who reject it throw it into the second century,\u2014some as late as the time of Clement of Alexandria (e.g. Harnack, in his Lehre der Zw\u00f6lf Apostel, p. 15 and 159, who assigns its composition to Egypt). Cf. Holtzmann, Einleitung, p. 495 sqq., and Weiss (who leaves its genuineness an open question), Einleitung, p. 436 sqq. For a defense of the genuineness, see especially Warfield, in the Southern Pres. Rev., 1883, p. 390 sqq., and Salmon's Introduction to the N. T., p. 512 sqq.\n5. Although disputed by many, as already remarked, and consequently not looked upon as certainly canonical until the end of the fourth century, the epistle was yet used, as Eusebius says, quite widely from the time of Origen on, e.g. by Origen, Firmilian, Cyprian, Hippolytus, Methodius, etc. The same is true, however, of other writings, which the Church afterward placed among the Apocrypha.\n6. These \u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 (or \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03b9, as they are often called) \u03a0\u03ad\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5 were of heretical origin, according to Lipsius, and belonged, like the heretical Acta Pauli (referred to in note 20, below), to the collection of \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03b9 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd, which were ascribed to Lucius Charinus, and, like them, formed also, from the end of the fourth century, a part of the Manichean Canon of the New Testament. The work, as a whole, is no longer extant, but a part of it is preserved, according to Lipsius, in a late Catholic redaction, under the title Passio Petri. Upon these Acts of Peter, their original form, and their relation to other works of the same class, see Lipsius, Apocryphen Apostelgeschichten, II. I, p. 78 sq. Like the heretical Acta Pauli already referred to, this work, too, was used in the composition of the Catholic Acts of Paul and Peter, which are still extant, and which assumed their present form in the fifth century, according to Lipsius. These Catholic Acts of Peter and Paul have been published by Thilo (Acta Petri et Pauli, Halle, 1837), and by Tischendorf, in his Acta Apost. Apocr., p. 1\u201339. English translation in the Ante-Nicene Fathers (Am. ed.), VIII. p. 477.\n7. This Gospel is mentioned by Serapion as in use in the church of Rhossus (quoted by Eusebius, Bk. VI. chap. 12, below), but was rejected by him because of the heretical doctrines which it contained. It is mentioned again by Eusebius, III. 25, only to be rejected as heretical; also by Origen (in Matt. Vol. X. 17) and by Jerome (de vir. ill. 1), who follows Eusebius in pronouncing it an heretical work employed by no early teachers of the Christian Church. Lipsius regards it as probably a Gnostic recast of one of the Canonical Gospels. From Serapion's account of this Gospel (see below, Bk. VI. chap. 12), we see that it differs from the Canonical Gospels, not in denying their truth, or in giving a contradictory account of Christ's life, but rather in adding to the account given by them. This, of course, favors Lipsius' hypothesis; and in any case he is certainly quite right in denying that the Gospel was an original work made use of by Justin Martyr, and that it in any way lay at the base of our present Gospel of Mark. The Gospel (as we learn from the same chapter) was used by the Docet\u00e6, but that does not imply that it contained what we call Docetic ideas of Christ's body (cf. note 8 on that chapter). The Gospel is no longer extant. See Lipsius, in Smith and Wace's Dict. of Christ. Biog. II. p. 712.\n8. This Preaching of Peter (\u039a\u03ae\u03c1\u03c5\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1 \u03a0\u03ad\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5, Pr\u00e6dicatio Petri), which is no longer extant, probably formed a part of a lost Preaching of Peter and Paul (cf. Clement of Alexandria, Strom. VI. 5, and Lactantius, Inst. IV. 21). It was mentioned frequently by the early Fathers, and a number of fragments of it have been preserved by Clement of Alexandria, who quotes it frequently as a genuine record of Peter's teaching. (The fragments are collected by Grabe in his Spic. Patr. I. 55\u201371, and by Hilgenfeld in his N. T. extra Can. rec., 2d ed., IV. p. 51 sqq.). It is mentioned twice by Origen (in Johan. XIII. 17, and De Princ. Pr\u00e6f. 8), and in the latter place is expressly classed among spurious works. It was probably, according to Lipsius, closely connected with the Acts of Peter and Paul mentioned in note 6, above. Lipsius, however, regards those Acts as a Catholic adaptation of a work originally Ebionitic, though he says expressly that the Preaching is not at all of that character, but is a Petro-Pauline production, and is to be distinguished from the Ebionitic \u03ba\u03b7\u03c1\u03cd\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1. It would seem therefore that he must put the Preaching later than the original of the Acts, into a time when the Ebionitic character of the latter had been done away with. Salmon meanwhile holds that the Preaching is as old as the middle of the second century and the most ancient of the works recording Peter's preaching, and hence (if this view be accepted) the Ebionitic character which Lipsius ascribes to the Acts did not (if it existed at all) belong to the original form of the record of Peter's preaching embodied in the Acts and in the Preaching. The latter (if it included also the Preaching of Paul, as seems almost certain) appears to have contained an account of some of the events of the life of Christ, and it may have been used by Justin. Compare the remarks of Lipsius in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. I. p. 28 (Cath. Adaptations of Ebionitic Acts), and Salmon's article on the Preaching of Peter, ibid. IV. 329.\n9. The Apocalypse of Peter enjoyed considerable favor in the early Church and was accepted by some Fathers as a genuine work of the apostle. It is mentioned in the Muratorian Fragment in connection with the Apocalypse of John, as a part of the Roman Canon, and is accepted by the author of the fragment himself; although he says that some at that time rejected it. Clement of Alexandria, in his Hypotyposes (according to Eusebius, IV. 14, below), commented upon it, thus showing that it belonged at that time to the Alexandrian Canon. In the third century it was still received in the North African Church (so Harnack, who refers to the stichometry of the Codex Claramontanus). The Eclog\u00e6 or Prophetical Selections of Clement of Alexandria give it as a genuine work of Peter (\u00a7\u00a741, 48, 49, p. 1000 sq., Potter's ed.), and so Methodius of Tyre (Sympos. XI. 6, p. 16, ed. Jahn, according to Lipsius). After Eusebius' time the work seems to have been universally regarded as spurious, and thus, as its canonicity depended upon its apostolic origin (see chap. 24, note 19), it gradually fell out of the Canon. It nevertheless held its place for centuries among the semi-scriptural books, and was read in many churches. According to Sozomen, H. E. VII. 19, it was read at Easter, which shows that it was treated with especial respect. Nicephorus in his Stichometry puts it among the Antilegomena, in immediate connection with the Apocalypse of John. As Lipsius remarks, its \"lay-recognition in orthodox circles proves that it could not have had a Gnostic origin, nor otherwise have contained what was offensive to Catholic Christians\" (see Lipsius, Dict. of Christ. Biog. I. p. 130 sqq.). Only a few fragments of the work are extant, and these are given by Hilgenfeld, in his Nov. Test. extra Can. receptum, IV. 74 sq., and by Grabe, Spic. Patr. I. 71 sqq.\n10. \u03bf\u1f50\u03b4\u1fbd \u1f45\u03bb\u03c9\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f34\u03c3\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03b5\u03b4\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\n11. Eusebius exaggerates in this statement. The Apocalypse of Peter was in quite general use in the second century, as we learn from the Muratorian Fragment; and Clement (as Eusebius himself says in VI. 14) wrote a commentary upon it in connection with the other Antilegomena.\n12. \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd\n13. \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u1f76 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f10\u03bd\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03ae\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f41\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd\n14. \u1f61\u03bd \u03bc\u03cc\u03bd\u03b7\u03bd \u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u03b3\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u03b5\u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd.\n15. As above; see note 2.\n16. The thirteen Pauline Epistles of our present Canon, and the Epistle to the Hebrews. These formed for Eusebius an absolutely undisputed part of the Canon (cf. chap. 25, below, where he speaks of them with the same complete assurance), and were universally accepted until the present century. The external testimony for all of them is ample, going back (the Pastoral Epistles excepted) to the early part of the second century. The Epistles to the Romans, Corinthians, and Galatians have never been disputed (except by an individual here and there, especially during the last few years in Holland), even the T\u00fcbingen School accepting them as genuine works of Paul. The other epistles have not fared so well. The genuineness of Ephesians was first questioned by Usteri in 1824 and De Wette in 1826, and the T\u00fcbingen School rejected it. Scholars are at present greatly divided; the majority of negative critics reject it, while many liberal and all conservative scholars defend it. Colossians was first attacked by Mayerhoff in 1838, followed by the whole T\u00fcbingen School. It fares to-day somewhat better than Ephesians. It is still, however, rejected by many extreme critics, while others leave the matter in suspense (e.g. Weizs\u00e4cker in his Apostolisches Zeitalter). Since 1872, when the theory was proposed by Holtzmann, some scholars have held that our present Epistle contains a genuine Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, of which it is a later revision and expansion. Baur and the T\u00fcbingen School were the first to attack Philippians as a whole, and it too is still rejected by many critics, but at the same time it is more widely accepted than either Ephesians or Colossians (e.g. Weizs\u00e4cker and even Hilgenfeld defend its genuineness). Second Thessalonians was first attacked by Schmidt in 1801, followed by a number of scholars, until Baur extended the attack to the first Epistle also. Second Thessalonians is still almost unanimously rejected by negative critics, and even by some moderates, while First Thessalonians has regained the support of many of the former (e.g. Hilgenfeld, Weizs\u00e4cker, and even Holtzmann), and is entirely rejected by comparatively few critics. Philemon\u2014which was first attacked by Baur\u2014is quite generally accepted, but the Pastoral Epistles are almost as generally rejected, except by the regular conservative school (upon the Pastorals, see Bk. II. chap. 22, note 8, above). For a concise account of the state of criticism upon each epistle, see Holtzmann's Einleitung. For a defense of them all, see the Einleitung of Weiss.\n17. \u03c4\u03b9\u03bd\u03b5\u03c2 \u1f20\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03ae\u03ba\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9. That the Epistle to the Hebrews was not written by Paul is now commonly acknowledged, and may be regarded as absolutely certain. It does not itself lay any claim to Pauline authorship; its theology and style are both non-Pauline; and finally, external testimony is strongly against its direct connection with Paul. The first persons to assign the epistle to Paul are Pant\u00e6nus and Clement of Alexandria (see below, Bk. VI. chap. 14), and they evidently find it necessary to defend its Pauline authorship in the face of the objections of others. Clement, indeed, assumes a Hebrew original, which was translated into Greek by Luke. Origen (see below, Bk. VI. chap. 25) leaves its authorship undecided, but thinks it probable that the thoughts are Paul's, but the diction that of some one else, who has recorded what he heard from the apostle. He then remarks that one tradition assigned it to Clement of Rome, another to Luke. Eusebius himself, in agreement with the Alexandrians (who, with the exception of Origen, unanimously accept the Pauline authorship), looks upon it as a work of Paul, but accepts Clement of Alexandria's theory that it was written in Hebrew, and thinks it probable that Clement of Rome was its translator (see chap. 38, below). In the Western Church, where the epistle was known very early (e.g. Clement of Rome uses it freely), it is not connected with Paul until the fourth century. Indeed, Tertullian (de pudicit. 20) states that it bore the name of Barnabas, and evidently had never heard that it had been ascribed to any one else. The influence of the Alexandrians, however, finally prevailed, and from the fifth century on we find it universally accepted, both East and West, as an epistle of Paul, and not until the Reformation was its origin again questioned. Since that time its authorship has been commonly regarded as an insoluble mystery. Numerous guesses have been made (e.g. Luther guessed Apollos, and he has been followed by many), but it is impossible to prove that any of them are correct. For Barnabas, however, more can be said than for any of the others. Tertullian expressly connects the epistle with him; and its contents are just what we should expect from the pen of a Levite who had been for a time under Paul's influence, and yet had not received his Christianity from him; its standpoint, in fact, is Levitic, and decidedly non-Pauline, and yet reveals in many places the influence of Pauline ideas. Still further, it is noticeable that in the place where the Epistle to the Hebrews is first ascribed to Paul, there first appears an epistle which is ascribed (quite wrongly; see below, chap. 25, note 20) to Barnabas. May it not be (as has been suggested by Weiss and others) that the anonymous Epistle to the Hebrews was originally accepted in Alexandria as the work of Barnabas, but that later it was ascribed to Paul; and that the tradition that Barnabas had written an epistle, which must still have remained in the Church, led to the ascription of another anonymous epistle to him? We seem thus most easily to explain the false ascription of the one epistle to Paul, and the false ascription of the other to Barnabas. It may be said that the claims of both Barnabas and Apollos have many supporters, while still more attempt no decision. In regard to the canonicity of the epistle there seems never to have been any serious dispute, and it is this fact doubtless which did most to foster the belief in its Pauline authorship from the third century on. For the criterion of canonicity more and more came to be looked upon as apostolicity, direct or indirect. The early Church had cared little for such a criterion. In only one place does Eusebius seem to imply that doubts existed as to its canonicity,\u2014in Bk. VI. chap. 13, where he classes it with the Book of Wisdom, and the Epistles of Barnabas, Clement, and Jude, among the Antilegomena. But in view of his treatment of it elsewhere it must be concluded that he is thinking in that passage not at all of its canonicity, but of its Pauline authorship, which he knows is disputed by some, and in reference to which he uses the same word, \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03b3\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9, in the present sentence. Upon the canonicity of the epistle, see still further chap. 25, note 1. For a discussion of the epistle, see especially the N. T. Introductions of Weiss and Holtzmann.\n18. \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03b3\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9\n19. See Bk. VI. chaps. 14, 20, 25.\n20. These \u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 are mentioned also in chap. 25, below, where they are classed among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, implying that they had been originally accepted as canonical, but were not at the time Eusebius wrote widely accepted as such. This implies that they were not, like the works which he mentions later in the chapter, of an heretical character. They were already known to Origen, who (De Prin. I. 2, 3) refers to them in such a way as to show that they were in good repute in the Catholic Church. They are to be distinguished from the Gnostic \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03b9 or \u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u03a0\u03b1\u03cd\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5, which from the end of the fourth century formed a part of the Manichean canon of the New Testament, and of which some fragments are still extant under various forms. The failure to keep these Catholic and heretical Acta Pauli always distinct has caused considerable confusion. Both of these Acts, the Catholic and the heretical, formed, according to Lipsius (Apokr. Apostelgeschichten, II. 1, p. 305 sq.) one of the sources of the Catholic Acts of Peter and Paul, which in their extant form belong to the fifth century. For a discussion of these Catholic Acts of Paul referred to by Eusebius, see Lipsius, ibid., p. 70 sq.\n21. \u03bf\u1f50\u03b4\u1f72 \u03bc\u1f74\u03bd \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03c0\u03c1\u03ac\u03be\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03bc\u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b5\u03af\u03bb\u03b7\u03c6\u03b1\n22. Rom. xvi. 14. The greater part of this last chapter of Romans is considered by many a separate epistle addressed to Ephesus. This has been quite a common opinion since 1829, when it was first broached by David Schulz (Studien und Kritiken, p. 629 sq.), and is accepted even by many conservative scholars (e.g. Weiss), while on the other hand it is opposed by many of the opposite school. While Aquila and Priscilla, of Rom. 16.3, and Ep\u00e6netus, of Rom. 16.5, seem to point to Ephesus, and the fact that so many personal friends are greeted, leads us to look naturally to the East as Paul's field of labor, where he had formed so many acquaintances, rather than to Rome, where he had not been; yet on the other hand such names as Junias, Narcissus, Rufus, Hermas, Nereus, Aristobulus, and Herodion point strongly to Rome. We must, however, be content to leave the matter undecided, but may be confident that the evidence for the Ephesian hypothesis is certainly, in the face of the Roman names mentioned, and of universal tradition (for which as for Eusebius the epistle is a unit), not strong enough to establish it.\n23. The Shepherd of Hermas was in circulation in the latter half of the second century, and is quoted by Iren\u00e6us (Adv. H\u00e6r. IV. 20. 2) as Scripture, although he omits it in his discussion of Scripture testimonies in Bk. III. chap. 9 sqq., which shows that he considered it not quite on a level with regular Scripture. Clement of Alexandria and Origen often quote it as an inspired book, though the latter expressly distinguishes it from the canonical books, admitting that it is disputed by many (cf. De Prin. IV. 11). Eusebius in chap. 25 places it among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 or spurious writings in connection with the Acts of Paul and the Apocalypse of Peter. According to the Muratorian Fragment it was \"written very recently in our times in the city of Rome by Hermas, while his brother, Bishop Pius, sat in the chair of the Church of Rome. And therefore it also ought to be read; but it cannot be made public in the Church to the people, nor placed among the prophets, as their number is complete, nor among the apostles to the end of time.\" This shows the very high esteem in which the work was held in that age. It was very widely employed in private and in public, both in the East and the West, until about the fourth century, when it gradually passed out of use. Jerome (de vir. ill. 10) says that it was almost unknown among the Latins of his time. As to the date and authorship of the Shepherd opinions vary widely. The only direct testimony of antiquity is that of the Muratorian Fragment, which says that it was written by Hermas, the brother of Pius, during the episcopacy of the latter (139\u2013154 A.D.). This testimony is accepted by the majority of scholars, most of whom date the book near the middle of the second century, or at least as late as the reign of Hadrian. This opinion received not long ago what was supposed to be a strong confirmation from the discovery of the fact that Hermas in all probability quoted from Theodotion's version of Daniel (see Hort's article in the Johns Hopkins University Circular, December, 1884), which has been commonly ascribed to the second century. But it must now be admitted that no one knows the terminus a quo for the composition of Theodotian's version, and therefore the discovery leaves the date of Hermas entirely undetermined (see Sch\u00fcrer, Gesch. des j\u00fcdischen Volkes, II. p. 709). Meanwhile Eusebius in this connection records the tradition, which he had read, that the book was written by the Hermas mentioned in Romans xvi. This tradition, however, appears to be no older than Origen, with whom it is no more than a mere guess. While in our absence of any knowledge as to this Hermas we cannot absolutely disprove his claim (unless we prove decisively the late date of the book), there is yet no ground for accepting it other than a mere coincidence in a very common name. In Vis. II. 4. 3 Hermas is told to give one copy of his book to Clement. From this it is concluded by many that the author must have been contemporary with the well-known Roman Clement, the author of the Epistle to the Corinthians. While this appears very likely, it cannot be called certain in the face of evidence for a considerably later date. Internal testimony helps us little, as there is nothing in the book which may not have been written at the very beginning of the second century, or, on the other hand, as late as the middle of it. Zahn dates it between 97 and 100, and assigns it to an unknown Hermas, a contemporary of the Roman Clement, in which he is followed by Salmon in a very clear and keen article in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. Critics are unanimously agreed that the book was written in Rome. It consists of three parts, Visions, Mandates, and Similitudes, and is of the nature of an apocalypse, written for the purpose of reforming the life of the Church, which seemed to the author to have become very corrupt. The work (especially the last part) is in the form of an allegory, and has been compared to the Pilgrim's Progress. Opinions are divided as to whether it is actually founded upon visions and dreams of the author, or is wholly a fiction. The former opinion seems to be the more probable.\nUntil recent years only a Latin translation of Hermas was known. In 1856 the first Greek edition was issued by Anger and Dindorf, being based upon a Mt. Athos MS. discovered shortly before by Simonides. Of the ten leaves of the MS. the last was lost; three were sold by Simonides to the University of Leipsic, and the other six were transcribed by him in a very faulty manner. The Sinaitic Codex has enabled us to control the text of Simonides in part, but unfortunately it contains only the Visions and a small part of the Mandates. All recent editions have been obliged to take the faulty transcription of Simonides as their foundation. In 1880 the six leaves of the Athos Codex, which had been supposed to be lost, and which were known only through Simonides' transcription, were discovered by Lambros at Mt. Athos, and in 1888 A Collation of the Athos Codex of the Shepherd of Hermas by Dr. Spyr Lambros was issued in English translation by J. A. Robinson, at Cambridge, England. We thus have now a reliable Greek text of nine-tenths of the Shepherd of Hermas. Hilgenfeld, in his last edition (1887) of his Novum Test. Extra Can. Rec., published also a Greek text of the lost part of the work, basing it upon a pretended transcription by Simonides from the lost Athos MS. But this has been conclusively shown to be a mere fraud on the part of Simonides, and we are therefore still without any MS. authority for the Greek text of the close of the work. Cf. Robinson's introduction to the Collation of Lambros mentioned above, and Harnack's articles in the Theol. Literaturzeitung (1887). The most useful edition of the original is that of Gebhardt and Harnack, Patrum Apost. Opera, Fasc. III. (Lips. 1877). The work is translated in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. II. The literature upon the subject is very extensive, but the reader should examine especially the Prolegomena of Harnack in his edition. Cf. Zahn's Hirt des Hermas (1868), and the article by Salmon in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. II. p. 912 sqq. Cf. also chap. 24, note 20, in regard to the reasons for the non-canonicity of the Shepherd.\nMcGiffert's Notes to Bk. 3 Chap. 24\n1. The testimony of antiquity,\u2014both orthodox and heretical,\u2014to the authenticity of John's Gospel is universal, with the exception of a single unimportant sect of the second century, the Alogi, who denied the Johannine authorship on account of the Logos doctrine, which they rejected, and very absurdly ascribed the Gospel to the Gnostic Cerinthus; though its absolute opposition to Cerinthus' views is so apparent that Iren\u00e6us (III. 11. 1) even supposed John to have written the Gospel against Cerinthus. The writings of the second century are full of the spirit of John's Gospel, and exhibit frequent parallels in language too close to be mistaken; while from the last quarter of the second century on it is universally and expressly ascribed to John (Theophilus of Antioch and the Muratorian Fragment being the first to name him as its author). The Church never entertained a doubt of its authenticity until the end of the seventeenth century, when it was first questioned by the English Deists; but its genuineness was vindicated, and only scattering and occasional attacks were made upon it until the rise of the T\u00fcbingen school, since which time its authenticity has been one of the most fiercely contested points in apostolic history. Its opponents have been obliged gradually to throw back the date of its origin, until now no sensible critic thinks of assigning it to a time later than the early part of the second century, which is a great gain over the position of Baur and his immediate followers, who threw it into the latter half of the century. See Schaff's Ch. Hist. I. 701-724 for a full defense of its authenticity and a comprehensive account of the controversy; also p. 406-411 for the literature of the subject. For the most complete summary of the external evidence, see Ezra Abbott's The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel, 1880. Among recent works, compare Weiss' Leben Jesu, I. 84-124, and his N. T. Einleitung, 586-620, for a defense of the Gospel, and upon the other side Holtzmann's Einleitung, 413-460, and Weizs\u00e4cker's Apost. Zeitalter, p. 531-558.\n2. Overbeck remarks that Eusebius in this passage is the first to tell us that Paul wrote no more than what we have in the canon. But this is a mistake, for Origen (quoted by Eusebius in VI. 25, below) states it just as distinctly as Eusebius does. The truth is, neither of them says it directly, and yet it is clear enough when this passage is taken in connection with chapter 3, that it is what Eusebius meant, and the same idea underlies the statement of the Muratorian Fragment. Of course this does not prove that Paul wrote only the epistles which we have (which is indeed contrary to fact), but it shows what the idea of the early Church was.\n3. See 2 Cor. xii. 2-4.\n4. The majority of the MSS., followed by Burton, Schwegler, and Laemmer, read \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03b2\u1ff6\u03bd instead of \u03bc\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd; and Burton therefore translates, sed tamen ex his omnibus sole Matth\u00e6us et Joannes nobis reliquerunt commentarios de vita et sermonibus Domini, \"but of all these only Matthew and John have left us commentaries on the life and conversations of the Lord.\" Two important MSS., however, read \u03bc\u03b1\u03b8\u03b7\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd, and this is confirmed by Rufinus and adopted by Heinichen, Closs, and Cruse.\n5. That Matthew wrote a gospel in Hebrew, although denied by many, is at present the prevailing opinion among scholars, and may be accepted as a fact both on account of its intrinsic probability and of the testimony of the Fathers, which begins with the statement of Papias, quoted by Eusebius in chap. 39, below, is confirmed by Iren\u00e6us (III. 1. 1, quoted below, V. 8, \u00a72),\u2014whether independently of Papias or not, we cannot say,\u2014by Pant\u00e6nus (but see below, Bk. V. chap. 10), by Origen (see below, VI. 25), by Jerome (de vir. ill. 3),\u2014who says that a copy of it still existed in the library at C\u00e6sarea,\u2014and by Epiphanius (H\u00e6r. XXIX. 9). The question as to the relation of this Hebrew original to our present Greek Matthew is much more difficult. That our Greek Matthew is a mere translation of the original Hebrew was once a prevailing theory, but is now completely abandoned. That Matthew himself wrote both is a common conservative position, but is denied by most critical scholars, many of whom deny him the composition even of the Hebrew original. Upon the theory that the original Hebrew Matthew was identical with the \"Gospel according to the Hebrews,\" see chap. 27, note 8. Upon the synoptic problem, see above, II. 15, note 4; and see the works mentioned there for a discussion of this original Matthew, and in addition the recent works by Gla, Original-Sprache des Matt. Evang., 1887, and Resch, Agrapha, Leipzig, 1889.\nThe very natural reason which Eusebius gives for the composition of Matthew's Gospel\u2014viz. that, when on the point of going to other nations, he committed it to writing, and thus compensated them for the loss of his presence\u2014occurs in none of the earlier reports of the composition of the Gospel which we now possess. It was probably a fact which he took from common tradition, as he remarks in the previous sentence that tradition says \"they undertook it from necessity.\"\n6. Upon the date and authorship of the Gospel of Luke, see above, chap. 4, notes 12 and 15. Upon Mark, see Bk. II. chap. 15, note 4.\n7. No writer before Eusebius' time, so far as is known, assigned the reason given by him for the composition of John's Gospel. Jerome, de vir. ill. chap. 9, repeats the view, combining with it the anti-heretical purpose. The indefinite expression, \"they say,\" shows that Eusebius was recording tradition commonly received in his time, and does not involve the authority of any particular writer. This object\u2014viz. the supplementing and filling out of the accounts of the Synoptists\u2014is assumed as the real object by some modern scholars; but it is untenable, for though the book serves this purpose to a great extent, the author's real aim was much higher,\u2014viz. the establishment of belief in the Messiahship and divinity of Christ (John xx. 31 sqq.),\u2014and he chose his materials accordingly. The Muratorian Fragment says, \"The Fourth Gospel is that of John, one of the disciples. When his fellow-disciples and bishops entreated him, he said, 'Fast ye now with me for the space of three days, and let us recount to each other whatever may be revealed to us.' On the same night it was revealed to Andrew, one of the apostles, that John should narrate all things in his own name as they called them to mind.\" Iren\u00e6us (III. 11. 1) supposes John to have written his Gospel as a polemic against Cerinthus. Clement of Alexandria, in his Hypotyposes (quoted by Eusebius, VI. 14), says that John wrote a spiritual Gospel, as a supplement to the other Gospels, which had sufficiently described the external facts. The opinion of Eusebius is very superficial. Upon examination of the Gospels it will be seen that, of the events which John relates independently of the synoptists, but a small portion occurred before the imprisonment of John the Baptist. John's Gospel certainly does incidentally supplement the Synoptists in a remarkable manner, but not in any such intentional and artificial way as Eusebius supposes. Compare Weiss' Einleitung, p. 602 sqq., and Schaff's Ch. Hist. II. p. 680 sqq.\n8. The Synoptic Gospels certainly give the impression that Christ's public ministry lasted but a single year; and were it not for the additional light which John throws upon the subject, the one year ministry would be universally accepted, as it was by many of the early Fathers,\u2014e.g. Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, Lactantius, &c. John, however, expressly mentions three, perhaps four, passovers, so that Christ's ministry lasted either two or three years. Upon comparison of the Synoptists with John, it will be seen that the events which they record are not all comprised within a single year, as Eusebius thought, but that they are scattered over the whole period of his ministry, although confined to his work in Galilee up to the time of his last journey to Judea, six months before his crucifixion. The distinction between John and the Synoptists, as to the events recorded, is therefore rather that of place than of time: but the distinction is not absolute.\n9. Matt. iv. 12.\n10. Mark i. 14.\n11. Luke iii. 20.\n12. John ii. 11. The arguments of Eusebius, whether original or borrowed from his predecessors, are certainly very ingenious, and he makes out apparently quite a strong case for his opinion; but a careful harmony of the four Gospels shows that it is untenable.\n13. John iii. 23.\n14. John 3.24.\n15. Eusebius approaches here the opinion of Clement of Alexandria, mentioned in note 7, above, who considered John's Gospel a spiritual supplement to the others,\u2014a position which the Gospel certainly fills most admirably.\n16. See Bk. II. chap. 15.\n17. See Luke i. 1-4. Eusebius puts the case more strongly than Luke himself. Luke does not say that others had rashly undertaken the composition of their narratives, nor does he say that he himself writes in order to free his readers from the uncertain suppositions of others; but at the same time the interpretation which Eusebius gives is, though not an exact, yet certainly a natural one, and we have no right to accuse him, as has been done, of intentional falsification of the text of the Gospel. Eusebius also augments Luke's statement by the mention of the source from which the latter gained his knowledge, viz., \"from his intimacy and stay with Paul, and from his acquaintance with the rest of the apostles.\" If Eusebius intended to convey the impression that Luke said this, he is of course inexcusable, but we have no reason to suppose this to be the case. It is simply the explanation on the part of Eusebius of an indefinite statement of Luke's by a fact which was universally assumed as true. That he was adding to Luke's own account probably never occurred to him. He does not pretend to quote Luke's exact words.\n18. The testimony to the first Epistle of John goes hand in hand with that to the fourth Gospel (cf. note 1, above). But we can find still clearer trace of the Epistle in the early part of the second century than of the Gospel (e.g. in Polycarp's Epistle, where traces of the Gospel are wanting; and so, too, in Papias, according to chap. 39, below). The writings of the second century are full of the spirit of the Epistle as well as of the Gospel and exhibit frequent parallels in language too close to be mistaken. The first express testimony as to its authorship occurs in the Muratorian Fragment. The first systematic attack upon the Epistle was made by Bretschneider, in 1820, in connection with the attack upon the Gospel. The T\u00fcbingen school likewise rejected both. Before Bretschneider there had been a few critics (e.g. Lange, 1797) who had rejected the Epistle while accepting the Gospel, and since then a few have accepted the Epistle while rejecting the Gospel; but these are exceptional cases. The Gospel and Epistle have almost universally, and quite rightly, been regarded as the work of the same author, and may be said to stand or fall together. Cf. the works cited in note 1, and also Westcott's Epistles of St. John. (On the use of \u03c0\u03c1\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1 instead of \u03c0\u03c1\u03ce\u03c4\u03b7, see p. 388, note.)\n19. The Muratorian Fragment expressly ascribes two epistles to John. Citations from the second Epistle appear first in Iren\u00e6us, though he does not distinguish it from the first. Clement of Alexandria (Strom. II. 15) quotes from 1 John under the formula \"John says in his larger Epistle,\" showing that he knew of a second. The lack of citations from the second and third Epistles is easily explained by their brevity and the minor importance of their doctrinal contents. The second and third Epistles belong to the seven Antilegomena. Origen cites the first Epistle often, the second and third never, and of the latter he says \"not all agree that they are genuine\" (quoted by Eusebius, VI. 25), and apparently he himself did not consider them of apostolic origin (cf. Weiss' Einleitung, p. 87). Origen's treatment of the Catholic Epistles was implicitly followed by his pupil Dionysius and by succeeding generations. Eusebius himself does not express his own judgment in the matter, but simply records the state of tradition which was a mere repetition of Origen's position in regard to them. Jerome (de vir. ill. 9 and 18) says that most writers ascribe them to the presbyter John\u2014an opinion which evidently arose upon the basis of the author's self-designation in 2 John. 1:1, 3 John. 1:1, and some modern critics (among them Reuss and Wieseler) have done the same. Eusebius himself in the next chapter implies that such an opinion existed in his day, though he does not express his own view on the matter. He placed them, however, among the Antilegomena. (On the presbyter John, see below chap. 39, note 4.) That the two epistles fell originally into the class of Antilegomena was due doubtless to the peculiar self-designation mentioned, which seemed to distinguish the author from the apostle, and also to their private and doctrinally unimportant character. But in spite of the slight external testimony to the epistles the conclusion of Weiss seems correct, that \"inasmuch as the second and third clearly betray the same author, and inasmuch as the second is related to the first in such a manner that they must either be by the same author or the former be regarded as an entirely aimless imitation of the latter, so everything favors the ascription of them both to the author of the first, viz. to the apostle.\" (ibid. p. 469.)\n20. The Apocalypse is one of the best authenticated books of the New Testament. It was used by Papias and others of the earliest Fathers, and already by Justin Martyr was expressly ascribed to the apostle John. (Compare also the epistle of the Churches of Lyons and Vienne, Eusebius, V. 1.) Tradition, so far as we have it, is unanimous (with the exception of the Alogi, an insignificant heretical sect of the second century, who attributed the Apocalypse as well as the Gospel to Cerinthus. Caius is not an exception: see below, chap. 28, note 4) in ascribing the Apocalypse to the apostle John, until Dionysius of Alexandria, who subjected the book to severe literary criticism (see below, Bk. VII. chap. 25), and upon the assumption of the genuineness of the Gospel and the first Epistle, doubted its authenticity on account of its divergence from these writings both in spirit and in style. He says (VII. 25, \u00a72) that some others before him had denied the Johannine authorship and ascribed the book to Cerinthus, but the way in which he speaks of them shows that there cannot have been a ruling tradition to that effect. He may have referred simply to the Alogi, or he may have included others of whom we do not know. He himself rejects this hypothesis, and supposes the books to have been written by some John, not the apostle (by what John he does not decide), and does not deny the inspiration and prophetic character of the book. Dionysius was led to exercise criticism upon the Apocalypse (which was as well supported by tradition as any book of the New Testament) from dogmatic reasons. The supposed sensuous and materialistic conceptions of the Apocalypse were offensive to the spiritualizing tendencies of the Alexandrian school, and the offensiveness increased with time. Although Dionysius held the work as inspired and authoritative, yet his position would lead logically to the exclusion of the Apocalypse from the canon, just as Hermas had been already excluded, although Origen held it to be inspired and authoritative in the same sense in which Dionysius held the Apocalypse to be,\u2014i.e. as composed by an apostle's pupil, not by an apostle. Apocalyptic literature did not belong properly to the New Testament, but rather to the prophetic portion of the Old Testament; but the number of the Old Testament prophets was already complete (according to the Muratorian Fragment), and therefore no prophetic writing (e.g. Hermas) could find a place there; nor, on the other hand, could it be made a part of the New Testament, for it was not apostolic. The same was true of the Apocalypse of Peter, and the only thing which kept the Apocalypse of John in the canon was its supposed apostolic authorship. It was received as a part of the New Testament not because it was apocalyptic, but because it was apostolic, and thus the criticism of Dionysius would lead logically to its rejection from the canon. John's Apocalypse is the only New Testament book cited by Justin as \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae (so also by the Epistle of Vienne and Lyons, Eusebius, V. 1), and this because of its prophetic character. It must have been (according to their opinion) either a true prophecy (and therefore inspired by the Holy Spirit) or a forgery. Its authenticity being accepted, the former alternative necessarily followed, and it was placed upon a line with the Old Testament prophets, i.e. with the \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae. After Dionysius' time doubts of its authenticity became quite widespread in the Eastern Church, and among the doubters was Eusebius, who evidently wished to ascribe it to the mysterious presbyter John, whose existence he supposed to be established by Papias in a passage quoted in chap. 39, \u00a74, below (compare the note on the passage). Eusebius' treatment of the book is hesitating. He evidently himself discredited its apostolic authority, but at the same time he realized (as a historian more keenly than Dionysius the theologian) the great weight of external testimony to its authenticity, and therefore he gives his readers the liberty (in the next chapter) of putting it either with the Homologoumena or with the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9. It legitimately belonged among the Homologoumena, but Dionysius' attitude toward it doubtless led Eusebius to think that it might at some time in the future be thrown out of the canon, and of course his own objections to its contents and his doubts as to its apostolicity caused him to contemplate such a possibility not without pleasure (see the next chapter, note 1). In chapter 18, above, he speaks of it as the \"so-called\" Apocalypse of John, but in other places he repeats many testimonies in favor of its authenticity (see the next note), and only in chapter 39 does he state clearly his own opinion in the matter, which even there he does not press as a fixed conviction. The reason for the doubts of the book's genuineness on the part of Eusebius and so many others lay evidently most of all in objections to the contents of the book, which seemed to favor chiliasm, and had been greatly abused for the advancement of the crassest chiliastic views. Many, like Dionysius of Alexandria were no doubt influenced also by the idea that it was impossible that the Gospel and the Apocalypse could be the works of one author, and they preferred to sacrifice the latter rather than the former. The book has found objectors in almost every age of the Church, but has continued to hold its place in the canon (its position was never disturbed in the Western Church, and only for some two or three centuries after Eusebius in parts of the Eastern Church) as an authentic work of the apostle John. The T\u00fcbingen school exalted the Apocalypse to the honorable position of one of the five genuine monuments of the apostolic age, and from it as a basis conducted their attacks upon the other Johannine writings. The more modern critical school is doubtful about it as well as the rest of the Johannine literature, and the latest theory makes the Apocalypse a Jewish document in a Christianized form (see above, chap. 18, note 1). Compare especially Holtzmann's Einleitung, p. 411-413, and Weiss' Einleitung, p. 93.\n21. See Bk. VII. chap. 25, where Eusebius quotes a lengthy discussion of the Apocalypse by Dionysius of Alexandria. He also cites opinions favorable to the authenticity of the Apocalypse from Justin (in IV. 18, below), Theophilus (IV. 24), Iren\u00e6us (V. 8), and Origen (VI. 25), but such scattered testimonies can hardly be regarded as the fulfillment of the definite promise which he makes in this passage.\n1. This chapter is the only place in which Eusebius attempts to treat the canon systematically, and in it he is speaking purely as an historian, not as a critic. He is endeavoring to give an accurate statement of the general opinion of the orthodox Church of his day in regard to the number and names of its sacred books. He does not, in this passage, apply to the various works any criterion of canonicity further than their acceptance as canonical by the orthodox Church. He simply records the state of the canon; he does not endeavor to form a canon. He has nothing to do, therefore, with the nature and origin of the books which the church accepts. As remarked by Weiss (Einleitung in das N. T., p. 96), the influence of Eusebius in the formation of the canon is very commonly overestimated. He contributed himself very little; his office was to record the usage of the church of his age, not to mould it.\nThe church whose judgment he takes is, in the main, the church of the Orient, and in that church at this time all the works which we now call canonical (and only those) were already commonly accepted, or were becoming more and more widely accepted as such. From the standpoint, then, of canonicity, Eusebius divided the works which he mentions in this chapter into two classes: the canonical (including the Homologoumena and the Antilogomena) and the uncanonical (including the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 and the \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f76\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u1ff6\u03bd). But the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 he connects much more closely with the Homologoumena and Antilegomena than with the heretical works, which are, in fact, separated from all the rest and placed in a class by themselves. What, then, is the relation of the Homologoumena, Antilegomena, and \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 to each other, as Eusebius classifies them? The crucial point is the relation of the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 to the \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1. L\u00fccke (Ueber den N. T. Kanon des Eusebius, p. 11 sq.) identified the two, but such identification is impossible in this passage. The passages which he cites to confirm his view prove only that the word Antilegomena is commonly employed by Eusebius in a general sense to include all disputed works, and therefore, of course, the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 also; that is, the term Antilegomena is ordinarily used, not as identical with \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, but as inclusive of it. This, however, establishes nothing as to Eusebius' technical use of the words in the present passage, where he is endeavoring to draw close distinctions. Various views have been taken since L\u00fccke's time upon the relation of these terms to each other in this connection; but, to me at least, none of them seem satisfactory, and I have been led to adopt the following simple explanation. The Antilegomena, in the narrower sense peculiar to this summary, were works which, in Eusebius' day, were, as he believed, commonly accepted by the Eastern Church as canonical, but which, nevertheless, as he well knew, had not always been thus accepted, and, indeed, were not even then universally accepted as such. The tendency, however, was distinctly in the direction of their ever-wider acceptance. On the other hand, the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 were works which, although they had been used by the Fathers and were quoted as \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u1f74 by some of them, were, at this time, not acknowledged as canonical. Although perhaps not universally rejected from the canon, yet they were commonly so rejected, and the tendency was distinctly in the direction of their ever-wider rejection. Whatever their merit, and whatever their antiquity and their claims to authenticity, Eusebius could not place them among the canonical books. The term \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, then, in this passage, must not be taken, as it commonly is, to mean spurious or unauthentic, but to mean uncanonical. It is in this sense, as against the canonical Homologoumena and Antilegomena, that Eusebius, as I believe, uses it here, and his use of it in this sense is perfectly legitimate. In using it he passes no judgment upon the authenticity of the works referred to; that, in the present case, is not his concern. As an historian he observed tendencies, and judged accordingly. He saw that the authority of the Antilegomena was on the increase, that of the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 on the decrease, and already he could draw a sharp distinction between them, as Clement of Alexandria could not do a century before. The distinction drawn has no relation to the authenticity or original authority of the works of the two classes, but only to their canonicity or uncanonicity at the time Eusebius wrote.\nThis interpretation will help us to understand the peculiar way in which Eusebius treats the Apocalypse, and thus his treatment of it becomes an argument in favor of the interpretation. He puts it, first among the Homologoumena with an \u03b5\u1f34\u03b3\u03b5 \u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03af\u03b7, and then among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 with an \u03b5\u1f34 \u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03af\u03b7. No one, so far as I know, has explained why it should be put among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 as an alternative to the Homologoumena, instead of among the Antilegomena, which, on the common interpretation of the relation of the classes, might be naturally expected. If the view presented is correct, the reason is clear. The Antilegomena were those works which had been disputed, but were becoming more and more widely accepted as canonical. The Apocalypse could not under any circumstances fall into this class, for the doubts raised against it in the orthodox Church were of recent date. It occupied, in fact, a peculiar position, for there was no other work which, while accepted as canonical, was doubted in the present more than in the past. Eusebius then must either put it into a special class or put it conditionally into two different classes, as he does. If the doubts should become so widespread as to destroy its canonicity, it would fall naturally into the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, for then it would hold the same position as the other works of that class. As an historian, Eusebius sees the tendency and undoubtedly has the idea that the Apocalypse may eventually, like the other Christian works of the same class (the Shepherd, the Apocalypse of Peter, etc.), become one of the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, one of the works which, formerly accepted, is at length commonly denied to be canonical: and so, as an historian, he presents the alternative. The Apocalypse was the only work in regard to which any doubt could exist.\nEusebius' failure to mention explicitly in this passage the Epistle to the Hebrews, has caused considerable misunderstanding. The explanation, if the view presented be adopted, is simple. Eusebius included it, I believe, among the epistles of Paul, and did not especially mention it, simply because there was no dispute about its canonicity. Its Pauline authorship had been widely disputed as Eusebius informs us elsewhere, and various theories had been proposed to account for it; but its canonicity had not been doubted in the orthodox Church, and therefore doubts as to the authorship of it did not in the least endanger its place among the Homologoumena, as used here in a technical sense; and since Eusebius was simply stating the works of each class, not discussing the nature and origin of those works, he could, in perfect fairness, include it in Paul's epistles (where he himself believed it belonged) without entering upon any discussion of it.\nAnother noticeable omission is that of the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians. All efforts to find a satisfactory reason for this are fruitless. It should have been placed among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 with the Epistle of Barnabas, etc., as Eusebius' treatment of it in other passages shows. It must be assumed, with Holtzmann, that the omission of it was nothing more nor less than an oversight.\nEusebius, then, classifies the works mentioned in this chapter upon two principles: first, in relation to canonicity, into the canonical and the uncanonical; and secondly, in relation to character, into the orthodox (Homologoumena, Antilegomena, which are canonical, and \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, which are uncanonical), and heterodox (which are not, and never have been, canonical, never have been accepted as of use or authority). The Homologoumena and Antilegomena, then, are both canonical and orthodox, the \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1 \u03b1\u1f31\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u1ff6\u03bd are neither canonical nor orthodox, while the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 occupy a peculiar position, being orthodox but not canonical. The last-named are much more closely related to the canonical than to the heterodox works, because when the canon was a less concrete and exact thing than it had at length become, they were associated with the other orthodox works as, like them, useful for edification and instruction. With the heretical works they had never been associated, and possessed in common with them only the negative characteristic of non-canonicity. Eusebius naturally connects them closely with the former, and severs them completely from the latter. The only reason for mentioning the latter at all was the fact that they bore the names of apostles, and thus might be supposed, as they often had been\u2014by Christians, as well as by unbelievers\u2014to be sacred books like the rest. The statement of the canon gives Eusebius an opportunity to warn his readers against them.\nUpon Eusebius' New Testament Canon, see especially the work of L\u00fccke referred to above, also Westcott's Canon of the New Testament, 5th ed., p. 414 sq., Harnack's Lehre der Zw\u00f6lf Apostel, p. 6 sq., Holtzmann's Einleitung in das N.T., p. 154 sq., and Weiss' Einleitung, p. 92 sq.\nThe greater part of the present note was read before the American Society of Church History in December, 1888, and is printed in Vol. I. of that Society's papers, New York, 1889, p. 251 sq.\n2. On Matthew, see the previous chapter, note 5; on Mark, Bk. II. chap. 15, note 4; on Luke, Bk. III. chap. 4, notes 12 and 15; on John, the previous chapter, note 1.\n3. See above, chap. 4, note 14.\n4. See chap. 3, note 16. Eusebius evidently means to include the Epistle to the Hebrews among Paul's epistles at this point, for he mentions it nowhere else in this chapter (see above, note 1).\n5. See the previous chapter, note 18.\n6. See chap. 3, note 1.\n6a. \u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03ad\u03bf\u03bd\n7. See the previous chapter, note 20. Upon Eusebius' treatment in this chapter of the canonicity of the Apocalypse, see note 1, above.\n8. Compare the previous chapter, note 21.\n9. \u1f10\u03bd \u1f41\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2\n11. \u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03c1\u03af\u03bc\u03c9\u03bd\n12. See Bk. II. chap. 23, note 46. [In Bk. II chap. 23 Eusebius writes, \"These things are recorded in regard to James, who is said to be the author of the first of the so-called Catholic epistles. But it is to be observed that it is disputed; at least, not many of the ancients have mentioned it, as is the case likewise with the epistle that bears the name of Jude, which is also one of the seven so-called Catholic epistles. Nevertheless we know that these also, with the rest, have been read publicly in very many churches.\"]\n13. See ibid. note 47.\n14. See above, chap. 3, note 4.\n15. See the previous chapter, note 19.\n16. \u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2.\n17. See above, chap. 3, note 20.\n18. ibid. note 23.\n19. ibid. note 9.\n20. The author of the so-called Epistle of Barnabas is unknown. No name appears in the epistle itself, and no hints are given which enable us to ascribe it to any known writer. External testimony, without a dissenting voice, ascribes it to Barnabas, the companion of Paul. But this testimony, although unanimous, is neither very strong nor very extensive. The first to use the epistle is Clement of Alexandria, who expressly and frequently ascribes it to Barnabas the companion of Paul. Origen quotes from the epistle twice, calling it the Epistle of Barnabas, but without expressing any judgment as to its authenticity, and without defining its author more closely. Jerome (de vir. ill. 6) evidently did not doubt its authenticity, but placed it nevertheless among the Apocrypha, and his opinion prevailed down to the seventeenth century. It is difficult to decide what Eusebius thought in regard to its authorship. His putting it among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 here does not prove that he considered it unauthentic (see note 1, above); nor, on the other hand, does his classing it among the Antilegomena just below prove that he considered it authentic, but non-apostolic, as some have claimed. Although, therefore, the direct external testimony which we have is in favor of the apostolic Barnabas as its author, it is to be noticed that there must have existed a widespread doubt as to its authenticity, during the first three centuries, to have caused its complete rejection from the canon before the time of Eusebius. That this rejection arose from the fact that Barnabas was not himself one of the twelve apostles cannot be. For apostolic authorship was not the sole test of canonicity, and Barnabas stood in close enough relation to the apostles to have secured his work a place in the canon, during the period of its gradual formation, had its authenticity been undoubted. We may therefore set this inference over against the direct external testimony for Barnabas' authorship. When we come to internal testimony, the arguments are conclusive against \"the Levite Barnabas\" as the author of the epistle. These arguments have been well stated by Donaldson, in his History of Christian Literature, I. p. 204 sqq. Milligan, in Smith and Wace's Dict. of Christ. Biog., endeavors to break the force of these arguments, and concludes that the authenticity of the epistle is highly probable; but his positions are far from conclusive, and he may be said to stand almost alone among modern scholars. Especially during the last few years, the verdict against the epistle's authenticity has become practically unanimous. Some have supposed the author to have been an unknown man by the name of Barnabas: but this is pure conjecture. That the author lived in Alexandria is apparently the ruling opinion, and is quite probable. It is certain that the epistle was written between the destruction of Jerusalem (A.D. 70) and the time of Clement of Alexandria: almost certain that it was written before the building of \u00c6lia Capitolina; and probable that it was written between 100 and 120, though dates ranging all the way from the beginning of Vespasian's reign to the end of Hadrian's have been, and are still, defended by able scholars. The epistle is still extant in a corrupt Greek original and in an ancient Latin translation. It is contained in all the editions of the Apostolic Fathers (see especially Gebhardt and Harnack's second edition, 1876, and Hilgenfeld's edition of 1877). An English translation is given in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I. p. 133 sqq. For the most important literature, see Schaff, Ch. Hist. II. p. 671 sqq., and Gebhardt and Harnack's edition, p. xl. sqq.\n21. \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u1f30 \u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b4\u03b9\u03b4\u03b1\u03c7\u03b1\u03af. The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, \u0394\u03b9\u03b4\u03b1\u03c7\u1f74 \u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03b4\u03ce\u03b4\u03b5\u03ba\u03b1 \u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd, a brief document in sixteen chapters, was published in 1884 by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, from a MS. discovered by him in the Jerusalem convent in Constantinople in 1873. The discovery threw the whole theological world into a state of excitement, and the books and articles upon the subject from America and from every nation in Europe have appeared by the hundred. No such important find has been made for many years. The light which the little document has thrown upon early Church history is very great, while at the same time the questions which it has opened are numerous and weighty. Although many points in regard to its origin and nature are still undecided, the following general positions may be accepted as practically established. It is composed of two parts, of which the former (chaps. 1-6) is a redaction of an independent moral treatise, probably of Jewish origin, entitled the Two Ways, which was known and used in Alexandria, and there formed the basis of other writings (e.g. the Epistle of Barnabas, chaps. 18-21, and the Ecclesiastical Canons) which were at first supposed to have been based upon the Teaching itself. (Bryennios, Harnack, and others supposed that the Teaching was based upon Barnabas, but this view has never been widely accepted.) This (Jewish) Two Ways which was in existence certainly before the end of the first century (how much earlier we do not know) was early in the second century (if not before) made a part of a primitive church manual, viz. our present Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. The Two Ways, both before and at the time of (perhaps after) its incorporation into the Teaching, received important additions, partly of a Christian character. The completed Teaching dates from Syria, though this is denied by many writers (e.g. by Harnack), who prefer, upon what seem to me insufficient grounds, Egypt as the place of composition. The completed Teaching formed the basis of a part of the seventh book of the Apostolic Constitutions, which originated in Syria in the fourth century. The most complete and useful edition is that of Schaff (The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, 3d ed., New York, 1889), which contains the Greek text with English translation and a very full discussion of the work itself and of the various questions which are affected by its discovery. Harnack's important edition Die Lehre der zw\u00f6lff Apostel (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Gesch. der altchrist. Lit., II. 1 and 2, 1884) is still the standard German work upon the subject, though it represents many positions in regard to the origin and history of the work which have since been proved incorrect, and which he himself has given up. His article in Herzog, 2d ed., XVII. 656 sqq. and his Die Apostel-Lehre und die j\u00fcdischen Beiden Wege, 1886, should therefore be compared with his original work. Schaff's book contains a very complete digest of the literature down to the close of 1888. As to the position which the Teaching occupied in the canon we know very little, on account of the very sparing use of it made by the early Fathers. Clement of Alexandria cites it once as Scripture (\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae), but no other writer before the time of Eusebius treats it in the same way, and yet Eusebius' mention of it among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 shows that it must have enjoyed a wide circulation at some time and have been accepted by at least a portion of the Church as a book worthy to be read in divine service, and thus in a certain sense as a part of the canon. In Eusebius' time, however, its canonicity had been denied (though according to Athanasius Fest. Ep. 39, it was still used in catechetical instruction), and he was therefore obliged to relegate it to a position among the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9. Upon Eusebius' use of the plural \u03b4\u03b9\u03b4\u03b1\u03c7\u03b1\u03af, see the writer's article in the Andover Review, April, 1886, p. 439 sq.\n22. \u1f00\u03b8\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd. See the previous chapter, note 20.\n23. \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f41\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2. See note 1, above.\n24. This Gospel, probably composed in Hebrew (Aramaic), is no longer extant, but we possess a few fragments of it in Greek and Latin which are collected by Grabe, Spic. I. 15-31, and by Hilgenfeld, N. T. Extra Can. rec. II. The existing material upon which to base a judgment as to the nature of the lost Gospel and as to its relation to our canonical gospels is very limited. It is certain, however, that it cannot in its original form have been a working over of our canonical Matthew (as many have thought); it contains too many little marks of originality over against our Greek Matthew to admit of such a supposition. That it was, on the other hand, the original of which our Greek Matthew is the translation is also impossible; a comparison of its fragments with our Matthew is sufficient to prove this. That it was the original source from which Matthew and Luke derived their common matter is possible\u2014more cannot be said. Lipsius (Dict. of Christ. Biog. II. 709-712) and Westcott (Hist. of the Canon, p. 515 sqq.) give the various quotations which are supposed to have been made from it. How many of them are actually to be traced back to it as their source is not certain. It is possible, but not certain, that Papias had seen it (see chap. 39, note 28), possible also that Ignatius had, but the passage relied on to establish the fact fails to do so (see chap. 36, note 14). It was probably used by Justin (see Westcott, ibid. p. 516, and Lipsius, ibid. p. 712), undoubtedly by Hegesippus (see below, Bk. IV. chap. 22), and was perhaps known to Pant\u00e6nus (see below, Bk. V. chap. 10, note 8). Clement of Alexandria (Strom. II. 9) and Origen (in Johan. II. 6 and often) are the first to bear explicit testimony to the existence of such a gospel. Eusebius also was personally acquainted with it, as may be gathered from his references to it in III. 39 and IV. 22, and from his quotation in (the Syriac version of) his Theophany, IV. 13 (Lee's trans. p. 234), and in the Greek Theophany, \u00a722 (Migne, VI. 685). The latter also shows the high respect in which he held the work. Jerome's testimony in regard to it is very important, but it must be kept in mind that the gospel had undergone extensive alterations and additions before his time, and as known to him was very different from the original form (cf. Lipsius, ibid. p. 711), and therefore what he predicates of it cannot be applied to the original without limitation. Epiphanius has a good deal to say about it, but he evidently had not himself seen it, and his reports of it are very confused and misleading. The statement of Lipsius, that according to Eusebius the gospel was reckoned by many among the Homologoumena, is incorrect; \u1f10\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u03cd\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 refers rather to the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 among which its earlier acceptance by a large part of the Church, but present uncanonicity, places it by right. Iren\u00e6us expressly states that there were but four canonical gospels (Adv. H\u00e6r. III. 2, 8), so also Tertullian (Adv. Marc. IV. 5), while Clement of Alexandria cites the gospel with the same formula which he uses for the Scriptures in general, and evidently looked upon it as, if not quite, at least almost, on a par with the other four Gospels. Origen on the other hand (in Johan. II. 6, Hom. in Jer. XV. 4, and often) clearly places it upon a footing lower than that of the four canonical Gospels. Upon the use of the gospel by the Ebionites and upon its relation to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, see chap. 27, note 8.\nThe literature upon the Gospel according to the Hebrews is very extensive. Among recent discussions the most important are by Hilgenfeld, in his Evangelien nach ihrer Entstehung (1854); in the Zeitschrift f. wiss. Theol., 1863, p. 345 sqq.; in his N. T. extra Canon. rec. (2d ed. 1884); and in his Einleitung z. N. T. (1875); by Nicholson, The Gospel according to the Hebrews (1879); and finally, a very thorough discussion of the subject, which reached me after the composition of the above note, by Handmann, Das Hebr\u00e4er-Evangelium (Gebhardt and Harnack's Texte und Untersuchungen, Bd. V. Heft 3, Leipzig, 1888). This work gives the older literature of the subject with great fullness. Still more recently Resch's Agrapha (ibid. V. 4, Leipzig, 1889) has come to hand. It discusses the Gospel on p. 322 sq.\n26. \u1f00\u03bd\u03c9\u03bc\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b7\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2\n27. \u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f10\u03bd\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03ae\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd, \u1f00\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2. Eusebius, in this clause, refers to the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, which, of course, while distinguished from the canonical Antilegomena, yet are, like them, disputed, and hence belong as truly as they to the more general class of Antilegomena. This, of course, explains how, in so many places in his History, he can use the words \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9 and \u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1 interchangeably (as e.g. in chap. 31, \u00a76). In the present passage the \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9, as both uncanonical and disputed, are distinguished from the canonical writings,\u2014including both the universally accepted and the disputed,\u2014which are here thrown together without distinction. The point to be emphasized is that he is separating here the uncanonical from the canonical, without regard to the character of the individual writings within the latter class.\n28. See chap. 3, note 5.\n29. The Gospel of Thomas is of Gnostic origin and thoroughly Docetic. It was written probably in the second century. The original Gnostic form is no longer extant, but we have fragmentary Catholic recensions of it in both Latin and Greek, from which heretical traits are expunged with more or less care. The gospel contained many very fabulous stories about the childhood of Jesus. It is mentioned frequently by the Fathers from Origen down, but always as an heretical work. The Greek text is given by Tischendorf, p. 36 sqq., and an English translation is contained in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, VIII. 395-405. See Lipsius in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. II. p. 703-705.\n30. This gospel is mentioned by Origen (Hom. in Lucam I.), by Jerome (Pr\u00e6f. in Matt.), and by other later writers. The gospel is no longer extant, though some fragments have been preserved by Clement of Alexandria, e.g. in Strom. II. 9, Strom. III. 4 (quoted below in chap. 30), and Strom. VII. 13, which show that it had a high moral tone and emphasized asceticism. We know very little about it, but Lipsius conjectures that it was \"identical with the \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03b4\u03cc\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u039c\u03b1\u03c4\u03b8\u03af\u03bf\u03c5 which were in high esteem in Gnostic circles, and especially among the Basilid\u00e6ans.\" See Lipsius, ibid. p. 716.\n31. Eusebius so far as we know is the first writer to refer to these Acts. But they are mentioned after him by Epiphanius, Philaster, and Augustine (see Tischendorf's Acta Apost. Apoc. p. xl.). The Acts of Andrew (Acta Andr\u00e6) were of Gnostic origin and circulated among that sect in numerous editions. The oldest extant portions (both in Greek and somewhat fragmentary) are the Acts of Andrew and Matthew (translated in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, VIII. 517-525) and the Acts of Peter and Andrew (ibid. 526-527). The Acts and Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Andrew (ibid. 511-516), or the so-called Epistle of the Presbyters and Deacons of Achaia concerning the Passion of Andrew, is a later work, still extant in a Catholic recension in both Greek and Latin. The fragments of these three are given by Tischendorf in his Acta Apost. Apoc. p. 105 sqq. and 132 sqq., and in his Apocal. Apoc. p. 161 sq. See Lipsius in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. I. p. 30.\n32. Eusebius is likewise, so far as we know, the first writer to refer to these Acts. But they are afterward mentioned by Epiphanius, Photius, Augustine, Philaster, &c. (see Tischendorf, ibid. p. lxxiii.). They are also of Gnostic origin and extant in a few fragments (collected by Thilo, Fragmenta Actum S. Johannis a Leucio Charino conscriptorum, Halle, 1847). A Catholic extract very much abridged, but containing clear Gnostic traits, is still extant and is given by Tischendorf, Acta Apost. Apoc. p. 266 sq. (translated in the Ante-Nicene Fathers, VIII. 560-564).\nThe last two works mentioned belong to a collection of apocryphal Acts which were commonly ascribed to Leucius, a fictitious character who stands as the legendary author of the whole of this class of Gnostic literature. From the fourth century on, frequent reference is made to various Gnostic Acts whose number must have been enormous. Although no direct references are made to them before the time of Eusebius, yet apparent traces of them are found in Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen, &c., which make it probable that these writers were acquainted with them, and it may at any rate be assumed as established that many of them date from the third century and some of them even from the second century. See Salmon's article Leucius in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. III. 703-707, and Lipsius' article in the same work, I. 28.\n33. \u03b1\u1f31\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03c3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\n34. \u1f10\u03bd \u03bd\u03cc\u03b8\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fruit ripening is a complex and genetically programmed process. tomato fruit\nGenomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics > Adrenoceptors > Fruit ripening is a complex and genetically programmed process. tomato fruit\nadmin September 25, 2017 Adrenoceptors buy Biperiden HCl, Rabbit Polyclonal to DIL-2\nFruit ripening is a complex and genetically programmed process. tomato fruit ripening. The protein level of a probable 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase 2-ODD2, involved in gibberellin biosynthesis was significantly increased at all four developmental and ripening stages. The results reveal molecular links between BR signaling pathway and downstream components involved in multiple ripening-associated events during tomato fruit ripening, which will provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying tomato ripening regulatory networks, and be potential in understanding BR-regulated fruit ripening. The ripening of fruits, a highly-orchestrated and genetically programmed process involving a series of physiological and biochemical changes, brings about drastic alterations in color, texture, aroma, and sugar content of the fruit1. Tomato (results in a gain of function Arabidopsis mutant over-expression resulted in elevated carotenoid contents and enhanced quality attributes during tomato fruit ripening16. However, the mechanisms by which BZR1 contributes to the dynamic assembly and organization of the complex ripening process remain poorly understood. Proteome is a highly dynamic model for understanding the biological and biochemical processes in a cell or an organism. The isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ?) is a technique capable of multiplexing up to eight different samples for relative quantification17. In recent years, iTRAQ-based proteomic has been performed on several fruits, including tomato18, pear19 and mandarin20. In current survey, we compared the proteome profile of two transgenic lines ((and fruit In the study, we utilized transgenic lines designated as and from Arabidopsis mutant with increased accumulation of BZR1, was transformed into tomato. These two lines were chosen because they showed significantly enhanced quality attributes16. Fruit proteome profile of and at immature (IM), mature green (MG), breaker (B) and mature red (R) stage stages were explored using iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomics technology coupled with LC-MS\/MS. The iTRAQ labeling including three independent biological replicates was shown in Supplementary Figure S1. Developmental and ripening parameters were described in material and methods. A total of 2336 proteins were identified in three biological replicates. The detailed information of these proteins is shown in Supplementary Table S1 in the Supporting Information. The expression pattern of these proteins at different stages is shown in Supplementary Table S2 in the Supporting Information. Gene Ontology (GO) database was used to categorize all of the identified proteins, which cover a wide range of biological processes, cellular component, and molecular functions (Supplementary Table Rabbit Polyclonal to DIL-2 S1). The top two dominant terms were cell and cell part in cellular component, catalytic activity and binding in molecular function, and metabolic process and cellular process in biological process in both IM-MG sets (Fig. 1a) and B-R sets (Fig. 1b). Figure 1 The buy Biperiden HCl GO terms in all the identified proteins. Fruit proteome buy Biperiden HCl difference between transgenetic lines and WT at different stages Expression ratios of the identified proteins between transgenic plants and WT at four stages were plotted in a Hierarchical clustering heat map on a log2 scale. As shown in Fig. 2, the regulation pattern of BZR1 at four developmental stages was different from each other. Moreover, BZR1-regulated proteins on the ripening stages of MG, B and R were similar, distinguishing between ripening stage and developmental stage (IM). These identified proteins were filtered to verify whether the changes in protein abundance are significant based on the cutoff values with a fold change??1.5, and p value?<?0.05. buy Biperiden HCl A total of 97 proteins were finally identified as significantly altered in both and transgenic lines at one or more ripening stages. Among them, 50 proteins were up-regulated and 47 proteins were down-regulated in abundance in transgenic lines compared to corresponding WT. Supplementary Table S3 shows these differentially expressed proteins along with the ratio of iTRAQ reporter ion intensities. Figure 2 Hierarchical clustering of all differentially expressed proteins across different stages. In our previous study, we found that showed the most improved effect on tomato fruit quality trait16. Therefor, a MapMan overview of the differences in protein expression between and WT is presented in Fig. 3. A full list of MapMan Bins is presented in Supplementary Table S4. The importance of several biochemical pathways, including cell wall, minor carbohydrate (CHO), starch, sucrose, sugars, ascorbate, glutathione, phytohormone and light reaction at MG (Fig. 3a), B (Fig. 3b), P (Fig. 3c), and R stage (Fig. 3d) has been demonstrated. Although the changes in protein expression were relatively small, its clear that some proteins were up-regulated, especially those involved in the light reactions at MG stage. Interestingly, our results demonstrate that BZR1 regulates light signaling pathways in tomato fruit, which are consistent with the actions of BZR1. <\/p>","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tech-Ed Barcelona: Visual Studio 2010 News Amid VS 2008 Price Cuts\nBy Kathleen Richards\nMicrosoft is showcasing new functionality in Visual Studio 2010 this week at its Tech-Ed EMEA 2008 Developers Conference in Barcelona. More details about planned features in the next-generation toolset are coming to light as the company slashes pricing on different versions of VS 2008 by as much as 30 percent.\nThe first VS 2010 CTP appeared on Oct. 28 as part of \"the goods\" given to attendees of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. At PDC, Microsoft highlighted its support for emerging technologies such as parallelism, the new Windows Azure services platform and Windows 7. Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the Developer Division, also showcased the new Visual Studio editor built on Windows Presentation Foundation and the new Managed Extensibility Framework during his PDC keynote.\nAt Tech-Ed EMEA this week, Visual Studio General Manager Jason Zander is providing a closer look at Microsoft's plans for VS 2010. The upcoming IDE will support Microsoft's next-generation platforms including .NET 4.0, Windows 7, Office 14 and SharePoint. It will also integrate several existing out-of-band technologies such as the ASP.NET Model View Controller framework, improved JavaScript Intellisense, jQuery support, one-click deployment of ASP.NET apps and Silverlight 2 tooling. SharePoint tooling such as an explorer and project template -- basic functionality not available in VS 2008 -- will be added.\nA new Virtual Lab Management feature in Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 is designed to speed up testing, with quick setup and tear-downs using virtual machines that can capture user states and reproduce bugs.\n\"If you are building a distributed application, you might have in your environment a back-end server, a middle tier and potentially a couple of different environments for a client -- some of your clients may be running Windows XP, some Vista, some may be running a down-level version of Office,\" said Dave Mendlen, director of developer marketing at Microsoft. \"What we can do is capture a virtual machine that represents each of the end user states, as well as setting up a virtual machine for middle-tier and back-end servers, and now we can dynamically set, tear down and restore virtual environments to a clean state so you as a tester can very quickly, if you want to, run your tests again.\"\nMicrosoft is also trying to win over native coders still loyal to VS 6.0 with new code-driven features such as the ability to handle massive amounts of code (project systems and file sizes), a quick search across languages filters, and a \"generate from usage\" feature, which allows developers \"to generate a type, constructor, method or property by inferring its usage in code.\" More details on these features, many of which appear in the first CTP, is available in Microsoft Corporate Vice President Soma S. Somasegar's blog.\nSteps to help developers embrace Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), especially as the company looks to the cloud, are also being taken. A new SDL Optimization Model template for Visual Studio, designed to help managers implement SDL in their own organizations, is now available for download on MSDN. In addition, dev team managers can try out the beta release of the SDL Threat Modeling Tool designed for Windows and SQL Server. To further SDL best practices, Microsoft is also announcing an SDL Pro Network to offer small and large companies additional guidance through trained partners and security experts. The program, which launched this month, is in a one-year pilot phase with limited membership. Right now, it consists of nine service providers, among them Cigital Inc., IOActive Inc. and Verizon Business.\nThe VS 2008 price promotions, which started Oct. 1 and will continue to roll out through Dec. 1, are designed to provide discounts to developers using competitive products and to those already in the Microsoft ecosystem who may want to upgrade to the Microsoft Developer Network or VSTS.\n\"We are now giving a 30 percent discount to step up from VS Pro to Team Developer, and if you have Team Developer and you want to step up to the Team Suite, we also have a 30 percent discount,\" Mendlen said.\nStarting today, developers can attach MSDN Premium Subscriptions to VS Pro and receive several products including the VS 2010 download when it ships. They can also gain access to VSTS Developer Edition and VSTS Database Edition, two products which will be rolled up in VS 2010. More information on the price promotions, which are expected to continue through June 1, 2009, can be found here.\nKathleen Richards is the editor of RedDevNews.com and executive editor of Visual Studio Magazine.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Foundations for a Healthy Stepfamily\n\"The first step to a healthy remarriage is you. Is this a surprise? Life wounds all of us. The losses, disappointments, and hurts of life will not heal themselves\u2014you must choose to heal.\" \u2014 Jeff and Judi Parziale\n\"Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?\" \u2014 Mark 6:3\nIt's a Family in a Blender\nThere is no better word to describe the blended family than \"blended.\" When we consider the challenges of this new family unit it can very often feel like you've been thrown in a blender \u2014 stirred, chopped, sliced, and beaten to a pulp. Because in a blended family there are all kinds of different opinions, philosophies, and approaches coming together at one time that frequently contributes to the confusion and chaos. Some days you will be barely able to hold it together. Think about it. Two adults are brought together by love but through either a divorce or death which is a life-altering event in itself. Because these numerous systems are coming together all at one time parents, children, and even extended families with all kinds of opinions on the relationship and how it should work, old patterns that learned to some extent will need to be unlearned, and some new models will be invented. And for children, this is complicated as well. They familiar with one parenting style may have to learn two or more when both biological parents remarry. And thus this change is challenging for all involved. This can create confusion and frustration for parents and children. Here are a few things to keep in mind.\nFour Principles to Keep In Mind\nSIGN UP FOR THE MEN'S DAILY DEVO\nOne | It's going to take time\nHusbands and wives are required to make each other a priority this is hard in a newly blended family. It may take extra work to work through differences, so don't just storm out of the room physically or emotionally \u2014 lean into it. Different parenting style are going to clash, and former patterns that worked might end up changing and becoming something new and different which is uncomfortable for everyone. It's going to take time to recognize, agree on, and build this new family system. In the meantime, show respect and kindness. Learn from your partner and listen to them. Create opportunities to brainstorm ideas on making your marriage and family function better. It takes time, but the wait is so worth it.\nTwo | With children, let the biological parent lead for a season\nWith a divorce or death, a child's world turns upside down. If you think about it, they are almost along for a ride that did not ask to be taken on. This amount of change be unsettling for them emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. They need some things to remain unchanged, and one that can be constant is the voice of their biological parent in moments of stress, teaching, redirection, or discipline. So let the bio parent lead. You may not always agree with the discipline or how to deliver it, but you can respect the choices of your spouse. Over time the hope is that all your children will learn to respect and love and the joint discipline of both parents, biological or not.\nThree | Create new methods and memories\nThere are so many great methods and memories you are going to struggle to import. This always surprises couples in the new blended family. We assume that everyone is going to love our old traditions because we thought they were so wonderful and had so many wonderful memories attached to them. And of course, we are shocked when the new family system abhors them. Unfortunately, we fail to remember we are going to have to craft new ones, and that it is going to take time for them to catch on and for new spouses, and children to accept them as their own. But be patient and hang in there. You are starting over, and with this restart is the opportunity to forge new patterns that are memories and methods of this new family that God has brought together. So get creative and build a few.\nFour | God can do extraordinary work in a blended family\nConsider the case of Moses. Moses, son to Jochebed, was born into an Israelite family in Egyptian slavery yet for his safety was passed down the Nile River in a basket when the Pharaoh of Egypt called for the mass genocide of all the Israelite boys. His parents, who trusted God, discovered that Moses made his way into the hands of Queen Bithia, Pharaoh's daughter, and was raised in this royal home and for the first 40 years of his life. Moses grew up in extreme wealth and luxury as a step-child to the Pharaoh. This was Moses' stepfamily. Then Moses discovers his Israelite heritage flees the comfort of this home to discover another home. He heads to Midian where he establishes an intimate relationship with God and marries Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro. After another 40 years, Moses leaves the desert and returns to Egypt as a prophet and leader to free the Israelite nation from captivity leading them to 40 years of wandering in the desert. Here he shepherds a nation of people in hopes of leading them into the land of promise. So think about that for a minute. Moses was a kid who grew up in a stepfamily yet became a father and the leader of God's people \u2014 to whom God used to lead his people from slavery and through whom God delivered the Law on Mount Sinai. I would say that is a pretty spectacular story of redemption and hope for all stepfamilies.\nSo keep in mind that while the process may be difficult for a while, God has something special for a blended family. And if you have one, you might be raising the leader of God's people right now.\nVince Miller is a speaker, author, and mentor to men. He is an authentic and transparent leader who loves to communicate to audiences on the topics of mentorship, fathering, leadership and manhood. He has authored 16 books and small group curriculum for men and is the primary content creator of all Resolute materials. Contact Vince Miller here. His newest book is Thirty Virtues That Build A Man.\nWarren County Jail | New York\nThe Cheating Ref | Tim Donaghy","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Conor Oberst - Ruminations (2 lp set)\nIn the winter of 2016, Conor Oberst found himself hibernating in his hometown of Omaha after living in New York City for more than a decade. He emerged with the unexpectedly raw, unadorned solo album Ruminations, available October 14, 2016, on Nonesuch Records. \"I wasn't expecting to write a record. I honestly wasn't expecting to do much of anything. Winter in Omaha can have a paralyzing effect on a person but in this case it worked in my favor. I was just staying up late every night playing piano and watching the snow pile up outside the window. Next thing I knew I had burned through all the firewood in the garage and had more than enough songs for a record. I recorded them quick to get them down but then it just felt right to leave them alone,\" says Oberst.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"View More Health Benefits\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.multivu.com\/players\/English\/8162751-american-pistachio-growers-pistachio-health-benefits-women-gestational-diabetes\/embed.html\" width=\"512px\" height=\"288px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.multivu.com\/players\/English\/8162751-american-pistachio-growers-pistachio-health-benefits-women-gestational-diabetes\/embed_gallery.html?uuid=\" width=\"512px\" height=\"288px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\nNew Research Uncovers Health Benefits of Pistachios for Women with Gestational Diabetes\nCHICAGO \u2013 October 24, 2017 \u2013 During the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2017 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo\u2122 in Chicago, scientists reported on a recent study which uncovered that the intake of pistachios reduces the rise in blood sugar and insulin in women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)\u2014commonly known as gestational diabetes. The study, \"Effects of Pistachio Intake on Postprandial Blood Glucose Response in Pregnant Women,\" found when women who were gestational glucose intolerant (GIGT) or who were diagnosed with GDM ate pistachios, they had a significantly lower rise in blood glucose levels compared to eating whole wheat bread that was matched for calories.\nHealth Benefits of Pistachios Video\nGestational Diabetes Study Results Video\nRevealing Benefits of Pistachios at FNCE\nTrista Sutter Loves Pistachios\nFor many mothers-to-be, the study offers an excellent food option that is both delicious and beneficial in managing the effects of GDM and GIGT. In order to further promote the study's findings and increase its reach to women with GDM and GIGT, American Pistachio Growers (APG) has partnered with Trista Sutter, author and star of ABC's first season of \"The Bachelorette,\" to speak about her experience with her own diagnosis.\n\"I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes during my seventh month of pregnancy. I wasn't expecting that at all. I never even imagined it could be a possibility. Eating healthy, nutritious meals has always been important to me, but I had to be even more cautious of what I ate as a result of my diagnosis,\" said Sutter. \"Had I known that pistachios were a food that could help normalize my blood sugar levels, I would have been thrilled because who doesn't love pistachios!\"\nDr. Sheng Ge, principal investigator and Director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Affiliated Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, wanted to explore how pistachios could provide benefits to this group of women, since the nut is known to be a low-Glycemic Index (GI) food. Abundant existing research suggests the benefits of pistachios in the general diabetic population, but this landmark study is the first to explore the benefits in pregnant women with GIGT or GDM.\nNew #PistachioPower research uncovers positive effects on women with gestational diabetes Tweet\nIn association with Dr. Zhaoping Li, Professor of Medicine and Director of UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, Dr. Sheng researched what effects eating either 42 grams of pistachios or 100 grams of whole wheat bread (matched for calories) after an overnight fast had on two groups of pregnant women with GDM or GIGT.\nAccording to Dr. Li, \"Elevated blood sugar during pregnancy not only impacts the mother's health, but it may also may increase the baby's risk of developing diabetes.\"\n\"More and more, people are turning to plant-based proteins, and pistachios check off a lot of boxes. They're a good source of fiber, B vitamins, healthy fats, antioxidants and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients, all of which can benefit people with diabetes,\" said Judy Hirigoyen, Vice President of Global Marketing for American Pistachio Growers, the pistachio industry's trade association.\nThis study was supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and American Pistachio Growers (APG), a non-profit trade association representing more than 825 member growers in the western U.S. Pistachios used in the study were grown in the U.S. None of the funding sources played a role in the collection, analysis or interpretation of the data.\nAbout American Pistachio Growers\nAmerican Pistachio Growers is a voluntary trade association representing members who are pistachio growers, processors and industry partners in California, Arizona and New Mexico. For more information, visit AmericanPistachios.org.\nMEDIA CONTACT: Lindsey Barber | Hill+Knowlton Strategies | [email protected] | 312-255-3084\nAmerican Pistachio Growers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeNationalCops Refused Tamir Rice First Aid\nCops Refused Tamir Rice First Aid\nJanuary 12, 2015 keesto National 0\nNewly released surveillance video, which had not been made public before, shows that police officers waited nearly four minutes to offer first aid to dying Cleveland 12-year-old Tamir Rice after one of them shot him.\nDuring that four-minute delay, officers tackled and handcuffed Rice's sister, who ran over after hearing gunfire.\nA local man called 911 after he saw Rice waving a realistic-looking toy pellet gun around a Cleveland playground on Nov. 22. Rice was shot by Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann within seconds of Loehmann's arrival on the scene and immediately dropped to the ground.\nThe new video, obtained by Cleveland.com, shows the confrontation, about 15 seconds in, followed by Loehmann's retreat behind the patrol car.\nLess than 90 seconds later, around the 1:41 mark, Rice's 14-year-old sister runs over. She is shoved to the ground by Loehmann's partner, Frank Garmback, and the two officers handcuff her hands behind her back before placing her in the back of the patrol car parked next to her wounded brother.\nAll the while, Rice is still not receiving any first aid.\nFor nearly four minutes, police stand around\u2014including one with his hands on his hips\u2014while the boy bled out. An FBI agent who was in the neighborhood\u2014not any of the Cleveland police officers\u2014then arrives and is the first person to offer medical aid.\nThe shooting happened around 3:30 in the afternoon; Rice died shortly before 1 a.m. the next morning at MetroHealth Medical Center, according to Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Dr. Thomas Gilson's autopsy report. In his report, Gilson said that Rice was struck one time in the left side of his abdomen, with the bullet striking blood vessels before coming to rest in his pelvis, near his spine.\nGilson classified Rice's death as a homicide.\n\"This has to be the cruelest thing I've ever seen,\" Walter Madison, the Akron-based attorney representing Rice's family, said.\nRice's family filed a federal civil-rights and wrongful-death lawsuit last month against Loehmann, Garmback and the city, alleging that the officers confronted the boy \"in a surprise fashion and fired multiple shots at him without any adequate investigation.\"\nLoehmann had resigned from the Independence Police Department in suburban Cleveland when he found out that the department was preparing to fire him due to concerns about his mental competence as a police officer.\nIndependence Deputy Chief Jim Polak said that in one incident at a state range qualification course, Loehmann \"was distracted and weepy. He could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal.\"\nAfter blaming his attitude on a four-month-old breakup, Loehmann told his training officer that, \"Maybe I should quit,\" \"I have no friends,\" \"I only hang out with 73-year-old priests.\"\nHe also once left his firearm in his locker overnight without a lock, lied about skipping out on part of his orientation, and refused orders to wear his bulletproof vest.\n\"I do not believe Ptl. Loehmann shows the maturity needed to work in our employment,\" Polak wrote in his final report. \"I am recommending that he be released from the employment of the City of Independence. I do not believe time, nor training, will be able to change or correct these deficiencies.\"\nProsecutors are leaving it to a grand jury to determine whether there is evidence to support any criminal charges in Rice's death.\nGeorge Zimmerman Arrested For Aggravated Assault With Weapon\nNew Video: Cops Refused Tamir Rice First Aid\nTamir Rice's Autopsy Report Released, Death Ruled A Homicide\nDecember 5, 2014 keesto 0","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Solar Panels Nailsworth Pinner Crowland Ringmer Mitcheldean Cardiff Warwick Crewe Tarporley Winslow Swynnerton St Ives Slough Kilsyth Aveley Tadworth Nailsea Castleford Guisborough Belfast Fulwood Albrighton Downham Market Ampthill Seasalter Leicester Sawley Bircotes Tunstall Clacton-on-Sea Rosyth Kingswood Ballymoney Tyldesley Wokingham Wells-next-the-Sea Collingham Glasgow Ashburton Alloa Elton Totton Castle Cary Little Lever Willand Northampton Newcastle Bollington Woodstock Cirencester Worcester Park Stanford-le-Hope Manchester Skelton Craigavon Stow-on-the-Wold Brixton Stoke Poges Bournemouth March Southwold Huntingdon\nSolar Panels Nailsworth\nNailsworth Solar Panel Installation\nSolar Panel Installation Nailsworth Gloucestershire (GL6): Your property in Nailsworth is well situated to make the most of solar installations, but what are the benefits in having a system installed? There are Government grants and schemes to greatly reduce the cost, and the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG), that succeeded the feed-in tariff scheme in 2019, can even yield a small income from your solar installation.\nThe expression Solar Photovoltaic (PV) applies to the generation of electricity using the sun's energy. It's possible to obtain good results from a system installed on your property, as there is adequate sunlight in Nailsworth for solar PV panels to work successfully. If you are able to properly site a solar panel installation on your home's roof, you'll be able to lower your power bills considerably, and by taking advantage of the SEG (Smart Export Guarantee scheme), even receive cash reimbursed by your utility company for the energy that you don't need.\nTo help homeowners in Nailsworth save energy and reduce their carbon footprint, they can access the government backed Green Homes Grant to offset the cost of solar panels. If you are considering improvements in energy saving for your property, you're able to apply for up to \u00a310,000 in grants by making use of this scheme, which was launched by the Government in July 2020. You've got the perfect opportunity at this point, by using the Green Home Grant and Smart Export Guarantee scheme, to install a solar PV installation on your Nailsworth home, for a small percentage of the cost, and receive a small quarterly revenue from it.\nEvery household and business needs hot water, so why wouldn't you use the sun to generate it? The use of a photovoltaic thermal installation will see your water, even during mid-winter, being heated and thus reduce the gas or electricity required to bring it up to temperature. Summer can see all your hot water demands being fulfilled with a solar thermal installation on your Nailsworth house.\nYou're entitled to join the RHI (Renewable Heat Incentive) scheme, if you decide to install a solar powered hot water or heating system to your property in Nailsworth. Since 2011 only available to business, the RHI was opened up for residential use in 2014 (9th April). The scheme, which lasts for 7 years, is backed by a government guarantee for those moving over to renewables. Dependant on the size and type of equipment that is installed, eligible participants of the Renewable Heat Incentive receive a 3 monthly cash payout, for the entire 7 years covered by this scheme.\nYou should bear in mind the following things if you feel that you're now ready to install a solar power system on the roof of your property in Nailsworth:\nWhat effect on property values can solar installations have? - Solar panels have been found to both positively and negatively influence house prices. As understanding grows regarding climate changes and the environment, it's been seen that the positive impacts on property prices have increased.\nDo you have a roof that faces towards the south or south-west? - This is the optimum direction from which to absorb the maximum possible amount of sunlight on your solar PV.\nIs planning permission required for your area or home? - For a lot of properties and homes in Nailsworth, solar energy installation will be on the list of approved alterations that can be carried out. But if you have a listed building, live in a conservation area or have a flat roof, you'll want to check with your local council for any constraints in place.\nDoes your home's roof get a full day's sunlight, or is it shaded by buildings or trees? - Any amount of shade on the solar panels is going to lower their efficiency and may even render them largely ineffective.\nGenerate Income - Any unwanted electrical power your solar panels generate can easily be sold back to your energy supplier via the Smart Export Guarantee, Government funded scheme. You can receive this pay out as a quarterly cash deposit, or use it as payment towards your power bill. This involves the setting up of a short contract between the electricity provider and the homeowner. These short-term contracts provide clients with the ability to change electricity companies and get the best deals.\nMaintenance Free - There is little or no maintenance required for solar panels in Nailsworth. Besides the odd clean, the solar panels can be left to their own devices and will carry on working for a minimum of twenty five years. If batteries are being employed in your solar installation in Nailsworth, these might have to be upgraded in time, although as this technology is advancing rapidly, they are bound to last increasingly longer.\nNo Noise Pollution - No noise is generated by solar PV installations. Even in small domestic based situations, some people are annoyed by the noise made by wind turbine generators. Because there aren't any moving parts in solar installations in Nailsworth, there is no noise involved.\nLow Carbon Footprint - The generation of renewable, green energy can be achieved by installing either a solar thermal or solar PV system on your home in Nailsworth. You will be able to prevent up to 2 tonnes of poisonous carbon emissions each year through the installation of a thermal hot water system and solar PV on your Nailsworth home.\nBill Reduction - The greatest source of free energy that we can make the most of is naturally, our sun. So, you should exploit the opportunity! After you've paid for the installation of your solar PV panels you will discover that your power bills will be reduced. How much this is will be determined by the size of your solar panel installation, but even a standard sized PV system can provide savings of between \u00a390 and \u00a3370 annually on your electric bill in the Nailsworth area.\nWhen undertaking any sort of improvements to your home, including solar PV panels, it is always preferable to get at least 3 price quotes from nearby companies. If any of your family, neighbours or friends have had solar panels fitted, ask them who they would recommend. When you're obtaining a quotation always ask about current schemes and grants which may offset costs and make the solar installation even more attractive.\nBefore you make your mind up about any particular solar installation company, you should always ask to see some details about previously completed work. By offering a photographic portfolio for you to look through, a good solar system installer in Nailsworth will be happy to show off their experience in the green energy industry and their history of customers.\nThere are some professional bodies, organisations and associations which are specific to the green energy industry. These specialized trade bodies offer advice, technological updates and training on everything connected with the alternative energy arena. Look for membership of one or more of these trade bodies when picking out your solar installation company in Nailsworth.\nThe Renewable Energy Association (REA) - In the clean technology and sustainable energy industry, the Renewable Energy Association is the UK's largest trade body for professionals. The REA uses its influence to sway governmental policy in relation to sustainable energy solutions, and offers training opportunities for over five hundred member businesses as it works towards net-zero carbon emissions in the UK. The REA (Renewable Energy Association) is a non-profit organisation and its members include: fuel distributers, installers, generators, service providers, project developers and equipment manufacturers. These cover anything from vast multinationals down to the humblest sole traders.\nThe Microgeneration Certification Scheme - Photovoltaic installations in Nailsworth must only be carried out by MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme) certified companies. It shows that a solar technician is competent in the correct methods of the installation of any equipment, and that the provided system has been authorised for this purpose.\nSTA (Solar Trade Association) - Always at the spearhead of renewable technology, the Solar Trade Association works with Government, local authorities and industry to offer solar solutions across the country. From small scale residential installers to multi-national organisations, its members are all highly respected in the solar generation sector.\nIt isn't just in Nailsworth itself where you're able to find solar panel services - surrounding places like: Horsley, Tiltups End, Longfords Mill, Burleigh, Barton End, Walkley Wood, Amberley, Shortwood, Inchbrook, South Woodchester, Forest Green, Theescombe, Balls Green, Avening are also covered. If a solar panel installer has the postcode GL6 and the telephone dialling code 01453, you can assume that they come from the Nailsworth area. This is helpful to know if you want to confirm that you are considering a locally based solar panel installer. Nailsworth homeowners can access these photovoltaic services whenever necessary.\nThe solar energy which is created by your solar power panels can be stored in a solar battery. This stored electricity can then be used for powering your home, appliances or phone. Your exact requirements will determine the size and capacity of solar batteries that you select. For instance, a single battery won't be sufficient if you often use a refridgerator or air conditioner.\nWhen purchasing a solar battery, you should also consider the DoD (Depth of Discharge) of the battery. The higher the depth of discharge is, the longer the battery will last. Over discharged or degraded batteries, will be less cost-effective, as they store less power. The amount of electricity which is available to use depends on the capacity of your solar battery.\nThe fully charged battery can then be used when the sun isn't out and during the night. This can save money on your power bill since you'll not be paying for electricity when you don't have it. Free electricity will still be available to use, even on cloudy days when less power is being created. You can also get payments back from the energy provider for electricity that you do not use.\nIs Solar Energy Worth the Investment?\nWe may not know exactly how it is going to aid the environment, but most of us are aware that it's an alternative energy option and what it does. Like all other things, there are advantages and there are disadvantages, and you have to know both before putting out any cash.\nIt's a fact that having solar panels can greatly decrease one's energy expenditures, and this is one of the primary incentives for purchasers in Nailsworth. A fantastic benefit of having solar panels is that you can say bye-bye to those cash-draining monthly electricity bills. There is a catch, though; setting up solar panels is not inexpensive. In the beginning, have to spend a big sum of money for the solar panels and installation, however in the long run you'll save money and you've basically got a free source of power once you've recovered your initial outlay. Obviously, if you use scarcely any energy then it'll take you a long time to get your money's worth, but if you use a lot of electricity then you benefit faster. Some governments extend incentives for switching to solar energy, which might help towards the cost of installing solar panels.\nIn addition to it being a good fiscal investment, solar energy is likewise not harmful to the environment - a huge positive nowadays. Fossil fuels, the conventional power sources, are burned and give off greenhouse gases in such volume that they cannot be naturally recycled, and end up harming our environment and our health - solar does none of these things. In essence, solar energy does not contribute to the issue of global warming and it doesn't add towards acid rain either. Solar energy is sustainable and doesn't get all used up as the sun goes on to provide energy and will continue to do so for a very long time.\nLikewise, solar energy is quite discreet as it can be set up on the top of buildings, meaning it's not an eyesore unlike wind turbines; still, if you have solar panels on the ground, they can blight the landscape just like wind turbines, so it's important to plan their location and placement. Obviously, to generate energy in an efficient manner, the solar panels need to be set in direct sunlight. In addition, solar panels are quiet and have no odor, so attract no attention in this manner.\nOne more terrific thing about solar systems is that when they're installed, you can basically leave them, because they need no upkeep. Of course, one common concern is that nighttime spells \"lights out\" for solar energy. No sun doesn't mean no energy however, since a back-up system such as a battery could be installed. This involves additional funds, but the solar energy can charge the batteries so you wouldn't have to spend money recharging them.\nIf you're searching for a good energy source, solar is a really good option. It is going to cost you a little to get it set up, whereafter it can save you money in the long haul, on top of which there is no damaging effect on the environment. Solar energy definitely seems a great way to go if you want to look after the environment and also save money on energy.\nPanel repairs Nailsworth.\nThe Varied Applications of Solar Power Panels\nStandalone Photovoltaic Systems\nSolar Powered Aircraft\nRooftop Solar Photovoltaic Systems\nSolar Transportation\nSolar-Pumped Lasers\nSolar Hybrid Power Systems\nConcentrated Photovoltaics\nSolar-Powered Water Purification\nPhotovoltaic Power Stations\nNailsworth Solar Panel Tasks\nYour chosen Nailsworth solar panel installation company should be glad to help you with many different alternative energy services including stuff like solar panels for shed, batteries & smart grids, solar panel advice, thermal solar panels Nailsworth, EV charging points, solar PV upgrades Nailsworth, solar energy grants, solar panels for greenhouses Nailsworth, solar system safety checks, the mounting of solar panels Nailsworth, wind turbines Nailsworth, solar panel mounting, solar photovoltaic energy systems, solar panel installation in Nailsworth, solar panel systems, solar energy installations, 100 watt solar panels Nailsworth, solar thermal installations in Nailsworth, solar thermal heating installations, solar panel repairs, solar panels for garages, biomass boiler installation, solar panel accessories, solar thermal energy solutions, 500 watt solar panels Nailsworth, new build solar panel installation, solar panel replacement, solar panel installations, electric vehicle charging systems, solar panel cleaning, industrial solar panel installations, energy requirement assessments, solar PV inverters, shower heat recovery, renewable energy solutions Nailsworth, and other similar services in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire (GL6). Listed are just a selection of the duties that are conducted by those installing solar panels. Nailsworth providers will be happy to inform you of their full range of services.\nSolar Panel Installers Gloucestershire\nIn Gloucestershire you can also find: Dowend solar panel fitters, Dymock solar panel engineers, Whiteshill solar panel installers, Wickwar solar panel fitters, Hucclecote solar panel installers, Kempsford solar panel fitters, Cromhall solar installers, Ruscombe solar panel installation, Marshfield solar installers, Badgeworth solar panel installation, Stow on the Wold solar installers, Siston solar installers, Kings Stanley solar installers, Badgeworth solar installers, Pilning solar panel fitters, Dodington solar panel fitters, Westerleigh solar installers, Ruardean solar panel fitters, Twyning solar panel technicians, Ruardean solar panel engineers, Upton St Leonards solar panel technicians, Knowle solar panel installation, Kempsford solar panel technicians, Severn Beach solar panel fitters, Iron Acton solar panel technicians, Cromhall solar panel installers, Woodmancote solar panel installation, Coalpit Heath solar installers, Frampton on Severn solar panel engineers, South Cerney solar panel installers.\nIt might not always be possible to track down someone suitable in Nailsworth itself when you are hunting for solar panel companies, however all across Gloucestershire there are plenty of companies and individuals supplying such services, so uncovering somebody close by shouldn't be too much of an issue.\nSolar Panels Near Nailsworth\nAlso find: Walkley Wood solar panel installers, Longfords Mill solar panel installers, Balls Green solar panel installers, Burleigh solar panel installers, Barton End solar panel installers, Amberley solar panel installers, Shortwood solar panel installers, South Woodchester solar panel installers, Theescombe solar panel installers, Inchbrook solar panel installers, Horsley solar panel installers, Forest Green solar panel installers, Avening solar panel installers, Tiltups End solar panel installer services and more. Nailsworth business and home owners can get quotations by going here.\nSolar Panel Installer Services Nailsworth\nGet Solar Panels in Nailsworth Here\nNailsworth Solar Panels\nNailsworth Solar Panel Maintenance\nNailsworth Commercial Solar Panels\nNailsworth Solar Water Heating\nNailsworth Solar Panel Upgrades\nNailsworth Residential Solar Panels\nNailsworth Solar Panel Installers\nNailsworth Solar Panel Fitting\nNailsworth Solar Panel Repairs\nNailsworth 300 watt Solar Panels\nNailsworth Solar Panel Services\nNailsworth Renewable Energy Solutions\nNailsworth Solar PV Inverters\nSolar Panel Installations Around Nailsworth\nPeople in the following Nailsworth places have only recently enquired about solar panels: The Ladder, Church Road, Middle Tynings, Highwood Drive, Tynings Road, Star Hill, Cow Lane, Springhill Close, Brewery Lane, Bridge Street, Barton Close, Arnold's Lane, Horsley Road, The Rollers, Upper Hayes Road, Fewster Square, Barn Field Avenue, Fieldways, Homefield, Tinkley Lane, Seven Acres Road, Foxes Dell, Old Market, Hayes Road, Old School Close, Meadow Bank, and in these postcodes: GL6 0LB, GL6 0JP, GL6 0AA, GL6 0LH, GL6 0AZ, GL6 0SF, GL6 0JT, GL6 0RY, GL6 0HJ, GL6 0QS. Work was conducted in these locations by experts in solar panels. Nailsworth homeowners enjoyed the benefits of high quality and reliable solar services in all cases.\nSolar Panel Installers Near Nailsworth\nSolar Panel Installation Nailsworth\nMore Gloucestershire solar panel installers: Dursley, Lechlade, Cinderford, Wotton-under-Edge, Brockworth, Fairford, Winchcombe, Cirencester, Downend, Winterbourne, Berkeley, Chalford, Minchinhampton, Lydney, Kingswood, Cainscross, Bradley Stoke, Innsworth, Chipping Sodbury, Staple Hill, Prestbury, Chipping Campden, Painswick, Stonehouse, Newent, Tutshill, Bristol, Moreton-in-Marsh, Patchway, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Churchdown, Tetbury, Stoke Gifford, Coleford, Stroud, Frampton Cotterell, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bishop's Cleeve, Northleach, Quedgeley, Filton, Thornbury, Mitcheldean, Yate, Nailsworth and Tewkesbury.\nIf you need local Nailsworth information click here\nSolar Panel Installation in GL6 area, 01453.\nTOP - Solar Panels Nailsworth\nSolar Panel Installers Nailsworth - Solar Panel Installers Near Me - Solar Panel Installation Quotes Nailsworth - Renewable Energy Nailsworth - Solar Panel Fitters Nailsworth - Solar Panel Repairs Nailsworth - Commercial Solar Panels Nailsworth - Residential Solar Panel Installers Nailsworth - Cheap Solar Panels Nailsworth\n(This solar panels Nailsworth page was checked and updated on 26-01-2023)\n\u00a9 Solar Panelz 2023 - Solar Panels Nailsworth (GL6) - Solar Panel Installation","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Bearded Dragon FAQ\nHome \/ Lizard \/ Do Lizards Have Teeth?\nDo Lizards Have Teeth?\nByJane September 11, 2022 September 13, 2022\nDo Lizards Have Teeth? Lizards are a type of reptile with scaly skin and sometimes a long tail. Some lizards can detach and regrow their tail if it is lost.\nCheckout this video:\nte\u00b7eth\n\/\u02c8t\u0113TH\/\nplural noun\n1. each of the hard, bony pinkish-white structures set in the jaws of mammals, reptiles, and certain fishes, used for biting and chewing.\n\"he grit his teeth in anger\"\nsynonyms: fangs, incisors, canines; More\n2. a similar hard structure in invertebrate animals or ants\n\"a beaver's teeth grow throughout its life\"\nLizards do have teeth, but they are very different from our own human teeth. For one thing, they are not attached to bone but rather to keratin (the same material our fingernails are made from). This means that their teeth can fall out and grow back over the course of their lifetime. Lizards also have different types of teeth depending on what part of their mouth they are located. For example, most lizards have pointed teeth at the front of their mouths which they use for slicing prey, while their back teeth are usually blunt and used for grinding food\nHow many teeth do lizards have?\nMost lizards have rows of sharp, curved teeth. These teeth are ideal for slicing and holding prey. The number of teeth varies depending on the species of lizard, but most have hundreds of tiny teeth. The teeth are replaced on a regular basis as they are worn down from use. Some species of lizard, such as the iguana, have only vestigial (non-functional) teeth or no teeth at all.\nWhat kind of teeth do lizards have?\nLizards have two rows of sharp, pointy teeth that they use to ear their food The teeth are attached to the jawbone and are constantly being replaced as they wear down. Lizards also have a second set of teeth in the back of their mouths, called palatal teeth, that they use to grind up their food.\nDo all lizards have teeth?\nWhile all lizards have an upper and lower jaw, not all of them have teeth. In fact, most lizards only have teeth on the upper jaw. The bottom jaw is either toothless or has very small, sharp points called papillae. The Exceptions to this are the monitor lizards and the iguanas, which have teeth on both the upper and lower jaws.\nHow do lizards use their teeth?\nLizards have different numbers of teeth in different parts of their mouths. For most lizards, the front teeth are larger than the back teeth. The back teeth are usually smaller and more pointed. Lizards use their teeth for different things.\nSome lizards use their front teeth for slicing meat. Others use their back teeth for grinding plants. Some lizards have no teeth at all. Instead, they have a sharp beak that they use for catching insects.\nLizards mostly eat small insects and other invertebrates. They also eat some plants, fruit, and flowers. Some larger lizards eat vertebrates such as snakes, bird eggs, and small mammals.\nWhat happens if a lizard loses a tooth?\nLizards are able to regrow their teeth if they lose them. This is because their teeth are not attached to the bone in their jaw like human teeth. Instead, they are attached to the gum tissue. When a tooth is lost, a new one will grow in its place.\nHow do lizards care for their teeth?\nLizards are reptiles that are closely related to snakes. Like snakes, most lizards do not have teeth. There are, however, a few lizard species that do have teeth. The Gila monster and the beaded lizard are two examples of lizards that have teeth.\nLizards that have teeth usually have them on the bottom jaw only. These teeth are used for gripping prey and for defense against predators. Lizards with teeth typically live in more arid environments than those without. This is because their teeth help them to eat crunchy insects and other animals that would otherwise be difficult to consume.\nLizards without teeth typically live in more humid environments and eat softer prey, such as worms and small insects. These lizards typically have a long, flat tongue that they use to capture their prey.\nWhile most lizards do not have teeth, some species do possess small scales on the roof of their mouths that serve a similar purpose. These scales help the lizard to tear its food into smaller pieces so that it can be swallowed more easily.\nWhat happens if a lizard doesn't have teeth?\nSome lizards have teeth and some don't. Lizards with teeth use them for eating, defense and for show. Some lizards, like the Gila monster, have very poisonous venom in their saliva, which makes their bite dangerous to humans. Other lizards, such as the Komodo dragon have sharp teeth that they use to tear flesh.\nLizards without teeth can still eat by grinding food with sands in their stomachs. Some species of lizards also swallow pebbles to help them grind up food.\nWhat do lizard teeth tell us about their diet?\nLizard teeth are one way to determine what a lizard eats. Iguanas, for example, have crushing teeth in the back of their mouths that theyUse to eat fruits, flowers, and vegetables. Other lizards like skinks have sharp front teeth for slicing and eating insects. By looking at a lizard's teeth, we can get a good idea of what it likes to eat!\nHow can you tell if a lizard has teeth?\nLizards have four types of teeth: two on the upper jaw and two on the lower. These are caniniform, incisiform, premaxillary, and maxillary. All these teeth are peg-like with the caniniform being the largest and most tooth-like. Lizards use these teeth for different purposes such as slicing meat, fruits, or vegetables; for breaking shells; and for self-defense. You can usually tell if a lizard has teeth by looking at its mouth. If you see any pointed projections, then it probably has teeth.\nDo Lizards Play Dead?\nAre Lizards Dragons? The Answer Might Surprise You!\nCan Lizards Change Color? The Science Behind It\nMany people are fascinated by the ability of some lizards to change color. But how do they do it? The science behind it is actually quite interesting. Checkout this video: Introduction Lizards are one of the most popular pets in the reptile world. They come in all shapes and sizes, and their colors can be\u2026\nRead More Can Lizards Change Color? The Science Behind ItContinue\nDo Birds Eat Lizards?\nDo you ever wonder what birds eat? Some people might think that birds only eat insects, but that's not always the case. Birds are actually opportunistic eaters and will eat just about anything they can get their beaks on \u2013 including lizards! Checkout this video: Introduction Yes, some birds do eat lizards In fact, many\u2026\nRead More Do Birds Eat Lizards?Continue\nWhere Do Lizards Go At Night?\nFind out where these nocturnal creatures go when the sun goes down. Checkout this video: Introduction Have you ever wondered where your pet lizard goes when the lights go out? Do they climb up the walls to find a dark corner to hide in? Or do they just curl up under their rock and go\u2026\nRead More Where Do Lizards Go At Night?Continue\nAre Lizards in Florida Poisonous?\nDid you know that there are over 800 species of lizards in the world and only a handful are poisonous? In this blog post, we'll answer the question, \"Are lizards in Florida poisonous?\" Checkout this video: What are the different types of lizards in Florida? There are many different types of lizards in Florida, but\u2026\nRead More Are Lizards in Florida Poisonous?Continue\nDo Lizards Drink Water?\nHave you ever wondered if lizards drink water? Here's a quick rundown of what lizards need to stay hydrated and healthy. Checkout this video: What is the difference between lizards and other reptiles? Lizards are reptiles, just like snakes, turtles and alligators. The main difference between lizards and other reptiles is that lizards have movable\u2026\nRead More Do Lizards Drink Water?Continue\nAre Lizards Poisonous To Dogs?\nMany people are curious about whether or not lizards are poisonous to dogs. The answer is that it depends on the type of lizard. Some lizards have toxins in their skin that can be harmful to dogs if they lick them, while others are not poisonous at all. If you're concerned about your dog coming\u2026\nRead More Are Lizards Poisonous To Dogs?Continue\n\u00a9 2023 ReptileStreet - WordPress Theme by Kadence WP","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeFeaturePressure Builds On Germany To Acknowledge Genocide In Namibia\nPressure Builds On Germany To Acknowledge Genocide In Namibia\nAugust 18, 2015 keesto Feature 0\nMembers of Namibia's ethnic groups \u2013 OvaHerero, San and Nama \u2013 are holding fast to an October deadline for the German government to apologize and respond to the OvaHerero people's demand for reparations.\n\"We demand acknowledgement, in principle, by the German government before 2 October 2015 that they are amenable to pay the two affected communities for the genocide committed against their ancestors, pursuant to the official decree extermination orders by the then German Army General Lothar von Trotha,\" said Vekuii Rukoro, Namibian lawyer, businessman and the current Paramount Chief of the OvaHereros.\nA number of high-profile personalities in Germany have recently called on their government to recognize the actions of the German colonial army in 1904-08 as genocide.\nIn a published article, Dr. Norbert Lammert, Speaker of the German Parliament, writing in a guest editorial for the news weekly Die Zeit, said the Herero and Nama peoples had been systematically targeted for massacre by Germany imperial troops.\n\"Using today's standards of international law, the crushing of the Herero revolt was genocide,\" he wrote. Germany had perpetrated a \"race war\" in Namibia, he said.\n\"There were tens of thousands of Herero and Nama victims, not only through fighting but also illness and the targeted killing through allowing people to die of thirst and hunger. Others died in concentration camps and in slave labor.\"\nBerlin ruled what was then called South-West Africa as a colony from 1884 to 1915.\nThe German republic has repeatedly disputed the call for reparations, citing the gift of millions of euros in development aid since Namibia's independence from South Africa in 1990 \"for the benefit of all Namibians\".\nThe October deadline was issued to the dismay of Namibian Prime Minister Hage G. Geingob who, in a long editorial published in the New Era newspaper, said it signified the \"alarming rise of tribalism.\"\n\"Regarding the question of genocide and reparations, I would like to cool some tempers,\" he wrote, \"because this issue is sensitive and emotive. As political leaders we should not use it to try and score cheap political gains just because we are campaigning for the elections.\"\n\"When the late Chief Kuaima Riruako was advocating for reparations, may his soul rest in peace, he thought he could get recourse in the U.S. But I told him he would get no justice from the US courts, since those courts had no locus standi, or jurisdiction over what has happened in Namibia. In the end, my view was proven to be correct.\"\nNor would the Hereros find justice in the International Court of Justice, the Prime Minister asserted.\nFollowing just-concluded state-to-state talks, Namibian Foreign Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has promised to brief Parliament on the outcome within the next two weeks. She declined to give details although \"of course, one of the issues we discussed was the use of the word 'genocide.'\"\nNIGERIAN Leader Launches Clean-up Of Nation's 'Open Sores'\nSierra Leone Celebrates As Ban On Public Gatherings Is Lifted","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Meaning and Significance of the Events of Hajj for a Muslim Essay\nRating: Good Essays\nThe Meaning and Significance of the Events of Hajj for a Muslim\nHajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca. It takes place on the eighth day of\nHijjah on the Islamic calendar. Hajj has been taking place for over\n1,400 years. All Muslims try to go to Mecca at least once in their\nlifetime.\nMecca marks the direction in which all Muslim\u00c2's pray; it is the\nbirthplace of Muhammad (pbuh), the last prophet of Allah.\nHajj is not a single event, it takes place over many days and has many\nrites, and these are:\n\u00db\u00a9 Rite of arrival to sacred territory\n\u00db\u00a9 A circular, then a linear ceremony of mobile prayer\n\u00db\u00a9 An exodus from an urban to a desert existence\n\u00db\u00a9 A spiritual camping trip among the dunes\n\u00db\u00a9 A daylong collective gathering\n\u00db\u00a9 An all-night vigil\n\u00db\u00a9 A casting out of temptation\n\u00db\u00a9 And a three-day feast.\nWhen they first arrive in Mecca, they change from their street clothes\ninto Hajj garments. For men, two lengths of unstitched cotton cloth\nresembling beach towels, and women we...\n- The Meaning and Significance of the Events of Hajj for a Muslim Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca. It takes place on the eighth day of Hijjah on the Islamic calendar. Hajj has been taking place for over 1,400 years. All Muslims try to go to Mecca at least once in their lifetime. Mecca marks the direction in which all Muslim\u00c2's pray; it is the birthplace of Muhammad (pbuh), the last prophet of Allah. Hajj is not a single event, it takes place over many days and has many rites, and these are: \u00db\u00a9 Rite of arrival to sacred territory \u00db\u00a9 A circular, then a linear ceremony of mobile prayer \u00db\u00a9 An exodus from an urban to a desert existence \u00db\u00a9 A spiritual camping trip... [tags: Papers]\nThe Significance of Haji for a Muslim Essay\n- The Significance of Haji for a Muslim Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam. This is the pilgrimage to Mecca which Muslims must do at least once in their lifetime. This makes Muslims feel complete once they have completed the Hajj, but they are only allowed to do Hajj if they are physically and financially supported, they must also be able to provide for there families whilst on Hajj, they must also have the money to pay for Hajj without resorting to dishonest ways of raising the money.... [tags: Papers]\nEssay on Exploration of Hajj\n- Exploration of Hajj Hajj means \"inhabitation\" and in Islamic terminology refers to the pilgrimage to the mosque of the noble Ka'bah in the magnificent city of Mecca. Hajj is the pilgrimage to Mecca, it is one of the five basic requirements of Islam. Muslims should make this journey at least once in their lifetime, it is a duty for all Muslims to visit the Ka'bah and stand before God on Mount Arafat. Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam. The true Hajj is to be made between the 8th and 13th of Dul Hijjah, which is the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar.... [tags: Papers]\nThe Five Pillars to Islam: The Hajj or Pilgrimage to Makkah Essay\n- ... The forgiveness and restoration experienced by Adam and Eve gives assurance that Allah is willing to forgive people today. The opportunity to experience the love and forgiveness of Allah is encountered, allowing the pilgrim to begin life afresh, being free from past sin, being in peace with themself. \"Whoever performs Hajj and stay away from lewdness, wrangling, and obscenities will come home like a newborn.\" Al-Bukhari. Consequently, such ritual of the Hajj is of great significance to the individual, as it gives focus to the act of forgiveness, which the individual must fulfill, to complete the perfect submission to Allah.... [tags: allah, muslim community]\nExploration of Hajj Essay\n- Exploration of Hajj Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah is a central duty of Islam whose origins date back to the time of Prophet Abraham (PBUH). It brings together Muslims of all races and tongues for one of life's most moving spiritual experiences. For 14 centuries, countless millions of Muslims, men and women from all over the world, have made the pilgrimage to Makkah, the birthplace of Islam. In carrying out this obligation, they fulfil one of the five \"pillars\" of Islam, or central religious duties of the believer.... [tags: Papers]\nAbout Hajj Essay\n- About Hajj A Muslim is obliged once in their lifetime ,by their religion along with their own will, to take a pilgrimage to Makkah in Saudi Arabia. This pilgrimage is called Hajj and is an amazing journey that is done for a definite purpose. It is part of the Five Pillars of Islam that is the basis of the entire religion making it obligatory. Through completing Hajj, a Muslim can begin to feel closer to Allah (Islam's God) and experience inner fulfilment. Hajj must be done for the right reasons, \"it is for the glory of Allah not for the glory of the person making the journey.\" Hajj literally means 'to set out for a place', it's a journey with rites and rituals al... [tags: Papers]\nEssay on The Pilgrimage Of The Hajj\n- The Hajj is a religious pilgrimage to the city of Mecca and its surrounding important sites. The Hajj is more than just a week and a half long trek through the Saudi Arabian desert; it is a religious and spiritual experience, and one of the Five Pillars of Islam. During the Hajj, pilgrims will reenact the acts of Hagar and Abraham, pray for days and nights on end, endure perilous and exhausting hikes to faraway cities, and, ultimately, come out a new person. A person who completes the Hajj will return home cleansed and forgiven of their sins and with a stronger relationship with Allah.... [tags: Hajj, Mecca, Five Pillars of Islam, Abraham]\nThe Effect of Hajj on a Muslim Essay\n- The Effect of Hajj on a Muslim Hajj as a whole will inspire a Muslim to do better for themselves, God and the community. Each event symbolises a key way on how a Muslim can change for the better and keep on the straight path for life. Though some Muslims will not change after coming back on Hajj, some may feel that it was not inspiring or helpful, others may feel that they are already the 'perfect' Muslim. Hajj has made great improvements in life for lots of Muslims. A good example of how Hajj might affect the life of a Muslim is Malcolm X.... [tags: Papers]\nEssay about The Hajj\n- The Hajj Just about every religion has one thing that a person must do in their lifetime in order to go on after death and Islam is one of those religions. It is required of a Muslim to make the pilgrimage to Mecca and perform the given tasks at least once in their lifetime. It is said that the Prophet Muhammad had rid the Ka'ba of its idols and re-established it as a shrine dedicated to the one God (Hofe 96). Now it is the duty of every Muslim to make a trip to that very place. About 2 million Muslims from just over 70 different countries will journey to the holy city of Mecca each year.... [tags: Papers]\nEssay Hajj.\n- Hajj the Sacred Mosque Islam has two main celebrations. The first is after the completion of Ramadan, the Islamic month during which Muslims fast daily from dawn to sunset as part of an effort towards self-purification. This holiday is known as Eid ul-Fitr. The second main celebration takes place during the time of the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah. This week-long event occurs during the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah, and it's a holiday known as Eid ul-Adha. The Hajj has several parts.... 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{"text":"Worst CEO of the Year: Barclays vs. Groupon\nEight nominees, but only one can be The Motley Fool's worst CEO of 2012.\nFollowing eight straight weeks of profiling CEOs who've done a poor job, the time has officially come for you and other members of The Motley Fool community to decide who is the worst CEO in 2012.\nThe methodology behind the voting is simple. Similar to an NCAA-style basketball bracket, the eight CEOs will be pitted into four match-ups that the community will have one week to vote on. Next week we'll release the results of the previous week's voting, and the remaining four CEOs will again be bracketed for voting. Voting will continue over the next couple of weeks until we have a winner, which will be unveiled at the beginning of December.\nAs you can see, the ball really is in your court and you do have a say in who merits the title of The Motley Fool community's worst CEO of the year. Below the voting bracket I've included a quick synopsis of the match-up; however, I encourage you to revisit the nomination article for a more complete explanation of why that particular CEO was nominated for this dubious award.\nThe couponers: Barclays (NYSE:BCS) vs. Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN)\nThis particular match-up features two CEOs known for making deals. For Barclays former CEO Bob Diamond, that meant leading the company when details emerged about its role in fixing the LIBOR lending rates that set more than $10 trillion worth of mortgage, auto, and credit card loan rates in its favor. For Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, it's been a steady stream of bad news as multiple account snafus and miserable earnings results have knocked the company nearly 90% off its peak levels. Which one of these deal makers is the worst one of 2012? Make your selection and tell the world! Cast your vote below.\nCheck back for results\nBe sure to check out the other Worst CEO match-ups at the links below, and check back next week when we unveil the results and highlight a new round of voting to whittle the field down even further.\nWorst CEO of the Year: Facebook vs. Zynga\nWorst CEO of the Year: Best Buy vs. Talbots\nWorst CEO of the Year: Chesapeake vs. Bristol-Myers Squibb\nBarclays PLC\nNYSE:BCS\nBARCLAYS PLC (BCS) Q3 2020 Earnings Call Transcript\nWorst CEO of the Year: Barclays vs. Groupon @themotleyfool #stocks $GRPN $BCS Next Article","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cherusci\nGet Cherusci essential facts below. View Videos or join the Cherusci discussion. Add Cherusci to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media.\nThe Roman empire under Hadrian (ruled 117-138), showing the location of the Cherusci in northwestern Germany\nThe Cherusci were an early Germanic[1] people that inhabited parts of the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area possibly near present-day Hanover, during the first centuries BC and AD. Ethnically, Pliny the Elder groups them with their neighbours, the Suebi and Chatti, as well as the Hermunduri, as Hermiones, one of the Germanic groupings said to descend from an ancestor named Mannus.[2] They led an important war against the Roman Empire. Subsequently, they were probably absorbed into the late classical Germanic tribal groups such as the Saxons, Thuringians, Franks, Bavarians and Allemanni.\nThe etymological origin of the name Cherusci is not known with certainty. According to the dominant opinion in scholarship, the name may derive from the ancient Germanic word *herut (Modern English hart, i. e. \"deer\"). The tribe may have been named after the deer because it had a totemistic significance in Germanic symbolism.[3] A different hypothesis, proposed in the 19th century by Jacob Grimm and others, derives the name from *heru-, a word for \"sword\" (cf. Gothic hairus, Old English heoru).[4] Hans Kuhn has argued that the derivational suffix -sk-, involved in both explanations, is otherwise not common in Germanic. He suggested that the name may therefore be a compound of ultimately non-Germanic origin, connected to the hypothesized Nordwestblock.[5]\nThe Hermannsdenkmal in the southern part of the Teutoburg Forest, Germany\nThe first historical mention of the Cherusci occurs in Book 6.10 of Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico, which recounts events of 53 BC. Caesar relates that he crossed the Rhine again to punish the Suebi for sending reinforcements to the Treveri. He mentions that the Bacenis forest (a relatively impenetrable beech forest, possibly the Harz) separated the territory of the Cherusci from that of the Suebi. In 12 BC, the Cherusci and other Germanic tribes were subjugated by the Romans. They appear to have been living in the same homeland when Tacitus wrote, 150 years later, describing them as living east of the Chauci and Chatti. This is generally interpreted to be an area between the rivers Weser and Elbe.[6]\nAs Rome tried to expand in northern Europe beyond the Rhine, it exploited divisions within the Cherusci, and for some time the tribe was considered a Roman ally. At this time, the tribe was split between Arminius (known in modern German as \"Hermann der Cherusker\", although his actual Germanic name was more likely Erminaz[7]) and Segestes. Arminius advocated breaking allegiance to Rome and declaring independence, while Segestes wanted to remain loyal. By about 8 AD, Arminius had gained the upper hand and began planning rebellion. Segestes repeatedly warned Publius Quinctilius Varus, the governor of Gaul, that rebellion was being planned, but Varus declined to act until the rebellion had broken out.[]\nIn 9 AD, in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, an army of allied Germanic tribes under the command of Arminius (the Cherusci, Bructeri, Marsi, Sicambri, Chauci, and Chatti) annihilated three Roman legions commanded by Varus.[8][9] The legions' eagle standards, of great symbolic importance to the Romans, were lost. The numbers of these three legions, Legio XVII, Legio XVIII, and Legio XIX, were never used again.[]\nAfter the mutinies of the German legions in 14 AD, Germanicus decided, at the urging of his men, to march into Germany to restore their lost honor. In 15 AD, after a quick raid on the Chatti, they invaded the lands of the Marsi in 14 AD with 12,000 legionnaires, 26 cohorts of auxiliaries, and eight cavalry squadrons. According to Tacitus (Annals 1, 51), an area of 50 Roman miles wide was laid to waste with fire and sword: \"No sex, no age found pity.\"[] A legion eagle from Varus's defeat, either from the XVII or XVIII, was recovered. Then, he began a campaign against the Cherusci.[] He received an appeal to rescue Segestes, who was besieged by Arminius. Segestes was rescued, along with a group of relatives and dependents, including Thusnelda, Segestes' daughter and the wife of Arminius. Germanicus spared them and gave them land in Gaul. He then found the site of the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. His men buried the dead and built a funeral mound.[]\nA series of battles followed. After major casualties on the Romans, Tiberius forbid further campaigns. This effectively led to the withdrawal of the Roman troops until the collapse of the Roman Empire.[]\nAfter Arminius' death, the Romans left the Cherusci more or less to their own devices. In 47 AD, the Cherusci asked Rome to send Italicus, the nephew of Arminius, to become king, as civil war had destroyed their nobility. He was initially well liked, but since he was raised in Rome as a Roman citizen, he soon fell out of favor.[]\nTacitus writes of the Cherusci of his time (about 100 AD):\nDwelling on one side of the Chauci and Chatti, the Cherusci long cherished, unassailed, an excessive and enervating love of peace. This was more pleasant than safe, for to be peaceful is self-deception among lawless and powerful neighbours. Where the strong hand decides, moderation and justice are terms applied only to the more powerful; and so the Cherusci, ever reputed good and just, are now called cowards and fools, while in the case of the victorious Chatti success has been identified with prudence. The downfall of the Cherusci brought with it also that of the Fosi, a neighbouring tribe, which shared equally in their disasters, though they had been inferior to them in prosperous days.[10]\nClaudius Ptolemy in his Geography, describes the ? and ? (Cherusci and Chamavi) as living near each other and also near to \"Mount Melibocus\" (probably the Harz Mountains) and to the Calucones, who lived on both banks of the Elbe.[]\nThe later history of the Cherusci is mostly unknown. In the fourth century AD, they perhaps contributed to the formation of the Saxon people.[]\nList of Germanic peoples\nBattle of Arbalo\n^ Thompson, Edward Arthur; Drinkwater, John Frederick (2012). \"Cherusci\". In Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony; Eidinow, Esther (eds.). The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191735257. Retrieved 2020. Cherusci, a Germanic people, living around the middle Weser. They are the best known of the Germanic opponents of the Romans in the 1st cent. ad.\n^ \"Plin. Nat. 4.28\". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved .\n^ Reallexikon der germanischen Alterturmskunde (1981), vol. 4, p. 430 ff., s.v. \"Cherusker\"; cf. also Rudolf Much, Herbert Jankuhn & Wolfgang Lange, Die Germania des Tacitus, Heidelberg: Winter, 1967, p. 411.\n^ Jacob Grimm, Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1853, vol. 2, p. 426.\n^ Reallexikon der germanischen Alterturmskunde (1973), vol. 1, pp.420-421, s.v. \"Arminius\".\n^ Smith, William (1854), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography\n^ https:\/\/www.webcitation.org\/query?url=http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Paris\/Salon\/2385\/FAQ.html%23hermann&date=2009-10-25+09:25:32\n^ Roberts 1996, pp. 65-66.\n^ Ozment 2005, pp. 20-21.\n^ \"Tac. Ger. 36\". Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved .\nTacitus, Cornelius and Michael Grant, The Annals of Imperial Rome. New York: Penguin Books, 1989.\nCaesar, Julius et al. The Battle for Gaul. Boston: D. R. Godine, 1980.\nWilhelm Zimmermann, A Popular History of Germany (New York, 1878) Vol. I\nMax Ihm, Cherusci. In: Paulys Realencyclop\u00e4die der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). volume III,2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 2270-2272.\nRalf G\u00fcnther Jahn, Der R\u00f6misch-Germanische Krieg (9-16 n. Chr.). Diss., Bonn 2001.\nPeter Kehne, Zur Lokalisierung, Organisation und Geschichte des Cheruskerstammes. In: Michael Zelle (Hrsg.), Terra incognita? Die n\u00f6rdlichen Mittelgebirge im Spannungsfeld r\u00f6mischer und germanischer Politik um Christi Geburt. Akten des Kolloquiums im Lippischen Landesmuseum Detmold vom 17. bis 19. Juni 2004. Philipp von Zabern Verlag, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3632-1, pages 9-29.\nGerhard Neumann, Reinhard Wenskus, Rafael von Uslar, Cherusker. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 1981, pages 430-435.\nOzment, Steven (2005). A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06093-483-5.\nRoberts, J. M. (1996). A History of Europe. New York: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-0-96584-319-5.\nOberst Streccius, Cherusker. In: Bernhard von Poten (Hrsg.): Handw\u00f6rterbuch der gesamten Milit\u00e4rwissenschaften. volume 2, Bielefeld\/Leipzig 1877, page 235.\n\"Cherusci\" . Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 89.\nCherusci Meaning\nRome 2 Total War Online Battle # 47 Cherusci vs Gual","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"FTI Consulting Provides GDPR Assessment and Action Plan for Global Energy Company\nWhen Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted, many U.S. corporations were suddenly facing data protection requirements far more stringent than any preceding privacy rules. This was the case for a Houston-based drilling company, which had a significant international footprint, including in Europe, but limited visibility into how its practices were impacted by the new regulation. With an active GDPR compliance program in development, the company engaged FTI Consulting's Information Governance, Privacy & Security (IGP&S) practice to conduct a readiness assessment and provide a roadmap of additional steps needed to bring the company into full compliance.\nInformation GovernanceGDPR\nWhat Companies Need to Know About the ADGM Data Protection Regulation\nIn February this year, the Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM) passed the Data Protection Regulation (DPR2021), which bears a striking resemblance to the EU GDPR, and the U.K. GDPR specifically. The former legislation, dating back to 2015, was based on the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) guidance, which was significantly different from GDPR's standards. What this means is that for companies operating in the ADGM, major regulatory changes are afoot.\nInformation GovernanceGDPRData Privacy\nData Mapping for Privacy Obligations and Beyond \u2013 How to Reduce Risk and Increase Value\nEmerging regulations like CCPA and GDPR have prepared us for compliance readiness \u2013 but not without challenges. The anticipated volume of Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) coupled with vast amounts of personal data collected and stored, will make responding to regulatory deadlines far from easy. Especially knowing where all the data resides, how the data is being used and its contractual, legal and regulatory obligations. The answer is \"Data Mapping\" \u2013 a crucial backbone for compliance and overall health of an organization.\nData PrivacyGDPRInformation Governance\nLimping to the GDPR Finish Line - Why Many Companies Still Aren't Fully Compliant\nTo date, GDPR compliance at most organizations has been approached from the top down. Policies and procedures are essential. However, now that most organizations have those in place, it is time to begin revisiting GDPR programs from the bottom up \u2014 starting with the systems where data lives, to ensure cohesive alignment between the existing privacy policies, business requirements, and the IT systems and infrastructure.\nEurope's Top Court Delivers Landmark Privacy Decisions with Broad Implications for the Regulation of the Internet\nEurope's highest court, The European Court of Justice (\"ECJ\") in Luxembourg, ruled on two cases last week involving GDPR's right to be forgotten as it applies to information available on the internet. In the first ruling, the court held that the privacy rule cannot be applied outside the European Union. In the second, the court said the right to freedom of information must be balanced against the right to privacy and specifically the right to have links related to certain categories of personal data automatically deleted.\nInformation GovernanceIndustry TrendsGDPR\nIntegrating Data Privacy Into Your Organization's Business Strategy\nWith the advent of regulations like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, corporate leaders are beginning to recognize that poor data privacy risk management can harm competitive advantage, weigh down return on investment and have long term erosive effects on shareholder value. But how involved should executives be in privacy risk management decision making? And how can the corporate boards, the C-suite and legal and compliance stakeholders align business goals with privacy risk management?\nAd Techs and Transparency Issues take Center Stage for GDPR Enforcement Activity\nIn many ways, 2018 was a year of waiting. Waiting first for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to go into effect on May 25th. Then waiting again to see how regulators sought to investigate privacy complaints and enforce the new law. Now within the first two months of 2019, we've seen the beginnings of the anticipated uptick in European enforcement activity. And it is not a surprise to see the ad-tech space drawing most of that regulator attention.\nData PrivacyGDPR\n2019 Data Privacy Predictions\nIn the last half of 2018, GDPR enforcement activity among data protection authorities across Europe saw a steady uptick and the trend will continue in 2019. Organizations in a broad range of industries received public reprimands, enforcement notices and fines. Violations ranged from data breaches, to lack of security practices and failure to obtain consumer consent to collect data.\nFive Lessons Learned from Early GDPR Fines\nEarlier this month, data protection authorities in Portugal doled out a \u20ac400,000 fine to a hospital for failure to apply appropriate access controls over digital patient data. This is one of the first penalties we've seen issued under GDPR since its enactment earlier this year. There are several interesting elements of this particular case, one of which is the fact that fines were imposed even though no data breach event occurred.\nGDPRInformation Governance\nGDPR Compliance - The Unintended Consequences for Organisations\nGDPR has made data protection a reality not only for heavily regulated industries but for all organisations. Once seen purely as a legislative burden, GDPR compliance is now providing organisations with a range of benefits.\nData Management \u2013 From the Basements to the Boardroom\nData is a strategic asset and GDPR has raised the profile of data management from the basements to the boardroom and assigned a strategic value to understanding our data, how we use it, where we store it, how it flows between systems and processes and ultimately how long it should be retained and protected. In this short video, information governance expert Nina Bryant talks about how GDPR has been driver for organisations to assess both the risk and the value of the data they hold.\nAre Data Subject Access Requests a Trick or a Treat?\nIt's that time of year\u2026 no, not when bands of trick-or-treaters are traipsing up your walk, but when the ghoulish specters called data subject access requests (DSARs) are going to start flooding in.\nRecommended Reading: Data Breach and Potential Class Action in UK\nAfter a recent data breach, a law firm is threatening the company with a potential class action lawsuit, citing Article 82 of the U.K. Data Protection Act. Specifically, the law firm is citing the \"right to compensation and liability\" \u2014 which states, \"Any person who has suffered material or non-material damage as a result of an infringement of this regulation shall have the right to receive compensation from the controller or processor for the damage suffered.\"\nGDPR Breach Crisis: Are You Prepared?\nThe GDPR compliance deadline might have passed but over two-thirds of UK firms acknowledge they are at risk of a GDPR breach crisis. While data mapping and updating privacy policies are an important aspect of GDPR preparedness, many companies will struggle to respond to GDPR breaches and incidents.\nLeading the Way with Information Governance\nBy the end of May 2018, the landscape of how organisations manage information about clients will be completely transformed by some of the world's toughest new legislation.\nFive Steps to Prepare for GDPR\nWhen the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement kicks in this May, responding to data subject rights will be a challenge for many large organizations. The GDPR enables EU individuals to request corporations to inquire about what personal data they have on them or even delete their personal data. Requests must be responded to promptly, within one month, leaving companies very little time to perform a task that they may not be equipped to handle. No barrier exists for citizens to enact these rights, and some countries are planning campaigns to educate the public on them in the coming year.\nGDPR Countdown - May 2018: The Starting Point, Not the Finish Line\nCompanies around the globe are impacted by the landmark EU legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force on May 25, 2018. While there is tremendous focus on the steep fines, the risks associated with reputational damage due to the inappropriate management of personal data is much greater.\nUsing Information Governance Tactics to Prepare for the GDPR\nMuch like Information Governance, preparation for the General Data Protection Regulation is a cross-departmental concern that requires input from many different groups within an organization, including privacy, compliance, legal, line of business, IT and information security.\nGDPRIndustry TrendsInformation Governance\nGDPR: A Challenge and an Opportunity\nIn the first of our series of short videos on GDPR, Sonia Cheng, FTI Consulting's European Information Governance Leader, talks about what GDPR is, the key steps to compliance, and what to do if you have limited time and budget.\nUsing Information Governance Strategies to Prepare for the GDPR\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (\"GDPR\") goes into effect in roughly one year and yet many companies are still behind in preparing for compliance. This webcast will help you understand the top priorities and challenges with meeting GDPR requirements, how to assess your organization's exposure, how to prioritize actions and how to take the first steps toward compliance.\nMicrosoft 365Information GovernanceGDPR\nTackling Data Security Risks\nWe asked 33 in-house compliance leaders: How can organizations create an information governance framework that protects data while staying adaptive to the rapidly evolving business landscape?\nAdvice from CounselGDPR\nTransforming Risk with Better Information Governance\nAs regulated companies are required to manage ever growing amounts of data, and regulators are imposing increasingly severe fines, how can firms ensure they comply with this greater scrutiny?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Case Study- Westbrook Industrial- Finance and Funding Support\nGrowth Hub Case Study 17\/01\/2022\nHelped to access \u00a311,000 grant funding\nWestbrook Industrial is a manufacturer of labelling and integrated safety solutions as well as a provider of non-core products and services direct to manufacturers and suppliers of MHE (material handling equipment) and storage solutions. It trades under two divisions, ASG Services for end user customers and Warehouse Partners for resellers operating in the Logistics and Warehousing sector.\nBased in Warrington, the company offers warehouse labelling, line marking, barriers, safety signage and safety netting solutions.\nKeen to enable sustainable business change and growth, Westbrook developed a programme \u2013 Project Cube \u2013 to increase productivity and growth across the company.\nConsulting Project Manager, Salim Sheikh, who has championed this initiative, was contacted by Cheshire and Warrington Growth Hub who worked with Salim to understand what support was needed to make the project a success as well as help support business improvement and growth. Business Growth Broker, Cherie Semper at the Growth Hub, highlighted the support available, specifically the Access To Finance Programme, run by Blue Orchid, which supports businesses who wish to grow with partial funding of consultancy projects which will enable growth.\nWestbrook Industrial submitted a successful application to the Access To Finance Programme, showing how funding through the scheme could help them to achieve growth. As part of its partnership with the Growth Hub and successful funding application, Westbrook was awarded a \u00a311K grant (33% of a total project budget of \u00a334K). The funding has helped to kickstart a digital transformation programme, known internally as \"Project Cube\", which has included strategic planning workshops (at Board and employee level) to help identify several key projects that will drive growth and improvement across the business. Additionally, a new \"employee focused\" intranet has been created that reflects Westbrook's \"people-centric\" culture whilst also providing a digital platform to enable hybrid-working.\nSalim said: \"When we were looking at launching Project Cube, we wanted to make sure that we knew what funding was out there and have a full picture of external resources we could tap into.\n\"The funding we received from Blue Orchid via the Cheshire and Warrington Growth Hub enabled us to kickstart Project Cube and hit the ground running. The growth achieved to date and improvements across the business would not have been possible without the Cheshire and Warrington Growth Hub. Since the beginning of the scheme, we've been able to highlight and harness growth opportunities across the business.\n\"The team at the Growth Hub were absolutely fantastic to work with and I cannot praise them highly enough \u2013 they gave 110% to everything and made sure I was aware of all of the opportunities available to us but allowed me to consider whether it was they were right for us.\"\nThrough the funding support and the impact of Project Cube, Westbrook Industrial has increased its turnover by 50% and have expanded by an additional four people.\nAndy Devaney, Business Innovation Director at Cheshire and Warrington Growth Hub, commented: \"Like many of our businesses, Westbrook Industrial felt the impact of Coronavirus and responded by developing Project Cube.\n\"The project was fundamentally focused on people and systems initially, with the purpose to drive innovation and product development, all underpinned by culture. We understood how important this project was to the business for future growth and were glad to work with them and Blue Orchid to access the grant funding needed to get it started.\n\"We look forward to seeing Westbrook Industrial carry on the success of Project Cube and capitalise on the opportunities from it.\"\nFor further information about Westbrook Industrial click here\nFor more information about how the Cheshire and Warrington Growth Hub could benefit your business click here","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What happens when someone inadvertently enters the UK without a landing interview?\nAs a follow-on question to Which queue for a EU\/non-EU couple travelling through UK Immigration Control together? for a question that arose in the commentary...\nThere may remain several routes into the UK where an arriving passenger may not be checked by an Immigration Officer. Some of these occur on Eurostar (or other rail\/ferry) and others might occur at City Airport during certain times of the day, and others occur when a passenger is simply waved through controls (however unlikely this seems in the current era). Sometimes a walking route through an airport is not completely secured which leads to a land-side exit and passengers may inadvertently follow it.\nSometimes these 'loopholes' are discovered (proof that this has happened on Eurostar), and sometimes they are not, or go for a long time unnoticed.\nThis question acknowledges that arrivals through the Republic of Ireland are a separate case and are out of scope here (perhaps the topic of a future question). Similarly, arrivals at private airfields in the UK are out of scope. Also it's not appropriate in TSE to list current inward routes where controls fail because I cannot assume that everyone reading TSE is well-intended.\nOf course it's easy to say that since it's UKVI's fault the person has no liability, but is this actually the case?\nAssuming such routes exist and that the person is well-intended, what is their immigration status in the UK during the time they are present in the UK? Are they in violation of any particular rule? More importantly, is there a procedure so that the person can normalize their status? The corollary to this question is alternatively, should we trust that the possibility of this happening is too remote to consider realistically?\nCredible\/authoritative sources needed, court decisions and legislation (including Ministerial Statements) cites gladly welcomed. Other credible sources also welcomed.\nvisas uk customs-and-immigration\nGayot FowGayot Fow\n@DumbCoder There used to be what was called the \"Lille Loophole\". You need to know what you are doing to exploit this. jonworth.eu\/\u2026 \u2013 Calchas Jun 14 '15 at 23:16\n(I think this is more of a question for https:\/\/law.stackexchange.com\/ than travel but I shall have a go at it.)\nThey are not merely in violation of a rule, they are in violation of the law and potentially committing a criminal offence.\nEntry to the UK is tightly regulated by the Immigration Act 1971. The Act has been amended by many later enactments and statutory instruments, but helpfully all the relevant provisions remain within the 1971 Act (and the orders made under it). Probably it is wise to read the whole Act and all recent statutory instruments made under it. But the key points are---\n3. General provisions for regulation and control.\n(1) Except as otherwise provided by or under this Act, where a person is not a British citizen\u2014\n(a) he shall not enter the United Kingdom unless given leave to do so in accordance with the provisions of, or made under, this Act;\nhttp:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1971\/77\/section\/3?view=plain\nThe Act is very clear, you must only enter the UK within the provisions of the Act. The argument, \"Of course it's easy to say that since it's UKVI's fault the person has no liability\", I would submit, is not easy at all to say in light of that law. For one, it is not a question of liability. The foreign citizen either has leave to enter or he does not. Who is liable is unlikely to be important in considering the legality of his removal; and it is not clear that Parliament intended the entry clearance to work on that kind of basis. If the immigration officer allows him admission in error or neglect, that is only acceptable if the Act (or orders made under it) directly provide that it is so.\n[Continuing with the theme of 'fault', the House of Lords ruled in Khan (1977) that a person could be removed from the UK on the basis of another's deception in securing her entry clearance, of which she was unaware. Therefore I would surmise that the point is not to place blame on one person or another, but rather to find objectively if a person is permitted to enter, and whether she obtained proper clearance to do so. If the clearance is not valid, then, unless extenuating circumstances apply, the person must be removed. http:\/\/www.refworld.org\/docid\/3ae6b6ca0.html ]\nMoreover, \"given leave\" has a clear meaning. You are not, I think it is fair to say, given leave by an omission, by walking around the back of the immigration desk. Being \"given leave\" must be a purposeful act. It could, I suppose, be in error by a man (with authority to admit you) waving you through.\nLater in the enactment an offence of illegal entry is created.\n24. Illegal entry and similar offences.\n(1) A person who is not a British citizen shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine of not more than level 5 on the standard scale or with imprisonment for not more than six months, or with both, in any of the following cases:\u2014\n(a) if contrary to this Act he knowingly enters the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order or without leave;\nhttp:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1971\/77\/section\/24?view=plain\nThe word \"knowingly\" is a good argument here, can you be okay with just 'accidentally' walking out of the airport? Or 'accidentally' booking the right combination of trains and forgetting to get off in Paris? I think a judge would be very sceptical to such an argument. A traveller knows, or would reasonably be expected to know, that he must talk to immigration and receive a stamp.\nMoreover the Act deliberately shifts the burden of proof onto the traveller, who must prove that he was given leave to be admitted (providing it is shown he entered in the last six months).\n(4) In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1)(a) above of entering the United Kingdom without leave,\u2014\n(b) proof that a person had leave to enter the United Kingdom shall lie on the defence if, but only if, he is shown to have entered within six months before the date when the proceedings were commenced.\nI suggest that is rather difficult to prove you were legally admitted if there is no stamp and no record of your entry except for a train ticket or a record on the airline reservation system.\nNonetheless the two points are distinct. The entry may be unauthorised (\"without leave\") without the criminal offence being necessarily being committed.\nCertainly the person can be removed from the United Kingdom, at the expense of his inbound carrier if it is known. Carriers are strictly liable for transporting unlawful immigrants even if they do not know the person will be denied entry. Here is the official guidance: https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/270022\/chapter47.pdf\nTurning to case law, an early example of the deference shown by the Courts to the government is in Khawaja v Secretary of State (http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/uk\/cases\/UKHL\/1983\/8.html). The facts are a bit different to what you describe (there was deliberate deception), but one thing that stands out is,\nif the immigration authority has reasonable grounds for believing that a person is an illegal entrant, the decision to remove him and to detain him until he is removed is for the authority. It is not subject to review by the courts, save to the limited extent recognised by what has come to be called \"the Wednesbury principle\".\nAlthough the Courts move back and forth on this issue, the Immigration Act gives the Secretary of State wide powers to remove illegal entrants (or even legal entrants) without the possibility of judicial intervention, save in some Human Rights cases and other cases contrary to general public policy (e.g., person could be tortured or face death on return).\nIt is quite difficult to find specific examples of people accidentally entering the UK that were dealt with by a recorded judicial proceeding on bailii.org. So I shall have to leave my answer here for someone else to complete.\nNor am I aware of a means of \"normalising\" one's status. One can seek asylum of course, but it is probably better to exit quietly and later seek re-entry.\nCalchasCalchas\n+1, stunningly good answer. IMHO the paragraph starting with \"Certainly the person...\" and everything following it can be deleted without damaging the answer. Still hoping for a treatment on how a visitor can regularise himself because it's of urgent and paramount concern for a visitor\/tourist. \u2013 Gayot Fow Jun 15 '15 at 2:22\n@GayotFow I will delete the personal anecdote. In my view she was unfairly treated anyway. \u2013 Calchas Jun 15 '15 at 2:26\n@GayotFow It's a risk because the immigration service is under a lot of political pressure to say how many people it has removed this year. So instead of worrying about whether it is fair to remove someone who accidentally entered, it will be easier to remove them and get the credit for it. \u2013 Calchas Jun 15 '15 at 2:28\n\"A traveller knows, or would reasonably be expected to know, that he must talk to immigration and receive a stamp\": Many are uninformed or confused about cross-border controls in the EU, particularly with respect to the Schengen area and that the UK is not part of it. Someone who was not knowledgeable in this regard could reasonably assume that he or she made it out of the airport without seeing a passport inspector because the airport was intentionally so designed. Most people just know that they need to show a passport when asked. Of course, a judge might not see it that way. \u2013 phoog Jun 15 '15 at 17:13\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged visas uk customs-and-immigration or ask your own question.\nDoes the UK know whether I am currently there or not?\nWhich queue for an unmarried EU\/non-EU couple travelling through UK Immigration Control together?\nAre EEA nationals allowed to use the non-EEA queue at UK airports?\nWhen you go to Passport Control, what does the agent see about you?\nCan I use the Blue \"Arrivals from EU\" queue on arrival in the UK, if I entered another EU country on a layover?\nRecourse for bad\/inaccurate information given on the Home Office help line\nDoes a \"Visa on Departure\" exist?\nDoes Cuba allow US citizens to enter the country without US permission, now that relations have been restored?\nWhat should a sponsor tell the ECO?\nWhat is the transit procedure in AMS when en route from a Schengen country to the USA?\nWhat are the material differences, UK visitor visa vs USA visitor visa\nWhat is the purpose of UK airside transit visas?\nLandside transit at UK airports en route to the US - what are the chances of being admitted?","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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MIDEA GROUP and its Partners hereby expressly disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. About Midea Group. Essentially, no matter the space, no matter the challenge, we have a wide range of solutions to meet any. 54PM IST \"India is a key market in our global growth strategy and will be an important manufacturing hub in future,\" said Midea Group Vice-President Andy Gu. The Group has strengthened its scientific research and innovation capability, while striving to expand its international sales network, and \"going out\" to set up overseas production bases. The 2018 Annual Report of Midea Group Co. Welcome to Midea Global. Midea Group is now one of the biggest manufacturers in the world in several product categories. Learn about Midea, the world's largest producer of major appliances with a mission to create surprisingly-friendly solutions so you can enjoy life at home. About 6% of these are industrial air conditioners, 5% are air conditioners, and 1% are air conditioner parts. Rank in Shanghai Stocks. of the Company name in Chinese (if any) \u7f8e\u7684\u96c6\u56e2. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows: - domestic appliances (41%. This is the Midea Group company profile. Get free 2-day shipping on qualified Midea products or buy Appliances department products today with Buy Online Pick Up in Store. Corporate Information Stock abbreviation Midea Group Stock code 000333 Stock exchange where the shares of the Company are listed Shenzhen Stock Exchange Name of the Company in Chinese \u7f8e\u7684\u96c6\u56e2\u80a1\u4efd\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8. Midea Group Co. Midea Group Competitive Analysis - SWOT & PESTLE analysis of Midea Group, a leader in consumer appliance manufacturers and other electrical applications. If you need process troubleshooting, assistance with heat treating practice, product commercialization, training of shop floor personnel on metals. Kuka AG, the German robot maker acquired last year by Midea Group Co. Backed by manufacturing giant, Midea group, headquartered overseas, Midea America Corporation is a startup here in US looking to ramp up. 6 part in securities margin trading (if any) Did any of the top 10 common shareholders or the top 10 non-restricted common shareholders of the. To see a list of investors from China similar to Midea Group, check the Chinese Private Equity and Venture Capital Directory. He stepped down from its operations in 2012. Iscriviti subito a LinkedIn. Carrier, Midea Launch Residential Ductless HVAC Joint Venture in North America. Midea Appliances Australia; MENU MENU. Find out what works well at Midea Group from the people who know best. To see a list of investors from China similar to Midea Group, check the Chinese Private Equity and Venture Capital Directory. Iscriviti subito a LinkedIn. Headquartered in Shunde, Guangdong Province, Midea Group has established its own global business platform. of China, needs to lower costs and win government recognition as a local brand to achieve its goal of becoming the No. US Government Authorities grant clearances for take-over of KUKA by Midea - pdf, 15,72 KB Reasoned Opinion \u00a7 27 WpUeG - pdf, 5,63 MB. Stock analysis for Midea Group Co Ltd (MIDEAZ) including stock price, stock chart, company news, key statistics, fundamentals and company profile. See the company profile for MIDEA GROUP CO LTD (000333. Midea Group Co. He stepped down from its operations in 2012. I applied in-person. Rahul Patel. 07 yuan per B share in Little Swan, and 42. 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After 30 years of development, Midea Group has become a large-scale comprehensive modern enterprise group and its main area of business is household electrical compliance and also involved in real estate mark, logistics and other areas. View today's stock price, news and analysis for Midea Group Co. Midea Group Inc. A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Sign Up for Our Newsletters. MFD100-11621DES. Midea formally entered into the household appliance industry in 1980, and started to use the brand name of Midea in 1981. As of 2013, the firm employs approximately 100,000 people in China and overseas across 21 manufacturing plants and 260 logistics centers across 200 countries. (SZSE: 000333, \"Midea\") today jointly announced that they have signed a Definitive Agreement (\"DA\") to transfer Toshiba's Home Appliances Business to Midea and to strengthen their strategic partnership. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows: - domestic appliances (41%): small household appliances (rice cookers, electric steam cookers, microwaves, ovens, hobs, bread makers. The process took a week. \u7f8e\u7684\u96c6\u5718\u65bc 1968 \u5e74\u6210\u7acb\u81f3\u4eca,\u5df2\u65bc\u798f\u5e03\u65af\u5168\u7403 500 \u5f37\u699c\u4e0a\u4f54\u4e00\u5e2d\u4f4d,\u540c\u6642\u4ea6\u662f\u8ca1\u5bcc\u4e2d\u570b 500 \u5f3a\u4e2d,\u4f4d\u5217\u7b2c 32 \u4f4d\u7684\u4f01\u696d,\u70ba\u767d\u8272\u5bb6\u96fb\u884c\u696d\u7684\u9f8d\u982d\u5927\u54e5 \u3002. Hello all; I will be making edits to this page, and in the interest of full disclosure, I am an employee of Midea Group. Over time, he expanded Midea's production to include electric appliances and parts, water, flooring, air conditioning and heating. Application. I Corporate information. MIDEA GROUP. US Government Authorities grant clearances for take-over of KUKA by Midea - pdf, 15,72 KB Reasoned Opinion \u00a7 27 WpUeG - pdf, 5,63 MB. 5 billion rupees ($190 million) over the next five years to set up a Science and Technology Park in India. Midea\u2026 The World's No. Scopri i dettagli delle offerte di lavoro presso Midea Group (Fortune Global 500 Company). Midea Group is a Chinese electrical appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Beijiao, Shunde, Foshan,. Midea Group Tashkent, \u0422\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0435\u043d\u0442 \u0423\u0437\u0431\u0435\u043a\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d. Advice to Management. Guangdong, China, 9 January - Midea (Midea Group Co Ltd, SZSE 000333), a leading major appliances producer, announced today the successful acquisition of KUKA AG (KUKA), a leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions, by its subsidiary MECCA International (BVI) Limited. View 000333 historial stock data and compare to other stocks and exchanges. FG Europe UK Ltd is delighted to be able to promote Midea in the UK. Midea Group is a world's leading technologies group in consumer appliances, HVAC systems, robotics and industrial automation systems, and smart supply chain (logistics). Midea Group Latest Breaking News, Pictures, Videos, and Special Reports from The Economic Times. KUKA is a German manufacturer of industrial robots and solutions for factory automation. A partir de 2013, la empresa emplea aproximadamente a 100. Established in 1968 Midea has grown to be the Worlds No 1 brand of HVAC Products. I interviewed at Midea Group (New York, NY (US)) in November 2018. A free inside look at company reviews and salaries posted anonymously by employees. The analysis covers Midea Group's business strategy and its internal and external environmental factors. 2015-05-13. produces and sells household electrical appliances and climate control systems. Learn about working at Midea Group (Fortune Global 500 Company). The intense competition facing the global home appliance market has prompted Midea Group to speed up its transformation and upgrade process. A free inside look at Midea Group salary trends based on 19 salaries wages for 19 jobs at Midea Group. Augsburg\/Shunde, March 22, 2018 - The KUKA Executive Board has decided to contribute the General Industry Business of KUKA and the Swisslog business in China to Joint Ventures with companies of the Midea Group. See what employees say about what it's like to work at Midea Group. With 1 in every 5 air conditioning systems being manufactured by Midea, this has resulted in over 40,000,000 of sales annually. Corporate Information Stock abbreviation Midea Group Stock code 000333 Stock exchange where the shares of the Company are listed Shenzhen Stock Exchange Name of the Company in Chinese \u7f8e\u7684\u96c6\u56e2\u80a1\u4efd\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8. Iscriviti subito a LinkedIn. Guangdong, China, 9 January - Midea (Midea Group Co Ltd, SZSE 000333), a leading major appliances producer, announced today the successful acquisition of KUKA AG (KUKA), a leading global supplier of intelligent automation solutions, by its subsidiary MECCA International (BVI) Limited. A free inside look at company reviews and salaries posted anonymously by employees. Rank in Shanghai Stocks. Sign Up for Our Newsletters. See who you know at Midea Group (Fortune Global 500 Company), leverage your professional network, and. It also provides robotics and automation systems. In September 2013, the whole entity was publicly listed in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as Midea Group. SZ stock on Yahoo Finance. which in turn is a subsidiary of the Midea Group of companies. Find the latest MIDEA GROUP CO LTD (000333. Midea Group is a consumer appliances and air conditioning systems manufacturer. (Midea has assured to keep the headquarters of Kuka in Augsburg, keep the actual size of the workforce in Germany and in the foreign Kuka sites, keep its brand, as well as the listing of the Kuka shares in Germany). See who you know at Midea Group (Fortune Global 500 Company), leverage your professional network, and get hired. D&B Hoovers provides sales leads and sales intelligence data on over 120 million companies like Midea Group Co. Midea Group Enters the Forbes Top 500. Kuka AG, the German robot maker acquired last year by Midea Group Co. Join LinkedIn today for free. Midea formally entered into the household appliance industry in 1980, and started to use the brand name of Midea in 1981. Midea Group Co. Carrier Midea AC is regarded as one of the best brands of ACs in India. , Ltd (Midea) have entered into a strategic collaboration for the application of more advanced solutions from BASF to power Midea's household appliances. The 2016 Annual Report of Midea Group Co. Pune: Chinese consumer appliances maker Midea Group on Saturday said it will invest Rs 1,350 crore over the next five years in Supa, Parner \u2014 an MIDC area in Ahmednagar (which is 80kms from Pune. (Midea), a China-based large manufacturer of electrical appliances, completed its acquisition of German-based KUKA AG (KUKA), a large manufacturer of industrial robots. Midea Group will take over assets, debts, businesses, personnel, contracts and any other right and obligation of the washing machine manufacturer. Creates global powerhouse in field of robotics and automation. Guangdong Midea Electric Appliances Co. Residential. The 2018 Annual Report of Midea Group Co. Senior Technology Manager, Data Science and Analytics at Midea Group (Fortune Global 500 Company) Ares Zhang PMP. This is the Midea Group company profile. Meet Midea, the most reliable air conditioning brand at an economic price. 266B; to invest in 100 hardware firms in next 5 yrs. Chinese company Midea to invest Rs 800 crore for Pune plant 29 Jun, 2017, 01. manufactures, markets and installs household electrical appliances, compressors and components. The Company's products are categorized into three types, including consumer appliances, heating ventilating and air conditioning (HAVC) and robot and automation systems. com offers 10,167 midea products. Rank in Shanghai Stocks. LinkedIn'e hemen bug\u00fcn \u00fccretsiz olarak kat\u0131l\u0131n. DOW JONES, A NEWS CORP COMPANY News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Sign Up for Our Newsletters. Residential. Wilson Huang Regional Finance Senior Executive (FP&A) at Midea Group (Fortune Global 500 Company) Singapore 149 connections. offers expertise in heat treating and metallurgical laboratory operation. stock price. MD1-C75-EU * Space saving compact design * High-speed,permanent magnet motor * Corrosion resistant grinding MORE. Its business segments include large appliances, water, kitchen, large & small cooking, heating, ventilation, electrical and logistics appliances. The highest management should be decent, otherwise Midea wouldn't be a Fortune 500 company. 44 Midea Group reviews. \u7f8e\u7684\u96c6\u5718\u65bc 1968 \u5e74\u6210\u7acb\u81f3\u4eca,\u5df2\u65bc\u798f\u5e03\u65af\u5168\u7403 500 \u5f37\u699c\u4e0a\u4f54\u4e00\u5e2d\u4f4d,\u540c\u6642\u4ea6\u662f\u8ca1\u5bcc\u4e2d\u570b 500 \u5f3a\u4e2d,\u4f4d\u5217\u7b2c 32 \u4f4d\u7684\u4f01\u696d,\u70ba\u767d\u8272\u5bb6\u96fb\u884c\u696d\u7684\u9f8d\u982d\u5927\u54e5 \u3002. Section II Corporate Profile. Uncover why Midea Group is the best company for you. A partir de 2013, la empresa emplea aproximadamente a 100. is a China-based company principally engaged in the manufacture and distribution of household electronics. The 2017 Annual Results of Midea Group. 1 Air Conditioning Brand. Midea Group manufactures and sells consumer appliances, HVAC systems, robotics and automation systems, and smart supply chain (logistics). The KUKA Robotics Corporation has 25 subsidiaries worldwide, mostly sales and service subsidiaries, including in the United States, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Russia and most European countries. This is the Midea Group company profile. Midea Group Co. Since 1999, MCAC has devoted to R&D and focused on cutting-edge technology. Join LinkedIn today for free. Apakah anda ingin bertanya mengenai produk Midea yang sudah dibeli? Apakah ada bagian produk yang ingin diganti? Apakah anda ingin bertanya tentang pemasangan produk?. 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{"text":"Youth World Cup 2008 Results\nCanada was the proud host country of the 2008 AQHA Youth World Cup, an educational, leadership-based equine competition showcasing skills learned in an atmosphere of friendly competition. AQHA Youth World Cup competitions take place biennially, alternating between an international host country and Amarillo, Texas, AQHA's home city. The Canadian Quarter Horse Association and provincial\/regional AQHA affiliate associations were the co-hosts of this year's world class event, which took place July 6th to 13th, at the Western Fair Agriplex in London Ontario.\nThe 2008 AQHA Youth World Cup was not just another horse show. It also offered opportunities to learn and teach lessons about different communities and cultures, to compete and co-operate, to lead and follow, and to make many new two- and four-legged friends. Horsemanship skills were honed through various clinics provided prior to the start of competition. Participants were treated to Canadian cultural icons, such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride and a visit to Niagara Falls, among the many entertaining highlights provided by the Youth World Cup Committee.\nAustralia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States fielded youth teams. They competed on donated horses supplied by the host country; approximately 90 all-around horses, 16 cutting horses and 32 reining horses.\nThe skills of the donated horses were assessed by AQHA Professional Horsemen and AQHA staff and put together in groups. The teams then drew lots for their assigned group of horses. The teams competed in nine events, with each class being held twice over the four days of competition. The top ten exhibitors in each class earned individual medals along with points for their team, by placing in the top ten of each class.\nHigh point individual exhibitor awards were presented at Sunday's Awards Banquet:\nHi Pt Showmanship: Marissa Dalton, USA; Reserve: Katie Jo Jones, USA\nHi Pt Hunter Under Saddle: Ilke Poelman, Belgium; Reserve: Cara Walker, USA\nHi Pt Western Pleasure: T. Joe Jeane, USA; Reserve: Sara D'Imperio, Italy\nHi Pt Hunt Seat Equitation: Sara D'Imperio, Italy; Reserve: Dido Masi, Italy\nHi Pt Western Horsemanship: Cara Walker, USA; Reserve: Danielle Olafson, Canada\nHi Pt Western Riding: Vanessa Bauer, Austria; Reserve: Carolin Lenz, Germany\nHi Pt Trail: Carolin Lenz, Germany; Reserve: Jessica Vangenechten, Belgium\nHi Pt Cutting: T. Joe Jeane, USA; Reserve: Daniele Lelli, Italy\nHi Pt Reining: Felix Schnabel, Germany; Reserve: Kelly Truesdell, Canada\nThe top three teams were:\nFirst place: Team USA Second: Team Germany Third: Team Italy\n(185 points) (142 points) (129 points)\nAdditional awards were presented to:\nHigh Point Horse:\n(Photo at left) For The General, a Canadian-bred 1997 brown gelding sired by General Mito and out of Ole Jewels, owned by Sherry Newbigging of Cambridge, ON.\nBest Team Horse Care: Team The Netherlands\nMost Improved Team: Team Dominican Republic\nThe 2008 AQHA Youth World Cup also provided the Canadian Quarter Horse industry with an outstanding opportunity to showcase some of the best Quarter Horses available anywhere in the world. A number of the Canadian-bred and\/or Canadian-owned donated horses were featured as being for sale. And, by all reports, a significant number of horses donated for use at this event were sold as a result of participating, including some not advertised for sale.\nIt was our primary objective, and we have been assured by many that we met our goal, that everyone involved enjoy this event as \"the best AQHA Youth World Cup ever\" and that our foreign guests favourably remember this trip to Canada.\nOn behalf of the CQHA Board of Directors and the provincial\/regional AQHA Affiliates, the co-hosts of this prestigious global event, we are very proud to see the fulfillment of our vision which began in 2006. It took a great deal of planning, effort and fund raising (including some blood, sweat and tears). Patti Carter, the 2008 AQHA Youth World Cup Chairperson put together an unbelievable support team of committee members and AQHA Professional Horsemen and Horsewomen. Our \"hats are off\" to you all. We cannot adequately express our gratitude to the generous event sponsors, advertisers, trade show vendors, horse donors, suppliers, entertainers, media, AQHA staff, Youth World Cup staff and volunteers, participants and spectators. Without you, a venture of this magnitude would not have been feasible.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"3rd night of clashes as Lebanon puts off talks on new PM\nby: BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press\nPosted: Dec 16, 2019 \/ 09:50 AM MST \/ Updated: Dec 16, 2019 \/ 04:33 PM MST\nRiot police officers beat anti-government protesters during a protest near the parliament square, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. Lebanese security forces fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters for a second straight day, ending what started as a peaceful rally in defiance of the toughest crackdown on anti-government demonstrations in two months. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla)\nBEIRUT (AP) \u2014 A group of men clashed with security forces in Beirut for the third consecutive night Monday, hours after Lebanon's president postponed talks on naming a new prime minister, further prolonging the turmoil and unrest in the Mediterranean country.\nPresident Michel Aoun postponed the binding consultations with leaders of parliamentary blocs after the only candidate \u2014 caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri \u2014 failed to win the backing of the country's largest Christian groups amid a worsening economic and financial crisis.\nThe postponement followed a violent weekend in the small nation that saw the toughest crackdown on demonstrations in two months.\nLebanese security forces repeatedly fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesters in downtown Beirut in the worst violence since demonstrations against the political elite erupted in mid-October.\nOn Monday night, a group of young men clashed with security forces in downtown Beirut after a video began circulating online in which a man insulted Shiite political and religious figures, heightening sectarian tensions. The group, apparently supporters of the main Shiite groups Hezbollah and the Amal Movement led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, set a car on fire and hurled stones and firecrackers at riot police.\nPolice responded with tear gas and water cannons.\nAoun had been scheduled to meet with the heads of parliamentary blocs to discuss the naming of the new prime minister. Those consultations are binding, according to the constitution, and Hariri, who resigned under pressure Oct. 29, was widely expected to be renamed.\nThe presidential palace said the consultations would be held instead on Thursday, based on a request from Hariri.\nThe U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, had warned that because of the collapsing economy, such postponements are \"a risky hazard both for the politicians but even more so\" for the people.\nLebanon is enduring its worst economic and financial crisis in decades with a massive debt, widespread layoffs and unprecedented capital controls imposed by local banks amid a shortage in liquidity.\nHariri resigned after protests began earlier in October over widespread corruption and mismanagement. The palace said Hariri had asked Aoun to allow for more time for discussions among political groups before official consultations.\nEarlier, the country's main Christian groups said they refused to back Hariri, who has served as premier three times.\nHis office said in a statement that he is keen for national accord, adding that had he been named to the post, it would have been \"without the participation of any of the large Christian blocs.\"\nUnder Lebanon's power-sharing system, the prime minister has to be a Sunni Muslim, the president a Maronite Christian and the parliament speaker from the Shiite community. Hariri has emerged as the only candidate with enough backing for the job, but he is rejected by protesters who demand a Cabinet of independent technocrats and an independent head of government not affiliated with existing parties.\nAlthough the protests had united all sectarian and ethnic groups against the ruling elite, tensions had surfaced from the start between protesters and supporters of the Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal, after the latter rejected criticism of its leaders.\nHariri had asked the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for help developing a reform plan to address the economic crisis.\nMoody's Investors Service said that without technical support from the IMF, World Bank and international donors, it was increasingly likely that Lebanon could see \"a scenario of extreme macroeconomic instability in which a debt restructuring occurs with an abrupt destabilization of the currency peg resulting in very large losses for private investors.\"\nIts currency has been pegged at 1,507 Lebanese pounds to the dollar since 1997, but in recent weeks it has reached more than 2,000 in the black market. Lebanon's debt stands at $87 billion or 150 percent of GDP.\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump set a presidential record for activity on his favorite social media platform Wednesday, tweeting and retweeting at length about the Senate impeachment trial, the Democrats who want to replace him and much, much more.\nBy 4:25 p.m. ET, Trump had barreled through his previous record of 123 Twitter postings in a day that he set a little over a month ago, according to Factba.se, a service that compiles and analyzes data on Trump's presidency.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"2010 Olympics: General\nOlympic Men Preview\nBy LauraS Feb 16, 2010, 9:51am EST\nShare All sharing options for: Olympic Men Preview\nAlthough Russia's Evgeny Plushenko is undeniably the gold medal favorite heading into the men's short program tonight, if he were not there, I honestly don't think there would be a favorite. That is how many medal contenders there are out there - and they all have different strengths and weaknesses.\nJeremy Abbott: The two-time reigning U.S. champion is a bit of a wild card on this big of a stage. He turned in disappointing 11th place finishes at both of his world championship visits. However, he had two of the best performances of the season by any man at the recent U.S. National championships. He has a consistent quad that he'll be using in his free skate. He often does not do two triple axels in his free skate but he's decided to go with them here to get maximum scoring potential. It will all come down to landing jumps for Abbott. He will score high grades of execution on the jumps he lands, he'll get well-deservedly high program components scores for his amazing artistry, and he can technically compete with nearly everyone in the world (aside perhaps from those skaters doing three quads). Abbott has been the forgotten man on the U.S. scene, and what better way to make people take notice than to skate well at the Olympics? He skates perfectly, he wins a medal.\nPatrick Chan: Chan is Canada's hope for a medal, particularly since he's the reigning world silver medalist. I think maybe Chan will be more ready for a gold attempt in four years, but expect some high scores on the grade of execution side and on the program components. Chan is possibly the greatest male artist skating right now - his moves are nonstop difficult and he is magic on the ice. Unfortunately, he is not on par technically. He often has trouble completing his triple axels and often has small errors here and there. He won't be trying a quad and methinks the skater doth protest too much with all of his interviews talking about how he doesn't need quads because he is such a superior artist. He will be bolstered by the artistry, however, and if he skates well enough to give the judges a reason to place him on the podium, I think they'll do it.\nBrian Joubert: France's Brian Joubert has been one of the most vocal quad supporters, although he has been rather quiet this week. Joubert is a fantastic and energetic jumper, but he is not always clean. He'll be trying a few quads, and any errors on them will be costly, but he will definitely be a threat because of them. He scores higher on program components than many people think he should; he was recently called out by Evgeny Plushenko for not having good \"transition\" moves linking major elements, and his choreography is nowhere near the level of Patrick Chan or even Evan Lysacek. Joubert will be a threat here but it will come down to how many mistakes he ends up making. He won't get as high grade of execution as some of the other skaters.\nStephane Lambiel: Stephane Lambiel is the reigning Olympic silver medalist from Switzerland. Although he retired due to injury in 2008, he decided to come back for a last chance at another Olympic medal. Lambiel is an amazing artist with great footwork, amazing spins, and crowd-pleasing programs (watch out for his snappy William Tell Overturn short program tonight!). However, technically, he is a bit all over the place right now. He has never had a consistent triple axel, which hurts his short program score, since you must do either a double or triple axel and he opts for the double. He does do multiple quad jumps in his free skate but he does not do them very beautifully, so he should lose grade of execution points. His recent performance at European Championships won him a silver, but the jumps really did not seem good enough to me to get him on the podium here. The components scores should be high, though, so it really comes down to those jumps and how many points he loses by not doing the triple axel.\nEvan Lysacek: Lysacek is the reigning world champion and is believed by many to be America's best chance for a medal here. He is a savvy competitor and he is confident, but he really cannot afford mistakes at all. He is not doing a quad here, so every other jump counts even more. He can garner high program components scores for his passionate, well-choreographed programs, but he often loses grade of execution marks on jump landings. He really needs to be pristine here to rack up every single point he can. I think Lysacek is a great pick for a medal - he has been the consummate professional this season. My concerns for him are that he does not have a quad, but he also has grade of execution troubles at times, and that combination could be problematic. On the bright side, we've seen Lysacek garner much better grade execution scores at times this season than we have in the past. And above all, he must land everything! No room for error in this field.\nNobunari Oda: Japan's Nobunari Oda came on like gang-busters this season. He has two amazing programs, particularly the wonderful Chaplin free skate. Oda has a history of fizzling out before the end of the season, and has no world medals to his name. It's also unclear whether he'll be trying the quad. One thing Oda does have is sublime jump technique. You'll hear the announcers comment on his soft knees - which are his great position in jump landings. He receives a lot a lot of grade of execution points for those jumps. A clean and energetic Oda will score very high in this competition.\nEvgeny Plushenko: Hellooooo Plushenko. Plushenko is the reigning Olympic gold medalist. Plushenko has numerous quad jumps, and also an inexplicable ability to garner high (though not the highest) program components scores. He also skated clean at the last Olympics when everyone else was falling all over the place. If he skates here like he has been skating all season, he'll win. I have no doubt that a clean Plushenko will beat everyone else. If he errs, then who knows. Plushenko is not my favorite skater - he is blatantly arrogant, and I don't love his choreography or artistry. He has admitted to not bothering with transitions; he does not have the difficult jump entrances you'll see from someone like Jeremy Abbott. Unfortunately, that does not seem to affect him, and I cannot deny his excellence on the ice. He'll be a sight to see, and if he wins the gold, he'll likely deserve it.\nThe Dark Horses\nDaisuke Takahashi: I love, love, love Japan's Daisuke Takahashi, but unfortunately he has been so up and down since coming back from knee surgery and a year out of skating that I'm not sure he'll be able to get it together at the Olympics. If he does, I'll be very excited. He has some of the best choreography and footwork in the sport. He has explosive jumps, but he doesn't always land them, is the problem. He still holds the men's free skate record score, so you know that a couple of years ago Takahashi had a chance to beat Plushenko. If he lands all his jumps here, expect extremely high program components scores. Unfortunately, he might lose some on grade of execution if the jumps aren't totally clean. He's been through a lot to get back here, but is very much a wild card right now.\nJohnny Weir: The reason that Weir is a dark horse is that even at his best, it will be hard for him to medal against this field. And he has not often been at his best this season. He's a lovely artist and he'll get good program components scores, although his programs are not as intricate as, say, Patrick Chan's are. However, Weir has a history of popping jumps and if he starts to do that here, he can kiss his medal chances goodbye. If we see Weir skate to his full potential, the there is a definite chance for a medal. But he may have to count on others to err. UPDATED: Weir has been practicing a quad in Vancouver. I don't know if he's likely to land it clean, but it will be very exciting if he gives it an attempt! It'll show he's really going for it.\nAlso watch out for: Czech Republic's Tomas Verner who can often land quads like a maniac, but who also loses focus if he starts to err; Czech Republic's Michal Brezina who is young but has been racking up some impressive clean performances recently and finishing very well in competitions among more experienced skaters; Japan's Takahiko Kozuka, who has not been clean this season but when he is is, he can get high technical and program components scores, Italy' Samuel Contesti has a lot of charisma and big jumps and he may make a splash as well. There are so many others who may end up contending, but I will leave it here.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Music Today in Milwaukee Jazz in the Park w\/ The Dixon-Rhyne Project\nJazz in the Park w\/ The Dixon-Rhyne Project\nTonight @ Cathedral Square Park, 6:30 p.m.\nThe Thursday night Jazz in the Park series continues tonight with an ensemble that should please fans of the jammy, groove-based jazz of Medeski, Martin and Wood as well as staunch jazz traditionalists. The Dixon-Rhyne Project are a sax\/organ\/guitar\/drum quartet led by thirty-something guitarist Rob Dixon and seventy-something organist Melvin Rhyne, whose resume dates back to the 1950s, when he played with Wes Montgomery. The Dixon-Rhyne Project's sound, then, is a mix of the new and the old, with contemporary flourishes accenting songs that could have been written during the soul-jazz movement of the 1960s.\nToday in Milwaukee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"LGP to open 11 gates in LaGuardia Airport's new Terminal B\nLaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) has opened the first 11 gates in the new eastern concourse at LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B in New York, US.\nLGP to open 11 gates in LaGuardia Airport's new Terminal B. Credit: Epicgenius.\nLaGuardia Gateway Partners (LGP) has opened the first 11 gates in the new eastern concourse at LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B in New York, US.\nLGP is responsible for operating and redeveloping LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B. It is a private consortium formed by Vantage Airport Group, Skanska, Meridiam and JLC Infrastructure.\nThe new 250,000ft\u00b2 concourse is part of the $8bn transformation of LaGuardia Airport, featuring modern customer amenities that are intended to improve the experience for travellers.\nAir Canada, American Airlines, and Southwest Airlines will all start operating flights from the new concourse, while United Airlines is scheduled to join next year.\nLaGuardia Gateway Partners CEO Stewart Steeves said: \"The opening of the new eastern concourse at Terminal B is just the first step in our mission to provide a top-class visitor experience at LaGuardia, worthy of the greatest city in the world.\n\"The opening of the new eastern concourse at Terminal B is just the first step in our mission to provide a top-class visitor experience at LaGuardia.\"\n\"Our concourse's innovative design, inclusive atmosphere, and choice food and retail options will bring LaGuardia into the 21st century, and we're proud to work with both the governor and the Port Authority to transform Terminal B into a gateway New Yorkers can be proud of.\"\nFrom the new concourse's total 18 gates, seven will be opened in 2020 once the adjacent old concourse is demolished.\nDesigned with 55ft high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows for natural light, the concourse features gate seating space with charging stations and a nursing room. In addition, it houses Air Canada's Maple Leaf Lounge, with United Club to follow in 2019.\nNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo first unveiled the redevelopment of LaGuardia Airport in 2015, with works starting in 2016.\nEstimated to cost $4bn, the 1.3 million square foot redevelopment of Terminal B is said to be one of the largest public-private partnerships in American history and the largest in the US aviation.\nFriction Measurement Systems and Global Runway Reporter Software for Airports\nInk Aviation\nMobile Passenger Services and Operational Software and Hardware\nAdvanced Optimization Software for Planning and Decision Making at Airports","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home WSSU Student Newspaper Collection (The News Argus and TC Informer) wssu_1975-01_1_01\nThe News Argus, Vol. XIII No. 4, January 1975\nwssu_1975-01_1_01\n%\\t $W Axytt*\nVol. XIII, No. 4\nWINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA\nDorms Invaded By Restless Students\nBy Gloria Ross and\nEugenia Parker\nAssociation held a call meeting\non Monday, January 20 in the\nStudent Union ballroom to\ndiscuss the progress of the Co-Ed\nVisitation Proposal. SGA\nPresident, Ray Williams,\ninformed students of the outcome\nof that morning's meeting with\nthe Administrative Council at\nwhich the visitation program was\ndiscussed. The Administrative\nCouncil is an advisory group\nconsisting     of     twenty-four\nmembers of the university's staff\nwhose main purpose is to counsel\nthe Chancellor.\nWilliams told the crowd that it\nappeared that the Council was\npurposely and needlessly\ndelaying approval or denial of the\nproposal as drawn up by the SGA.\nWilliams also told the students\nabout a poll taken by the\nadministration of parents and\nWSSU students on co-ed\nvisitation. Of the questionnaires\nsent out, 453 parents responded-\n219 approved of co-ed visitation\nand 234 disapproved. The SGA\nalso   conducted   its   own   poll,\nquestioning the students.\nWilliams estimated that over 85\npercent of the students approved\nof co-ed visitation.\nThe group was also told that on\nJanuary 20, the Administrative\nCouncil received a twleve page\nproposal for co-ed visitation\nalong with a survey of other\ncolleges and universities in the\nWinston-Salem area on their coed visitation programs. The\nresponse to this survey was:\nJohnson C. Smith, no program;\nSt. Augustine College, now\nconduting their own survey\nconcerning   co-ed  visitation;\nFayetteville State, no program;\nElizabeth City, having a\nsuccessful first year with co-ed\nvisitation program in effect; N.C.\nCentral, program in effect; A & T\nState, program in effect;\nPembroke, program in effect;\nShaw, drawing up a proposal.\nSGA representatives at the\nAdministrative Council meeting\nwere told that the co-ed visitation\nproposal had to be sent to the\nDirector of Student Affairs and\nthat the proposal would be heard\non the third Monday in February\nby the Council at its regularly\nscheduled meeting. It would be\nStudents Air Demands\nInformation Compiled\nBy Gloria Ross\nStudent Representatives met\nwith administrative officials in\nBlair Hall to discuss the protest\nof the previous night which\nconcerned the passing of the Co-\nEd Visitation Proposal. This\nmeeting was held on Tuesday\nmorning, January 21 in the Board\nRoom on the second floor of Blair\nHall.\nSGA President, Ray Williams,\nalong with Jerry Harris, Eric\nHoliday, Stan Ward and this\nNews Argus Reporter, met with\nthe following persons to hear\nStudent grievances and feelings:\nChancellor K. Williams, Mr. W.\nGrissom, Dean Benson,\nReverend Lewis, Dean Greene,\nDr. S. Wooten, and the Chairman\nof the Board of Trustees of\nWinston-Salem State University,\nMr. C.C. Ross. The group of\nadministrators were presented a\nlist of six (6) demands elicited\nfrom the students and drawn up\nby the SGA. These demands were\nas follows:\n1. We want a meeting of the\nAdministrative Council no later\nthan Thursday, January 24,1975.\nAt this meeting we want a\ndefinite decision as to the\nCouncil's recommendation to the\nChancellor.\nUniversity's Board of Trustees as\nsoon after the Administrative\nCouncil meeting as possible. The\nmost desirable date is January\n25,1975. At this time we want an\naffirmative decision.\n3. We want to amend the\npresent co-ed visitation policy to\ninclude a clause that will enable\nAssociation and the Student\nPersonnel Services to make\nnecessary and desired additions\nor subtractions to the co-ed\nvisitation program.\n| Blaek History |\nWeek Calendar\nA tenative calendar of the events scheduled to take place during\nBlack History Week, February 9 through February 15 has been\noutlined. The weeks activities, which begin on Sunday are:\n12:00: Soul supper\n7:00: Gospel Jubilee\nEditor   of   Winston-Salem   Chronicle   lectures   on   \"Black\nJournalism\"\nLibrary display of Black Writers\nAfro American Seminar Readings (Black papers and Poetry)\n10:00-12.00: Political workshop\n1:00-2:00: Political workshop\n10:00-12:00: Black films\n1:00-3:00: Speaker (Howard Fuller)'\n8:00-10:00: Creative Dance and Drama\n1:00-3:00: Rap session \"Student Rights and Responsibilities:\n8:00-10:00: Talent Show\n10:00-12:00: Business workshop\n1:00-4:00: Black films\nKarate exhibition-half time at basketball game.\nAfter game dance: \"Black Byrd Light and Sound Show\"\n1:00-4:00: Film Matinee\n9:00: Red, Black and Green Ball\nNote: Specific times omitted and places to be announced\n4. We want to interject a clause\ninto the policies and procedures\nsection of the Student Handbook\nthat would exempt students from\nexpulsion and suspension, except\nfor academic reasons, unless\nthey constitute a threat to the\ngeneral welfare of the\n5. In addition, we ask that a\ncommittee, consisting of the\nand responsible faculty and\nadministrators be called to\nconstruct a student bill of rights.\n6. We ask that all students, who\nhave been suspended this\nsemester for unauthorized\nentrance into the dorms be reinstated and incur a lesser\npenalty,   preferably   probation.\nOf the list of demands, the first\nhad already been agreed to by\nChancellor Williams on Monday\nnight as an outcome of the\nprotest. SGA President, Ray\nWilliams noted that number one\nwas listed to reaffirm the\nmeeting date. Mr. Ross, acting as\na representative for the Board of\nTrustees (of which Ray Williams\nand Chancellor Williams are also\nmembers), said the University's\nBoard of Trustees would meet as\nsoon as possible. He asked the\nStudent Representatives that the\nlines \"The most desirable date is\nJanuary 25, 1975\" and \"At this\ntime we want an affirmative\ndecision\" be deleted from the list\nof demands so that demand\nnumber two read - \"We want a\nmeeting of the University's\nBoard of Trustees as soon after\nthe Administrative Council\nmeeting as possible.\" But Mr.\nRoss assured the student\nrepresentatives that the Board\nmembers would be polled to set\nup an earlier meeting time. If the\nBoard, members could not meet\nearlier than already arranged,\nthe members of the Executive\nCommittee of the Board would\nmeet and give a final decision.\nDemands numbers one, three\nand five were agreed to without\nconcession. Chancellor Williams\nstated that demand number four\nis a violation of the North\nCarolina University Campuses\nand also a violation of Rules K\nand P of Section 2 of the Student\nCode of Conduct found on pages\n46 and 47 of the Red and White\nStudent Guide of WSSU, which\nlists the causes for suspension\nand expulsion on the grounds of\nTrespassing and Violation of the\nVisitation Policies. The group\nwas also informed that the sixth\ndemand was one of a legal\nnature, and that lawyers had to\nbe consulted before an answer\ncould be given.\nSeveral reasons were given by\nthe members of the\nAdministration present for the\ndelay of their approval of the Coed proposal. They expressed as\nthese concerns (not listed in\norder of importance): How safe\nis the program? How successful\nwill the program be? How will the\nprogram be implemented am\nexecuted effectively? How long\nwill the trial period last? As the\nprogram progresses, will the\nstudents responsible for its\nsuccess stop working? What will\nbe the grounds for discontinuance\nof the Co-ed program? The\nreaffirmed again and again the\nresponsibleness of the students at\nWSSU and the fact that the age\nlevel of the students here ranges\nfrom 17-25 years or more. They\nexpressed belief that the\nAdministration is seemingly not\nconcerned or interested in the\nstudents here. Jerry Harris\nbrought out the fact that the\nproposal had been before the\nAdministrative Council since\nOctober 1974, and was presented\nagain in November 1974 and both\ntimes the SGA was sent back with\nthe proposal to make changes.\nThe December 1974 meeting of\nthe Administrative Council was\ncancelled further delaying\nconsideration of the proposal.\nThe following points were also\nbrought out at the meeting: the\nproposal, as presented on\nMonday, January 20 to the\nAdministrative Council was\nimmediately taken to the\nregularly scheduled meeting with\nthe Dorm Matrons and was\npresented by Dr. Wooten, Dean\nGreene and Dean Benson. In this\nmeeting, all of the nineteen Dorm\nMatrons approved the Coed\nvisitation program as drawn up\nby the SGA without any changes.\nThe Supervisors agreed to make\nrecommendations if and when\nproblems arose. The Student\nPersonnel Services had also\ngiven their approval of the\nproposal. This meant that the\nonly approval needed for the Coed Visitation Proposal to go to the\nBoard of Trustees for the final\ndecision was that of the\nAdministrative Council.\nAs the meeting broke up, Ray\nWilliams seemed less than\npleased with some of the\ndecisions made, but agreed that a\nlot of progress had been made. A\ngroup of students who had\ngathered in the hall outside the\nConference room waited for\nwords on the outcome of the\nmeeting. Another group gathered\nin the gym. Both were informed\nby the students present at the\nmeeting of the concessions made\nand decisions reached by the\noverall group. Later that night in\nthe Union, SGA President, Ray\nWilliams informed other students\nof the morning's meeting and\nthen that the Administrative\nCouncil would decide what action\nto take and whether or not to send\nthe proposal to the Board of\nTrustees, scheduled then to meet\nin March. The board has the\npower to give the final approval\nor denial of the Co-Ed Visitation\nProposal.\nAfter hearing this account of\nthe morning's meeting, several\nstudents voiced their opinion of\nthe need to induce immediate\naction from the Administrative\nCouncil. A mass gathering on the\nporch of the home of Chancellor\nWilliams was the result. At\napproximately 9:00, eighteen\nstudents were delegated to enter\nthe Chancellor's home to present\nthe grievances of the more than\n200 students gathered outside.\nThese students engaged in a\nroundtable discussion in which\nthe Chancellor refused to give\nany definitive answers\nconcerning his position or that of\nconcerning co-ed visitation.\nChancellor Williams did state,\n\"The action taken today (at the\nCouncil meeting) is in no way to\nbe taken as a denial of co-ed\nvisitation, or as a delayal. It is\nnot to say anybody is against it. It\nis an effort to find some system\neveryone can live with for some\nlength of time.\"\nChancellor Williams also\nrefused to give any type of\nstatement to adhere to the pleas\nof the students congregated on\nhis lawn. The crowd, angered by\nwhat they interpreted as the\nChancellor's lack of concern,\ndecided to exhibit their interest\nby holding a protest march\nthrough all the dorms.\nAfter the march, a rally in front\nof OTCeUy Library led to a\nunanimous decision to camp out\nin the library. About twenty\nminutes before closing time, the\nlibrary officials dimmed the\nlights to indicate the end of\nofficial library hours to the group\nthat had gathered inside. The\nstudents refused to leave and\nbegan to settle in for the night.\nAs the night progressed and no\nadministrative officials came in\nresponse to student requests,\ncards, music and food were\nbrought in by various students.\nSeveral groups even situated\nthemselves on the floor. Campus\npolice   came   to   secure   the\nCored visitation\nHip City Corner\nStarscope\nGreekdom\nGenia's Jumbles\nalso told the students that things\nwere progressing as quickly as\nOn Thursday, the SGA was\ninformed that the Board of\nTrustees will meet the first week\nin February to give the final\ndecision on the co-ed visitation\nTitle The News Argus, Vol. XIII No. 4, January 1975\nSubject Winston-Salem State University; The News Argus; Student journalism; Student newspapers and periodicals;\nDescription Volume XIII number 4 edition of the student newspaper, The News Argus. The issue was published in January 1975.\nIdentifier 1975-1\nSource WSSU Student Newspaper Collection, The News Argus\nRelation WSSU Student Newspaper Collection, The News Argus\nRights Rights held by WSSU. Use and reproduction restrictions apply. Call 336-750-2426.\nTitle wssu_1975-01_1_01\nTranscript %\\t $W Axytt* Vol. XIII, No. 4 WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY, WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA January 1975 Dorms Invaded By Restless Students By Gloria Ross and Eugenia Parker The Student Government Association held a call meeting on Monday, January 20 in the Student Union ballroom to discuss the progress of the Co-Ed Visitation Proposal. SGA President, Ray Williams, informed students of the outcome of that morning's meeting with the Administrative Council at which the visitation program was discussed. The Administrative Council is an advisory group consisting of twenty-four members of the university's staff whose main purpose is to counsel the Chancellor. Williams told the crowd that it appeared that the Council was purposely and needlessly delaying approval or denial of the proposal as drawn up by the SGA. Williams also told the students about a poll taken by the administration of parents and WSSU students on co-ed visitation. Of the questionnaires sent out, 453 parents responded- 219 approved of co-ed visitation and 234 disapproved. The SGA also conducted its own poll, questioning the students. Williams estimated that over 85 percent of the students approved of co-ed visitation. The group was also told that on January 20, the Administrative Council received a twleve page proposal for co-ed visitation along with a survey of other colleges and universities in the Winston-Salem area on their coed visitation programs. The response to this survey was: Johnson C. Smith, no program; St. Augustine College, now conduting their own survey concerning co-ed visitation; Fayetteville State, no program; Elizabeth City, having a successful first year with co-ed visitation program in effect; N.C. Central, program in effect; A & T State, program in effect; Pembroke, program in effect; Shaw, drawing up a proposal. SGA representatives at the Administrative Council meeting were told that the co-ed visitation proposal had to be sent to the Director of Student Affairs and that the proposal would be heard on the third Monday in February by the Council at its regularly scheduled meeting. It would be Students Air Demands Information Compiled By Gloria Ross Student Representatives met with administrative officials in Blair Hall to discuss the protest of the previous night which concerned the passing of the Co- Ed Visitation Proposal. This meeting was held on Tuesday morning, January 21 in the Board Room on the second floor of Blair Hall. SGA President, Ray Williams, along with Jerry Harris, Eric Holiday, Stan Ward and this News Argus Reporter, met with the following persons to hear Student grievances and feelings: Chancellor K. Williams, Mr. W. Grissom, Dean Benson, Reverend Lewis, Dean Greene, Dr. S. Wooten, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Winston-Salem State University, Mr. C.C. Ross. The group of administrators were presented a list of six (6) demands elicited from the students and drawn up by the SGA. These demands were as follows: 1. We want a meeting of the Administrative Council no later than Thursday, January 24,1975. At this meeting we want a definite decision as to the Council's recommendation to the Chancellor. 2. We want a meeting of the University's Board of Trustees as soon after the Administrative Council meeting as possible. The most desirable date is January 25,1975. At this time we want an affirmative decision. 3. We want to amend the present co-ed visitation policy to include a clause that will enable the Student Government Association and the Student Personnel Services to make necessary and desired additions or subtractions to the co-ed visitation program. | Blaek History | Week Calendar A tenative calendar of the events scheduled to take place during Black History Week, February 9 through February 15 has been outlined. The weeks activities, which begin on Sunday are: Sunday 12:00: Soul supper 7:00: Gospel Jubilee Monday Editor of Winston-Salem Chronicle lectures on \"Black Journalism\" Library display of Black Writers Afro American Seminar Readings (Black papers and Poetry) Tuesday 10:00-12.00: Political workshop 1:00-2:00: Political workshop Wednesday 10:00-12:00: Black films 1:00-3:00: Speaker (Howard Fuller)' 8:00-10:00: Creative Dance and Drama Thursday 10:00-12:00: Black films 1:00-3:00: Rap session \"Student Rights and Responsibilities: 8:00-10:00: Talent Show Friday 10:00-12:00: Business workshop 1:00-4:00: Black films Karate exhibition-half time at basketball game. After game dance: \"Black Byrd Light and Sound Show\" Saturday Art Exhibition 1:00-4:00: Film Matinee 9:00: Red, Black and Green Ball Note: Specific times omitted and places to be announced 4. We want to interject a clause into the policies and procedures section of the Student Handbook that would exempt students from expulsion and suspension, except for academic reasons, unless they constitute a threat to the general welfare of the University. 5. In addition, we ask that a committee, consisting of the Student Government Association and responsible faculty and administrators be called to construct a student bill of rights. 6. We ask that all students, who have been suspended this semester for unauthorized entrance into the dorms be reinstated and incur a lesser penalty, preferably probation. Of the list of demands, the first had already been agreed to by Chancellor Williams on Monday night as an outcome of the protest. SGA President, Ray Williams noted that number one was listed to reaffirm the meeting date. Mr. Ross, acting as a representative for the Board of Trustees (of which Ray Williams and Chancellor Williams are also members), said the University's Board of Trustees would meet as soon as possible. He asked the Student Representatives that the lines \"The most desirable date is January 25, 1975\" and \"At this time we want an affirmative decision\" be deleted from the list of demands so that demand number two read - \"We want a meeting of the University's Board of Trustees as soon after the Administrative Council meeting as possible.\" But Mr. Ross assured the student representatives that the Board members would be polled to set up an earlier meeting time. If the Board, members could not meet earlier than already arranged, the members of the Executive Committee of the Board would meet and give a final decision. Demands numbers one, three and five were agreed to without concession. Chancellor Williams stated that demand number four is a violation of the North Carolina University Campuses and also a violation of Rules K and P of Section 2 of the Student Code of Conduct found on pages 46 and 47 of the Red and White Student Guide of WSSU, which lists the causes for suspension and expulsion on the grounds of Trespassing and Violation of the Visitation Policies. The group was also informed that the sixth demand was one of a legal nature, and that lawyers had to be consulted before an answer could be given. Several reasons were given by the members of the Administration present for the delay of their approval of the Coed proposal. They expressed as these concerns (not listed in order of importance): How safe is the program? How successful will the program be? How will the program be implemented am executed effectively? How long will the trial period last? As the program progresses, will the students responsible for its success stop working? What will be the grounds for discontinuance of the Co-ed program? The Student Representatives reaffirmed again and again the responsibleness of the students at WSSU and the fact that the age level of the students here ranges from 17-25 years or more. They expressed belief that the Administration is seemingly not concerned or interested in the students here. Jerry Harris brought out the fact that the proposal had been before the Administrative Council since October 1974, and was presented again in November 1974 and both times the SGA was sent back with the proposal to make changes. The December 1974 meeting of the Administrative Council was cancelled further delaying consideration of the proposal. The following points were also brought out at the meeting: the proposal, as presented on Monday, January 20 to the Administrative Council was immediately taken to the regularly scheduled meeting with the Dorm Matrons and was presented by Dr. Wooten, Dean Greene and Dean Benson. In this meeting, all of the nineteen Dorm Matrons approved the Coed visitation program as drawn up by the SGA without any changes. The Supervisors agreed to make recommendations if and when problems arose. The Student Personnel Services had also given their approval of the proposal. This meant that the only approval needed for the Coed Visitation Proposal to go to the Board of Trustees for the final decision was that of the Administrative Council. As the meeting broke up, Ray Williams seemed less than pleased with some of the decisions made, but agreed that a lot of progress had been made. A group of students who had gathered in the hall outside the Conference room waited for words on the outcome of the meeting. Another group gathered in the gym. Both were informed by the students present at the meeting of the concessions made and decisions reached by the overall group. Later that night in the Union, SGA President, Ray Williams informed other students of the morning's meeting and then that the Administrative Council would decide what action to take and whether or not to send the proposal to the Board of Trustees, scheduled then to meet in March. The board has the power to give the final approval or denial of the Co-Ed Visitation Proposal. After hearing this account of the morning's meeting, several students voiced their opinion of the need to induce immediate action from the Administrative Council. A mass gathering on the porch of the home of Chancellor Williams was the result. At approximately 9:00, eighteen students were delegated to enter the Chancellor's home to present the grievances of the more than 200 students gathered outside. These students engaged in a roundtable discussion in which the Chancellor refused to give any definitive answers concerning his position or that of the Administrative Council concerning co-ed visitation. Chancellor Williams did state, \"The action taken today (at the Council meeting) is in no way to be taken as a denial of co-ed visitation, or as a delayal. It is not to say anybody is against it. It is an effort to find some system everyone can live with for some length of time.\" Chancellor Williams also refused to give any type of statement to adhere to the pleas of the students congregated on his lawn. The crowd, angered by what they interpreted as the Chancellor's lack of concern, decided to exhibit their interest by holding a protest march through all the dorms. After the march, a rally in front of OTCeUy Library led to a unanimous decision to camp out in the library. About twenty minutes before closing time, the library officials dimmed the lights to indicate the end of official library hours to the group that had gathered inside. The students refused to leave and began to settle in for the night. As the night progressed and no administrative officials came in response to student requests, cards, music and food were brought in by various students. Several groups even situated themselves on the floor. Campus police came to secure the Continued on Page 7 In this issue Cored visitation 1 Black history 1 Editorial 2 Book Review 9 Pledging 3 Hip City Corner 4 Starscope 4 Photos 4 Greekdom 5 Genia's Jumbles 5 Poetry 5 Organizations 6 Summer fun 6 Dean's List 7 Sports 8 also told the students that things were progressing as quickly as possible. On Thursday, the SGA was informed that the Board of Trustees will meet the first week in February to give the final decision on the co-ed visitation proposal.\nAdd tags for wssu_1975-01_1_01\nPost a Comment for wssu_1975-01_1_01","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
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Those principles and rules are necessarily applicable to future autonomous weapon systems (AWS), but questions regarding liability for violations of IHL caused by AWS have been looming the international debate. This article has two parts. The first part aims to identify a technical dimension of AWS that has been neglected by international lawyers: States responsibility for IHL violations caused by errors in AWS' software. This article argues that \"errors\" can neither be identified with \"malfunctions\" nor attributed to human ...\nOversight Riders, Kevin M. Stack, Michael P. Vandenbergh Dec 2021\nOversight Riders, Kevin M. Stack, Michael P. Vandenbergh\nNotre Dame Law Review\nCongress has a constitutionally critical duty to gather information about how the executive branch implements the powers Congress has granted it and the funds Congress has appropriated. Yet in recent years the executive branch has systematically thwarted Congress's powers and duties of oversight. Congressional subpoenas for testimony and documents have met with blanket refusals to comply, frequently backed by advice from the Department of Justice that executive privilege justifies withholding the information. Even when Congress holds an official in contempt for failure to comply with a congressional subpoena, the Department of Justice often does not initiate criminal sanctions. As ...\nDelegation, Administration, And Improvisation, Kevin Arlyck Dec 2021\nDelegation, Administration, And Improvisation, Kevin Arlyck\nNondelegation originalism is having its moment. Recent Supreme Court opinions suggest that a majority of Justices may be prepared to impose strict constitutional limits on Congress's power to delegate policymaking authority to the executive branch. In response, scholars have scoured the historical record for evidence affirming or refuting a more stringent version of nondelegation than current Supreme Court doctrine demands. Though the debate ranges widely, sharp disputes have arisen over whether a series of apparently broad Founding-era delegations defeat originalist arguments in favor of a more demanding modern doctrine. Proponents\u2014whom I call \"nondelegationists\"\u2014argue that these historical delegations ...\nBroken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris Nov 2021\nBroken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris\nThe US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters\nDeterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan without recklessly threatening a great-power war is both possible and necessary through a tailored deterrence package that goes beyond either fighting over Taiwan or abandoning it. This article joins cutting-edge understandings of deterrence with empirical evidence of Chinese strategic thinking and culture to build such a strategy.\nStaccato Warfare, Matthew H. Ormsbee Oct 2021\nStaccato Warfare, Matthew H. Ormsbee\nBoston College Law Review\n\"Staccato warfare\" describes the prevailing characteristic of modern American warfare, which features military operations that are increasingly characterized by frequent, disconnected offensives in the battlefield of cyberspace rather than a physical battlefield. Stakeholders in political and military circles will benefit from a better understanding of the President's cyberattack arsenal as the executive branch gradually turns to cyber operations over traditional kinetic options. Historically, the President's legal advisers have construed the unilateral war powers of the executive branch very broadly, foregoing robust and traditional notions of congressional scrutiny and public review. Nevertheless, staccato warfare remains a powerful and lawful ...\nSufficiently Judicial: The Need For A Universal Ethics Rule On Attorney Behavior In Legislative Impeachment Trials, Joshua E. Kastenberg Oct 2021\nSufficiently Judicial: The Need For A Universal Ethics Rule On Attorney Behavior In Legislative Impeachment Trials, Joshua E. Kastenberg\nSt. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics\nIn assessing an ethics, rule-based prohibition against New Jersey governmental attorneys representing clients against the state for matters the state had previously assigned to them, the state supreme court noted: \"In our representative form of government, it is essential that the conduct of public officials and employees shall hold the respect and confidence of the people.\"\nIn the beginning of 2020, the United States Senate held an impeachment trial to determine whether former President Donald J. Trump had committed offenses forwarded by the House of Representatives. A U.S. Senate trial, much like state senate trials, is both judicial and ...\nBaby & Bathwater: Standing In Election Cases After 2020, Steven J. Mulroy Oct 2021\nBaby & Bathwater: Standing In Election Cases After 2020, Steven J. Mulroy\nDickinson Law Review\nThe current consensus among commentators is that the flood of cases challenging the 2020 presidential election results was almost completely meritless. This consensus is correct as to the ultimate result, but not as to the courts' treatment of standing. In their (understandable) zeal to reject sometimes frivolous attempts to overturn a legitimate election and undermine public confidence in our electoral system, many courts were too quick to rule that plaintiffs lacked standing. These rulings resulted in unjustified sweeping rulings that voters were not injured even if their legal votes were diluted by states accepting illegal votes; that campaigns did not ...\nBiden Administration U.S. Space Force Policy Literature, Bert Chapman Sep 2021\nBiden Administration U.S. Space Force Policy Literature, Bert Chapman\nLibraries Faculty and Staff Presentations\nProvides details on U.S. Space Force policy literature produced by the Biden Administration during its first eight months. Includes announcements that the Biden Administration will continue this new armed services branch begun during the Trump Administration. Features congressional testimony of Biden Administration officials such as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Wilson and Air Force Space Command leader General James Dickinson, the text of Space Force's 2021 Digital Force Vision document, congressionally approved FY 2022 space force budget figures, congressional committee comments and report requirements contained in emerging defense spending legislation, the emergence of collaboration between Space Force and universities ...\nHow Biden Began Building Back Better The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias Sep 2021\nHow Biden Began Building Back Better The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias\nWashington and Lee Law Review Online\nIn October 2020, Democratic presidential nominee Joseph Biden famously expressed regret that the fifty-four accomplished, conservative, and young federal appellate court jurists and the 174 comparatively similar district court judges whom former\u2013 Republican President Donald Trump and the recent pair of analogous Grand Old Party Senate majorities in the 115th and 116th Congress appointed had left the courts of appeals and the district courts \"out of whack.\" Lamentable were the numerous detrimental ways in which President Trump and these Republican Senate majorities attempted to undercut the appeals courts and district courts, which actually constitute the tribunals of last resort in ...\nCrisis Management Lessons From The Clinton Administration's Implementation Of Presidential Decision Directive 56, Leonard R. Hawley Aug 2021\nCrisis Management Lessons From The Clinton Administration's Implementation Of Presidential Decision Directive 56, Leonard R. Hawley\nDrawing on personal experience, the author asks what the current administration can learn from the Clinton administration's implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56, examines the real-world application of the directive during the Clinton administration and the pitfalls of its agency-centric successor during the Bush administration, and identifies recurring problems and best practices for successfully responding to current global crises.\nNational Security Rules: America's Constitution Of Law And War, Kyle L. Greene Jul 2021\nNational Security Rules: America's Constitution Of Law And War, Kyle L. Greene\nMaine Law Review\nContemporary debates over the appropriate allocation of war powers between the political branches overemphasize the rigidity of the Constitution's framework. This style of academic discussion sacrifices the lessons of practice in search of steadfast, yet empty, principles. Even beyond the practical failings of this approach, there is no constitutional basis for the notion that either Congress or the President has a singular, fixed role when dealing with national security issues. In fact, the Founders developed a constitutional structure capable of continually reshaping\u2014within parameters\u2014the government's division of national security power to match the nation's security challenges ...\nPartisan Or Precedent: The History Of Nominating Supreme Court Judges In Presidential Election Years, Hattie Jefferies Jul 2021\nPartisan Or Precedent: The History Of Nominating Supreme Court Judges In Presidential Election Years, Hattie Jefferies\nHelms School of Government Undergraduate Law Review\nInfluence Through Intimidation: Evidence From Business Lobbying And The Regulatory Process, Alex Acs, Cary Coglianese Jul 2021\nInfluence Through Intimidation: Evidence From Business Lobbying And The Regulatory Process, Alex Acs, Cary Coglianese\nInterest group influence in the policy process is often assumed to occur through a mechanism of exchange, persuasion, or subsidy. Here, we explore how business groups may also exert influence by intimidating policymakers\u2014a form of persuasion, but one based not on the provision of policy information but of political information. We develop a theory where a business firm lobbies a regulator to communicate political information about its capacity to commit to future influence-seeking activities that would sanction the regulator. The regulator assesses the credibility of this message by evaluating the firm's commitment to lobbying. Guided by our theory ...\nAbdication Through Enforcement, Shalini Ray Jul 2021\nAbdication Through Enforcement, Shalini Ray\nIndiana Law Journal\nPresidential abdication in immigration law has long been synonymous with the perceived nonenforcement of certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. President Obama's never-implemented policy of deferred action, known as DAPA, serves as the prime example in the literature. But can the President abdicate the duty of faithful execution in immigration law by enforcing the law, i.e., by deporting deportable noncitizens? This Article argues \"yes.\" Every leading theory of the presidency recognizes the President's role as supervisor of the bureaucracy, an idea crystallized by several scholars. When the President fails to establish meaningful enforcement priorities, essentially ...\nThe Deregulation Deception, Cary Coglianese, Natasha Sarin, Stuart Shapiro Jun 2021\nThe Deregulation Deception, Cary Coglianese, Natasha Sarin, Stuart Shapiro\nPresident Donald Trump and members of his Administration repeatedly asserted that they had delivered substantial deregulation that fueled positive trends in the U.S. economy prior to the COVID pandemic. Drawing on an original analysis of data on federal regulation from across the Trump Administration's four years, we show that the Trump Administration actually accomplished much less by way of deregulation than it repeatedly claimed\u2014and much less than many commentators and scholars have believed. In addition, and also contrary to the Administration's claims, overall economic trends in the pre-pandemic Trump years tended simply to follow economic trends ...\nThe President And Individual Rights, Mark Tushnet Jun 2021\nThe President And Individual Rights, Mark Tushnet\nWilliam & Mary Bill of Rights Journal\nThe Emerging Lessons Of Trump V. Hawaii, Shalini Bhargava Ray Jun 2021\nThe Emerging Lessons Of Trump V. Hawaii, Shalini Bhargava Ray\nIn the years since the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Hawaii, federal district courts have adjudicated dozens of rights-based challenges to executive action in immigration law. Plaintiffs, including U.S. citizens, civil rights organizations, and immigrants themselves, have alleged violations of the First Amendment and the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause with some regularity based on President Trump's animus toward immigrants. This Article assesses Hawaii's impact on these challenges to immigration policy, and it offers two observations. First, Hawaii has amplified federal courts' practice of privileging administrative law claims over constitutional ones. For example, courts ...\nExecutive Unilateralism And Individual Rights In A Federalist System, Meredith Mclain, Sharece Thrower Jun 2021\nExecutive Unilateralism And Individual Rights In A Federalist System, Meredith Mclain, Sharece Thrower\nPresidents have a wide array of tools at their disposal to unilaterally influence public policy, without the direct approval of Congress or the courts. These unilateral actions have the potential to affect a variety of individual rights, either profitably or adversely. Governors too can employ unilateral directives for similar purposes, often impacting an even wider range of rights. In this Article, we collect all executive orders and memoranda related to individual rights issued between 1981 and 2018 at the federal level, and across the U.S. states, to analyze their use over time. We find that chief executives of all ...\nThe Original Meaning Of The Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause, The Right Of Natural Liberty, And Executive Discretion, John Harrison Jun 2021\nThe Original Meaning Of The Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause, The Right Of Natural Liberty, And Executive Discretion, John Harrison\nThe Habeas Corpus Suspension Clause of Article I, Section 9, is primarily a limit on Congress's authority to authorize detention by the executive. It is not mainly concerned with the remedial writ of habeas corpus, but rather with the primary right of natural liberty. Suspensions of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus are statutes that vest very broad discretion in the executive to decide which individuals to hold in custody. Detention of combatants under the law of war need not rest on a valid suspension, whether the combatant is an alien or a citizen of the United ...\nDestructive Federal Decentralization, David Fontana Jun 2021\nDestructive Federal Decentralization, David Fontana\nThis Article\u2014written for a symposium hosted by the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal\u2014focuses on the efforts by the Trump administration to relocate federal officials outside of Washington to reduce the capacity of the federal government. Federalism and the separation of powers are usually the twin pillars of structural constitutional law. Locating federal officials outside of Washington\u2014 federal decentralization\u2014has been an additional tool of diffusing power that has started to gain some scholarly attention. These debates largely focus on structural constitutional law as constructive\u2014as improving the capacity and operation of the federal and state governments. The ...\nWho Constrains Presidential Exercise Of Delegated Powers?, Rebecca L. Brown Jun 2021\nWho Constrains Presidential Exercise Of Delegated Powers?, Rebecca L. Brown\nBuilding on the work of administrative law scholars who have identified and illuminated the several components of the problem over the years, this Article will seek to show what has happened when a cluster of separate circumstances have come together to create a new and serious threat to individual liberty when the President exercises expansive delegated authority. Several doctrinal components lead to this confluence: First, the moribund \"intelligible principle\" test has evolved to provide little or no constraint on this or any other delegation. Second, a delegation to the President, specifically, is not subject to the procedural requirements of the ...\nDark Matter In The Law, D. Carolina N\u00fa\u00f1ez May 2021\nDark Matter In The Law, D. Carolina N\u00fa\u00f1ez\nNot all law is written down. Sometimes, informal norms and expectations about what the law is or ought to be constrain behavior. Lawyers and legal commentators instinctively understand this concept and have written about it, but none have discussed the interaction or relationship between these unwritten norms\u2014which I refer to as law's \"dark matter\"\u2014and traditional formal law, like case law and statutes\u2014which I refer to as law's \"ordinary matter.\" I venture into this overlooked relationship to reveal a fascinating and important dynamic that shapes the development of law. In this Article, I explore law's ...\nUnited Nations At 75 And The Challenges Facing International Law, Ved Nanda May 2021\nUnited Nations At 75 And The Challenges Facing International Law, Ved Nanda\nPace International Law Review\nOn September 21, 2020, the Member States celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. In the Declaration marking the occasion, world leaders recounted the achievements of the body, including catalyzing decolonization, promoting and protecting human rights, working to eradicate disease, helping mitigate dozens of conflicts, and saving lives through humanitarian action. They also enumerated challenges the world faces, such as \"growing inequality, poverty, hunger, armed conflicts, terrorism, insecurity, climate change, and pandemics.\" These challenges, the Declaration said, are interconnected and can only be addressed through reinvigorated multilateralism, which, it emphasized, \"is not an option but a ...\nThe Constitution, Covid-19, And Civil Disobedience: Federalism In Flames And The Slippery Slope To Socialism, Savannah Snyder May 2021\nThe Constitution, Covid-19, And Civil Disobedience: Federalism In Flames And The Slippery Slope To Socialism, Savannah Snyder\nHelm's School of Government Conference\nOur Constitution has been devastatingly corrupted from its original design and vision amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Governors usurped authority in the name of crisis mitigation. Our unalienable rights have been macerated and pulverized by droves of executive orders, each delivering a calamitous blow to the integrity of the American republican framework. Socialized medicine is on the horizon as our compliance is coerced. Conventional civil disobedience has been regulatorily revoked. We have succumbed to the decrees of depraved men who maintain that education, religious expression, and pursuits of happiness can be invalidated by whatever transgressions the state deems necessary. For the ...\nJudicial Autonomy V. Executive Authority: Which Prevails In The Case Of A Postcommutation Collateral Attack?, Vincent A. Marrazzo May 2021\nJudicial Autonomy V. Executive Authority: Which Prevails In The Case Of A Postcommutation Collateral Attack?, Vincent A. Marrazzo\nAn inmate with a commuted sentence will sometimes collaterally attack his already commuted sentence. This raises the question: Does an act of executive clemency divest the courts of authority to hear the collateral attack? In other words, does clemency moot the issues involved in the collateral attack? While multiple circuit courts have weighed in on this question, the Fourth and Sixth Circuits have developed the most robust discussions, disagreeing about whether federal courts may hear these cases. The Fourth Circuit has held that a collateral attack postcommutation is moot as the \"President's commutation order simply closes the judicial door ...\nExamining Executive Authority During Public Health Emergencies: Challenges To Covid-19 Executive Orders & Implications For Future Public Health Policy, Rachael Wyant May 2021\nExamining Executive Authority During Public Health Emergencies: Challenges To Covid-19 Executive Orders & Implications For Future Public Health Policy, Rachael Wyant\nRappaport Center for Law and Public Policy Papers\nTwo months after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Wuhan, China, state governments faced the threat of an unprecedented public health emergency caused by an unknown pathogen, and uncertainty about the efficacy of containment measures. After the WHO announced that COVID-19 had become a pandemic, the Trump Administration declared a National Emergency and issued a travel ban on March 13, 2020. Subsequently, counties in New York and Washington began issuing stay-at-home orders, followed by California's state wide order. Deriving authority from state emergency management and public health statutes, governors have relied heavily on executive orders and emergency ...\nInspectors General And The Importance Of Independence, Kristopher Phipps May 2021\nInspectors General And The Importance Of Independence, Kristopher Phipps\nAmidst a global pandemic, President Donald Trump removed five inspectors general within the federal government, including the inspector general in charge of overseeing the coronavirus response efforts in health agencies and the inspector general directly involved with the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump's impeachment. The President's unprecedented actions against government oversight officials calls attention to an otherwise little-noticed institution and signals a growing need for accountability in government on all levels.\nIndependence is critical to the success of an inspector general in the performance of their statutory duties. Those duties are compromised, however, when the authority that ...\nGundy V. United States: How Justice Gorsuch'S Dissent And Changing Judicial Philosophy In Federal Courts May Lead To A Revived Nondelegation Doctrine And Diminish The Purpose Of The Administrative Procedure Act, Zachary Pfrang Olvera May 2021\nGundy V. United States: How Justice Gorsuch'S Dissent And Changing Judicial Philosophy In Federal Courts May Lead To A Revived Nondelegation Doctrine And Diminish The Purpose Of The Administrative Procedure Act, Zachary Pfrang Olvera\nSt. Mary's Law Journal\nAbstract forthcoming.\nThe Error Of The Paquete Habana: U.S. Naval Forces In The Safe Harbor Of Commander-In-Chief Discretion And The Law Of War, T. Nelson Collier May 2021\nThe Error Of The Paquete Habana: U.S. Naval Forces In The Safe Harbor Of Commander-In-Chief Discretion And The Law Of War, T. Nelson Collier\nServing A Lawless President, William R. Casto May 2021\nServing A Lawless President, William R. Casto\nMercer Law Review\nWhat does an Attorney General do when confronted with a lawless President? At first glance, the answer is easy, but on second thought, a realistic answer is complicated. The answer is complicated because the phrase \"lawless president\" is not necessarily pejorative. In fact, western leaders have always exercised a prerogative power to throw the law overboard when they see fit. Some of our greatest Presidents have followed this path. Thomas Jefferson did, as did Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.\nSo what does the President's Attorney General do? The law and principles of professional responsibility offer a clear answer to ...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":": After 6 years, this nurse practitioner was told her public-service job did not qualify for student-debt forgiveness. She fought that decision, but many others are left in limbo\nadmin 1 year ago No Comments\nPublic servants, like nurses and doctors, are facing challenges determining whether their work qualifies them for a student-loan forgiveness program for public servants. Photographer: Go Nakamura\/Bloomberg\nGo Nakamura\/Bloomberg News\nFor about six years, Olivia Straw was making payments on her student loans, assuming they'd eventually be forgiven.\nThere was no reason for her to question the assumption that she'd qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a program that allows public servants to have their federal student loans forgiven after 120 monthly payments.\nStraw is a nurse practitioner specializing in oncology. She'd been told by her student loan servicer, FedLoan Servicing, in September 2014 that Winchester Physician Associates, a nonprofit organization employing doctors and nurse practitioners who work at a community hospital and outpatient practices north of Boston, was a qualifying employer under the program.\nBut in 2019, when Straw, 39, went to re-certify her employment with her servicer, she got a different answer. After several months of waiting, calling FedLoan and filing complaints with her attorney general's office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in order to receive a response, she was told by FedLoan in February that her work at WPA didn't qualify. She asked for a second review of her case and got the same answer in March, as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.\nThough by then, Straw was at a new employer, she was doing similar work to what she'd been doing at WPA, seeing patients with cancer, including those who had COVID-19.\nOlivia Straw is a nurse practitioner specializing in oncology\n\"To read that and to hear that the work you're doing, they're saying it's not public health services,\" Straw said of the response she received from FedLoan in March. \"It's not even about the money more, it just sort of hits at why you go to work every day and they're discrediting that.\"\nIn August, only after her former employer submitted a letter reiterating that they provide public health services, was Straw's six years of payments approved. In the meantime she was contemplating how she would cope if those six years wound up not counting towards forgiveness.\nBy then she'd paid roughly $40,000 on her student loans, but because she was using a plan that based monthly payments on her income \u2014 only these types of plans are both eligible for PSLF and provide borrowers with a benefit at the end of 10 years \u2014 payments were only hitting the interest; her six figure balance continued to grow.\n\"That was a long battle,\" she said of the experience. There are \"huge financial consequences to somebody telling you your employer qualifies and reneging on that decision.\"\nBorrowers are receiving conflicting or inaccurate information about whether their employer qualifies\nA new report suggests that Straw is not alone in her experience. Since 2012, the Department of Education has told borrowers more than 50,000 times that their employer is ineligible for PSLF, according to a report released Wednesday by the Student Borrower Protection Center, a borrower advocacy group, and the American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation's largest teachers unions. And for public servants, getting a clear answer as to whether their employer qualifies them for the program can be challenging, the report found.\nHaving accurate information about whether their work is eligible for PSLF can be crucial for a borrower's financial future. Borrowers pay down their debt for ten years before being able to access forgiveness and any wrong guidance provided by the government or servicers could derail their progress towards that goal.\n\"What we found through the investigation was pretty shocking,\" said Seth Frotman, the executive director of SBPC, \"which was just the total haphazard, ill-conceived and poorly executed manner by both which the Department of Education and the student-loan industry were making these critical decisions.\"\nThe findings come amid years of concern over management of the PSLF program. In the first year that borrowers were eligible to have their debt forgiven under the initiative, a cohort of tens of thousands of borrowers submitted applications \u2014 the Department of Education rejected 99% of them.\nAfter seeing that rejection rate, what started to become obvious to officials at AFT was that borrowers were facing a course \"full of obstacles,\" said Randi Weingarten, the union's president. \"Any of them would stop you from getting relief under Public Service Loan Forgiveness and worse \u2014 many of them had you starting from square one.\"\nSPBC and AFT launched an investigation into these issues in 2018. Wednesday's report is the first in a series on their findings.\nThere's reason to believe that a growing share of borrowers will have their applications approved in the coming years. For one, when the government first launched the program in 2007, there was little publicity or clarity around it. In addition, many of the repayment programs that borrowers can use to qualify for PSLF weren't yet available. The number of borrowers who knew of all the program's requirements in 2007 and followed them for ten years is likely much smaller than the number who learned about the initiative and its requirements a few years after it launched.\nStill, advocates warned years before the first cohort of borrowers became eligible for forgiveness in fall 2017 that the complicated mix of requirements for PSLF would make it difficult to access. What's more, they say, student loan servicers have provided borrowers eager to stay on track for forgiveness with too little or the wrong information, throwing off years of careful financial planning.\nMaking sure that borrowers have accurate information on which to base their financial future is particularly important during this time, Frotman said.\nGiven the tumultuous labor market, it's likely that more borrowers than typical may be switching employers over the next several years \u2014 that raises the stakes for borrowers on getting a correct determination on whether their job qualifies them for PSLF. \"What was a critical protection before, in the age of the worst economic situation that most of us have ever felt, is just even more vital,\" he said.\nQualifying requires checking many boxes\nTo qualify for PSLF, borrowers must have the right type of federal student loan, a Direct Loan; they need to be in the right type of repayment plan; they need to make 120 on-time, monthly payments; and they need to work for a qualifying employer. The report released Wednesday focuses on the fourth requirement.\nTo determine whether borrowers work for a qualifying employer, they can submit an employment certification form to the Department or FedLoan. Wednesday's report finds that even when borrowers took that step \u2014 essentially crossing their T's and dotting their I's \u2014 they couldn't get accurate information about their progress towards forgiveness.\nIn some cases, like Straw's, a borrower's employment was certified as eligible and then later rejected, according to the report. In others, borrowers working for the same organization received different determinations from the government as to whether their job qualified.\nThe report also revealed the level of subjectivity used when making these determinations. In one case uncovered by the report, a FedLoan employee wrote in an email that a nonprofit organization focused on care for Holocaust victims wasn't providing a public service because, \"I don't see their efforts as being for the public.\"\nIn another case, an employee referenced Wikipedia when trying to make a determination as to whether a borrower's employer qualified them for the program, while acknowledging that Wikipedia \"is not the most reliable source of information.\"\nAdvocates urge the government to provide more transparency surrounding rejections\nSPBC and AFT are urging the government to provide more transparency to borrowers about how their determinations are made and create a clearer appeals process for borrowers whose applications are rejected. In addition, they'd like to see the agency publish a comprehensive registry of qualifying employers.\nThe Department of Education didn't provide a comment on the report's findings by press time. Keith New, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which runs FedLoan, wrote in an email that as part of renewing the organization's contract with the Department, its Office of Federal Student Aid agreed to a establish a task force with PHEAA \"to meet at least weekly to review and implement improvements to the PSLF program, including such issues regarding employer certification.\"\nLast month, the Office of Federal Student Aid updated its website with a searchable employer database borrowers can use to see if their employer qualifies for PSLF. Frotman called this a \"baby step,\" noting that it requires borrowers to log in, in order to look up information about their employer.\nInstead, SPBC and AFT would like to see a completely public database of employers who have ever been approved for PSLF to provide a transparent guide to borrowers and clear standards for employees to follow when making an eligibility determination.\nThe goal of these recommendations is to hold the Department of Education and the student loan industry accountable, Weingarten said, and to make sure PSLF is being implemented as it was envisioned.\n\"That intent is if you go into the public service \u2014 whether it's teaching, or nursing, or other public-service careers \u2014 that you're not going to have your debt saddle you, particularly because public service is moderately paid,\" she said. \"It shouldn't have been so hard to make this work and any Department of Education should have wanted to make it work when they saw problems.\"\nThough Straw is relieved her situation is resolved, she doesn't think it should take the effort she put into the process \u2014 including regularly spending two to three hours drafting letters and making phone calls on her days off \u2014 to stay on track towards forgiveness.\n\"This is not appropriate, they created this program to try to help people who do public service work and yet people almost quit from fatigue because it's so difficult to access,\" she said.\nThe Wall Street Journal: In lawsuit, Boeing board accused of failing to oversee responses to two fatal 737 MAX crashes\nFA Center: 'When should I sell Amazon?' 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{"text":"A last-minute guide to what the federal parties are pitching\nPosted on October 21, 2019 in Governance Debates\nSource: TheStar.com \u2014 Authors: Alex Ballingall, Alex Boutilier, Bruce Campion-Smith\nTheStar.com \u2013 Politics\/Federal\/Vote 2019\nOct. 20, 2019. By Alex Boutilier, Ottawa Bureau, Alex Ballingall, Ottawa Bureau, Bruce Campion-Smith, Ottawa Bureau\nVANCOUVER\u2014The choice in Monday's federal election is clear.\nAt least that's what party leaders have been telling Canadians for the past 40 days. Over the course of the election, federal parties have been making their pitch to Canadians on their plans for the environment, health care, affordability, the economy and plenty more.\nIt can be overwhelming, we get it. But don't feel bad if you haven't had time to pore over the nitty-gritty about what each party is offering. The Star's Ottawa bureau has produced a last-minute cheat sheet for voters who have yet to make up their minds.\nFirst and foremost: know where you're voting and know what identification you need to cast your vote. Elections Canada has an easy-to-use search for voters to quickly find their polling station, and a checklist of acceptable identification.\nOnce you're clear on that, here's what the parties are pitching:\nThe Environment: The central focus of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on environmental issues is to scrap the Liberal government's price on carbon emissions. In its place, they would put a cap on emissions for heavy emitters, and companies that pollute beyond that cap would be forced to invest in research and development for emissions-reducing technology. The Conservatives would also ban dumping raw sewage into waterways. Scheer says the Conservative plan is Canada's best chance to reach its 2030 emission targets under the Paris Accord \u2014 but an analysis by Simon Fraser University professor Mark Jaccard suggests emissions would actually increase under their policies.\nAffordability: Scheer has proposed a personal income tax cut for earnings under $47,630, lowering the rate from 15 per cent to 13.5 per cent. The Conservatives would also reintroduce some Harper-era boutique tax credits: a public transit tax credit, tax credits for children's sports and arts lessons, and a home renovation tax credit. Scheer has also committed to removing the GST on home heating bills.\nHousing: Unlike their main two rivals, the Conservatives are not proposing building more affordable housing. Instead, they would extend the amortization period for mortgages to a maximum of 30 years, allowing buyers to pay off their mortgage over a longer period of time with lower monthly payments. Scheer has also proposed reducing the rules around the mortgage \"stress test,\" which would make it easier to borrow. They would also (temporarily) reintroduce home retrofit tax credits.\nBalancing the budget: The Conservatives are the only party proposing to balance the federal books \u2014 albeit over five years. To do that, Scheer's plan is to cut foreign aid by $1.5 billion a year, cut corporate grants by another $1.5 billion annually, tax tech giants, freeze hiring in the public service, and make a number of unspecified cuts to government operations totalling $14.4 billion over five years, and push back $18 billion in infrastructure funding from 12 years to 15 years.\nGovernment ethics: Scheer would launch a judicial inquiry into the Liberals' handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair, introduce steeper fines for politicians violating ethics rules, and give more power to the federal ethics watchdog. Scheer has also proposed strengthening protections for public service whistleblowers, offering more assurances that they'd be protected from reprisal in the workplace.\nAffordability: The Liberals would implement a broad tax cut by raising the basic personal amount, a non-refundable tax credit, to $15,000 from $12,000. That will save the average family nearly $600 a year, according to the Liberals. The benefit of the change will be reduced for those making more than $147,667 and eliminated altogether for those earning more than $210,371. The tax change is one of several affordability measures that also include increased Old Age Security benefits for those over 75 and more to help students, with an extra $1,200 in Canada Student Grants and relaxed requirements to pay back loans.\nHelp for parents: The party would boost the Canada child benefit by 15 per cent for each child under the age of one and making maternity benefits tax-free. The Liberals credit the child benefit, introduced in their first budget, with helping lift an estimated 900,000 Canadians out of poverty, including 300,000 children.\nClimate change: The Liberals have boasted continued action on environmental initiatives, notably on climate change. The Liberals imposed carbon pricing on provinces that didn't have such a plan and now take credit for a pan-Canadian strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, though the federal initiative is opposed by several provinces including Ontario. The platform also includes a commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, a promise to plant two billion trees and strengthening existing rules to cut emissions from the country's big emitters.\nPharmacare: The party's platform says a Liberal government would take the \"critical next steps to implement national universal pharmacare so that all Canadians have the drug coverage they need at an affordable price. The platform does not put a timeline on making that a reality or a price tag.\nGun control: The Liberals have promised to tighten gun control, including bringing in a ban on all military-style assault rifles. The Liberals also propose giving municipalities the power to ban handguns though that falls short of the nationwide ban sought by some gun control advocates and municipal officials. The platform also promises $250 million over five years earmarked to help cities combat gun crime.\nHealth and dental care: The NDP plans to spend $10 billion in 2020 to start a universal pharmacare program, and $5 billion over the next five years on public dental coverage for Canadians who earn less than $70,000 per year. Then the party says it would use savings from the bulk-buying power of national pharmacare to expand the public health-care system in new areas over the next 10 years, including mental health, addictions services, and vision and hearing care.\nClimate change: The party would earmark $15 billion to fight climate change, with $6.5 billion going to new public transit and $3 billion to a fund for green developments. It would give out $15,000 rebates for the purchase of zero-emission vehicles that are made-in-Canada, increase the federal carbon price for heavy emitters, cancel government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and stop the multibillion-dollar expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline.\nHousing: The NDP vows to pour $17 billion on top of billions in federal spending already earmarked for affordable housing. This would help build 500,000 new affordable housing units over the next decade, the party says. It would also provide $5,000 subsidies each year to people who spend more than a third of their income on rent.\nTax the rich: To help cover tens of billions of dollars in new spending, the NDP is promising the to hike the corporate income tax rate from 15 to 18 per cent, and increase the top personal income tax bracket \u2014 more than $210,000 per year \u2014 from 33 to 35 per cent. It would also increase the portion of capital gains earnings subject to personal income tax, and introduce a \"super wealth tax\" of 1 per cent on the portion of an individual's fortune \u2014 assets like stocks and private property \u2014 that exceeds $20 million.\nCap cellphone and internet bills: Accusing \"big telecom\" companies of gouging Canadians, the party wants to place a hard cap on cellphone and internet bills, claiming this could save families $250 per year. It would also force companies to provide \"affordable, unlimited data plans\" for cellphone coverage so people don't get dinged with surprise surcharges on their monthly bills.\nAggressively reduce emissions: The Greens would double Canada's emissions target for 2030 \u2014 to 60 per cent below 2005 levels \u2014 as it takes on what party leader Elizabeth May has called the \"climate emergency.\" It would ban all new fossil fuel development and phase out Alberta's oilsands by 2035, spend $550 million per year to retrofit all buildings in Canada over the next decade, and ensure the country's electrical grid uses 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. The Greens are also the only party vowing to increase the national minimum carbon price after 2022.\nGuaranteed minimum income: While the Greens would spend $400 million per year supporting workers forced to leave the fossil fuel industry, the party wants to transform Canada's social safety net to be based on a \"guaranteed livable income.\" The party says it would negotiate this with the provinces, but it would be designed to replace a suite of programs such as employment insurance and provincial support programs.\nPharmacare and dental care: The Greens would crank open the federal coffers to rapidly set up a national pharmacare program across the country by spending $145 billion over five years. The party would also extend public coverage to provide dental care for low-income Canadians.\nIncrease taxes: The Greens expect to rake in tens of billions in new revenues by hiking the corporate income tax rate by twice as much as the NDP, from 15 to 21 per cent. The party would also create a new 0.5 per cent tax on financial transactions, slap a new 5 per cent tax on commercial bank profits, and introduce a 1 per cent tax on the portion of a family's wealth that exceeds $20 million \u2014 similar to the NDP's \"super wealth tax\" proposal.\nEliminate post-secondary tuition: In time for the 2020 school year, the Greens vow to make college, university and technical schools tuition-free by increasing education funding to provinces and territories by more than $10 billion per year. The party would also forgive outstanding student debt for people earning less than $70,000 per year.\nAlex Boutilier is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics.\nAlex Ballingall is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics.\nBruce Campion-Smith is an Ottawa-based reporter covering national politics.\nhttps:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/federal\/2019\/10\/20\/a-last-minute-guide-to-what-the-federal-parties-are-pitching.html\nTags: budget, child care, crime prevention, economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, tax\nThis entry was posted on Monday, October 21st, 2019 at 11:37 am and is filed under Governance Debates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"31 Horrors: Sssssss (#8)\nWherein I attempt to watch 31 horror films over the course of October. 31 horror films that I have never seen before, from obscure to acclaimed classics. We'll see how well I go in actually finding the time to watch and then write about them in some way.\nLet's ignore the, quite frankly, ridiculous title of this 1973 killer snake flick Sssssss (also known as Ssssnake in the UK), and move on to the fact that, ya know, it's actually kinda good!\nThe film begins with a warning label slash thank you card to the cast and crew, stating that the animals used in the making of Sssssss were not defanged and that the people involved in the production genuinely put their lives on the line to make it. \"It\" being a film that was one of the last films ever made specifically for a double feature - it played alongside The Boy Who Cried Werewolf - which is a nifty lil fact to know. As I watched it I actually thought the movie had the visual aesthetic of a TV movie. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, whose previous film was indeed a TV one, and it shows, although he definitely amped it up with the lovely use of widescreen. Still, it has a pale wash over it that lacks a certain cinematic quality, and yet one that befits a film of this kind.\nAnyway, I'm getting a bit sidetracked. I really enjoyed Sssssss! I had trepidations to watch it, after discovering it hidden amongst my flatmate's DVD collection, as snakes give me the willies. Oh sure, they're not quite as bad as, say, the spiders in Arachnophobia, but they're still creepy. There's a disturbing nature to the creatures, and seeing the flaky, scaly flesh of these reptiles meant I have no trouble believing the filmmakers' claims that they're the real deal is true and not some made up wannabe urban legend that they invented for notoriety sake.\nWritten by Hal Dresner and Daniel C. Striepeke, Sssssss does a good job of setting up the mechanics of a \"killer snake\" movie without merely relying on - oh, I dunno - a truck transporting a collection of deadly snakes overturning, unleashing the hissing horror upon a small town of unsuspecting victims. Strother Martin is quite deliciously sinister as snake expert Dr Carl Stoner and Dirk Benedict is also surprisingly fine as his milquetoast assistant\/experiment subject. I particularly enjoyed Heather Menzies, too, whose Diane Keaton shag revealed a shoulda been scream queen (she also made Piranha, but that's about it as far as Menzies and genre fare go). Knowing she was one of the Von Trapp kids in The Sound of Music just adds to my fondness for her performance. She's especially impressive in the film's final 30 minutes.\nAnd, look, can I mention this? Yes, of course I can. You've come to expect it, haven't you?\nYes, that Dirk Benedict was quite a good looking man back in the day. He wasn't cast as \"the faceman\" on The A-Team for his brain. That last shot is a from a skinny dipping scene that was presumably to feature more nudity that it eventually did. It's quite obvious throughout the scene that some particularly fake-looking foliage had been superimposed over the image of Benedict and Menzies' bare bottoms. Bless 'em. Shame though, amiright?\nWhat I didn't expect from Sssssss, however, was that about half way in it would become a homage to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho! In a turn of narrative events that had me guffawing (at 1.30am, mind you!), several nods to the masterful 1960 film become obvious. No more so, of course, than this film's own rendition of the famed shower scene that sees Strother Martin's character, initially a protagonist until his obvious evil deeds became known, enter the bathroom of a character and sets a black mamba snake into it behind the curtain. A flurry of edited reaction shots later and the Doctor takes back and snake and exits the bathroom, and the apartment, leaving the victim to collapse onto the bathroom floor, dead. Hello! It certainly helps that the victim is the incredibly good looking cult beefcake Reb Brown. What's that you say? Screencaps... oh sure!\nThere's more, but none quite as overt as that shower scene. Even the music attempts to bring back memories of Hitch. It's a strange scene for sure, but one that made many innocuous moments thereafter look like sly references. Unrelated to Psycho, but there was even a scene with echoes of Saw a whole 30 years prior to that movie's inception!\nSo, yes, I was quite impressed with Sssssss. Despite its flaws (1970s transitional visual effects do not look good, you guys!), it ends up a rather effective chiller that doesn't necessarily play in to the regular tropes of the killer animal genre. I mean, how many movies do you know feature a final sequence where in a king cobra snake and a mongoose fight it out to the death before an ambiguous ending on the protagonist's fate? Not many I presume. 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{"text":"About Company of Dreams\nThe performance company\nCharitable work\nBellydance for Joy\nScheherazade and 1001 Nights\nThe Joy of Bellydance\nContact\/sign up\nContact, company and social media info\nCharlotte Desorgher\nCharlotte Desorgher is renowned worldwide as one of the leading teachers, choreographers, innovators and promoters of middle eastern dance. Performing since childhood, she trained extensively in theatre arts as well as classical ballet, jazz, and contemporary dance and took one of the first dance\/education degrees at Roehampton's Froebel Institute. Then, in 1982 she saw her first bellydancer and fell in love with the beauty and sensuality of the art form.\nIn 2007 Charlotte founded Hipsinc, the largest belly dance school in the UK and over the years has trained and influenced literally thousands of dancers, from absolute beginners through to international professionals. She is also a major event producer, having organised several large scale international bellydance festivals as well as numerous student and professional shows.\nIn recent years, Charlotte has been driven by a desire to create a more dramatic, theatrical form of the dance \u2013 one which could thrill and inspire audiences and take them on an emotional journey. She also wanted to help the art form she loved to be taken more seriously by the wider dance community.\nIn 2013, aided by an Arts Council grant, she developed her own unique style of dance, blending her own initial training in ballet, jazz and contemporary with the sinuous movements of bellydance. She went on to invite some of the best, most technically proficient and most versatile oriental dancers in Europe to join her in what was to become Company of Dreams.\nCharlotte is passionate about raising standards in the middle eastern dance sector and teaches a challenging advanced\/professional class in central London, which attracts dancers from every corner of the world. Many of the best dancers in this class go on to become members of Company of Dreams.\nBut Charlotte is every bit as committed to teaching non-dancers the joys of bellydance and still teaches weekly classes to adult beginners from all walks of life.\n\u00a9 Copyright - Company of Dreams - Enfold WordPress Theme by Kriesi\nMelissa Pina Company of Dreams Dancers","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Jumeirah Beach Road\n360-Tour\n- Our Blog -\nAccording to Chinese legend, tea was first discovered in 2727 BC, when the Emperor Shen Nong was purifying water in the shelter of a tea tree, and several leaves blew into the pot. Having tasted the resulting brew, of superb fragrance, color and taste, the emperor rejoiced. He introduced the hot beverage to his people, but until roughly 618AD, the beverage was used mostly for medicinal purposes. It was then, during the Tang Dynasty, that tea became a popular household beverage for everyday use. The spread of tea to the western world started in 1517 when Portuguese trade ships first docked in China. The tea drinking custom was introduced to France in 1638, then to England in 1645, and subsequently to other European countries and North America in the middle of the 17th Century.\nRead more: The History of Tea\nMeet this festive season with The Hamptons\t15 December 2018\nHealthy Hamptons Booster\t24 November 2017\nThe History of Tea\t18 October 2017\nOur menu tells the story of our food\t14 September 2017\nCoffee at the Hamptons Caf\u00e9 09 August 2017\nThe Hamptons Cafe\nFeel the atmosphere of unmistakable stylish charm & true elegance in Dubai.\n- Our Branches -\n- Cafe -\n- Subscribe for Us -\nPlease subscribe for our news, events or special promotions for you:\n\u00a9 2017 The Hamptons Cafe. All Rights Reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home NFL College Football\n\"Memes to dreams!\" Popeyes meme kid is now a college football player with a HUGE endorsement deal\nDieunerst Collin, the viral Popeyes meme kid has signed a NIL deal with the chicken brand after winning a college championship for his school.\nby Lakshya Chopra\nin College Football, NFL\nDieunerst Collin (Image via Popeyes)\nThe Popeyes meme kid, Dieunerst Collin, who became a household face over the last decade, is now a very successful football player and has recently signed a name, image, and likeness deal, or NIL deal, with Popeyes. Collin might not be popular with everyone by his name, but anyone who uses the internet has seen him at some point or the other.\nAt 9, Collin went viral a decade ago with his peculiar look. In the meme that made him famous, he could be seen standing awkwardly while holding a cup at Popeyes and flashing his side-eye. That single look made him popular on the internet and he became one of the most popular reaction GIFs and images across the web for almost a decade.\nThe NIL deal that Collin has signed with Popeyes includes featuring him on a billboard near his hometown in New Jersey. He will turn 19 in a few weeks and currently, he is a college football star at Lake Erie College in Ohio. The deal came in handy after he played a pivotal role in winning his high school winning the state championship. He now joins other college athletes that have bagged NIL deals over the years, showing the brands' interest in their likeness after years of schools. This gives them huge leverage for marketing purposes.\nExplore further: Rob Gronkowski speculates a reunion with Tom Brady in the studio hinting at the END of playing days for the legendary QB\nDieunerst Collin on the power of the internet in today's world\nDieunerst Collin (Image via Instagram\/Dieunerst Collin)\nCollin expressed his thoughts after the deal and said that a lot can happen with the power of the internet behind and revealed how delighted he is to be officially sponsored by Popeyes. He expressed his gratitude to everyone who helped spread the good word about him.\nA post shared by 247Sports (@247sports)\n\"A lot can happen with the power of the internet behind you!\" Collin said in a news release. \"I can't believe I can say I'm officially sponsored by Popeyes. Thank you to everyone who helped spread the good word!\"\nAs a marketing stunt, Popeyes shared a photo of Collins standing in front of the Newark billboard in a meta display of the meme and the New Jerseyan behind it. He was seen recreating the same meme implying he has now had a full circle in life- from memes to fulfilling his dream!\nExplore further: \"That's a baller move,\" Patrick Mahomes PLAUDITS Trevor Lawrence's Waffle House trip after spearheading a 27-point comeback victory against the Chargers\nExplore further: \"A finger-pointing diva of the highest order,\" Skip Bayless TRASHES 'choke artist' Aaron Rodgers for repeated playoff failures\nTags: Dieunerst Collin\nLakshya Chopra\nLakshya Chopra is an aspiring sports writer who has covered various sports in the last few years. An engineer by profession, his passion for sports has driven him closer to the media industry with each passing day. He has been working at FirstSportz for over two years and initially headed the tennis team for two full seasons. Having written almost 2500 articles for the organization, he is currently the content manager of the NFL section. From Rafael Nadal's prime to Novak Djokovic's rise to Tom Brady's magical comebacks, he has seen it all.\nKurt Angle holds his RAW XXX backstage moments in extremely high regard\n\"Success is his life's dream,\" Boris Becker comments upon Novak Djokovic's singular goal in tennis\nby Vitasta Singh\n\"I know how to brush my hair, or decide to cut it when I was going bald,\" Shaquille O'Neal trolls the life out of Kevin Durant for criticism on his take on Rui Hachimura's trade\nby Ritik Malik\nNHL agent Allan Walsh absolutely RUINS Gary Bettman on Commissioner's 30 years reigning celebration\nby Kaushani Chatterjee","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Primal Pet Foods Inc. to Open Manufacturing Facility in California\nPrimal Pet Foods Inc. will move its manufacturing facility from San Francisco to Fairfield, California.\nPrimal, a manufacturer of fully prepared, human-grade raw foods and treats for dogs and cats, has signed a lease for 50,000 square feet with landlord Sierra Pacific Properties. The new location will be twice as large as its previous building.\n\"We looked throughout the immediate San Francisco Bay Area and chose Fairfield because of the availability of a value-priced new building,\" said Matt Koss, founder and president of Primal Pet Foods. \"In addition, the city's strategic location on Interstate 80 is ideal for distributing our products. Because we purchase meat, poultry and produce items from the Central Valley, its proximity to that area of the state is beneficial.\"\nPrimal Pet Food's expansion is anticipated to provide new job opportunities in the area. Operations are expected to start in late summer 2016.\nBen & Jerry's Enters Pet Market With Frozen Doggie Desserts Pet Age Staff","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Missouri hoping to avenge last season's loss to Purdue\nDaniel Jones @daniel_m_jones\nSep 11, 2018 at 9:43 PM Sep 11, 2018 at 10:47 PM\nDrew Lock's recall is usually pretty good. Missouri's quarterback can recreate drives in his mind's eye, highlights from throughout his football career.\nLock said last year's game against Purdue, though, \"was kind of a blur.\"\nA psychologist might call that repression: A trick of the brain that pushes distressing memories out of the conscious mind. Lock, after all, got a front row view on Sept. 16, 2017, when Purdue came into Missouri's domain, flipped the coffee table over and set the living room rug on fire.\nThe Tigers will play the Boilermakers again Saturday, this time at 6:30 p.m. in West Lafayette, Indiana.\nPurdue's 35-3 victory last year triggered some serious soul-searching for the Tigers early in coach Barry Odom's second season. It was a performance reminiscent of a woebegone era of Missouri football \u2014 the Tigers hadn't lost to a non-conference opponent by that margin in 16 years.\nMissouri lost the next week to Auburn 51-14.\nIt lost its next game to Kentucky 40-34.\nIt lost the week after that to Georgia 53-28.\nAll the while, the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Purdue game stood as a point of reference.\nIt was personal for Missouri cornerback Adam Sparks. His brother, Jared, is a wide receiver for the Boilermakers, and a large number of family members road-tripped to Columbia for last year's throttling.\nThe holidays were tough, Adam said.\n\"Of course my brother is going to bring up the game again,\" Sparks said. \"My cousins watched it, so that wasn't a help. They brought it up, as well.\"\nBut that contest did serve a purpose. Odom and his staff used it the only way they could, to teach a lesson that only a vicious beating could bring to the surface.\nThey brought up the game, Odom said, \"so many times last year and some in the offseason on looking at the reasons why at times we had success and times we were so poor.\"\nThe most shocking development from last year's Purdue game was that Missouri eventually recovered from it. The Tigers looked and played like dead men against the Boilermakers, but less than three months later they were bowl-eligible.\n\"For me and my approach to our team this week, we've already addressed that one so many times that you don't really need to go back there,\" Odom said. \"They know what's back there. They know what happened that Saturday afternoon and the lessons that came from it.\"\nLock did will himself to watch the game one more time. He revisited the buried memory early Monday morning on the condition that Missouri wasn't the same team now it was then. Its offensive and defensive schemes have changed, and there's confidence now (\"A different feel,\" Lock said) from a 2-0 start.\nHe isn't going into Saturday with revenge on his mind. The Tigers have already gotten their house in order from Purdue's raid last year.\n\"Having built up aggression and anger going into this week is the last thing a quarterback needs,\" Lock said. \"We'll let the big guys use that if they feel like they need to use that. I'm just going to keep a level head.\"\nThis year Purdue is the team in crisis. The Boilermakers are 0-2, having self-sabotaged their way out of two perfectly attainable wins.\nIn Week 1 against Big 10 rival Northwestern, Purdue clawed its way back from a 14-point deficit in the first half and looked poised to do so again in the second half. But two late penalties \u2014 one that killed an offensive drive and one that extended a Wildcats drive \u2014 and three turnovers proved to be the difference in a 31-27 Boilermakers loss.\nLast week, Purdue paid Eastern Michigan $550,000 to show up at Ross-Ade Stadium and the Eagles left with a 20-19 victory as a parting gift. An excessive celebration penalty cost the Boilermakers a chance to go up three points, and a flag for roughing the passer allowed Eastern Michigan to kick a game-winning field goal at the horn.\n\"Right now, I'm sure some people's confidences are not at the highest point,\" Purdue coach Jeff Brohm said during his weekly press conference Monday.\nStill, they have a game-breaking freshman in Rondale Moore, a wide receiver who ranks ninth in the nation in all-purpose yards. Moore turned down offers from Missouri, Ohio State and Texas to feature for the Boilermakers.\n\"Wherever he is on the field, we better know about it because he can go from anywhere and they try to give him the ball,\" Odom said.\nRevenge might not be on the mind of Missouri this week, but only because the Tigers have learned from their last matchup against Purdue.\n\"If we bring everything we did last week and the week before into this week,\" Sparks said, \"then we're gonna be fine.\"\ndjones@columbiatribune.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home \u00bb Misc \u00bb Featured News \u00bb Jack Daniel's continues Kelly support\nJack Daniel's continues Kelly support\nBy Speedcafe.com\nThursday 21st January, 2010 - 3:34pm\nVideo from the announcement can be found below this article\nRick and Todd Kelly stand alongside their 2010 Jack Daniel's Racing Commodore VE\nTodd and Rick Kelly have unveiled their 2010 V8 Supercars Championship Series war-paint, with the news that Jack Daniel's has re-signing with Kelly Racing.\nAfter competing its inaugural season last year under a one year deal with Jack Daniel's, the Kelly Racing squad has secured an extension on its support from the iconic whiskey brand, said to be one of the 'largest team sponsorship deals in Australian sport.'\nThe extension of the relationship will see the Kelly brothers race in the colours of Jack Daniel's Racing well into the future.\nTeam co-owner and Jack Daniel's Racing driver Todd Kelly said that he and the entire team enjoy a special relationship with Jack Daniel's.\n\"The relationship that we've built with Jack Daniel's has been awesome,\" said Todd Kelly.\n\"To have a sponsor that is so involved with the team and is not just a sponsor, but a friend, is great for us.\"\n\"Having Jack Daniel's confirmed is fantastic. It gives us real security and stability and that's incredibly important when you are building a team.\n\"We've got a long way to go, but this is certainly a massive step towards getting there.\"\nThe team took big strides towards the end of last year's V8 Supercar Series, taking three podium places in the last six races of the year (two for Rick at Phillip Island and one for Todd at Barbagallo).\nDual Bathurst champion and fellow Jack Daniel's Racing driver Rick Kelly said that the team's improved results toward the end of the year was a great incentive for Jack Daniel's to remain on board with Kelly Racing.\n\"To have Jack Daniel's show this level of support and commitment following our first year is simply awesome,\" Rick said.\n\"We are truly lucky to have Jack Daniel's onboard as well as lots of other great sponsors, which also highlights the job that the team has done so far.\"\nMichael McShane, Managing Director for Brown-Forman Australia (owners of the Jack Daniel's brand), said that the relationship between Jack Daniel's and Kelly Racing is \"a great fit.\"\n\"Everyone at Jack Daniel's is extremely excited to be continuing our great relationship with Todd and Rick Kelly and everyone at Kelly Racing,\" said McShane.\n\"Kelly Racing is a great fit for Jack Daniel's, with Rick and Todd as key ambassadors for our brand.\n\"We see V8 Supercars as a great platform for the Jack Daniel's brand and the promotion of our 'Pace Yourself, Drink Responsibly' message.\n\"We look forward to promoting our social responsibility message and our brand with the team well into the future.\"\nJack Daniel's Racing also welcomes several new sponsors for the 2010 season, including SuperMax Razors, Powerbuilt Tools, Mack Trucks and Harley-Davidson.\nThe Kelly brothers took the wraps off their Holden Commodore VE at the Docklands, Victoria, today, and will get their first test in the car at Winton Motor Raceway (February 8).\nJack Daniel's Racing will run an interim livery at the first two events of the season in the Middle East before giving the new design its race debut at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide on March 11-14.\nNext Story Leanne Tander gets V8 Utes invitation Previous Story FIRST PICS: Kelly Racing is back in black","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Fylde coast golf round-up: Open final qualifying at St Annes Old Links, Open week at Knott End, Blackpool winner of Senior Masters\nCallan Barrow of Royal Lytham and St Annes in final qualifying for The Open at St Annes Old Links Picture: DANIEL MARTINO\nAndy Moore\nPublished: 09:05 Wednesday 03 July 2019\nEnglishmen Garrick Porteous and Jack Senior were the joint-winners of final qualifying for The Open Championship at St Annes Old Links.\nREAD MORE: Tour chief thrilled to bring Senior stars to Royal Lytham and St Annes\nThe unattached Porteous and Senior from Carus Green carded 67s in both rounds on the Fylde coast links for 10-under totals of 134 on Tuesday.\nAlso qualifying for The Open at Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland, in a fortnight is Matthew Baldwin of Royal Birkdale, who finished a shot back in third (65, 70).\nAmong those missing out by one shot was the Leigh amateur Callum Blinkhorn.\nRoyal Lytham and St Annes amateurs Callan Barrow and Nicholas Peoples won through regional qualifying at Fairhaven last week but neither threatened the leaders.\nBarrow tied for 30th place on level par (75, 69), while Peoples finished nine over (75, 78) in a share of 54th place.\nGood weather ensured a highly successful Open week at Knott End Golf Club.\nEighty eight ladies played in a team of four stableford competition won by the team of Dorothy Scholes (Walmersley GC), Rita Tower ( Hardwood), Christine Burrows (Bacup) and Barbara Pilling (Rochdale) with a score of 84 points (acpo).\nRunners-up were Sheila Anderson (Formby), Alison Green (Childwall), Jacki Slack and Carole Farnsworth (Lytham Green Drive), also on 84, and third Linda Collinson, Moe Hayhurst, Julie Shorrock and Sally Tyrer (all Longridge) with 81.\nThis was one of several competitions played during the week ahead of Sunday's Wyreside Trophy.\nThis is Knott End's major competition over 36 holes for men with a handicap no higher than nine.\nSixty players took part and winner Ryan Lake of North Shore with a nett 71 + 66 = 137. Second was I. Martin of Herons Reach (70 + 70 = 140) and third Wayne Mayman of Knott End (78+68=146).\nThe best gross score was recorded by C. Boyes of Fleetwood (77 + 74 = 151)\nFylde coast cricket preview: Fleetwood CC's Bergh boost ahead of Blackpool CC derby day\nWigan Warriors rising star Harry Rushton an inspiration for Fleetwood RUFC juniors\nThe first-round best gross winner as A Riches (Herons Reach, 75) and the best nett J Plant (North Shore, 72).\nThe second round best gross went to H Talarczyk (Royal L&SA, 74) and best nett P Hay (Herons Reach, 71)\nAs Royal Lytham and St Annes prepares to stage the Senior Open presented by Rolex in three weeks, a player from Blackpool has won one of the country's most coveted senior titles.\nDavid Brunton won the Senior Masters at Leeds Golf Centre, finishing an impressive nine-under-par after round of 67 and 68 in the two day tournament.\nHe was given a run for his money by Mark Ashworth from Manchester, who played an astonishing second round to finish just two shots behind.\nAshworth equalled the course record with a 64 and almost holed his tee shot at the short 13th.\nTied in third place three shots further back were Craig Ronald, Michael Watson and European Senior Tour player David Shacklady, last year's champion.\nOther notable names in the 51-man field were Tim Thelen and Jose Romero, European Senior Tour players from America and Spain respectively.\nNigel Sweet, Leeds Golf Centre's manager and creator of the event, said: \"Despite not always having the best conditions, we've once again witnessed some spectacular golf at The Senior Masters, with high-spirited performances from all the players. Congratulations to David for his winning display.\n\"We're proud to have brought this internationally renowned tournament to Yorkshire for a third consecutive year.\"\nThe Captain's Prize to the Ladies at Fairhaven was won by Gill Morris with a two-round score of 70+82=152, beating runner-up Karen McLeon by one shot (82+71=153). Carole Waddington had the best gross with 87+90=177.\nThe Men's Centenary Vase was also contested over two rounds and was won by John McCombe with 71+73=144. Again it was closely-fought, with Kieran Hogarth and Simon Long just one shot back, both scoring 70+75= 145.\nMembers of Lytham Cricket & Sports Club held their 12th annual golf day on Friday at Lytham Green Drive Golf Club.\nSixty past and present members competed for the Keith Cartmell Trophy in glorious sunshine and the winning team were The Chippers comprising Jimmy Leach, Bernard Crosby, Guy McDonnell and Mike Greenwood.\nThe evening presentation buffet saw \u00a32,666 raised for the Motor Neurone Disease, taking the total raised to \u00a335,500 over the last 12 years.\nHerons Reach have a two-point lead over Lancaster at the top of the Fylde Senior League after 6-0 wins for both teams against North Shore and Fairhaven respectively.\nThird-place Lytham Green Drive slipped further behind the leading pair after a 4-2 defeat at Ashton and Lea, while bottom club Fleetwood held Knott End to a 3-3 draw.\nThe semi-final of the Bernard Butler resulted in a win for North Shore over Knott End.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Who is the pro-coal Democratic senator Joe Mansin who is polluting the life of Joe Biden?\nArzu December 23, 2021 6 min read\nA coal in Joe Biden's shoe. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin has overturned the US president's primary reform. On Sunday, December 19, the elected representative of West Virginia, a rural state in the eastern United States, by refusing to support the mega text of the \"Built Back Better\" Act, which includes social, economic and environmental measures, aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are essential to the global effort to combat global warming. He absorbed the confidence of his party to establish.\nWith Democrats gaining a majority in the Senate, Joe Mans became the most powerful politician in the United States under President Biden: a roaring Kingmaker \"I 'The other president* \" In the corridors of the Capitol. Coal Baron in a former region with \"black mouths\" that has become a staunch defender of Trumpist breeding and bilateral cooperation, immediately firing against his camp to defend the interests of Joe Mans's fossil fuel sector. For good reason, coal \u2013 the most polluting fuel ever used \u2013 flows through his veins and into his wallet.\n\"Where you grow up, by whom, how you were raised, that is what makes you who you are\", Announced by Joe Manzin in June New Yorker*. \"If I haven't changed, it's because I'm from Farmington.\" This small town of a few hundred souls, located in a corner of the Appalachians drilled by coal mines, saw him born in 1947. Manjin's family had a foot in the mine, a heart in business and a head in politics. After switching to coal, \"Papa Joe\" splits his time between the activities of his grandfather, the local grocery store and the mayor. The father, John Mancin, is the owner of a furniture store, in charge of Town Hall. One of his uncles was an influential local elected official, and the other, a trade unionist, was one of 78 victims of the 1968 mining disaster that mourned Farmington.\nREAD Ariane 5: An extraordinary mission to launch the James Webb Telescope into space\nJoe Manchin embraced local politics in 1982. In 1988, he abandoned the carpet industry to invest in coal, or the remnants of it: waste from abandoned mines, which his company, EnergySystems Inc., processes and sells as fuel to local power. Stations. In the early 2000s, politics prevailed over entrepreneurship. Joe Munch established his son as head of the family business, and four years later became governor of West Virginia and senator in 2010. \"I'm very proud of the role the people of West Virginia have played in energizing the nation.\" He starts During his first speech above*. \"Without Virginia Charcoal, the light would be very low.\"\nDemocrat Senator Joe Mansin chats with minors on March 31, 2017 in Madwann, West Virginia. (Phil Pugliano \/ Getty Images North America \/ AFP)\nWest Virginia is no longer its childhood. The state, which had more than 140,000 minors in the 1950s, will have only 13,000 in 2019. It is aging, empty, and changing political pages. Joe Mancin became the last Democrat in the strong Republican stronghold \u2013 by 2020, 68.6% of voters voted for Donald Trump. Self-proclaimed \"Conservative Democrat\", A fan of Kennedy, he demands a pragmatism guided by the sole interest of his members. \"The people of West Virginia sent me here [\u00e0 Washington] Common sense will help solve our budget problems through bilateral solutions. \", He said briefly in 2012*.\nAgainst raising the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, restricting the sale of firearms, and increasing aid to unemployed people affected by the Govt-19 epidemic \u2026 Joe Manzin will not explode in the opposite camp. . \"Technically he's a Democrat. But really he's a non-party man.\", Wrote Politician in 2018*, Recalled that in 2017, Mansin was briefly approached to join the Donald Trump administration as Secretary of State for Energy. He presents himself as an ardent defender of compromise and debate.\nAfter being elected referee for Joe Biden's upper house, the senator uses his skills as a mediator to inject his conservatism into the more progressive \"Built Back Better\" program. He was newly elected Chairman of the Senate Commission on Energy and Natural Resources, redefining the definitions of this Titanic text. He made more phone calls to both camps and arrived at his home in a luxury yacht parked on the Bodomac River by elected Democrats and Republicans. \"The hottest club in Washington is Joe Manzin's boat.\" Observed in August Washington Post*.\nOn September 29, 2021, protesters on the Potomac River in front of a boat carrying Democratic Senator Joe Munch in Washington (United States). (Alison Bailey \/ Norphoto \/ AFP)\nIn November, his two-party efforts paid off: he received half of the funding for Joe Manz's law, which went from $ 3.5 trillion to $ 1.7 trillion in 10 years. It threw out the entire project's clean electricity performance program, which provided financial incentives and fines for electricity operators to phase out fossil fuels in favor of carbon-free energy.\nThis is not the first time Joe Mans has fired on a law against the fossil fuel industry. Really. In a 2010 campaign clip, Democrats threw live bullets at a law promoted by the Obama administration to combat global warming. \"Because it's not good for West Virginia.\".\nThe first bill he brings to the Senate seeks to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from revoking surface mining permits. In Washington, he fights for pensions and health insurance for former miners, defending the industry like men and women downgraded. But, his own financial interests.\nIn 2016, he upheld legislation restricting the management of mining waste, and more precisely, ash \u2013 one of the by-products of the operation of his company EnergySystems \u2013 has a more rigorous structure. \"More jobs will be lost in West Virginia and the country unnecessarily threatening important industries\". If you write the rules with one hand and play with the other hand, is there a conflict of interest? \"Absolutely not\"The senator responds to reporters who continue to question him on such matters New York Times* In 2011, the Democrats reiterated that his assets had been placed in a blind pension fund as proof of his good faith.\nHowever, if he sends a hand to his son when he becomes governor of West Virginia, he will continue to benefit from the operation of Joe Mans Energy Systems. According to Washington Post*, In 2020 alone, the company paid him a minimum of $ 492,000. Its shares in the company are valued at between one and five million dollars. The blind man, who often works as a joker, says daily that the fund ranges from $ 500,000 to $ 1 million.\nAccording to OpenSecrets* Joe Manzin, who oversees political finance, is also the Democrat senator with the most donations from the coal sector. Keith McCoy, chief campaigner for the oil group Exxon Mobil, said in an interview in July that Unearthed, the intelligence arm of the Greenpeace NGO, was filmed on a hidden camera. \"Someone\" Particular attention in the Arcana of Power: Joe Mancin. \"I talk to his office every week.\", He is proud.\nAfter he refused to support Joe Biden's infrastructure law, progressives attacked the house, stunned, believing that \"bit back Better\" and especially its important social component would benefit residents of West Virginia. The Miners' Union also called on Joe Manzin on Monday, December 20, to reconsider his position. Because of its pro-coal struggle it is causing loss to the people living in this state, to the poorest people in the United States. Although the share of electricity generated by coal increased from 52% in 1990 to 19%, Joe Mansin explains that the rate is 89% in the state. CNN*. Power plants, many of which are dilapidated and unable to meet new environmental standards, require investment, which destroys the competitiveness of the coal and mining waste sold by Energy Systems. Over the years, Americans connected to these types of plants, like West Virginia, have had higher electricity bills.\nHowever, as a senator, he was not always opposed to renewable energies, which created jobs that he knew were invaluable to his state. He did not deny the reality of climate change or the responsibility for human activities. Climate-discount figure, playing Joe Mansin watch. \"We are not in a hurry\", Announced in November*. Gregory Wheatstone explains that direct destruction of coal is a problem for him, and he is the regular speaker of Joe Mancin, the leader of a voluntary organization campaigning in favor of renewable energy. \"In all our conversations so far, he has not wanted to impose fines on fossil fuels, but his line is that he agrees to put pressure on clean energy.\", He confirmed New York Times*.\nSimilarly, the senator wants to bet on the emergence of new technologies \"Clean Coal\", A hand-held chimney, or carbon capture by Donald Trump, is still a testing process. In this context, Joe Mancin's policy of releasing the world's second largest greenhouse gases will leave the entire planet behind in its climate objectives. A butterfly wing flap in Farmington, West Virginia, which contributes to floods, storms and other fires around the world.\n* Links that follow an asterisk lead to English content in green.\nPrevious Omigron: The United States fills its \"drug cabinet\" and rushes to the tests \u2013 12\/23\/2021 07:46 pm\nNext Catalonia introduces curfew order, increasing restrictions in Europe","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Banking\/Financial Service\nInternational Mining Machinery Holdings Limited Announces Shanxi JV with Shanxi Coal Transportation\nHONG KONG, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- International Mining Machinery Holdings Limited (\"IMM\" or \"the Company\"; HKEx: 1683), a leading designer and manufacturer of underground longwall coal mining equipment in China, is pleased to announce that IMM has entered an agreement with Shanxi Coal Tra...\nPTC Earns Prestigious Cisco Authorised Technology Partner Accreditation in Singapore\nSINGAPORE, Dec. 9, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- Leading enterprise data management solutions provider PTC System Pte Ltd (PTC) has been awarded the prestigious Authorised Technology Provider (ATP) -- Data Center United Computing Partner accreditation in Singapore by Cisco. PTC is one of three companies...\nMOL AccessPortal Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Companies of Asia Pacific\nMOL is highest ranking Malaysian firm and ranked 23rd among Asia Pacific's fastest-growing technology companies for 2010 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec. 9, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL), a leading payment service provider for online games, virtual worlds and social network ...\nRegulators Approve Share Transfer of Morgan Stanley's Stake in CICC to TPG, KKR, GIC, and Great Eastern Life\nBEIJING, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall\/ -- KKR, TPG, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd (\"GIC\"), and The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited (\"Great Eastern Life\") have received all required regulatory approvals for the purchase of Morgan Stanley's stake in Chi...\nChina Education Television Association Appointed Mr. Cheng, the Chairman of C Y Foundation as Honorary Director of its Professional Committee\nHONG KONG, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- C Y Foundation Group Limited (\"C Y Foundation\" or the \"Group\", stock code 1182) is pleased to announce today that the China Education Television Association has appointed Mr. Theodore Cheng Chee Tock (\"Mr. Cheng\"), Chairman of the Group, as Honorary Direc...\nWorld Vaccine Leaders to Meet in New Delhi India to Tackle Global Public Health Challenges\nSINGAPORE, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- From the 1st to the 3rd of March 2011, vaccine leaders from developing and developed world will meet at Vaccine World Summit in New Delhi. The event will be hosted by IMAPAC, in partnership with DCVMN (Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network). ...\nBTG Pactual Signs Agreement With International Consortium to Issue US$1.8 Billion in New Shares\nSAO PAULO, RIO DE JANEIRO, LONDON, NEW YORK and HONG KONG, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- BTG Pactual, Brazil's leading investment bank, today announced the signing of an agreement with a consortium of prestigious international investors. The consortium, made up of affiliates of the Government of...\nTongxin International, Ltd. Announces Postponement of Shareholder Meeting\nCHANGSHA, China, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall\/ -- Tongxin International Ltd. (Pink Sheets: TXIC), a China-based manufacturer of engineered vehicle body structures (\"EVBS\") and stamped parts for the commercial automotive industry, today announced that it has postponed its 2010 Annual Share...\nChina Ritar Power Announces Results of Annual General Meeting\nSHENZHEN, China, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall\/ -- China Ritar Power Corp. (Nasdaq: CRTP) (\"China Ritar\" or the \"Company\"), a leading Chinese manufacturer of lead acid batteries, today announced that the Company held its annual general meeting at 10 a.m. Beijing time on December 8, 2010. E...\nVODONE Group Announces the Acquisition of 3GUU\nStrengthens Market Leadership as China's Top Mobile Game Platform BEIJING, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- VODONE Group announced the acquisition of 3GUU, one of China's leading mobile game developers for smart phones. By acquiring 3GUU, VODONE will own 70% of 3GUU shares and become the largest m...\nAirMedia and China Central Television Announce Long-term Strategic Partnership to Operate TV Channel in Air Sector in China\nBEIJING, Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall\/ -- AirMedia Group Inc. (\"AirMedia\") (Nasdaq: AMCN( http:\/\/studio-5.financialcontent.com\/prnews?Page=Quote&Ticker=AMCN )), a leading operator of out-of-home advertising platforms in China targeting mid-to-high-end consumers, and China Central Televisi...\nJackson Square Aviation Announces $400 Million Credit Facility Provided by Four Leading Global Financial Institutions\nSAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- Jackson Square Aviation, LLC (\"JSA\") is pleased to announce that it has closed a $400 million secured credit facility, which provides the company with committed long-term debt capacity. JSA is one of the world's most active commercial aircraft lessors...\nRiverdance Taps Its Way onto the World's Highest Stage, Sands SkyPark\nSINGAPORE, Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- Riverdance, the riveting production and thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance created a unique spectacle on top of Marina Bay Sands' SkyPark by performing on their highest stage to date. The amazing performers of Riverdance, including lead...\nCritical Insider Trade Alerts for QUALCOMM, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, eBay, Chesapeake Energy, Broadcom, & Massey Energy\nVANCOUVER, Canada, Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- Investors can learn more about an investment by following the moves made by company insiders. Insiderslab.com has issued special stock trading reports for the following companies today: QUALCOMM, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, eBay, Chesapeake En...\nSurge in Online Shopping Among Asian Consumers This Holiday Season\nSINGAPORE, Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- With the year-end shopping season upon us, more Asians are choosing to buy online to avoid the crowds, long queues and parking troubles at shopping malls, while benefiting from holiday promotions on a wider variety of items that can be found online. PayPa...\nQiao Xing Mobile Reports Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results\nBEIJING, Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (NYSE: QXM) (''QXM'' or the \"Company''), a domestic manufacturer of mobile handsets in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2010. Third Quarter 2010 Results...\nTongxin International Ltd. Engages Consulting for Strategic Growth 1 as Investor Relations Counsel\nCHANGSHA, China, Dec. 6, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall\/ -- Tongxin International Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: TXIC), a China-based manufacturer of engineered vehicle body structures (\"EVBS\") and stamped parts for the commercial automotive industry, today announced it has retained Consulting for Strat...\nResources Global Professionals Wins Supply Chain Management Award in China\nIRVINE, Calif., Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- Resources Global Professionals (Nasdaq: RECN), a leading multinational provider of professional services, announced that it received the award for Best Supply Chain Consulting Partner from the Global Supply Chain Council based in Shanghai, China....\nFXDD Leases and Moves to Expanded Offices at 7 World Trade Center\nNEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2010 \/PRNewswire-Asia\/ -- FXDD, a leading online Forex broker, announced that the firm has completed its move to new offices totaling 40,000 square feet at 7 World Trade Center, located at 250 Greenwich Street in downtown Manhattan. FXDD formerly occupied space at 75 Park Place. F...\n1 ... 1791179217931794179517961797 ... 2089\nWeek's Top Stories\nMost Reposted\nMalaysia Airlines Launches New Online Shopping Platform by Enrich, Powered by RebateMango\n[Picked up by 123 media titles]\nGibraltar BSN Launches Live Chat for Real-Time Customer Service\nDable, content discovery platform, raises US$12M Series C round for global expansion\nKADDRA, Singapore's leading mobile commerce technology is now integrated with Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) to provide SMEs with a full digital solution\nAgoda 'What Matters 2021' survey: Japanese are most looking forward to traveling unhindered, and spending more quality time with loved ones in 2021\nRibbon and Synnex Expand Reseller Partnership Into the Caribbean and Latin America\nBaidu Announces Plan to Establish an Intelligent EV Company and Forms Strategic Partnership with Geely\nFarmmi Regains Compliance with NASDAQ Minimum Bid Price Requirement\nCognizant to Acquire Servian, a Leading Australian Data and Analytics Consulting Firm\nFuture Fintech Group Inc. 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{"text":"Jordan Mueller, CPA\nJordan Mueller is a corporate shareholder who has been with the firm since 2012. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Masters Degree in Professional Accountancy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Nebraska Society of Certified Public Accountants. Jordan is married to Jennifer Mueller and they have one daughter, Brooke.\nShellee D Honcik, CPA\nShellee Honcik is a corporate shareholder who has been with the firm since 2018. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting and Finance from Wayne State College. She has over 25 years of experience in public accounting. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Nebraska Society of Certified Public Accountants.\nRichard (Rick) Martinsen, CPA\nRick Martinsen joined the firm in 2016 after enjoying a successful private practice for over 40 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a member of the Nebraska Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a founding board member of the Albion Educational Foundation and has served as the Treasurer since its inception in 1981. Rick and his wife Cheryl Martinsen live and work in Albion. His son Aaron and wife Sara live in Katy, Texas and his daughter Angela lives in Lincoln.\nCheryl Martinsen, CPA\nCheryl Martinsen joined the firm in 2016 after having worked in her husband Rick's practice for 24 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and Accounting from the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She is a member of the Nebraska Society of Certified Public Accountants. Cheryl is married to Rick Martinsen and has four adult children: Sarah (Kenny) Nordhues, and Heather, Tyler & Ryan Shotkoski.\nAndrea Tooley, EA\nAndrea Tooley joined the firm in 2018. She has a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Nebraska \u2013 Kearney.\nAmber Jochem, EA\nAmber Jochem joined the firm in 2016. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business from Bellevue University. She has three children; Cory, Cole, and MaKyleigh.\nAmanda Perez\nAmanda has been with the firm since 2011. She has an Associates Degree in Accounting and handles bookkeeping, payroll, and office management duties for the company.\nBrandy Pillen\nBrandy started with the firm in 2015. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration for the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She is married to Deven Pillen.\nMary Jo Laudenklos\nMary Jo joined the firm in 2021 as an accountant. She handles tax returns, payroll and bookkeeping in the Columbus office.\nLeslie Bell\nLeslie joined the firm in 2021. Her focus is on payroll and bookkeeping.\nLindsey Roan\nLindsey joined the firm in 2021 as an accountant. She handles tax returns, payroll and bookkeeping in the Albion office.\nKayD Nauenburg\nKayD Nauenburg joined the firm in 2018. She has an Associates of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting. She was born and raised in Columbus, Nebraska.\nJordan Gustafson\nJordan joined the firm in 2022 as an administrative assistant in the Albion office.\nJan Paul Schmeits, CPA\/PFS\nJan Paul Schmeits has been with the firm since 1981. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has achieved the AICPA designation of Personal Financial Specialist (PFS). He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Nebraska Society of Certified Public Accountants. He also serves on the Chamber of Commerce Finance Committee and is the Chairman of the St. Bonaventure Endowment Fund.\n1365 24th Avenue, Suite 100\nEmail: jmueller@nebcpa.com\n1212 W State Street\nAlbion, NE 68620\nEmail: contact@nebcpa.com","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CLA applies for Extended Collective Licensing\nIFRRO's RRO member, Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), has recently applied to the UK Government to operate an Extended Collective Licensing Scheme (ECL).\nIn 2014, the UK Government introduced the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Extended Collective Licensing) Regulations. These Regulations enable collective management organisations, such as CLA, to apply to operate an Extended Collective Licensing scheme. The ECL enables licensing bodies that represent a significant number of rightsholders belonging to the same class, to extend their licences to cover unrepresented rightsholders in the same class.\nCLA's application for authorisation to operate an ECL scheme was submitted with the full support of their members: the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Scheme (ALCS), Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS), the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS), and the Picture Industry Collecting Society for Effective Licensing (PICSEL). A Government consultation on the application has been launched and can be found here.\nIf the above mentioned application is accepted, the ECL will formalise CLA's rights position and enhance transparency for both rightsholders and users.\nFor more information, please see CLA's press release.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Institutional Data & Student Outcomes\nThe University of Michigan-Dearborn earns its accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the regional accrediting organization approved by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) for degree-granting institutions in the state of Michigan. In addition, colleges and academic programs also receive accreditation by college- and program-specific third party accrediting bodies as noted below.\nAccrediting Information\nAffiliation Status: Accredited (1970 \u2013 present)\nPEAQ Participant; Standard Pathway\nNature of Organization\nLegal Status: Public\nDegrees Awarded: B, M, S, D, C\nConditions of Affiliation\nReports Required: Assurance Report 2017\nOther Visits Scheduled: October 2017\nSummary of Commission Review\nYear of last comprehensive evaluation: 2013 \u2013 2014\nYear for next comprehensive evaluation: 2023 \u2013 2024\nDate of last action: January 22, 2014\nUniversity of Michigan-Dearborn HLC Self-Study August 2013\nHLC Comprehensive Report for UM-Dearborn November 2013\nAccreditation Information by College\nCollege of Arts, Sciences, and Letters\nAffiliation Status: Accredited\nDate of most recent re-accreditation: 2011\nYear of next evaluation: 2021\nThe Association to Advance the Collegiate Schools of Business (AASCB)\nB.S.E. in Bioengineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S. in Computer and Information Science - Accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S.E. in Computer Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S.E. in Electrical Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S.E. in Industrial and Systems Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S.E. in Manufacturing Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S.E. in Robotics Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nB.S. in Software Engineering - Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http:\/\/www.abet.org\nCollege of Education, Health, and Human Services\nCouncil for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)\nDate of most recent re-accreditation: May 2020\n\u200bNational Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)\nFor more information, please visit our HLC Reports & Resources webpage.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home\/Entertainment News\/Van Vicker to award his fans to mark his 43rd birthday celebration\nEntertainment NewsMake money online\nVan Vicker to award his fans to mark his 43rd birthday celebration\nJnr Larry Send an email\nAfrican celebrated Actor Van Vicker will from 1st August which is his birthday to 14th August commence a global loyalty campaign for his fans.\nIn a note he stated that he will be commencing a global loyalty campaign starting on his birthday, and the grace period will last for two weeks.\nHe added that he has couched many ideas on his past birthdays on how to celebrate with his teeming fans.\nHe further explained that this time around it is an unprecedented initiative for many around the world to not only celebrate his 43rd birthday but win prizes from some of his business partners and associates globally.\n\"These are not normal times and anything that will inject some amount of cohesiveness should be welcomed. In this context, the prizes to be won will bring joy and appreciation to many,\" he added.\nAs to what his fans stand to benefit in his loyalty campaign, he hinted that numerous prizes including products and services will be given to many of his fans and people who appreciate his work across the globe to a tune of about $20,000.00.\n\"It is utterly remarkable how many brands and entrepreneurs worldwide have jumped on board because they see this as an opportunity to generate massive awareness for their products and services\".\n\"I am hoping that this will be an even bigger Social Media party so any brand or entrepreneur that wants to join the campaign can drop a WhatsApp message to the number +233542913584\", Van Vicker stated.\nHe concluded that, with his marketing experience, he can promise all brands or companies and entrepreneurs on board that they will enjoy massive benefits including taggings, postings, mentions, etc via my social media pages, leveraging on his huge follower-ship figures on Social Media.\nAll that translates into social media visibilty, increase in followings, increase in awareness, sampling of products and services, traffic to site, quality brand affiliation and many benefits.\nAll that ultimately translate into purchasing of goods and services in the long run.\nThis is how to enter the campaign as a fan:\nFrom August 1-14, 2020 one would have to follow, like and share pictures and or posts that I will post via my social media tagging and mention participating brands.\nVan Vicker will subsequently select winners after one week of reposting, sharing, retweeting etc. and these winners will pick up their prizes from the participating companies in their country of residence.\nThe whole process will be repeated for the second week allowing the campaign to run for a total of two weeks.\nFans or loyals who unfortunately live in countries where there are no participating brands or companies won't be left out.\n\"I will randomly select accounts that I will follow, live chat with, etc for as long as they participate. I envisage this strategy will be adopted by many soon because it is efficient and effective,\" he stated in optimism.\nJnr Larry\nHi \ud83d\udc4b my name is Jnr Larry and I'm a Blogger and a website designer. Contact me @ jnrlarry83@gmail.com.\nKiDi to host virtual concert\nBest gaming PC 2020: the best computers to get into PC gaming\nWendy Shay goes berserk; unfollows everyone on Instagram.\nRBJ's Makaa Maka show coming off soon.\nI am not an Opportunist for marrying a 'sugar mummy' \u2013 Keche Andrew.\nWhy I picked cash sprayed on me at my wedding \u2013 Patapaa\nMeet the judges hearing the election petition case","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cheap flights to Bournemouth\nJetradar compares cheap flights to Bournemouth from 2,500 cities across 728 airlines and hundreds of travel websites from all over the world. We can find the cheapest flights to Bournemouth with no commission or additional cost to you.\nThe most popular tickets to Bournemouth are in May and June. The low season for purchasing tickets is April and July.\nBournemouth is served by these airports: Bournemouth International. Direct flights to Bournemouth are offered by 1 airline.\nDepending on the number of days remaining before departure, the price of airfare for Bournemouth could change by more than 106%.\nJetradar suggest buying flights to Bournemouth in advance in order to choose the conditions for your flight based on your preferences and financial resources.\nGeneral information about Bournemouth\nBournemouth is in United Kingdom. The IATA code (ID) for this city is BOH. The population of Bournemouth is approximately 163 000 people.\nTime zone in Bournemouth: 0 GMT. Please keep in mind that airplane tickets show the local departure time, so you will have to set your watch prior to your flight.\nDirect flights to Bournemouth\nDirect flights from these countries:\nDirect flights from these cities:\nView all destinations from Bournemouth\nAirlines that fly to Bournemouth\nAll airlines that offer direct flights to Bournemouth:\nAirports in Bournemouth\nBournemouth is served by 1 airport: Bournemouth International\nClosest cities and airports to Bournemouth\nThe following major cities and airports are near Bournemouth and, if necessary, could take you to your destination:\nEastleigh near Southampton, Southampton Airport is (38 km to Bournemouth)\nBristol, Bristol is (91 km to Bournemouth)\nShoreham By Sea, Shoreham is (108 km to Bournemouth)\nExeter, Exeter is (111 km to Bournemouth)\nOxford, Oxford (Kidlington) is (117 km to Bournemouth)\nAlderney, The Blaye is (121 km to Bournemouth)\nLondon, Heathrow is (123 km to Bournemouth)\nLondon, Gatwick is (124 km to Bournemouth)\nGloucester, Gloucestershire is (126 km to Bournemouth)\nCardiff, Cardiff is (126 km to Bournemouth)\nLondon, London City Airport is (154 km to Bournemouth)\nLondon, Luton Airport is (159 km to Bournemouth)\nGuernsey, Guernsey is (159 km to Bournemouth)\nPlymouth, Plymouth is (166 km to Bournemouth)\nSwansea, Fairwood Comm is (175 km to Bournemouth)\nJersey, Jersey is (176 km to Bournemouth)\nCoventry, West Midlands International is (178 km to Bournemouth)\nBirmingham, Birmingham International Airport is (186 km to Bournemouth)\nLondon, Stansted is (191 km to Bournemouth)\nLe Havre, Octeville is (194 km to Bournemouth)\nLydd, London Ashford International (Ferryfield) is (195 km to Bournemouth)\nLondon, Southend is (198 km to Bournemouth)\nCaen, Carpiquet is (202 km to Bournemouth)\nCambridge, Cambridge is (211 km to Bournemouth)\nDeauville, St Gatien is (212 km to Bournemouth)\nNewquay, Newquay Cornwall Airport is (227 km to Bournemouth)\nNottingham, East Midlands is (230 km to Bournemouth)\nManston, Kent International is (231 km to Bournemouth)\nDinard, Pleurtuit is (244 km to Bournemouth)\nLe Touquet, Le Touquet is (246 km to Bournemouth)\nLannion, Servel is (254 km to Bournemouth)\nChester, Chester is (275 km to Bournemouth)\nLands End, Lands End is (288 km to Bournemouth)\nManchester, Ringway International Airport is (289 km to Bournemouth)\nLiverpool, Liverpool John Lennon is (293 km to Bournemouth)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"GM's Delphi Forms Joint Venture With Korea's Daesung Electric\nUpdated Dec. 29, 1998 12:01 am ET\nSEOUL, South Korea -- Delphi Automotive Systems, the auto parts unit of General Motors Corp., said it agreed to form a joint venture with Korea's Daesung Electric Co. in exchange for a 45% stake in Daesung.\nThe venture, which will provide parts to Korean auto makers, will operate under the Daesung name, Delphi said Monday.\nDelphi, which will...","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Utah governor signs law allowing firing squads\u2026\nUtah governor signs law allowing firing squads as execution backup method\nMarch 24, 2015, 7:17 am CDT\nUtah Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday signed into law a bill that authorizes the use of firing squads in executions if the state is unable to obtain lethal injection drugs.\nA spokesperson for Herbert, Marty Carpenter, said lethal injection is preferred, but when the drugs aren't available, the executive branch has an obligation to enforce death sentences, report the Associated Press and the Salt Lake Tribune.\nUtah isn't the only state with a backup, the governor's office said. Inmates in Washington state can opt for hanging, which is also a backup in New Hampshire, AP reports. In Oklahoma, firing squads are allowed if a court strikes down lethal injection and the electric chair on constitutional grounds.\nUtah had allowed inmates to choose firing squads before the legislature approved lethal injections in 2004. Inmates sentenced before the new law took effect still had the option of firing squad executions.\nStates | Criminal Justice | Death Penalty | Utah\nAfternoon Briefs: New ACLU lawyer gets arrested; top Chicago lawyer resigns after video uproar\nFor first time in history, federal government carried out more civilian executions than all 50 states\nWhat are ethics issues for lawyers practicing remotely from a different state during the pandemic?\nDeloitte is monitoring regulatory reforms but is focused on growing new practice\nDOJ rule change would allow some executions by firing squad and electrocution","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home Adventure Games Phoenix Wright 6's setting marks the biggest departure for the core series\nPhoenix Wright 6's setting marks the biggest departure for the core series\nAlso, dead people vision\nI'm pretty happy that Phoenix Wright has permeated throughout the gaming industry. He has a full-on combat appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, his own live-action film, a crossover with Professor Layton, and now, as a summon in Project X Zone 2.\nOh, and his core games are actually pretty good. Based on my playthrough ofPhoenix Wright 6 at TGS, I have nothing to worry about with the latest entry in the series.\nEschewing the typical setting for the series, Phoenix departs for the eastern country of Kulain, which itself houses its own unique culture, shrouded in mystery. Phoenix Wright 6takes a more mystical stance with its presentation, allowing players to see the last moments of victims using \"spirit vision.\" This particular mechanic allows for more depth during court cases, as you can use their last moments as an actual defense \u2014 provided that you sift through the details.\nAlthough the demo was in Japanese I was able to get some background on the scenario at hand, and since it controls similarly to the previous games, it was easy to fumble my way through. The mission I encountered featured a young tour guide, who was accused of murder and theft. As usual, the prosecutor (sporting a crown and an absurd haircut) and the judge were over-the-top and extremely dramatic in their movements, which all adds to the allure of the series as a legitimately fun courtroom drama. Phoenix, of course, is still lovable based on his facial expressions alone.\nI didn't end up solving the case within my allotted time limit, but I had a lot of fun playing it. The 3D looks great and isn't overused, with Capcom instead opting to utilize the effect to let text and objects pop where they need to. I also adore the new visual style of the courtroom, and the mystical aspects are all well implemented well from a thematic standpoint.\nEvery game in thePhoenix Wright series iterates in some way, and 6is perhaps one of the more noticeable shifts. While I tend to pick up the core entries some time after launch, I may be changing my tune for this one.\nPrevious articleThe Last Guardian is making a\u2026unique appearance at TGS 2015\nNext articleCONFIRMED: Star Ocean 5 lady wears clothes","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"You are here: Home \/ Eufa \/ Liverpool vs Chelsea eufa super cup final 15.8.2019\nLiverpool vs Chelsea eufa super cup final 15.8.2019\nChampions League (CL) winners Liverpool take on Europa League (EL) champions Chelsea in the 44th UEFA Super Cup (USC). This will be the first-ever all-English USC, and it's already 'advantage Liverpool', given that this match has been won by the reigning CL holders 23 times (53.49%).\nThe match will be played at Vodafone Park in Istanbul, Turkey on 14 August 2019. The match will be the first all-English UEFA Super Cup, and the eighth overall Super Cup to feature two teams from the same country.\nLiverpool was also the last English side to win this trophy, doing so in 2005, and this will be their sixth appearance (W3, L2). Victory would see the 'Reds' move to joint-second in the all-time list behind Barcelona and Milan (five USC wins each). Encouragingly, Liverpool is unbeaten in six UEFA competition matches against fellow English sides (W4, D2).\nChelsea is appearing in its fourth Super Cup (W1, L2), losing in both 2012 and 2013. Their recent start to the Premier League campaign could not have been worse with Frank Lampard's first match in charge ending in a 4-0 loss to Manchester United.\nAgainst Liverpool, however, Chelsea has conceded more than one goal just once in the last six competitive H2Hs (W2, D3, L1). Three of those matches ended 1-1, and a whopping 75% of the goals in these matches arrived after the break.\nPlayers to watch: Second goalscorer vs Norwich on Friday night, Mohamed Salah (LIV) scored a screamer from outside the box in the second half of the last H2H.\nOlivier Giroud (CHE), meanwhile, showed his European pedigree by scoring in the EL final, and he's scored six goals in 11 starts against Liverpool.\nStat attack: The CL winner has won seven of the last ten finals, five of which have needed either extra time (four times) or penalties (once) to be decided.\nLiverpool has won three of four UEFA penalty shootouts entered, while Chelsea has won just two of five.\nAcross the 43 previous USC finals, five red cards have been shown and just one own goal scored.\nWill not play\n(Calf Injury)\nHudson-Odoi C.\n(Achilles Tendon Injury)\nClyne N.\n(Knee Injury)\n(Ankle Injury)\nLoftus-Cheek R.\nvan Ginkel M.\nKeita N.\n(Injury)\nKante N.\n(Knock)\nRudiger A.\nReferee: Frappart S. (Fra),\nVenue: Vodafone Park (Istanbul)\nLive streaming Liverpool vs Chelsea 15.8.019, here\nWritten by mynewspo-admin \u00b7 Categorized: Eufa \u00b7 Tagged: live streaming liverpool vs chelsea eufa super cup final 15.8.2019, live streaming liverpool vs chelsea final eufa cup 15.8.2019, liverpool vs chelsea","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"democide\nracewar\ncollapsifornia\nBill Gates spends another $7 billion to mass murder black babies in Africa\nAt a recent event in Nairobi, Kenya, billionaire eugenicist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced that he is sending another $7 billion to Africa to help fund more abortions of black babies.\n\"Constantly reducing maternal mortality, constantly reducing neonatal mortality, under-5 mortality, that's really the metric that drives our foundation,\" Gates revealed in no uncertain terms about his four-year pledge.\nThere are strings attached to the money, of course. Many African countries that are currently pro-life will need to dismantle these laws and allow for legalized baby murder in order to receive the cash.\n\"Abortion is illegal or heavily restricted across most of the continent,\" one report explains. \"But money has a way of maneuvering around the law, and ultimately, much of the reason for pushing tremendous sums on developing countries is to dismantle established laws that protect unborn life.\"\n\"In this context, $7 billion could go a long way toward undermining what people actually want for their countries.\" (Related: Bill Gates developed an enzyme called \"luciferase\" that was part of the plan for Wuhan coronavirus [Covid-19] \"vaccines.\")\nWill the globalists succeed in their pro-death agenda for Africa?\nOn the same day that Gates made his African holocaust announcement, the Geneva Consensus women's health group convened at the United States Capitol to commemorate its second anniversary and advocate for pro-life causes.\nGeneva Consensus is the world's leading government coalition advocating for children and families. It represents 36 countries across five continents and just so happens to hold as part of its mission statement the position that women's health issues should not be held hostage by \"ideological agendas.\"\nIt just so happens that Gates is trying to push his pro-death ideological agendas on Africa, using money and greed as a lure. Unlike countries in the West, many African countries place great value on human life and frown upon the murder of unborn children, which is something Gates wants to change.\nThe U.S. used to be a member of Geneva Consensus, but not since the nation was transformed by globalism into a culture of death and destruction. Human life no longer has any value in America, which is being forced into a \"green\" agenda of \"sustainability,\" sustainability being code for depopulation and mass genocide in the name of \"progress.\"\nThe purpose of Geneva Consensus, according to Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), is to ensure that \"international law and international agreements are not rewritten to invent an international right to abortion that would override the duly enacted laws of your countries protecting pre-born babies,\" which is exactly what Gates is trying to do in Africa.\nGeneva Consensus also has a Declaration that aims to protect countries like those in Africa from being lured into abandoning their protections of the unborn in exchange for filthy lucre.\nThe hope is that the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade will empower developing countries to reject pressures from Gates and his ilk to alter their values and way of life.\nFake president Joe Biden is another globalist goon that Africa needs to beware of as his regime is currently leading the pack in contributing taxpayer dollars to abortion abroad. In 2022, the Biden regime increased its annual budget for international \"sexual and reproductive health and rights\" services by 9 percent.\n\"Big donors such as the Gates Foundation and the U.S. government should take heed of the Geneva Consensus,\" writes Sean Adl-Tabatabai for Newspunch.\n\"Governments at the receiving end of their 'help' can speak for themselves, and together, they are speaking loud and clear \u2013 every person is born with inherent dignity and the right to life, and real women's health gains should never be held hostage by the abortion agenda.\"\nThe latest news about Bill Gates and his depopulation efforts can be found at Genocide.news.\nNewspunch.com\nTagged Under: abortion, Africa, babies, bill gates, black, black people, depopulation, extinction, Geneva Consensus, genocide, Globalism, globalist elites, technocrats\nAudio obtained from Event 201 launch announcement in 2019 reveals covid to be a WEF-sponsored war games simulation\nThe Biden cabal will scurry away like cowardly RATS with their tails between their legs to their bunkers before triggering nuclear Armageddon in their rush to depopulate the planet\nKing of the globalists: Charles III is a key figure behind WEF that's pushing the Great Reset\nFirst it was covid lockdowns, next it'll be \"climate change lockdowns\"\nWith globalists using food as a weapon, skyrocketing violence in Democrat-run cities all across America will explode when people realize the food chain they knew is never coming back\nGlobalists building \"Technological Noah's Ark\" to save themselves from mass extinction event\nYuval Noah Harari says globalists have created a \"technological Noah's Ark\" (transhumanism) to escape mass extinction event they're unleashing\nThe Sheriff Mack Show: 2020 US election fraud is greatest coup against the American people \u2013 Brighteon.TV\n\"Cash free\" central bank digital currency roll out coming in December?\nAbsolute proof globalists knew it could 'take years for all hell to break loose' following release of a 'new vaccine', setting world up for death and depopulation\nIn new video, Mike Adams and Steve Quayle warn about the \"planned\" and \"orchestrated\" extermination of the human race\nPlanet Lockdown Director James Patrick: COVID-19 pandemic is being run by central bankers\nPutin threatens \"bloodbath\" if country resists Russian forces as troops near Kiev\nThe Health Ranger talks about humanity's awakening with Pastor Leon Benjamin \u2013 Brighteon.TV\nFormer Canadian provincial premier calls out COVID tyranny, says 'end game' is a global 'reset'\nAfghanistan collapse signals world nations to abandon the PETRO DOLLAR \u2026 America's last days are upon us\nJoe Biden's going to get us all killed! Prepare for World War 3 and nuclear annihilation with America sent back to the Dark Ages if Biden and Democrats get their way\nScrabble bans \"offensive\" words to appease \"cancel culture\" mob\nLeftists go full libtard, now pushing idea that MEN have periods because biological reality no longer exists for deranged progressives\nCOPYRIGHT \u00a9 2018 ENDGAMES.NEWS\nAll content posted on this site is protected under Free Speech. Endgame.news is not responsible for content written by contributing authors. The information on this site is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice of any kind. Endgame.news assumes no responsibility for the use or misuse of this material. All trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks mentioned on this site are the property of their respective owners.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"IT EN ES BR DE \u4e2d\u56fd\nroad overview\nrace overview\nlife overview\nPirelli World\nspecial channels overview\nMoto Tyres\nPirelli in brief\nPirelli's history\nCert pirelli\nConsumer tyres\nManufacturing and retail\nPirelli's model\nMain performance indicators\nMulti-stakeholder approach\nMain sustainability policies\nCertification and management standards\nSustainability channel\nStakeholder identification and management guidelines\nThe ethical code\nAnti-corruption program\nSocial responsibility policy for occupational health, safety and rights, and environment\nGlobal human rights policy\nHealth, safety and environment policy\nProduct stewardship policy\nGreen sourcing policy\nEqual opportunities statement\nPolicy corporate lobbying\nGlobal personal data protection policy\nAntitrust program\nGlobal antitrust and fair competition policy\nSustainable natural rubber\nPirelli corporate governance pillars\nBoard of directors and corporate bodies\nBylaws and deed of incorporation\nCorporate governance reports\nRegulations for shareholder meetings\nPrinciples and procedure\nShareholders agreements\nSystem of internal control\nSupervisory body\nManager responsible for the preparation of the corporate financial documents\nKey manager\nDeed of incorporation\nGroup code of conduct\nMarket abuse procedure\nTransactions with related parties procedure\nProcedure for information flows\nOrientiation of the board of directors towards the maximun number of appointments\nDiversity and independence statement\nPirelli group\nInstitutional relations - corporate lobbyng\nProgram antitrust\nSustainable natural rubber policy\nRisk governance\nRisk factors and uncertainty\nSelf-regulatory code\nDirectors' appointment\nFunctions and powers of the board of directors\nGiorgio luca bruno\nYang xingqiang\nBai xinping\nLaura cioli\nZe'ev goldberg\nDomenico de sole\nGiovanni lo storto\nTao haisu\nMarisa pappalardo\nCristina scocchia\nGiovanni tronchetti provera\nFan xiahoua\nWei yintao\nRen jianxin\nMarco tronchetti provera\nDirectors' attendance to the board\nNing gaoning\nStatutory auditors' appointment\nFunctions of the board of the statutory auditors\nPirelli in the stock market\nReports and results\nTyre market watch\nShare performance tool\nIpo documentation\nPresentations and webcasts\nCash flow & nfp\nTax overview\n2018 financial goals achievement\nInvestments and divestments\nAnnual general meeting and board of directors\nFinancial notices\n2019 financial outlook\n2019 market outlook\nF1 press area\nProduct press area\nPirelli in telecom\nLife@pirelli\nLife @ pirelli\nInternational mobility\nPay policy and benefits\nPIRELLI.COM \/ WORLD\nAndrew Sean Greer: the power of humorous writing\nThe 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer talks about his book, Less, and what literature means to someone who has decided that telling the story of himself and others has to take the path of light-heartedness\nLess, the novel that earned Andrew Sean Greer the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, often makes for hilarious reading. Its story of a white, gay, middle-aged American writer, in crisis in both his love life and his work, risks coming across as autobiographical \u2013 which the author admits is partly true. But Greer chooses to venture beyond the personal memoir. He pinpoints the writer's idiosyncrasies, his biggest fears \u2013 that are in many ways common to us all \u2013 and pops each one like a balloon to bring it down to earth.\nLess offers Greer's recipe for life: chipping away at preconceptions, alleviating dark worries, moving beyond the appearances and inner barriers that, if left unchallenged, threaten to overwhelm us. Like his character, Arthur Less, Greer casts a discerning eye over contemporary reality and maintains an irreverent perspective, first and foremost with regard to himself.\nTeresa Bellemo met him at a literary festival in Italy, where dressed like the archetypal American abroad \u2013 white linen suit, loafers and slightly overheated \u2013 he explained how this attitude is fundamental to see him through moments of darkness. He also praised the freedom that technology is bringing to so many, noting that gay people, for example, are able to feel more at ease today thanks to social networks. \"They realise the world is full of people who can be their allies,\" he says. \"It's like a revolution.\"\nWhat does control mean for you?\nI think about power. Right now the whole world is about power. People with power and people without power, and the struggle to control your own life.\nWe can talk about this kind of control, about our experiences of what we do with our lives and how we use technology to gain control over them. The phone, for instance. It seems like a means for controlling our lives and making them easier, but that's how technology controls us. It isn't really freedom and we have to be careful what we're doing.\nCan you explain this idea a bit more?\nI'm from San Francisco where everyone uses their phone for everything. While it feels like freedom, in reality your choices become limited by a computer. And I think that's one of the choices that the next generation has to make. Turning off the phone sometimes gives you more control, a different type of control.\nHumanity has likely never known an era of greater freedom, but it seems we feel obliged to control or put some restrictions on our lives. Whether it's using phones or choosing politicians who impose borders and controls on populations.\nIt seems as if all countries \u2013 most conspicuously the United States \u2013 are electing people who are drawing lines and recognising certain groups of people as more human than others. It feels like a backwards step and it's a mystery to me; I have no desire to control anybody.\nDo you think we're afraid of freedom?\nSometimes we realise that freedom means other people are also free, and this surprises us because when other people are free they make different choices from our own. If we're afraid and if lots of people can't cope with their neighbours being so different, that's not freedom. That's totalitarianism.\nIn your book, Less, being homosexual is normalised and even something that we can laugh about.\nYou know there are so many books about homosexuality written by gay people in which homosexuality is a struggle; it's a difficult, lonely existence. I wanted to write a book in which the main character is human, and I think we're ready in our countries to acknowledge this humanity. Maybe it's nice to share our humanity instead of talking about our dramas all the time.\nDo you think people are finally ready to see homosexuality in this \"normalised\" way?\nI think people are ready. Obviously in many Western countries our leaders keep saying stupid things and then you realise that there's still a lot of work to be done. I think this work has to happen through individual people knowing \u2013 and realising that they have \u2013 friends and family members who are gay. They love those people and those people haven't changed just through being gay, they're just humans. And that's the most powerful thing, even more than politics.\nYou made the character Arthur Less uncool, unremarkable and very funny. Why?\nI'll give you a personal answer. It's also the reason why the book is funny and not over-serious. I was going through a very sad period in my life and I was so sad that I felt I couldn't write a sad book. As an American I was also realising how dumb I am about the world, so I enjoyed creating a character who's a bit like me: innocent, a fool. This is how I express my sadness; I think humour is a good way of doing it.\nSocial networks and apps are tools for meeting other people, not only for friendship but also for relationships and dating. Do you think this technology helps us to move out of our comfort zones?\nThese days when you meet someone in person \u2013 an old friend, a prospective lover, whatever \u2013 you've already talked to them virtually for two hours before getting into a deeper conversation, so you can go straight to a truer relationship. Talking to people online feels a bit like a performance, I don't talk with anyone very deeply, but it's also my job so I'm careful not to make myself vulnerable. For gay people, who are often lonely, it's been like a revolution because they realise the world is full of people who can be their allies. It's a life-changing moment when you see that you can go beyond your comfort zone. And I think that's true of all types of people who feel lonely.\nThere are a lot of funny scenes in your book. What's the strangest situation you've been involved in?\nThere are a lot that I didn't put in the book, but one of the strangest \u2013 which does briefly appear in the book \u2013 happened when I was interviewing the horror writer Anne Rice. She writes vampire novels and is a bestselling author in the US. It was Halloween and they told me I had to wear a vampire costume, and everyone in the audience was dressed the same way. It was a pretty weird event.\nThese days writers have to do a lot of extra things like that, they have to travel the world for literary events, write a blog, use social networks. Do you think that the role of the pure writer is finished?\nThere are some writers who don't do those things, they refuse to. And even a writer like me \u2013 I'm on the social networks, I'm going on tour, I'm travelling the world \u2013 even I have already set aside a period when I'll turn everything off, I'll retreat to the countryside for a month and a half, I won't answer emails and I'll be a pure writer again. I think every writer does that, because you can't do all these things and write as well. You can do them for a while, because it's fun, and then you stop completely. 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{"text":"SimonArlidge.COM\nFake News: Out now!\nCD: Burnham Beach\nCD: Just One Look\nNot in Nashville CD\nTrafalgar Square CD FREE!\nMusic and musicians\nEver since I picked up my first guitar in 1968 I've been writing songs. It's never changed. The moment the guitar's in my hands the process starts and it's always led by the music first. Words come fractionally - or much - later but it's the chord that strikes the first note (hah!). Influences are harder to gauge but I'm no different to any other songwriter in that it's a complex mix. Still I can point the finger of blame at some individuals and groups who have dominated my early listening. If you listen to my tunes and words then a few stand out and come through in the songs: Arlo Guthrie\/Eagles\/Steve Forbert\/Bob Dylan\/Leonard Cohen in one corner. The earthy rock tunes of Bruce Springsteen is another with the complexity of Pink Floyd and Supertramp in the third corner, which leaves the final corner. OK it's all too much but the final corner was\/is that myriad of great songs that kept (and keep) incentivising the soul - Frank Sinatra (the world's greatest voice?) and more latterly the likes of Keane and Adele (just to remind me that great tunes and great bands\/singers always shine through).\nSo, on the first CD\/album - Trafalgar Square? Quite an eclectic mix with hints of Dylan, Springsteen, Guthrie and Pink Floyd - I'm sure anyone could find each influence in one or more of the songs. In 1983 - at the start of my 29 year break from live performances - being too eclectic was regarded as a sign of weakness - today I know it isn't. I hope you like it.\nJust One Look musically developed to the point where it's now much harder to identify a clear influence on most of the songs. Sure there's the odd song that you may say has this or that influence but musically things have moved on - a lot. Now it's the music of Simon Arlidge. That's it. Enjoy. Available on itunes, Amazon and selected outlets.\nAnd now we have Burnham Beach. Soon to be released and more fine tuning. The music's 'grown up' a bit and has become more pop orientated but with that Eagles\/Floyd\/Dylan base that defines my music. It's finally coming together in a new sound that covers a wide audience - I think you'll enjoy it!\nKey early influences: albums\nArlo Guthrie Hobo's Lullaby 1972\nPink Floyd Dark Side of the moon 1973\nBob Dylan Desire and Blood on the Tracks 1975\nSteve Forbert Jack Rabbit Slim 1979\nBruce Springsteen The River 1980\n[You might ask why such a focus on the early influences? What about the newer influences? Yes, there are plenty of bands influencing me right now and some of the new songs for Burnham Beach are verging on Country Pop not Rock! But, while the past may be a foreign country, it's still impossible to escape]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The Literary Route on Romanticism\nWith reenactments, street performances, poetry, theatre and gastronomy activities, Almendralejo pays tribute to two great Romantic literature authors who were born in the town.\nRuta Literaria del Romanticismo\nA trip to the 19th century with Jos\u00e9 de Espronceda and Carolina Coronado\nPlaza de la Iglesia, 16\n06200 Almendralejo , Badajoz (Extremadura)\nDisplay nearby places\nContact person: Oficina de Turismo de Almendralejo\nEmail: turismo@almendralejo.es\nWebsite address: https:\/\/www.almendralejo.es\/\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/odealmendralejo\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/otalmendralejo\nAlmendralejo is the birthplace of Jos\u00e9 de Espronceda (1808-1842) and Carolina Coronado (1820-1911), two of the most representative exponents of 19th-century Spanish Romantic literature. Any Spaniard will be able to recite to you the famous verses from Espronceda's \"Song of The Pirate\": The breeze fair aft, all sails on high,\/ Ten guns on each side mounted seen,\/ She does not cut the sea, but fly,\/ A swiftly sailing brigantine.\nTo pay tribute to these two great authors and disseminate their work, in early June the capital of Tierra de Barros organizes the Literary Route on Romanticism, in October 2017 declared of Tourist Interest in Extremadura.\nFor several days there are historical re-enactments, performances, poetry recitals, parades, concerts and competitions, among other activities. There are also children\u00b4s workshops, fencing displays, a craft market and traditional trades. In addition, the 'Carolina Coronado Novel Award' is presented, organized by Almendralejo Town Hall and whose jury panel is composed of writers of renowned national prestige.\nIn the land of good wine and cava, the Literary Route on the Romanticism proposes wine tasting sessions, visits to wineries and \"romantic tapas\" prepared by establishments all over the town.\n*(Las im\u00e1genes de la galer\u00eda han sido cedidas por la Oficina de Turismo de Almendralejo).\nTourist Interest in Extremadura\nEvent subject:\nPopular traditions\nSingle people\nMuseum of Wine Sciences\nLearn the wine culture of Tierra de Barros\nMUVI - Villafranca de los Barros Museum\nYour visit to the MUVI Museum is a journey through the history of Villafranca de los Barros from the Copper Age, from which the first evidence of population can be dated, to the present time.\nAlmendralejo Church of La Purificaci\u00f3n SPA\nA church that shelters different species of birds, and is consequently catalogued as a protected space.\nSierras Centrales y Embalse de Alange Special Protection Area (SPA) for Birds\nThe area boasts a wide variety of habitats, providing a home for the abundant local wildlife.\nAlange reservoir\nAn enormous concrete dam holds back the water near Alange, close to M\u00e9rida\nSolana de los Barros\nThe aroma of wine and olive oil, its white streets dotted with ancestral homes and palaces endow this town a special air.\nThis town in the province of Badajoz has a long musical tradition, as is borne out by its local festivals, but in addition it has fertile lands where wine with protected denomination of origin is produced.\nSurrounded by wild olive trees, the symbols of this town are its water and its garlic.\nThis town takes its name from a square marble fountain from the Renaissance period, the sign of a town that has been marked by history from the outset\nWhat are you looking for in Extremadura?\nWe can help you to find places, accommodation, interesting sites...\nPlease write what you are looking for...\nEvents in Extremadura\nAll future events\nThe weather in Extremadura:\nOther tourist webs (opens in a new window)\nSelect a web Birding in Extremadura Birds Festival - City of C\u00e1ceres Common crane Festival FIO Extremadura Cheese Route of Extremadura Route of Queen Isabella International Tagus National Park Extremadura BTT (MTB) Proyecto \"Life ZEPA Urban\"\nCopyright \u00a9 2014-2019 Direcci\u00f3n General de Turismo. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Force1usa.com\nDignitas partners with digital banking platform Zytara \u2013 Esports Insider\nFollowing the esports organisation's rebranding yesterday, Dignitas has announced a new partnership with financial technology firm Zytara.\nThe partnership will see the release of Dignitas-branded Zytara debit cards and app skins. Moreover, both entities will collaborate on a range of content about driving awareness around financial solutions for gamers.\nRELATED: Zytara plans to launch banking platform for gamers in 2021\nSpeaking exclusively to Esports Insider, Zytara Founder and CEO Al Burgio highlighted the importance of its first-ever esports strategic partnership being with a global entity, such as Dignitas.\nHe said: \"It's very important for us to have widely recognised and respected teams as partners. That's not to say that we won't consider other organisations along the way, but out of the gate, it's very important for us. It's not just about being widely recognised, but it's also about common interests.\n\"We have that with Dignitas, financial literacy and financial inclusion is very important. Being tech first is also very important to them as a company, and obviously, all of those we have in common. We believe that really makes for a very successful relationship.\"\nZytara officially announced its plans to launch a digital banking platform tailored towards gamers and younger generations in December last year. The platform's features are set to include integrated automated payments for online gaming tournaments, player-to-player transfers and 'easy-to-use' parental controls, alongside the limited-edition Dignitas themed cards and application skins.\nRELATED: Dignitas launches rebrand; revives historic logo with modern twist\nAs previously mentioned, Dignitas completed its latest rebranding yesterday, with the organisation announcing the return of its Alien logo and mascot 'Digi', ahead of the upcoming League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) 2021 Spring Split.\nSpeaking about the timing of Dignitas' rebranding, Burgio commented: \"We're really honoured that we can partake in the celebration of their new look. Beyond showing a new jersey and so forth, we now also provide another lens for Digi. So I think that's really fortuitous for us timing-wise.\"\nJohn Spiher, Vice President of Partnerships at Dignitas, also spoke on the organisation's latest partnership: \"Partnering with a brand as dedicated to the financial education and success of our athletes, creators, and community as we are is an extremely valuable opportunity.\n\"We look forward to working alongside Zytara to create innovative fan experiences focused on bringing their digital payment innovations to life.\"\nThe Dignitas-branded Zytara cards are expected to be made available in early 2021, however, fans can already register on the banking platform's website in order to notified of their availability.\nEsports Insider says: Dignitas' partnership with Zytara already looks promising, particularly the launch of branded debit cards. Moreover, Dignitas be able to create additional content which can centre around financial information, meanwhile, Zytara's association with the organisation will boost its profile.\nRead The Esports Journal\nPosted in eSportsTagged Digital, dignitas, Partners, with\nRazerCon to be Online Event to Showcase its Lifestyle and Hardware Brands\nBIG, MAD Lions Advance To Semi-Finals on Day 1 of DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020\nAllan Phang Transitions from AirAsia to EVOS Esports\nCyberpunk 2077 NPC Drops Bar While Benching, Spotters Couldn't Care Less\nQuantum Metric raises $200 million to help enterprises build digital products faster\nAssassin's Creed Valhalla: Where To Find All Of...\nPokemon: How To Breed Shiny Pokemon With The...\nRing rolls out end-to-end video encryption after a class action lawsuit\nTelehealth startup NeuroFlow raises $20 million to expand its network of care providers\nPC players will have to re-buy Hitman 2...\nCommunity fans pay homage to the show with...\nShadowlands finally fixed World of Warcraft's endgame\nCopyright \u00a9 2021 Force1usa.com. All rights reserved.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Biography of Brian Cox\nImportant Physicists\nPhysics Laws, Concepts, and Principles\nCosmology & Astrophysics\nThe rock star scientist who made particle physics cool\nby Andrew Zimmerman Jones\nAndrew Zimmerman Jones is a science writer, educator, and researcher. He is the co-author of \"String Theory for Dummies.\"\nPhysics has had a number of figures who have not only advanced scientists' understanding of the universe but also pushed forward a greater understanding of complex scientific questions among the general population. Think of Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and Stephen Hawking, all of whom stood out from among the crowd of stereotypical physicists to present physics to the world in their distinctive styles and found an audience of non-scientists for whom their presentations strongly resonated.\nThough not yet as accomplished as these iconic physicists, British particle physicist Brian Cox certainly fits the profile of the celebrity scientist. He rose to prominence first as a member of British rock bands in the early 1990s before ultimately transitioning to work as an experimental physicist, exploring the cutting edge of particle physics. Though well-respected among physicists, it is his work as an advocate for science communication and education in which he really stands out from the crowd. He is a popular figure in British (and worldwide) media discussing matters of scientific importance, not only in the realm of physics but also more broadly on subjects of public policy and embracing secular principles of rationality.\nBirthdate: March 3, 1968\nSpouse: Gia Milinovich\nMusic Career\nBrian Cox was a member of the rock band Dare in 1989 until the band split up in 1992. In 1993, he joined the UK rock band D:Ream, which had a number of hits, including the number one \"Things Can Only Get Better,\" which went on to be used as a political election anthem in England. D:Ream disbanded in 1997, at which point Cox (who had been studying physics all along and earned his Ph.D.) went on to practicing physics full time.\nPhysics Work\nBrian Cox received his doctorate in physics from the University of Manchester, completing his thesis in 1998. In 2005, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He splits his time between work at the University of Manchester and at the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the Large Hadron Collider. Cox's work is on both the ATLAS experiment and the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment.\nPopularizing Science\nBrian Cox has not only performed extensive research, but has also worked hard to help popularize science to lay audiences, especially through repeated appearances on the BBC programs such as The Big Bang Machine.\nIn 2014, Brian Cox hosted a BBC Two 5-part television miniseries, The Human Universe, which explored humanity's place in the universe by exploring the history of our growth as a species and also tackling existential questions such as \"Why are we here?\" and \"What is our future?\" He also released a book, called The Human Universe (co-authored with Andrew Cohen), in 2014.\nTwo of his speeches are available as TED lectures, where he explains the physics being performed (or not being performed) at the Large Hadron Collider. He has co-authored the following books with fellow British physicist Jeff Forshaw:\nWhy Does E=mc2 (And Why Do We Care?) (2009)\nThe Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does) (2011)\nHe is also a co-host of the popular BBC radio program Infinite Monkey Cage, which is released worldwide as a podcast. In this program, Brian Cox joins with British actor Robin Ince and other guests of renown (and sometimes scientific expertise) to discuss subjects of scientific interest with a comedic twist.\nInternational Fellow of The Explorer's Club, 2002\nLord Kelvin prize from the British Association (for his work popularizing science), 2006\nInstitute of Physics' Kelvin Prize, 2010\nOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2010\nInstitute of Physics' President's medal, 2012\nRoyal Society's Michael Faraday Prize, 2012\nIn addition to the above awards, Brian Cox has been recognized with a variety of honorary degrees.\nHow Does Quantum Physics Relate to Elementary Particle Physics?\nSupersymmetry: A Possible Ghostly Connection Between Particles\nBiography of Stephen Hawking, Physicist and Cosmologist\nThe Cyclotron and Particle Physics\nBiography of John Dalton, the 'Father of Chemistry'\nWhat to Know About The Rolling Stones\nTypes of Rocks\nBiography of Guglielmo Marconi, Italian Inventor and Electrical Engineer\nLearn the Basic Concepts of Physics in Scientific Study\nThe Energy Field Behind the \"God Particle\"\nBiography of Brian May, Rock Star and Astronomer\nThese Are the 5 Great Unsolved Problems in Physics\nWhat Is Time? Here's a Simple Explanation\n91 Famous Female Scientists to Know About\nBiography of Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist\nBiography of Dean Kamen, American Engineer and Inventor","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"YANKEES MAY GUN FOR MANNY\nBy George A. King III\nPHILADELPHIA -Manny Ramirez doesn't fit the Yankees' desire to get younger and more athletic, but several industry sources believe the Yankees will make a serious push for the free agent to play right field next year.\nThough GM Brian Cashman says the top offseason priority is starting pitching, he did not rule out interest in the 36-year-old Ramirez.\n\"We are looking at starting pitching,\" Cashman said when asked about the team's interest in Ramirez. \"We will see how the free agent and trade markets are.\"\nThe Dodgers have offered Ramirez a two-year deal worth $60 million to remain in Los Angeles, but he is expected to file for free agency and look for a four-year deal in the $80 million range.\n* Phillies GM Pat Gillick, who has been hinting that he would be retiring at the end of this season, appeared to have second thoughts after winning his third career World Series after last night's 4-3 victory over the Rays. His first two titles were with Toronto.\nGillick said he is not prepared to make a decision regarding his retirement. \"Let's focus on tonight,\" he said. \"We'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow.\"\n* Phillies officials said fewer than 1,000 fans with tickets from Monday's suspended game did not return for the final 3\u00bd innings last night.\n* With Ken Macha about to be named the Brewers' manager over Bob Brenly and Willie Randolph, there are signs that Brewers pitching coach Mike Maddux is headed to the Rangers. The Rangers recently were denied permission to talk to Maddux, but his contract runs out tomorrow.\nMORE: Complete Yankees Coverage\nMORE: Yankees Blog\nFiled under new york yankees\nPhillies to Mets: Drop dead!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Newskeyboard_arrow_up\nEverything K\u0101piti e-newsletterkeyboard_arrow_down\nGet involvedkeyboard_arrow_down\nCalendar of meetings and forumskeyboard_arrow_down\nThings to do in K\u0101pitikeyboard_arrow_down\nHomeWhat's OnNews2018Managing Crypto in our community\nManaging Crypto in our community\nFollowing on from the reported link between the Raumati splash pad and cryptosporidium, the K\u0101piti Coast District Council would like to remind people who've recently had diarrhoea or a tummy upset that they shouldn't swim in public pools or attend splash pads for at least two weeks, as bugs like crypto can spread quickly in shared water.\n\"As soon as the Council was notified that there was a possible connection at the Raumati splash pad, we took appropriate action and closed the splash pad as a precautionary measure,\" says Mr Pedersen. \"We are working with Regional Public Health who are the lead agency on this matter.\"\nThe best way to prevent cryptosporidiosis infection is to always practice good hand washing and drying after using the toilet, changing nappies, and before preparing or eating food. Stay home from school or childcare centres until 48 hours after the diarrhoea stops. Also, remember not to share bugs by avoiding swimming pools and splash pads while sick and for two weeks after symptoms stop.\nCryptosporidium is a parasite that lives in the intestines of people, birds, and animals. It produces cysts (eggs) that can survive in the environment for a long time. When a person, bird, or animal is infected they pass out the cysts in their faeces.\nCryptosporidium is most often spread by hands contaminated with faeces during toilet use or nappy changing. From hands, it can spread to surfaces, toys, food, and water. It also spreads in shared water such as swimming pools. When the cysts are swallowed, the person then becomes infected.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"HomeGluck\nGluck, Hummel and Haydn Concertos with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Keyed Trumpeter Gabriele Cassone\nJuly 29, 2012Andrew Miller\nThe first three programs of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra this year have made a nice historical progression from the late Baroque of Vivaldi, to that of central Europe and England with Bach, Zelenka and Handel, now to the late classical period. The fortepiano has come out to replace the harpsichord and the orchestra grown with thicker string sections and clarinets to bring us Haydn and the Italian trumpet virtuoso Gabriele Cassone. For the Haydn G major Symphony, the so-called \"Surprise,\" Paul Dyer conducts from behind the fortepiano bench, and lays chords oftentimes too while using his body and shoulders to conduct. Though we can catch at times some of the period reproduction fortepiano's beautiful sonorities, it is too large a hall really to do it justice and often it gets swallowed in the orchestra, but no matter, that is not its purpose here, though it does make a slight difference in color. What is important is that with the larger (late) classical orchestra, the conductor is necessary and conductorly music-making is readily audible here. With more dynamic possibilities from the backed-up strings, and timpani, and opportunities to use them thanks to Haydn (not to mention Gluck!) \u2014 and Maestro Dyer (though he never gives himself the label \"conductor\") does know how to use it \u2014 the orchestra adapts naturally and readily to the new-sounding late 18th century palate. The strings have more solidity, they are still clear, very precise, with guest concertmaster Madeleine Easton leading them with her beautiful playing, but with more structure, polished but with a fine texture by virtue of the gut strings and the varied shapes and sizes of the violins. The orchestra is set up with cellos on the left next to the first violins, and basses, violas and second violins on the right, horns on the back left, trumpets (natural baroque ones) on the back right with the woodwinds in between.\n\u00c9toiles From Paris and Stars From Australia: A Dance Preview of the 2012 Lincoln Center Festival\nJune 7, 2012The Editor\nLincoln Center, David H. Koch Theater (unless otherwise noted): June 12 \u2013 August 5 (the Lincoln Center Festival begins July 5)\nPlease see below for schedule.\nThe Australian Ballet, which tends to tour \"overseas\" once a year, will come to \u2026\nGluck's Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride at the Met with Susan Graham and Pl\u00e1cido Domingo\nApril 22, 2011Michael Miller\nWhat a splendid idea to revive Gluck's final masterpiece, Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride, on two great stages at opposite ends of the continent. Gluck, the great reformer, has been too long little more than a chapter \u2014 or, worse \u2014 a section of a chapter in music history books, and recent attempts to bring his works to life on 21st century stages are for the most part commendable, whether they succeed or not, although I did sense a touch of cynicism in the excruciatingly fashionable Orph\u00e9e of Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi \u2014 and a fashion statement (or ad) is not what we want in these unmitigatedly dignified works.\nOrfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762) at the Met\nFebruary 11, 2009Michael Miller\nOrfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762)\nMusic by C. W. Gluck (1714-1787)\nLibretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi\nOrfeo \u2013 Stephanie Blythe\nEuridice \u2013 Danielle de Niese\nAmore \u2013 Heidi Grant Murphy\nJoshua Greene \u2013 Harpsichord\u2026","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Assad\nMpelembe > Assad\nTag Archives: Assad\n11Apr\/17\nSpicer says Hitler \"didn't even sink to using chemical weapons\"\nApril 11, 2017 PicturesAdolf Hitler, Assad, Criticism of religion, Damascus, Donald Trump, Executive branch of the United States government, Federal government of the United States, Hitler, Iraq, Moscow, Politics, Presidency of the United States, Racism, Religion, Russia, Sean Spicer, Spicer, Syria, United States, War\/Conflict, Washington, DCsmbale\nWhite House spokesman Sean Spicer tells reporters, \"You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons.\" Continue reading \u2192\nU.S. fires missiles at Assad air base\nApril 7, 2017 WarAl-Dumayr offensive, Anti-Americanism, Assad, Bashar, Bashar al-Assad, Command and control, Country: United States, Course of events of the Syrian Civil War, Criticism of the United States, Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Homs, Khan Sheikhoun, Military, Palmyra, Politics, Presidency of Donald Trump, Shayrat missile strike, Siege of Homs, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Talal Barazi, United States, War\/Conflictsmbale\nSyrian TV shows the aftermath of U.S. air strikes that hit an airbase near the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.\n13Jan\/17\nA look at Vice President-elect Mike Pence\nJanuary 13, 2017 US ElectionsAmerican people of German descent, Assad, Business, Climate change skepticism and denial, Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Federal government of the United States, Hamilton, Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence, New Orleans, New York, Political career of Donald Trump, Politics, Politics of the United States, Republican Party vice presidential candidate selection, Russia, Syria, U.S. House of Representatives, United States, Vladimir Putin, White House Coronavirus Task Forcesmbale\nMike Pence, the Indiana governor who made headlines during the election campaign for his differing views with Donald Trump, is about to become Vice President.\n30Nov\/16\nDeadline in Aleppo\nNovember 30, 2016 WarAleppo, Assad, Assad family, Bashar, Bashar al-Assad, Battle of Aleppo, City: Aleppo, Company: ThomsonReuters, Deborah Lutterbeck, Donald Trump, Governorates of Syria, Levant, Politics, Politics of Syria, Red Cross, Syria, Syrian Civil War, War\/Conflictsmbale\nAssad, allies aim to seize all Aleppo before Trump takes power: official. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. Continue reading \u2192\nWorld powers announce ceasefire for Syria\nFebruary 12, 2016 PoliticsAHMAD FAWZI, Ahmed Fawzi, Al-Nusra Front, Assad, Bashar al-Assad, City: Geneva, Country: Syria, Gaza flotilla raid, Gaza War, Geneva, Geography of Asia, Hafez al-Assad, Humanitarian aid, IHH, JOHN KERRY, Lebanon War, Munich, Nathan Frandino, Politics, Politics of Syria, Secretary of State, Sergei Lavrov, Staffan De Mistura, Syria, Syrian Civil War, Syrian peace process, Union of Good, United Nations, UNITED NATIONS CHIEF SPOKESPERSON, United States, Vienna peace talks for Syria, Western Asiasmbale\nWorld powers have announced a plan for humanitarian aid and a nationwide ceasefire for Syria, but officials warn the future for the conflict-ridden country remains cloudy. Nathan Frandino has more.\nTrump weighs in on gun control, Syria\nOctober 4, 2015 PoliticsAssad, Businesspeople, Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Human Interest, Ipsos, Jeb Bush, Last Week Tonight segments about Donald Trump, Mass shooting, Mike Pence, Political positions of Donald Trump, Presidents of the United States, Putin, Republican Party, Right-wing populism in the United States, Syria, The Apprentice, Trump family, United States, Washington D.C., WWE Hall of Famesmbale\nRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump says the high number of mass shootings in the U.S. are a result of mental illness and not relaxed gun control legislation.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Theater, Film & TV Actor Known for \"No Country for Old Men\" & \"Jonah Hex\"\nLive Event: $100,000 - $200,000\nActors, Television Personalities\nJosh Brolin Biography\nJosh Brolin has acted in theater, film and television roles since 1985. He is known primarily for his roles in the films \"Thrashin',\" \"The Goonies,\" \"W.,\" \"No Country for Old Men,\" \"Milk,\" \"American Gangster,\" \"True Grit,\" \"Men in Black 3,\" \"Gangster Squad,\" \"Oldboy,\" & \"Sicario.\"\nBrolin started his career in TV movies and guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner-directed movie \"The Goonies.\" He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series \"21 Jump Street\"; he and Johnny Depp were the finalists for the role, and at that time the two became close and remained friends even after the role was ultimately awarded to Depp. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season.\nBrolin implied that he turned away from film acting for years after the premiere of his second film, \"Thrashin'.\" For several years, he appeared in stage roles in Rochester, New York. One of Brolin's more prominent roles early in his career was that of Wild Bill Hickok in the ABC western TV series \"The Young Riders,\" which lasted three seasons. Two other TV series he was involved in include the Aaron Spelling production \"Winnetka Road\" and \"Mister Sterling.\"\nBrolin's extensive film work consists of many villainous roles in recent films including \"Planet Terror,\" Gus van Sant's Milk, \"American Gangster\" and Oliver Stone's \"Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.\" He also played the lead role in the Coen brothers' Academy Award-winning film \"No Country for Old Men.\"\nBrolin also starred in another Oliver Stone film in 2008 called \"W.,\" a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush.\nBrolin received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gus Van Sant's biopic \"Milk\" as city supervisor Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with the marriage equality movement. He portrayed Jonah Hex in the film of the same name. Brolin played a younger Agent K in \"Men in Black 3\" released in May 2012.\nIn May 2014, Brolin was announced to voice Marvel villain Thanos in the upcoming superhero films \"Guardians of the Galaxy,\" \"Avengers: Age of Ultron\" and another Avengers sequel.\nBrolin starred in the film \"Gangster Squad\" portraying John O'Mara released in 2013. Brolin's had other big roles in \"Labor Day\" (2013), \"Sin City: A Dame to Kill For\" (2014), \"Inherent Vice\" (2014) and \"Sicario\" (2015). Brolin wrote and directed the short film \"X,\" as his directorial debut.\nContact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Josh Brolin and other top speakers and celebrities.\nBOOK Josh Brolin\nExclusive Video Interviews: Denis Villeneuve and Josh Brolin on Sicario\nTo coincide with the upcoming release of Sicario on DVD and Blu-ray on February 1st, we've got a couple of exclusive video interviews with director Denis Villeneuve and star Josh Brolin; check them out here\u2026\n'Everest' Stars Jake Gyllenhaal & Josh Brolin On Braving The Film's Harsh Conditions: \"I Haven't Felt My Feet For Three Days\"\nEmily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro & Josh Brolin Traverse The Land Of The Cartels In 'Sicario': Specialty Preview\nJosh Brolin and Fianc\u00e9e Kathryn Boyd Make Post-Engagement ...\nHow cute are Josh Brolin and his bride-to-be Kathryn Boyd?! Just one day after announcing they ar...\nBlunt, Brolin And Benecio Burn A Hole Through Festival With Thrilling 'Sicario' Premiere: Cannes\nOn top of the rapturous reception for Carol and Pixar's Inside Out \u2014 both instant Oscar contenders \u2014 comes another one in the space of 24 hours that deserves awards love in Lionsgate's fall pete hammond badgeentry Sicario, a white-knuckle thriller that pulls no punches. Director Denis Villeneuve, on the heels of another memorable thriller two years ago called Prisoners, has now proven...\nHOW TO BOOK Josh Brolin?\nOur booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure talent like Josh Brolin for both live and virtual events for over 15 years. The team at All American Entertainment represents and listens to the needs of organizations and corporations seeking to hire keynote speakers, celebrities or entertainers for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment. Fill out a booking request form for Josh Brolin, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get pricing information and check availability for Josh Brolin or any other celebrity of your choice.\nHOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BOOK Josh Brolin?\nBooking fees for Josh Brolin, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. Pricing often varies between live and virtual events. Other factors that can affect speaker fees include the talent's schedule, market conditions, length of presentation, and the location of the event. The live and virtual event speaking fees listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only. In some cases, the actual quote may be above or below the stated range. 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{"text":"HomeVolkswagenTaosReviews\n2022 Volkswagen Taos First Drive Review: A Decent Consolation\nWe miss the iconic Golf, but the hatchback's spiritual successor is nothing to sneeze at.\nMay 26, 2021 at 9:00am ET\nBy all accounts, we should hate the Volkswagen Taos. But not because it's bad or incompetent or unlikable \u2013 it's the opposite of all of those things. Taking a page from the Tiguan's book, the Taos offers a new segment of consumers European style and driving dynamics in a crossover form factor and at a reasonable price. But still, the Taos should earn our ire for taking the place of the Golf, arguably the most honest and likable compact hatchback to ever grace US shores.\nThat the Taos' introduction coincides with the end of the Golf's reign as Volkswagen of America's smallest product is hardly the crossover's fault, though. The Taos is a more-than-adequate replacement for VW's compact hatch, capturing much of its likable, refined-for-its-class driving character while retaining most of the tossability that made the Golf a long-running favorite.\nA vehicle's verdict is relative only to its own segment and not the new-vehicle market as a whole. For more on how Motor1.com rates cars, click here.\nRight-Sized, Right Attitude\nThe Taos' exterior is a tidy balance of the current Tiguan mixed with the more rounded styling of the ID.4 electric crossover. The fascia adopts squarish headlights and Volkswagen's latest grille, which high-end models, like our all-wheel-drive SEL tester, highlight with an LED strip. The back is attractive, but simple, drawing heavier inspiration from the Tiguan, and we dig the little \"TAOS\" wordmark under the license plate cutout. Finished in VW's classic Cornflower Blue, our tester is a handsome thing, hiding a surprising amount of car in a tidy, crossover footprint.\nAt 175.8 inches long and riding on a 105.9-inch wheelbase, the Taos isn't a dramatic increase in size over the outgoing Golf. In fact, it sits neatly between the 167.6-inch five-door hatchback and the 185.1-inch Tiguan, with a wheelbase that's just 2.1 inches longer than its spiritual predecessor. This neat balance between compact crossover and compact hatchback gives the Taos a best-of-both-worlds feel.\nOn the road, the Taos is easy to place in a lane, but it doesn't feel frighteningly small when driving alongside a 1-ton pickup truck. If your immediate reaction to a Golf is that it's a little too petite or low to the ground, the Taos assuages your concerns without forcing you into an oversized product. That the Taos is more like a Golf to throw around doesn't hurt either.\nOn the twisting country roads outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Taos managed well. The steering, particularly in Sport, is tight and direct. As we covered in our prototype drive from April, the driven wheels dictate the rear suspension setup. Front-drive models use a torsion beam rear end, while the Taos 4Motion benefits from a more advanced multi-link setup \u2013 we tested both, and while the front-driver was inoffensive, the all-wheel-drive model proved more enjoyable in the bends. The Mazda CX-30 is the only vehicle in the class that might outcorner this VW, which keeps a tight rein on body motions and is eager to change direction.\nThe CX-30 seems like an obvious rival beyond handling. It's the only car in the segment that surpasses the VW's attractive and stylish interior. It's not so much that the company reinvented the wheel in styling this cabin, but that the German brand made a few simple decisions to craft an interior that looks and feels more premium.\nThe Taos' exterior is a tidy balance of the current Tiguan mixed with the more rounded styling of the ID.4 electric crossover.\nThere's a good mix of colors, with our tester matching up the black plastic and leather with dark brown patches of hide (the base model uses cloth while the mid-range SE is a cloth\/leatherette mix). Across the dash is a solid-feeling flash of dark gray plastic trim. It's not a particularly attractive element, but it divides up the upper and lower portions of the dash well enough. Where the Taos falls short is in the quality of its materials, though. The dash and door uppers are hard and scratchy to the touch, and while the interior felt screwed together well enough, these elements detracted from the attractive mix of colors, the quality leather, and the typically hefty Volkswagen switchgear.\nPunchy Powertrain, Unlikable Transmission\nEvery Taos uses a turbocharged 1.5-liter engine that will eventually supplant the turbocharged 1.4-liter unit currently sold in the Jetta. Paired up with an eight-speed automatic (in front-drivers) or a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission (for all-wheel-drive), we'd hoped the Taos' new powertrain would have better manners than the unit we tested in the Jetta last year. Alas, that's not the case.\nDynamically, the 1.5 is a potent thing, with 158 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque. These are adequate numbers for a vehicle that weighs between 3,200 and 3,400 pounds \u2013 the Taos accelerates with verve, and the two-wheel-drive model will even bake its front tires if you get too antsy with the gas pedal. Low-end punch is strong and even at higher engine speeds, the 1.5-liter does well.\nGallery: 2022 Volkswagen Taos\nIf you're waiting for a but, there happens to be two of them. First, this engine is neither especially quiet nor all that easy on the ears. Wind it out past the 5,500-rpm horsepower peak and the volume grows to an unacceptable level, while there's a constant buzziness north of 4,000 rpm while under load. VW has gone to some lengths to make the Taos feel more premium than most small crossovers, but it could have gone further in damping the engine's clatter.\nAnd like last year's Jetta, both the eight-speed auto and seven-speed DSG showed an unwillingness to engage off the line. Too often, we'd ask the car to accelerate, get no reaction, apply more throttle, and then surge ahead with more acceleration than intended. It's an annoying flaw, especially as both gearboxes perform well once rolling. The DSG, in particular, is a snappy performer in both Comfort and Sport driving modes, while the eight-speed is impressively smooth and intelligent about its gear selection.\nThe Right Approach To Tech\nEvery Taos is available with a comprehensive suite of active safety, and it's not terribly expensive. Prices start at $995 for the so-called IQ Drive suite on the Taos S and $895 on the Taos SE, while it's standard on the range-topping SEL. Our main problem with this approach comes on the base model, where Volkswagen partitions forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking into the option group. Considering AEB's proven record of preventing accidents, making it optional feels like a somewhat irresponsible decision, especially since it's standard on many other cars in this class.\nAside from that, though, the IQ Drive suite is damned impressive. Offering full-speed adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, and Travel Assist (which VW describes as \"partially-automated hands-on driving\") on a $24,000 vehicle is both bold and encouraging. In addition to that gear, IQ Drive adds blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert, Emergency Assist, which can contact first responders in the event of an accident, and a Convenience pack that includes automatic high beams, a heated steering wheel, and rain-sensing wipers.\nCompetitor Reviews:\n2020 Mazda CX-30 Premium Review: Changing The Equation\n2021 Kia Seltos First Drive Review: Telluride In Training\nThe main tech suite is solid, too. Base models will use a 6.5-inch touchscreen that wasn't available for us to test, although the 8.0-inch touchscreen in our SEL model does its work well. This system runs the same MIB3 infotainment system as the Tiguan we tested earlier this year and it's easy to learn, quick to respond, and okay to look at. Every model comes with Volkswagen Digital Cockpit, too, although you'll have to settle for an 8.0-inch cluster in the Taos S and SE \u2013 the 10.3-inch display is standard on the SEL.\nRounding out the good news is the pricing argument. VW is asking $24,190 (including $1,195 destination charge) for the base Taos S, $28,440 for the SE, and $32,685 for the SEL. All-wheel drive adds $2,045 to the base car, $1,450 to the SE, and $1,555 to the top-end car, while other optional extras are few and far between. Beyond the IQ Drive packages, the only other options are a $1,200 panoramic sunroof for SE and SEL models and gloss black 18-inch wheels on the SE ($395). Fully loaded, the Taos is available for just a hair over $35,000.\nIs that a good deal? To be honest, range-topping examples of small vehicles like the Taos are almost never worthwhile \u2013 a Tiguan SEL starts around $33,000, for example. But at the lower end of the scale, this vehicle is worth considering, even though its $24,000 price tag is a good bit higher $21,685 Hyundai Kona, the $22,770 Toyota C-HR, the $22,395 Honda HR-V, and the $22,225 Mazda CX-30. It has a better cabin than all but the Mazda, and while the Toyota offers all its active safety gear as standard, the Taos' Travel Assist is better at easing the strain of highway driving. Simply put, you pay more, but you'll get more too.\nWe're going to miss the Golf for its honesty and fun-to-drive character. But at $24,990 for an auto-equipped example, the old hatchback is about the same price as a base, front-drive Taos with the IQ Drive pack. That means VW is selling a smarter, roomier, safer vehicle that looks and feels more fashionable for about the same amount of coin. We may be loath to accept another crossover on the market, but as a means of filling the Golf's shoes, VW delivered a car that ticks all the right boxes and then some.\nChevrolet Trailblazer: 7.6\/10\nFord EcoSport: Not Rated\nHonda HR-V: Not Rated\nHyundai Kona: Not Rated\nKia Seltos: 8.1\/10\nMazda CX-30: 7.9\/10\nNissan Kicks: 8.7\/10\nSubaru Crosstrek: 8.5\/10\nToyota C-HR: Not Rated\n2022 Volkswagen Taos SEL 4Motion\nTransmission 7-Speed Dual-Clutch\nEfficiency 25 City \/ 32 Highway \/ 28 Combined\nVolkswagen Taos","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"DIESEL, A Bookstore\nHome \u00bb A Single Man (Paperback)\nA Single Man (Paperback)\nBy Christopher Isherwood\nSpecial Order - Please call to confirm availability\nWhen A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press\nKobo eBook (November 18th, 2013): $9.99\nCD-Audio (December 22nd, 2009): $24.95\nPaperback (June 11th, 2013): $15.00\nPaperback (January 2010): $17.75\nPaperback (July 2010): $17.75\nPre-Recorded Audio Player (December 22nd, 2009): $39.99\nLooking for e-books?\nRead with Kobo & support DIESEL!\nBay area bookstores are thriving!\nBrentwood: 225 26th Street, Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402, 310-576-9960\nCopyright \u00a9 DIESEL, A Bookstore\nIf you need assistance with this website, please call us.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Lessons from Gutenberg\nBy Eric Karkovack\non Nov 1st, 2018 WordPress\nWordPress 5.0 is on the horizon. Yes, we've been saying it for months. But now we really are on the brink of its full release. The journey to get to this point has been quite a wild ride.\nDuring the buildup, we've heard just about every argument for and against the new Gutenberg editor. And we've had loads of controversy (which hasn't stopped, by the way) about one thing or another. Some people aren't happy with process for storing data, while others think the whole concept is flawed. Then, there are all of those pre-release negative reviews. In all, it's a lot for both web designers and users to digest.\nToday, I think it's important to look at this milestone release in another light. Instead of cheerleading or criticizing, let's have an honest discussion about what WordPress and its community can learn from this experience.\nWith that, the following are a few lessons I believe that the development and launch of Gutenberg can teach us.\nPerhaps the most obvious lesson here is that change can be a very difficult process. And, when you're talking about software that runs over 30% of websites, it's especially tough. Just think of all the people and websites affected by a major change such as Gutenberg.\nAs someone who maintains a large number of WordPress websites, I can certainly feel the impact. There are concerns regarding compatibility, client education and changes to my workflow. This job is a challenge on a good day. Adding an unknown quantity to the mix makes things all the more stressful.\nNothing in this world stays the same forever. Therefore, it's generally understood that change will happen. But when those changes are sweeping, as opposed to iterative, there will be a strong reaction. That's very much what we've seen with Gutenberg.\nCommunication and Planning are Essential\nA healthy line of communication with users can soften some of the negative effects of change. The same can be said of a steady, if not flexible, plan for implementing those changes. To be blunt, these were areas where WordPress really took it on the chin.\nCertainly, there were honest attempts at communicating what was happening with Gutenberg. But it feels like things could have been much more out in the open. For instance, rather than burying information in the development blog, it could have been prominently featured on WordPress.org's home page.\nWhile hardcore members of the community were able to follow progress, there seemed to be a lot of people left in the dark. In my own experience, I'm finding users who still have little-to-no knowledge of what's coming in WordPress 5.0.\nThe other factor is a plan that left Gutenberg's arrival up in the air. Its launch has been a moving target, which is understandable. Software takes time to refine. But this also made things more difficult on developers.\nPlugin and theme authors have been scrambling to ensure compatibility with the new React-based editor. Yet some nuances could be missed, given that Gutenberg was still in the development stage. Not to mention that the official documentation wasn't always as clear or helpful as you'd hope.\nThe result was a situation that felt rushed and even a bit chaotic at times. It became impossible to tell when the next shoe would drop.\nA Large, Distributed Community is Hard to Wrangle\nLike an operating system, WordPress has a diverse community that is spread out all over the globe. But unlike Apple, Google and Microsoft, WordPress can hit a wall when trying to reach their audience. Operating systems tend to be covered more by mainstream media. WordPress, on the other hand, has to rely on very niche channels of communication.\nWhen something big is happening, getting the word out is a unique challenge. As mentioned above, communication wasn't a strongpoint of this whole process. Things could have been done better. But it might be a stretch to think that, even with some more prominent positioning, the entire community could have been made fully aware of Gutenberg.\nThen there's the whole democratic process that is often associated with open source software. The idea is that those who contribute and use WordPress have some say in its future direction. Perhaps the road to WordPress 5.0 has been a cold hard lesson in reality.\nOne of the most prevalent perceptions of the Gutenberg project is that it was a very closed effort. While the community provided feedback, decisions seemed to be more top down than bottom up.\nRecent news that the WordPress accessibility team faced roadblocks in both carrying out their duties and having their voices heard seem to lend credence to this idea.\nTo be fair, a change this big doesn't necessarily benefit from having too many cooks in the kitchen. It could easily pull the entire project sideways. But again, it's the two-way dialogue that seems to be missing here.\nThis is part of the challenge in dealing with a massive community. While you want to promote democracy, sometimes there needs to be a more authoritarian approach in order to get things done. That will inevitably ruffle some feathers.\nYou Can't Please Everyone\nLastly, Gutenberg is a reminder that, no matter what you do, someone will end up being unhappy. There are people out there who don't want a new editor because they simply don't want to change. That's to be expected.\nMaybe the biggest lesson of all is that we have only so much control over a given situation. Therefore, you should focus most of your energy on the things you can control.\nIf given the chance, one wonders if the leadership involved with Gutenberg would do some things differently. Perhaps better communication could have saved a lot of stress. Or maybe the project would have taken a more iterative approach to change.\nOf course, it's always easier to look at things in the rearview mirror. On the bright side, looking back helps us learn from our mistakes. Hopefully, the next big change that comes to WordPress takes those lessons to heart and results in a more positive experience for all.\nThe Gutenberg WordPress Block Editor: The First Year\nBehind the Scenes of ClassicPress \u2013 the WordPress Alternative\nA Conversation with WordPress Evangelist Maddy Osman\nWhat WordPress 5.0 Taught Me About Stress\nHow To Create Custom Blocks for Gutenberg with Block Lab\nHow Many Issues Are Acceptable for Gutenberg's Release?\nSupercharge the WordPress Gutenberg Editor with Custom Blocks\nBuilding a WordPress Website with Gutenberg: Initial Observations","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Noteworthy People >\nPeople In The News >\n2003 People In The News\nClara Harris, 2003 News\nTexas dentist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February for killing her husband, David Harris, an orthodontist. In July 2002, Clara ran over David with her Mercedes-Benz after she discovered he was continuing an affair with his receptionist despite his promises to end it.\nHambali 2003 People in the News John Howard","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"'Flip Or Flop' Star Tarek Reveals WAY TOO MUCH About His Prostate Cancer Battle\nJun. 7 2017, Published 7:55 p.m. ET\nTarek El Moussa is still dealing with his thyroid and testicular cancers \u2014 and the wrath of his ex!\nThe Flip or Flop star appeared on Radio Andy with Andy Cohen, and told the Watch What Happens Live host, \"to this day, the aftermath of cancer never goes away.\"\nTarek, 35, explained that he had to get one of his testicles removed after he was diagnosed \u2014 and has a \"fake ball\" to replace it!\n\"I asked for an extra large one,\" he joked, adding that his friends call him the \"one nut wonder\" now.\nTarek was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2013 \u2014 and testicular cancer just one month after. His cancer has been in remission since at least January 2017, just a few months before he split with estranged wife Christina.\nMeanwhile, the show must go on!\nThe reality star also revealed that \"five episodes of Season 7\" of Flip of Flop are already in the can, and they are set to air later this month. He revealed that there will NOT be any divorce drama with Christina on air, as \"the goal is to create a good show\" around house flipping \u2014 and contractor Gary Anderson will not be on the show either. (Anderson notoriously dated Christina in the months after her split from Tarek.)\n\"Produce it on Bravo and then we could have some fun,\" he teased Cohen, 49.\nBut, Radar previously reported that his ex, 33, wanted her own spinoff!\nStay with Radar for more.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Home News Development CSOs Want Collective Fight of Coronavirus Void of Political Segregation\nCSOs Want Collective Fight of Coronavirus Void of Political Segregation\nAlvin Worzi\n\"The President and Vice President cannot be running individual projects when they should be leading a Government of Liberia's actions and efforts...\" - Anderson Miamen\nGroups of civil society organizations in Liberia with some commonalities in objectives and goals are calling on the Government, mainly the President and Vice President to show a united leadership in the fight against the Coronavirus instead of presenting themselves as individual politicians seeking favor from voters.\nThose CSOs include the Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD), NAYMOTE Partners for Democratic Development (NAYMOTE-Liberia), Accountability Lab Liberia and Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL).\nCENTAL's Executive Director, Anderson Miamen, who spoke on behalf of the groups, called on the President and Vice President to lead by example in fostering and promoting a national fight that rallies the support of all stakeholders.\n\"The President and Vice President cannot be running individual projects when they should be leading a government of actions and efforts to which all Senators, Representatives, civil servants and even ordinary citizens and development partners can form a part,\" said Miamen.\nMr. Miamen said the Fight against the Coronavirus Disease should be de-politicized, stating \"the Ministry of Health, National Public Health Institute of Liberia and other relevant bodies must be adequately capacitated to lead the fight, void of undue political influence and interference.\"\nHe said at the moment, they strongly believe that their roles are being undermined by the increasing involvement of the Monrovia City Corporation in Contact Tracing and Surveillance gathering with no prior experience and capacity of recruits.\n\"Non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, traditional and religious leaders, community leaders and the media played key roles during the Ebola fight and must be recognized by the government and provide the opportunity to contribute. The Leadership and essential staff of CSOs must be equally allowed to work, as they play vital roles in creating awareness, providing valuable inputs to government as well as independently monitoring and reporting on key trends and decision-making processes around the fight,\" Miamen said.\nMr. Miamen said the government has to subsidize the costs of electricity and water by providing gasoline or fuel to reduce the burdens of cost and instability of current to enable Liberian families access these basic social services.\n\"We do recognize that government does not have the capacity and resources to fully implement all these measures. Therefore, it must work with funding partners to source money and other resources to implement these recommendations,\" he said.\nHe called on the government to, in consultation with Commercial Banks, place moratorium on payment of loans and interests by creditors to commercial Banks for the period of 3-months. According to him, this will alleviate the pressure and economic impact on businesses.\n\"We wish to remind the government of its accountable responsibility to itself, citizens and development partners contributing valuable resources and inputs to the process. Updates to the public must include resources received and how they are expended, while mechanisms and frameworks that should be accessible to the media, civil society and partners must be established and maintained to ensure availability of basic and timely information to the public about ongoing efforts and resources received for the efforts,\" he said.\nAs state of emergency takes effect though without concurrence of the Legislature yet and security forces are spread out, Mr. Miamen cautions that, while the government enforces these measures using the national army and other security apparatuses, the human rights of citizens and other residents must be fully respected and protected.\nHe reiterated calls for all Liberians and residents to fully respect instructions from government and health authorities to protect themselves and others during this period.\n\"We must all observe the social distancing rules and avoid actions that undermine the fight against COVID-19, which cannot be won without collaborative and well-coordinated efforts of all concerned. Also, civil society recommits to remaining constructively engaged with the Government to forge a united, concerted, well-coordinated and citizen-driven fight against the deadly Coronavirus in the Country,\" he said.\nPrevious articleCitizens Concerned about Hunger, Safety during COVID-19 Lockdown\nNext articleChamp Solutions Research Reveals Decline in Buying\nAlvin Worzi is a Liberian journalist with over seven years of professional experience. For the past few years, he has been engaged in covering land issues, security, education, gender related issues, politics, and agriculture. Mr. Worzi is currently the Assistant Secretary General of the Executive Mansion Press Corps (conglomeration of reporters assigned at the Executive Mansion). Mr. Worzi is a member of the Press Union of Liberia.\nMCgill CHAIR OF THE CABINET: WHAT THE HELL IS THE VP TO DO? on Minister McGill 'Worries' Over Liberia's Economy\nFrederick Vaney on Democracy Under Attack in U.S.\nSylvester Gbayahforh Moses on Democracy Under Attack in U.S.\nAnsu Oldpa Dualu on A Guide to Picking Liberia's Next President","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tell Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to stop fighting GMO labeling, start using non-GMO milk\nFriday, January 02, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer\nTags: Starbucks, GMOs, milk\nhttps:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/048174_Starbucks_GMOs_milk.html\n(NaturalNews) Though this immensely popular coffee chain often tries to blend in with the health crowd, pretending to be environmentally and nutritionally conscious, the Starbucks Coffee Company is an active member of a food organization fighting to keep you and your family in the dark about genetically modified organisms (GMOs).\nIt's true -- Starbucks is a dues-paying member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), which is currently trying to sue the state of Vermont for passing a law that requires GMOs to be properly labeled. Starbucks and the GMA would rather continue hiding GMOs in processed foods than have to tell you that they're there and potentially lose business.\nThe Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has put together a petition asking Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who says his company \"has not taken a position on the issue of GMO labeling,\" to cut ties with the GMA and take a stand against this assault on people's right to know. But Schultz has yet to do this.\nThe GMA is also actively pushing a bill in Congress that would make it illegal for individual states to pass their own GMO labeling laws in lieu of national labeling requirements. Schultz has stated that his company prefers a \"national solution\" to the GMO labeling issue, but if the position of the GMA, of which his company is a member, is any indicator of what this actually means, then Starbucks opposes GMO labeling.\n\"As a member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, (GMA) your membership dues support the GMA's work,\" reads the OCA petition. \"The GMA's work includes filing suit against the state of Vermont to overturn its GMO labeling law, and working with Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) on a bill (H.R. 4432) before Congress that would preempt states' rights to pass GMO labeling laws.\"\nYou can sign the petition here:\nSalsa3.SalsaLabs.com.\nStarbucks continues to serve GMO milk to its customers\nIt isn't really all that surprising that Starbucks is taking a hands-off approach to the GMO labeling issue. The processed milk the company continues to use in its mochas, lattes and other drinks comes from GMO-fed cows, which means Starbucks is an active purveyor of GMOs. And like other members of the GMA, Starbucks is profiting handsomely from serving unlabeled GMO products to its customers.\n\"Cows living in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are fed a grain diet comprised almost entirely of genetically modified corn, soy, alfalfa, and cotton seed,\" explains GMO Inside. \"These crops degrade the quality of our land and water, perpetuate corporate-controlled agriculture, and have potentially negative health impacts on livestock.\"\n\"Additionally, the overuse of antibiotics in industrialized farming is contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, putting us all at risk.\"\nWhile Starbucks does serve milk that is free of the GMO growth hormone rBGH, as well as soy milk that is USDA-certified organic, the skim, low-fat and full-fat dairy products it serves are not. Whether the company chooses to change this or not will depend on how much pressure is applied by the public, and how many people choose to boycott Starbucks for its contradictory position.\n\"As the public has become more educated about the impacts of GMO-driven agriculture and the influence of Big Biotech--Monsanto, Dow, and Syngenta--over our food system, consumers are increasingly seeking out non-GMO products that fit into a sustainable lifestyle,\" reads a GMO Inside petition calling on Starbucks to switch to non-GMO milk products.\nYou can sign this petition here:\nAction.GreenAmerica.org.\nhttp:\/\/salsa3.salsalabs.com\nhttp:\/\/web.archive.org\nhttps:\/\/www.organicconsumers.org\nhttp:\/\/gmoinside.org\nhttp:\/\/action.greenamerica.org\nStarbucks at FETCH.news","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"The EXP-T program system\nThe EXP-T program package is designed for high-precision modeling of molecular electronic structure using the relativistic Fock space multireference coupled cluster method (FS-RCC). EXP-T is written from scratch in the C99 programming language and is currently focused on Unix-like systems.\nThe public version of the EXP-T source code is available under LGPL on GitHub.\nDownload source code (.tar.xz)\nDownload source code (GitHub)\nDownload manual (pdf)\nElectronic structure models implemented in EXP-T:\nsingle-point energy calculations with any point groups and (nearly) all Hamiltonians, implemented in DIRAC (4c-DC, X2Cmmf, 2c-ECP, non-relativistic);\nground state energy calculations: CCSD, CCSD(T), CCSDT-n (n=1,2,3), CCSDT models;\nFS-MRCC method (CCSD, CCSDT-1,2,3, CCSDT[3]) for excited states is implemented for the (0h1p), (1h0p), (1h1p), (0h2p), (2h0p), (0h3p) [2] Fock space sectors;\n(unrelaxed) analytic density matrix and properties for ground-state CCSD and CCSD(T);\n\"dynamic\" energy denominators shifts [4] as a solution of the intruder-state problem;\nPad\u00e9 extrapolation to the zero-shift limit [5];\nintermediate Hamiltonians for incomplete main model spaces [7];\nfinite-field transition moments calculations [6];\nquasidiabatization of SO-coupled states and SO extraction [4].\nTo the moment the EXP-T package doesn't include subroutines for solving (Dirac-) Hartree-Fock equations and subsequent four-index transformation, so molecular integrals have to be imported from third party electronic structure packages via interfaces. Currently EXP-T is interfaced with the DIRAC program package, thus getting access to the wide variety of Hamiltonians and property operators implemented there.\nFeatures for high-performance calculations\nOpenMP parallelization (for shared-memory systems);\nparallel calculations on NVIDIA GPUs using the CUDA platform.\nWe kindly ask you to acknowledge any use of the EXP-T program system that results in published material using the following citation:\nA. V. Oleynichenko, A. Zaitsevskii, E. Eliav, Towards High Performance Relativistic Electronic Structure Modelling: The EXP-T Program Package. Commun. Comput. Inf. Sci., 1331, 375-386 (2020) doi: 10.1007\/978-3-030-64616-5_33\n[1] A. V. Oleynichenko, A. Zaitsevskii, E. Eliav\nTowards High Performance Relativistic Electronic Structure Modelling: The EXP-T Program Package\nCommun. Comput. Inf. Sci., 1331, 375-386 (2020) doi: 10.1007\/978-3-030-64616-5_33\n[2] L. V. Skripnikov, A. V. Oleynichenko, A. V. Zaitsevskii, D. E. Maison, A. E. Barzakh\nRelativistic Fock space coupled-cluster study of bismuth electronic structure to extract the Bi nuclear quadrupole moment\nPhys. Rev. C, 104, 034316 (2021) doi: 10.1103\/PhysRevC.104.034316\n[3] A. V. Oleynichenko, A. Zaitsevskii, L. V. Skripnikov, E. Eliav\nRelativistic Fock-Space Coupled Cluster Method for Many-Electron Systems: Non-Perturbative Account for Connected Triple Excitations\nSymmetry, 12(7), 1101 (2020) doi: 10.3390\/sym12071101\n[4] A. Zaitsevskii, N. S. Mosyagin, A. V. Stolyarov, E. Eliav\nApproximate relativistic coupled-cluster calculations on heavy alkali-metal diatomics: Application to the spin-orbit-coupled A1\u03a3+ and b3\u03a0 states of RbCs and Cs2\nPhys. Rev. A 96, 022516 (2017) doi: 10.1103\/PhysRevA.96.022516\n[5] A. Zaitsevskii, E. Eliav\nPad\u00e9 extrapolated effective Hamiltonians in the Fock space relativistic coupled cluster method\nInt. J. Quantum Chem. 118, e25772 (2018) doi: 10.1002\/qua.25772\n[6] A. V. Zaitsevskii, L. V. Skripnikov, A. V. Kudrin, A. V. Oleinichenko, E. Eliav, A. V. Stolyarov\nElectronic Transition Dipole Moments in Relativistic Coupled-Cluster Theory: the Finite-Field Method\nOpt. Spectrosc. 124, 451 (2018) doi: 10.1134\/S0030400X18040215\n[7] A. Zaitsevskii, N. S. Mosyagin, A. V. Oleynichenko, E. Eliav\nGeneralized relativistic small-core pseudopotentials accounting for quantum electrodynamic effects: construction and pilot applications\narXiv:2208.12296 [physics.atom-ph]","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Famous birthdays for Nov. 30: Mandy Patinkin, Bo Jackson\nBy UPI Staff\nMandy Patinkin attends the premiere of \"Life Itself\" at the ArcLight Cinema Dome in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on September 13, 2018. The actor turns 70 on November 30. File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo\nNov. 30 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius.\n-- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508\n-- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667\n-- Novelist Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, in 1835\n-- Author Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1874\n-- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874\n-- Photographer\/writer Gordon Parks in 1912\n-- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1924\nUPI File Photo\n-- Actor Robert Guillaume in 1927\n-- Producer\/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929\n-- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930\n-- Comedian\/filmmaker Woody Allen in 1935 (age 87)\n-- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936\n-- Filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937 (age 85)\nGiannina Facio and Ridley Scott attend the red carpet of the movie \"The Last Duel\" during the 78th Venice International Film Festival on Friday, September 10, 2021 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Rocco Spaziani\/UPI\n-- Filmmaker Terrence Malick in 1943 (age 79)\n-- Playwright David Mamet in 1947 (age 75)\n-- Singer\/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952 (age 70)\n-- Singer June Pointer in 1953\n-- Rock singer Billy Idol in 1955 (age 67)\n-- Historian Michael Beschloss in 1955 (age 67)\n-- Heisman Trophy winner\/football Hall of Fame member Bo Jackson in 1962 (age 60)\nFile Photo by Jon SooHoo\/UPI\n-- Actor Ben Stiller in 1965 (age 57)\n-- Music producer Steve Aoki in 1977 (age 45)\n-- Singer Clay Aiken in 1978 (age 44)\n-- Actor Gael Garcia Bernal in 1978 (age 44)\n-- Actor Elisha Cuthbert in 1982 (age 40)\n-- Model Chrissy Teigen in 1985 (age 37)\n-- Actor Kaley Cuoco in 1985 (age 37)\nFile Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI\nKaley Cuoco celebrates 37th birthday amid pregnancy 'Kaleidoscope' featurette introduces non-linear Netflix series\nJan. 31 (UPI) -- Fall Out Boy announced the \"So Much for (Tour) Dust\" tour featuring Bring Me the Horizon, Alkaline Trio and other artists.\nJan. 31 (UPI) -- \"FBI\" and its spinoffs \"FBI: International\" and \"FBI: Most Wanted\" will have a crossover event on CBS in April.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Renegade Tribune\nHonest, uncensored, and hard-hitting articles\nPhilosophy and Insight\nRace and Nationalism\nPodcasts and Presentations\nFeatured Health & Wellness History Philosophy and Insight\nBobby Fischer's Biography By Frank Brady, The Holocaust & Convenient Disappearance of Fischer's Notes On Soviet Chess Cheating\nMarch 9, 2018 March 11, 2018 renegade 10 Comments\nBy John Wear\nFischer's tapes containing his thoughts on the Soviet chess cheating were stolen from the Bekins facility. Fischer also said at his March 2005 Icelandic press conference that many boxes of his books concerning the Soviet chess cheating were stolen from the Bekins facility\u2026Kasparov's designation as history's greatest chess player could help Kasparov's political career after his retirement from chess.\nThis article continues the Bobby Fischer series which commenced with Reclaiming An American Hero: Bobby Fischer The Fearless Genius and continued with His Disastrous 9\/11 Interview, How Would You Judge It Today and Chess Genius Bobby Fischer Was No Match For The Spiteful Self-Serving Fake News Media.\nEnd Game By Frank Brady Who Having Worked As An Editor For Obscene Pornography Purveyors Such As Ralph Ginzburg and Hugh Hefner, Obviously Thrived In Certain Circles That Are Remarkably Reminiscent Of The Debauched Weimar Republic.\nBobby Fischer's Biography\nFrank Brady did extensive research in writing Bobby Fischer's biography. In addition to obtaining access to the personal archives of Fischer's chess mentor, Jack Collins, and Fischer's mother, Regina Fischer, Brady obtained access to portions of the KGB and FBI files on Bobby and his mother. Brady also read just about everything that has been written about Fischer in English, listened to all of his broadcasts, read Fischer's books and other writings, and talked to hundreds of Fischer's friends and acquaintances. The result is an extremely well written and researched biography that provides valuable insights into Bobby Fischer's life.[1]\nThis article will discuss aspects of Bobby Fischer's biography that can be improved upon.\nBobby Fischer's Politically Incorrect Ideas\nFrank Brady writes:\nMany people who haven't been formally educated awaken later in life with a desire to progress and deepen their view of the world, to go back to school or self-educate themselves. Bobby joined their ranks out of an essential self-awareness\u2026\nBobby's lack of traditional institutional education was well known and continually reported in the press, but what wasn't common knowledge was that after he won the World Championship at age 29, he began a systemized regimen of study outside chess. History, government, religion, politics, and current events became his great interests, and during the 33-year interval from his first Reykjavik stay to his second he spent most of his spare time reading and amassing knowledge.[2]\nFischer began to develop politically incorrect ideas from his readings. Fischer read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and many other conspiracy books. He also became convinced that the so-called Holocaust was a major fraud. Fischer's mother Regina wrote him stating that Nazi Germany had murdered children like vermin in homicidal gas chambers. Fischer, however, remained an outspoken critic of the Holocaust story.[3]\nFischer would even tell Jews that the Holocaust was a myth. For example, Fischer was the frequent guest in the 1990s of Laszlo Polgar and his three outstanding chess-playing daughters, Zsuzsa, Zsofia and Judit Polgar. When Fischer told Laszlo that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp, Laszlo told Fischer about relatives who had been exterminated in it. \"Bobby,\" Laszlo said, frowning, \"do you really think my family disappeared by some magic trick?\"[4]\nFischer also once refused to allow a Jewish chess player to enter his car until the man was willing to proclaim that the Holocaust was fraudulent. On January 13, 1999, during a live radio broadcast in Budapest, Fischer declared,\n\"As Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf , the Jews are not the victims, they are the victimizers!\"[5]\nFischer's Politically Incorrect Ideas Examined\nFrank Brady dismisses Fischer's politically incorrect ideas as nonsense. Brady states that in response to Laszlo Polgar's question of how Polgar's relatives had disappeared in German concentration camps, Fischer \"had nothing to back up his claim and could only refer to various Holocaust denial books.\"[6] Brady, who lists no Holocaust revisionist books in his Bibliography, fails to explain why Holocaust revisionist books are not a credible source of information. Why are books written by revisionists such as Dr. Arthur Robert Butz and Dr. Robert Faurisson not credible sources of information? Brady gives no explanation for his complete dismissal of what he calls \"Holocaust denial books.\"\nElie Wiesel, A Nobel Laureate, Politically Credible & Venerated Source Of Holocaust Information Has An Unusual Concept of 'Truth' Not All Agree With.\nAs someone who has read approximately 150 books on the so-called Holocaust, I think anyone who objectively studied the subject would realize that the Holocaust story is a fraud. Neither Bobby Fischer nor I dispute that many Jews died in Auschwitz\/Birkenau and other German concentration camps. What we dispute is that Jews died in homicidal gas chambers as a result of a German plan of genocide. The Jews who died in German concentration camps during World War II died mostly from typhus, typhoid and other natural causes, and not from a German program of genocide.[7]\nSome of the many hate books Bobby read while in Budapest were The Myth of the Six Million by David Hoggan; On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther, written in 1543; and Jewish Ritual Murder by Arnold S. Leese.\"[8]\nBrady does not tell us why he calls these books \"hate books,\" or why these authors were not qualified to write their books. David Hoggan, for example, earned a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and did extensive research in the archives regarding World War II history. Brady refers to Hoggan's book as a \"hate book\" even though Brady never read it and Hoggan was well qualified to write the book.\n\"Jews have \"a completely different system of values, a different concept of truth,\" Zielinski said. \"For us, the truth corresponds to facts. For the Jew, truth means something that conforms to his understanding of what's beneficial. If a Jew is religious, then truth means something God wants.\"\u2026 For non-religious Jews, \"the truth is subjective or whatever serves Israel's interests,\" he added. Zielinski cited the Haggadah \u2014 a text read by Jews at the Passover Seder, which contains the story of the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. \"Often these stories have nothing to do with facts,\" noted the Catholic priest.\"\nFrank Brady refers to Fischer's declaration during a live radio broadcast in Hungary that the Jews made up the Holocaust, and that the Jews are not the victims but the victimizers, as \"hate-filled comments.\"[9] Brady ignores the fact that the Holocaust story is such a fraud that at least 19 countries including Hungary have made publicly disputing the Holocaust a felony. Brady also ignores the fact that the Bolshevik revolution was largely Jewish instigated, and that Israel was formed through the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population. Israeli historian Tom Segev writes,\nIsrael was born of terror, war, and revolution, and its creation required a measure of fanaticism and of cruelty.\"[10]\nBrady apparently considers these facts to be \"hate-filled comments.\"\nBekins Storage Theft\nBobby Fischer angrily stated that his valuable belongings in a Bekins Storage facility in Pasadena, California were stolen from him. Brady dismisses Fischer's claim that his property was stolen:\nThe facts of Fischer's loss of belongings are fairly straightforward: He'd been paying for storage costs for about 10 years, and his bin contained a large safe with such things as his letter from President Nixon congratulating him for his win in Iceland, his World Championship medal presented to him by FIDE, letters, score sheets, paintings, trophies, statues, scrapbooks, photos, books, and hundreds of other items. One great loss for the chess world was the original scores of games that Bobby played in a series of simultaneous exhibitions throughout South America and about which he planned to write a book, since he had played a number of interesting games during that time. If sold individually\u2014there were thousands of games, according to Bobby\u2014or as one large cache to a collector, the value of these score sheets alone would have totaled somewhere around $100,000.\nBobby had been giving [Robert] Ellsworth, his agent, about $5,000 a year to pay the storage cost and some minimal taxes on property\u2014five lots\u2014that he owned in Clearwater and Tarpon Springs, Florida, which were originally owned by his grandfather (Bobby bought them from his mother in 1992). Those various expenses came to about $4,000 a year; the $1,000 left over was for Ellsworth's management. The storage room was registered under the name of \"Claudia Mokarow and Robert D. James,\" and since Ellsworth was paying the charges year after year, it is possible that the storage company had no idea that the material in the bin belonged to Bobby Fischer. Somehow Ellsworth had blundered\u2014either through carelessness or a clerical error\u2014and didn't pay $480 that was owed, and as contractually agreed upon, the company had the right to dispose of the storage room's contents. As soon as Ellsworth discovered his mistake, he felt guilty about it, and one can understand how heartbreaking it was to Bobby: \"My whole life!\" he said, outraged.\nEllsworth actually realized his error in time to attend the auction and buy back $8,000 worth of the material, not bidding on comic books and other memorabilia that he believed\u2014wrongfully, as it developed\u2014would no longer be of any interest to Fischer. Harry Sneider, Fischer's former physical trainer, accompanied Ellsworth to the auction and Sneider's son subsequently traveled to Budapest with 12 boxes of material. When he handed them over, Bobby said, \"Where's the rest?\" He claimed to have at least 100 boxes in his storage unit and maintained that what had been brought to him was only 1% of his belongings.[11]\nBrady writes that Fischer gave 35 radio broadcast interviews expounding on his theory that he was a victim of a conspiracy involving a Jewish cabal, the U.S. government, the Russians, Robert Ellsworth, and the Bekins Storage company. Brady thinks that Fischer had lapsed over the years into a state of increasingly frequent paranoia.[12]\nHowever, Brady's analysis of Fischer's loss of valuable belongings in a Bekins Storage facility raises many questions that remained unanswered:\n1) Why didn't Bekins Storage contact Robert Ellsworth when the $480 rental payment was past due? This would be normal operating procedure for a rental company. Since Robert Ellsworth lived in nearby Los Angeles and had made timely rental payments for the last 10 years, Bekins should have been able to contact Ellsworth.\n2) Most rental contracts provide for late payment penalties. However, I find it hard to believe that a storage company would have the right to auction off the entire contents of a storage unit to pay a past due bill of only $480. If the net proceeds of the auction were $100,000, for example, this means that Bekins would make a $99,520 profit from Ellsworth's mistake. This would amount to an outrageous windfall for Bekins. An attorney such as Ellsworth should know not to enter into such an unfair agreement.\n3) Robert Ellsworth says he realized his mistake in not making the annual payment before the auction was held. Ellsworth should have been able to pay Bekins the $480 past due plus penalties and returned Fischer's belongings to the Bekins Storage facility. The auction of Fischer's belongings should never have occurred.\n4) Robert Ellsworth says he attended the auction and purchased $8,000 of Fischer's belongings. Ellsworth did not purchase comic books and other memorabilia he believed would no longer be of interest to Fischer. Why didn't Ellsworth contact Fischer before the auction and ask Fischer what he wanted Ellsworth to purchase? Harry Sneider's son found Fischer in Budapest after the auction; why didn't Ellsworth contact Fischer before the auction?\n5) Since Fischer's belongings were extremely valuable to him, did Robert Ellsworth or anyone else attempt to buy back Fischer's belongings from the purchasers at the auction? Bobby Fischer had over $3,000,000 in a Swiss bank. I think Ellsworth could have located and bought back most of Fischer's belongings sold at the auction.\nFrank Brady's explanation of how Bobby Fischer's belongings were lost is not credible. The question is:\nWhy would there be a conspiracy to confiscate Fischer's personal belongings from storage?\nThe following section will provide a possible explanation.\nSoviet Chess Cheats\nBobby Fischer repeatedly said that all of the World Chess Championship matches between Soviet grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov were prearranged. Fischer said that prearrangement at the upper levels of chess tournaments was a common practice. Fischer said that Kasparov was a pathological liar, and that Kasparov and Karpov were criminals and chess cheats.[13] Fischer stated:\nKasparov should answer my charges! He should be put through a lie detector test, and then the whole world will see what a liar he is!\"[14]\nFischer told a friend as early as 1992 that he was planning to write a book that would prove how the Soviet players had cheated in chess. Fischer's tapes containing his thoughts on the Soviet chess cheating were stolen from the Bekins facility.[15] Fischer also said at his March 2005 Icelandic press conference that many boxes of his books concerning the Soviet chess cheating were stolen from the Bekins facility.[16] With all of Fischer's source materials stolen, Fischer was never able to write his book documenting the Soviet chess cheating.\nFrank Brady attempts to dismiss Fischer's claim that the Kasparov\/Karpov World Chess Championship matches were prearranged. Brady writes:\nSome people believed that Bobby was still stewing over the fact that he'd refused to play Karpov in 1975, and therefore was trying to belittle Karpov's resulting match with Kasparov. Others held that his accusations were a ploy to promote his new Fischer Random chess. Still others chalked them up to simple paranoia. For his part, Bobby never explained what either Karpov or Kasparov had to gain from prearranging match results, except to keep the title in the Russian family. But since both men were Russian that made no sense.[17]\nNo one can say with certainty why the World Chess Championship matches between the Soviets might be prearranged. One plausible reason for the prearrangement is that Garry Kasparov's victories against Anatoly Karpov have caused many people to regard Kasparov as the greatest chess player of all time.[18]Kasparov's designation as history's greatest chess player could help Kasparov's political career after his retirement from chess.\nFischer stated that it took him one and a half years before he saw how Kasparov and Karpov had prearranged their matches. Fischer had worked diligently to document this prearrangement.[19] I think Fischer would have written a truly outstanding book on the Kasparov\/Karpov prearrangement if his extensive work and source materials had not been stolen from the Bekins Storage facility. Until Kasparov and Karpov take lie detector tests to prove their innocence, I am inclined to think that Fischer is correct that their World Chess Championship matches were prearranged.\nWe may not\u2014and perhaps should not\u2014forgive Bobby Fischer's twisted political and antireligious assaults, but we should never forget his sheer brilliance on the chessboard. After reading this biography, I would suggest that the reader look to, and study, his games\u2014the true testament to who he was, and his ultimate legacy.\"[20]\nBrady is correct that Fischer was a great chess player. Fischer's chess games will always be an important part of his legacy. However, I think that Brady has not made a serious attempt to understand Fischer's politically incorrect statements. I think that most of what Fischer spoke was the truth. Icelandic psychiatrist Dr. Magnus Skulasson correctly said about Bobby Fischer: \"He was misunderstood. Underneath I think he was a caring and sensitive person.\"[21]\nOn March 9, 1943 Bobby Fischer Was Born. He Passed On January 17, 2008. This Article Honors The 75th Anniversary Of The Birth Of A Legend.\nThe Book That Requires Trolls On A Salary To Attempt To Discredit It.\n[1] Brady, Frank, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall\u2014from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, New York: Crown Publishers, 2011, pp. xi, 329-331.\n[3] Ibid., pp. 212-215.\n[4] Ibid., p. 260\n[5] Ibid., pp. 266, 271.\n[7] Wear, John, Germany's War: The Origins, Aftermath & Atrocities of World War II, Upper Marlboro, MD: American Free Press, 2014, pp. 382-385.\n[8] Brady, Frank, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall\u2014from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, New York: Crown Publishers, 2011, p. 266.\n[10] Segev, Tom, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, New York: Hill and Wang, 1993, p. 63.\n[11] Brady, Frank, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall\u2014from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, New York: Crown Publishers, 2011, pp. 272-273.\n[12] Ibid., p. 273.\n[13] Ibid., pp. 236, 249, 252, 308.\n[16] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vkkxnpl8Siw.\n[17] Brady, Frank, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall\u2014from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, New York: Crown Publishers, 2011, p. 309.\n[18] For example, see http:\/\/www.factofun.com\/top-10-best-chess-players-history\/3\/; also http:\/\/www.elist10.com\/top-10-best-chess-players-history\/; also https:\/\/www.chess.com\/clubs\/forum\/view\/top-10-greatest-chess-players-in-history.\n[19] Geuzendam, Dirk Jan Ten, Finding Bobby Fischer, New in Chess, 2015, p. 277.\n[20] Brady, Frank, Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall\u2014from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness, New York: Crown Publishers, 2011, p. xi.\n[21] Ibid. p. 318.\n\u2190 Nerve Agents, Anna Chapman and Frosty The Edward Snowden\nUntold Tales: Black and White Thoughts on Black Panther \u2192\nThanks for being a reader of this site. Your contributions make this all possible. You can send support to: Kyle Hunt, PO Box 1052, Sorrento FL 32776. Bitcoin address: 1AfppjYZddJzc2C15PXKMsnyBPjPJQezwA\nHow Does the Police State Combat Exposure of Their Lies and Propaganda?\nAugust 6, 2019 renegade 4\nThe Imperative Of Replacing Google And Facebook\nMay 11, 2017 renegade 19\nFlashback: Yes, US Government Propaganda Use Against American Citizens Is Officially Legal Now\nOctober 2, 2017 renegade 6\nSkalgarir\nBob Fischer, fish, born under the sun sign of Pisces. I thought I might mention, happy birthday BF. He looks definitely jewish, but also there is something else in his face, in the eyes, that is something else. Something like an Aryan in the wrong body.\nHe was passionate and principled from all I can tell. And of course his principles revolved around discernable facts rather than \"oyyyy vey vatz good for da Jews?????\" Jews hate principled people more than any other. Mindless sheep are no concern, but if some one is principled about truth they are the worst, unless they aren't jew wise. Those that are principled in always putting kikes above their own people are also hated because they are scum and their principles favor the direction of the wind, they'll betray the Jews if they see worthy gain. These are\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nThanks for this interesting article and sorry for the sidenote, but it is Weimar not Wiemar \ud83d\ude09\nhttp:\/\/de.metapedia.org\/wiki\/Weimarer_Republik\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weimar like in (((Medinat Weimar)))\nhttp:\/\/www.renegadetribune.com\/a-look-at-medinat-weimar\/\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Medinat+Weimar\nGoethe and Schiller monument, Weimar:\nalex gore\nI don't trust Michael Hoffman at all. He says the Talmud has nothing to do with the Old Testament. What a load of BS.\nYou don't like what he has to say, ergo you don't trust him? What makes you think you have it all figured out with 100% accuracy? His book \"Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit\" should be ordered multiple copies at a time. Nothing else so well exposes Judaism. His book \"Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare\" is largely considered a masterpiece. His book \"Judaism's Strange Gods\" \u2014 like a good copy of the Protocols \u2014 is useful for having distributed throughout your home in order to consistently remind you of\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nHave you read \"Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare\"? If so how did it expand your understanding?\nWhat most of Hoffman says may be true, but you have to pay attention to the 2-5 percent that he is off. He tells you the Talmud has little to do with biblical Judaism which is FALSE. He tells you that the Talmud is anti-biblical which is FALSE. He tells you the Talmud is racist and condones self-worship and deceit for the Jewish people which while true is also endorsed in the TORAH. The Torah IS the foundation of Judaism. I've read Usury in Christendom and while he points out to the numerous passages in the OT\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nSo had Whites taken seriously the OT, they never would have become indebted to Jew bankers. The primary means of Jew enslavement would have been nullified.\nJew usury would have been out of business in White nations.\nYou consider this bad?\nThat's just it. 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{"text":"Book Review: Lover At Last\nI declared my love for the Black Dagger Brotherhood series in this blog a while ago. That hasn't changed. The latest book, Lover At Last, number 11, came out (you'll get the pun later) a few weeks ago. For anyone who has read the books, they know that for many readers this one was a long time coming. Each book usually focuses on one of the 'brothers' or someone in their world and then has another story arc or two going along side it. This book was about the long-awaited (for many) love story of Quinn and Blaylock (Blay). The twist on this pairing\u2013Quay as devoted fans call them\u2013is they are gay. While both are warriors within the Brotherhood, this book was not a heterosexual story\u2013and for me, that was tough.\nAll of the books are known for being steamy, to say the least, and this one, while a bit tamer, did not disappoint in that area\u2013but it was male on male. I found that I did not enjoy this book as much as most of the others. I applaud J.R. Ward for giving readers what they want and for tackling the tough subject matter. I think she did an exceptional job staying true to the characters, story lines, and her writing style. The tender moments between Quinn and Blay felt real, as did the way J.R. Ward incorporated their long history. I also think she knew that she was heading into touch territory (no pun intended). As such, I think J.R. Ward tried to over compensate for the readers that were not as appreciative of the gay romance by adding significantly more story arcs than normal. This book had not 1, 2, or even 3 other story lines going on, it had 7; yes, SEVEN\u2013in total.\nThe Quinn and Blay love story\nThe budding romance between Sola and Assail\nXcor's determination to take over the throne\nXcor's love for\/and connection to Layla (and vice versa)\nLayla's pregnancy\nBeth's 'curiosity' with Layla's pregnancy\nTrez's avoidance of his prearranged marriage and what he and iAM were doing to manage that, including Trez's infatuation with The Chosen, Selena\nOf the reviews that I've read, quite a few readers found the other arcs extremely distracting. And to a degree, I agree. But I have to say I welcomed them and look forward to where some of them are headed. (I read that the next book, due in 2014, is going to be called, The King, and will be about Wrath (my all-time favorite character in the series, marginally inching out Zsadist) and Beth trying to have a baby. I am beyond excited for that one!!! I'm also intrigued by Assail. And Xcor's love for Layla makes me not hate him as much\u2013though he continuously plots against Wrath, so my distaste for him is only mildly squelched. I would be remiss in mentioning that J.R. Ward has a habit of bringing back characters that people often forget about. Several books ago, she brought to light a love story between Xhex and one of her past lovers that went insane and is now haunting an old bed and breakfast in the middle of nowhere. Clever J.R. Ward, I haven't forgotten\u2026\nOn the whole, this book was not one of my favorites, but I am excited for what's to come. I do miss seeing more of the brothers and their interactions because quite frankly, they're hilarious and I love them. This book also strayed from the action and fighting we usually see with the Lessers; which normally, I can do without but, come on, this is about a vampire war going on. J.R. Ward has done a great job of keeping the series fresh, adding new characters, extending story lines, and keeping her loyal and devoted fans wanting more. I didn't devour this book in 2 days like I've been known to do with this series, but 2014 and the next installment can't get here soon enough!","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Featured Golf Pros\nAllenby \"Not Expecting Much\" from his WM Phoenix Open Week\nJared Cohen Posted January 27, 2015 at 5:50 pm\nFor Robert Allenby, taking a mulligan for the start of his 2015 would be nice.\nThe 43 year-old golfer from Melbourne, Australia was recently visiting Honolulu, Hawaii when he was said to have been kidnapped, drugged, robbed and beaten after having dinner with his caddie and a friend. Problem is that he has no recollection of it because he had blacked out from around 11pm to around 1:30am.\nThe story first surfaced when he had posted a picture of himself with cuts and bruises on his face on Facebook in order to what he says, get a hold of his son because he had no phone and no numbers memorized. That picture then went viral.\nAs time has gone by with this story, there have been reports that witnesses saw Allenby spend over $3,400 dollars at a strip club that night and later was seen by a homeless man passing out on a street and hitting his face on a rock.\nAllenby, despite all of this going on in his life away from golf, is back to work for the start of his 2015 PGA Tour Season which happens to be in Scottsdale for the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open. He started off his week by addressing the media that he stands by the original story that he told.\n\"I think the first thing that everyone needs to understand is that there is an investigation going on to what did happen on that Friday night,\" Allenby said at the TPC Scottsdale on Tuesday. \"The authorities are doing their absolute best. We're hoping in the near future that something will be reported.\"\n\"The number one thing that you should all remember is that my story stays exactly the same way as I told it,\" he added. \"I told you what I knew and I told you what someone told me. And that's the bottom line.\"\nAllenby admitted that if he did do something wrong in the time period he has no memory after the investigation is completed, he will own up to it, but his biggest concern through all of this has been for his 15 and 13 year-old children. He went on to say that he knows he did not drink enough to put himself in a state of blacking out and had to have been drugged to end up in the condition he was in that night.\nWith different stories being told about what had happened, he was asked what he has learned from this\n\"I have realized that I don't have any friends in the media,\" he stated. \"Maybe one.\"\nRegardless of the media and the on-going investigation, Allenby will play golf this week in Scottsdale. After a practice round on Tuesday, he joked that despite dealing with concussion-like symptoms up until a few days ago, he felt good physically.\n\"I'm hitting the ball,\" he said with a smirk on his face. \"Physically, apart from a few scratches and that, I am starting to feel really good.\"\nAllenby didn't have his best showing of 2014 last year at this event as he missed the cut shooting a combined four over par on through the first two rounds. He mentioned that him being back this year is more about moving on with his life than anything.\n\"I am not expecting a lot from this week,\" Allenby explained. \"I am just expecting to in myself is to overcome this ordeal and try and just move on with my life. I love golf and that is the reason why I am here. Otherwise I would have taken this week off and probably the next month off.\"\nAllenby will tee-off from number one to begin his opening round at 7:30am and will be paired with Brendon de Longe and Nicholas Thompson.\ngolfRobert AllenbyWM Phoenix Open\n[VIDEO] Special Olympians Team Up with Pro Athletes for Annual Putting Contest\nNot Out of the Woods: Tiger Battles Through Tough Start to Phoenix Open\nMickelson Hoping Local Super Bowl Brings Back WM Open Success\nLooking back at the Hogan, Palmer and Nicklaus days at the Phoenix Open","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"CS:GO July 24, 2019 \/ 5:53 pm\nCS:GO's MIBR: Going Through Changes\nCody Luongo\nThe Immortals purchase of Made in Brazil (MIBR) in 2018 was one of the most exciting brand revivals in all of Counter-Strike. The rich history of MIBR stretched back to 2003, and its revitalization in June of last year arrived alongside the signing of SK Gaming's legacy roster to represent the team.\nThe Brazilian squad, MIBR, have come a long way this season. (Image via MIBR)\nForecasts were clear that this collective of star fraggers and compound Major winners should hit the Counter-Strike space running. Results over the last year haven't met those expectations.\nThe acquisition of Cloud9's celebrity duo Jacky \"Stewie2k\" Yip and Tarik \"tarik\" Celik had brought forth its own set of expectations for MIBR; the pair had recently come off a historic win at the ELEAGUE Boston Major five months prior and together the team brandished a wealth of talent. Although throughout this period were various flashes of luster such as an incredibly narrow defeat in the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals to Astralis, it seemed as if affairs weren't exactly clicking.\nFollowing brief tenures, Tarik was placed on the chopping block at MIBR and Stewie fleed to Team Liquid in exchange for Epit\u00e1cio \"TACO\" de Melo and coach Wilton \"zews\" Prado in one of the highest profile trades of the season. Shortly after, Jo\u00e3o \"felps\" Vasconcellos was reintroduced into the lineup to complete the all-Brazillian roster that commanded ground on the competitive Counter-Strike circuit.\nThe group started 2019 off on the right foot by reaching the semifinals at the IEM Katowice Major, but it wasn't long before the operation began unraveling again.\nOne of the game's most respected in-game leaders and beloved personalities, Gabriel \"FalleN\" Toledo, spoke with Hotspawn about the expectations of reassembling the superteam with Felps and TACO.\n\"When we got Zews, Taco and Felps back, the expectations for us were to try to recreate what we did before in 2017. We had a good first result at the Major. We prepared ourselves well at a boot camp but we lost in the semifinals to Astralis,\" he told us. \"But after that, we went to China and lost to Windigo at WESG, and that was very hurtful because we wanted to do well in that tournament. From there on we didn't do well for our own expectations and things started [going] south from there.\"\nVenturing to China for WESG, MIBR was a heavy favorite at the tournament after their placement at Katowice. Reality panned out to be far from that as the Brazilians were trounced by a fiery-looking Windigo. MIBR's underperformance in China was followed up by a winless outing on home soil at BLAST Pro Series: S\u00e3o Paulo, underscoring more severe problems for the organization.\nIt was apparent the team had to make changes to keep afloat, and they did. In June, Lucas \"LUCAS1\" Teles was welcomed onto MIBR from Luminosity Gaming in a loan exchange for Felps.\nGetting the Energy Right\n\"When we [talked] about bringing someone else into the team we felt like the energy in the team was a little bit low. Felps is a very introspective person, and we already knew that when we got him again but we thought we could deal with [it] a little bit better than we did. In the end, we realized that maybe having someone who would be a little bit more outspoken, a little bit more energetic outside the game, would be helpful for the atmosphere.\" FalleN told Hotspawn. \"Felps was struggling a little bit playing under the atmosphere we had on the team, and he had to sacrifice himself in terms of in-game specifics to really be the player we needed at the server. He was having a bad time doing it and it wasn't too fun for him and he wasn't really fixing the mistakes we were pointing out. So both combinations of those things led us to Lucas.\"\nIt was rumored FalleN had his eye on LUCAS1 for some length of time, although his allegiance to brother Henrique \"HEN1\" Teles on Luminosity had curbed those plans from coming to fruition. Digging further into the rationale behind the LUCAS1 signing, we discovered the support rifler's spirited mentality was a catalyst in the decision as Fernando \"fer\" Alvarenga tells us.\nImage via HLTV.\nFer said of LUCAS1, \"He can put you back into the game even though you're losing. He's a guy that brings the energy and up and brings a really good atmosphere. When you're playing with a guy that is always bringing you up, you have to copy him \u2013 I'm going to follow this guy because he's hype as fuck so I'm going to do the same. It's important to have a good energy on the team because when you're playing happy it's easy to play, it's just like flow.\"\nAlthough collectively MIBR were pleased to welcome LUCAS1 as their newest addition, more unexpected complications were right around the corner. Less than two weeks ago, two-time HLTV best CS:GO player and longstanding member of the team, Marcelo \"coldzera\" David, announced his self-benching on MIBR.\nThe news blindsided the Brazillian squad, putting them in a rough position where they now must field coach Zews at the upcoming StarLadder Berlin Major. It's a less than ideal scenario.\nColdzera served as an integral part of the team's successes and leaves a void in the side of the group. Although it was a bitter pill to swallow, the team understood and, more importantly, respected the decision to dismiss himself.\n\"I prefer seeing the way that what we did with [Coldzera] was amazing, it could probably be the best things we ever did in our careers, all the achievements we had. I am very proud of all the things we did together and that's what I would take from it.\" FalleN voices. \"I see Coldzera as someone who was very important for me, as a person, as a player and career-wise as well and he's a great individual. He's going to take his path, we're going to take ours and it's going to be great for both in my opinion. And for him I think it's going to be great as well, if he manages to find a good team that's going to buy him and he's going to be able to play high-level CS he's definitely a super great player and he's going to have success as well.\"\nFer chimed in by acknowledging Coldzera's decision to step away from MIBR was difficult for both parties.\n\"He's like family to me. I respect his decision of course. I know it's hard for us and our team inside the game, but I'm pretty sure it's hard for him as well to have these decisions. It's not like it's an easy decision or anything, it's hard for him as well. So I have to respect his decision and wish him the best and let's move on.\" Fer maintained.\nLooking bright despite the plight\nThe recent trials have left MIBR in an unfavorable corner, but not without hope.\nThe next few months for MIBR are about staying positive, creating a good atmosphere and most importantly, having fun. Fer attested to adopting this attitude in an HLTV.org interview, to which we asked the 27-year old rifler to elaborate on why enjoyment was a priority.\n\"We are trying to recreate our team, recreate ourselves because we are not the same team as we were when we [were] top one in the world. We are not the same people that we were two years ago \u2013 people change, everything changes.\" Fer attests. \"I think the most important thing in life, in your job or whatever you're going to do, you have to be happy doing what you do.\"\nWith a StarLadder prospect dampened by the exit of Coldzera, MIBR's approach has shifted towards making the best with what they have at hand; resetting the team and infrastructure in hopes of making strides towards an influence the company once carried.\nThough, the question of who will replace Coldzera in the active lineup is still very much at hand. Speculation has begun floating around that INTZ's Vito \"kNgV-\" Giuseppe is a target for MIBR \u2013 although nothing about this transfer seems concrete. Consistency and vigor made Coldzera the great player he was on MIBR, and if the team is looking to replicate the success they once had by finding a comparable option, they'll have to take some time as FalleN explains.\n\"We want to get someone who has this energy outside the game because we feel that we need this, we need someone who is very outspoken and very energetic to bring this hype up. We are taking our time to see and we are going to wait until the Major to make a decision.\" FalleN says. \"The only way for our team to be winning is if they are ready to lose. I think right now what the team is looking for is to recreate this atmosphere where we are looking for every new challenge to grow as players and learn more and more so we can get to this top-level again. And in the process why not have fun? Why not really enjoy the moment and really be very happy for all things we conquered.\"\nAll in all, MIBR is a team bursting with talent and exuberance. The plan of action to focus on the atmosphere, foundation and spirit of the team displays a certain level of maturity and investment hopefully to be cashed in for another Major tournament win.\nAn American journalist specializing in business, gambling and Counter-Strike - Cody was a competitive gamer first before starting his career in esports. Competing in several titles including Halo, Counter-Strike and Rainbow Six prior to his career as a journalist where he would go on to write for ESPN, Esports Insider, SickOdds and many more.\nCS:GO Zakaria Almughrabi Jan 8 2023\nCS:GO Zakaria Almughrabi Dec 18 2022","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Diabetics Need Not Avoid Butter\nCarolyn Colwell\nThere are a lot of tasty things that people with diabetes should not eat. But butter is not one of them, a study found.\nButter may not be so bad for diabetics and others, according to an international meta-analysis. The same finding occurred for other dairy fats in relation to the development of diabetes or causing cardiovascular deaths for diabetic patients.\n\"This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD, and diabetes. These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities; while also highlighting the need for additional investigation of health and metabolic effects of butter and dairy fat,\" wrote Laura Pimpin and her co-authors. Pimpin is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge.\nCurrent American Diabetes Association guidelines recommend margarine instead of butter.\nPimpin and her colleagues looked at nine databases searching for international results for keyword related to butter and cardiometabolic outcomes. \"We identified 9 publications including 15 country-specific cohorts, together reporting on 636,151 unique participants with 6.5 million person-years of follow-up and including 28,271 total deaths, 9,783 cases of incident cardiovascular disease, and 23,954 cases of incident diabetes,\" the authors explained. None of the publications, however, were randomized controlled studies that looked at butter end points, and outcomes were derived by reviewing medical records, death certificates and medical records.\n\"Butter consumption was weakly associated with all-cause mortality\" in nine country-specific cohorts,\" the authors wrote.\nBased on the consumption of one tablespoon per day (14 gm), the meta-analysis showed the RR (relative risk) of 1.01, 95%CI=1.00, 1.03,P=0.045) for all causes of mortality, no significant risk associated with any cardiovascular disease (RR=1.0, 95% CI=0.98,1.02;P=0.074) or stroke (RR 1.01, 95% CI) and an inverse association with diabetes (RR=0.96, 95%CI=0.93,0.99,P=0.021). No evidence of heterogeneity or publication was found, the authors reported.\nThe concern about butter stems from the practice of focusing on micronutrients, such as saturated fats, when looking at their relationship with the increased risk of chronic diseases, the authors explained. \"For example, growing evidence supports potential metabolic benefits of certain dairy products, such as yogurt and possibly cheese, on risk of type 2 diabetes [5, 6], which may even relate to benefits of dairy fat. [7\u20149] However, the relationship of butter, which is highest in dairy fat, with diabetes remains unclear. The long-term effects of butter consumption on other major endpoints, such as all-cause mortality and CVD, are also not well-established,\" the authors wrote.\nAs a result of their meta-analysis, the authors concluded \"relatively small or neutral overall associations of butter with mortality, CVD, and diabetes. These findings do not support a need for major emphasis in dietary guidelines on either increasing or decreasing butter consumption, in comparison to other better established dietary priorities; while also highlighting the need for additional investigation of health and metabolic effects of butter and dairy fat.\"\nThis article appeared in Plos One.\nMoo!! Dairy Diet Shields Consumers Shields Consumers Against Diabetes Risks\nTarget Tricylcerides: the Neglected Lipids\nDiabetesHypertensionInternal MedicineCardiology\nLower Drug Costs, Higher Utilization Observed in Diabetes Patients Enrolled in Medicaid\n7 FDA Drug Decisions To Watch Through July 2022\nFFR-Guided PCI Not Shown to Be Noninferior to CABG in Patients with Three-Vessel CAD","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Apple's Q1 2021 Results\nApple (Hacker News):\nThe Company posted all-time record revenue of $111.4 billion, up 21 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.68, up 35 percent. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter's revenue.\nJason Snell (transcript, also: MacRumors):\nYear over year, iPhone revenue was up 17% and set a new record, iPad revenue was up 41% to its best showing in six years, Mac revenue was up 21%, Services revenue was up 24% to a new record, and Wearables revenue was up 30 to a new record%.\nJason Snell:\nThere have been seven better quarters in the history of the iPad. It's just that they were all between 2012 and 2015. This most recent iPad quarter was the best since the holiday quarter six years ago.\nHere's the message: The move to Apple silicon is going to spur Mac growth like never before. Apple's M1 Macs were incredibly well received, but it's still just the beginning of the transition. Cook is telling investors, and everyone else, that Apple expects the move to Apple silicon to put its competition in the PC market to shame and fuel a major boost to the Mac.\nThe integration of hardware with software is Apple's secret sauce, or \"the magic,\" as Cook puts it. But look at the change to that recipe! It's now the integration of hardware, software, and services.\nData Privacy Day at Apple\nApple Apple M1 Apple Quarterly Results Business iOS iPad Mac\n8 Comments RSS \u00b7 Twitter\nNiall O'Mara\nWhilst the raison d'etre of a company is to make profit - it will be interesting to see if Apple, which likes to position itself as progressive and socially aware, makes any changes in strategy due it's ever growing cash pile.\nTim Cook said last year, \"But I do think, looking back, in the future, you will answer that question: Apple's most important contribution to mankind has been in health.\" When the cost of devices is the main barrier to some people benefiting from that 'contribution' it seems hard to justify such vast profits - especially now that hardware is an entry point to services revenue.\nApple uses privacy as a marketing tool plain and simple. Make everyone else look like information scavengers and Apple look like a savior of privacy. Apple's move to Apple silicon for Mac's only helps solidify Apple's control over all of its hardware. Pretty soon Mac users will probably be forced to install Apps only from their Apps store just like IOS devices do. Obviously no ability to natively run Windows on a Apple silicon Mac. I don't see the performance or efficiency of Apple silicon selling more Mac's. That was the same message Apple said when they moved to Intel from power PC's. In the end its more about what runs on a certain platform then anything. I don't see developers rushing to make apps for Mac's under Apple silicon. They see a bigger opportunity with Windows. Mac's have been stuck at their market share for some time. Obviously makes Apple money but I don't see Mac's becoming more popular.\n>Apple uses privacy as a marketing tool plain and simple\nI'm not sure if that's a useful criticism. Obviously, corporations do pretty much everything they do for their own benefit. At the same time, it's impossible to know what the motivations of all the individuals involved in these decisions are.\nAt the end, the question is whether what Apple does with regard to privacy is overall good for us, or bad, and I think it's pretty clear that it is good.\nOld Unix Geek\nIronically, although Apple says it cares about privacy, the environment it is creating for developers is quite different.\nApple has been locking down devices (App Store and notarization) which encourages developers to reconsider specialising on Apple devices: Apple can ban or Sherlock their work, and they'll lose all their investment in it. It can ban them, and they'll lose all the work they did learning Apple's proprietary APIs. On the web, they can simply move to another server hosting company.\nApple has moved from open x86 and Objective-C to proprietary \"Apple Silicon\" and not-as-good Swift. That means learning a whole new stack, incompatible with everyone else's, and wedding oneself even more tightly to Apple. It might be better to learn the Web stack instead, particularly now that WASM is a thing. On the web, your favourite language still works.\nApple has opened the Mac up to iOS apps. The only distinguishing feature of iOS apps is that there are tons of them, few are good, and the prices are so low that it's extremely hard to make money off of them. Most users only actually use Apps like Facebook's which are free and privacy disasters. If you're not the customer, you're the product. Because of low prices, many developers now sell users data to make up the difference. It is Apple which has driven down prices, pushing developers to make their software free, with \"in-app purchases\". It is Apple that requires a 30% cut for literally doing nothing developers can't do themselves: a Mafia like \"service\".\nAnd now, Apple Silicon is going to be so much more performant. That means web-apps will be sufficiently fast to do most of what people need. If games can be streamed through a web-browser, many other things can be done that way too.\nSince people do not change devices often, and are purposefully being locked in by Apple, I expect captured users won't leave their Apple devices quickly. Instead I expect more software to be offered only as \"software as a service\" delivered as web-apps. Think Figma instead of Sketch. These apps run on any computing device, decoupling the software maker from caring about Apple. This move has already started with Cordova, Electron, React \"native\" -- i.e. web-apps installed through the App Store.\nIn the long term, web-apps mean less privacy for the user. Personal devices will become terminals onto which some computation can be offloaded, but the data will be held on a server. That means less control for users: they won't be able to keep their data confidential, or share it easily to other software, the way one can if it resides on one's own machine. Since all computation occurs on a different machine, users will have no control what appears on their screens, will not know how their data is being monetized, etc. And all that data will be ripe for mining by ISPs, governments, hackers, and the like.\nSo I foresee a poorer and less safe ecosystem because Apple was greedy. The world, ironically, that Steve Jobs claimed would be a \"sweet solution\". The surprising twist, where the \"Personal Computer\" which had so convincingly killed the evil servers of yesteryear, finally dies replaced by the new world of cyberspace. Recall Tron, Neuromancer...\nIf Apple had really cared about privacy, not lock-in, their software would have been architected very differently and would be a lot more open. For instance, services such as Little Snitch would be encouraged. Building and selling software on one's own device would be encouraged, not milked for service revenue. Sharing data on iOS would be easier. Etc. But that's not the world we live in, and like other creatures, the developers who succeed will be doing what works in the environment that they inhabit.\nApple has moved from open x86 and Objective-C to proprietary \"Apple Silicon\" and not-as-good Swift. That means learning a whole new stack, incompatible with everyone else's\nArguably, x86 was just as proprietary (effectively controlled by Intel, with some mutual patent-sharing going on with AMD, but effectively no chance for a third party to join) as ARM is; if you want something non-proprietary, RISC-V might be just around the corner.\nEffectively, ARM has more diversity of CPU suppliers than x86. There doesn't seem to be that much trouble porting stuff that already ran on ARM to compile on macOS for ARM. You can build stuff for a Raspi, and then with few adjustments if any have it compile on macOS as well.\nAs for the stack, I'm not sure what you mean by this.\nIt might be better to learn the Web stack instead, particularly now that WASM is a thing. On the web, your favourite language still works.\nIn practice, only stuff that people are willing to maintain works well. If a community effort wants to maintain Objective-C (I know they are a few, but they never gained that much foothold), they can do that.\nYeah, you could conceivably write WASM in Objective-C, but frankly, that sounds painfully esoteric.\nIf Apple had really cared about privacy, not lock-in, their software would have been architected very differently and would be a lot more open. For instance, services such as Little Snitch would be encouraged. Building and selling software on one's own device would be encouraged, not milked for service revenue. Sharing data on iOS would be easier. Etc.\nI don't think privacy and lock-in have to be at odds, but yes, there are areas where Apple could stand to be a bit more open again.\n@S\u00f6ren\nArguably, x86 was just as proprietary (effectively controlled by Intel, with some mutual patent-sharing going on with AMD, but effectively no chance for a third party to join)\nTell that to IBM, Cyrix, Centaur, Via, Rise, National Semiconductor, NexGen, Transmeta, Texas Instruments, NEC, SIS, Nvidia and many others. Also x64, the 64-bit version of x86, was invented by AMD. At the time Intel was distracted by Itanium and EPIC. So Intel ended up licensing it from AMD.\nM1 relies on proprietary instructions to do fast math. That means your ARM SIMD code won't run as fast as Apple's. Either you accept this, or you accept the lock-in of reverse engineering and using M1's new math-matrix instructions, or the lock-in of using Apple's proprietary frameworks. Similarly with the Machine Learning APIs. Over time I expect the trend of using proprietary accelerators to continue: transistors are cheap, but transistors doing work are expensive since they cost power.\nAs to your Raspberry Pi point, not really: although a Raspberry PI 4 can run 64 bit code, most Linux support for RPIs is still 32 bit, which means that code will be compiled against a 32 bit target on Raspberry Pi, not a 64 bit one as on MacOS... Also, Linux and MacOS differ significantly as far as APIs go, so more than \"a few adjustments\" will be needed.\nObjective-C is, as you say, unfortunately basically dying if not dead. If you want to get onto the corporate merry-go-round a second time around with Swift and M1, be my guest. As for me, I'm seriously contemplating getting off here, and bidding a sad farewell to Objective-C. I joined the Apple bandwagon because I was amazed by the first NeXT computers. But now that technology is dying, and I'm tired of relying on APIS, languages, etc that change every time a large corporation loses interest. It's a bit of a shame really, since I've spent the last 16 years on and off writing quite a bit of Mac\/iOS stuff (both code and words). But there was a life before Apple, and there will be a life after it.\nFinally, unlike you, I believe privacy and lock-in are at odds pretty much by definition. Lock-in means people are stuck with whatever protections Apple gives them, and cannot improve on them. That means a monoculture. Monocultures are much easier to hack: with a single zero-day, one gets access to most of Apple's devices in a particular category. Lock-in means you are trusting Apple 100% to look after your privacy for you. In my book, sharing my privacy with 150,000 Apple employees is not actual privacy. Think for instance of the fact iCloud backups are unencrypted.\nTsch\u00fc\u00df!\nTell that to IBM, Cyrix, Centaur, Via, Rise, National Semiconductor, NexGen, Transmeta, Texas Instruments, NEC, SIS, Nvidia and many others.\nHow many of those designed a x86 CPU in the past decade?\n(And yes, I'm sure Nvidia has a thing or two to say about being bullied out of x86.)\nAlso x64, the 64-bit version of x86, was invented by AMD.\nWhich is why I said \"some mutual patent-sharing going on with AMD\". Which you even quoted.\nM1 relies on proprietary instructions to do fast math. That means your ARM SIMD code won't run as fast as Apple's. Either you accept this, or you accept the lock-in of reverse engineering and using M1's new math-matrix instructions, or the lock-in of using Apple's proprietary frameworks. Similarly with the Machine Learning APIs. Over time I expect the trend of using proprietary accelerators to continue: transistors are cheap, but transistors doing work are expensive since they cost power.\nYes, fair enough.\nElbrus, VIA and Zhaoxin.\nx86's are now sufficiently complex that it takes serious money to make a competitive offering... which is why fewer companies design them than previously. Government support now seems commonplace, which I ascribe to the costs and risks involved. I should note that it is also true that few companies design their own ARM chips; most simply license a design from ARM.\nJust missing your deadline, in 2008, the last startup that tried to design an x86 was Montalvo Systems but, AFAIK, it ran out of money and it was acquired by Sun.\nThe Elbrus-8S (Russian) provides x86 compatibility through binary translation to a VLIW architecture (very much like Transmeta). It was designed in 2014 to run Windows for the Russian Government. Since it runs an entire OS natively, rather than single apps, I would not compare it to Rosetta. They've just taped out their next generation Elbrus-16. Since it seems to be pretty much the same architecture, but with 16 cores, I assume, but do not know, that it will also run x86 software.\nVIA\/Centaur are still designing native x86 CPUs. In the past they also licensed their designs to Chinese Zhaoxin. However Zhaoxin's ZX-D, ZX-E and ZX-F seem to be home-grown architectures. Zhaoxin has the support of the Chinese government.\nE-mail (will not be published)","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge named for Billy Frank, Jr.\n\"U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell answers questions posed by students at the\nBilly Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Education Center on Tues. [July 19].\"\nPhoto credit: Steve Bloom, The Olympian.\n\u2013 \"Refuge that served as Billy Frank Jr.'s medicine now named for him\"\n\"Hundreds of people \u2014 including tribal, local, state and federal leaders \u2014 gathered Tuesday [July 19] to celebrate the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge's official name change to the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.\"\n\"The event featured a prayer and songs by the Nisqually tribe's Canoe Family and remarks from more than a dozen people, including U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, Nisqually Indian Tribe Chairman Farron McCloud, Squaxin Island Tribe Councilman Jim Peters and former U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks.\"\n\"Heck said he sponsored legislation to change the name of the refuge near Lacey, where the Nisqually River meets Puget Sound, because it fit in well with Frank's legacy of promoting clean water and environmental stewardship,\" quoting Lisa Pemberton, The Olympian.\nPosted by Steve on July 20, 2016 at 7:47 am | Permalink\nBy submitting a comment you grant Yelm Community Blog a perpetual license to reproduce your words and name\/web site in attribution. Inappropriate and irrelevant comments will be removed at an admin's discretion. Your email is used for verification purposes only, it will never be shared.","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Susquehannock High School remains open despite high COVID-19 cases\nErin Bamer\nDespite recording high COVID-19 cases on its district website, Susquehannock High School's doors remained open.\nAccording to Southern York County School District's website, the district had recorded 25 cases across its six buildings over the previous 14 days, with 14 recorded at the high school as of Tuesday night.\nSuperintendent Sandra Lemmon said the dashboard records the total number of cases linked to each school, but there are actually only four cases of individuals who were contagious within the high school during the last 14 days, which is not enough to close. The remaining cases are individuals who contracted COVID-19 outside the building and have not entered the building since, Lemmon said.\nThe district is currently operating all schools under a hybrid schedule. Susquehannock High School officials confirmed the building was still open to students.\nIn a letter to parents, Lemmon said Pennsylvania Department of Health officials have not advised the district to close any buildings.\nAll York County school districts, including Southern York County, signed a form in November agreeing to comply with several state guidelines in order to keep their schools open.\nAccording to the guidance, a school the size of Susquehannock High School should close for at least 14 days if 11 or more cases are recorded in the building within a 14-day period. A building the same size that records six to 10 cases in 14 days is instructed to close for at least three days.\n\"Please know that we will be following these guidelines,\" district officials said on their website.\nAt least three other York County school districts did not immediately close schools this year after recording enough COVID-19 cases to warrant a closure. In all three cases, however, officials eventually did close the buildings.\nMore:COVID-19 tracking varies widely among York County schools\nMore:Snow days these days aren't what they used to be\nKendall Alexander, press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, said in an email that possible violations to the attestation form are \"handled on a case-by-case basis,\" and at minimum state officials will discuss the issue with the district. She did not mention a maximum measure the department would reach to enforce the policy.\n\"The health and safety of students is the responsibility of school administrators and locally elected school boards,\" Alexander said in the email. \"That responsibility existed before the pandemic, and that remains the same now with the additional mitigation requirements.\"","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Gauntlet's mission is to help make blockchain protocols and smart contracts safer and more trustworthy for users.\nDecentralized systems create new challenges for protocol developers, smart contract developers, and asset holders that are not seen in traditional development and investing. Gauntlet is building a blockchain simulation and testing platform that leverages battle tested techniques from other industries to emulate interactions in crypto networks. Simulation provides transparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems.\nCrypto systems are truly multi-disciplinary as they are at the intersection of distributed systems, cryptography, economics, and game theory. In particular, there is a coupling of economic incentives and product success, which results in a large attack surface that must be analyzed thoroughly.\nTarun Chitra\nTarun is an alumni of D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), Vatic Labs, an HFT firm, and Cornell. He fell into the blockchain world in 2011, when he was working on ASICs at DESRES and observed Bitcoin ASIC mining rigs substantially delay DESRES's ASIC production. He has spent the last seven years working on simulation-based R&D at the intersection of high-performance computing and AI and is applying this knowledge to the blockchain ecosystem.\nRei Chiang\nRei worked at Uber Advanced Technologies Group building marketplace simulations for self-driving vehicles and real-time driver incentives. Prior to that, he spent five years in the HFT industry as a portfolio manager and quant trader at GETCO and 3Red, specializing in market-making strategies for fixed income and commodity futures. Rei received his B.S. in theoretical math and computer science from MIT.\nJohn Morrow\nJohn has spent over a decade working on products in both traditional software and financial systems. He was an early employee at Gigster where he led fulfillment of client projects and managed the freelance marketplace. Prior to that, he worked at Microsoft as a PM on Windows APIs and HoloLens as well as at Goldman Sachs. He also studied at Cornell where he received a B.S. in Applied Physics and Computer Science.\nTony Salvatore\nTony is an experienced developer and quant trader who has been building secure software systems and accurate financial models for the better part of a decade. He was previously at Jibe Inc and Spot Trading, and has a B.A in Economics from Princeton.\nJeremy Batchelder\nJeremy studied Computer Science at Tufts before working on product development at Cambridge Blockchain and business operations at CoinList.\nGuillermo Angeris\nGuille is a researcher at Stanford, currently completing his PhD in electrical engineering under Stephen Boyd. Previously, he has worked at Facebook on fraud detection and at D. E. Shaw Research on topological and manifold methods in data analysis.\nHsien-Tang Kao\nSenior Simulation Engineer\nHsien-Tang recently was a lead data scientist at Sojern after a stint at Delta Electronics. He holds an MS in robotics from Carnegie Mellon and studied math at National Cheng Kung University before that.\nJonathan Reem\nJonathan is a core contributor to rust-lang who has worked on the core team at Udacity, Hack Reactor, and Terminal.com.\nSasa Milic\nPrior to Gauntlet, Sasa worked at Facebook. She also completed a BS\/MS at University of Toronto in computer science and statistics. In her free time, she organizes the NYC Financial Derivatives Meetup.\nBita Abolfathi\nBita has multiple years of operational experience at early stage startups and organizations including Cresta, Lighthouse AI, and Felicis Ventures. She studied Managerial Economics at University of Santa Barbara.\nVictor Xu\nRecently, Victor worked as a quantitative trader at Flow Traders. Prior to Flow Traders, Victor spent time at Citadel and Jane Street Capital. He studied Computer Science and Mathematics at Princeton University.\nWatson Fu\nSimulation Engineer\nPrior to Gauntlet, Watson worked as a trader at Flow Traders and the Chicago Trading Company. He studied Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University and was a nationally ranked chess player.\nGabe Pohl-Zaretsky\nMost recently, Gabe worked as a software engineer at GTS. Prior to GTS, he was a trading assistant at Jane Street Capital. Gabe studied economics at George Washington University and is avid urban explorer.\nEric Ruleman\nPrior to Gauntlet, Eric worked as a software engineer at Cruise on their infrastructure team. Eric studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and is also a certified yoga instructor.\nPrior to Gauntlet, Federico worked as a software engineer at multiple different startups in the healthcare and cryptocurrency industries. In his spare time, he runs the Lightning Network NYC Meetup.\nTim Roughgarden is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. He works on the boundary of computer science and economics, and on the design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms. For his research, he has been awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Kalai Prize in Computer Science and Game Theory, and the EATCS-SIGACT G\u00f6del Prize.\nWei Qin\nWei worked with Gauntlet to create our initial simulation platform. Before working with Gauntlet, Wei worked on simulation at Basis (the stablecoin project) and at Tower Research, a quantitative trading firm. He has a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and was a Professor of computer engineering at Boston University.\nYi Sun\nYi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University. His research interests are in representation theory and integrable systems and their applications to probability and random matrices. Before Columbia, he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT, advised by Pavel Etingof.\nNader al-Naji\nArthur Breitman\nJosh Chen\nRoger Chen\nLawrence Diao\nEd Lando\nLily Liu\nCharles Songhurst\nAbraham Stanway\nAlok Vasudev\nMiyuki Matsumoto\nFill out the form below or feel free to email us at info@gauntlet.network\nGet updates on new research and new product releases\nCareers About\nBlog Terms\/Privacy\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Gauntlet Networks Inc","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Tag: Mockumentary\nBetween Two Ferns Review\nI don't know how I had never heard of the Between Two Ferns show on YouTube before. If you don't know what it is, it's an interview show hosted by Zach Galifianakis, and he ask's some of Hollywood's biggest names some very insulting questions to hilarious effect. I discovered this all by watching the mockumentary about the making of the show \"Between Two Ferns: The Movie\" which is now on Netflix.\nI can honestly say I do not remember laughing as hard as this watching anything since maybe the Pink Panther movies when I was a child. Something about it just hit me exactly in the right way and I was laughing for most of the brisk hour and 22-minute run time. Zach is so good in this role, his ability to say the most absurd things and keep a completely straight face leads to some amazingly funny moments. He's so good in the role, because he is playing himself. There is a lot of him in the role, but it's just all dialled up to 11.\nThe 3 crew members he works with are a solid supporting cast and have moments to show they can deliver some great laughs too. They are never front and centre long enough for us to feel any real connection and even in the scenes when it seems like we are starting to build to that we get another joke that stops it developing. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean the entire film rests on the audience being fans of Zach and his style.\nThe premise is that they must make ten episodes of the show on the road, and that leads to where the movie is at its best, the interviews. Zach's deadpan face and the generally great job by the actors and actresses who play it straight as well really made me laugh. It's juvenile at times but there is enough gold in these moments to warrant spending the time to watch the film.\nThe film's structure is like a lot of similar sketches stitched together. Sewing together the interviews is the challenge the film faces, and it has moments where it struggles. The humour can be hit and miss in these sections. Whilst the highs don't reach the same level as the interviews, the jokes that missed don't really grind the film to a halt either. There is always another moment just around the corner. The film doesn't let you dwell on an unfunny moment because you're into the next moment, and this scatter gun approach works for the most part.\nIt's only when I have stopped to really think about those moment in between the laughs that I've realised there are chunks of the movie where we are just waiting for the next laugh, it doesn't have a narrative thread that is keeping you hooked that other mockumentaries like \"American Vandal\" have.\nThat would be a bigger problem were this a series of hour-long episodes like that is, but the shorter run time allows it to just be what it needs to be. A vehicle for Zach Galifianakis to make you laugh for a bit and remember not to take everything so seriously. I personally enjoyed it a lot, and I think a lot of my friends would love it. It's not perfect but it does have some very good highs that make Between Two Ferns the Movie worth watching.\nGood: If you like Zach's comedic style, this will crack you up. I laughed throughout and the interviews are gold.\nBad: Scatter gun approach may not hit enough for some to think it's worth the watch, but it really does depend on your sense of humour.\n7\/10 \u2013 Great fun and doesn't overstay its welcome.\nAuthor chazjs93Posted on Oct 17, 2019 Categories Movie Review, Ramblings, The Daily BlogTags Between Two Ferns, Between Two Ferns The Movie, Celebrities, Cinema, Documentary, Film, Hollywood, Mockumentary, Movies, Zach GalifianakisLeave a comment on Between Two Ferns Review\nWhat We Do In The Shadows (2014) Review\nWhat We Do In The Shadows is a 2014 mockumentary directed and starring Thor Ragnarok director Taika Waititi. It was mentioned a lot during the press events for Thor Ragnarok and touted as a big reason he got given the Thor Ragnarok chair. I went back and watched to see if the film holds up.\nShadows is essentially Taika Waititi's sense of humour put onto film. The comedic style of Thor Ragnarok is clear to see, with the documentary style serving as a great framing device for the New Zealand native's excellent writing. Him and co-writer Jemaine Clement also star in the film, and whilst the acting is nothing special, their comedic sense gets them by and their timing is great throughout.\nThe film is unabashedly weird, and it may be a little too odd for some audience members. The weirdness is contrasted by the realistic lens that Shadows is shot with, the camera work and effects complimenting each other to keep you engaged with the film. Some of the camera work is really clever, and shows how a lack of budget can be worked with to create some really great moments that a larger budget would have solved with throwing money at a special effects team. I like seeing films do this stuff, and really appreciate the ingenuity required to make a low-budget film look this good.\nThe jokes have a pretty high success rate, although there were a few duds for me. Sometimes the jokes are a little forced, but that's really in the minority. For the most part I at least smiled to myself and a couple of times I laughed out loud. This is Waititi's humour at its raw, unfiltered. Ragnarok showed us his refined, sharpened wit and his writing has only improved over the last few years. What We Do In The Shadows has some really well written jokes and set ups that pay off in entertaining ways, and that ability to find something entertaining in nearly all situations is one of the reasons Marvel went after the filmmaker.\nMock documentary films rarely move the needle for me, as I find it hard to connect with the characters and the jokes sometimes feel a bit forced. However, as I learnt shows like The US Office and Parks and Recreation, when they're executed well, they're brilliant. What we do in the shadows is the first film I have watched that really got me invested since the uniquely flavoured Borat in 2006. This film isn't nearly as politically incorrect (nothing really is compared to Borat) but it does the same job of introducing outlandish characters and putting them in funny situations.\nI haven't watch Sacha Baron Cohen's Kazakhstani parody for a long time, but I can't imagine it holds up terribly well today. What We Do In The Shadows does hold up from 5 years ago, and I think it has the right ingredients to stand the test of time. What is certain is that Taika Waititi is on the up, with clear improvements in his directorial skills as well as his writing from this to Thor Ragnarok. All that means I can't wait to see what comes next from the Kiwi, and I hope he can stay on this trajectory.\nGood: Brilliant writing, outlandish and fun characters, Stu is a great guy, and the filmmaking skills used to get the most out of the budget are great.\nBad: The acting isn't the best, and there are a few flat jokes. May be a bit weird for some audiences.\n8\/10 \u2013 What Will Taika Do Next?\nAuthor chazjs93Posted on Mar 13, 2019 Mar 12, 2019 Categories Movie Review, Movie Reviews, Review in timeTags Cinema, comedy, Film, Film Review, Films, Jemaine Clement, Mockumentary, Movie Review, Movies, New Zealand Films, Stu, Taika Waititi, Vampires, What We Do In The ShadowsLeave a comment on What We Do In The Shadows (2014) Review","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"Cricket: Spin comes into play for England for second test\nMark Gleeson\nCAPE TOWN (Reuters) - England are thinking of bringing a specialist spinner back into the line-up after going with an all-pace attack in their last two outings, coach Chris Silverwood said as they arrived in Cape Town for their second test against South Africa starting on Friday.\nFILE PHOTO: Cricket - England v Pakistan - Second Test - Emerald Headingley Stadium, Leeds, Britain - June 3, 2018 England's Dom Bess reacts Action Images via Reuters\/Lee Smith\/File Photo\nThat means a seamer such as record wicket-taker James Anderson or Stuart Broad may be dropped for a contest expected to be played on a much flatter deck than the first test in Pretoria, which South Africa won by 107 runs inside four days on Sunday.\nIt was a second successive test without a specialist spinner, as England went instead with seamers Anderson, Broad, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes and Sam Curran, and part-time contributions from captain Joe Root and Joe Denly.\nSouth Africa is traditionally a seamers' paradise, but the home side went into the first test with spinner Keshav Maharaj, who despite not bowling many overs took two vital wickets in England's second innings. That helped check any hopes the tourists had of reaching the imposing target set them for victory.\n\"We've got to look at playing a spinner at Newlands. We'll look through the records, what features where and who is going to have most impact on that game. We'll do our homework and go from there,\" coach Chris Silverwood told reporters.\nDom Bess, who played twice against Pakistan in 2018 and was recently at a spin bowling camp in Sri Lanka led by Rangana Herath, is likely to be the first choice despite only being called up for the tour as cover when a virus swept through the squad.\nThis is because Jack Leach continues to struggle with the bug that laid low as many of 15 squad members since England's arrival in the country on Dec. 14.\n\"It's been really a tough month or so for Jack Leach, having gone down in New Zealand as well,\" added Root. \"It's really sad and really hard for him.\"\nLeach, 28, also spent time in hospital in New Zealand last month with gastroenteritis and has had Crohn's disease since he was a teenager.\n\"We're trying to manage that as best we can. We've got some very able back-up in Dom Bess and we've got Matt Parkinson as well as another option. We'll look at the surface and make our decision,\" the skipper added.\nReporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Hugh Lawson","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}
{"text":"What Do You Mean, \"Humidex\"? An Explainer | Vol. 3 \/ No. 38.4\nJuly 21, 2016 RFB\nPhoto: Ryan Dickey, CC BY 2.0\nWhy how warm it \"feels\" changes when you cross the border.\nSo it's been hot, not just here, but everywhere. In fact, June was the hottest June on record. May was the hottest May on record. April? You guessed it: the hottest April on record. The last six months, according to NASA, have been the hottest six months we've ever recorded. And it's going to stay hot.\nThis week in Boston it's been pretty bad during the day, but not awful.\nFor those of you in Canada \u2014 and there's a reason I'm explaining this \u2014 those highs would read 31.7\u00b0C, 34.4\u00b0C, 32.8\u00b0C, 30\u00b0C, and back to 31.7\u00b0C for two days.\nBut I can tell you right now that Tuesday of next week is going to feel pretty oppressive by comparison with today, thanks to those little percentages on the right. Those are relative humidity numbers.\nAnd the funnier bit is, it'll feel differently depending on whether you're a Canadian or an American. Well, sort of.\nAir can hold a certain amount of water, and that amount varies by the temperature and pressure of the air. Assuming the pressure stays constant, the warmer the air is, the more water it can hold. But relative humidity, as you can see in the video below, isn't a great measure of how humid it actually feels, because the amount of water in the air rises and falls precipitously with temperature.\nThere are actually two numbers we're concerned with when we talk about how warm it feels: relative humidity and dewpoint. Dewpoint is the temperature at which relative humidity (the amount of water the air can hold) reaches 100% capacity. The higher the dewpoint, the more sticky and gross (and warm) you're going to feel.\nNow, above, you can see that while today's 89\u00b0F has a humidity of 37%, Tuesday's 89\u00b0F has a humidity of 60%. Using this handy-dandy calculator we can determine that (roughly, all other things being equal), today's dewpoint is only 59\u00b0F, but Tuesday's is going to be 73\u00b0F.\nWhen you see the little box on your forecast that says \"feels like\" and a number, that's what they're taking into account.\nBut here's the funny thing: in Canada and the US we use different formulas to determine what it feels like.\nIn the US, the formula is called the Heat Index while in Canada, it's called the Humidex. And as Susan Kieffer writes on her blog Geology in Motion, it's \"amazing\" that the numbers the two formulas spit out \"are even close to each other because of the difference in form.\"\nAccording to Wikipedia, this is the formula for the Humidex:\nis the air temperature in \u00b0C\nis the dewpoint in K\nThe humidity adjustment effectively amounts to one Fahrenheit degree for every millibar by which the partial pressure of water in the atmosphere exceeds 10 millibars (10 hPa).\nAnd again, according to Wikipedia, this is the formula for the Heat Index:\n= heat index (in degrees Fahrenheit)\n= ambient dry-bulb temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit)\n= relative humidity (percentage value between 0 and 100)\nAnd the Cs are some possibly contentious constants.\nIn the end, what these reliances on constants create is a narrow range in which these equations are totally accurate. On top of that the Humidex \"baseline\" is 7\u00b0C (45\u00b0F) and the Heat Index is about 14\u00b0C (57\u00b0F), so at higher temperatures, the Humidex figure is going to say it feels a few degrees warmer.\nAll of which is to say that if you use the Canadian Humidex, it'll feel like a slightly warmer day than if you use the Heat Index \u2014 at least when the temperatures really get up there.\nOf course, these numbers all rely on the idea that it's not windy and you're in the shade, which, if you're in the real world and out doing things, are probably unreliable figures. Plus, if you're prone to sweating it might feel cooler, if you're more overweight it might feel warmer \u2014 there's a lot of variable in how warm it feels to any one person at any one time.\nSo mostly this post is just in good fun: I like to point out the differences between my home country and my current place of abode, especially when it's a difference that isn't a completely horrifying social problem not very present north of the border.\nSo there's your little science lesson for the day. And remember, when it's hot out, drink plenty of water, wear sunscreen, and stay in the shade when possible. Because heat stroke and cancer are bad for you.\nThanks for reading! I only get paid in my own (and your) enthusiasm, so please like This Week In Tomorrow on Facebook, follow me on Twitter @TWITomorrow, and tell your friends about the site!\nRichard Ford Burley is a human, writer, and doctoral candidate at Boston College, as well as an editor at Ledger, the first academic journal devoted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he writes about science, skepticism, feminism, and futurism here at This Week In Tomorrow.\nAnswers to Random Questions, Canada permalink\nThree Rockets At The Same Time | Vol. 3 \/ No. 38.3\nWait, Someone Will Take Harassment Seriously? Really? | Vol. 3 \/ No. 38.5","meta":{"redpajama_set_name":"RedPajamaCommonCrawl"}}